Chapter 139 Want the imperial decree, right?
"Do you want to say that the Jin army outside the city fell from the sky now?" Fan Shengyu kicked the iron-smashed Yi Shuai, who didn't look at the heat, and cursed in anger.
It is indeed a difficult task for people to sneak attack on a country's capital with cavalry. Murong Yun was discovered when he was approaching Funan Capital. Things could not be done. Murong Yun retreated and blocked all roads with cavalry to prevent Funan people from leaving the city to report the news.
"Those who leave the city die and plunder all the nearby villages. I don't believe that Funan can last for too long." After wiped the blood-stained waist knife with a white cloth, Murong Yun looked carefully and confirmed that there was no blood left. Then he continued, "In terms of the configuration of a capital, this city is different from the Central Plains. I can only wait for the Yan King's army to find a way."
"I have ordered to wait next to the road out of the city. Once I find someone out of the city to report the news, I will shoot and kill it on the spot." Duan Wuze immediately interjected, "I guarantee that people will not become fish that miss the net."
"It is not enough to just an intersection. If a person wants to run, he can run out of the road even if he is not a road." Murong Yun shook his head slightly, "Get a safe distance and those with clear ears and eyes should monitor him. If someone climbs over the wall and gets the first one to capture him alive, then kill him on the spot. You must wait until he runs out of the sight of the city defenders before he can kill him. It gives Funan people the illusion that he has successfully delivered a letter. If he shoots him out of the city, the people inside will not give up."
"General, I found that the vanguard of the Yan King's army was approaching our troops." At this moment, a soldier outside came in to report.
"So fast?" Murong Yun said intimately, then said, "Follow me to welcome the King of Yan!"
After a while, Murong Yun had already left the camp to welcome him. As expected, he was the imperial guards of the army. Moreover, the 50,000 troops were not far apart and would definitely arrive in half a day. This surprised all the generals of the Hu cavalry. You must know that these 50,000 troops were all walking. Although the dense forest could not increase Murong Yun to the maximum speed, they should not be caught up by infantry.
"Hello, King Yan!" After Murong Yun came, dozens of Hu cavalry generals bowed slightly and saluted Sima Ji.
"Fortunately, I'm still alive!" Sima Ji got off the horse and told him that there was no need to be polite, and he still maintained a calm look. He was preparing to find a place where no one would see if his butt had been worn out.
"The King of Yan attacked with infantry and was so fast that Yun admired him very much!" Murong Yun looked sincere and was completely inspired. He had never seen such a thing before when he grew up.
Well! Sima Ji nodded reservedly, and still had the expression of unknown meaning and unknown meaning. Of course, people who like to flatter him call this kind of look mysterious. Of course he could do it, but there were people behind along the way. Who knows how many soldiers who could get here on time? "I am prohibited by the orders, so there are no need to say more."
In Sima Ji's opinion, it was just a target that could be reached on foot for ten days, and an army should of course be able to arrive on time. He did not compare modern armies, such as the Soviet Red Army and the People's Liberation Army's march records, and there was no need to find answers from Western war examples.
He believed that just from the difficulty of marching, Fukang'an's leadership set out from Xining within 39 days and crossing the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to attack Nepal should be the highest difficulty in combat in modern difficult environments. The difficulty of Hannibal crossing the Alps was far worse than Fukang'an.
Fukang'an's Qinghai-Tibet assault is also very famous in world history and has been included in textbooks by many military academies.
After saying that, the generals entered the camp, which was the material that Murong Yun snatched from nearby villages. Because time was in a hurry, it was not realistic to let these Hu Qi create a camp that looked similar. Fortunately, the King of Yan was not a pretentious person. Every time the environment was difficult, he would recall the high-rise buildings in later generations. This was his unique spiritual chicken soup. After some memories, it turned out much better.
Many generals and schoolmen were still praising the speed of the King of Yan's marching. Sima Ji sat down and rested for a while before asking, "General said, is the wall of Funan Capital made of bricks and stones?"
"Yes, king, it looks very strong." Murong Yun recalled, "After the whereabouts were exposed, Yun knew that things could not be done. Our troops were all cavalrymen, and they lost their suddenness and had no way to deal with such a city."
"Masonry and stone city wall!" Sima Ji looked above. This should be related to the weather in Southeast Asia. When the rainy season comes here, the precipitation should be very unfriendly to the rammed earth city wall.
One weakness of the rammed earth city wall is that it is fear of water. In the later years of the Warring States Period, the Qin army attacked the Wei State and had no choice but to have any choice from the tall city wall of Daliang. In the end, the water flooded Daliang, which proved that it was best not to build the capital of the country by the river.
However, the advantage of rammed earth city walls is that they are strong, and there is no way to penetrate rammed earth like water. But when facing siege equipment like trenchers, their performance is much better than brick and stone city walls. Once the brick and stone city walls collapse, they will be a big gap, and the rammed earth city walls are not so easy to collapse.
"It seems that we have to wait for the army. Now we will surround the Funan Kingdom first. I will send a horse to report the news. There are dismantled catapults on the navy's ship and transport them to attack the city." Sima Ji sighed, and now he can only do this.
The Guangzhou Navy is 2,500 large ships. Does it mean that there are only twenty soldiers in one ship? It is definitely not the case. Food, war horses, and siege equipment are all among them. Don’t think that Sima Ji came in an empty ship.
In the next time, we must first let the army rest. The King of Yan has always been anxious when he is on the road. He usually relaxes when he arrives at the destination. At least there is one person who is more anxious than him.
The Funan defenders in the city can be seen at a glance that as time goes by, the enemy troops outside the city are not only not getting fewer and fewer, but are gradually increasing, which shows that the enemy's visitors are not good, and a little panic spreads among the soldiers. Now it is just a little bit, and as time passes, it will become bigger and bigger. At critical moments, this panic can be fatal.
On the next day, the Jin army camp welcomed an uninvited guest, an official from Funan. Sima Ji didn't have to think about it, he just came to be a lobbyist. He either lived in seclusion and asked the Jin army to withdraw his troops, or came to bribe him and took some small sweetness of jewelry, gold and silver to exchange for his own survival.
Neither of these is possible. Sima Ji is a person who regards money as dirt. Ordinary wealth cannot impress him at all. If this trick is really successful against the Hu people who have never seen the world, wouldn’t Maodun Da Shanyu have been infected?
However, he still asked the soldiers to bring the people in. If he didn't agree, he wouldn't agree. He had to talk about it, which was not contradictory. Maybe he could also find out some of the situation in the city. After all, the other party was an official, and he knew more than ordinary people.
"Funnan is really rich. It seems that regions influenced by Indian culture like to put gold in a conspicuous position. Who do you say I won't rob you?" Sima Ji didn't see the appearance of this native at all. First of all, he was attracted by the gold jewelry on the other party's neck. It was not until he walked in front of him that he had a slightly concealed his greedy gaze.
As the King of Yan, you must be reserved and represent the majesty of the country. Thinking of this, Sima Ji reluctantly turned his eyes away from the gold jewelry, sat upright, looked ahead, and looked at the money like dirt, and said in a cold voice, "Who is coming?"
"I heard that the King of Yan is young and promising. Today I see it. It is true." The natives bowed slightly, and then said neither humbly nor arrogantly, "I don't know why the King of Yan led the army to come. Our small country respected the Great Jin Dynasty very much. I remember that just a few years ago, we had sent tribute to the emperor and looked up to the majesty of the upper country. The king should have known it."
The King of Yan really didn't know about this. You sent an envoy to pay tribute to Luoyang, not Youzhou. How could Sima Ji know about it? Also, it seems that anyone who has achieved better in ancient Chinese than him these days. It would be fine if it was in the Jin Dynasty, but it was all in Funan. A native official came out and spoke better than him in this way.
What should I do? I will directly explain that my purpose was to come here to rob? I can't say that, wasn't the face of the Great Jin Dynasty so shameless? Although the gentry themselves are shameless, they are also very reserved and always have to come up with an excuse.
"I heard that the Brahmin masters are widely respected in your country. However, this kind of believer is very rude to our Great Jin Dynasty. He once instigated Linyi to plunder the border and killed thousands of people from our border, which made our country very annoyed." Sima Ji pondered for a moment, "As we all know, our country has been a peace-loving country since ancient times. Our country would pretend to be a small mistake. However, Linyi was troubled by it, so this army was invaded by this southern expedition."
Sima Ji felt that he was hypocritical, but he continued, "What about this king? It is not easy to go south this time. He aims to eliminate evil and must completely eradicate the Brahmin forces outside the southern border, no matter who the opponent is."
"So the king pretended to be sick for a hundred days, just to raid our country now?" The native official said sarcastically, "The army conquered the lives of life, and whether it is a big country or a small country, it will be burdened by it. Your Highness should take the people as his thoughts and put down his weapons."
I believe that I am stupid, Sima Ji sneered, "I have heard that there is no food in the city, and I expect to waste my words with me here. It is better to persuade the King of Funan than to open the city and surrender. The army of the province will be gone after it."
"The king will not receive the blessing of God," the natives sighed, "Please consider it carefully."
"Who said that I was launching troops for no reason? Liu Ye, the Queen of Funan, was a vassal of the former Han Dynasty and was usurped by outsiders. The former Han Dynasty was about to conquer. This time I came here to restore the old Funan country and make trouble correct!" Sima Ji winked at Tang Shen.
Chapter completed!