"Ziyi, have you seen the land? According to the information and sea charts provided by Buzishan, shouldn't we arrive near Linyi in the past two days? We strictly follow the sailing from the southernmost corner of Zhuyazhou and have been sailing south, right? Zishan, the maps you provide are fine, right?"

More than half a month after stationing in Zhuyazhou to adapt to the environment, ten days ago, on October 30th, Zhao Yun finally took tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of sea ships to set sail again, left the coast of Zhuyazhou, and embarked on the last expedition to Linyi.

When Zhao Yun set sail, he left behind thousands of soldiers, including more than 200 who died due to various climates, diet and diseases, and three to four thousand who had minor and serious diseases, and certainly could not withstand the subsequent long-distance voyages and combat. Even more than a thousand war horses who were not accommodating the environment were left behind.

These people were left on the island and temporarily used as a settlement and stayed at this relay station. In the end, the total number of soldiers Zhao Yun took away was about 45,000.

Before leaving the southern coast of Zhuyazhou, Zhao Yun also left a stone tablet on the island, which was to "squeeze the stones and record the merits" in advance for the upcoming war, learning from Huo Qubing's Fenglangjuxu and Dou Xian's Fengyanran Mountain.

However, because the war has not yet been fought, there are not many inscriptions on the stones offshore when they go out. In the end, Zhao Yun only engraved the four words "End of the World", which is a praising the distance of the place where he sent troops this time.

Today is the tenth day of November, and I guess I have sailed at least 1,200 miles. I should see the land by following the chart given by Stephen.

"From the southwest corner of Zhuyazhou, you can sail to the south, and you can also encounter the Linyi land." This is also a contribution that Bu Zhi has explored in the past two years.

When you can't see the land, it is difficult to grasp the precise direction and angle, and it is easier to control the direction directly east, west, south, and north, especially facing south, which can be done by just a compass.

Faced with Zhao Yun's slight anxiety today, Bu Zhi, who was on the same boat, quickly said: "There is absolutely no problem with the picture. We have sailed several times as a merchant fleet before.

And now in the middle of winter, the northeastern wind in the South China Sea prevails, blowing from the back and forth, and there is no need to adjust the direction and grab the wind throughout the journey. If General Zhao is really worried, he can turn the fleet slightly westward and should be able to get closer to the land faster."

Shortly after Bu Zhi's answer, Taishi Ci, who was on another ship hundreds of feet away, also sent a banner to indicate that everything was under control.

He would sail along the current course for another day and keep searching for land with a telescope. If he could not see the land by the evening, he would turn westward and move closer.

According to the plan, in order to prevent the fleet from being discovered in advance by Linyi people and being alert, the fleet still needs to maintain a certain offshore distance after discovering land. At this time, the telescope and the tower on the masts play a role.

The barbarians do not have a telescope and cannot see the situation in the distance. So if Zhao Yunfu's lookout hand on the boat could only vaguely see the land on the Gaowang Tower, then as long as he maintains this distance, the fleet will be difficult to discover by those vulgar barbarians.

This is the only way to ensure that the sneak attack directly attacks the rear nests of the Linyi people.

A few hours later, at afternoon of that day, Taishici officially heard good news. His lookout hand saw the land. Then the fleet could only keep a distance from the coast and sail for a few hundred miles to reach the rear of Linyi.

Zhao Yun was in a happy mood, so he took advantage of the last few days of rest on the boat to give in to talk more about Linyi's secondary customs and customs because Bu Zhi told Zhao Yun immediately before.

Bu Zhi also cherished the opportunity to show his performance in front of senior leaders and showed his proficiency in barbarian affairs. In the last two or three days, every day, when it was cool in the evening, he gave Zhao Yun some of the customs of the Southern Barbarians.

"This time the general decided to attack the first-hand Linyi rear captain Chameng, who was the first to destroy, and was known to be ruled by the Linyi Kingdom for its detention. The combat power we will face at that time is mainly savages with a vague complexion.

These people are short, but they are strong. Because the plants and fruits are enough to eat in the hot places, these barbarians do not work very much. They are lazy to pick and fish every day, and occasionally sow seeds, and they can fill their stomachs. However, this also leads to the fact that they will be full of soldiers when they encounter wars.

Around the entire capital, near the entrance of the Lancang River, there are 100,000 vague and 200,000 strong men in the paint. If they are beaten, these people can take up fishing and hunting weapons as soldiers, so don’t underestimate their size.

If we do not destroy them, if our army fights from north to south, and King Linyi will retreat step by step, they will eventually recruit these barbarians to confront us one after another. If we escape into the mountains and forests and turn them into pieces, that would be extremely difficult.

In addition, these painted barbarians also regard black as beauty, exposed their barbarians, curled up tendrils, and oppressed the Baiyue people from the north with light yellow skin. The darker the more noble the status, the more courageous they are.

The custom of marriage is to respect women and men is inferior. There is no taboo for us Han people to "same surname but not a foreigner". When women become adults, they will come to their house to get a son-in-law and marry each other, and change their son-in-law at will.

The barbarian cub only knows that his mother does not know his father, because his marriage is impermanent, and the woman does not know who she gave birth to when she is pregnant. However, therefore, the barbarian girl does not need men to support her.

However, when recruiting a son-in-law, the man will bring food to the door, leaving a little saving, which will be enough for a woman to eat for several months. If she is driven out of the house after ten months, she will naturally not have to raise a woman. It is not possible to know whether the child will belong to him in the future.

In addition, these barbarians were not buried after their death. They burned their bodies directly and scattered them in the fields and fruit forests with ashes as fertilizer. When we first started secretly trading, we did not understand their intentions and were surprised that these barbarians did not understand filial piety.

But later I learned that these barbarians also knew how to survive in hot miasma. They said that burying corpses is likely to be infected with epidemics due to hot miasma, so they only cremate but not bury them."

The characteristics that Bu Zhi mentioned were really not something he guessed. Because they were very similar to the characteristics of the Linyi people in the Southern and Northern Dynasties periods of later generations, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and especially the newly occupied Champa area in southern Linyi.

This is also very consistent with the laws of nature. The hotter the place, the darker the skin color has the advantage of survival. Moreover, women's dependence on men is often based on the prerequisite of scarcity of supplies.

Therefore, as long as the population is not dense, natural resources are only enough to eat. They are mainly matriarchal society because males do not care about providing nurturing and supplies. When all humans, who are extremely rich in supplies, they will return to nature.

Only in the middle stage of human development, with dense population and insufficient supplies, and competition from Malthus traps, can males be raised.

(Note: Modern anthropologists have studied the savage tribes in the Amazon rainforest, pointing out that their competition is also cruel, not matriarchal, and they will kill each other for resources.

But it should be noted that these tribes are in a state of "dense population", which means that natural resources are not divided enough. The primitive society with a large land, sparse population and endless wild fruits are not needed. If there are few beasts in the environment, then there is no need for men.)

Although the situation described by Bu Zhi also conforms to the laws of nature, Zhao Yun obviously does not understand the laws of nature.

He is a traditional person who is edified by loyalty, filial piety, courtesy, righteousness, integrity and shame, so he is more and more disgusted with these paints, and feels that he will feel even less guilty when he kills them.

Anyway, these people voluntarily accepted the robbery of the Fan family of the Qu family, and the whole people were soldiers and the people of Huangfu Yue, and the Han people became enemies. Then Zhao Yun would not kill innocent people indiscriminately.

...

I carefully sailed along the coastline for dozens of miles away and sailed for another three days.

Because the coastline trend gradually shifts to the southwest, the northeast wind turns into a strong smooth wind, and the fleet drives faster every day, and can sail more than 200 miles a day.

On the evening of November 12th, the troops finally arrived at the suspected Linyi accompanying capital Chamcheng area. Zhao Yun found a location without a city to dock.

The point Zhao Yun chose seemed to be dry after getting ashore, with a beach terrain, with a small river and a lake that can provide water. The trees are mainly coconut forests and palms, unlike places with dense poisonous insects.

If there is a small river, it will also facilitate the boat to dock as much as possible, reducing the distance and depth of soldiers' inclination on the side of the boat, so it will not be easily attacked by half a ferry.

Because the terrain is pretty good, there are still several villages in the area, and a good place cannot be an uninhabited area.

Seeing Zhao Yun's army landing, the local people with painted hair curled up on the shore actually took harpoons to resist, trying to take advantage of Zhao Yun's foothold, but of course they were all killed by fighting on the battlefield.

Zhao Yun decided to let the troops rest for a while, adapt to the stable environment on land again, and fight again in a day or two later.

After 12 days of sailing on the boat and sailing for 2,000 miles, the soldiers were a little accustomed to the shaking of the boat. When they arrived on the shore, they felt that the earth was shaking.

With less than one or two days of rest, the balance system cannot be adjusted and the combat effectiveness cannot be guaranteed.

After the camping, Zhao Yun captured a few captives of lascivious women, and gave in to the guide who came to the Manyu brought by Bu Zhi to question, confirming the location of the nearby city settlement and the specific direction of Linyi's accompanying capital Zhancheng.

Afterwards, Zhao Yun found Taishi Ci who was still on the boat and went ashore for a meeting first. Zhao Yun discussed:

"Ziyi, I have left 30,000 people here, enough to deal with all the enemies. Anyway, the Linyi people and local native barbarians are not good at defending the city and have no walls. The small number of cavalry I brought can kill and break through the enemy by spending a few days to restore the horses to a little energy.

You will take the remaining 10,000 people and rely on the strong ships to search the shore. Linyi is narrow and long. Except for the delta of the estuary of several large rivers, it is difficult to march thousands of miles by land in other places.

So if the Linyi people on the northern front receive the news and return to the aid of the capital Chameng, they will definitely row a small boat to support the coast, and you will kill them all on the sea.

However, the gathering of Linyi people may be very large. Don’t fight with them in the field, let alone catch up with them. Just show your weakness by sending small boats to the sea, seduce them to pursue them from the sea, chase them a little deeper, and then the large boats will come out together to encircle and annihilate them."

Taishi Ci seemed determined to be sure: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter to deal with these barbarians with many people. As long as we are on the sea, our ships will be stronger and the benefits of bows and crossbows and stones will be killed by dozens of times the barbarians."

Everything is arranged and rest for a night. After that, both parties can act separately and according to the plan.

The barbarians' reaction was indeed slow. Zhao Yun set up camp overnight, and no troops came to counterattack or investigate. At most, only some local natives were harassed, all of which were sent to death.

Zhao Yun had a good time to rest until dawn on November 15th, and then he let the troops move to the outskirts of Chameng and prepare to launch a general attack.

Before this, he specially asked the troops to fall a little bit of jet lag, used to taking a little sleep when the sun was hot at noon, and being a little excited when the dawn and evening were cooler, and staying in the battle state.

The horses brought by Zhao Yun were originally five thousand when they arrived in Jieyang, but when Zhuyazhou was resting, about one thousand horses appeared to be unacceptable and could not fight anymore and were left behind.

The following twelve days of long-distance sailings, the horses were also seriously damaged, and good war horses could not withstand the tossing at sea. During this process, nearly a thousand horses lost their combat effectiveness, and this number was the result of two or three days of rest after going ashore and emergency rescue. If there were no rest in these few days, it would be estimated that more than half of the horses would not be able to enter the battle immediately.

However, considering that the Linyi people had no cavalry at all, as long as they could restrain their war elephants and then send out their cavalry, they would have a great advantage, so Zhao Yun insisted on leading the cavalry.

After two out of adaptation to the local conditions and expeditions to cross the sea, Zhao Yun still maintained 3,000 cavalry, all wearing leather armor without iron armor (the iron armor is too heavy, horses in tropical areas will not be able to stand it), forming a high-low match with 27,000 infantry, and just rushed to Chameng, which had only wooden fences.

Zhao Yun knew very well that Liu Bei's camp is now rich, with an elite cavalry of less than 100,000 or 70,000 or 80,000. Even if all 5,000 war horses are lost in the south, as long as the Han Dynasty's southern border battle is fought to a long-term peace and ensure that there will be no chaos in the south until the warlords of the Central Plains are completely unified, then the price is still worth it.

...

While Zhao Yun sent troops to attack Linyi's accompanying capital Zhancheng, he would take a look at the reaction of the enemy opposite.

Now the political center of Linyi Kingdom has actually been divided into three places, including Cham City, Linyi City, and even the Longbian, the Jiaozhi County capital that was just captured this year, all of which have royal people to guard.

The one who stayed in the last town was the old pseudo-king district company.

The one who left behind the old capital Linyi was the fake prince's district.

On the front line, Longbian was Qu Lian's grandson, Qu Jiang's nephew, and general Fan Xiong.

The old pseudo-king district has been established for more than 30 years. He relied on his own after killing court officials during the reign of Emperor Huan. He then gradually expanded southward. Now he is nearly 70 years old and is considered very long-lived in Nanyang.

When he learned that Zhao Yun's army had arrived, he was shocked at first, and then he quickly gathered and mobilized militias. In the past few days, he seemed to have not counterattacked Zhao Yun, but was actually mobilizing troops.

The people of Linyi, especially those who are painted and painted, can be soldiered by the whole people, so the longer the mobilization rate is, the higher the mobilization rate, which can make the barbarians from Bailibaxiang come to the gathering with their own food.

These barbarians did not fight for the Han Dynasty, but the Han Dynasty always promoted the offensive to cater to these barbarians and vilified the Han people in the north. These barbarians spontaneously hated the rule of the Han people in the north. They barely knew that if they were ruled by the Han Dynasty, they would have to serve and pay taxes. It would be better to be free and free now, so they spontaneously attack Zhao Yun.

On the fifteenth day, when Zhao Yun's 30,000 troops were forcing outside the fence of Chameng City, Qu Lian knew that the wooden fence had no defense at all, so he stopped defending the city and directly piled up all the mobs he had gathered outside the city to fight against Zhao Yun.

At first glance, Zhao Yun was covered in black and naked upper body, not only without armor, but also without clothes. I am afraid that there were more than 100,000 people who came to fight against the Han army with harpoons, hunting forks, hoes, blowing arrows, and numb bows.

The only thing that was a bit threatening was the vast number of elephants. However, Zhao Yun had broken the elephant soldiers three times, and the last time it was broken in Longbian County, Jiaozhi County, so he didn't care at all, he got used to it.
Chapter completed!