Since Zhang Jingming mentioned it, Yongzhou Zhizhou took a glass of wine and told a story to everyone present in a drunken manner.

In December of the eighth year of Xining, the weather was very cold. When 80,000 Vietnamese troops besieged the city of Yongzhou, Su Mian, who was then the governor of Yongzhou, gathered and commanded the state soldiers, subordinates, and ordinary people who could fight day and night.

At that time, Yongzhou's army was only 2,800 people, and later tried to recruit troops, barely reaching 4,000 people.

However, after the four military villages in Yongzhou were successively broken by the army, Su Mian knew that without those few military villages to attract firepower, Yongzhou City would face the stormy attack of the Jiaozhi army.

So he gathered all the 2,800 forbidden troops and the box army in the state and guarded each key point.

He also recruited hundreds of death squads to meet the Jiaozhi army on the Yongjiang River, killing more than 200 enemy soldiers and more than a dozen war elephants.

Day and night, he killed and wounded more than 15,000 enemy soldiers with crossbows before and after, and countless war elephants.

Later, the Jiaozhi army adopted the method of soil attack, with bags containing soil, piled up outside the city wall, when the pile reached tens of thousands of bags, as high as several zhang, the Jiaozhi soldiers flocked to the city wall from the soil sacs, so that Yongzhou City was broken after being besieged for 42 days.

After the city was broken, Su Mian's father and son, his family and Tong sentenced Tang Zizheng to engage in street battles with the Jiaozhi army that entered the city, and everyone was seriously injured, and Tang Zizheng was martyred.

In the face of the swarming Jiaozhi army, Su Mu knew that the general trend had gone and his death was approaching.

However, he shouted: "I am a thief!" Then he returned to the Yongzhou administration office and set fire to it.

Su Mian and his second sons Ziming and Zizheng, grandsons Guangyuan and Zhiwen, etc., 37 members of his family were martyred in this battle. After the Jiaozhi people entered Yongzhou City, they killed more than 50,000 officials, Tuding, and residents, and they also demolished Yongzhou City to fill the Yongjiang River.

This is the story that every Yongzhou person knows, in the whole battle, the Jiaozhi army killed more than 100,000 Song people, and Yongzhou alone accounted for 50,000.

Su Yan's cry of 'my righteous immortal thief' still echoes in the hearts of Yongzhou people. The hatred of the Yongzhou people for the Jiaozhi people is unforgettable. In this regard, they are not inferior to the Cham people at all.

Zhang Jingming fell silent after hearing this, he participated in the battle of Xiaoguan, and he could know what it was like in the hearts of the defenders when the enemy swarmed in from somewhere.

He also knows how brutal street fighting can be. In the complex terrain, an enemy may suddenly appear in front of you, your left and right hands, and behind your back and take your life.

Just as Zhang Jingming was caught in memories because of Su Mian's story, the deputy envoy slapped the table with an angry face and said: "It's really too deceitful!" How can a small country be spared for committing such a heinous crime?!

This time, we will slaughter the Jiaozhi royal family and avenge Su Zhizhou and the Yongzhou military and civilians! ”

When Yongzhou Zhizhou heard this, he seemed to hear something

It's funny, and all of a sudden I start laughing.

The deputy envoy looked at him puzzled and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Zhizhou's tears of laughter came out, and it took a long time to hold his stomach and say: "It's not the royal family that should be killed, but the two villains Shen Qi and Liu Yi!"

At that time, Lord Su had already detected the movement of the thieves and learned that the thieves wanted to invade Yongzhou.

In three days, twenty-eight people were sent to Guizhou to ask for help, but even after the city of Yongzhou was broken, there was still no movement! ”

After speaking, Zhizhou directly picked up the wine jug and poured it fiercely, gritting his teeth and saying: "Wang Anshi is so happy, he sent Shen and Liu to take office in Hengshan Pass with the defeat of the city.

When the Taiyuan Hou Xihe was victorious, these two people were greedy for merit and recklessly resented Annan. The disaster of Annan began with the two of them!

However, the disaster of these two people began with Wang Anshi! ”

Everyone can't take this talk, and the last person who said this is not far away now. That person's name is Su Shi, and he was relegated to Danzhou as a governor before.

If the two want to meet, it won't take a week to drink and talk to each other.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, but in the end, the businessman had seen more winds and waves. Hurriedly beckoned to Xiao Er and asked him to invite the folk artists who were playing and singing downstairs to play upstairs.

After a while, an old man came up with a pipa in his hand. After a few words to the merchant, he began to play the tune.

Perhaps it was specifically requested by the merchant, but the style of the song sounded a little brisk and very relaxing. As a result, the awkward atmosphere of the right talent disappeared.

At the end of the song, everyone stroked their hands, and the old man also thanked a few people.

Soon after, the banquet ended, but after that, the governor of Yongzhou did not say a word.

The departure time was set for the afternoon of the next day, so Zhang Jingming slept until noon.

After a quick bite of food to fill my stomach, and then I packed up my things, and it was already time to set off in the afternoon.

The group hurried to the dock, and the merchant did not wait long, and when he saw the envoy coming, he took a few people on the boat.

Goods and other things were already carried to the ship by the entourage yesterday. It's not that I haven't worried about whether this businessman will get rich and do irrational things.

But after inquiry, I learned that this businessman was quite famous in Yongzhou. He does business in two words, trustworthy, so many people are willing to do business with him.

Since his style is based on trustworthiness, there should be no imaginary thing about him seeking money and killing people. So Zhang Jingming didn't pay too much attention to him, and during the two-and-a-half-day flight, the two talked happily.

After two and a half days, the road was calm. The imaginary rough waves did not appear.

The merchant was very pleased with this, especially when he saw the envoys of the Champa Kingdom waiting at the dock to welcome the Song envoys

Very.

His ship was very recognizable, and almost all the people who worked in the wharves knew that it was a ship of Song merchants.

Zhang Jingming and his entourage got off the boat, and the envoy of the Champa State immediately greeted them and very politely invited them to go to the palace of Champong.

Naturally, someone helped the people on the ship to unload the gifts and send them to the palace.

As they were walking, the merchant whispered to the deputy, "How did they know you were coming?" ”

"The messenger always departs earlier than us, and when we arrived in Yongzhou yesterday, the messenger may have been halfway back to Yongzhou." The deputy envoy explained in a low voice.

"I see." The merchant nodded, relieved of a doubt in his heart.

All the way to the royal palace of the Champa Kingdom, it is not as magnificent as imagined. In this way, the kings of Champa seem to have been relatively frugal.

As soon as they entered the palace, there were imposing guards on both sides of the road. This was a show of national force, and the Great Song Dynasty also liked to do this when he met with foreign envoys.

The entourage was politely led away to rest elsewhere, leaving only Zhang Jingming, the deputy envoy, and two guards to follow, and the four of them went to the palace where the king was.

Standing outside the hall and looking inside, you can see two rows of people standing on both sides, probably these people are officials of the Champa state. And the decoration in the hall is not particularly gorgeous. The main seat in the center was empty, which should be the deliberate refusal of the king of Champa to seize the initiative.

The man who led the way led the four to the temple and told them to wait for a moment. The four of them stood in the middle, surrounded by a group of officials who occupied the city. However, they were not nervous, they were just thinking that the people of Champa were really frugal.

But when the current king, Yaindravarman II, came out to entertain them, they didn't think so.

Yaindravarman II was dressed like a nouveau riche of the Great Song Dynasty, with several gold chains around his neck and jewel-encrusted rings on his fingers.

There is also a gold belt inlaid with five or six gems around his waist, and the whole person has a kind of local tyrant aura when he appears, which makes everyone cry and laugh.

is such a person, dressed like this, who dares to walk on the official road of the Great Song Dynasty and try it, and the pants can be snatched away......

After scanning the four of them with a fierce gaze, Yaindravarman II said in a deep voice, "Which of you is the leader?" ”

The translator hurriedly translated these words, and after Zhang Jingming heard this, he took a step forward, bowed his head and said, "King of Zhancheng, I came to visit you with gifts on the orders of the Emperor of Song.

If you get in trouble, I hope you don't mind. ”

"Don't mind?" Indravaman II smiled: "The trouble you have brought to Champa has not ended until today, how can you not mind this king?" ”

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