"Now that we're all here..." Ukawa, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.
However, he didn't finish what he said. He was only halfway through when he looked at Zhao Xingmeng and Ning Qingke with an incomprehensible look.
The three people looked at each other, and a tacit understanding of "making trouble" arose in their hearts at the same time.
"Nizhao attacked our country out of nowhere, and there has been friction between the two sides for many years. Nanzhao has always harassed us. Even if we go back in revenge, it shouldn't matter." Zhao Xingmeng said tentatively.
As a prince, even if he has never been to the Southwest, he still has a general idea of the grudges between Nan Zhao and Da Hao.
Nanzhao lacks resources and behaves barbarically. He often crosses the Wuwu Forest to rob, burn and kill in Dahao. There has been a blood feud between the two countries for a long time.
Ning Qingke looked at the two of them and said silently: "We can't always be hit by others. We can only passively defend."
Fukawa pursed his lips and corrected her: "More than ten years ago, General Ning also led his troops to attack Nanzhao and forced them to sign a surrender letter. If not..."
He glanced at Zhao Xingmeng.
Zhao Xingmeng was a little embarrassed. Knowing what his eyes meant, he explained dryly: "When my father just ascended the throne, it was not easy to make enemies with other countries. Moreover, I, Dahao, have always been generous in diplomacy..."
When it came to the end, he couldn't speak anymore.
He hadn't even been born yet, so he couldn't say what was right or wrong.
I only knew about this past event from the Master who taught them history.
Probably, more than ten or nearly twenty years ago, a huge war broke out between Nanzhao and Dahao. At that time, Ning Yan had only been stationed in the southwest for less than five years.
The killings of the Nanzhao barbarians aroused the cruelty in the heart of the general in his prime, and he directly led his troops to repel the Nanzhao barbarians' army, and even fought all the way from the border town to Nanzhao.
In that battle, Nanzhao Barbarians left countless corpses in the Wuwu Forest.
The Ning family army led by Ning Yan also gained the reputation of the God of War from that battle and shocked the nations of Nanzhao.
Nanzhao was already unstable internally, but when Ning Yan led his troops to attack, it was so overwhelming that the leaders of each tribe had to submit letters of surrender.
Originally, according to this posture, Dahao could take the opportunity to make Nan Zhao a vassal.
Even, in Nanzhao, a king of Nanzhao was granted, and the barbarians were used to control the barbarians, and various conditions were put forward as a victorious country, which would greatly weaken the threat of Nanzhao to the southwestern border of Dahao.
However, at that time, the new emperor had only been on the throne for a few years, the government was stable, and the surrounding countries were all waiting to see the new emperor Dahao's attitude and policies towards foreign countries.
For the sake of his "virtuous" reputation and the persuasion of some conservatives in the court, Zhao Zheng finally gave up the idea of accepting Nanzhao as a vassal state.
In the end, it only signed a thirty-year war-free agreement with the Nanzhao states.
In order to show the generosity of the great power, when signing the agreement, Dahao also presented food, cloth, utensils, books and other items to each tribe in Nanzhao.
Zhao Zheng got a good name through this incident.
However, in less than ten years, Nanzhao unilaterally tore up the non-war agreement and continued to loot and kill.
Therefore, this period of history has mixed praise and criticism in the hearts of Dahao people.
However, because the Southwest Territory is located in a remote area, the people in the Southwest Territory have the most realistic experience of the plundering of Nanzhao Barbarians. Therefore, people in other areas of Dahao only know this period of history.
The three people's discussion was suspended because of this old incident.
It was Ning Qingke who noticed the tense atmosphere between the two and stood up to break it. "Now, let's talk about our next plan first."
As the saying goes, it's coming...
The tacit understanding between the three of them clearly had the same meaning.
You are here now, if you don’t do something and just sneak back quietly, you really can’t help yourself!
"Spying on military intelligence? Or..." Ning Qingke raised her hand and crossed it in front of her neck, her meaning obvious.
Zhao Xingmeng and Fuchuan's eyes suddenly sharpened.
Ning Qingke raised her eyebrows: "Isn't that what you mean?"
The two of them lowered their eyes.
Ukawa said: "To spy on the military situation, we are not strictly trained scouts under the old general, and we don't understand the Nanzhao dialect. I'm afraid we won't be able to find out anything useful."
Zhao Xingmeng nodded in agreement, "Yeah! Besides, don't forget, before we were kidnapped in the forest, the ones we rescued were the spies sent by the old general to Nanzhao. Since they were discovered by Nanzhao, then Nanzhao
They will definitely be on guard, it will be even harder for us to explore further, and they will definitely bring back useful information."
"So..." Ning Qingke moved her shoulders, "We only have one choice left."
kill!
The eyes of the three people collided together again, and once again they reached a tacit understanding.
"Before that, we need to find out the situation of the Nanzhao states first." Ukawa's tone was particularly calm.
It was the first time for them to come to Nanzhao. In a strange environment, with language barriers and the need to hide themselves, they needed to carefully plan who to kill and how to kill them, instead of rushing out just to kill them.
kill.
Moreover, since you want to kill someone, the person you want to kill must be of sufficient weight.
If we just randomly capture and kill a few Nanzhao barbarians, what's the use?
…
Together, the three of them decided to take people deep into the hinterland of Nanzhao, while also leaving marks along the way in case someone came looking for them from the other side.
Fortunately, they left a mark. On the fifth day after they left, Ning Qingyan took the guide given by Ning Yan and the remaining hundreds of people, crossed the ravine and sneaked into the land of Nanzhao.
The existence of Wuwu Forest was originally a natural barrier that separated the two places.
But now, the Wuwu Forest has disappeared and only a ravine is left, which means that the barrier has disappeared. Whether it is to enter the Southwest Realm from Nanzhao, or to enter Nanzhao from the Southwest Realm, it will become extremely simple.
Therefore, when Ning Qingyan set out, he discussed with Ning Yan to build an outer city outside the border city and rearrange the defenses.
"Miss, each tribe in Nanzhao operates independently. There are only six or seven small and medium-sized tribes closest to here." The guide introduced Ning Qingyan.
At this time, Ning Qingyan was already standing at the place where Zhao Xingmeng and others temporarily rested, and found the mark.
Ning Qingze even led a team of people to follow the direction of the mark to find the person.
After hearing the guide's words, she asked: "How many tribes are there in Nanzhao now, and which ones are the strongest?"
The guide did not hide anything and explained everything -
Today, there are hundreds of tribes in Nanzhao, large and small.
Among them, there are five tribes with the strongest strength, more than ten tribes with medium strength, twenty or thirty tribes with general strength, and the rest are small tribes scattered everywhere...