The rain is clear and the sun is scorching. The streets and alleys of Mande City are filled with Liang army soldiers. Their boots are soaked in blood. The water vapor is steaming, and the nose is full of strong bloody smell. Scattered battles on the streets and alleys can be seen from time to time.

When the Liang army first entered the city, the Zhuluo civilians in the city were mobilized by Galava and took up weapons to resist the Liang army. However, with the defeat of the Zhuluo army and the escape of Galava, all of these Zhuluo civilians ran back to their houses and hid.

The battle elephant that Zhuge Liang was riding slowly walked into the city. He saw that the soldiers had already posted "Notice of Safeguarding the People" written in Zhuluo everywhere according to his instructions.

The content on the notice told the Zhuluo civilians not to panic. As long as they obey the Liang army's management, they will not harm them. Otherwise, they will be killed and the whole family will be held. After a while, they will be sent back to their hometown.

Zhuge Liang nodded with satisfaction, and he remembered the conversation with Wang Shangfeng Yu before the Southern Expedition.

Based on Feng Yu's understanding of Zhuluo through the monks of White Horse Temple, the people there only believe in Brahmanism and follow the caste system, and basically have no national concepts. Therefore, as long as the population of Brahman and Kshatriya castes is eliminated, the remaining population will be easy to rule.

Polomon and Kshatriya were basically military and political practitioners. They were eliminated in the fierce military war.

Zhuge Liang came to the granary in the city and opened it and saw that the food inside was still intact. This made Zhuge Liang breathe a sigh of relief. If Galava destroyed the food before escaping, then facing the 20,000 to 30,000 Zhuluo civilians in the city, Zhuge Liang would have to start a massacre and massacre the city.

Zhuge Liang's army stayed in Mande City for three months. During this period, he mainly did two things.

First, we stockpile food and war materials in the city, send wounded and malaria-diseased patients to the rear, and at the same time replenish the active soldiers.

The second is to move all the Zhuluo civilians in the city to set up camps outside the city and make up households, and each hundred households is one battalion, each battalion has one official, and every ten battalion has one Liang army to lead the chief.

Zhuge Liang neither let these Zhuluo civilians be idle nor let them plow the fields, but asked them to work and work hard. Under the surveillance of Liang's army, he opened mountains and built roads along the Dulong River.

For a while, on both sides of the Dulong River, you can often see a large number of Zhuluo civilians sweating profusely under the scorching sun, digging ditches and building roads, building bridges and diverting water.

In the autumn of the sixth year of Jian'an, after the rainy season, Zhuge Liang was replenished with troops and supplies from the rear. He left two thousand troops to guard Mande City, and led the remaining two thousand men to continue to march southwards, launching the final blow to the remaining Zhuluo army in Hongshawadie.

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During the past few months, Galawa was not idle. He fled to Shawadi Port in a mess. After counting his troops, he found that there were almost no soldiers available.

His large army had 40,000 troops. From the Battle of Yongchang to the series of battles in which the Liang army conquered Mande City, he had lost more than 90% of his troops. The remaining 4,000 troops in the Zhuluo army, two thousand men were hiding in Shawadi Port, and two thousand people were distributed on the Nujiang line.

Galawa then ordered all the Jura soldiers along the Nu River to retreat and retreat to Shawadi Port to join forces with the remaining soldiers of Galawa.

Galava knew very well that even so, such a small amount of troops would be difficult to resist the elite Liang army of Han. He asked King Zhuluo on the other side of the sea several times in succession, but was rejected by the other party. Now, there are wars everywhere in Zhuluo's territory. Karikara is using troops to put out fires, so how could he care about Hongshawadi?

Galava had to seek help from Funan, a vassal state in the south, as well as several Brahmin principalities or vassal states in the southeastern archipelago. However, they all had their own plans and were unwilling to send troops to help defend Galava. Especially in Funan, the domestic situation and political situation were complicated, and it was even more impossible to send troops to help Galava's principality resist the Liang army of the Han Dynasty.

The government office of Shawadi Port was discouraged, Galava lowered his head and sighed from time to time. He even thought of withdrawing back to Juro with the defeated general.

His guard suddenly entered the hall and reported to Galava: "General Qi, there is a man outside the door who claims to be the commander of the Third Navy Fleet, asking you to see you."

Galava said in a muffled voice: "Just say I'm sick and no guests!" He knew what the generals of the Third Fleet came to do, and must be trading for his slaves again.

The military system of the Zhuluo Kingdom is quite unique. The financial sources of the standing army like the legion are all from the legion's own business, including farms, minerals, commerce and other aspects. A large legion is completely independent in finance and does not require the funding of King Zhuluo to support him.

The third fleet mainly engaged in slave trade. In the jungle of Honshawadie, there were many Meng people, Beigemi people, Ailao people and other races scattered. They lived in primitive forms. After the rainy season in previous years, the third fleet would go deep into the inland rivers and deep forests, plunder these races as slaves, sell them to rest, and even the more distant coast of the Red Sea.

Of course, they would pay a large sum of money for Galava, the "owner" of this land, as resource mining expenses. But now, Galava has lost control of the two main inland waterways and cannot guarantee the safety of the Third Fleet's slave plundering team. Naturally, this business cannot be done.

It was meaningless to meet with the commander of the Third Fleet, and Galaw was not in the mood to talk to him. Galaw naturally refused his request for advice.

The guard heard Galava's words and was about to go out and refuse the person. However, a bearded man rushed in and shouted carelessly: "What, Galava, are you not even seeing your brother?"

Galava looked closely and found that it was his cousin Mo An who had not seen for many years. He asked in a lost voice: "Mo An, why did you come to Shawadi Port?"

Mo An laughed twice and said, "Because my station is on Andaman Island opposite Shawadi Port."

Galava knew that Andaman Island was the base camp of the Third Fleet, and he brought Mo An up and down a lot. He found that he was wearing the general robe of the Juluo Navy, and suddenly realized: "Okay, Mo An, it turns out that you have become the commander of the Third Fleet."

"That's right, His Majesty the King of the Upper King asked me to command the Third Fleet last month. Because I had just handed over and everything was busy, I came to cross the sea to see you now. I thought I would have to go to Mande City to see you, but I didn't expect you to be in Shawardi Port."

After hearing this, Galawa's face turned gloomy and said to Moan: "To be honest, the city of Mande has been lost. I don't know how long this Shawardi can be maintained. Now, His Majesty the Supreme King is unwilling to give up any support to Hongshawardi, and obviously he has plans to give up. It's time to lose the entire Hongshawardi. Your brother, the prince of Hongshawardi, is already an empty shell prince."

Then, Galava introduced Mo An in detail the process of fighting with the Liang army. Mo An thoughtfully twisted his beard and listened quietly.
Chapter completed!