"This critter is called a meerkat." Jin Ziyan replied.

"Meerkats? Why haven't I heard of it? ”

"This small animal grows in the south, and northerners rarely see them, they are the natural enemies of poisonous snakes, as long as there are dozens of them, they can break the snake formation of the chaotic army."

"But if we go to the south and bring the meerkats again, I'm afraid it's too late, is there a better way?"

Several people were pondering and meditating, and a sergeant came to report: "General, Qi Wannian sent someone to send a war book again!" ”

Although Meng Guan was angry, he couldn't cut off the battle book, he said, "Please let him in!" ”

The person who came was a Qiang handsome, he handed over the battle book, Meng Guan opened it and looked at it, it wrote: "The former your army has not broken the formation, and the army cannot be defeated, we will deploy this formation again tomorrow, and wait for you to break it, if you should not fight, please return to Luoyang as soon as possible, so as not to show up!" ”

"Arrogance! It's too arrogant, push the person out and cut it off! Meng Guan said angrily.

Zu Ti stepped forward and persuaded: "Don't kill the general, we will break the formation as scheduled." ”

Meng Guan regained his composure, and then said: "You go back and tell Qi Wannian, just say that we will break the formation tomorrow as scheduled, let him wash his neck, and wait for my knife!" ”

Qiang Shuai took the book, snorted, turned around and hurried back to the city, Meng Guan asked Zu Ti: "Seeing that you seem to be confident in what you spoke just now, do you have an idea?" ”

"Now, I have a way to try."

"What's the solution? Eldest brother! Jin Ziyan asked.

"Ziyan, just now you said that the meerkat is the natural enemy of the poisonous snake, do you mean that the poisonous snake will only know how to flee when it sees the meerkat snake?"

"Yes, it's like a mouse that sees a cat and runs away without waiting for a call, and their reasoning is the same."

"Well, that's fine, but I'll ask you, haven't you seen a meerkat?"

Jin Ziyan shook her head and said, "Big brother, what do you want to do?" ”

"I want to make fake meerkats against poisonous snakes."

"Fake? What's going on? Meng Guan didn't know what he was going to do.

"That's right, I want to make a hundred meerkats out of wood."

"Wooden? Zu Ti, are you kidding, what's the use of this? Meng Guan asked puzzled.

"General Meng, I have read General Ma Long's military book, which records a lot of Karakura, two of which are the robot and the wooden ox and the horse."

"Robots? Does this have anything to do with meerkats? Jin Ziyan asked.

"Naturally, a cyborg is not a real human, but a kind of wooden man."

"Wooden man?"

"Legend has it that in the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a skilled craftsman called Yanshi, who was able to use wood to create a man who could sing and dance, and after being modified, not only looked like a real person, but also made a variety of expressions, it was a kind of exquisite robot, but this skill was lost very early, General Ma through his own careful study, finally cracked the mystery of the singer and dancer, he used this ingenuity to create a robot, no matter walking or various movements are the same as real people, The real purpose of General Ma's research is to use robots on the battlefield to reduce the casualties of soldiers, sure enough, General Ma created robots, and also set a set of actions for robots, put on military uniforms for them, respectively, with knives and guns, and walk in the forefront of the battlefield, although they were hit by arrows all over their bodies, but they still moved forward bravely, and the enemy was frightened and collapsed without a fight. ”

"Yanshi is really a capable man, General Ma has carried forward the robot, it's really good, big brother, you don't want to use the robot to deal with poisonous snakes, right?" Jin Ziyan asked.

"It's kind of interesting, but it's not the mechs that deal with the viper, it's the metroch." Meng Guan seemed to understand what Zu Ti meant.

"Yes, metropolitan snakes. Just now I said that General Ma's military book also recorded the wooden ox flowing horse, that is, the cow and horse made of wood, which was invented by Zhuge Liang, and he used it to transport grain and grass at the beginning, but later it was also lost, and General Ma also restored this kind of ingenuity, and recorded it clearly, I want to use the mechanical man and the wooden ox and flowing horse on the military book to coincidentally become one, and create a wooden snake meerkat that can move, run, open teeth, scream, and bite to deal with poisonous snakes. ”

"This ...... Zu Ti, but how can this kind of wooden snake meerkat bite a poisonous snake, they have no thinking. Meng Guan questioned.

"Yes, of course, the wooden snake meerkat does not know the poisonous snake, but they will have their own mechanism, once the snake touches them, they will open their mouths and bite, in fact, the biggest effect of making these wooden snake meerkats is to scare away the poisonous snake, which is the same as the mouse sees the cat, everyone knows that as long as the cat barks, no matter what the mouse thinks of everything is to run for his life."

"That makes sense, Zu Ti, how long did it take to make these wooden snake meerkats?" Meng Guan asked.

"I want to build metromonkats in the barracks, select some people who can do carpentry from tens of thousands of sergeants, and then I will teach them how to do it, and if it goes well, I can finish a hundred meerkats in one night and tomorrow."

"Zu Ti, without further ado, we'll do it now." Meng Guan agreed with Zu Ti's idea.

"General Meng, first find a few southerners, they have seen meerkats and know their appearance and habits, let them draw them first, and then I will draw a mechanical drawing book."

Meng Guan immediately asked people to find a few southern sergeants and asked them to draw the appearance of the snake meerkat after listening to their explanation, Zu Ti drew a mechanical drawing book, and Meng Guan sent people to select craftsmen and select wood, and everything was ready to stop, Zu Ti let the selected 100 craftsmen start work.

The craftsmen made a look according to the appearance of the picture book, only to see that the mechanical meerkat has a slender body, as much as two and a half inches, a very long tail, accounting for about half of the body length, a snout tip, short limbs, gray body hair, and slightly brown yellow, the shape is realistic.

Zu Ti hollowed out the lower part of this body, and while installing wooden gears and clockwork mechanisms into it, he explained it in detail, and it took a long time for the craftsmen to master all the ingenuity and do it themselves.

Zu Ti and the craftsmen didn't sleep all night, and by the time they arrived, they had finished making a hundred mechanical mongooses.

Meng Guan came to watch early in the morning, and saw many craftsmen lying in the camp tents, and then looked at the lifelike mechanical mongoose on the ground, he knew that they were too tired last night.

Zu Ti hadn't slept yet, he was still experimenting one by one, at this time he put down the last one, got up and stretched and yawned, turned his head to see Meng Guan, he stepped forward and said: "General Meng, a hundred mechanical mongooses have been done, these are enough to deal with Qi Wannian's snake array." ”

Meng Guan said: "Zu Ti, you have worked hard, these mechanical meerkats even have the hair on their bodies so realistic, the poisonous snakes will really be afraid when they see it." ”

"Naturally, General Meng, I'll let you see how powerful these mongooses are."

Zu Ti hugged a mechanical meerkat in his arms, got the mechanism, and threw it on the ground casually, only to see the mechanical meerkat just like a real meerkat running forward, its mouth made a kind of scream, and moved left and right from time to time, Zu Ti took a piece of rope and threw it at its head, but was bitten by a snake in its mouth, and then stepped on it after a while, and then ran forward.

Meng Guan sighed: "What a delicate ingenuity, just like the real thing!" ”

Zu Ti grabbed the meerkat forward, twisted the mechanism, and the meerkat immediately stopped moving.

"With this, we won't be afraid of his snake formation."

At this time, someone came to report: "General, the rebellious army has left the city!" ”