Rustling, rustling, a few rustling sounds from time to time in the dense grass, and though it was still the middle of the day, there were only strands of sunlight shining through the canopy of the trees in the gloomy jungle.

Even under this sporadic light, there is also a plant that keeps scurrying upward, crushing the companions around it, this is the porcupine jungle, the most primitive rainforest area.

And here is the three goals of this western expedition, located in the southwest of Xilin County, like a dazzling pearl embedded in the mountains of Nanzhu County.

Nanzhu County is located in the south of Shuchuan, is the southern Xinjiang in the southern Xinjiang, the geographical location is extremely remote, if the other northern Tusi Ling is considered to be a familiar barbarian, in some aspects has moved from the slave tribal system to the feudal feudal system, then located in Nanzhu County Porcupine Tusi Ling, but still maintains an out-and-out tribal system, but also the most primitive and barbaric tribal system.

Although the porcupine toast collar has also been divided, most of the same situation as other toast collars is that although the tribe that has been enshrined here is the largest tribe, this tribe has far less control over the other tribes in this territory than other toast collars, and it can even be said that the toast here often changes people.

The porcupine jungle occupies the northeast of Nanzhu County, occupying one-third of the entire county's area, occupied by a large number of water banyan trees and many thick trees that are resistant to humidity and high temperatures, and in this jungle, there is also a very large number of spirit beasts, porcupine beasts.

Porcupine beast, for the middle level of the spirit beast, adult male beast can reach a zhang Xu long, the front body is strong, the back half of the body is short, with the back of the bush of arrow bristles as a characteristic, this bristle is as hard as an iron arrow, sharp, porcupine all parts are used as arrows, in addition, the skin of the porcupine is tough and difficult to hurt, fierce and untamable, in the jungle. Even dare to overlord tiger beasts in the mountains for a long and short time.

Another major feature of the porcupine is that it reproduces super fast, because it is omnivorous, whether it is meat. Porcupine eats grass or rotting matter, and an adult female can give birth to eight to twelve cubs at a time, and despite the harsh environment of the jungle, she only has a one-third survival rate, while a female gives birth almost every two or three years.

Such a frequent, high-yielding reproductive trait appears on a mid-tier spirit animal. But the danger of this porcupine jungle has increased exponentially, but the danger of the porcupine beast is not low, but it is the most precious delicacy in the human mouth, and a piece of meat on the back of the porcupine is called golden meat, which is a classic on the table of the wealthy nobles.

Every year, this jungle attracts some adventurers to poach, and some nearby tribes also rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. Relying on water to draft, hunting live porcupine beasts and transporting them to Shuzhong, and even farther to Chu. Yang, Qing and other states.

Hmph, the soft but flexible long nose of the porcupine arches around the ground, searching for food buried under the ground, their flexible snouts can arch out the seeds of the meat worms buried in the ground for more than a foot, and then swallow them into their stomachs, and the porcupine spends about half of the day looking for food.

This is a typical family of porcupine beasts, with two large heads, one male and one female. In addition, there were six cute little porcupines running back and forth around the two large porcupines, and suddenly, the male porcupines seemed to feel a hint of threat, and his small eyes looked towards a dark place.

With a snort, the tense porcupine suddenly arched its back. The bush of hard bristles on his back suddenly flew out like crossbow arrows, and disappeared into the darkness, and in the darkness, there was also a fire that lit up the darkness, and the sharp wolf's tooth arrows let out a screaming sound and brushed past these arrows with burning flames.

Aggressive, three clear sounds into the wood have not yet spread, it was covered by a burst of fire and cracking sound, and the violent explosion suddenly set off a cloud of fire, devouring the entire head of the porcupine beast, but the fur of the porcupine beast has formed a very thick layer of armor after years of accumulation of resin and mud, and the head of the porcupine is very hard, the arrow has momentum, but it has no success.

But this angered the male porcupine, and the thick hooves suddenly gouged through the soft ground, and rushed into the darkness like a bullfight, and the large, tonnage sword hogmons stepped into the air and fell into a large pit, although the pit was covered with sharp wooden thorns, it obviously had no effect, and all of them were crushed.

"Damn, the skin of this porcupine is hard enough, put the wood, and the fifth will set it on fire!" A person who appeared from the edge of the trap shouted loudly to the person on the head, and the next moment, a large bundle of firewood fell directly into the pit, and the fire-based earth spirit who was called the fifth raised his hand directly, and a large fireball gathered between his palms and threw it towards the pit.

Boom, there seems to be some combustible resin under the pit, and the flames swallowed the entire pit at once, and the porcupine pig that fell in the pit was suddenly roasted alive, and the screams were one after another, and the female porcupine not far away finally suppressed her anger after going around a few circles, and disappeared into the dense forest with the porcupine cubs.

The firelight illuminated the darkness around them, and also illuminated the few people near the trap clearly, judging from the style of the armor, it was the soldiers and horses belonging to the two forbidden armies, Le Yi's snow leopard horseman, and the spirit archers under Huang Zhong's command, there were seven of them, and two of them were not lightly injured.

"Damn, this forest is really a hell of a god, we've been lost here for seven or eight days, and we still can't find a way out!" one of the fire-based spirit archers grumbled as he swallowed his saliva as he looked at the pit that smelled of barbecue in the flames.

"Liu Neng, just complain a few words, although this forest is not small, but it is not so big, let's walk in one direction in the past seven or eight days, I guess it will be out of the forest soon!"

"Hey, I don't know what the situation is on the side of the brigade, I don't know if I have taken down the porcupine toast tribe!"

"Who knows, this forest is full of evil, except for noon this period of time there is no fog, other times, it is shrouded in fog, but unfortunately the pointing device in the hand is lost, otherwise it will not be so headless to walk!"

"Qin Lin, you kid is responsible for pointing out the direction, let's not go astray!"

"This shouldn't be, the sun is going east-west, I'm looking at it, we must be going north, but it's definitely a little biased from east to west!"

"Okay, let's get ready to eat, finally this forest is not short to eat and drink, let's take a step at a time!"

Just when they were lost in the forest, near an abrupt stone mountain, the conquest against the porcupine tribe was also in full swing, but this porcupine tribe was too cunning, and they ran away if they couldn't beat it, leaving their nests and scattering into the surrounding bamboo forests.

The sun shone on the sky above the Great Chu Army, warm and lazy, occupying this porcupine stone city for several days, but this battle was not won, and from the current situation, the situation is still a bit of a dilemma.

"In the past two days, nearly 1,000 people have lost contact with the army, and the barbarian general of the porcupine tribe seems to be a cunning guy, who has abandoned his lair and started a jungle guerrilla, it seems that this is planning to surround us here!"

Le Yi frowned a little embarrassed, no one thought that the situation would develop to this point, Le Yi led the snow leopard to successfully attack the porcupine stone city, completed the beheading, with the help of Huang Zhong's subordinates who came later, but it was a heavy blow to this porcupine tribe, but at the last moment, it was actually allowed to let some people from the porcupine tribe escape into the bamboo sea, but this is also a helpless thing.

They thought they were done, but they were only stationed in this mountain stone city for a day, and then they began to be attacked by these defeated porcupine barbarians, these barbarians rely on the ground to be familiar, but they are like flies, and if it is just those routs, in fact, it is not enough to be afraid, the key is that from the news transmitted back by the scouts around, the porcupine barbarians who appeared nearby are not only the porcupine toasts they attacked, but also other tribes living in this place.

Nanzhu County is foggy all year round, and there must be fog in the morning and evening, and this has brought them endless trouble, at this moment they seem to be transferred into a quagmire, some can't extricate themselves, although those barbarians have been killed a lot, but they are like leeks, cut a stubble and a stubble.

"Most of the missing scouts are scouts who go out, these scouts can't all die in battle, I think nine times out of ten they are lost in the fog, this damn place, our current situation is not very good, there is only a jungle road from here to the outside world, but this road is surrounded by ambushes, from the intelligence point of view, our follow-up soldiers and horses advance only more than ten miles a day, there are harassing porcupine barbarians everywhere, or there are groups of porcupine beasts, and the loss over there is not small!"

"What should we do now, the situation of this porcupine toast is more complicated than you think, if you don't want to find a way to deal with the current situation, let's just keep passive, it's better not to occupy this Nanzhu County!"

"I think it's better to tell Your Majesty about the current situation, and see how Your Majesty decides, the two of us are thinking about how to deal with these elusive porcupine barbarians!"

"If you confront it head-on, then don't say anything, now these porcupine barbarians are in a group of 100 people, dozens of people in a bunch, we send fewer people, it is easy to be run away, there are more people sent, but we can't take care of the front and back, and the most important thing is that we are not familiar with this, it is easy to fall for the other party's calculations!"

"So we have to find a way to get this group of barbarians together, and it's right under our noses!" Huang Zhong groaned.

When Le Yi heard this, he raised his head and said, "Oh, have you thought of a way?"

"You said that if we take the initiative to give up here and go north, do you think these barbarians will come back here!"

Hearing this, Le Yi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Wonderful, this stone mountain is a rare sunny place in the nearby sea, the most suitable for tribal groups, the other party will definitely not abandon it, if we evacuate, they will definitely move back, hehe, let's kill him again when the time comes!"