In the first battle between the rattan armor soldiers and the Han army, the vine armor soldiers won all, but the Han army suffered unprecedented losses.

Seeing the barbarians who crossed the river lying on the rattan armor on the shore one by one, Mrs. Zhurong said with a proud face: "If we all wear this kind of armor, why worry about the Han people not breaking it?" ”

Standing behind her, the Nanban generals nodded their heads one after another.

They slapped Mrs. Zhurong's sycophants, with two intentions.

One of the intentions is to really rescue Meng Huo, so as to curry favor in front of Meng Huo, saying that during the time when Meng Huo was captured, how to support his wife to rescue him,

Another intention is to stammer Mrs. Zhurong in advance.

If Meng Huo really can't be saved, Nanban will have to change to a new master after all, and whoever can get the support of Mrs. Zhurong will be most successful.

also knew what kind of calculations these Nanban generals were doing in their hearts, Mrs. Zhurong didn't break it, but nodded at them with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Mrs. Zhurong's cold expression made the Nanban generals feel a sense of powerlessness to punch the sack.

They all looked at each other with disappointed faces, smiled, and didn't say anything more.

Staring at the Han army camp on the other side, Mrs. Zhu Rong shouted behind her: "Golden ring three knots!" ”

Hearing her greeting, the Golden Ring Sanjie hurriedly stepped forward and saluted her.

"This evening, you led the vine armor soldiers to cross the river and attack the Han army!" Turning his head to look at the three knots of the golden ring, Mrs. Zhurong said to him: "In the previous battles, you were defeated by the hands of the Han generals, you must capture the main general of the Han army tonight, can you be confident?" ”

"Madame, rest assured!" Seeing the strong combat power of the rattan armor soldiers, the Golden Ring Sanjie was also full of confidence at this time, and said to Mrs. Zhurong: "This evening, if you don't capture the main general of the Han army, come to see Mrs. Zhurong!" ”

Nodding, Mrs. Zhurong did not speak.

She is not 100% sure of the promise of the three knots of the golden ring.

Stationed on the opposite side, if it was the Yizhou army that had fought with the barbarians in the early years, Mrs. Zhurong absolutely believed that the Golden Ring Three Knots would be able to succeed in one battle.

But stationed on the other side of the bank is the Han army, which has proven its combat capability after many battles.

In the face of nearly 20,000 Han troops, Mrs. Zhu Rong was really not sure how much she could achieve with the 3,000 rattan armor soldiers under her command.

The barbarians on the south side of the river bank planned to use the rattan armor soldiers to attack the Han army camp at night, and in the Han army camp, Zhuge Jun and others were not idle.

In Zhuge Jun's tent, a group of Han army generals were divided into two columns, sitting on both sides of the tent, and all eyes looked at Zhuge Jun who was sitting in the first seat.

Looking around at the Han army generals sitting in the tent, Zhuge Jun said to everyone: "Today, our army fought with the barbarians, and suffered the most severe defeat since entering the barbarian realm. What do you think the barbarians will do next? ”

was asked by Zhuge Jun like this, and everyone in the tent was stunned for a moment, looking at each other one by one, not knowing how to respond.

Since fighting the barbarians, the barbarians' tactics have often been relatively simple.

Most of the time, they came up in a swarm, and after being repulsed, they retreated in a swarm.

Even ordinary Han soldiers thought that barbarians fought and had no rules at all.

Zhuge Jun's question is undoubtedly more than a question in the ears of the Han army generals in the tent.

The barbarians retreated to the opposite side of the river, and in the eyes of the Han generals, they must have resisted the river and did not allow the Han army to cross the river for half a step.

Looking around at everyone, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Zhuge Jun's mouth, and he said to them: "The generals may think that the barbarian tactics are simple, retreat to the opposite side of the riverbank, and there is no next move at all!" ”

Hearing his words, all the Han army generals, including Xu Chu and Dian Wei, nodded.

Although they didn't speak, everyone in the tent confirmed with their actions that Zhuge Jun had spoken to their hearts.

"Good!" Nodding, Zhuge Jun had a smile on his face, and said to the generals of the Han army: "Very good! General Ben just wants to ask you one thing, before fighting with the barbarians today, have you ever thought that the barbarians will set up an ambush in the dark? ”

When Zhuge Jun asked this, the generals were stunned for a moment.

If it weren't for Zhuge Jun's strict order not to attack the barbarian army that was crossing the river, the Han army would probably suffer a big loss today.

They all looked at each other, and the generals of the Han army were all stunned.

The barbarians used their wits in this battle, and it was hard to guarantee that in the future battles, they would swarm up like before.

Seeing the stunned looks on the faces of the generals, Zhuge Jun smiled slightly, and then said, "If General Ben's expectations are not bad, tonight, the barbarians will definitely attack our army!" ”

Zhuge Jun said that the barbarians would definitely sneak attack, and the generals were all stunned, and they glanced at each other, Xu Chu arched at him with his fists and asked: "The barbarians have withdrawn to the south bank, if they want to sneak attack our army, wouldn't it be more convenient to stay on the north bank?" ”

"It's so convenient to stay on the North Shore!" Waving his hand at Xu Chu, Zhuge Jun said: "The reason why the barbarians retreated to the south bank is to make our army neglect to take precautions!" Today, you have also seen that the barbarian in thick armor can use his armor as a raft to glide through the water. In the evening, they only have to concoct this to cross the river! ”

Zhuge Jun's words made the Han generals present frightened one by one.

If this is the case for the barbarians, with the combat power of the thick-armored barbarians, the Han army is suddenly attacked, and it is really uncertain who will win and who will lose.

The generals were stunned and speechless, but Zhuge Jun continued: "Tonight, it is time for me to wait for the barbarian soldiers to be defeated!" ”

"General Xu Chu!" Before the generals could react, he had already turned his head to greet Xu Chu, and said to Xu Chu: "Prepare more tarpaulin, let the soldiers prepare rockets, and at night, I will use rockets, so as to greet the barbarians!" ”

"No!" Standing up and clenching his fists in response, Xu Chu beckoned several Han generals under his command and strode out of the tent.

After Xu Chu and the others left, Zhuge Jun said to Dian Wei again: "General Dian Wei, tonight, you don't need to lead elephant soldiers, lead 3,000 soldiers and horses, carry arrows, wait outside the camp, wait until the barbarians retreat, and then intercept and kill in the middle of the road!" ”

"No!" Since leaving Luoyang, Dian Wei has been leading the elephant soldiers to fight, and when he learned that he had the opportunity to lead the infantry, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly got up to answer the order and left.

He also instructed the rest of the generals in the tent who were directly under him to deal with the aftermath, Zhuge Jun waved his hand at the generals and said to them: "You wait and retreat, you are planning to fight at night, and today you must let the barbarians know that their heavy armor soldiers are useless to us!" ”

The generals who belonged directly to Zhuge Jun also stood up one after another, responded with a fist clench, and withdrew from the tent.

The generals who got Zhuge Jun's orders did not act too high-profile, and they also made arrangements secretly, asking the soldiers to prepare more rockets, only to wait until the evening, the barbarians came to rob the camp, and then greeted the thick-armored barbarians who made the Han army suffer a lot during the day.

Several soldiers of the Han army, carrying a large pot of oil, placed the oil in the open space in the barracks.

Other sergeants brought piles of linen.

Standing in front of the oil pot, the sergeants who brought the sackcloth soaked it in the oil pot, and then fished it out one by one, rolled it into a cylinder with a stick, and placed it on the ground beside it.

A lot of sackcloth soaked in oil was placed on the ground, and another group of soldiers soon came up, packed the sackcloth into wooden barrels, and carried them towards the soldiers in the barracks.

After receiving sackcloth, the soldiers wrapped them around the clusters of arrows, and inserted them into the quiver one by one, until evening, to deal with the barbarians who might come to rob the camp.

Wrapping sackcloth around the cluster of arrows, a Han soldier whispered to another soldier beside him, "Hey, you say, will the barbarians come at night?" ”

"General Zhuge is in trouble, when did you go on a business trip?" The Han army, who was questioned by him, pursed his lips, and while tying sackcloth to the arrowhead, he whispered: "The general said that the barbarians will come, and presumably they will come!" ”

"If the barbarians come, it will be refreshing to kill with real knives and real guns!" Wrapped in linen, the soldier who spoke first said with a bit of depression in his tone: "We all use strong crossbows, and we can only watch the barbarians being shot, and it's boring to think about it!" ”

"Boring?" The soldiers on the side listened to what he said, turned their heads to look at him, and said with a surprised expression: "Didn't you see that General Xu led his brothers to kill the barbarians in the morning, and fought with the barbarians, but our brothers suffered a lot of losses, but the barbarians only died a few, and many of them were killed by General Xu!" ”

"Yes!" Waving his hand, the Han soldier who spoke first said: "I'm just talking, who doesn't know, it's much better to shoot barbarians with rockets than to fight with them." ”

In the Han army camp, the soldiers hid in the camp tents, wrapped in oil-soaked linen cloth on the arrows, and the barbarian garrison on the opposite side of the river bank, the three thousand rattan armor soldiers were not idle.

The armor worn by the rattan armor soldiers is made of hundred-year-old rattan.

The vines themselves are very tough, and after weaving the rattan armor, these armors must be soaked in tung oil for 7749 days, and finally taken out to dry before they can be made into a set of rattan armor.

The rattan armor made of rattan is not just used without maintenance.

After every battle, the rattan armor soldiers must use tung oil to replenish the oil on the armor, so as to avoid long-term collisions, tung oil falling off or vines loosening quickly, resulting in poor armor protection performance.

One by one, the barbarian rattan armor soldiers sat a little far away from the many barbarians, spreading the rattan armor on the ground and carefully replenishing the oil.

They had already received orders to follow the Golden Ring Sanjie across the river in front of them and attack the Han army camp in the evening.

The reason why they didn't sit with ordinary barbarians was because the rattan armor soldiers were all warriors carefully selected by the barbarians, and they were born with a sense of superiority, which was different from other barbarians.