Liu Xin turned his head to look at Zhu Rong, whose tears had not dried, and said in a deep voice: "I know that these barbarian tribes in Zhongnan are also your own compatriots, but in fact, I am not a person who likes to kill. But if they don't come to their senses, I can't watch my soldiers lose their lives in vain, and I won't be relenting when the time comes. ”

Zhu Rong nodded seriously and said, "I swear in the name of the descendants of the Fire God and do everything possible to persuade them not to be enemies of my elder brother." ”

Before Zhu Rong made his request, Liu Xin had not completely made up his mind on how to stabilize the situation in Central and South China, and he even had a plan to wipe out the barbarians in Central and South China.

Liu Xin remembers that the barbarian rebellions in this area continued throughout history, which brought considerable economic and military pressure to the central court. On the territorial issue, Liu Xin, who came from later generations, had a different concept from many people at that time, and he would rather lose his life than promise to lose an inch of land, so he would not tolerate national division and rebellion in any case. If you want to completely solve the dispute between the Han and barbarians in Central and Southern China, the easiest way is to wipe out all these barbarian tribes, and these barbarian tribes took the initiative to attack under the bewitchment of Meng Shu, giving Liu Xin enough excuses.

However, Liu Xin understands better that it is not easy to completely wipe out the barbarians. Although Meng Shu concentrated the vast majority of the barbarian young men at the border between Qike and Yuewang, even if he could annihilate all the ten or two hundred thousand young men, it was impossible to completely eliminate the barbarian villages hidden in the depths of the mountains. Not only that, barbarian women are different from Han women, they also have to bear heavy manual labor, not weak women who are powerless, they are still brave warriors when they lift a knife and axe, and they have the advantage of the terrain, and they are afraid that his men and horses will also pay a heavy price when the time comes.

What's more, if Liu Xin really made such a move, it would be an act of genocide, and morally, he would be condemned from all sides, especially those in Shilin, and he would not be able to pass this hurdle in his own conscience.

Although it was difficult to choose, Liu Xin still didn't dare to pin all her hopes on Zhu Rong. Because Liu Xin knew that the reason why these tribes were called barbarians was because they were uncivilized and unreasonable. Therefore, in addition to implementing a series of policies conducive to the survival and development of the barbarians and the harmonious coexistence of the Han barbarians, Liu Xin also prepared for the worst, and did not hesitate to resort to violent means as a last resort.

Liu Dan, Meng Huo, Yonghong and the others were sitting upright in the big tent, washing the dust for the barbarian patriarch Wu Tu Gu and Mu Lu, who had just accepted their invitation and arrived here. At this point, the barbarian tribes that Meng Shu was able to invite were basically all there, and the number of barbarian tribes gathered here had reached as many as 180,000, and almost the entire central and southern barbarian tribes gathered here to gather young and middle-aged people.

Suddenly, in the Han army camp opposite, golden drums sounded, horns sounded, and deafening shouts came one after another.

Liu Dan hurriedly said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Han army has not moved for several days, and today the war drums are suddenly beating, do you want to rob the camp?" ”

Gao Ding secretly scolded "ignorance", stood up unhurriedly, and said: "Why should Lord Liu panic, if the camp is robbed, it should only be quiet, with such fanfare, it is known to everyone, what kind of camp can be robbed?" Thinking that the Han army has been doing nothing for many days, this move is just a bluff, ignore them, just continue to drink! ”

Meng Shu put down his wine glass, waved his hand, and said: "Master Gao is reasonable, the Han army has no possibility of robbing the camp in broad daylight, but if Meng wants to come, they will not make noise for no reason, they must have a plan, or be careful." ”

Although he is only a barbarian, he is not all brave, and he once wanted to poison Liu Xin at the Three Surnames Conference that year, which is also quite cunning.

Since that time, he has been paying attention to befriending the chiefs of the barbarian tribes. Since the Meng family is also one of the three major surnames of the barbarians, it is also a very powerful party among the barbarians, and the patriarchs of the various tribes also respect Meng Dan's father and son. Meng was willing to spend money, and most of the tribal governors were willing to deal with him.

In addition, Yonghong and Gao Ding deliberately blocked the road and cut off the connection between the four counties of central and southern China and Qi Ke, which made the relationship between the barbarian tribes of the four counties of central and southern China gradually alienated from the Zhu family and the Feng family in the past three years. So much so that when Zhu Ding, the patriarch of the Zhu family of the Fire God lineage, personally went out to persuade them to retreat, they were also hesitant until Meng Shu cut off one of Zhu Ding's arms, and the two sides formed a mortal enmity, and these patriarchs had no way out.

But a few days ago, Zhao Yun and Dian Wei led reinforcements to Qike, and the Central and Southern Coalition Army lost several battles one after another, and it took a lot of effort to capture several county towns that the Han army had recovered one after another, and Meng Shu and others had some fear of the Han army.

Therefore, hearing the movement in the Han camp, Yang Feng, the patriarch of the barbarian clan, also echoed: "Patriarch Meng is right, yesterday's Tanma sent news, I heard that what Jingzhou Mu is also going to personally come to Qike to supervise the battle, the Han army on the opposite side wants to make some merits in front of the master, and it is not necessary to be in a hurry to attack, let's go out and have a look together." ”

As soon as he heard the name "Liu Xin", Meng Shu "snapped" at the few cases in front of him, "Huo" stood up, slammed the bronze cup in his hand to the ground, raised his feet and walked out of the tent, shouting loudly as he walked: "As long as Liu Xin dares to come, Meng will definitely call him to come and go!" ”

Among the barbarians in the four counties of central and southern China, although the power of the Meng family is the largest, there are only 30,000 young people, and they cannot completely subdue the other tribes, so when Meng Dan was alive, he always hoped to let the Meng and Zhu families become in-laws, and with the help of the Zhu family, the Meng family spoke more effectively in the four counties of central and southern China. The Meng family attaches great importance to this family business, in addition to the strength of the Zhu family, the identity of the heir of the god of fire is actually more attractive, if Zhu Rong marries into the Meng family, the Meng family will replace the position of the Zhu family and become the inheritor of the god of fire.

That year's alliance of the three surnames was originally the best opportunity for Meng Huo to show himself with the help of the competition, so as to ask Zhu Rong for marriage. Although Meng Dan was very regretful, he had no other way to think about it, after all, Liu Xin's identity was there, and Zhu Rong also liked Liu Xin. But Meng Shu has always been obsessed, in his opinion, the reason why Zhu Rong chose Liu Xin is because of the power in Liu Xin's hands, one day, he will be as high as Liu Xin, and even trampled Liu Xin under his feet, snatched Zhu Rong back from Liu Xin's hands, and took him into his arms.

Hatred and desire often make people dizzy, Meng Shu didn't think about it at all, even if he could concentrate the strength of the entire barbarian, he might not be Liu Xin's opponent, not to mention that the barbarians in Jingnan, Qike, and Bajun were still firmly on Liu Xin's side. Just because of Liu Dan's sentence "allow the barbarians to stand up for themselves", Meng Shu couldn't wait to stand up and regard himself as the king of the barbarians, but he never thought about it, Liu Dan who didn't have a single soldier in his hands, can what he said count?

The two tribes of Wutugu and Mulu are second only to the Meng family in the power of the central and southern regions. When Meng Huo first invited them to send troops, they did not immediately agree, but took a wait-and-see attitude. Later, Meng Shu defeated the barbarian army of Zhuding and Feng Lie, seized several county seats, and plundered a large number of gold, silver and jewelry, so he did not take the Han army seriously, and never mentioned inviting the two clans to help. It wasn't until he was recently defeated by Zhao Yun and Dian Wei that Meng Shu became nervous and realized the true strength of the Han army, but he was already difficult to ride a tiger, so he had to send envoys to various villages in the four counties of central and southern China to invite those tribes who did not send troops to help.

In order to get the help of other tribes this time, Meng got a blood capital, and gave them all the gold, silver and jewels that he had snatched, and promised that once Chengdu was conquered, his children would be allowed to take the gold silk, and the throne of the barbarian king would be jointly elected by the tribal chiefs.

The barbarian patriarchs of several other tribes naturally laughed at Meng Shu and raised troops to come, but the two coveted vulture bones and Mulu were the throne of the barbarian king. The two of them had not fought with the Han army, and they didn't know the depth of the Han army, and when they saw Meng Shu angrily walking outside the big tent, for fear that he would rob him of the first credit and affect his competition for the position of the barbarian king, they stood up together and said: "Wait! Since I'm here, I'll advance and retreat with Patriarch Meng! Patriarch Meng is better than waiting for everyone to go out together. ”

Meng Shu knew that the martial arts of these two people were not under him, but hoped to use their strength to frustrate the prestige of the Han army, so he stopped his steps and arched his hand and said: "In this case, then please go with your lords and patriarchs." ”

Gao Ding and Meng Shu both expected it well, how could the Han army come out in broad daylight to rob the camp, the drums, gongs, horns, and shouts just now were all cheers from the soldiers of the Han army in order to welcome Liu Xin's arrival.

Entering the big tent and sitting down, Zhao Yun arched his hand and said: "Lord Qiqi, I just got the news, today two more barbarian troops came to reinforce, the number of people reached as much as 30,000, and now, the enemy army on the opposite side has exceeded 200,000 horses, and it seems that there is still the intention of continuing to increase." ”

Liu Xin nodded, and asked in a deep voice: "Although the enemy is a Han and barbarian coalition army, it is mostly barbarians, and our army is outnumbered, what is your best strategy?" ”

Guo Jia got up and said: "Back to the lord, from the perspective of his subordinates, although the enemy soldiers are numerous, they do not belong to each other, if one army wins, the rest of the armies will rush up, if one army is defeated, I am afraid that it will be scattered." ”

Dian Wei laughed and said: "Since Lord Guo said so, then I will lead an army to rush and let them be scattered as birds and beasts, so as not to worry about watching them." ”

Liu Xin was just about to speak, when he suddenly remembered that Zhu Rong was standing behind him, and couldn't help but turn his head and say: "Sister, you've traveled so far, you're tired, go back to the camp to rest first, and when the discussion here is over, I'll go see you." ”

Zhu Rong had already regarded himself as a general, and he was reluctant to leave, but when he heard Liu Xin say that he would go to see her, he happily said goodbye and left.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Does the lord have anything to say, and it is inconvenient to say it in front of Miss Zhu?" ”