Chapter 812 (1/2)

Taihe city is a city that is extremely difficult to be captured by foreign troops. The most obvious sign of this city is that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The people who chose to build the city must have taken advantage of its advantageous complex terrain from the very beginning.

Because of its complex terrain, Taihe city is not like the square city in the Central Plains, but because it is built on the slope between the peak of Cangshan Buddha and Wuzhi Mountain, thus forming a unique shape city with only two walls.

The steep Cangshan Mountain forms a natural defense barrier in the West and the boundless Erhai Lake in the East. The two natural strategic barriers make it unnecessary for Taihe city to waste time and money on defense in these two directions.

According to the terrain, the north and south walls are strong walls that are like two long dragons, lying between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, forming a strong city that is easy to defend and hard to attack.

In the same way, when he was the king of Nanzhao (mengshezhao), he built two small cities, named Longkou and Longwei, less than a hundred miles from Taihe City, so as to defend Taihe city together and make Taihe city more solid.

However, lawlessness, Yuan Shuji, Guo Shifeng, sherong, xinulu, luoshengyan and others are now standing under the gate of Longkou City, waiting for Li Hong's arrival.

The city is not very big. The meandering streets have the artistic conception of Jiangnan Water Town. In addition, there are many mountains and rivers in Yunnan and Guizhou. There are lots of bridges, ponds and courtyards, thatched cottages or rammed earth with yellow walls. It seems to be quite flexible here.

From time to time, people dressed in various costumes would secretly look at the passing army from the poorly sealed log windows, but no one would come out to investigate.

At this time, the people of Nanzhao were not as good as those of the last generation. They separated and became various nationalities here. Now, most of them regard themselves as Cuan nationality, claiming to be descendants of the ban family.

In the spring and Autumn period, descendants of ruo'ao of Chu state multiplied. It is said that their ancestors grew up eating tiger milk, so they took the spot of tiger spot as their surname.

Li Hong didn't know anything about it. While listening to sherong's voluminous narration of their history, Li Hong sat on his horse and looked at Erhai Lake and Cangshan Mountain, which were connected with the sky in the distance.

Shelong's words are obviously easy to convince people. After all, the meaning of the two characters here is the meaning of the tiger. From then on, it can be basically determined that their ethnic group is the Cuan ethnic group developed mainly by the descendants of the ban family.

In the former Sui Dynasty, because of the internal division of the Cuan nationality, they formed the eastern Cuan and the Western Cuan. At the end of the former Sui Dynasty, with the decline of the East Cuan, the West Cuan took advantage of the fire and plundered, which led to the internal division again, thus forming a tribal state named after their king: mengcuzhao, yuexizhao, langqiong imperial edict, Cuan imperial edict, Shilang imperial edict and mengshe imperial edict.

Mengshe imperial edict is often called Nanzhao because it is in the south of other five imperial edicts.

In addition, Li Hong sent people to support Nanzhao when they were in turmoil. Therefore, in a short time, they helped Nanzhao unify the other five imperial edicts and formed the present grand Nanzhao.

Li Hong understood the purpose of serun and xinulu to tell themselves their history. This was to tell himself implicitly that although they had their own support at that time, they also had the same legitimacy here as the Tang Dynasty established the Central Plains.

Li Hongduan sat on the horse's back and didn't speak. According to the etiquette of Nanzhao, after the gods and ghosts dressed in various abnormal costumes, he stepped on the back of the horse and slowly came down from the horse.

After Li Hong's feet had stabilized, Xi nuluo and others got up from the ground. They were very excited about the big footprints on his back.

In particular, when his son, Luo Shengyan, looked at the dazzling big footprints on his back after he got up and wanted to take them off, he was severely stopped by xinuluo with his eyes. Thus, we can know that xinuluo is quite afraid of Li Hong's arrival.