After the defeat in Chiang Mai, the main force of the Three Kingdoms coalition was almost completely lost. The eight hundred daughters-in-law country had no established troops to resist the Tang army. The twenty-three cities were all empty. The city lords were all commanders with bare feet.

The eight hundred daughter-in-law country is also a typical "mandala system", which is different from the county household registration management system in the Central Plains. Instead, it is centered on the royal city and is divided into core areas, control areas, and tribute areas.

The city lords of the twenty-three cities, the farthest from Chiang Mai is the tribute area. The so-called city lord is actually a semi-independent lord.

But now, the city lords have lost their troops, what else can they do besides being obedient?

Li Luo sent out only tens of thousands of troops to take over twenty-three cities, and ordered the city lords to assist the Tang Army General Commander to control a place and implement wartime military control. At the same time, he announced the abolition of temple privileges, reduced the burden on the barbarians, and turned all the nobles, city lords, and the slaves of the temple into official slaves of the Tang Dynasty.

There are tens of thousands of slaves alone. It can be seen that the proportion of slaves in this country is very high.

Most of these people are slaves who have been slaves for generations. Li Luo has no intention of liberating them. If they are liberated, where did the slaves of the Tang Dynasty come from? The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is not a savior or abusive persons. He must put the interests of the people of China first.

It is already very kind to be able to slightly reduce the heavy taxes and labor of the barbarians. After all, they do not have the treatment of the Tang people, and this newly occupied land is just territory and will not become a local for the time being.

Originally, their taxes accounted for half of their income and were paid to the Wang Ting and the temple. Now that the Wang Ting is gone, the temple privileges have been abolished, and their taxes can only be handed over to the Tang Dynasty.

Overall, the lives of the barbarians will be better than before.

In addition to a large number of slaves, all the land and property monopolized by temples and noble city lords in various places were confiscated. Most of the gold and silver were confiscated, and even the golden Buddhas had to be handed over.

Tens of thousands of monks, whether Buddhist monks or Brahmin monks, can no longer absorb the wealth and ointment of the people, and they will only be forced to return to secular life in large quantities.

At this point, the entire northern Thailand in later generations, which covered most of the land in Jiangnan, fell under the control of the Tang army. More than one million barbarians were included in the governance of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, Li Luo announced that the Mandala lord system would be abolished and the Huaxia county system would be replaced.

On the first day of the first lunar month, Tang Dynasty Lord Li Luo accepted congratulations from the royal palace of Chiang Mai City, which was a simple New Year.

It's been four years since Hongwu!

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, it was beneficial to go out. Li Luo only left 20,000 troops to guard Chiang Mai, and then divided his troops into two groups, personally led 80,000 troops to fight eastward to defeat the Angkor Dynasty in Zhenla. He then ordered Yang Qingque to lead 70,000 troops southward to attack Sukhothai, the king of Siam.

Really guided!

The news of the Tang army's eastern expedition reached Angkor Thom, the king of Zhenla Kingdom, and Zhenla king Ting was immediately panicked.

At this time, Angkor Thom was not a historical relic in the forests of later generations, but a magnificent royal city.

This royal temple is lined with towers, with elegant and beautiful temples, and they are all made of stone, which looks solemn and solemn. The scent of the temples that cover the city is even more mysterious, like a kingdom of gods.

Although the Angkor Dynasty has declined and its territory has shrunk greatly, this royal city is still the pride of the Zhenla people, witnessing the glory of the overlord who occupied most of the Indochina Peninsula that year. Even if the country has declined, there are still more than 100,000 people in the royal city, which is a real giant city.

The city is more than 20 miles away, and there are five gates guarding the stone statues of the hydrangea god. The city wall is more than two feet long and is piled with huge stones. It is extremely strong and has an astonishingly ten feet thick. There are also sugar bean curd trees on it. From a distance, it looks like a hanging forest, extremely spectacular.

There are huge deep moats outside the city, and four thoroughfare bridges are built from east to west, south to north. In the city, there are many golden lions, golden Buddhas, golden pagodas, copper towers, copper cows, copper horses, and bronze statues, with a wide range of atmospheres. They are truly worthy of the title of "rich, honor, real la".

There is no doubt that Angkor Thom is definitely one of the most beautiful cities in the world at this time. There are as many as 600 temples alone, known as the city of Thousand Temples.

Most of these temples are Brahmin temples, and a small part are Buddhist temples. However, whether it is Brahmin monks or Buddhist monks, they are all called monks. At this time, in Zhenla Kingdom, Brahminism and Buddhism gradually became in unification.

This breathtaking stone ancient city is enough to convince the Zhenla people that their ancestors were also rich.

Not only is it a beautiful royal city, but it also has two huge lakes built on both sides of the east and west sides of the Wangjing, namely the East Dahu and the West Dahu. This is a water conservancy irrigation facility built by the Zhenla kings. It was because of the two artificial lakes near the Wangjing that the Angkor Dynasty became powerful.

At this time, King Zhenla was not in the palace, but went to Bafang Temple south of the palace.

Not only him, but also the entire royal family and noble ministers of the royal court, also followed the "God King" to Bafang Temple.

Bafang Temple is an ancient temple that has been around for three hundred years. It is the Huanghuang Kingdom Temple built by the former king for Lord Shiva. It is also the Brahmin temple with the highest level in Zhenla Kingdom.

Zhenla is different from the Eight Hundred Daughter-in-law and Siam, but is dominated by Brahminism. At this time, Buddhism did not occupy a dominant position.

For the anxious and panicked God King, only the Brahmin elder in Bafang Temple can soothe his soul.

Since fleeing back to Angkor Thom after his defeat in Chiang Mai, King Zhenla dreamed that the Tang army had come to kill him.

Especially the news that the allies were destroyed and Meng Lai was captured made him even more frightened and afraid to follow in the footsteps.

In order to counter the Tang Ting, he prepared for two years and spent a lot of money and food to train his troops. But who would have thought that a great defeat in Chiang Mai would destroy 90% of the elite troops of the Zhen La Kingdom!

The Zhenla National Government had only a total of more than 100,000 soldiers, which was the total of many soldiers of the city lords in the tribute area. Almost all of them were defeated in Chiang Mai.

Nowadays, in such a huge royal city, there are only more than 10,000 armored soldiers, plus thousands of monk soldiers, and tens of thousands of young and strong men who were temporarily recruited.

How can we resist the powerful Tang army?

Will the Zhenla Kingdom, which has been around for hundreds of years, also be destroyed?

King Zhenla was in a daze and followed the "Air Ginseng Shinto" on the water more than 60 feet long toward the east gate of Bafang Temple. This man, known as the "Divine King", was restless at this time and was completely unrestrained, completely unlike usual, he could feel the tranquility of the Air Ginseng Shinto.

King Zhenla and his group entered the towering palace up to five floors, and then entered the magnificent and solemn hall.

At this time, the temple master, the great Brahmin elder, Moksundi, was looking at King Zhenla who entered the temple with a calm expression, and the snake with the staff in his hand was still swallowing and spitting the letter.

"My God King, is the auspicious goddess leaving you, and Asura and the Black Earth Mother are about to come to Angkor Monte?" said the Great Elder in a pious voice as if he was reciting the scriptures.

"My master, disciple and Angkor Thom are in trouble. The powerful enemies in the north destroyed the neighboring countries in the west. Their sinful horse hooves came towards Angkor Thom." King Zhenla looked worried and haggard.

"The Lord God will bless Angkor Thom! Bless you!" The Great Elder raised his staff with a poisonous snake. "The storm will come, and the Asura army in the north will come. But the wrath of Lord Shiva will come, and Carly will dance on the corpse of sin, and the cry of the devil will bring a good harvest in the next year's Zhenla Kingdom, and their blood will water the earth..."

King Zhenla frowned. He felt that the Great Elder was too simple. It seemed that the power of the Tang army made it difficult for him to believe the Great Elder anymore.

Obviously, before the Battle of Chiang Mai, the Great Elder was so sure that the Three Kingdoms coalition would win.

But the result was exactly the opposite. The coalition not only lost, but also lost miserably.

"Listen, my God King, you are the guard of the Sun God. What you have to do now is to call on all the city lords to rise up and resist the Asura army in the name of the God Guard..."

King Zhenla sighed inwardly, knowing that this is the only way to go.

"Okay, Master, I hope Angkor Thom will be there at this time of the coming year." King Zhenla no longer had hope for the master of the Bafang Temple.

To put it bluntly, how many secular rulers really believe in gods? All they believe is only subjects. The reason why subjects believe is that the monarch hopes them believe.

It's that simple.

And if the monarch himself believes it deeply, then he is a fool.

It is obvious that King Zhenla is not a fool.

So this man lost the respect he had disguised for the great elder in the past. He bowed indifferently and took people away.

After all, what kind of gods and Buddhas are, in the end, they have to rely on the swords and swords in the world to speak.

As soon as King Zhenla left, the Great Elder put down his staff and hurried into the secret room deep in the hall. There were many saints here, which were his favorite places.

But today, the Great Elder did not "gift" to those "saints" who were only twelve or thirteen years old as usual. He was not interested at all now. He was thinking about only one thing.

The Tang army is here.

what to do?

Of course, Mokesundi is not an idiot when he can become the temple owner of a national temple. He knows better than anyone else what the gods and Buddhas are.

In the eyes of the general public, God is God and Buddha is Buddha, there is no doubt.

But in his heart, whether it is God or Buddha, they are all... jobs.

That's right, it's a job.

Of course, this point is so secretive that it can never be said. And you must also "believ" yourself.

Mokosunti came to the innermost stone pavilion carved with exquisite murals, which was his bedroom.

"Amusha, we are leaving quickly." Mokesongti said to a confidant monk, "The damn Tang army is about to arrive, and I will not be able to leave if I am late. Damn Asura!"

Amusha asked carefully: "Master, what should I do if there are so many gold, silver and treasures? Without dozens of carriages, I can't transport them away. How can so many people and carriages leave the city? The king will find out."

"Transport them separately, and only two carriages are transported at a time. Those golden statues must be taken away. They must be transported to the south to hide them and transported to the seaside. We have to leave Zhenla." Moksundi said.

Amusha pointed in one direction, "Where are those saints? Have you taken them away?"

"Let's kill them all then." Mokosongti said gloomyly.

All killed?

When Amusha thought of the soft bodies of the saints, he felt reluctant to let it go. He asked dryly: "Master, the royal city is so strong, the Tang army may not be able to invade in, right?"

"Not necessarily?" The elder sneered, "Angkor Thom is indeed very strong, but if he could stop the Tang army, the Tang army would not be able to seize the south of the Yuan Dynasty and fight here. In the battle of Chiang Mai, the main forces of the Three Kingdoms were completely destroyed and the situation was over. How could they fight? Can those city lords still draw out armored soldiers? No more. Angkor Thom is over."

Amusha nodded with understanding, "Don't worry, Master, let's make arrangements now."

Bafang Temple is a national temple. It not only has a lot of wealth, but also has thousands of guardian monk soldiers. With these monk soldiers protecting them, as long as you don’t encounter the Tang army, you can leave this place of right and wrong.

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Just as King Zhenla racked his brains and tried his best to call on the city lords from all over the country to raise an army to help the king, the 10,000 Mongolian Seminary cavalry of the Tang cavalry general Zhezha had already entered the territory of Zhenla as the vanguard.

The fierce Mongolian Seme cavalry went south and along the narrow mountain valley north of Zhenla, as if they were entering a deserted land. Although the Zhenla barbarians retreated into the mountains and forests and polluted water sources everywhere, it was completely impossible for the Mongolian Seme cavalry to be defeated.

They drank horse milk, and the cheese jerky meat could even kill the soldiers without getting off the horse for a day.

After several days, there were slaughtering all the way, and I don’t know how many Zhen La people were killed along the way.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Mongolian Semu cavalry crossed the highlands of the Boben Pond Mountain and swooped down, finally seeing the beautiful Angkor Thom.

Looking at Angkor Thom in front of me, the Mongolian Seme Cavalry was a little excited.

This city is rich, rich enough, slaves, and women!

As long as you fight, the Khan will definitely give generous rewards!

In Chiang Mai, many people have been assigned to women as their wives. Although they cannot move now, they have wives.

"Zhezanayan, this city is very strong. We cannot attack the city, so we can only wait for the Khan to come." said a Mongolian general.

Zhezha nodded, "It will take several days for the sweat to arrive. We can't wait, just build grass valley in this hundred miles!"

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"Also, you can only move in the plains and don't enter the jungle and swamps, it's very dangerous! Be careful of mosquito bites!"

"twitter!"

Soon, ten thousand cavalry dispersed into dozens of pairs and roared away in all directions.

Near the Zhenla King Jing, there is a plain of hundreds of miles in radius, and the largest Tonle Sap Lake in the Indochina Peninsula, so it is the granary of the Zhenla Kingdom and the most densely populated. Now it is in trouble.

In fact, the entire Zhenla area is full of plains. There are the Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake, which are unique granaries, and even more so on the Honghe Plain of Jiaozhou.

The Mongolian Seminyak cavalry came and went like the wind, burning, killing and looting everywhere. Many of the Zhen La people who had no time to evacuate died of life.

Ordinary barbarians are better, but the Mongolian cavalry did not kill very much. The most ruthless one was the monks in Brahmin temples. When Mongolian Semu cavalry encounters Brahmin temples, they will definitely kill people, burn temples and rob gold and silver. The fastest update is computer terminal::/

In just a few days, Brahmin temples that were originally everywhere had almost suffered a catastrophe.

"Zhezananayan!" A Mongolian cavalry leader came to report, "In a temple, people hiding gold, silver and jewelry were found. There were tens of thousands of kilograms of gold and a lot of money. The warriors did not dare to move, and they were sealed."

According to the rules of the Mongolians, most of the spoils were handed over to the public. The military rules of the Tang army were even stricter, and no one dared to embezzle them, and they could not hide them if they wanted to embezzle them.

"Okay, when the Khan arrives, it will be a great achievement and will be rewarded by the Khan." Zhezha was very happy.

There are tens of thousands of kilograms of gold alone, which must be something hidden by the great nobles or the great temple masters in Angkor City. Ordinary city lords cannot be so rich.

Even if the Zhen La country produces a lot of gold, it is absolutely tiny to have tens of thousands of kilograms of gold.

Finding so many gold, silver and treasures is a great achievement.

The actions of the Tang cavalry made King Zhenla in Angkor Tsung grit his teeth and curse every day, but he could only watch.

There are only the last little elite left in the city. If you go out to fight and defeat it, will the royal city still be defended?

The city lords from all over the country, even the city lords in the tribute area, were enthusiastically resisting the Tang Dynasty, but they really couldn't draw out the elite troops.

In fact, many people know that it is already difficult to save the royal city after the main force is defeated by Chiang Mai.

But the problem is that the royal city is so important, no matter how difficult it is to defend it, it must be defended. We can only rely on the strength of the royal city and persist until the rainy season arrives.

On the 22nd day of the first lunar month, the Tang lord Li Luo's flag finally appeared outside Angkor Town. The two armies met, and 80,000 troops were lined up in strict order, with flags like forests and swords and guns like snow.

The king and ministers of Zhenla came up to the city together. Seeing the Tang army's arrogant and powerful aura, an irrepressible sense of powerlessness emerged in their hearts.

With such a military power in the Tang army, how long can the royal city last? Can it last until the rainy season arrives?

The huge shadows were heavy on the hearts of Zhenla's monarchs and ministers, and everyone was filled with worries.

Mokesundi, the owner of Bafang Temple at the top of the city, still had a calm face at this time, with a solemn and solemn expression, as if he was blessed by God, and would always be peaceful.

But he couldn't suppress his anxiety in his heart.

Originally, they left the city today, but the Tang army was besieged today.

There are also those gold, silver and jewelry shipped to the Tula Monastery in advance, okay?

Thinking of this, the Great Elder couldn't help but worry.
Chapter completed!