Sun Shao was relieved, although there was an error, but the error was not large, and it was still in Yuenan County. He immediately ordered the merchant ships to be escorted to Linyi by Yuehai, and he himself led his men north to Lurong. He sent Ao Lei ashore with a few pirates from the South China Sea to inquire about the situation, and it was not until dawn the next day that Ao Lei returned, still wounded.

There are really Linyi people in Nan County, they are extremely ruthless, most of the villages along the way are washed in blood, almost no alive, they walked more than 20 miles, found a military camp near Lurong, about 500 people, when they were about to infiltrate the barbarians who patrolled outside the camp found out, thanks to Ao Lei Shenyong, those pirates are also people who licked blood on the head of the knife, so they killed the barbarians and retreated.

"Lin Yi really invaded?" Sun Shao and Yu Fu were a little surprised, originally they thought that this was just a trick by Li Jing to increase pressure on Sun Shao and Buqi, and they lied about the military situation, but they didn't expect that the reality was not the same as they expected.

"General, it's nothing, Linyi Country is a very small country, at best, it is equivalent to a county in the south of Yuenan, how many soldiers can there be? I don't think we can rule out the possibility that they and Li Jing colluded with each other. Yu Pan saw that Sun Shao's face was ugly, and hurriedly comforted: "We now have nearly 10,000 people, isn't it easy to rush up and kill them?" ”

"Exactly, the general doesn't have to worry, please sit down, let me Cui Qian kill it, and directly kill this gang of robbers." Cui Qian stroked the knife and said unhurriedly with a gloomy face: "That old thing in Ou Lian has touched my subordinates before, and I want to clean him up for a day or two, and Zhengji just took his head for some credit." ”

"Who's Ou Lian?"

"District?" Cui Qian glanced at Sun Shao with some surprise: "That old man is the king of Linyi Kingdom." Lin Yi was originally not a country, it was the Xianglin County of my Han Dynasty, and the district was the Gongcao of Xianglin County, and later he killed the Xianglin chief and called himself king. ”

Sun Shao was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that Cui Qian, the king of pirates, was not built, and directly called the king of Linyi Kingdom an old horseman.

"This old puppet is about the same as Shi Xie, but he is much more arrogant than Shi Xie. The Shixie brothers have been rampant in Jiaozhou for 30 years, but they have not dared to claim the king. Ou Lian, this old horseman, was very bold, and when the Zhongping Rebellion occurred, he raised his own banner and became the king, and the barbarians nearby were ignorant and thought that he was sealed by the court, and they were very convinced of him. ”

Cui Qian was a little indignant, obviously feeling that Ou Lian's old horseman was not as strong as him, but he was called the king, which was really unpleasant. Sun Shao felt a little funny, the happiness of the people in the heart was really compared, Cui Qian was not convinced by Su Thick Legs now, but he had no choice but to be angry with a guy like Ou Lian.

In that case, then it will be done to you. Sun Shao immediately ordered Cui Qian to take the headquarters as the striker and kill the more than 500 people first. Cui Qian was overjoyed, took Cui Wu ashore, and hurried away.

Ou Chu sat in the camp with an unhappy face, and sneered at the envoy sent by Li Jing, the Taishou of the Southern People's Republic of China. He is the eldest son of Ou Lian, speaking of which is the crown prince of Linyi Kingdom, and this time he led more than 500 people to Yuenan County to help Li Jing build momentum. But he went too far, and slaughtered several villages along the way, Li Jing was furious when he found out, and sent someone to reprimand him, asking him to withdraw from Yuenan County immediately, otherwise he would be severely punished. Ou Chu originally felt a little embarrassed, after all, he had overdone it first, but he had grown up under the praise of everyone since he was born, and he was the noble prince of Linyi Kingdom, in addition to abiding by some rules in front of the Brahmins, how could he have been reprimanded like this? What happened to Dahan? The Han Dynasty is in chaos, they are too busy to take care of themselves, and they don't have time to care about this little matter in Nanjun. Besides, in his mind, he didn't have a specific concept of the Han at all, he only knew that although Yuenan County was a county, he couldn't take Linyi Country as well, and he subconsciously thought that the Han was probably similar to Yuenan County.

"The prince of the palace ordered you to quit Yuenan County after three days, otherwise you will ......"

Before the envoy's words were finished, Ou Chu suddenly pulled out a knife and pounced, slashing at his neck, the severe pain made him hold all the words in his throat, he looked at Ou Chu who was smiling fiercely, he couldn't believe his eyes no matter what, he looked at the richly decorated hilt, stretched out a trembling finger at Ou Chu, opened his mouth, spurted out a stream of blood, and spit out Ou Chu's body.

Ou Chu was furious, and the long knife slashed down, cutting the neck of the messenger, and the messenger covered his neck, took a few steps backwards, and fell on his back with a thud. Ou Chu sneered, wiped the blood stains on the envoy's convulsive body, and shouted: "Send someone to send the head to Li Jing, and give him three days to hand over Yuenan County, otherwise, don't blame me for going into the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left." ”

The envoy's retinue trembled, did not dare to say more, turned around and hurried out of the account.

"Prince, this is ...... Not quite right? Ou Liang, the staff officer of the army, turned pale, and his thin lips trembled, "Once Lord Taishou gets angry and leads troops to attack our Linyi country, we will have the disaster of destroying the country." ”

"Afraid of what?" Ou Chu shouted dryly: "If he has this strength, why should he borrow troops from us? ”

Ou Liang secretly complained to himself. Ou Chu didn't know the severity, but he knew the power. Lin Yi Guo seems to be very powerful, but after all, it was only a county in Yuenan County in the past, although it was a relatively large county in Yuenan. The reason why Li Jing didn't attack Lin Yi was not that he didn't have this strength, but because Lin Yiguo's reading power was not in his hands, and he didn't need to mobilize the people, and the recruitment of the whole county for the sake of Lin Yi made the whole territory uneasy, and Ou Lian has been giving gifts to Li Jing in order to live in peace, Li Jing turned a blind eye, and now that Ou Chu killed his messenger, can he still let them go?

"Prince, let's retreat. Once Taishou-sama gets angry, he has more than 2,000 people in his hands, and we are no match at all. Ou Liang carefully persuaded: "Return to Lin Yi Country, and send someone to explain, maybe this matter can be over." ”

"More than 2,000 people?" Ou Chu panicked when he heard this. Lin Yiguo is known as a strong soldier, in fact, there are less than 2,000 soldiers, and he now has only 500 people under his command, if he faces 2,000 people, he is not sure that he will retreat with his whole body.

"Of course, there are now four counties in Yuenan County, with more than 80,000 people, and if all of them are mobilized, they can reach four or five thousand people, which is not something we can deal with at all." Seeing that Ou Chu was afraid, Ou Liang hurriedly added a fire, hoping to persuade Ou Chu to go back. Ou Chu was a little hesitant, he wanted to come out to make meritorious service this time, and he was scared back just after seeing some benefits, what will he do as a prince in the future? He hesitated: "Does Li Jing have elephant soldiers?" ”

Ou Liang shook his head.

"Then don't be afraid." Ou Chu half comforted Ou Liang, half comforted himself and said. "We have elephant soldiers, even if there are 2,000 people in Li Jing, they may not be able to do anything to us. You wait, wait for me to defeat him, occupy the south of Yue, and expand the territory for the Linyi country, and you will also have merit at that time. ”

Ou Liang persuaded hard, but Ou Chu didn't listen, and insisted on fighting with Li Jing before leaving. In the end, Ou Chu gave in half a step, and he said, don't rush to retreat now, look at Li Jing's attitude. If Li Jing sent troops, they would retreat, and if Li Jing did not send troops, but only sent someone to ask, then they would send someone to explain, and deduce that the envoy had a bad attitude, and they would fool the matter and talk about it.

Although Ou Liang didn't know what happened in Jiaozhou, since Li Jing was going to borrow troops, he must have encountered a dilemma, at this time, Li Jing might not turn his face because several villages were robbed by them, and Ou Chu's method was not a proper way, so he should do it immediately.

Ou Chu waited all night in anxiety, and as soon as the morning dawned, he had just gotten up, and Ou Liang came in a hurry, his face was quite bad. Ou Chu's heart tightened, Teng stood up, subconsciously clenched the knife, and asked in a dumb voice:

"How?"

"Last night there was a group of soldiers patrolling the camp who did not return, and I sent someone to check on them, only to find that they had been killed two miles outside the camp."

"Who did that? Isn't it someone from Li Jing? Qu Chu's heart was pounding, and his teeth were a little chattering. He regrets it a little now, maybe he listened to Ou Liang's words at the beginning, and it would be better to leave early. Li Jing is really on fire, and he brought 2,000 men and horses to kill, even if he has elephant soldiers, he can't stand it.

"It's not." Ou Liang shook his head, a little puzzled: "I doubt that it is a villager who takes revenge." ”

"Vengeful villagers?" Ou Chu let out a sigh of relief. If it's a villager, there's nothing to be afraid of.

"Well, the place where these people were killed was not to the north, but to the south, not far from the village yesterday. I wonder if the young man who went out fishing came back and found out what we were doing, and caught up with him to take revenge. Ou Liang smiled bitterly: "I have already arranged for someone to investigate, and it is estimated that there will be news at noon." ”

"That's a, look at your nervousness." Ou Chu glanced at Ou Liang with disdain and sat down again.

"I'm not a nervous villager, I'm nervous about whether there will be people from Funanguo in that village." Ou Liang explained: "Among the dead, I found that two skulls were shattered and died, much like the knee blows commonly used by the warriors of Funan to kill people. ”

"The warriors of Funan?" Ou Chu was also a little uneasy. Lin Yi is a subject country of Funan, and his father even has to respect Funan for three points, if he provokes the warriors of Funan, it is probably more terrible than angering Li Jing. "How did they end up in Yuenan?"

Ou Liang shook his head again and again, he couldn't figure it out.

At noon, the scouts sent out by Ou Liang returned to the camp, and one by one they ran profusely sweating and looking frightened, as if they had been greatly frightened. Ou Chu and Ou Liang glanced at each other, and immediately raised their hearts to their throats.

"Maritime ...... There are so many ...... at sea Lots of boats. ”

"At sea?" Ou Chu and Ou Liang looked at each other and were completely confused. If you are from Funan, you should have come from the mountains to the west, but how can you come from the sea? A large number of people passed by the sea only merchant ships, but if it was a merchant ship, why were the scouts so nervous, they should be surprised.

"Yes...... War...... Warship. ”

"Warships?" Ou Chu jumped up all of a sudden, and said urgently: "How many?" Whose warship is it? ”

"Many, many, many, I don't know whose ship it is."

Ou Chu was furious and kicked the scout over. Ou had a careful conscience, and hurriedly pulled the scout aside to ask in detail. The scout froze and told the story of what he had discovered. There were hundreds of warships of all sizes on the sea, all of them big ships, not only the rare fighting ships of Linyi Kingdom, but also the warships that were bigger than the fighting ships, like the palace where the king lived.

Ou Liang understood as soon as he heard it, it was a building boat, a building boat only owned by Jiaozhou sailors.

"Jiaozhou Sailor? How could they ...... How did it suddenly appear to the south of us? Ou Chu was shocked.

Ou Liang also couldn't figure it out, it stands to reason that if the Jiaozhou sailors came, they should also come from the north, and they shouldn't appear behind them quietly. There was no way out of the sea, and so many ships passed by near the sea, it was impossible to hide from the scouts.

Before they could figure it out, a second piece of bad news came. More than 2,000 people came down from the ship, and they were rushing towards this direction, and it was obvious that they had bad intentions. Before Ou Chu could recover from the shock, another worse news came: it was the subordinates of Cui Qian, the pirate king of Zhuya, who came, and judging by the banner, it should be Cui Qian himself.

Cui Qian himself is here? So face-giving? Ou Liang was taken aback, and without saying a word, he immediately urged Ou Chu to order the camp to escape. If he still has a little bit of a mind to try it in the face of Yue Nan Taishou Li Jing, then in the face of Cui Qian, he doesn't even have the courage to confront. Ou Chu is different, although he often hears that Cui Qian is the king of pirates in the South China Sea, but he always feels that no matter how powerful a pirate is, he is also a pirate, how can he be compared with the elite of his Linyi country? He then ordered to go out of the camp to meet the famous king of pirates.

When Cui Qian and Cui Wu arrived, they saw five hundred barbarian soldiers waiting for battle. Looking at the "elites" of Lin Yiguo who were holding wooden shields, Cui Wu almost laughed, damn it, this time it was right to ask for battle, this group of barbarians is simply the credit of sending it to the door, don't take it for nothing. He didn't say a word, and as soon as he raised his knife, he was about to order a charge, but he was dragged by Cui Qian.

"What?" Cui Wu broke free of Cui Qian with some impatience.

"There are elephant soldiers." Cui Qian pouted, and motioned to look at him behind the barbarian formation. Cui Wu looked closely, but saw that there were two elephants behind the barbarian formation, and the elephants were equipped with a frame on their backs, and there were several soldiers in the frame, some holding spears, some holding bows and arrows, and they were eager to try.

"Ho-" Cui Wu gasped, his old face was a little red, he hadn't been in battle for a long time, and he had forgotten the basic truth of watching the enemy's array. He had never fought with the elephants, but he had heard of the strength of the elephants, saying that it was impossible for manpower to resist the charge, and most of the arrows and spears used by the people on the elephant's back were poisoned, and once the arrows were hit, it was basically a dead end.

"What should I do?"

"What's the deal?" Cui Qian sneered: "There are elephant soldiers going to war, which means that the leader of these five hundred people is a big man in Lin Yi Kingdom, if you can take him and give it to General Fubo as a greeting gift, maybe you can change to a Zhonglang general." ”

"But...... How to deal with them? ”

"Isn't that easy?" Cui Qian pouted: "They use the simplest bamboo bow or wooden bow, the range is up to eighty steps, and the range with the right head is about fifty or sixty steps, and we use all standard bows, with a range of eighty steps, and the farthest can reach a hundred steps, and the distance of these twenty steps is enough to win." He whispered a few words in Cui Wu's ear, and Cui Wu immediately ran along the road with more than two hundred people.

"Sure enough, it was a pirate, and as soon as he saw my elephant soldier, he ran away." Ou Chu, who was sitting on the back of the elephant, pouted smugly and ordered to charge. The barbarians were still a little timid when they first saw Cui Qian and the others, but before they could fight, they saw Cui Wu leading hundreds of people to run away, and Cui Qian led the others to stand still again, without any intention of attacking, and their courage grew again. Inspired by the sound of drums, he rushed towards Cui Qian and the others who were standing by with a strange scream.

"Shoot the arrows, block the layers of attacks!" Cui Qian gave the order unhurriedly. More than a hundred archers stepped forward, pulled out their bows and arrows, and shot the first batch of arrows at the running brutes, shooting three rounds of arrows in succession, regardless of the hit rate, turning around and running.

The long arrows flew towards the barbarians, the barbarians screamed, raised the wooden shield in their hands, the long arrows were nailed to the wooden shield, making a "tuk-tuk" sound, and some long arrows hit the barbarians' exposed bodies, and a dozen or so barbarians screamed and fell to the ground, but these could not cause panic among the other barbarians, they saw that the people on the other side began to run away, and they were even more excited, regardless of the formation, and chased after them in a swarm.

Cui Qian pulled out the two-stone bow in his hand, and the long arrow whistled out, shooting a barbarian who shouted the loudest, and then another arrow pierced the thigh of a barbarian who rushed to the front, and then turned around and retreated.

"That's the urgency?" Ou Chu saw Cui Qian in bright armor on the elephant's back, and also saw the effect of his two arrows, one dead and one wounded, so angry that he slapped the railing and shouted: "Chase, catch him." ”

Ou Liang also relaxed, although Cui Qian's name thought, but after all, he was a pirate, and these people under Ou Chu still had some of the former county soldiers of Linyi County, although the formation was also chaotic, but after all, it was much stronger than a pirate. The pirates are stronger than the officers and soldiers because of their fierce momentum, but now that Cui Qian is about to collapse, it can be seen that they are indeed frightened by the elephant soldiers, maybe they can really make a great contribution this time.

"Chase!" Ou Liang echoed Ou Chu's order and ordered Miju to control the elephant and start the pursuit. The sound of drums inspired the elites of Lin Yiguo to chase forward, and intentionally or unintentionally, they forgot that there was Cui Qian, a great pirate rampant in the South China Sea, and regarded them as a group of ordinary pirates who were inferior to them.

In Ou Chu's mind, he even has some contempt, what the king of the South China Sea, but that's it.

Cui Qian led his men to fight and retreat, every hundred or so steps, a group of archers would shoot a hundred and ten arrows, and then turn around and run, directly through the companions who had already prepared the blocking formation, and ran to the next hundred steps away to prepare. After several rotations, the casualties of the barbarians had increased to seventy or eighty, and only a dozen of Cui Qian's men were injured by stray arrows.

As for the elephant soldiers who are following behind, so far they have not had a chance to play except to run behind. Cui Qian always wandered away one hundred and fifty steps, not giving Ou Chu a chance to play. Ou Chu was furious, he ordered the soldiers in front of him to get out of the way, and urged the elephant to rush to the front, making sure to give Cui Qian a little bit of power.

The two elephants roared, opened four thick elephant legs, passed through the chaotic array, and rushed towards Cui Qian in the lead. Cui Qian looked at it, raised his hand and shot an arrow at Ou Chu on the elephant's back, turned around and ran, shouting as he ran, the pirates shot a round of arrows, and also ran away, how embarrassed and embarrassed the look was.

The long arrow whistled and went straight to Ou Chu's chest, and the two guards raised their shields and blocked in front of Ou Chu. The arrow "pounced" through the first shield, killing the guard. Ou Chu looked at the guards who turned over and fell off the back of the elephant, and shouted angrily, and angrily ordered the royal hand to speed up, and did not stop until he caught up with Cui Qian.

The elephant quickly rushed up to a few soldiers who couldn't run with arrows, and under their heavy trampling, those soldiers were trampled to pieces on the spot, and let out a terrible scream, these screams made Ou Chu even more excited, he stared at the background of Cui Qian who was running in front of him, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Chase, chase, trample to death!" ”

(To be continued)