According to the previous agreement, the two sides need to play three games, and Li Nannan is currently considered to have one win and one draw.

After Li Nan reprimanded Xiaohong a little angrily, he came to Wei Tuozhi's side and said, "Patriarch Wei, what are we comparing in the third game?" ”

Wei Tuozhi waved his hand and said: "You first saved my son Wei Hu, and then saved my daughter Xiangman, and you have shown enough strength and sincerity. I don't have to compare this third game. ”

Looking around and the clansmen standing in the caves on the mountain wall, Wei Tuozhi said in a loud voice: "Today, on behalf of the entire Bull Roar Barbarians, I declare that from now on, our entire clan will obey the dispatch of General Li Nan!" ”

"Roar!"

"Roar, roar, roar!"

Today, the performance of Li Nan and others is indeed amazing, and the bull roar barbarians who advocate force are also more recognized by these Song people, and there is one most important reason, that is, all the bull roar barbarians don't want to be bullied by the Jiaozhi and Zhenla people anymore, and they also want to live a better life.

After receiving the submission of the nearly 10,000 bull roaring barbarian tribes, Li Nan was also very happy in his heart.

These bull-roaring barbarians were tall and strong, and they were all good spear-throwers, so Li Nan planned to let them form a hoplite army.

In fact, the Tang and Song dynasties all had hoplites, and their basic configuration was the famous infantry armor.

The Song Bu Armor is developed on the basis of the Tang Infantry Armor, which is a kind of heavy steel armor that can cover the whole body. The Buren Armor is composed of 1825 nail leaves, and the total weight of the armor pieces is generally 29KG, and the protection can be improved by increasing the number of nail leaves, but the weight will rise further. For this reason, the Great Song Dynasty stipulated that infantry armor was limited to 29.8KG.

Sixty pounds of armor, this is still not counting weapons, so there are not many soldiers who can control this kind of foot armor, and those who are not physically strong can barely wear it, and they can't last long, but these bull roar barbarians are the most suitable candidates for heavy infantry.

Li Nan's troops now belong to the strong offensive and weak defense, catapults, crossbowmen and grenadiers are the main force to kill the enemy, as for the prisoner of war corps that has no protective equipment on their bodies in order to save money, they can only rely on the Roman battle formation to bully the weaker Jiaozhi army.

Hoplites are indeed at a disadvantage in terms of mobility, but they will be the strongest bulwark for ranged units when the enemy attacks.

That night, countless bonfires were lit in the valley, and the enthusiastic bull roaring barbarians brought out all kinds of mountain delicacies and game to entertain Li Nan and other distinguished guests.

Eating the roasted fragrant and oily unknown beast meat, Li Nan raised the wooden cup containing the fruit wine, and said to Wei Tuozhi with a smile: "Tomorrow, our army will return to Guangyuan, and your whole clan will go with us, and when the time comes, I will guarantee that everyone here will have land to cultivate and a spacious house to live in." ”

"Thank you for your kindness, but I have one more condition."

Li Nan put down the wine glass and said: "Now we are a family, but it doesn't matter, as long as I can do it, I will do my best." ”

"I don't know if General Li knows that there is a person in the Li Dynasty in Jiaozhi, named Zong Tan?"

"Zong Tan?"

To be honest, Li Nan really doesn't know much about the situation of Jiaozhi, after all, he has too many things to pay attention to every day.

Lu Zhishen, who was sitting on the side, saw Li Nan's confused expression, obviously didn't know this person, and immediately said, "Third brother, I know this person." ”

"Since the eldest brother knows, then tell me about it."

Lu Zhishen used to serve in the Western Army, and the breeder had collected information about some famous generals and ministers from other countries, so he told Li Nan about his origin and deeds.

It turned out that this Zong Tan had a high status in the Jiaozhi Li Dynasty, and the second rank of the official residence was named the general of Zhenguo, which was one grade higher than Li Nan's third-grade champion general.

The ancestor of the surname is Bozong, the queen of the nobles of the Song Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, which can be said to be a rare surname, but it is definitely the surname of the native Han people.

In the third year of Jingyou, the Jiaozhi people led their troops to invade Yongzhou on the Guangnan West Road of the Great Song Dynasty, although Wang Liang of Zhizhou led the troops to quell the rebellion, but in the end he was defeated and died.

Regardless of the original purpose of the war, it was the ordinary people who suffered in the end, and the Zong family living in Yongzhou, full of adult men, were all slaughtered by the rebels, and only the teenage sister Zong Shu and the less than six years old Zong Tan survived.

After Zong Tan and his sister were taken captive by the rebels, they were brought back to Jiaozhi and became slaves, Zong Shu relied on her beauty and served her master with humiliation, and finally let her younger brother Zong Tan survive.

After growing up, Zong Tan joined the slave army according to the custom, and relying on his talent and hard work, he quickly stood out in the army, accumulated military merits and was promoted to the rank of ranger general.

Zong Tan, who grew up in Jiaozhi since he was a child, completely forgot about the blood feud in the family, he did not blame the Jiaozhi people who caused everything in his family, but burned the distorted and suppressed anger in his heart to other people.

In the past ten years, Zong Tan has been ordered to lead troops to invade Dali, Zhancheng, Zhenla and Niuroar, killing and plundering, in addition to causing a large number of tragic massacres, but also bringing back a large number of slaves for the Jiaozhi Li Dynasty.

But Zong Tan's most famous battle, and the battle in which he could be promoted to the general of Zhenguo, was the Battle of Xining, which invaded the Great Song Dynasty.

At that time, Li Changjie, the god of the Jiaozhi army, was the main general, and Zong Tan was the deputy general, and after capturing Qinzhou and Lianzhou, he personally ordered the slaughter of 50,000 Song people.

After listening to Lu Zhishen's introduction, Li Nan slapped the table angrily and scolded: "This brute who has forgotten his ancestors! ”

After drinking a few glasses of wine to dissipate his anger, Li Nan said to Wei Tuozhi: "You talk about this Zong Tan alone, could it be that he also did something to Niu Roarer?" ”

Wei Tuozhi's face showed anger and said: "Three years ago, Zong Tan led a large army to my bull roar and demanded ten catties of gold, fifty catties of agarwood, and two hundred rhinoceros horns and ivory. Our whole clan lives on hunting and fishing every day, where did we get these valuable things, so we were forced to fight with the Jiaozhi people. ”

"What was the outcome of this battle?"

"Although I lost a lot of people, in the end I still led my clan to repel Zong Tan and the Jiaozhi army he brought, but ......"

Wei Tuozhi said with a little choked up: "My best eldest son, who is also the future patriarch of Niu Roar, was killed by the Jiaozhi people in this battle. ”

"Alas!"

Li Nan sighed, although he didn't have this kind of experience, but no matter which time and space or which country, it was extremely sad and painful for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person.

Patting Wei Tuozhi on the shoulder, Li Nan solemnly promised: "After returning to Guangyuan Prefecture, our army will go to attack the Jiaozhi Kingdom and capture Shenglong City, I promise that I will definitely hand over Zongtan to you for disposal!" ”

"Good!" Wei Tuozhi looked at Li Nan, shook his hand hard, and said heavily: "As long as you can kill Zong Tan, the whole Bull Roar Barbarian clan will definitely do their best for the general!" ”

Seeing that the scene was a little sluggish, Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong and others hurriedly changed the topic and said some interesting things that happened in the Great Song Dynasty, everyone drank wine and talked and laughed, and the originally cold and depressing atmosphere gradually became warm and relaxed.

The bull roaring barbarians don't have too many etiquettes, and they still preserve many ancient customs, and halfway through the wine, a few barbarian girls came to Wang Hu and Lu Zhishen, who are outstanding today.

If you see it, you will love, and if you like it, you will do it, the straightforward barbarian girl does not have so many sayings of the Han people, Wang Hu was quickly pulled up by the two girls and walked into the darkness, as for what to do, it is not asked.

Although the great monk Lu Zhishen did not ban drinking and meat, he adhered to the etiquette and threw out a few barbarian girls who were pestering him with laughter, which made Lin Chong and Li Nan and others who wanted to see him make a fool of themselves a little disappointed.

Li Nan smiled and persuaded: "Big brother, wasn't it just a pretense for you to be a monk in the first place, why do you need to refuse these girls thousands of miles away?" ”