The Luzon soldiers who were running in front were shot by arrows and fell, and the screams made their wild running momentum pause, and their speed slowed down significantly.

Even the only prince who was on a horse, Lagan, was hit by several arrows in his horse, fell off his horse, and was carried back by several soldiers, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

The soldiers of Luzon had not yet recovered from the chaos, and the second round of crossbow arrows rained down again, and the rattan armor could not stop the strong bows and crossbows of the Song army, and in just a moment, thousands of people fell in a pool of blood, and even the main general, Prince Lagan, was shot several arrows, and he did not know whether he was alive or dead.

Without the prince's leadership and encouragement, the army's desire for life rose, and the soldiers began to retreat slowly.

This is actually a taboo in the army, either simply retreat and get out of the range of the crossbow arrows, or rush forward and make contact with the enemy's short soldiers, so that the dilemma is that it has become a live target for the crossbow army.

At this time, another thousand spearmen and crossbowmen came ashore, and the crossbowmen joined the counterattack, bringing the total population of the crossbowmen to two thousand.

The third round of crossbows turned into two thousand bolts, and the number of crossbows doubled, turning into a storm in an instant.

The third round of crossbow arrows caused the Luzon army to fall more than 700 people, and in just three rounds of arrow rain, the Luzon soldiers were shot and killed 1,800 people, the soldiers were frightened, turned around and fled, leaving behind the corpses and wounded soldiers, and the remaining more than 8,000 soldiers fled to the direction of the capital without their lives.

The Song army defeated the enemy's 10,000-strong attack without a single soldier, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they did not pursue, but protected the army to continue ashore.

This time, Fanning led an army of 10,000 troops to the south, and the soldiers mainly took 20 20,000 stone rowing troop carriers, while the other 30 were supply ships, which were powered by sails and could only take a fixed route and could not carry out mobile operations.

Fanning also walked down from the main ship, and at this time 10,000 soldiers had been quickly assembled, including 3,000 crossbowmen and 7,000 spear infantry, Fanning turned on his horse and ordered: "Leave 1,000 infantry and 1,000 crossbowmen to guard the docks, and the rest of the army will march to the capital!" ”

'Woo-'

The sound of the trumpets sounded, the drums of the march rumbled, and the 8,000 troops marched in formation to the capital of Luzon, ten miles away.

The capital of Luzon did not have a wall, but surrounded a small city with a circumference of more than ten miles with a wooden fence, and there were countless wooden houses scattered in the capital and around the wooden fence, but there were no paddy fields to be seen, the people here did not need to cultivate, the abundant forest fruits were enough to feed them, and they could also exchange gold for grain from the hands of Song Dynasty merchants.

When the 8,000 Song army was less than ten miles away from the capital, the gate of Muzha was opened, and a large group of men and women came out bare-chested, kneeling on the ground, and the person at the head was the king Luo Gang, although he was old, but the age was less than fifty years old, it was really the life expectancy of the Luzon people was too short, basically they died at the age of forty, and the infant mortality rate was extremely high, and ten children survived at most two or three people, so the population of the kingdom was always sluggish and difficult to rise.

He took his wife, daughter and son out to surrender to the Song army, and the eldest son, who was bent on the main battle, was hit by seven arrows, and died halfway back to the capital, and his 10,000 troops had collapsed, and they fled home, and the army he could command was only the palace guards, less than two hundred, and he had no way out except to surrender.

Fan Ning said to Mingren: "You go up and tell him that the Luzon State has not come to the Great Song Dynasty to pay tribute for many years, so the Great Song Emperor sent an army to crusade against him, but the Song army does not want to kill innocents indiscriminately, as long as he surrenders sincerely, the Song army will give him a way out!" ”

Mingren knew a few words of Luzon's native language, he stepped forward and even made a gesture, and King Luo Gang understood what Fanning meant, and he kowtowed again and again to thank him, and was willing to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty.

Fanning's army was then encamped, and he led a thousand soldiers into the capital of Luzon.

There is already a little rudimentary form of a city in the capital, there are streets and a few shops, Fanning accidentally found that there are many taverns and gambling halls in the capital, the wine is locally brewed fruit wine, and the gambling equipment is imported from the Great Song Dynasty.

Akihito explained: "It's all women who work here, go to the forest to pick all kinds of fruits and balara, and the gold panning in the river is basically women, and the men are mostly lazy and like to drink and gamble, and the men under the age of 30 go to the army, and there is nothing to do as a soldier, and there is a good income every month, and they actually feed the whole people on gold and spices." ”

"Does their gold have gold mines besides gold sand?"

"Of course, I have already taken people to see and survey the mineral deposits, and the gold and copper deposits here are extremely large and easy to mine and refine."

"What about silver?" Fanning asked.

Akihito shook his head, "There seems to be very little silver, there is mainly gold and copper here, and silver has to go to Japan, where is the world of silver." ”

Fanning took a fancy to Luzon and its nearby islands, and the fundamental reason was that there was no one except for the small Luzon country, and then a small number of natives.

However, the arable land, forests, gold mines, and spices here are all huge wealth, especially the water, heat and soil here, which will bring a huge amount of grain to the Great Song Dynasty.

Fanning knew very well what the huge amount of grain would bring to the Great Song Dynasty, which had a population of only 20 or 30 million when the country was founded, but since the large-scale promotion of double-cropping Champong rice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the grain production of the Great Song Dynasty has greatly increased.

People changed from two meals a day to three meals a day, and the population grew rapidly, and by the late Northern Song Dynasty, the population had grown to 120 million people, and it was the increase in food that brought earth-shaking changes to the living standards of the Great Song Dynasty.

At this time, a general came to report, "Enlightened envoy, the brothers have found a large amount of gold and all kinds of jewels in the palace storehouse!" ”

Fanning was a little interested, and immediately turned the horse's head to the palace, the palace is also a wooden building, covering an area of about ten acres, surrounded by a large circle of walls, built by craftsmen from the Three Buddhas, very Buddhist, some of the surrounding mansions are the residences of high-ranking officials of the royal family, and are also built by the craftsmen of the Three Buddhas.

The palace and the palace were guarded by Song soldiers who were under house arrest, and the palace's warehouse, the only stone building in the entire state of Luzon, guarded by fifty soldiers.

Fanning walked into the warehouse, only to see that the warehouse was divided into two parts by a wooden wall, and hundreds of wooden boxes were stacked on both sides, and the wooden boxes were so rough that there was not even a single cloth in them, and the golden lumps were revealed through the rough cracks.

The soldiers were moving down the large wooden boxes, which were opened, and inside were simply smelted gold nuggets, and many soldiers were weighing.

One of the capitals stepped forward and said to Fanning: "There are a hundred boxes of gold, and each box weighs about 100 catties of gold after removing the wooden boxes, which is 100,000 catties." ”

Fan Ning was also secretly surprised, 100,000 catties of gold, that is, 1.6 million taels, which will take at least a hundred years to accumulate, he asked again: "What about the other boxes?" ”

Dutou opened the other boxes, all of which were all kinds of sea pearls, tortoiseshell, coral, and more than a dozen boxes of black items, and Fanning recognized it at a glance, this was ambergris.

"What will happen to all this wealth?" Sima Zhang Nan asked in a low voice.

Fan Ning said coldly: "We also need a lot of food, tents and daily necessities to resettle them in other places, and some of these riches will be left to reward the soldiers, and the rest will be transported back to the imperial court, and the task promised to the Zhizheng Hall this year will be completed." ”

The next few generals are so excited that they are gearing up, a war that does not hurt a single soldier, and there are post-war rewards, who would not want to go on such an expedition?

Zhang Nan sighed secretly in his heart, no matter what reason Fan Ning found, but plundering the property of other countries is already a sure fact, fortunately, he does not leave a penny for himself, otherwise sooner or later he will be used to liquidate this matter.

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By dusk, the Song army had set up camp in the open area, and the liquidation of the Luzon army had been completed, and all the weapons and armor were gathered together, and they were not ready to be destroyed, and they would be returned to them after they had migrated.

In the tent of the barracks, Fanning's negotiations with the king and the three royal families also came to an end.

Fanning proposed three plans, the first of which was to continue to retain the title of Luzon king and allow hereditary succession, but the Luzon royal family had to move to the capital of the Song Dynasty, and the people here were managed by the officials of the Great Song Dynasty; In the second plan, the Song Dynasty helped the whole country of Luzon to migrate to Sulu Island, and rebuilt the Luzon State on Sulu Island, or changed the name of the country to Sulu State; The third plan, the dissolution of the Luzon state, the king of Luzon went to live in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and he could be knighted, and the people of Luzon moved to Ryukyu Island and became the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

As for the plan proposed by the king of Luzon himself, Luzon became a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty and kept a domain of Luzon, but this plan was vetoed by Fanning, and leaving them on Luzon Island would become a hidden danger for the Song Dynasty immigrants, and sooner or later conflicts would break out, and the best way was to be separated by the sea and not communicate with each other.

King Luo Gang had no choice but to say to Fanning: "Let us discuss it ourselves!" ”

A Song man who was doing business in Luzon acted as an interpreter, and he conveyed the king's meaning to Fanning, who immediately nodded: "Yes, I hope to get a final answer tomorrow morning!" ”

He left with a few officials, leaving only King Luo Gang and his two brothers, one as prime minister and the other as general.

"What does Big Brother think?" The two asked King Luo Gang.

Luo Gang sighed, "There is a saying in the Song Dynasty, people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, we are fortunate that we have not been destroyed, how else can we choose, I only have one thought, the foundation left by the ancestors cannot be lost, and the Luzon Kingdom must survive." ”

His two brothers were silent for a moment and said, "Then there is only one choice, we move the whole country, is this what the eldest brother means?" ”

Luo Gang nodded silently, and sighed again: "I have been to the Lu Island they said, in the south, it is composed of more than a dozen islands, not far from Boni Country, the place is not big, but it is enough for our 100,000 people to live, the key is what we rely on to survive in the future, I think this is the key to our negotiations with the Song army, we must strive for more benefits." ”

"Then what benefits does the eldest brother want?"

"The technology I want the most is farming, if we can farm, then there will be no problem in surviving, the second is that I want a little shipbuilding technology, with shipbuilding technology, we can expand to the south, third, I want food and basic daily necessities, they must ensure our food rations for a year, fourth, I want security, once the Boni invade us, they must send troops to protect, I think these four points are very important, if you have ideas, you can add."

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