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Please let Li Gong serve the Southern Song Dynasty together.

After Li Gong heard that Zong Ze, Jiang You, and others had all entered officialdom,

He then pledged allegiance to the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, he refused the order from the Southern Song Dynasty to attack Lü Shinang.

Instead, they continued to annihilate Liu Huasan within the territory.

Li Gong also submitted a memorial stating that Liu Huasan was a major threat no less than Lü Shinang.

It took him a lot of effort to surround Liu Huasan.

Once Liu Huasan escapes...

They will soon be able to make a comeback.

However, he still aroused great suspicion among the Southern Song emperors and ministers.

Li Gong had just wiped out Liu Huasan,

The Ly Dynasty of Vietnam then invaded Guangxi.

Tong Guan's order to Li Gong was to guard Guangdong Road.

This time, Li Gong did not disobey the order.

Actively reorganize the troops,

Deploying defenses in Guangdong.

As for the Ly Dynasty of Vietnam, which stole Guangxi...

He was also an old acquaintance of the Central Plains.

Since the establishment of the Joseon Dynasty

They kept harassing the Song Dynasty's borders.

They plundered people and property.

Ly Khan Duc was the fourth emperor of the Ly Dynasty in Vietnam.

Having just ascended the throne,

The Joseon Dynasty then launched an invasion of the Song Dynasty.

Conquered the three prefectures of Yong, Qin, and Lian.

After capturing Yongzhou,

More than 50,000 people in the city were killed.

Afterwards, the Song Dynasty sent troops to defeat the Joseon Dynasty.

And invaded Joseon territory,

They seized several prefectures from the Joseon Dynasty.

However, after the two countries reached a peace agreement

The Song Dynasty then returned the occupied prefectures to the Joseon Dynasty.

After the peace agreement was reached,

The two countries have largely maintained peace.

Unable to defeat the Song Dynasty,

Li Qiande then turned his attention to the Champa Kingdom to the south.

They sent troops to defeat Champa.

They made Champa pay tribute every year.

He also promoted Confucianism domestically.

The imperial examination system was established, and laws and regulations were enacted.

Under Li Qiande's governance,

The Joseon Dynasty grew stronger day by day.

The reign of Ly Can Duc was also the period when the Ly Dynasty of Vietnam was at its strongest.

The Niuhouman (Thai) people of Mashadong in the Tuojiang River basin in China have rebelled several times.

They were all wiped out by Li Qiande's personal troops.

In the first year of the Xuanhe era, they even captured Wei Pang, the cave chief, and several hundred others.

This severely damaged Masha Cave.

It wasn't until June that the Joseon Dynasty learned that Liangshan had captured Tokyo.

Li Qiande immediately assembled 100,000 troops.

Waiting for accurate information.

They immediately used the pretext of rescuing the Song Dynasty.

Troops were dispatched to Guangnan West Road.

The barbarian tribes of the thirty-six caves of Yongzhou heard that the Central Plains had undergone a dynastic change.

They also joined the rebellion of the Joseon Dynasty.

They captured Yongzhou in just a few days.

Then head east.

They wanted to capture Guangdong Road.

Under Li Gong's leadership and resistance,

The Joseon Dynasty's offensive was thus contained.

Li Qiande sent someone to persuade Li Gong to surrender.

Li Gong, the top martial arts champion of the Central Plains, would naturally not submit to a small, barbarian country.

Besides, they haven't even fallen behind yet.

The Southern soldiers have always been of low combat strength.

However, Li Gong's troops fought a three-war battle with Liu Hua for over a year.

Their combat strength is also quite strong.

Therefore, although their military strength was inferior to the combined forces of the Joseon Dynasty and the thirty-six caves of Yongju,

But relying on the advantage of location

It could also withstand the Joseon Dynasty.

Li Qiande was unable to breach the Guangdong Road.

They had no choice but to turn back and conquer the entire Guangxi region.

By September,

The Ly Dynasty has conquered the entire Guangxi region.

They frequently sent troops to plunder the Kuizhou Road and Jinghu South Road.

However, they would plunder the area and then retreat back to the rest of Guangxi.

They did not seize any more cities.

It was clear that they knew the Joseon Dynasty was insufficient to absorb more land.

In addition, news arrived that the Great Liang had dispatched troops to Jiangnan.

They want to wait for the right time to act.

Li Gong, however, needed to be wary of the Li Dynasty in Guangxi.

We must also be wary of Lü Shinang from the north.

However, the troops in Guangdong were unable to move anywhere.

When Zhao Zicheng and Tong Guan surrendered,

Zhao Yuan then ordered the two men to command Li Gong to surrender to the Liang Dynasty as well.

However, Tong Guan and his companion sent out the message only five days later.

The messenger had to bypass Lü Shinang's influence.

It would take a month to go round trip.

Of course, regardless of whether Li Gong surrenders or not...

Zhao Yuan would lead his troops to attack Lü Shinang.

If we wipe out Lü Shi Nang...

Li Gong has not yet surrendered.

Then Zhao Yuan would lead his troops to wipe out Li Gong.

Then attack the Joseon army in Guangxi.

They then marched into the Joseon Dynasty.

It can be said that Zhao Yuan's mission to go south was very important.

Although all these forces combined are not as powerful as Western Xia.

However, the journey will be much longer.

Moreover, the further south you go, the hotter the weather gets.

The greater the chance that soldiers will contract the plague.

Therefore, before Zhao Yuan went to war...

They then dispatched the renowned physician An Daoquan and ten imperial physicians.

And a large quantity of medicines to prevent and treat the plague.

The greatest enemy of the southern expedition was the climate.

Not the enemy's troops,

The elephant cavalry of the Viet Ly Dynasty looked formidable.

But if they actually fought, it would be a joke.

It can be broken by long swords and powerful crossbows.

This has already been verified in the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, after the elephant was in pain...

They would often turn around and run away.

Disrupt one's own formation.

There is fire and thunder in Daliang.

Killing an elephant isn't difficult.

Not to mention startling the elephant.

Chapter 1782 Many Wealthy Households

The barbarians of the Thirty-Six Caves are superstitious and believe in ghosts and gods.

Therefore, Zhao Yuan specifically brought Hou Jian and a spaceship with him when he went south.

The main purpose was to deal with the Dongman.

Zong Ze nodded and said, "Jiangnan has many wealthy merchants and large households."

"Ten thousand strings of cash are nothing more than a drop in the ocean for them,"