Late at night, Zhou Yu couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, thinking about what he had negotiated with Samanda during the day. Cheche people have always been known for their skillful handicrafts, especially the use of animal leather to make armor. At the fair, traders from the surrounding tribes buy large quantities of cloth and handmade leather armor.

Zhou Yu thought that the three Dai Taimeng corpses that were pulled back could not be wasted, except for the three huge snake heads sacrificed in the cave behind, the other parts of the body must be used. Since the hard shell of this monster was as hard as iron, it was most suitable to be used to make a shield, but how to cut and sew it was difficult for the Duke.

They said that if they soaked the leather armor in a purple liquid made from the corpses of sandworms, it would soften in less than a day, and it could be cut into different shapes within three days, but it was limited to cutting, and the hardness of the blue armor was too strong for no animal bone to penetrate, and it was impossible to sew it into armor. Zhou Yuzhi is proud, as long as it is made into a shield, it must be a treasure.

By the light, the Governor looked at the map. The lighting here is very interesting, in addition to the use of fire lighting, the lighting in the palace and the houses is made of a kind of animal bladder polished and thinly fitted with the kind of thing called sandworms just mentioned, this insect lives in groups in the swamp mud on the edge of the oasis, and the males will glow from birth to death, which is best used as lanterns. The female has some kind of acid in her belly, which is mashed up and can be used to acidify the hard skin and bone armor.

According to the map depiction, the Cheche tribe should be located in the hinterland of the Kuzsia continent, and to the east, according to the scale, it should be about 500 kilometers to reach the seaside, the west and south are endless yellow sand, and if you advance to the north, there will be more and more oases, and the land will become narrower and narrower, and finally it will lead to the city of Slaughter Dreams. Contrary to what the Metropolitan Governor thought, the core of Kuzsia was not in the oasis that led to Dream Slaughter City, but in the western part of the continent. Further west to the west, it is black on the map, and there are two words written on it in common script, "burning", which most of the governors do not understand.

Eyes focused on the Cheche tribe, there are three tribes. One is called the Tutu tribe, which is the closest to here, and the robber tribe in the chariot population, they never farm, nor engage in manual production, both men and women are robbers, and all food and clothing are obtained by plunder. An oasis is drawn on the location of the Tutu tribe, and something resembling a crocodile, marked as a sand crocodile, and a weight.

A little further away is called the Kaman tribe, which has the most oases and the largest tribe nearby, I heard Bellman say that the Kaman tribe is the best at kiln burning and building, and it is famous in Kuzsia, and the palaces of the Catcher City and even the palaces of the Coachmen were built by the Kamans, including the impregnable underground vault and the ingenious waterwheel. Not far from their location, there are stone mountains and a swamp of fog, and the labels are reptiles and maids. What does this maid mean? The Governor couldn't figure it out.

The farthest tribe is called the Kankun tribe, and Tuda has only heard it mentioned once, and according to the location drawn on the map, this should be the location. Tuda said that the Kankun people like to do business, and they are one of the few relatively wealthy tribes on the Kuzsia continent, and as long as there are tribes and markets, there are Kankun people, and they barter for profit, from clay pots to blue slaves, they can buy and sell everything. A flower and a rhinoceros were painted in their place, marked with drunken flowers and fleshy.

Within three days, the girls of the Cheche clan carried out five hundred shields as scheduled, all of them were blue and blue, reflecting a breathtaking fierceness in the sun. According to the Governor's design, the shield was wedged into the teeth of the cliff and tied with a belt, which could easily be hooked on the forearm. The Metropolitan Governor was very happy, and he picked up a side and put it on his right arm, opened his stance, and walked steadily.

"Blue Vanguard!" The Governor shouted.

"In!" Lan Yu drank.

"Here, slash me with an axe!" Zhou Yu hooked his left index finger.

Lan Yu's heart was raised, and he strode over with an axe.

"What the Metropolitan Governor said is true?"

"What nonsense, if you are told to hack, you will split."

"Lan's axe has split more than ten city gates, so what is the stone of Mount Tai? The axe is instantly powdered. Lan Yu emphasized again.

"If you kill me, make you the Grand Duke. If you can't kill me, let me ride you around the stockade three times! Zhou Yu said with a smile.

"Haha, that's no blame for Lan Mou--dang!" With a loud bang, Lan Yu slashed down the axe from top to bottom with the momentum of thunder, and with his extraordinary strength and the weight of the axe itself, he struck the shield impartially. Most of the governors have to admit that Lan Yu is indeed a fierce general, and the fierce general's brother is also. This axe came down, although it was separated by a shield, but the shock and waves of the capital were tumbling and the blood was rolling, and breakfast was in his throat. He rubbed his stomach and raised his hand to look at the shield, there was not even a mark, and he was indeed a good fellow. Lan Yu was extremely surprised, there were very few people in the world who could catch his full strength with an axe, and he looked at the axe a little curly, and the blue shield didn't know what it was made of, it was a little hard and terrifying.

"Come again!" Zhou Yu drank.

"The Metropolitan Governor takes over!" Sapphire strode up again, holding an axe in each hand.

"When-when-" two crisp sounds in a row. It took five or six steps for the Metropolitan Governor to stand still, and it was obvious that Lan Yu had used the strength to eat.

"What's wrong with not eating? Again! “

"When-when-"

The crowd of onlookers applauded one after another, some applauded Lan Yu's bravery, and more applauded for this unique material shield. After playing for a while, Zhou Yu shouted Tuda, Bellman, Lu Bu, Hattori Hanzo, and Xue Rengui to play, and the group of people were still childlike and had a lot of fun. The Governor took off his shield, threw it on the ground, and sat on the stone bench, panting for breath.

At this time, Lan Yu walked over with a slightly embarrassed expression, he turned around and half-squatted, and said to Zhou Yu with his buttocks: "I lost, come on, the Metropolitan Governor, please get on the horse!" “

Zhou Yu stood up with a smile, kicked him on the buttocks, kicked Lan Yu on his stomach, and scolded with a smile: "Ride you? Lao Tzu doesn't ride the masters, you don't panic, I'm panicked! A group of lewd laughter came from all around.

Zhou Yu hugged the lively Bellman and asked, "What about your mother?" “

"Whoa! Discuss with Aunt Sally and the Elders! “

"Oh!" Zhou Yu looked thoughtful, and he didn't know how he discussed the trading car with Samanda. Just thinking about this, Princess An Le came to the Metropolitan Governor, saying that there were some lingua franca problems to ask for advice. The two of them talked again, talking and laughing.

After a while, Samanda walked over quickly, pulled Zhou Yu aside, looked at the people around her and saw that they were all away from a safe distance, and said, "We agree to the proposal you said, but there are three conditions. “

Three conditions, why don't you say thirty conditions, the lion opened his mouth. Zhou Yu grinned and said, "Say, let me hear how you bargain?" I can tell you, I'm a tin mouse glass cat, don't fight with the tiger! “

"First, we agreed to borrow troops, but not five hundred, we can only borrow three hundred. In the event of a failed attack, we must have enough defenses. “

"Well, go on."

"Second, it is not a dream to fight Tu Tu people, Tu Tu people are numerous, flexible and good at fighting, even if they win, it is a disastrous victory. So in terms of benefit distribution, I have seven and you have three. “

"What else?"

"Third, Bellman and I are going to fight."

"Gone?" The Grand Governor frowned and looked at Samanda with a solemn expression.

"Okay, I'll tell you about it. First, I disagree. The ratio of siege warfare is generally ten to one to be sure, and the Tu Tu people, whether they are passers-by, A, B, C, or D, are all other guys on the waist and I are desperate masters, not to mention that there must be a thousand militiamen, right? You give me 300 men, how can I fight? Why don't you just let me die. Besides, this battle must be won, and if you don't succeed, will you be able to keep 200 men here? You can only become a benevolent here, and you may get an adult stick. Therefore, it must be killed and KO! “

"Second, I disagree. If you win and eliminate the Tu Tu people, who do you think is the most credit? Is that you? If it's been thousands of years, why haven't you beaten someone? So, you have to admit that you are cowardly, you have to admit that you are weak, right? What's wrong with a girl's family, being a little weaker? There is no shame. Thirty-seven points? Then you're scolding me, five-five, don't talk about it for a penny less. “

"Third, I still don't agree. When you and Samanda appear on the battlefield, you give each other a target according to the map, which is equivalent to invisibly playing two big targets, and the Tu Tu people will attack you with all their might, and the Che Che Warrior is bound to throw a rat and be timid, distracting a lot. So, no! However, I feel that Bellman needs to participate in this battle to train himself. If he is ready, and follows me with his face and does not act on his own, I can take him with me. “

"Scoundrels, scum, the god of the desert will punish you!" When Samanda heard the end, tears couldn't stop rolling in her eyes, and she cursed Zhou Yu viciously.

"Alright, save it. I only knelt down to my dad, but unfortunately he wasn't here. “

The Grand Governor turned his head, he guessed that Samanda must have consulted the Council of Elders, and her bottom line was the bottom line of negotiations. It's just that for the sake of her own people, she just wanted to fight for more, but she was seen through by the majority of the governors, and completely denied it, and everything was formulated according to what he proposed. This deal, in fact, is a gamble.

Samanda looked at the back of the bad guy, stomped the ground, and ran away with tears in her eyes. Fan Er watched from the side, widened his eyes and said to Lu Bu: "Lord Lu, isn't this courtship a stomping of feet?" Is it okay to stomp on the ground without stomping your feet? “

"Don't mention it, my feet hurt again...

Soon it was the day when the army set off, and the people of the Heaven Shaking Alliance and the chariot people who participated in the battle were all lined up outside the city, holding weapons and blue shields one by one. The Governor looked back and saw that at the head of the send-off procession were Samanda and Princess An Le, who was the only one of his specially authorized army who was not allowed to participate in the battle, for the same reason as Samanda.

There are still people pouring out of the city gates, all of them are old, weak, sick and women, their eyes are mixed with many complicated things, most of them can read the following: parting, death, revenge, family affection, love, dignity, etc., there are many more that cannot be read, one of which is called freedom. The Grand Governor had never thought of this, because he had not been free long enough, these people had been lost for too long.

"Give the order, Grand Duke!" Gao Yang came to urge him.

"Let's go!" The Governor didn't leave a word, and the word "departure" was also shouted towards the desert.

"Governor, is life always so painful? Or was it only when I was a kid? Bellman asked, looking at his mother, who was standing alone in the sandstorm.

"Always."

At nightfall, when the army was still ten miles away from the Tutu tribe, the governor ordered the advance to stop. He asked Hattori Hanzo and Tuda to go with him to investigate, and the three cats were behind a sand dune a hundred meters from the walled city, looking out in the moonlight. Tutu Walled City is twice as large as Cheche Walled City, but it does not let down its guard because of its size, and the guards in front of the city gate and on the building gate are very tight, with the help of hundreds of torches illuminating it, you can see that there is a sentry post every few steps on the towering stone wall, and there are many shadows inside, as if someone is moving.

"Let's go, let's go and have a look in the back!" The Grand Governor whispered.

The three of them went around to the back of the stockade from a safe distance that could not be identified by the naked eye, and what was surprising was that behind the stockade was a huge circular sand pit, which was more than ten zhang deep. If you want to climb into the city, you must go down the pit, which is five or six stories high from the bottom of the pit to the wall, which cannot be crossed by the current technical ability of the army. The Metropolitan Governor stood on the edge of the pit and looked inside, Huo! Good fellow, scared him. There were thousands of pairs of scarlet eyes blinking, and it seemed to be a horde of some inexplicably terrifying creature.

"What is this, Tuda?"

"This is the sand crocodile, a kind of mount raised by Tu Tu, on which he walks in the sand as if he were walking on the ground." Tuda replied in the affirmative.

"Oh ... That's it! “

"Well, the Tu Tu people rely entirely on this thing for their rampant dominance in a radius of hundreds of miles, and it stands to reason that their strength and tactical play are not much stronger than ours. It is said that only Tu Tu people know how to raise and breed this sand crocodile, and other tribes can't feed it even if they catch a small amount. “

"These thousands of big guys, you have a lot of feed for a day!" The Governor muttered to himself thoughtfully.

"Let's go, retreat first, go back and talk!" The Metropolitan Governor patted Hattori Hanzo.

Returning to the camp, the Metropolitan Governor brought the known situation to the four rotating chiefs and the two generals, and Bai Qi suggested sending a small force to make a feint attack from the front to attract the enemy's main force out of the city, and ambush the soldiers around the low-lying basin outside the city to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop. Tuda disagreed, saying that he had fought many battles with the Tu Tu people, and that their attack on the backs of the sand crocodiles was very strong, especially in open terrain, and the infantry could not resist the onslaught of the sand crocodiles, and at most they would lose the city in two or three rounds.

Zhang Xianzhong suggested that a combination of shields and bows and arrows should be adopted to surround the Tutu tribe, surround but not fight, and fight a protracted war. This suggestion was also rejected on the spot, because our supplies were far inferior to others, so we starved ourselves to death first, and they closed the door and had a party inside.

This is not good, that is not appropriate, and all the military generals present also fell into deep thought. After all, this is not a battle on the terrain and topography of the Central Plains that they are good at, nor is it the command and dispatch of tens of thousands of infantry battalions and cavalry battalions at every turn, let alone any political considerations, and some are how to annihilate the enemy in the depths of the desert under the premise that their own forces do not have an advantage. Zhou Yu's gaze looked around and stayed on Xue Rengui.

"Xiao Xue, what do you think?"

"The last general thinks that this battle has its own advantages and disadvantages. The enemy has many soldiers and we have few soldiers, which is one of its advantages; The enemy is good at riding and shooting, and I am not good at it, which is the second advantage; The enemy has no shortage of supplies to defend it, which is the third advantage. On the other hand, its disadvantages are that it has many soldiers, but they are all rabble, horse thieves and the like, and many and useless are redundant; He is good at riding and shooting, and I have a good shield to dissipate its edge, and if the battlefield is advanced to the enemy camp, and the encounter is turned into a street battle, it is difficult for the cavalry to exert its impact, and the odds of victory are greatly increased; Third, the enemy is not short of supplies, but supplies are also his weakness and can be put to good use. “

"Good! Very good! “

"Hattori listens!"

"In!"

"You quickly infiltrated the enemy camp, set fire to the grain and grass concentration and barracks, and then hid near the enemy base camp to receive the army into the city."

"Order!"

"Lan Yu obeys orders!"

"The last general!"

"With a hundred elite soldiers, you will quickly attack the city gate after the fire, destroy the city gate fortifications, but do not fall into battle, and quickly retreat when the enemy soldiers gather and counterattack, and lead the main enemy army out of the city."

"Yes!"

"Xue Rengui listens to orders!"

"The last general!"

"I order you to be the commander of the vanguard army for this battle, and lead all the rest of the troops. After the main force of the enemy army left the city, it quickly entered the city from the fortifications heavily damaged by General Lan, occupied the commanding heights and the key points in the wall, and prepared to fight to the death against the enemy troops who returned to the city. “

"Order!"

"Lord Ran, this battle is dangerous. You and several adults, Taishi, Director Shi, and Commander Liu are here in case of emergency, and if there is an unexpected situation that does not meet people's wishes, it is good to have a corresponding deployment. “

"Good!"

"Let's go!" The Metropolitan Governor did not say a word, and directly commanded the army to march towards the Tutu tribe.