For Zhang Jingming, the food cooked by Tang Ning is a familiar taste that has been absent for a long time, while for Jiang Nian, the food cooked by Tang Ning is a fresh experience.

I have to say that after having the identity of Danyang Hou, the rewards received by a little move are huge. For example, Jiang Nian was flattered by Tang Ning's personal cooking, and praised Tang Ning's good skills every time he took a bite.

Because there are not many ingredients at home, the amount of dishes is small. The main dish is the crispy chicken that Tang Ning bought from outside.

After eating and rinsing their mouths, they began to talk about business. Jiang Nian saw that the three of them were serious, so he left with interest and left this room for the three of them.

Tang Ning took a sip of tea and said straight to the point: "Let's talk about it, before I came back from Jiaozhi, you were still saying that you were reused by the king of Champa and were helping him attack the city and plunder the land.

Why didn't you come back long after I came back on my front foot? Could it be that the fight over there is already over? ”

Zhu Mian also nodded and said: "The Privy Council originally thought that if you could do more things on the side of the city for a while, Guangyuan Prefecture could also be less vigilant, and many soldiers who had nothing to do would not have to be sent to Guangyuan Prefecture."

But why did you come back all of a sudden? ”

Zhang Jingming sighed, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It's not those people who are blind. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"It all has to start after you captured Li Deqian......

It turned out that not long after Li Deqian was captured, the news spread to the territory of Zhancheng. At that time, everyone heard that the emperor of Jiaozhi was captured by the Song people, and they were all very excited, and another banquet was held on the same day to celebrate this event.

Zhang Jingming was overjoyed when he heard the news, and said that the opportunity had finally come. Li Changjie's garrison in Mali has put him in a stalemate, and now the news of Li Deqian's capture has let Li Changjie know that this person will definitely be in chaos.

If you take advantage of the situation and attack, you will definitely be able to capture Mali City in one fell swoop.

However, at this very time, Indra II convened a meeting in the rear. After a heated discussion, the ministers of the Champa State agreed that the current Champa State no longer needed Zhang Jingming's help.

Now Jiaozhi, the dragons are leaderless and weak. The whole army was disheartened. Such a chicken, there is no need to use Zhang Jingming's knife to kill it, it is too wasteful.

Although this reason sounds good, Zhang Jingming is clear in his heart that this is the xenophobic behavior of the ministers of the Zhancheng State.

After solving the biggest problem in front of them, they began to set their sights on themselves. The main reason for this is nothing more than that he is a Song person, and people from other countries are in charge of his country's army, and he really can't sleep well.

Until then, they can comfort themselves with the fact that the enemy has not been eliminated. but

The period during Li Deqian's captivity was undoubtedly the most vulnerable period for the Jiaozhi people.

So they had the confidence to defeat Jiaozhi, and they also became inflated, wanting to throw Zhang Jingming aside.

Faced with this ending, Zhang Jingming was very helpless. As soon as Indra II's documents arrived, he immediately set out and hurried back to the city.

Later, in the royal palace, Indra II summoned him again, and as soon as they met, Indra II said apologetically: "The hundred officials in the court jointly wrote a letter, but this king is unwilling, and he can only do so."

I hope you won't be dissatisfied with this king, this king is willing to hand over the position of right auxiliary minister to you, are you willing to do it? ”

Not to mention the right auxiliary minister, even Indra II handed over his position as king to Zhang Jingming, Zhang Jingming would not accept it, and the scholars of the Song Dynasty had a deep-rooted prejudice against foreign countries, and they thought that everything outside the Central Plains was true.

What's more, Zhang Jingming watched these people's every move in the Champa Kingdom, although he didn't say it, he deeply despised them in his heart, and he didn't want to stay in Champa forever.

Even if you return to the Great Song Dynasty to be a broken county commander, it is better than being a king in the Champa country.

So Zhang Jingming refused: "The king, in the next book is just a messenger of the Great Song Kingdom, thanks to the king's love, I married the princess to me, Zhang is very grateful."

Therefore, when the king invited me to take command of the army and command the battle, I gladly accepted.

Now that the war situation has been decided, there is no other use in staying in the Champa country. Wang Zuozhicai is not a name that can be borne by the next. Zai Xia is just an ordinary official of the Great Song Dynasty.

I also hope that the king can return to his hometown in Xia Rong and bring the friendship between Champa and the Great Song Kingdom back to the Tokyo City of the Great Song Kingdom to publicize it. ”

As soon as Indra II heard this, he knew that Zhang Jingming was unwilling to do things under his hands. sighed in his heart, in the end, it was this time to remove him, which broke his heart.

If you feel guilty, you will naturally accept everything. At that moment, Indra II ordered the envoys and prepared gifts. He prepared a lot of servants and supplies for his daughter, and finally after having a meal with his daughter and son-in-law, he sent a boat to send the two back to the Great Song Kingdom.

At this point, Zhang Jingming returned to the Great Song Dynasty. Then he hurried all the way back to Tokyo City to report on his work, and the accompanying envoy was very ill, and the imperial doctor was afraid that he would infect Zhao Xu, so he temporarily placed him elsewhere, and then let him go to see Zhao Xu after he recovered.

“…… So, that's what happened to me. As for the extent to which Champa and Cochin are now fighting, and which side has an advantage and which side is inferior, I don't know anything.

At least at the time of my departure, the Champa was in the upper hand. ”

After Zhang Jingming finished speaking, he drank a cup of tea to moisten his throat, Tang Ning frowned and nodded: "I see...... In this case, we can only wait for the news from the Cochins side to be reported by Wu Desi

Yes. ”

“……”

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Winters in Southeast Asia have never been too cold, and Tang Ning and others in Tokyo still need to burn fires to keep warm, while the Champa and Cochin people only need to wear an extra coat than usual at this time.

I thought that the discouraged Jiaozhi people would be easier to defeat, but it turned out that this was not the case.

The Jiaozhi people, who could not advance an inch in front of Zhang Jingming, became strong in the face of the army headed by the general of the Champa State.

Obviously, Li Changjie returned to Thang Long City because he supported the new king to ascend to the throne, and now the person who replaces him is an unknown junior who doesn't even know his name, but he has made the Cham army suffer a lot outside Mali City.

In the two months after Zhang Jingming left, the Cham people paid the price of 20 war elephants and 30,000 people under Mali City, but they still failed to gnaw this difficult city.

If Mali is not taken, there is no hope of recovering Dili Prefecture. Isn't it a laughing stock that this war could not even restore the heyday of the Occupy city?

So Indra II gave a death order, no matter what, even if it was poisoned and cut off food, he would take down the city of Mali.

At the same time, on the other side of the country of Cochin. Chenla, who split off from the Khmer, after defeating the Khmer and annexing it, pointed his fingers at each other.

Zhenla and Khmer are both of the same root and ancestor. They are all descendants of Zhenla people and Funan people. There are also Han people mixed in with it, but the Han people are still a minority after all.

The Chenla people are known to be brave and good at war, and the Khmer princes and nobles who provided free assistance to Cochin were despised by them as Funan.

At the same time, in order to wash away the shame, they declared war directly on Cochin.

The Chenla people who annexed the Khmer really had to be feared, especially when they sent an army of 80,000 to move towards the border between Cochin and Chenla, which was even more of a headache.

Li Changjie dragged his sick body and led the troops to intercept him, this time he was really red-eyed. If he didn't pay attention to it a little, the bastard surnamed Tang kidnapped his own emperor away, such a shameful and humiliating, how could Li Changjie swallow this breath?

He is now full of only one thing, then quickly defeat Zhenla and Zhancheng, recuperate, regroup, and then go to avenge that bastard surnamed Tang.

On the march, Li Changjie spread scouts extensively, and it really played a role. A Zhenla army that wanted to replicate the achievements of the Song army was discovered by him, and more than 10,000 people were ambushed by Li Changjie perfectly, and none of them escaped.

Li Changjie cut off the ears of these people and loaded a large cart to send them to the Zhenla army, so angry that General Zhenla jumped to his feet and scolded Li Changjie.

At that moment, he had to go out in person to have a heads-up with Li Changjie, and was finally stopped by his subordinates and persuaded him to say that you are angry with a person who has no eggs, so he will be honest......

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