The three of them were put back together by Nan Ye and fled back to the silver pit of the old nest overnight. The silver pit cave is close to the three rivers city, and the three rivers outside the hole are: Lushui, Gannan water, Xicheng water, and the three roads of water converge, so it is called the three rivers.

More than 300 miles north of Yinkengdong, the terrain is flat, the soil is fertile, and the yield is 10,000,000. There are salt wells in the west of the cave for 200 miles, and the salt produced from the wells is all obtained by Meng, and there is a lot of money every year. There is a mountain in the south of the cave for 300 miles, and the silver mine comes out of the mountain, so it is called Yinkeng Mountain, and the silver mine on the mountain is also owned by Meng Shu.

On the surface, Meng Huo's nest is in the Yinkeng Cave, but in fact, Meng Huo's foundation is on the Yinkeng Mountain. There is also a hole on Yinkeng Mountain, called Liangdu Cave, with a built-in palace platform, which is the real lair of Meng Huo, and the so-called three caves of cunning rabbits are nothing more than that.

The customs in the Meng Won Cave are very different from those in the Central Plains, and an ancestral temple is built in the cave, which is called "home ghost". At four o'clock, the cattle and horses are slaughtered and sacrificed, called "divination ghosts", and if there are prisoners of war, they will be sacrificed to live people. There are people in the cave who are sick and refuse to take medicine, but only pray to the sorcerer, named "medicine ghost". The criminal law used in the cave is impermanent, and it all depends on the words of Meng Shu and the clan elders, and those who are spared for major crimes and those who are beheaded for minor crimes.

If a local barbarian grows up to be a woman, it is convenient for him to bathe in the stream, and unmarried men can also bathe together. Men and women are confused, let them mate themselves, and parents can't help it, called "learning art". If the wind and rain are favorable, then plant rice, and if there is a disaster, the rice is not ripe, then kill the snake for soup, and cook the elephant for rice. On the first and fifteenth days of each month, they are all bought and sold in Sanjiang City, and the customs are like this.

Meng Shu returned to the cave to gather the clan party to discuss: "Zhu Rongdong Dong and his wife colluded with the Han Wang Hua and harmed our people. I have been humiliated many times in wars with it, and I will not avenge this revenge, and I will not be a man. What do you think? ”

King Duosi said: "There is a Ba Na Cave in the southwest, and the cave master, King Mulu, is deeply versed in spells. When you go out, you can ride an elephant, you can call the wind and rain, and you often have tigers, leopards, jackals, poisonous snakes and scorpions to follow. There are tens of thousands of divine soldiers under his command, who are very heroic. The king can repair a book, prepare more gifts, and ask for it from a certain relative. If this person agrees, Wang Hua is not afraid! ”

Meng was overjoyed when he heard this, so he ordered King Duosi to invite King Mulu, and ordered Meng You to guard the Yinkeng Cave and retreat to the Liangdu Cave of Yinkeng Mountain by himself.

However, it was said that Nan Ye commanded the troops outside the Yinkeng Cave, only to see that the cave was facing the river on three sides, and only one side was open to the dry road, and the terrain was very dangerous. Nan Ye ordered Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong to be the vanguard, and led 10,000 barbarians to make a feint attack from the dry road.

Meng You saw Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong coming to attack and did not come out of the hole to face the battle, but only shot arrows in the hole. The people in the cave learn more bows and crossbows, and poison is used on the arrows, once the arrows are hit, the skin and flesh are rotten, and the death is very miserable.

Although the barbarian soldiers led by Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong were brave, their armor was shabby, and it was difficult to resist the rain of arrows. After a burst of poisoned arrows, hundreds of people died of poisoning, and morale plummeted. Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong couldn't win, so they went back to Nan Ye and learned about the poisonous arrows.

Nan Ye's least favorite thing to fight was siege warfare, and he directly threw the problem to Xu Shu. After Xu Shu personally led the troops to visit outside the Yinkeng Cave, he returned to the camp and ordered the soldiers and horses to retreat several miles to the village.

When Meng You and the barbarians in the cave saw Nan Ye retreating, they all celebrated, but Nan Ye retreated timidly. Meng You didn't pursue either, just waited for the King of Mulu to come and send troops together. Seeing that there were no enemy troops outside the cave, the barbarians slept peacefully at night and no longer patrolled the camp to investigate.

After Xu Shu retreated, he ordered the barbarians to disguise themselves as local people and enter Sanjiang City to trade. The Sanjiang City is Liu Zhang's territory, and neither the Dongzhai barbarians nor the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau are allowed to enter the city, so they can only pretend to be ordinary people to enter the city to trade. Xu Shu also did not buy anything else, and asked the barbarians to buy cloth, clothing, needlework and other things.

Nan Ye and the generals didn't know what Xu Shu's idea was, Hua Bei couldn't help but ask Xu Shu: "At this time, the heat is unbearable, and the clothes are difficult, what is Wang Darttou doing to buy clothes?" Could it be that clothes are used instead of armor to defend against arrows? ”

Xu Shu shook his head and smiled: "Definitely! These fabrics have their own uses. ”

Everyone saw that Xu Shu didn't say anything, so they stopped inquiring, and for several days, a lot of cloth had accumulated in the camp, and the price of cloth in Sanjiang City skyrocketed. Xu Shu saw that the cloth was complete, so he ordered the barbarians to return, and he did not practice all day, so he asked the barbarians to sew cloth bags with fabrics, and the size and specifications were fixed, each person must sew, the stitches must be dense, and the violators will be beheaded.

As soon as the military order came out, the barbarians in the battalion complained bitterly. These brutes are usually very rude, their fingers are like small carrots, and they have never done needlework. It's okay to let them go into battle, but it's hard for them to do needlework. However, the boss had an order, and the barbarians did not dare to disobey, and tens of thousands of cloth bags were sewn in two days, and there was still a surplus of one manpower.

On this day, a light breeze suddenly rose at dusk, and dark clouds obscured the moon. Xu Shu suddenly ordered: "Each soldier should use the sewn cloth bag to fill a bag of soil, and the time limit is one hour, and those who are not satisfied with the cloth bag will be immediately beheaded." ”

Although the army did not know its intentions, they still prepared according to the order. An hour later, tens of thousands of soldiers each had a sack of loess and gathered in the camp. Xu Shu also ordered: "All the armies on the kang are on the soil bags, and they all converge in front of the silver pit. Those who arrive first will be rewarded, and those who alarm the defenders will be killed. ”

When all the troops heard the order, they all resisted the soil bag and rushed to the silver pit. At this time, Nan Ye and the generals understood Xu Shu's plan, and they all applauded and went to the silver pit cave together.

The barbarian soldiers in the cave did not guard against the return of Nanye's army, and they all slept peacefully in the cave. Xu Shu gave an order and ordered the soldiers to accumulate soil for the road. So tens of thousands of barbarians threw the soil bags they resisted under the silver pit. The walls of the silver pit were much lower than the walls. For a time, the soil accumulated into a mountain, and the wall was built one after another.

Nan Ye gave an order, and the camp under his command was the vanguard, leading the barbarians to cross the wall and kill them separately, and capture the sleeping Dongding one by one. The rest abandoned the cave and left, and Meng You also took advantage of the chaos to escape. Nan Ye took the silver pit and rewarded the three armies with the gold and silver treasures obtained in the cave, and the whole army was happy.

Meng You led the remnants of the defeated army to see Meng Yu and cried: "The silver pit hole has been lost, and more than half of the soldiers in the cave have been killed or wounded. ”

Meng was shocked when he heard this, and before he could come back to his senses, a dongding came to report: "Wang Hua's army has crossed the river and is now camped in front of Liangdu Cave." ”

Hearing the report, Meng Shu suddenly felt that the situation was worse, and in a panic, another cave came to report: "King Duosi has brought King Mulu, the lord of the Ba Na Cave, to arrive." ”

Meng was overjoyed when he heard this, and said to Meng You: "The two kings are really the ones who send charcoal in the snow!" After that, he immediately went out of the cave to greet him.

When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, Meng Huo and Meng You were all surprised. I saw that the king of Mulu was riding a white elephant, three points taller than ordinary elephants, wearing gold beads, two large knives hanging from his waist, a string of human bone necklaces around his neck, and a skull hanging on his chest. Behind the King of Mulu was followed by a group of barbarian soldiers, each leading tigers, leopards and jackals, and there were thousands of people. The barbarians in Meng Huo's cave dodged when they saw everything, and their faces were as frightened as dirt.

Seeing that Meng was welcomed, King Duosi hurriedly introduced King Mulu. Meng Shu stepped forward to greet him and told how he was humiliated by taking his wife, and how he was captured and lost to the cave five times.

After hearing this, King Mulu nodded and said, "King Meng Huo doesn't have to worry, I will help you take revenge and capture that Wang Hua." It's just that I don't know how to thank me after the king's revenge is avenged? ”