Huo Jun's concern touched Shamoke, but Shamoke never dreamed that Huo Jun would be so enthusiastic about asking a famous doctor to treat his injuries because he had a bad heart, and intended to use his hand to weaken the number of barbarians under Liu Bei's rule.

Fighting a war always kills people! Not many of the 50,000 barbarians who accompanied Shamoke into Shu escaped back, and most of them were slaughtered by the angry southern barbarians, and the next thing was not for Shamoke to decide. Punching people needs to guard against people's kicks, there has never been a reason that they can only be beaten passively, and after the southern barbarians who encountered the attack dealt with the invaders who invaded their homeland, the next thing was naturally to return a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood.

50,000 barbarian soldiers could not calm the anger of the southern barbarians, with Yan Yan as the main general, supplemented by Vulture Bone, Wang Ping, Zhang Yi, Ma Zhong and others, a Sichuan army of 80,000 went straight to Lingling to kill.

Liu Bei only planned to make a "little joke" with Liu Xie, but he didn't want Liu Xie to be a master who couldn't make jokes. He just threw a stone at Liu Xie, and Liu Xie ordered 80,000 people to come to him with knives to settle accounts. It is impossible to be soft, what Liu Bei can do is to face the battle, Shamoke's injury is not yet good, so the burden of resisting the Han army this time fell on Huo Jun, who was good at defending, Shamoke acted as Huo Jun's deputy and obeyed Huo Jun's dispatch.

Using his identity as the barbarian king of Shamoke, Huo Jun gathered 100,000 barbarian soldiers to deal with the 80,000 Han troops killed by Ziyinan. The Battle of Chibi, carefully prepared by Sun Quan and Liu Bei, has not officially begun, and there is already a war outside the city of Lingling in Jingnan. Although the number of the Han army was at a disadvantage, most of the southern barbarians who participated in the war came for revenge, and their morale was high. And compared with the southern barbarians, who were also adapted to jungle warfare, the barbarians on Liu Bei's side did not have any advantage. Coupled with the participation of the two backbone forces of the Vulture Bone Rattan Army and Wang Ping's White Tiger Army, Liu Bei's side won fewer and lost more, and every encounter with the Han army often had to leave hundreds of corpses to get out.

The reason of heaven is clear, and the retribution is not happy, it is not that it is not repaid, and the time has not yet come. Previously, Shamoko led the barbarians to rush into Yinan to burn and loot, but now it was their turn to be burned and looted. But the same homeland was destroyed, the barbarians on Shamoke's side suffered greater losses, and the barbarian homes in Yinan were destroyed, and the government would come forward to rebuild their homes for them, but Liu Bei was powerless due to limited financial resources, not to mention that Liu Bei didn't have that heart.

At the beginning, Liu Bei recruited barbarians in order to increase the population under his rule, but he didn't expect that today's barbarians have become a big hidden danger for Liu Bei. Don't look at the barbarians scattered in the mountains and dense forests, but the number of people gathered is still considerable. However, the Han people under Liu Bei's rule have not increased but decreased over the years. Originally, the ratio of the Han barbarian population under Liu Bei's rule was one to one, but now it has become one to three, that is, the number of barbarians living in Jingnan and Jiaozhou is three times that of the Han people.

While the increase in population has increased income, it has also put tremendous pressure on law and order. Originally, the relationship between the Han and the barbarians was not very coordinated, and a skirmish would break out from time to time, but now the barbarians have a dominant population, and in the repeated conflicts between the Han and the barbarians, the Han people are always the one who suffers from the anger.

Liu Bei is a Han Chinese, but in order to win the loyalty of the barbarians, he often favors the barbarians when facing the problem of Han barbarians. Imagine that in this way, there will be a few Han people who are willing to continue to serve Liu Bei as the master. A lord who can't protect his rights and interests, few people are willing to follow. The northward flight of the people of Jingnan was also one of the reasons why there were fewer and fewer Han people under Liu Bei's rule.

Huo Jun was Liu Bei's loyal follower, and he considered any issue with Liu Bei's interests as the starting point. Reducing the number of barbarians was the best means for Huo Jun to safeguard Liu Bei's interests. The number of barbarians is smaller, which can not only make the barbarians more dependent on Liu Bei, but also reduce the possibility of the barbarians gathering crowds to make trouble, and the barbarians dare not resist, which is also beneficial to Liu Bei's rule.

And Shamoke, who was used by Huo Jun, was not a simple-minded person, at first he was not aware of Huo Jun's "sinister" intentions, but as the number of casualties and barbarians surged, Shamoke also realized that something was wrong. But Shamoko did not dispute this matter, and he also had his own little calculations. Although he is a barbarian king, he is only a barbarian king in this part of Wuxi. Under Liu Bei's rule, there was far more than just Shamoke, a barbarian king, and there were barbarian kings in Lingling, Guiyang, and even all over Jiaozhou. The reason why Shamoke was able to become the leader of the barbarian kings was only because of the support of Liu Bei, and his Wuxi man was the strongest among the many barbarian tribes.

Rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Shamoko is also very self-motivated, he is not satisfied with just being the king of Wuxi, he hopes to become the king of all barbarians. But if he wants to realize this wish, those barbarian kings who call him brothers and sisters on weekdays have become obstacles to his wish.

The barbarian king does not convince people with virtue, but speaks based on strength. If Shamoke wants to become the king of kings among barbarian kings, he must make his own strength the strongest, but Liu Bei's support alone is far from enough. It is unrealistic to send troops to conquer, and Liu Bei, his most powerful supporter, will not agree to Shamoke to do this, only with the help of external forces. And today's Han army is a sharp blade that is very easy to use, which can not only achieve Shamoke's goal of weakening other tribes, but also do not need Shamoke to bear any infamy.

Near Zhu is red, close to ink is black, the originally honest and honest Shamoke has followed Liu Bei for a long time, and has also learned the insidious cunning of the Han people, and knows how to kill people with a knife. And with such two unreliable top bosses, those barbarians who participated in the war also fell into blood mold, although Huo Jun gave a very generous pension, but if he lost his life, no matter how high the pension was, it would be cheaper for others, and it had nothing to do with himself.

It's just that the simple-minded barbarians who don't know the sinister hearts of people don't realize this, they only see real money in their eyes, and they give high remuneration for Huo Jun, and go to the battlefield one after another to fight with the Han army. By the time their barbarian king finally realized that something was wrong, it was too late, and there were not many young people left of the tribe, and the old and weak women and children could only wait for the fate of being slaughtered at will.

The Han army led by Yan Yan achieved the goal of revenge, and Huo Jun and Shamoke also achieved the goal of weakening their own barbarian numbers. The only unfortunate ones were those barbarians who were kept in the dark and blinded their minds by real money, not only under the butcher's knife of the Han army, but also in the conspiracy of the upper echelons to fight for power and profit.

Huo Jun was good at defending, and taking advantage of the time when the barbarians and the Han army were fighting outside the city, he built Lingling like an iron bucket. When the barbarians under his command refused to go out of the city to fight the Han army, Huo Jun did not force those barbarians, but began to concentrate on defending the city. As long as the Lingling is not lost, the Han army will not dare to go deeper, and the fact is just as Huo Jun expected, Yan Yan led the Han army Chen soldiers under the Lingling City, neither divided the troops nor attacked it, but instead confronted Huo Jun in the city.

Huo Jun, who had long known the Han army's sharp siege methods, was a little puzzled at this time. The silence of the Han army made him think about it, and he worried whether this would be another conspiracy of the Han army. In order to find out the intentions of the Han army, Huo Jun ordered Shamoke to go out of the city at night to test the reaction of the Han army, but Shamoke went and almost didn't come back.

Originally, Shamoke was injured, and after several months of recuperation, he was almost fine, but when he came back from the city this time, the old injuries recurred, not to mention the new injuries, so he had even more reason to refuse Huo Jun's order.

According to Shamoke's account, he was ambushed by the Han army shortly after leaving the city, as if the Han army had known that he was going out of the city, and the person who injured Shamoke this time was not a bystander, but the vulture bone that injured Shamoke in Yinan. The martial arts of the vulture can be said to be the first among the southern barbarians, as the former lord of the Ugo country, not only has the rattan armor army, but his own martial arts are also remarkable. Although Shamoke is also the number one warrior in the Wuxi Barbarians, if he can still have a slight upper hand over Wang Ping and Ma Zhong, but when he encounters a vulture bone, he will only be beaten.

For the vulture bone, Shamoko hated it to the bone. At the beginning, he injured his left leg by the vulture, which not only made it difficult to walk, but also affected his nightlife. I finally waited until the injury of my left leg was almost healed, and the happy nightlife could start again, but I didn't expect that this time not only the left leg was injured, but the right leg was also injured.

After listening to Shamoke's account, Huo Jun was a little disappointed, and the purpose of sending Shamoke out of the city was to find out the intentions of the Han army outside the city, whether it was preparing to storm or besiege. But Shamoke, who was not angry, encountered an ambush not long after he left the city, and he didn't even touch the edge of the Han army camp. The only gain is that there may be a fine work of the Han army in Lingling City, and it can transmit news to the outside of the city in time, otherwise how could the Han army ambush Shamoke so quickly and accurately.

At present, Shamoke can't fight, and the other barbarian kings have also learned one by one, no matter how high Huo Jun's price is, he still shakes his head like a rattle. And Huo Jun can't force these barbarian kings with soldiers in their hands, in case they are forced to be urgent, they don't care about the righteousness of the monarchs and ministers, gathering people to make trouble is almost commonplace for them. In desperation, Huo Jun could only let people guard against it on the one hand, and secretly send people to monitor the city and look for the Han army.

In the Han army camp outside the city, Yan Yan looked at the tall city wall of Lingling, and said to himself with some annoyance: "Miscalculated, miscalculated." Wang Ping on the side understood Yan Yan's mood at this time, this time the troops were still a little impatient, and the mountain roads were difficult to travel, which was not conducive to transporting siege equipment, so this time the troops did not carry any large equipment such as siege vehicles and ladders. It wasn't until Liu Beijun retreated into the city and stopped fighting with the Han army outside the city that Yan Yan realized how wrong it was to not bring craftsmen who were good at making siege equipment with him.

The reason why the Han army did not attack the city immediately was not as complicated as Huo Jun thought, the main reason was that Yan Yan did not want to pay an unnecessary price in order to capture Lingling. Trees can be found everywhere outside the city, and it is not difficult to make a simple version of the ladder, but if you attack the city with a simple ladder, the casualties will inevitably be large. At present, Yan Yan has urgently transferred the craftsmen in the army, but before the siege equipment is in place, Yan Yan can only wait or wait.

Division? Yan Yan didn't plan to do it. Before, the Han army did divide its troops, and 80,000 people were divided into four ways to sweep the barbarian tribes outside the city, but now that the barbarians have also learned well, they have all hid in the city, so it is meaningless for the Han army to continue to divide the troops. I can't find an opponent, and it's no good to be separated except for the inconvenience of wooing.

"The old general doesn't have to sigh, this is not your negligence. At the time of the military discussion, we all agreed. Wang Ping spoke out to persuade Yan Yandao.

"Alas~ Zijun, I'm not worried about the impact on the old man because of this negligence, but I'm worried that our slow progress here will affect the overall situation of the saint. Trusted by the saint, he ordered the old man to be the main general this time, if the war was not going well because the old man went wrong here, what kind of face would the old man have to see the saint? Yan Yan sighed.

"If the old general is worried about this, there is no need. Originally, the last general wanted to persuade the old general to slow down the offensive. Wang Ping said with a smile when he heard this.

"What do you mean by that?" Yan Yan asked puzzled.

"Old general, the last general has been by the saint's side for a long time, so he can guess a thing or two about the saint's intentions. You also know that this time the Sun and Liu coalition forces intended to fight a decisive battle with the saint in Chibi, and in order to win, Sun and Liu can be said to have gathered a large number of elites in Chibi. ”

"These old men know about themselves, why does Ke Zijun think that it will be beneficial for the old man to slow down his offensive?"

"Old general, Sun and Liu will gather most of their troops in Chibi, which means that their defenses in other places are weak. This is indeed beneficial to our army's actions, but it is also easy for Sun and Liu to realize that the large-scale build-up of troops is inappropriate. The Sun-Liu coalition army assembled in Chibi, which is a tough bone for our army, but it is also an opportunity that can be done once and for all. As long as you can completely annihilate or annihilate most of the Sun-Liu coalition forces in Chibi, then it will be much easier to clear Sun and Liu in the future, and it will also help to completely end the war situation in the south. Wang Ping explained.

Yan Yan nodded slightly after hearing this, it is indeed as Wang Ping said, Sun and Liu are the stones in the thatched pit are smelly and hard, and it is almost wishful thinking to expect them to find out that taking the initiative to surrender to the imperial court is almost wishful thinking, and it is only possible to force them to the point of exhaustion. At present, Chibi has gathered most of the living forces in the hands of Sun and Liu, as long as this stubborn enemy is destroyed, then Sun and Liu will have more than enough strength even if they want to resist, but once Sun Liu is asked to disperse the power in his hands everywhere, then the stability of Jiangdong and Jingnan will be far away.

"Zijun, then in your opinion, what should our army do next?"

"Old general, according to the foolish opinion of the last general, before the victory or defeat of Chibi, our army should not go deeper, it is better to spend time here with Huo Jun."