The elephant herd is led by the eldest female elephant, and the daily activity time, action route, foraging location, and habitat are all under the command of the leading female elephant.

The elephant herd that Lu Ning subdued, a total of eleven elephants, including an adult male elephant and two young male elephants, are extremely aggressive, and have also competed with Lu Ning, speaking of which, Lu Ning is tired enough, after all, they can't be hurt by sharp weapons, they can only hide and hide to make them exhausted and then subdue them, and they are both gracious and powerful, and bring a lot of delicious food to them, the elephant has a very high IQ, Lu Ning went for more than ten nights in a row, and finally accepted Lu Ning, and generally understood Lu Ning's intentions.

However, Lu Ning, who likes two baby elephants the most, remembers seeing the poor image of a baby elephant being alone and being eaten alive by hyenas in a dream in his previous life, so he couldn't wait to appear at the scene and drive away those hyenas.

It's nothing for biological chains to hunt each other, but most carnivores still bite their prey before eating, eating it alive, which is still too cruel and easy for humans to arouse empathy.

The Dali elephant, of course, belongs to the Asian elephant, and is generally smaller than the African elephant, but the elephants in this herd are extremely strong, and the male elephant is even less like the later generations, and the tusks are extremely long.

In the later generations, the Asian bull elephant ivory even showed a trend of getting smaller and smaller, from the evolutionary point of view, because the better the tusk, the easier it is to be poached, so in the genetics, the ivory is relatively short The bull elephant gene is easy to inherit, not that the elephant herd knows about human poaching, so smart that it does not grow tusks.

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Lu Ning and Princess Dong and three side concubines, as well as five maidservant guards, of course, are riding relatively gentle female elephants, including the head elephant, five female elephants, each with a bamboo chariot, each bamboo chariot sits two people, Lu Ning and Dong Baifeng sit in the head elephant bamboo chariot, this head elephant, Lu Ning named it "big ear", the rest are "two ears", "three ears" and so on.

Climbing all the way up the mountain and wading through the water, under the guidance of Lu Ning, is to cross the turbulent Lishui, and the elephant herd can always find the shallow place to wade through the water, of course, the so-called mountain climbing, is also from a variety of foothills and valleys through only.

Another advantage of the elephant herd is that it can carry a lot of equipment, including camping tents, crossbow arrows, gunpowder packs and ammunition, and relief for the preachers.

The elephants were followed by several preachers and twenty tall musketeers (crossbowmen).

They can only walk, because the remaining elephants are either male elephants or baby elephants, and they can't carry people, but the male elephants can carry equipment, and if they carry people, Lu Ning is still reluctant, and these male elephants will definitely go crazy if they take care of others.

Twenty musketeers, the firearms used are all Daqi's standard flintlock muskets, they are the non-commissioned officers of the heavy musket battalion, three people are responsible for a heavy arquebus, a total of more than 160 heavy arquebuses, also known as "lifting guns", at the same time, the musket battalion is also equipped with a hundred flintlock muskets, which is particularly critical times, used to strengthen firepower, but usually not used.

In fact, in this humid and rainy place, in the wilderness, not to mention the arquebus, even the flintlock pistol also depends on the sky for food, with twenty musketeers to escort, one is to bluff people at critical moments, and the other is that they are also very elite crossbowmen.

Lu Ning, the team that delivered the gospel of Daqi, took the westernmost line, there was once a country of Pi here, which was destroyed by Nanzhao more than a hundred years ago, and the northeast of the country of Piu was annexed by Nanzhao, and now Dali has inherited the right to rule, in fact, the entire country of Piao, in later generations, belongs to northern Myanmar.

In fact, the borders of Dali are particularly blurred.

This day's heavy rain, Lu Ning and other small villages, it is difficult to say whether it belongs to Dali country, occasionally Dali Tengchong Mansion has officials to collect taxes, but because of the long distance, even on the road there is a danger of falling into the river and falling into the mountain stream and even being injured by fierce beasts, this kind of thing has also happened, yes, three or five years Tengchong degree has not necessarily had officials willing to come, tax collection is not a common practice.

Pingsu, a small village called Muxing, wants to pay tribute to a large tribe in the southwest every year, and Tengchong Mansion can not provide it with any protection, so according to the standards of later generations, the historical map of Muxingzhai must belong to the territory of Dali, in fact, to say that Dali has effective rule here, and some self-deception.

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It's still rainy, and it's still overcast, but it's good weather compared to yesterday's storms.

Lu Ning now also has to sigh that in this southwest, in fact, many times, it is not just what he imagined.

If you are not an elephant team, you are a large team of people yesterday, and you will have to be swept away by the mudslide that you have narrowly avoided because of this heavy rain, and a large number of people will be reduced, not to mention the blow to morale and the loss of materials.

While pondering, looking at Dong Baifeng, who was surrounded by a group of children, outside the grass shed, he couldn't help but smile slightly.

The dry food and cakes brought by the preacher are small favors, but they can be planted with the seeds that Qi people are good people.

One of the special things about the preachers is that every group has a doctor with herbal products from the Central Plains, while the Southeast Asian barbarians have no doctors at all.

There are very few women among overseas missionaries, and only in places where they think it is safe, will female defenders participate, and in terms of preaching, the friendship unique to female defenders actually has a special advantage that male defenders cannot match.

The grass hut is still ticking in the rain.

Inside the grass hut, there is a simple marching tent, except for Lu Ning and Princess Dong, who each have a tent, the rest of the people live in two or three people.

Nearby, more than a dozen straw huts have been erected, and there are two or three green marching tents in them.

Only the grass shed where Lu Ning was located was very large, with three marching tents, one for Lu Ning and one for Dong Baifeng, and one for Duan Yuyan, Yang Wanqing and Gao Ling'er.

Lu Ning looked at the droplets of water falling like pearls on the broken threads of the grass shed, and was thinking about the most of the northern part of Myanmar that he would face tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

There was a sound of light footsteps behind him, Lu Ning turned around, slightly stunned, but it was Duan Yuyan who came over, this little girl, but she rarely took the initiative to approach her.

"If Daqi can help all the poor people in the world, then His Highness will belong to Daqi, so what's the matter?" Duan Yuyan sat down gently beside Lu Ning, hugging her blue skirt knees, looking at the elated children around Dong Baifeng, her starry eyes were also full of brilliance.

Lu Ning was helpless, and said in his heart that this is the cub selling Ye Tian is not distressed, this kind of talented woman with the plot of Bai Fumei and Our Lady, if she really participates in politics, she must hope that the world will be in harmony, and in the end, the world will be in chaos.

However, the words of this talented girl are obviously all her perceptions of herself, which means that she is a fake son of Zhennan, but what if she is actually from the Central Plains? What she is doing now is very admirable and happy for her.

"Well, try to help the poor in the world." Lu Ning nodded matter-of-factly, seeing that the little talented girl looked at her differently, she looked very appreciative, and her heart was embarrassed.