Li Nan tried his best to persuade Pang Xu, but he didn't have any other purpose, he just wanted their father and son to quickly get out of the land of right and wrong of the Ming Sect, because Fang La would be defeated sooner or later.

The so-called Xiao Biesheng is newly married, since Pang Qiuxia is here, several of Li Nan's followers and lovers, such as Shiranui Dance and Ruiwen and other women, all know each other and leave the space to them, and something indescribable naturally happened that night.

Although the 40,000 war elephant army led by Miao Lun has been wiped out, and the other two armies of the Zhenla Empire have also withdrawn to the border area, no one knows their next battle plan.

Seeing that Li Nan was busy with military affairs, Pang Xu and Pang Qiuxia took their leave after staying in Shanluo City for a few days.

After sending them off, Li Nan did not rest, but came to the newly built war elephant camp outside the city.

The four thousand elephant slaves who were captured before had no good impression and loyalty to the Zhenla Empire, and after eating the first full meal in their lives here, they did not hesitate to submit, and now what Li Nan had to do was to persuade the more than 30,000 war elephants to surrender.

Li Nan has experience in dealing with elephants, and he has also made the war elephants in Jiaozhi switch camps before, so this time he is very familiar with it.

After a combination of soft (promising a large banana grove) and hard (the intimidation of two young dragons screaming and spitting fire), more than 30,000 war elephants chose to give in.

The general of Zhenla, Miao Lun, was defeated quickly after being attacked that night, so the captured war elephants were all equipped with equipment, plus the four thousand elephant slaves who were familiar with the habits of elephants.

Li Nan immediately recruited 20,000 recruits in Jiaozhi, and transferred 10,000 from the public security patrol army to form his own war elephant corps.

"Get out of the way! Urgent military report! A scout in a green camouflage uniform, whipped a sweaty horse under his crotch and rushed into the city.

The people in the city were originally angry, but when they heard about the urgent military report, they hurriedly made a way.

Li Nan opened the urgent letter, only to see that it was full of dense pinyin letters, in the order of interlacing and jumping, and soon he understood the meaning of the letter.

"The lord of Zhenla was furious when he learned that Miao Lun was defeated and all 70,000 soldiers were killed, and decided to drive the expedition in person, personally led 100,000 war elephant troops to Sangnu, and after converging the two armies of Marato and Godanwe, he now went straight to Shanluo City......"

The 100,000 army of the lord of Chenla, and the 30,000 war elephants in the hands of Marato and Godanway, each have 30,000 war elephants, which adds up to 160,000 troops.

If Li Nan counts the two major infantry regiments of Kress and Spartacus, as well as the newly trained 40,000 people, there are only 70,000 people, which is a bit of a disparity in strength.

The best way to deal with it at the moment is to fight the Jinla people in Shanluo City, and then fight and retreat, clear the wilderness, and exchange the gradually lengthening supply lines for victory.

This is the best way that anyone can use, but Li Nan can't use it. Because if he retreated from Shanluo City now, it would cause a huge shock to the psychology of the people in Jiaozhi and even all the regions under his rule.

Li Nan, who was pinching the secret letter, after thinking about it for a long time, cursed loudly in the direction where the Zhenla Empire was located: "Damn Zhenla people, since you still dare to come, then don't blame me for being ruthless!" ”

Since this matter was decided, Li Nan did not hide it, and directly told the whole army and the people about the first movements of the Zhenla people.

The people near Shanluo City, when they first heard that the Zhenla army was coming, were all frightened and lost their souls, and they all knew that man-made disasters were much more terrible than natural disasters.

So when Li Nan announced that he would not retreat again, and after shaking the Zhenla army here, both the army and the people cheered from the bottom of their hearts.

"Swear to live and die with Shanluo City!"

"Swear to live and die with Jiaozhi!"

"Swear to live and die with the general!"

The army under his command is available to the people, but the enemy is really powerful, and Li Nan still has to try his best to concentrate all his forces to deal with the upcoming 160,000 Zhenla army.

It's very interesting to say, Song Jiang and Fang La, who Li Nan looked down on, helped him indirectly this time.

Among the current openly rebellious forces, Song Jiang has the least number of men and horses, and he is also the least unpopular, but he has caused panic in the Great Song court.

The location of Song Jiang's rebellion was Liang Shanbo on Jingdong East Road, as long as he crossed Jingdong West Road to the west, it was where the capital of the Song Dynasty, Tokyo City, was located, so it is no wonder that the Manchu Dynasty gave priority to him.

In the face of the rebellious Song Jiang, the imperial court still used the old method to recruit peace, but the tricks tried and tested in the past failed, so Song Huizong ordered Zeng Xiaoyun to lead the army to conquer.

Although Song Jiang did not have the same ambition as Fang La, he was not a fool, he knew that his men and horses could not resist the number of officers and troops several times that of his side, so he chose to fight guerrilla warfare, avoid its edge, and went south directly from Qingzhou to attack another big city, Yizhou.

When Jingdong East Road was turned upside down by the Song River, Mingjiao Fangla of Liangzhejiang Road was also uneasy about the status quo and began to attack Jiangnan East Road to the west.

Fang La's actions were ruthless, and all the officials and soldiers of the Song Dynasty were tortured to death in all the state capitals that he attacked, and it was inevitable to rob property and humiliate women, and the notoriety of Mingjiao continued to spread outward.

The situation on Liangzhejiang Road and Jiangnan East Road was unstable, shaking the government and the opposition, and Song Huizong ordered the troops near the state capitals to be transferred to guard against the rebels in Fangla, and even Zhang Shuye, who was besieging Jiaozhi Guangyuan Prefecture, was also greatly affected.

The weakening of the Song offensive outside of Guangyuan Prefecture and Dali gave Li Nan the opportunity to draw more troops to deal with the Zhenla army.

With Li Nan's guidance, and after three or four years of research, the craftsmen who returned from Tokyo borrowed from the assault rifle and the AK47, and finally developed a gunpowder weapon that could be mass-produced---- the three-eyed firearm.

The three-eyed firebolt was made of copper or iron, and there were many copper casts, consisting of a breech, a chamber, and a tail. Because the body of the gun is made of three guns in parallel to cast into the shape of the word "product", it is called the three-eyed fire gun.

Most of the outer walls of the firecrackers have reinforcing hoops, and the tail part is a tail hammer, and a wooden handle is installed. Each gun tube has 1 medicine chamber and a fire door, which can be fired in a series or a salvo after ignition, and can be hammered to the enemy after the shot.

Although it has been continuously improved, the effective range of the Three-Eyed Firebolt is only about fifty paces, which is much worse than the range and power of the bow and arrow.

However, in terms of production technology and training time, firearms have the advantages of mass production and quick use, and most importantly, they can also make a loud noise when they are fired.

The huge sound has a great deterrent effect on the war elephants of the Zhenla Empire, as well as the war horses of the cavalry units of various countries.

Just when Li Nan led the whole army to wait in Shanluo City, Bafar, the lord of Zhenla Kingdom, finally arrived with an army of 160,000 war elephants.

Li Nan stood on the wall of Shanluo City, raised his binoculars and looked to the southwest, covered by a dense jungle, and had not seen the Zhenla people appear for the time being.

About half an hour later, a large number of war elephants wearing thick armor and elephant soldiers sitting on elephant bowls appeared in the jungle, and thousands of war elephant troops slowly appeared in front of them, which gave everyone in Shanluo City a feeling of invincibility.

Spartacus and Cress, two militants, had proposed to take people out of the city to meet them, but Li Nan knew that he would not be able to resist the charge of the well-prepared war elephants outside the city, no matter what weapons he used.

As soon as the enemy appeared, the sentinels with binoculars rang the bell on the tower.

The army of Chenla stopped four or five miles away from Shanluo Castle, and the lord of Zhenla did not appear in front of the battle, which completely dispelled the idea of Hattori Hanzo and others wanting to carry out the decapitation tactic.

After another half an hour passed, the neat herd of war elephants changed somewhat, and a group of elephants dragging wooden siege engines came to the front.

Li Nan never expected that the Zhenla people would be so well prepared this time, and they would even come here with a large number of bulky catapults.

In terms of close combat, Li Nan's army is definitely not the opponent of the Zhenla War Elephant Army, but when it comes to long-range attacks, even if the Zhenla people develop for a few hundred years, they will not reach the level of the Huaxia people.

Seeing that the Zhenla people were adjusting the catapults, Li Nan naturally would not sit idly by, and immediately instructed the guards around him: "Pass the order, all the catapults will fire freely, and blow up and smash all the catapults of the Zhenla people for me!" ”