In the silver pit cave, Meng was shocked by the news of the defeat of 150,000 horses and horses of Zhijinhuan Sanjie, Dong Dana, and Ah Huilan.

"So many people lost so quickly?" Zhu Rong exclaimed.

Meng Shu shook his head sadly and resentfully.

The next day, Dong Dana and Ah Hui ran back, and when they saw Meng Shu, they said with palpitations: "My king, the people of the Central Plains are too powerful. They have a medicine that can open mountains and split the ground, and we are no match for them. ”

"Fart!" Meng Shu said indignantly: "No matter how powerful gunpowder is, it is also a human weapon. As long as it's human, I don't believe I can't beat it. Spread the order of the barbarian king, and summoned all the cave barbarians to come to the Yinkeng Cave to meet. ”

Meng You, the younger brother of Meng Shu, then sent his henchmen to bring gold, silver and jewelry to Bafan, Ninety-three Dian, and the Thirteen Cave tribes, saying that the Central Plains army was menacing and the soldiers were very sharp. It is necessary to work together to meet the head-on attack, otherwise southern Xinjiang is in danger.

The barbarian tribes gathered. Among the barbarians, there is a person named Mulu King, who is the master of the Ba Na Cave, and this person is very good at taming beasts. In this meeting, he brought a thousand elephant soldiers. A thousand elephants marched out of formation under the control of knights, and the scene was very spectacular.

In addition to the barbarians, the vulture bones, the lord of the Ugo country, also led the crowd to help. The armor of his 30,000 Ugo soldiers and horses was peculiar, and the texture was neither copper nor iron, but made of rattan. This is the famous vine armor soldier in Ugo.

The armies from all walks of life gathered, raising more than 200,000 troops, and slaughtered all the way in the direction of the imperial army. After walking less than a hundred miles, he encountered the vanguard of the imperial army under the command of Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yunping raised the telescope and looked into the distance, and saw that the first person in the barbarian army had a purple and gold crown inlaid on his head, wearing a red brocade robe, wearing a jade lion belt around his waist, wearing eagle's beak green boots, riding a curly-haired red rabbit horse, and hanging two pine pattern inlaid swords, which was actually Meng Shu himself.

Tao Tao's fighting spirit then spread in Zhao Yun's chest, and he couldn't wait to kill it single-handedly and take down this fang. But after thinking about it, Zhuge Liang's advice before coming was still in his ears, so he gave up. lined up and put on a look of wanting to fight Meng to the death.

On the other side, when Meng Shu's gaze swept towards Zhao Yun and his eyes met, his heart and liver trembled violently. Out of the most primitive instinct of man, he felt the feeling of danger, "This person is not simple! ”

But after roughly estimating the number of soldiers and horses behind Zhao Yun, he couldn't help laughing at himself. No matter how powerful he is, he only has more than 10,000 cavalry, and I ...... There are 200,000 male troops, and they are afraid that he will be killed. "Ba Na Cave, elephant soldiers out of battle."

The king of the wooden deer in the Ba Na Cave was ordered, and under the order, the special waist drum of the southern barbarians covered with animal skins made a rhythmic crisp sound.

A thousand elephants, under the control of the elephant soldiers, slowly left the military formation and strode towards Zhao Yun.

The Imperial Army, which had been peaceful, became restless the moment they saw such a behemoth as an elephant. The reason why this is the case is not that the warriors of the Qiang tribe of the empire are not brave enough, they are not afraid of guns and bullets, but as a group that has lived in the hinterland for generations, they have never seen such a big animal in their lives, and it is inevitable that they are a little nervous when they see a huge monster rushing to kill.

More importantly, as highly intelligent animals, people, as soldiers, they can withstand nervousness with reason, but the war horse that sits down cannot.

The Qiang riders were horrified by the sight of herds of elephants, trampling the ground with their huge paws, mixed with the distinctive shrill roar of the elephants. Some simply knelt on the ground with incontinence, while others ran around with their buttocks on their buttocks.

"Don't be afraid!" Zhao Yun shouted, "Elephants eat grass." ”

This first sentence made the Qiang brothers feel a lot more at ease, "Grass-eating animals are relatively docile, and they are much easier to deal with than meat." "But where is the elephant's head! Look at that layer of skin, it's thicker than cowhide!

Zhao Yun shouted again: "Cover the horse's eyes." ”

This trick really worked, and after covering his eyes, the restlessness of the horse team eased a lot. But the scent of the elephants and the shrill roars that lingered around them still terrified them. No matter how much the knight pushes, he refuses to move forward.

"Bow and arrow waiting!"

A group of Qiang soldiers took out their swords and crossbows one after another, and panicked to put their arrows on their bows.

However, the elephant has rough skin and thick flesh, and the sharp arrow falling on the elephant can only pierce the epidermis at most, not only can not hurt the elephant's vital point, but further provokes the elephant to anger.

One elephant after another rushed to the front of the Imperial army like a moving hill, and swept down a piece with a flick of their big noses like Luan Yi's lotus hammer.

Seeing that the Elephant Array had successfully broken through the enemy formation, Meng quickly ordered the whole army to attack. At the same time, Zhao Yun knew that he was invincible, and gave the order for Ming Jin to retreat.

Meng was driven into a big army, chasing all the way, chasing for miles, and finally because Zhao Yun's horse was fast, and the war horse was frightened and ran extremely fast, he was left behind.

A group of barbarians were about to take a break when they saw a flash of light on the mountain, "Bang, pop!" Subsequently, a shout sounded on the left side of the mountain, and the sound of bangzi on the right side of the mountain and behind the mountain raged, "Put!" ”

Bang bang bang...... The mountains shook, and white smoke rose all over the mountains. Then, the bombardment of explosives fell from the top of the hill to the valley and landed in the midst of the barbarian army.

"Boom, boom, boom......" The earth trembled immediately after, and countless barbarians were blown away by gunpowder and fell to the ground in pieces. Several brute soldiers who were close to the source of the explosion were brutally broken into pieces on the spot, and the corpses and internal organs were everywhere. When the Imperial sappers on the top of the mountain saw this, they not only did not feel disgusted, but felt a bit of the pleasure of success. "Reload, reload. Hurry, hurry, hurry. ”

A second round of shelling followed, and the rubble on the mountain rolled to the bottom of the valley like rain under the violent explosion and concussion. On the battlefield, the barbarians, who were silent in the shock of the explosion, were at a loss for a moment, and ran around like headless flies. But everywhere there are explosions, everywhere there are dead people, the whole battlefield is covered by explosions, where can you run!

To add insult to injury, the elephants in the army were severely frightened in the explosion, and after several elephants were overturned and killed by the explosion, the other elephants went crazy, and they struggled to shake off the knights on their bodies, and rampaged in the barbarian army, and the barbarians on top of them turned on their backs, and more than a thousand people died at their feet in an instant.

Among the barbarian army, the most unlucky are the vine armor soldiers of the Ugo people. The so-called rattan armor is actually the product of soaking the stems of a number of rattan plants unique to southern Xinjiang after drying and soaking in wood oil for a period of time. During the battle, due to the soaked oil stains, the rattan armor is exceptionally strong, comparable to iron armor.

However, the shortcomings of the rattan armor are also extremely significant - even if it has been soaked in oil, the rattan armor must be afraid of fire. And gunpowder is precisely the best source of fire.

The explosive packet burst open in the barbarians, and if a little spark was splashed on the vine armor, the vine armor would burst into flames. The fire spread so fast and the temperature was so high that the vine armor soldiers were burned to death before they had time to put it out.

After two rounds of shelling, more than half of the 30,000 rattan armor soldiers were killed or wounded, and their corpses became props to help the Imperial Army fuel the fire.

The valley turned into a sea of fire in an instant. In the sea of fire, there were terrible cries of barbarians everywhere. The Lord of the Eight Caves, King Mulu, with a gray and black face, fled desperately in the sea of fire, and when he saw it, he could rush to the four corners of the imperial army's shooting at the foot of the mountain, but was blocked by an elephant.

Seeing the elephant staring at him with angry eyes, King Mulu commanded: "Beast, get out of the way." ”

Seeing that the elephant did not move, he said, "Get out of here." If you don't roll, be careful......"

As soon as he had said this, he saw the elephant move. It's just that the elephant didn't give him a way, but walked straight to him.

"Don't ...... Stay back! Someone's coming! Ah......h Then he followed with a kick.

Pity the king of Mulu, who tamed the beast all his life, and finally died at the feet of the elephant he trained.

The shelling continued for a full hour, and the sound of the shelling ceased abruptly.

Zhang He looked out of the left mountain, Guan Suodian went out of the right mountain, Zhang Bao and Zhao Tong went out of the back mountain, Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun, who led the troops to turn around, attacked head-on and surrounded the barbarians.

The barbarian army has been scared away by the three souls of the artillery, and they have knelt on the ground to ask for surrender, and the barbarian king Meng Shu was stunned by the smoke, saving a life, and let Zhao Tong be captured alive in embarrassment.

Great victory in southern Xinjiang.

After receiving the good news, Luan Yi was overjoyed and exclaimed: "Zhuge Kongming is worthy of Zhuge Kongming." ”

Guo Jia, who was sitting in the hall, nodded and said, "Kong Ming's talent is better than mine. ”

"Jia Di is humble." Luan Yi waved his hand, "He is still young and needs to be experienced." ”

"Kong Ming is already very sophisticated. At least I wasn't as mature as he was at his age. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Luan Yi asked.

"If Your Majesty asks me to lead my troops to fight the Southern Barbarians, I will be able to capture the Barbarian King with a little trick like Kong Ming. But once I have captured the Barbarian King, I will not hesitate to kill him. and will not let him go like Kong Ming did. Guo Jia organized the language and said: "Southern Xinjiang is different from the Central Plains, and the grassland is also different. They are closed and self-controlled, and do not accept the king, if they only use military strength to overcome them, they can only let the barbarians take it orally and disobey. As His Majesty said, 'Where there is oppression, there is resistance', and one day they will rise up against the Empire. Therefore, if you want to completely conquer southern Xinjiang, you must fight them convincingly. And in this process, because the barbarian king has a high prestige in southern Xinjiang, and the barbarians and all the barbarian tribes look to him as the leader, so his attitude is very important. As long as he is willing to submit, it will be much easier to dominate southern Xinjiang. ”

Kong Ming released Meng Shu just to convince him. It can be seen that Kong Ming's sense of the overall situation is good. Luan Yi nodded in approval, and said secretly: Could it be that Kong Ming is going to have another seven captures of Meng Shu? So, it's quite interesting.

As he spoke, a messenger came to the audience and reported: "Your Majesty's birthday is approaching, and the former general Zhuge Kongming has sent a congratulatory gift." ”

Luan Yi pointed to the box in the messenger's hand and said to Guo Jia with a smile: "Say Kong Ming, Kong Ming will arrive." Come, look, what gift did he send me? If it is worth more than three hundred taels of silver, I will not punish him for bribery. ”