The elephant herd fell silent, as if thinking about the pros and cons, and Li Nan, who was squatting on the side, was confident, not in a hurry, and quietly waited for their reply.

There's a book called The Selfish Gene.

The main point in this book is that the animal body is nothing more than a puppet of genes, and that genes command the body to reproduce and nurture their offspring in order to survive or inherit themselves.

Human parents instinctively protect their children, and in this world, other species that can reproduce to the present day have the same nature.

In the end, the sturdy male elephant, the king of this group of war elephants, agreed to Li Nan's proposal for cooperation.

Li Nan, who obtained this powerful class, was overjoyed and promised them that they would rescue all the female and baby elephants as soon as possible.

More than 800 war elephants were pulled out of the mire, and then bananas, sugar cane, young leaves, and water were brought to them, and the elephants, who were about to starve to death, immediately began to eat.

The war between the two sides continued, and Li Nan's side desperately delivered gunpowder, grenades and arrows to the front line in Guangyuan Prefecture.

In terms of Jiaozhi, Li Changjie, the general of the auxiliary state, because of the huge casualties, can only continue to send soldiers from other regions to participate in the battle.

To put it simply, this is a battle in which Li Nan exchanged money and resources for the lives of the Jiaozhi people.

Li Changjie constantly changed his tactics, and even launched a charge with precious cavalry.

Like the Great Song Dynasty, there are not many cavalry, but their war horses are better than those of the Great Song Dynasty, because the war horses of the Jiaozhi people come from the stallions of the Great Eclipse.

The better things are, the more precious they are, and thousands of the bravest knights of Cochin led the elite infantry to charge.

Under the blow of grenades and rain of arrows, they stubbornly rushed to the Roman battle formation of Spartacus, but Li Nan, who had long known the other party's strategy, arranged a little thing here.

The three rows of wooden horses could not stop the onslaught of the war elephants, but this thing was very effective for cavalry.

In addition to this, in front of the rejection of the horse, there was a wide trench within the throwing range of the grenade.

In the end, only half of the cavalry of Jiaozhi escaped back, and the unfortunate infantry left a pile of corpses, Li Nanjun did not waste it, and that night, the whole army ate the horse meat sent by the Jiaozhi people.

After the failure of the cavalry charge plan, Li Changjie sent countless slave soldiers and began to cut down the grass and trees on the peaks on both sides regardless of casualties.

Li Changjie secretly sent two groups of small but very elite troops to quietly bypass the sides of the two hills, intending to raid the rear of Li Nan's army.

If Li Changjie faced an ordinary Song general, then there was a chance that his plan would succeed.

Li Nanjun, who relied entirely on grenades and arrows, would soon be defeated if he lost the continuous supply of baggage in the rear, but a greedy rat king Xiaobai completely frustrated all Li Changjie's plans.

The ubiquitous rats immediately passed back the movements of the Jiaozhi Army, and their Lord Rat King used this important information in exchange for Li Nan to cook it himself and make a silk-plucked banana for it.

One side was on guard, the other side was ignorant, and the battle was over before it even began.

The two elite troops of Jiaozhi had just come to the rear of Li Nan's army with great difficulty, and they were surrounded by soldiers who had been waiting for them for a long time.

A month later, Li Changjie ushered in the Qincha sent by Li Renzong, and in the face of this heavy casualties but no victory in the war, the government and the opposition were very dissatisfied, and the most important thing was that the Champa in the south and the cattle roaring barbarians in the Tuojiang in the west were ready to move.

After seeing the holy decree sent by the Qin Mission, Li Changjie in the military tent sighed.

Although he extremely hated and despised the Song people, he could not attack for a long time, and under pressure, he could only choose to negotiate with Li Nan.

After more than 30 days of offensive and defensive battles, both sides of the mountain road were still occupied by the well-armed Li Nanjun, and a group of Jiaozhi people wearing strange official uniforms of the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty walked over with the banner of the Li Dynasty royal family.

When the group of people approached, the leader shouted: "Listen, General Song, my king is the king of Jiaozhi County of the Great Song Dynasty, why do you violate my boundary?" ”

Li Nan said with a smile: "Since the time of Emperor Qin, this Guangyuan Prefecture has been my land of China even with you, so how can I say that I have violated the border?" ”

Jiaozhi was indeed a Chinese territory before, and no one could argue with this, he hesitated a little, and then changed the topic slyly: "Those things are so old that they can't be verified at all, but in the fifth year of Taining, Emperor Song issued a decree to give me Jiaozhi in Guangyuan Prefecture, but it is true." ”

If this Jiaozhi envoy said anything else, Li Nan would not have seen him in general, but the five years of Jiaozhi Taining he mentioned, that is, the ninth year of the Great Song Xining.

Thinking of the fact that during the Xining period, Li Changjie led the Jiaozhi army and entered the Guangnan West Road to burn, kill, and plunder, and Li Nan's anger came out.

Li Nan said coldly: "You keep respecting the Great Song Dynasty as the suzerain, but you have gone deep into the Song realm many times, burned its warehouses and returned, attacked the Song Qinzhou, and returned with your soldiers. Can you explain to me why? ”

"This... These things are actually misunderstandings, Jiaozhi is a vast land and many nationalities, there are always some villains like Nong Zhigao who offended the Song Dynasty, let me Jiaozhi and the Great Song Dynasty lose harmony, I hope General Li, you can understand and understand, take the initiative to withdraw troops, and maintain the friendship between our two countries......"

In his previous life, Li Nan was just an ordinary person, and he experienced a lot of things after coming to the Great Song Dynasty, and he can be regarded as a warrior, but he is definitely not the kind of hypocritical politician.

Hearing the ridiculous words spoken by the Jiaozhi envoy, Li Nan immediately said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, I led my troops here this time just to clean up you ungrateful people!" ”

Without waiting for the Jiaozhi envoy to speak, Li Nan said cleanly: "Go back and tell Li Qiande and the eggless Li Changjie, Lao Tzu made his words clear today, if you don't destroy your Li Dynasty, I will not give up!" ”

Looking at the angry back of the Jiaozhi envoy, Lin Chong said with some worry: "Third brother, are you too impulsive to do this?" ”

"Hahaha......"

Li Nan laughed and said, "If we have to scruple even the weak Jiaozhi, then what should we do in the face of stronger countries in the future?" Since I have chosen to build a foundation in the south, Cochin is the first place that needs to be taken. ”

After the envoys returned and reported the results of the negotiations to Li Renzong truthfully, the emperor of the Li Dynasty was angry and smoked, and once again transferred 10,000 forbidden troops from Thang Long City, and 30,000 slave soldiers from other state capitals to support Li Changjie.

After days of hard fighting, Li Changjie's troops were exhausted, and after receiving Li Renzong's reinforcements, the total number of troops reached 60,000.

Li Nanyi, who got the news, was not afraid, although the number of the Jiaozhi army was quite terrifying, but Li Changjie lost all the war elephant army, most of the elite infantry, archers and cavalry, and the strength of the army had been greatly reduced compared to the beginning of the war.