Meng Shu fled back to Yinye Cave in a bit of embarrassment, the remaining soldiers and horses around him were less than 10,000 at this time, although he was not captured by Liu Yisheng this time, but he was still defeated, and he was defeated so simply, the previous two months of busyness looked like a joke from the result at this time, I originally thought that I could become the king of Mulu who defeated Liu Yi, but it became the main reason for this defeat.

Alas~

sighed silently, although he was not captured alive this time, but after escaping, Meng Shu suddenly found that he had no troops to mobilize in this Nanzhong, and King Duosi and King Mulu did not come out, or were caught, or died in the chaos, but no matter what, these two holes are useless.

The most important thing is that Meng Shu's confidence was lost, and he had already planned to capture Liu Yi alive and release Liu Yi before the war, but the slap in the face came too quickly, and in the end the army was defeated, and it was he who lost his armor, which made Meng Shu feel an inexplicable panic in his heart about Liu Yi.

Now that there are less than 10,000 troops left, is there any hope?

"Husband......" Mrs. Zhurong looked at Meng Shu, a little distressed, she could clearly feel the decadence of her husband, obviously there was no change in her appearance, but she gave people the feeling that she was more than ten years old all of a sudden, she was depressed, she opened her mouth, but she couldn't say the words when she came to her mouth.

"No problem." Meng Shu barely showed a smile on his face, and slowly got up and said, "Order Meng You, bring someone to guard the pass, and then send someone to listen to the movements of the Han army." ”

If the Han army pursues closely, Meng Huo will have to consider taking refuge in the country of Ugo, where the mountains and rivers are far away, the road is difficult to travel, and Liu Yi will not be able to chase after him, but it is also equivalent to completely abandoning this land in the south.

"Hmm." Mrs. Zhurong nodded, turned around and went to give the order.

Looking at the direction in which his wife left, Meng Shu lay on the tiger skin a little decadently, thinking about his future, and at this moment he felt that the future was gloomy.

"Brother!" After a while, I saw Mrs. Zhurong come back with Meng You and the cave master.

Well?

Meng Shu sat up and looked at the two, didn't he let them arrange defense? Why did they all run back?

"What?" Meng Huo's tone was a little dissatisfied.

"I just received a reply, the lord of the Ugo country, the vulture, has already led 30,000 soldiers and horses, and now it is still more than three hundred miles away, and it will be able to arrive in ten days." Bring the cave master smiled.

"Vultures?" Meng Shu sighed, his face did not show too much surprise, since the war with Liu Yi, he has experienced too much joy and then surprise, even if the vulture bone brought 30,000 vine armor soldiers from the Ugo country, Meng Shu no longer has much hope of defeating Liu Yi, it is too early to be happy, and the sense of loss and frustration will be stronger when he is defeated in the future, and now Meng Shu, I have to say, his temper has been polished quite calmly.

"Okay, get ready, I'll greet you in person in a few days." After thinking about it, Meng Shu still decided to fight again, anyway, this time Liu Yi didn't catch him, and brought the vulture bone over, if he won, then he can naturally turn the tables, lose, and give himself a logical reason to surrender, it's not that he doesn't do his best, it's really that the enemy is too powerful.

"Whoa!" Bringing the cave master and Meng You didn't have as much thought as Meng Shu, and now they were in a state of excitement, ready to wait for the arrival of the vulture bones and use the strength of the vulture bones to win back a city and vent the resentment in their hearts.

"Husband doesn't seem to be too happy?" After the two brothers left, Mrs. Zhu Rong looked at Meng Shu and asked suspiciously, she originally wanted to use this good news to make Meng Huo happy, but Meng Shu's calmness made Mrs. Zhu Rong a little strange.

"If this battle is lost again, we will have no more soldiers to adjust!" Meng Shu looked at his wife and said with a somewhat tired smile: "There were 100,000 troops fighting against the Han army before, but they couldn't defeat that Liu Yi, and although there were 30,000 vine armor soldiers in the vultures, they might not be able to win." ”

"Husband is too worried." Mrs. Zhurong sat beside Meng Huo, grabbed Meng Huo's shoulders and laughed softly: "That rattan armor soldier is invulnerable, no matter how powerful the Han army is, how can it win?" This battle will be won! ”

"I hope so." Meng Shu nodded, there were some words, he hid in his heart and didn't say it, even if he won in the end, it was the vulture bone that won, not him Meng Shu, who will belong to this Nanzhong land in the end It is not yet known, and it is not okay to be blindly optimistic now.

……

On the banks of the Xi'er River, after winning Meng Shu, Liu Yi did not pursue, he didn't want to waste time in the struggle with Meng Shu, since he failed to capture Meng Huo alive this time, then just try to catch it when he comes next time, there is no need to mobilize the people to go deep into the mountains and forests to arrest people, there are too many uncertainties.

I have to say that after occupying Kunchi, Liu Yi was a little lazy militarily, for him, the complete elimination of Meng Shu is far less effective than the development of people's livelihood in a few vacant land in Yunnan, and high-temperature steelmaking, although he is not very clear whether he can train good steel this time, and the other is the manufacture of some relatively simple manpower machine tools, such as machine tools for concocting wood, more advanced textile machines, etc., to improve output efficiency, in addition to the laying of tracks.

Liu Yi found that the track laid by selecting some harder wood and processing it by hired workers not only has the attribute bonus of a single track, but also superimposes the attributes of the overall track, and the track produced in this way is infinitely close to iron in terms of corrosion resistance, cold and heat resistance, which is the conclusion obtained after comparing the iron tracks made without Liu Yi's participation.

It is naturally impossible to completely replace steel, but under the constraints of today's technical and resource conditions, wooden rails are obviously more suitable for popularization than rails, and now Liu Yi is expanding the production of wooden rails, and began to plan the track laying in the entire Nanzhong region, which is a big project, he even specially accepted three disciples, who are specifically responsible for track laying, of course, at present, the main direction of these three disciples is to build a walled city with enough levels, and when the level is almost over, Nanzhong is not their main attack zone, Liu Yi plans to spend a few years cultivating these three disciples, and in the future, he will be responsible for laying the track for the entire Jingshu and even the entire world in the future, and he may have to exhaust the rest of his life.

After all, with such a large amount of work, Liu Yi can't waste all his time here, he also wants to study other things, such as steelmaking, such as steam engines, he has made several steam engines according to the principle of steam engines, but most of them are semi-finished products, even if they have the addition of attributes, they are not durable and cannot really be put into production, but once this thing is made, it is much easier to exploit resources.

If it is really made, Liu Yi hopes to engage in the transportation industry first, pave the track to the body poison, pave it to Daxia and the Western Regions, set up factories somewhere, tap the original resources, and then transport these resources back and put them into the construction of the Han Dynasty.

However, Liu Yi calculated in his heart that if he really wants to develop to this point, he must first dominate the world, and then establish diplomatic relations with these places, lay tracks, and establish minerals in these places.

Anyway, if you can really live to be two hundred years old, you should be able to push the entire Han to the age of steam, and when it really comes, there will be a qualitative transformation in both the number of fortunes and information transmission, and the Han should be able to alleviate the internal contradictions through foreign wars, of course, if you can further enter the age of electricity, it is not a problem to include the entire Eurasian continent and the surrounding island countries into the territory, the problem is that you have to live to be at least two hundred and fifty years old or even three hundred years old.

Thinking about Liu Yi, he felt that he was going crazy, and he was not yet forty years old and thought about living to be three hundred years old.

Shaking his head, Liu Yi continued to study his new human-powered rail car, and the huge white elephant successfully diverted Guan Xing and Zhang Bao's attention from the rail car.

In the open space on the side, the white elephant was leisurely eating his own feed, and Guan Xing, who was curiously holding his thighs and climbing up, was obviously a little impatient, and his nose was rolled, and in the sound of Guan Xing's shouting, he was rolled up on his back.

"That's a lot of strength!" Guan Xing touched the white elephant's head in amazement, the wide back was not only able to ride, he felt that he could sleep on it, especially the flexibility of the elephant's trunk, he was even more surprised, it felt like a huge python.

"Why is your temper so docile when you have such hideous fangs?" Zhang Bao curiously tiptoed and touched the white ivory, and looked at the Mulu King beside him.

"The general doesn't know, although this beast is lazy on weekdays, but if it really provokes it, it is amazing, that is, there are hundreds of people may not be able to restrain it, between the mountains and forests, the tiger and leopard dare not easily provoke it, the elephant trunk has a thousand powers, no matter how powerful the warrior is, if it is angered, the elephant trunk can smash people to death." King Mulu explained with a smile.

He has also been to this Kunchi, but it feels far less prosperous than it is now, and the distinction between Han and barbarians is not obvious here, if you don't speak, it is difficult for you to tell which is Han and which is barbarian.

In addition, Liu Yi has reclaimed a lot of fertile land here, many miasma forests in the past have been bulldozed by Liu Yi, and the swamp has also been filled, and the current prosperity in the Kunchi area is even better than Jianning, Liu Yi promised the king of Mulu that in the new city, he will leave an area for his family to live in, and in addition, he will build a walled city in the original Ba Na Cave, and reclaim the wasteland so that the people of the Ba Na clan can live and recuperate.

Such conditions made the King of Mulu a little moved, but it was not easy to make a decision for a while, but there were already many barbarians who completely threw themselves into Liu Yi, treating themselves as Han people, living in the Kunchi area, plowing or hunting, and breeding, it felt that it was not as unbearable as Meng Shu said, but it was richer than before, which made the King of Mulu, who did not immediately agree, begin to fall to Liu Yi's side in his heart, maybe he agreed to Liu Yi, which is not bad......