Chapter Seventy-One: If You Want to Fight, I'll Fight
Happy times are always short-lived, on the fifth day of April in 200 AD, Hu Li had just finished practicing marksmanship and was about to go to the cave where pangolins were raised. Hu Li saw Zhu Rongli hurriedly walking in from outside the courtyard. Zhu Rongli said to Hu Li with an anxious face: "King, one of our hunting teams hunted a fierce tiger, and when we came back with the tiger, we encountered a team of hundreds of people. The leader of the group, who claimed to be the King of Mulu, said that the tiger was his pet, and that our hunting party should pay them all the prey, and that he had to apologize to them. We have also heard that this person does have the ability to domesticate beasts, but the beasts he has domesticated are generally not too far from their settlements, and those beasts will be hung with bells as special markers. In the past, we would avoid this kind of beast with a bell to avoid conflict, but today's tiger does not have any signs on it, and the wooden deer is completely forcible and prey. Of course, the captain of our hunting team, the vultures, did not want to suffer this loss, so he clashed with them, but although the number of people on the Mulu side was about the same as the number of our hunting team, and there were warriors like the vultures on our side, it stands to reason that we should have a good chance of winning. But there are hundreds of fierce beasts on Mulu's side, and although the vulture bones are not afraid, they don't want their clansmen to have casualties, so they have been confronting Mulu's team, and passed the news to me through the letter eagle, please make a decision, the king. ”
Hearing what was going on, Hu Li immediately said: "We'll rush over now, and at the same time summon other hunting teams through the letter eagle, since Mulu and they are deliberately looking for trouble, we are not afraid to start a war with them." This time, Hu Li returned to the tribe, because the people in the tribe basically popularized Chinese, and it was much easier to communicate, Hu Li also became concerned about the affairs of the tribe. The tribe of Mulu and the Nanhu tribe are not very far apart, both sides have a population of nearly 100,000, the Nanhu tribe has 30,000 vine armor soldiers, and the Mulu tribe has fierce beasts and poisonous snakes to help, although the two sides occasionally have some skirmishes because of the prey, but they will be restrained, and they have always poured well water and do not violate the river water. This time Mulu personally came out to provoke, something must have happened that Hu Li didn't know, otherwise this Mulu would not have dared to provoke the Nanhu tribe, which was slightly stronger than them.
After Hu Li and Zhu Rong arrived at the scene of the incident, several hunting teams had already gathered on the side of the Nanhu tribe, and the number of them reached more than 3,000 people. And the Mulu tribe is not idle, their follow-up team has also arrived, and the number is comparable to that of the Nanhu tribe, and there are still people coming one after another.
After Hu Li arrived, the hunting team members of the Nanhu tribe saluted Hu Li one after another, and when the Mulu tribe saw this situation, they immediately knew that it was Hu Li, the king of the Nanhu tribe, who came. So King Mulu also walked out of the middle of the team, and there were two people who came out with him, a burly and majestic barbarian dressed as the leader, and Zhu Rongli recognized him as Meng Shu.
Meng Huo is also the king of a tribe, and the strength of the tribe is not much different from the strength of the Nanhu tribe. Zhu Rongli's tribe used to be a vassal of the Meng tribe, but now because Zhu Rongli has become the wife of the king of the Nanhu tribe, Zhu Rongli's tribal leader, who is Zhu Rongli's father, chose to break away from Meng Huo's tribe and formed an alliance with the Nanhu tribe.
The other person was a Han man, and at this time he was arrogantly saying to Hu Li in Chinese: "King Nanhu, in Xia Yonghong, is now the patriarch of the Yong clan of Yizhou County, I learned from King Meng that King Nanhu is also Han, and I specially came to invite King Nanhu to my Yongjia as a guest. Later, the king of Nanhu settled in Yizhou County, and there were all kinds of mansions and beauties, and the Nanhu tribe was handed over to King Meng and King Mulu to take over together, I don't know what King Nanhu wanted? Yonghong's implication was that he wanted to exchange the life of a rich man for Huli's Nanhu tribe, and at the same time threaten Huli with the Menghu tribe and the Mulu tribe.
Hu Li couldn't hear the meaning of Yonghong's words, and only heard Hu Li say lightly: "Thank you Patriarch Yong for your kindness, but I live well in the Nanhu tribe, and I don't want to go anywhere." "Hu Li is not a fool, he handed over the power in his hands and changed it to a rich man who doesn't know if there is security. Even if Yonghong can do what he says, with Hu Li's current strength that actually occupies the entire Bingzhou and Jizhou Changshan Kingdom, it will still be rare for those mansion beauties that Yonghong said.
Hearing that Hu Li didn't want to refuse his request, Yonghong said to Hu Li with a gloomy face: "You are just a little beast taming tricks and tricks to deceive the vulture bones and his tribe, these means can blind them barbarians, can you still fool me?" The king of Mulu standing next to me is a master of taming beasts, if you don't know what to do, don't blame me for revealing your tricks, and then the vultures that feel deceived will tear you to pieces. If it weren't for the fact that you have some ability, so that the Nanhu tribe has popularized the Chinese language and learned a little farming methods, I would not have offered you such good conditions. ”
It turned out that after listening to Meng Shu and King Mulu talk about Hu Li, Yonghong thought that Hu Li had deceived the lucky people of the entire Nanhu tribe by relying on animal taming and blindfolding. Yonghong originally looked down on the Nanhu tribe, because although the Nanhu tribe had good combat power, the barbarians did not listen to orders, and it was difficult to communicate, and it was difficult to command, plus the barbarians hated the Han people very much, and the previous vulture bones of the Nanhu tribe only believed in brute force, and they couldn't communicate at all, Yonghong could wipe out the entire Nanhu tribe, but it was difficult to control the entire Nanhu tribe in his hands. Later, I learned that the Nanhu tribe had been popularized by Hu Li with Chinese language and basic cultivation methods, although I don't know how Hu Li did it, but this ripe fruit Yonghong would of course be interested in picking it.
As long as Hu Li is forced out, Yonghong will be able to arrange manpower to gradually infiltrate with the assistance of Meng Shu and King Mulu, and sooner or later he will control the entire Nanhu tribe in his hands. At that time, the warriors of the Nanhu tribe will be used as cannon fodder, and the old and weak will be used as coolies for the Yong clan to produce grain and open mining fields. How could Yonghong miss this kind of profitable business, he firmly believed that since Hu Li could control the entire Nanhu tribe, then with Hu Li's experience, he Yonghong with the assistance of Meng Shu and King Mulu, controlling this Nanhu tribe should not cause much resistance.
Listening to Yonghong's threatening words, Hu Li said to Yonghong with a mocking face: "If you want to fight, I will fight, my Nanhu tribe has never been threatened by anyone." Hu Li knew that after Yonghong subdued the entire Nanhu tribe, he would definitely not treat the Han and the people of the Nanhu tribe equally like Hu Li, and the Nanhu tribe would only become cannon fodder and coolies in the end. For the Nanhu tribesmen who really regard themselves as their kings, of course Hu Li would not let them get such a tragic ending, so Hu Li gave a very strong answer.
"If you want to fight, I will fight." The tribesmen of the Nanhu tribe shouted in support of Hu Li's choice.