The Nanban tribe, the tribes among them, are actually innumerable, and the most famous is naturally the seventy-two cave barbarian tribe subdued by the Nanban king Meng Shu.

Here, the so-called Nanban actually only refers to the minority ethnic groups in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, as well as the collective name of the minority tribes in the northwest region of Guangxi.

However, the name of Nanban Nanban, especially in later generations, has regarded the word Nanban or barbarian as a curse word, and even slowly shrunk to the point that the people in Guangdong are called Nanban. This is not true.

Nanban, in fact, is just a title, which is equivalent to us Chinese people calling ourselves Chinese.

The first record is the Zhou Dynasty, when the Zhou Dynasty called itself Huaxia, so the territory of the Zhou Dynasty prevails, and the people in the four directions of its territory are called Dongyi, Nanban, Xirong, and Beidi. The purpose of this definition of the title is to establish the central position of the Chinese people in the world.

At the beginning, Dongyi included people from Shandong and Bohai in later generations, as well as Korea and Japan, all of which were Dongyi.

Xirong and Beidi were naturally the collective names of the small number of ethnic groups in the west and north of the Zhou State at that time.

And Nanban, at that time, the entire south of the Yangtze River, and even the entire southern people were collectively called Nanban, and even the people in Jingzhou were also called Jingman. Therefore, if the people of later generations still use the words of the Southern Barbarians to scold people, and target people in a certain region in the south to scold people, then there will be more people who will be scolded into it.

Later, Nanban was subdivided into three major clans: Baiyue, Baipu and Bashu.

In the Han Dynasty, Baiyue was the area south of Fujian, including people from Liangguang, Vietnam and other regions. They are all known as Baiyue people, and Shanyue people are also a branch of Baiyue. In fact. The people in the area south of the Yangtze River are also part of Baiyue.

The Baipu ethnic group is distributed in the area of present-day Hunan and Guizhou. The Bashu ethnic group is distributed in the area of present-day Sichuan and Chongqing. Most of the ethnic minorities in the south evolved from the Nanban people.

Of course, from the Zhou Dynasty to the Warring States Period to the Great Qin, and then to the current Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dongyi, Nanman, Xirong, and Beidi have slowly faded the names of regional people, especially for Xirong and Beidi, they are slowly collectively referred to as the Hu people, and the previous Xirong and Beidi have disappeared from history.

The title of Nanban is still there, but at this time it is called Nanban. The people in the Bashu region are no longer counted, but the people in the Yunnan-Guizhou region and part of the northwest of Guangxi are called Nanban. Of course, in the later Song and Yuan dynasties, the people in the west and north called the people in the south the southern barbarians, and even the Song Dynasty was also called the barbarian country. From that period onwards, the title of Nanban was indeed a contemptuous name, and it was regarded as a title for an inferior person.

Saying this, it is just to illustrate. At this time, the barbarians actually referred to the collective term for the minority tribes in this particular region.

There were too many such tribes in this Han period. What the Southern Barbarian King has subdued is actually only a part of it. And that's not all.

However, it is undeniable that Meng Shu at this time. Indeed, he is the most powerful of the barbarians.

under his tent. In addition to a number of subordinate generals, there are also seventy-two cave masters. These are some fierce generals, and under these cave masters, there are also many warriors.

Seriously, if it weren't for the strength and prestige of the Xinhan army, Meng Shu would really be a little contemptuous. He has always believed that his strength is the most powerful, but because of the deviation from the relationship between the land in the Han Dynasty, he has not been able to coerce the princes of the world. In his heart, there has always been a latent idea that he wants to compete with the New Han Army.

This time, he brought many generals to Chengdu together.

Among them, including the cave masters of the ten caves, they are some of the cave masters who are most loyal to him, and he thinks that it is beneficial for him to form an alliance with the Yizhou side, and give it to his most loyal subordinates and cave masters first.

Nanban Seventy-two Caves, the first cave master, the Golden Ring Three Knots, is also a member of Meng Huo's generals. In history, he was stabbed to death by Zhao Yunyihe.

The second cave master, Dong Dana. Historically, he was defeated by Wei Yan and Wang Ping, and was caught by Zhang Wei when he fled.

The third cave master, Ah Hui muttered. Historically, he, like Dong Dana, was defeated by Zhao Yun and Ma Zhong's army, and was caught by Zhang Yi, a third-rate military general in the Shu army. Well, I saw it clearly, it was Zhang Yi, not Zhang Yide and Zhang Fei.

The master of these three caves can be regarded as a relatively powerful general under Meng Huo's account.

There is also a busy tooth long, bringing the cave master Meng You, this one is Meng Huo's general and the other is his younger brother. There are also Duosi King, Mulu King, Yang Feng, Vulture Bone and so on.

It can be said that the nearly 200,000 tribal army that Meng Shu brought to Yizhou was basically the most elite military horse he could mobilize. The remaining dozens of cave masters, either their strength is not good, or they are not loyal enough to Meng Huo, and some of them are like Mrs. Zhurong's Zhurong tribe, they were forced to belong to Meng Huo. Now, because the relationship between Mrs. Zhurong and Meng Shu has broken down, many cave masters who are close to the Zhurong clan have been in a state of rebellion against Meng Shu.

Therefore, now Meng Huo, he doesn't care what the situation in Yizhou, Hanzhong and even the world is. The most important thing is that he has to get the greatest benefit from it, now, relying on Liu Bei's charity alone, far from satisfying Meng Shu's appetite, he must obtain a large amount of money and food wealth, so that after he returns to the Nanban region, he will have enough confidence to call on or rectify the Nanban tribes, lead the barbarian army, and deal with the New Han army to the end.

Now, he also has to fight the New Han Army head-on and try how strong the combat effectiveness of the New Han Army is, so that he can do it well.

In fact, this is also true. Although everyone in the world said that the New Han army was strong and invincible. Everyone said that the fierce generals of the New Han Army were like clouds, and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Huang Zhong and countless other generals bravely crowned the three armies. However, how can people who have not really fought against them and who have been living in their own world to claim hegemony and hegemony, and who think very highly of themselves, know how powerful their opponents are?

In addition, there is Yang Song, a villain with a rotten lotus tongue, instigating in front of Meng Huo, how can Meng Huo endure it?

He left a part of his army and horses in the Badong region to fight against Zhang Fei's New Han army with Liu Bei. He also kept a little mind and left some of the military horses in Yangping Pass. He led an army of 100,000 barbarians, and vulture bones, Dong Dana, busy teeth, and other generals. The elite went out and killed Hanzhong City.

From Yangping Pass to Hanzhong City. Less than two hundred miles.

Generally speaking, from Yangping Pass to Hanzhong, there are more than 100 miles of mountain roads, which are extremely difficult to walk, and the general military horses, the march is estimated to take two days to reach Hanzhong City. However, at this time, it fully demonstrated the advantages of the Southern Barbarian army in the mountains, and almost all of them, the Southern Barbarians, were able to walk in the mountains like flying. It's like flat ground. Therefore, in just one day, Meng Huo's army had already slaughtered less than twenty miles close to Hanzhong City.

To be honest, the Xinhan Army is actually a little careless. Liu Yi didn't care, and after listening to Yan Pu's report, he didn't particularly remind Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Wei Yan and others to take some precautions immediately. Therefore, when Meng Shu's barbarian army arrived more than 20 miles away from Hanzhong City, the New Han Army really didn't have a plan to deal with it.

This one. As for Guan Yu, his mouth is hard, but like Zhang Fei, he really wants him to face Liu Bei's words. It is estimated that he is not as good as Zhang Fei. Just imagine, in Huarong Dao in history, he couldn't even bear to kill Cao Cao. Let him go, and now he is his eldest brother after all. How could he do it? Therefore, his heart is still entangled. A little absent-minded, how can you still pay attention to Yan Pu's information? This, in fact, is really a taboo in the military.

Fortunately, Liu Yi deliberately left Ma Chao to assist Guan Yu in seizing Yizhou, and when Guan Yu was absent-minded, Ma Chao took on the responsibility of rectifying the army and leading the army. However, Ma Chao also thought like Liu Yi, thinking that the Yizhou army should not take the initiative to kill Hanzhong, and thought that if the Yizhou army dared to kill, it would also play into his own arms, because the New Han army has never been afraid of confrontation with the enemy. Even, if the enemy army comes to attack the city defended by the New Han army, it will only be self-defeating.

In this way, Hanzhong City really did not guard against Meng Shu's attack.

In fact, this kind of thinking is unacceptable, as the so-called strong have their own strong hands, if you are too careless, sooner or later you will suffer.

If Meng Huo was really allowed to kill Hanzhong, then, there were so many new Han troops in Hanzhong City, even if the New Han army was not prepared, Meng Huo was afraid that it would be difficult to capture Hanzhong City. But this is not the most important thing, because the real purpose of Meng Shu is to plunder. If he came to Hanzhong City, saw that the new Han army in Hanzhong City was strong and strong, and saw that there was no hope of capturing Hanzhong, he would immediately wave his army to all parts of Hanzhong to plunder, and then it would be a great disaster and a catastrophe in Hanzhong. If the land of Hanzhong was really washed in blood by Meng Shu's barbarian army under the nose of the New Han Army, it would also cause immeasurable damage and damage to the reputation of the New Han Army.

But fortunately, there is also a Wei Yan.

These days, Wei Yan has begun to send troops around, stationed in cities all over Hanzhong, control some areas that are not yet under the control of the New Han army, and eliminate some wandering Wudou Mi Sect's rout soldiers and horses and some rogue bandits.

On this day, Wei Yan personally led thousands of men and horses to clear a mountainous area in the face area of Hanzhong City.

The topography of this mountainous area is very peculiar, it is a mountain range that breaks into the Hanzhong area from the west, the terrain is also quite steep, but it is not big, it is a piece of about 50 or 60 miles long from east to west, and a piece of tooth-shaped mountain range that is about 20 miles wide from north to south and protrudes into the Hanzhong Plain from west to east.

He led his army into this mountain range early in the morning, and at the end of the day, he fought everywhere in the mountains, chasing down some of the routed soldiers and bandits hidden in the mountains, and gained a lot.

In the afternoon, he left a part of the soldiers of the New Han Army to hold in the mountains, and after expanding the scope of search and suppression in the coming day, he led about 2 or 3,000 New Han troops to escort thousands of the routs captured in a day, and prepared to return to Hanzhong City.

I didn't want to, after leaving the mountain, I met the vanguard army of Meng Huojun.

Meng Huo's vanguard army, in fact, was not very large, about 5,000 men and horses, led by Meng Huo's general Busy Tooth Chief.

Busy Yachang led the army all the way out of the mountains, and along the way, he wanted to lead the army to rob first, but most of this area is some barren mountains and forests, and it is sparsely populated. Even if there are people, they are scattered in the mountains and forests. It's impossible for a busy tooth to spend too much time in the mountains to find those mountain villagers to loot, right? What's more, how much money can the villagers in the mountains have for them to plunder? Unless he was a short distance along the road, and he saw a barbarian army coming, and he didn't have time to flee into the mountains, or he didn't think that these armies would do anything to them, or he really couldn't plunder. In addition, he is a pioneer army, a pathfinder, and he can't stop.

In this way, along the way, his busy teeth and long hands are itchy, but it is difficult to have a chance to let him use his hands and feet. Well, even if he encounters a village not far from the road, the soldiers below him have already made a strong move, so why should he, the vanguard master, do it?

You must know that Wei Yan's army has thousands of captives, and most of the captives are carrying some rice and property. In this way, from afar, when the busy teeth grow and see it, their hearts are overjoyed.

In the end, I saw a little more people, and finally saw a little bit of oil and water. This is absolutely not to be missed, if you don't take the money you get, do you still let the army behind you take it?

At that moment, the busy tooth chief waved his mace, and the ghost screamed, urging his thousands of men and horses to swarm towards Wei Yan's team.

Although many of these barbarians know Chinese, many of them don't understand Chinese, shouting their local dialect, squeaking and squeaking, which makes Wei Yan a little dumbfounded.

That, the barbarians are the barbarians, and the dress is very different from the Han people, even if it is their soldiers, what they wear will make people feel a little strange.

They are generally bare-armed and bare-legged, and they have little clothing on them. The upper body is covered with some rattan braids, and the style is a bit like the armor of the body, but what can be protected is actually only the chest and abdomen of the two flanks. The lower body has short clothes and trousers, and on the outside of the legs, there are also some hanging armor, and the hanging armor is also some Teng fabric.

Only some of them wore bronze and iron armor similar to that of the Han Chinese.

"Who is this?" Wei Yan muttered inexplicably, but he immediately woke up and immediately gave the battle order.

No matter who these people were, seeing that they were all brandishing weapons, all of them with hideous expressions and shouting and killing with blue eyes, Wei Yan knew that these people were definitely enemies.

In the face of the sudden attack, Wei Yan did not panic, and immediately ordered his subordinates to form a formation in front of him with two or three thousand men and horses, and those captured Hanzhong routs were all ignored.

Because, when the two armies met, they were less than a mile apart, and Wei Yan didn't have time to think too much, so he had to form a formation in the shortest possible time, so that he could fight against this sudden military horse. (To be continued......)