Chapter 68: Zongsang

Before dawn, the sound of drums came faintly from outside the city. Different from the majestic and powerful sound of building drums that Zong Sang heard in the Central Plains, the drums outside the city were chaotic and sharp, mixed with the strange shouts of barbarians and the chirping of war elephants, which made people's hearts feel impetuous and trembling. These voices remind people all the time: this is not the Central Plains, nor the world, this is the Sangha thousands of miles away.

The sea of Chu is connected to the world, and the huge profits of trade make the whole world businessmen flock to it, and there are rumors everywhere that they got rich overnight and killed a thousand gold. One of the most typical is who sees a piece of rotten wood floating on the sea, and when he scoops it up, he finds that it is not rotten wood, but a black stone with a foul smell. This person wanted to abandon it, and he didn't want Hu Shang to buy it for ten gold, but before this person could make a promise, more Hu merchants came forward to bid, and finally sold it for a huge amount of gold.

Although the Eastern countries of the Warring States were commercially developed, they still needed to be sold by giant businessmen. Many big businessmen who are 'rich with the king', in addition to fixed assets, can come up with cash, which is just a thousand gold.

And the cash that a country can pay at any time, according to the pipe, 'cannot be a country without ten thousand gold; The country of a thousand times cannot be without the decoration of a thousand gold; The country of a hundred times cannot be without the decoration of a hundred gold. 'One by a hundred, ten thousand times is a million Fu men who can wear armor, and such a country treasury is also ten thousand gold.

The wealth and silk are moving, and the world outside the world seems to be full of gold, silver and jade, and the owners of the private sea boats made of cypress wood in Zhao and Qi are willing to take small merchants to India, Seleucus and other places in order to make profits. Aware of the imminent death of Korea, Jong-sang did not hesitate to sell his family property and go to sea on the sea boat 'Youdao'.

A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way. Yizan these two sea boats, one is called 'love money', and the other is called 'Youdao'. The name is very good, but Yizan is a usury profiteer after all, the state of Chu agreed to build a sea boat with the cypress and cypress wood dismantled by the Three Kingdoms, and he originally only had one sea boat material, so he mixed in the new material that had just been cut down, and wanted to build three sea boats, and finally the shipyard only agreed to build two.

Even if the two boats are made of old materials as keels and new and old materials are mixed as ribs, the boats made of them have been leaking continuously since they were launched, and they are damp and foul-smelling; In order to save sailors, small merchants like Zongsang sometimes had to go on deck to help pull the sails and turn the beams. Coupled with seasickness, he came with a lot of hardships, came back from India, and was surrounded by barbarian armies when repairing ships in the port of Mongarja......

'Knock knock......' The drum in the Sangraka Harbor was also beaten. The commanders and officials above the commander of the city, as well as the owners of the five boats in the port, all of them had to go down to the city to receive military orders. Small merchants like Zongsang would just stay on the city walls, and the natives would bring up rice and canned meat.

"Look at ......," shouted someone in the city. The sky was getting brighter and brighter, so bright that you could see the barbarians under the city walls.

"Look! The barbarian ...... "The drums outside the city were beating loudly, and through the hastily erected canal, everyone saw that more than a dozen huge vehicles under the city were slowly advancing. The car is several feet high, standing on the top of the car can already look down on the city, and some fireproof animal skins are nailed outside the car.

"There is clinical, there is clinical! General Express, General General! "The first method of siege is 'Lin', more than a dozen cars pressed the top, the head of the city immediately panicked, Zong Sang heard some people's spears landing, and saw that some people wanted to go down to the city, but were stopped by the soldiers at the Yongdao place.

Jaffna Island is the northernmost part of Monrhoka Island and it is called the island because it is completely independent from the island of Monrhae. The whole island resembles a forearm bone that sticks out diagonally to the northwest, and it seems to be connected to the Monraka Island. The forearm bone is made up of two bones, and the same is true of Jaffna Island.

Its large bones are in the east and the small bones are in the west. The port of Singara is just southwest of the Great Bone Joint, across the bay from the Small Bone Joint. It is directly opposite the only fracture of the small bone (actually the fracture between Jaffna Island and Monrhaka Island, the fracture is about 6.2 kilometers wide), and the ship enters and exits the port of Monlaga through the fracture.

There is no doubt that in the age of sailing ships, it was a natural harbour, and neither hurricanes and high waves from the Bay of Bengal in the east nor hurricanes and high waves from the western Indian Ocean could harm the ships in the harbour. The water depth in the harbor is also suitable, with the depth of the water in the Paulk Strait exceeding nine meters and the depth of the water in the harbor being about eight meters.

For the Chu merchant port established in this position, the Pandias could not attack from the water, they first landed on Dagu and then launched an attack from the land north of the port. In order to conquer the huge city wall of about 10 meters, the Pandias spent about a month making siege equipment and cutting down a large area of forest on the island of Monraka.

During the siege, the Chu army also attacked, and the two sides fought on foot. Although using almost the same armor, the Chu army was still stronger than the Pandian army, with the exception of elephants. The Pandia army had hundreds of war elephants, these war elephants were more powerful than the chariots in the Central Plains War, no one could resist the impact of the war elephants, and the Chu army could only be closed in the end, allowing the Pandia to besiege the city.

In a little more than a month, the Pandians had already built the siege equipment, and before dawn they beat the gongs and drums and pushed the chariot south towards the walls of the port of Monraka. By storming the port, they will be able to kill the infidels in the city and destroy the city completely.

The barbarians' chariot was getting closer and closer, and the military discussion of the Yiling Mansion in the city was still going on. At this time, someone pointed to the city and shouted: "Female king! Barbarian Female King ......"

Pandia is a matriarchal state, and the king of the kingdom is a woman. Hen Si Chen, this is unique in the world. Even if there is a woman ruling in the world, it is the king who is young, and the queen is the ruler. It is unheard of for a woman to directly claim the title of king and rule the country.

For Shang Jia, war was fearful, but the appearance of the barbarian female king slightly alleviated everyone's fear of war. Through the gap in the canal, Zong Sang saw that behind the enemy army that was slowly following behind the car, there was a large oval ring standing on the huge float, and in the middle of the circle sat a woman wearing a crown and plain white clothes, her hand had no weapon, only a white lotus.

Because of the distance, Zong Sang couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly, but he felt that it was very unique for her to sit with her legs folded. He was about to ask someone if he was looking beautiful through the Lu Li mirror, when a voice sounded from behind him: "Don't see it." ”

It was the voice of the boat owner, the military council of the Yi Lingfu had dispersed, and he had just landed in the city.

"Dare to ask the owner of the boat, what are the taboos of his purpose?" Someone has already picked up the mirror, but hasn't looked at it yet.

"The queen has three eyes, and the natives say that one of them can destroy the world." It was also hearsay, but everyone was stunned.