Chapter 141: Expedition to the South Barbarians
Time is like this, and we will never let go of day and night.
It was soon spring of the eighth year of Zhenguan, and the season when all things sprouted. At this moment, the Southern Tang Dynasty gathered 120,000 troops, claiming to be 200,000. It was the country that was unjust to attack the unjust officials in the south - Zhenla and Linyi.
These two small countries were immediately trembling and quickly sent envoys to Jinling with a large number of treasures to make friends with officials and dissuade the emperor, but everything was futile. On the night when the envoy arrived, the minister who secretly received bribes was searched by the Jinyiwei led by Mu Baiyi and assigned to Lingnan the next day.
Realizing that the Central Plains Sect Master was really going to deal with the two small countries this time, Zhenla and Lin Yi also secretly gritted their teeth and gathered troops to guard the northern border, and secretly joined forces to join the small state tribes further south to resist the attack of the Tang army.
On March 11, the Supreme Emperor personally met with the 32 cave masters of Annan Road in Diancheng and negotiated with them. At least a thousand people were produced in each cave, with a total of more than 30,000 barbarian soldiers preparing for the war.
Facing the Tang Kingdom, whose territory is hundreds of more than them, it is impossible for them to be in awe. Besides, this time the emperor was in charge of the army. The Tang Kingdom was so powerful that they could not resist the thirty-six holes. Even if they resisted it, then Tang Kingdom would come again. How could it resist the Tang Kingdom's attacks again and again if the troops were trapped and horses were scarce?
After all, where is the size of the Tang Kingdom? As long as it is not as stupid as Emperor Yang of Sui, he will recruit millions of people to attack Goryeo three times, causing the public to be resentful.
The Tang Kingdom only needs to send 20,000 to 30,000 people back and forth to harass them every year, and they will defeat themselves without any attack.
What's more, Li Yuan was generous and said that the southern barbarians could occupy half of the land they captured this time, which would greatly improve their living environment.
In fact, although the Tang Dynasty tied Linyi and Zhenla together, the two were actually slightly different.
Linyi Kingdom is located in the eastern part of the Indochina Peninsula, and is also called Linyi Kingdom. It is located approximately in the Hue River in southern Vietnam and is also known as Linyi Kingdom. This place was originally the base of the Chamists. It was set up as Xianglin County, Rinan County in the Western Han Dynasty, and was called Xianglinyi. If Xiang is omitted, it is therefore called Linyi.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a man named Qu Lianzhe killed the county magistrate and claimed to be the king of Linyi. He repeatedly invaded China at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the first year of Yongchu of the Liu Song Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Song sent the governor of Jiaozhou, Du Huidu, to conquer Linyi, to the south, to conquer Linyi. Linyi asked to surrender and pay tribute to Liu Song. During the Daye period of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui general Liu Fang conquered it and set up Linyi County.
But at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Linyi County established itself as a country and became Linyi Kingdom.
In the Old Book of Tang, it is recorded that the Linyi Kingdom, a land of Xianglin in the south of the Han Dynasty, was more than a thousand miles south of Jiaozhou. The country extends for thousands of miles and is connected to the Imperial State in the north. The earth is warm in winter, and does not recognize ice and snow, and is often full of fog and rain.
The king lives in the city where he lives, and erected wood as a barbecue. The king wore a sun-felt ancient shell, slanted his arms, surrounded his waist, and added a real pearl gold lock, thinking it was a garland, curly hair and wearing flowers. The lady wore a morning glow ancient shell, thought it was a short skirt, and wore a golden flower on her head, and decorated it with a golden lock, and a gold lock, and a gold lock, and a gold necklace. The king's guards had 5,000 soldiers, who could use crossbows, vines as armor, bamboo as bows, and fight on an elephant.
When the king came out, he listed a thousand images and four hundred horses, divided into front and back. The man's fists were black, and the common people were all sloppy and painted with musk to paint the body. During the day, he painted and washed again. When he visited, he held his hands together and slapped the flakes. The method of marriage was to obtain the same surname. There were common characters, especially those who believed in Buddhism, and most of them became monks. When his parents died, the son picked his hair and cried, used a coffin to hold the corpse, accumulated firewood and burned the coffin, collected the ashes, hid them in a gold bottle, and sent them to the water.
It is customary to use December as the beginning of the year, and the rice is ripe again. From then on, the grass and trees flourish in winter, and they eat lettuce in all seasons, and betel nut juice is used as wine. There are birds that can help people speak.
In the sixth year of Wude, Linyi King Fanzhi was sent to the Tang Dynasty, but he had fewer contacts afterwards.
For the Tang Dynasty, Linyi was far less valuable than the rich Western countries.
The Zhenla Kingdom is more southern than the Linyi Kingdom, and is approximately in Cambodia today. In fact, the existence of the Zhenla Kingdom is longer than that of the Qin and Han Dynasties, but for a long time, the Zhenla Kingdom was a vassal state of Funan Kingdom.
Although Zhenla Kingdom is now strong, Funan Kingdom is not weak either. The two countries are fighting, and the Prince of Funan is in Java, establishing the Shandi Dynasty to confront Zhenla Kingdom.
Therefore, the operation of the Tang Kingdom in the north shocked the whole country of Zhenla Kingdom. The Tang Dynasty was really too large and it was completely destroyed to deal with them. It could only rely on the advantage of the local government to barely fight against them.
All countries in Southeast Asia have fear of the Central Plains dynasty.
But fortunately, the Central Plains dynasty rarely covet their land, but now, a greedy Supreme Emperor stretched out his hand and pointed at the map.
"Here, and here, are all good places for producing grain. Chief Whadun, how powerful the Tang army is, you should know that the Eastern Turks in the north have been destroyed by our army. The Tubo people sent envoys to beg for marriage,
You must believe that I am not the only ally!" Li Yuan said.
"Dear Emperor Tang, please call me my Chinese name, Li Lideng." The Wadeng tribesmen stared at their eyes and emphasized, perhaps because they were too excited, he slapped the table hard.
Li Lideng is the Chinese name given to him by Li Yuan.
Of course, the Li family is naturally the national surname given by Li Yuan.
Emperors of Li Tang were used to giving national surnames to foreign races.
"Okay, patriarch Woden." Li Yuan held Li Liden's hand with a smile.
The leader of the Walden clan is the representative of the Southern Barbarians for the time being. His tribe is the largest of the thirty-six holes.
As long as he gains his trust, it will be easy to form a Southern Barbarian army.
Unlike the wars between the Central Plains dynasty and the northern Rongdi, the countries in Southeast Asia used elephant soldiers to fight, with strange and diverse methods.
Surprisingly, the Mongolian cavalry that swept across the Eurasian continent did not attack Vietnam, and even allowed the Persians to flee to the Indian subcontinent to establish the Mughal dynasty.
These are related to the fact that the Mongolian cavalry is not familiar with the war style in Southeast Asia. In the strong war horses, there is no comparison with the thin elephant.
"Captain Woden, I wonder how many troops you southern barbarians can put in total? This... the divided country is closely related to how much you put in.
You have to understand that I, the Tang Kingdom, have a territory of tens of thousands of miles, and I don’t take this land seriously at all. However, something happened when I built the Fu Ship recently. You made me very dissatisfied. What else is there besides internal fighting?
That's why I decided to destroy the two countries and share the territory with you, so that you can give me some peace." Li Yuan's face remained unchanged, his face did not blush and his heart did not beat, as if he was telling the truth.
hehe!
He couldn't tell the truth.
Although it was a bit tricky for Li Yuan to eradicate these two countries, it was not difficult. The Tang Dynasty was strong enough to crush them.
But why not drive the wolf to swallow the tiger?
Let them kill each other and reap the benefits of the fisherman.
Although the land-changing and diversion of the Ming Dynasty could also solve the problem of the Southern Barbarian chieftains, the methods were too soft and required nearly a hundred years of hard work.
Li Yuan was more willing to destroy them directly and forcefully integrate into the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!