Van Buddha and his entourage fled to Garosha, an important eastern town in the country, where the first thing he did was to bathe and cleanse himself, and then go to the Brahmin temple to worship and pray.

"Great Vishnu (Brahmanical patron deity), please give a little mercy and mercy and save your people from the hands of demons." Fan Buddha raised his head with tears in his eyes and looked at the tall golden body of Vishnu in front of him. This Vishnu golden body was invited from Tianzhu, it sits on a lotus flower, wears a royal crown, a blue complexion, wears precious stones, holy threads and thick garlands, and spreads out four holding four magic vessels, a divine snail, a divine plate, a divine pestle and a lotus flower, and the treasure looks solemnly standing in front of the head of Fan Buddha.

"Please bless Champa (Sanskrit Campapura, the self-name of the people of Linyi, referred to as Champa)!" Van Buddha prostrated himself on the ground and prayed with devotion and devotion. The Brahmin monks next to him hurriedly rang the ritual vessels, chanted the scriptures in unison, and prayed for the Buddha.

The king of Chenla, Shalivarman, stood outside the main hall, quietly watching everything in the hall, looking at the back of Fan Fo who was suddenly old and teenage, and his heart was churning like a five-flavor bottle.

Fan Fo's father, Fan Wen, the ancestor of Linyi Kingdom, can be regarded as a generation of heroes, and his reputation in Zhenla and Funan is far and wide. Fan Wen was originally a slave of Haoqiang Fan Shi in Xijuan County, Ninan County, and legend has it that he once herded cattle in a mountain stream, and unintentionally obtained two carp, which magically turned into iron. Fan Wen forged it into two knives, and when the knives were completed, he prayed to the big stone ridge and said: "The carp changes, smelted into two knives, and the one who breaks the stone ridge has a god." Then he cut it off, and the stone ridge collapsed in response. Fan Wen knew that his artifact was passed down as a national weapon.

Fan Wen followed Fan Shi not only to learn to read and write, but also to follow his correspondents, to Jiaozhou and Guangzhou, and to learn the cultural system of the Jin Dynasty. Later, Fan Shi fell ill and died, and Fan Wen was not tolerated by his family, so he fled to Linyi and took refuge with Fan Yi, the king of Linyi at that time. Fan Wen used what he learned in the Jin Dynasty. Teach Fan Yi to repair the palace, city and equipment, and revise the etiquette system. Fan Yi trusted Fan Wen very much, and used him as the general to control the military power and the palace guard.

After Fan Wen was reused, he colluded with the powerful in Linyi to frame many of Fan Yi's sons, causing them to be exiled or flee to other countries. When Fan Yi was seriously ill, he found that he did not have a son by his side. But at this time, it was too late, and Fan Wen closed the palace door tightly. After Fan Yi died, he became the king with no heirs.

Fan Wen imprisoned all of Fan Yi's wife and concubine Mei Ji on top of a tall building, and was willing to accept it from himself. Those who do not obey will be starved to death. Fan Wen then packed up his troops and horses, and successively captured the Daqi Realm, Xiaoqi Realm, Shifu, Xu Wolf, Qudu, Qianlu, Fudan and other feudal lands near Linyi, and became the territory. There were 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers from all departments. It also eradicated some of the internal troubles through foreign warfare.

In order to gain the recognition of the Celestial Empire, Fan Wen sent an envoy to pay tribute to Emperor Jiangzuo Jin, but because his table books were written in Brahmin script, they were rejected by the Jiangzuo court, and Fan Wen held a grudge because of this.

The trade between the foreign countries in the South China Sea and the Jiangzuo Jin Dynasty was mainly by sea, while the Jin Jiaozhou Thorn History and the Japanese Southern Taishou, who guarded the seaway, were greedy for profit and aggression, and often took two or three out of ten maritime goods. By the time Jiang Zhuang was appointed as the assassin of Jiaozhou, Han Ji led the southern guards of Japan, but Han Ji was the most greedy. often extorted more than half of the goods of the maritime merchants, and then set up ships to transfer troops, claiming that whoever disobeyed would be conquered, so that the countries were angry, and the country of Linyi had few fields. Coveting the rich land of Nichinan County. After Han Ji's death, Xie Zhi succeeded him. The encroachment is as good as ever. and Xiahou Lan's succession, the contradictions have begun to intensify very much, and the situation is precarious, but Xiahou Lan is not only greedy but also indulged in alcohol, and politics and religion are becoming more and more chaotic.

In the third year of Yonghe (347 AD), Fan Wen saw the opportunity, in the name of negotiating justice for all countries, led his troops to capture Rinan County, harmed Xiahou Lan, slaughtered the city for several days, killed five or six thousand people, and sacrificed the corpse to the sky, razed the county seat of Xijuan, and then took Rinan County as the land of Linyi. He also sent a message to Zhu Fan, the assassin of Jiaozhou, and demanded that Hengshan in the north and south of Japan be the border between the two countries.

In the third year of Yonghe, Zhu Fan took advantage of Fan Wen to return to Linyi, sent Liu Xiong to lead the troops to recover Ninan, and fought in the border land of Xijuan. After hearing the news, Fan Wen led his troops to recapture it. In the fourth year of Yonghe, Fan Wen counterattacked Jiuzhen County and killed eight or nine out of ten county sergeants. In the fifth year, the expedition to the west supervised Teng led the troops of Jiaojiao and Guangzhi to attack Fan Wen Yu Lurong, but was defeated by Fan Wen and had to retreat to Jiuzhen. And it was this year that Fan Wen died, and Fan Buddha became the heir. Yonghe six you, Zhou Fu took office as the assassin of Guangzhou, his son Zhou Chu went out of the town of Jiaozhou, tired of defeating the Lin Yi army, Fan Buddha was afraid, so he had to ask for surrender. In order to stabilize the situation in Guangzhou and the country, the Zhou father and son formed an alliance with it. During the Longhe period (361 AD), Fan Buddha sent an envoy to Jiankang and officially became one of the overseas vassals of the Jin Dynasty.

But Khalivaman thought more, and Fan Wen gained great prestige for daring to challenge the Celestial Empire, but it also brought endless disasters to the Linyi Kingdom. Khalivarman believed that the extermination of the Limyi Kingdom must be a move by the Celestial Empire, which had been restored to unity, to assert its military might overseas.

Fan Buddha stayed in the temple for three days and three nights, praying wholeheartedly to the shrine he believed in, and during these three days, the war of Linyi came to me. The kingdom of Linyi, where the king had fallen and the king had fled, seemed to have broken its backbone, and there was no longer any power to resist. Taking advantage of the victory, the Huaxia army advanced by land and water, and soon swept several cities in the south, and it was about to hit the border area with Funan, and now not only the entire territory of Zhenla is under martial law, but even Funan, a powerful country in the South China Sea, is also tense.

"Your Majesty, King Khalivman, the ambition of the Chinese wolf son has been revealed, and Fan Buddha hereby implores Your Majesty not to seek to be a Champa, but also to protect the Champa (Kmir, the name given to Zhenla by the Linyi people) from the poison of the Chinese people." Fan Buddha lowered his head and said sincerely.

Khalivarman looked at the humble Van Buddha, and his gloomy face showed no joy or anger. As a king of the dead country, Fan Fo has long lost his former arrogant momentum. Fan Wen made Linyi reach the most powerful and heyday period, at that time, Linyi, driving a ship imitating the style of the Central Plains, resisted the Celestial Empire in the north, attacked the south in the south, and fought Zhenla in the west, and was full of spirit in the entire South China Sea region. But the tallest trees are also the most susceptible to typhoon destruction, which is a mantra handed down by our ancestors.

"His Royal Highness Pham Buddha, Khmer (referring to the ancient Khmer tribe in present-day northern Cambodia, the predecessor of Chenla. During the Qin and Han dynasties, it was inseparable from Funan, and it was collectively referred to as the investigation of things. Later, it gradually became stronger, and the Sui Dynasty was officially called Zhenla, and replaced Funan in the Tang Dynasty. So the names in the book are confusing. It was only a small country belonging to the Funan Kingdom, and it was impossible to resist the attack of the Chinese people by relying on Ji Mi alone. He also asked His Hall Fan Buddha to go down to Funan and ask for help from the Mountain Emperor Zhu Zhantan. ”

Speaking of this, Khalivaman saw a look of uncertainty flash on Van Fo's face, and he couldn't help but snort secretly in his heart: What if you are unhappy? Last time, I coveted your gold, silver, and money, and as a result, I came back with less than 5,000 of my 10,000 soldiers. Now that the Chinese army is pressing, I don't want Ji to be the second Cham country. This must be done with the help of the southern country, which is the largest country in the South China Sea and the suzerainty of many countries. It is reasonable for it to come out against the Chinese.

But Sarivaman added a few words to dispel Fan Foo's doubts: "I will send the minister to Funan with you, while I stay here to put the army in order." Listen to the dispatch of the mountain emperor at any time. ”

Fan Buddha has already figured out what is going on in the heart of the Salivarman, Ji Mo was not a big country originally, and the Cham country, which was several times stronger than it, has been destroyed by the Chinese, and of course the Salivarman is not willing to jump out at this time to find the Chinese people to be pumped by himself. And in the current crisis. Who would dare to come out if Funan didn't come out? But when I think of going to the south, where relations are not very good, I pray for mercy. Fan Buddha couldn't help but hesitate.

Forget it, the capital is dead, what else is there to be reserved? Van Fo gritted his teeth and agreed to the arrangement of the Shalivaman land, and rushed to Funan with his son Van Huda, hundreds of guards, and a Jifu mission composed of hundreds of people.

The capital of the Kingdom of Funan was the city of Vyadhapura (Sanskrit: Hunter's City, near present-day Banm, Cambodia, Funan is the antiphon of bnam-mountain in Khmer, and the king of Funan is called the mountain emperor Kurunbnm in Khmer). To the northwest is the Mekonk River, which flows for hundreds of miles before flowing into the South China Sea near a small village called Prey Nokor (present-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).

Jump off eight or nine feet long. The Funan boat, which is six or seven feet wide and has a head and tail like a fish, walks into the city of Viyata Buluo, and the first impression of Fan Buddha is that it is far inferior to Indra. The people of Funan just used the wooden fence as the city and cut down the wood to build houses. Then use the seaside growing place eight or nine feet of large leaves. The leaves were braided to cover the roof, and it was made into a loft for living. Compared to learning the Central Plains Pavilion Palace construction Indra Buluo. It's really far off. But then the heart of Fan Buddha was gray again, and Indra Bura's glory had become a ruin.

Under the guidance of the minister who greeted Funan, Fan Buddha and his entourage soon came to the palace of Funan. It's just a complex of heavy pavilions that are two or three times taller than ordinary houses.

After listening to Fan Buddha and Minister Ji Miao's explanation, everyone in the hall was silent, and they all quietly turned their eyes to Zhu Zhantan, the king of Funan, who was sitting in the middle.

Zhu Zhantan was nervously thinking in his heart, Funan and the Celestial Empire were constantly in contact, and in the late Han Dynasty (Three Kingdoms period), the first king Fan Zhan sent envoys to Wu State, and Wu State also sent Kang Tai and Zhu Ying back envoys, and the two countries continued to come and go from then on. Later, the Jin family won the world, and Funan sent envoys to Taikang (28 AD) at the beginning of Taishi (265 AD) and contributed to the contribution. At the beginning of Shengping (357 AD), knowing that the northern power Cham had "surrendered" to the Celestial Empire, on a whim, Zhu Zhan Tan was afraid that he would be left behind, so he sent an envoy to bring ivory, gems and other items to the Celestial Empire to contribute to Jiankang, and also borrowed the Cham boat to offer two domesticated elephants.

Who knew that Jiankang's Heavenly Dynasty monarchs and ministers thought that this behemoth was a strange beast, and they were afraid that it would bring disaster to the world, so they issued an edict to reward it with a heavy gold. The envoy of Funan took great pains to transport the elephant over, and said that he did not want to bring it back, so he took a boatload of rewards, found a remote place by the river, killed the elephant and threw the corpse, and then came back proudly, disapproving of the Celestial Empire. After listening to the envoy's story, Zhu Zhantan thought that the Celestial Empire was nothing more than that, so he no longer sent envoys to contribute.

Today, the Celestial Empire came uninvited, and it has already defeated the northern powerhouse Champa, and the soldiers and horses are not far from the border of Funan. What to do? Drop or hit? After the Celestial Empire, what should I do with those subject countries under my own borders? The current country of Funan is powerful in the South China Sea, Panpan Kingdom (in the area along the coast of Wanlun Bay in present-day South Thailand), Dandan Kingdom (in present-day Malay Peninsula), Ganli Kingdom (also known as Qudukun in present-day Kedah, Malay Peninsula), Langya Kingdom (in the area of Pattani in present-day southern Thailand), Bori Kingdom (in present-day Bali Island in eastern Java), Dunsun (also known as Dianxun, in present-day Tanah Salin, Burma), Holo Kingdom, Hora Dan Kingdom, Imperial Kingdom, Banda Kingdom and Po Po Da Kingdom (all of the above are ancient countries in Southeast Asia, the region is unknown) are all subject countries of Funan Kingdom. Once Funanguo softened in front of the Chinese people, it is estimated that the people of these forces will rush to the new master, and they will no longer be able to remember their old master.

Beat? Such a strong country of the Cham country was destroyed in just a few years, once the Funan country and the Chinese people did it, they were exhausted after a few years, and those subject countries saw that they were exhausted and had different intentions, what should they do if they came to the back with a few knives?

At this time, Fan Ruvarman, the chief minister of Funan, spoke: "The minister heard that the cultural climate of the Central Plains of China is completely different from that of the South China Sea, and most of the northerners do not like the heat and humidity of the South China Sea, and most of them will get sick if they stay for a long time. In Weichen's view, as long as we can curb the momentum of the Chinese people to continue their offensive and drag them out here in the South China Sea for a while, I am afraid that they will collapse without a fight. ”

Zhu Zhantan's eyes lit up when he heard this, the hot and humid weather was indeed the killer feature of the South China Sea countries. Former Qin Tu Sui, Ren Huan, and Zhao Tuo conquered Baiyue in the south, set up three counties of Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiang, and also sent troops to attack the Jiaozhi region, but soon retreated back, why, it is not not adapted to the climate here.

Later, Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty sent hundreds of thousands of troops, with more than 100,000 corpses and bones, finally destroyed the Nanyue Kingdom, and set up three counties of Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinan, but it has always been only a small number of officials and local wealthy Yishuai to control the region, why? It's not because of the "sinister climate" here. At the beginning of the Later Han Dynasty, Ma Yuanping Second Expedition, placed a bronze pillar, and four or five out of ten soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army died of miasma, and even he himself prepared a "horse leather shroud".

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhantan immediately decided: "Immediately send an envoy to collect troops and horses from all the subject countries, I will gather the warriors of Funan, wave my army to the north, fight to the death with the Chinese people, expel them from the Cham Po, and help His Royal Highness Fan Buddha restore the country!" ”

Just when Zhu Zhantan was dispatching troops, Zeng Hua's order on the South China Sea attack strategy was also formally issued, and the South China Sea East Road marching chief was set up to take charge of the marching camp, with Guo Huai as the marching commander and Huan Shiqian, Lü Guang, and Feng Xi as the deputy commanders, bringing together 50,000 army forces from Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Changzhou, and more than 1,000 ships and 30,000 naval stormtroopers of the second, third, and fourth fleets of the coastal fleet and the first fleet of the far sea, to sharpen their knives against the Funan and Zhenla regions.