Can you live forever

Chapter 268 Han-style missions, the country will be destroyed if you move

The Nanzheng Army fully occupied Annan on May [-], when Zhu Wan captured Shenghua Mansion, and by now all the main cities in Annan were occupied.

It is worth mentioning that Annan in the Ming Dynasty was different from later generations. Its territory only extended to the Paracel Islands, and the south, including the estuary of the lower reaches of the Lancang River, did not belong to Annan, but to Champa and Chenla.

Zhu Wan's attack did not stop.

Champa and Chenla are both vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. Now Champa is still independent on the surface, but in fact it was conquered by the Houli Dynasty 50 years ago, and a puppet king was established, who continued to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the name of Champa, so that Daming's face is better, and they also benefit more.

Knowing the truth, Zhu Wan naturally did not allow this situation to continue.

Send troops to the south, and within ten days, break through the remaining Annan forces that occupy the city.

The puppet king of Champa simply ignored the "restoration" demanded by the puppet king of Champa. He said that the current king of Champa was not a direct descendant of the royal family, but also helped the tyrant to abuse him.

Then, while people were exempting land from taxes in Champa, they continued to march.

After reaching the southernmost tip of the peninsula, it drove west to the Lancang River. After occupying the mouth of the sea, it continued to expand northward until it covered two hundred miles of waterways, and finally stopped.

Seeing that the Ming army had no intention of destroying the country, the Chenla royal family was relieved.

He didn't want to go against the edge of the Ming army at all, he hardly fought all the way, kept shrinking the defense line, and while stabilizing the pass, he quickly sent envoys to the capital to cry to Jiajing...

This king who was in the decline of the Angkor dynasty, seized power by mutiny, and achieved rejuvenation, with excellent martial arts, was not an idiot.

Anzan I had a very high reputation in Chenla, so he lost land in several states one after another, and there was no chaos in the court. He also had a good strategic vision. He knew that the Ming army wanted to control the mouth of the Lancang River, so he deliberately abandoned it, and then set up a defense line , Resist the Ming army.

After Zhu Wan achieved his strategic intention, his willingness to attack was not strong, and Chenla was considered to be preserved.

However, what he didn't understand was that what the Southern Expedition Army wanted was not just the mouth of the Lancang River, they needed to go to Manchuria, and they needed to pass through Chenla and Siam.

And the countries of the peninsula are the sphere of influence of those maritime merchants.

His court cannot be trusted at all.

However, the Ming army needed to rest and reorganize, and the time was short, so it was necessary to go to Mancijia as soon as possible to get through the logistics line.

Compared with Siam, which is at war with the Taungoo Dynasty in Myanmar, Chenla is more difficult. Siam has entered a period of weakness, with extremely serious internal and external troubles, and is in danger of being destroyed at any time.

The Siamese court did not have the strength to defy Ming.

But Zhenla is different, Anzan I started with a mutiny, and the success of murdering his brother and usurping the throne was due to the support from the Xu family and the purchase of a large number of firearms and armed forces.

After he took office, he changed the situation that Chenla was beaten by Siam and moved to the capital.

He returned to the Angkor River and defeated the Siamese army many times. It can be said that his martial arts are shining, and Chenla regards him as the hero.

If the Southern Expeditionary Army is going to Manchuka, they can't get around Chenla.

It was not enough to occupy the estuary of the Lancang River, so Qiu Luan decided to personally go to Chenla as an envoy to his capital, Luowei.

Lowe.

Anzan I learned that Qiu Luan personally sent an envoy, and the military situation at the border has been rushed over eight hundred miles away. Qiu Luan and his party consisted of only a hundred people, and it was not at all like attacking under the guise of an envoy.

"What do you think of Mr. Xu?"

An Zan asked Xu Rui who was beside him, all the offshoots of the Xu family wanted to change their surname to Xu to ensure the family inheritance. When the Annan War started, Xu Rui came to Chenla.

The offensive of the Southern Expedition Army is in full swing, Qiu Luan can see the importance of Mancijia, how can the Xu family not see it?
It's just that they don't think that the Southern Expeditionary Army can bypass Chenla and Siam. They want to attack all the way there. When Qiu Luan hits Mancijia, the day lily will be cold.

With a mere 12 troops, why should they govern such a huge area?

It will be easy to drive away the Ming army when the time comes.

It would be even better if Qiu Luan didn't take every step to attack the city and destroy the country, but directly led the army to Mancijia. Once the logistics were cut off, many people would die.

In Xu Rui's view, they took the initiative.

So, holding the information, he didn't panic at all, stroked his beard and said: "Qiu Luan was in a hurry to go to Mancijia, and Chenla was unable to attack for a while, so he wanted to send Chenla to win over His Majesty."

"Your Majesty, why don't you pretend to entertain him, but actually kill Qiu Luan?"

"So, the Ming army retreats."

These vassal states only called Daming kings, but when they were locked up, they all regarded themselves as emperors. Xu Rui's compliments did not make Anzan dizzy, let alone adopt his strategy.

Kill Qiu Luan?That's crazy.

He doesn't know how the war in Nanyang is going, he only knows that Daming has a reason to send troops, and Chenla will definitely be wiped out!
Anzan I pondered for a while, and said: "Since we are just delaying time, why not entertain Qiu Luan warmly, Mr. Xu, please see how I tricked him, agreed to everything, agreed on everything, and finally confronted him everywhere."

"Qiu Luan was cheated of time, so he can only suffer from being dumb."

"Wouldn't it be better?"

He didn't dare to kill people, but he still dared to obey. Although the Ming army was right in front of him, the overall situation of the world must also be considered.

Daming's hand can no longer penetrate Nanyang.

An Zan had his plans, Xu Rui smiled and said: "Then it will be hard for His Majesty, Qiu Luanxu and the snake."

"Haha, it's okay, it's okay..."

The two had their own thoughts, but they were friendly. After setting the tone, Anzan asked the court to organize a grand ceremony to welcome Qiu Luan. On June [-], Qiu Luan arrived in Luowei.

Anzan took Manchu Wenwu out of the city ten miles to meet him, and took Qiu Luan to see the scenery of Chenla along the way.

Every mile on the road, a gift was presented.

There are countless gold and silver, countless rare things, and beautiful women. At first Qiu Luan was still hesitant, but then he was very happy, and praised Anzan repeatedly along the way, saying that he is sensible.

After arriving at the palace, Anzan invited Qiu Luan to live in the harem, and he did not refuse.

The arrogance and domineering made Zhenla Manchao angry and aggrieved!
The next day, Qiu Luan obviously received a lot of benefits, and proposed many outrageous and unreasonable conditions to Anzan, and Anzan obediently agreed to them one by one, and hosted a banquet again.

Threatened to measure the national strength of Chenla and win the favor of angels.

At the banquet, the ministers of Chenla finally couldn't stand it any longer. The left general Slei drew his sword directly, put the sword on Qiu Luan's neck, and threatened: "The master humiliated the minister to death, please take back all the unreasonable things in the Ming Dynasty." Otherwise, I will cut off your head and fight fiercely against the Ming army!"

The banquet came to a standstill.

The guards brought by Qiu Luan even drew their swords to save the commander.

However, Qiu Luan raised his hand and stopped the soldiers. He didn't look at Slei, but looked at Anzan and asked, "Does Chenla want to destroy the country?"

At this time, Anzan actually stopped being flattering before, and said that although he was willing to serve Daming, the subjects of Chenla would not be humiliated. mentioned.

He thought he could boil the eagle, and he was sure that Qiu Luan was here to win Chenla's support.

But, he was wrong.

After Qiu Luan's face changed a few times, he seemed to suppress his anger, saying that the conditions could be changed, don't be so anxious, Anzan smiled at this, he asked Slei to let go of Qiu Luan, scolded Slei, and then personally Tidying up Qiu Luan's collar, he blamed the courtier for being rude.

Thinking that his method of killing and hitting repeatedly, Qiu Luan had no choice but to do anything.

however.

An expression of astonishment emerged from Anzan's face, the tip of the knife protruded from his back, blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, he stared blankly at the dagger on his chest, looked at Qiu Luan in disbelief, pointed at him and said, "You, you... ... how dare you?"

But Qiu Luan ignored him.

He just said to the shocked ministers: "Don't move, the country will be destroyed if you move."

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