The Nanlin Mountains stretch for more than a hundred miles, connecting the Anling Mountains of Muyun Prefecture to the east and the barbarian desert to the west. They form an inverted arc shape, perfectly wrapping the entire Shu Prefecture within it. This is also the reason why the Xu family army faced many difficulties when they entered Shu.
If it were not for Dou Tong's help to enter southern Sichuan first and then attack the Banan Pass, it might not be possible to take control of Shuzhou until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
At present, Dongfang Jing's plan to drive away guests is already clear.
Drive these tiger barbarians out of the Nanlin Mountains, and then build walls and fortresses in the narrow valleys. In the years to come, the expelled tiger barbarians will no longer be allowed to enter Shuzhou.
There are tiger barbarians in the thirteen counties of Shuzhou. Even if Xu Mu wants to do something, he must take the harm caused by the tiger barbarians into consideration.
This feeling is extremely uncomfortable.
"Ma Yi, lead the Liennu Battalion and cooperate with the friendly forces to surround the Human and drive them out of Shuzhou."
There are not many generals.
Chen Zhong guards Yuguan. Fan Lu stayed in Bailu County and helped Dou Tong train the navy. Chai Zong stayed in western Shu as Yu Wen's deputy general. For example, if Yu Wen went on an expedition, Chai Zong would be in charge of military affairs this time.
Wei Feng cannot move. In the future, he will definitely become a general of the cavalry army. Several of Zhou Zun's previous horsemen had begun to help manage the mining and horse farms as they grew up.
Chen Sheng is the logistics commander.
Xu Mu has already made plans to promote several younger generals of the Xu family army. And Ma Yi is among them.
"Don't worry, my lord, you will live up to your orders!" After receiving the order, Ma Yi clasped his fists high.
"Let's go."
To avoid accidents, Xu Mu still left 5,000 people to stay at the base camp. The rest were all assigned.
Four thousand-man virtual armies, with the help of war drums, frightened many tiger barbarians who were rushing east and west in a panic and retreated again. They had no choice but to follow the fleeing people all the way north.
"It's a success." Dongfang Jing rarely smiled.
Xu Mu also relaxed slightly.
Don't look at this journey, it seems to be smooth sailing. But in reality, out of the more than 200,000 tiger barbarians, there are still as many as 170,000 to 170,000 to 80,000. Even if we just had a huge victory on the back of the mountain in the south, only 20,000 to 30,000 tiger barbarians were killed.
Xu Mu suddenly understood a truth, blocking is worse than spreading out. Even if only a few tens of thousands of the more than 200,000 tiger barbarians were left to flee and stay in Shuzhou, it would be a disaster after all.
But the expulsion from the Nanlin Mountains has a different meaning.
"I dare to ask my lord, how is the terrain near Nanlin?"
"Of course it's good."
Although the land under the Nanlin Mountains is not as good as in central Sichuan, it is not too barren. It is close to water and bathed in light. After the wasteland is opened, it can really become a land for rice cultivation.
"Bolie's previous intention was for me to establish another county under the Nanlin Mountains."
"Exactly. War depends on nothing more than excellent weapons and armor and abundant food and grass. If these two things are available, coupled with the lord's literary, Taoist and military strategies, there is no need to worry about great things happening."
"Bolie, you have been in Shuzhou for a long time, have you ever heard of where there is a saltpeter mine?"
"Saltpeter mine?"
Dongfang Jing pondered for a while, "My lord may not know that a hundred years ago, Emperor Ji Xuan, who built the Cloud Tower, was obsessed with refining elixirs in order to seek eternal life, and recruited thousands of elixirs. He also sent people everywhere to dig many saltpeter mines, so that Make alchemy."
"There aren't many of these left."
"However, if I guess, there should be things like iron ore in the Nanlin Mountains. The weapons of the tiger barbarians come from them."
"Bolie, you and I want to go together."
Dongfang Jing smiled and said, "My lord, don't be anxious. If the pacification of the tiger barbarians goes smoothly, my lord will start to truly accumulate food and forge weapons."
This step is what Xu Mu wants.
Starting from a humble beginning, he fell far behind in the end.
Unlike Chang Shiro, I guess he already has the support of many aristocratic families.
Unlike Dong Wen, although it is a bit strange to be able to ascend to the throne and become the king of Liangzhou, he is the son of the royal family after all.
Of course, heroes don’t care about their origins. It doesn't make much sense to be obsessed with these things. The only thing we can do is to secretly accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity to take off.
"My boss, my boss, Brother Tiger has all been led to the north!" Gong Gou hurried over, his voice filled with joy.
Xu Mu nodded, turned around and smiled, "Bolie, as you said, the plan is done."
After expelling the tiger barbarians and stabilizing Shuzhou, it is time to stand on a high place and overlook the situation in the world.
"This chaotic world is just like the changing winds and clouds in the sky. No matter how dark or clear the clouds are, if you can't persevere until the end, they will eventually disappear."
"That makes sense."
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"Surround! Surround!"
High up in the Nanlin Mountains, in all directions, there are the roars of war drums and Shu soldiers.
The hungry and cold tiger barbarians were furious, but they were like scattered sand, and they were temporarily defeated.
"How many Shu troops?" An older Human Cave Master kept looking around with his eyes wide open.
"Master of the Cave, the entire Nanlin Mountains are surrounded by Shu troops! There may be 100,000 of them!"
"Some slaves investigated and found out that King Xu Shu had an army of one hundred thousand to attack our tiger barbarian tribe."
The faces of several cave masters gathered around were all pale.
"If spring comes and the tribe is not short of food, how can it lose to the Shu people?"
"We can't get any rice during the autumn raid!"
"The Shu people also poisoned it."
"Even the skull of my tiger god's warrior was snatched away by a fool! Eight more were broken into pieces!"
"First chase that idiot and snatch, snatch back the totem!"
Under the leadership of several cave masters, the tiger barbarians were like a pile of scattered sand. They didn't care at all and followed them to the north.
Hachihachi.
Si Hu covered his head and was panting while running.
In his arms, there were only three warrior bones left, one of which was half broken.
"Brother Tiger, get ready to get to the edge!" After Meng Huo finished speaking, he also started to say "Hachihachi".
"The army behind is about to surround these tigers and barbarians!"
"Xiao Menghuo, what about these things?"
"Brother Tiger, take it first - Hey, Brother Tiger is injured?"
Si Hu's face looked horrified, and he immediately raised his hands and kept checking up and down. When he found out that it was just a cut by a dead branch, he laughed again.
Pong, pong.
"Brother Tiger...those skulls."
Si Hu was startled, then lowered his head and saw that the skulls of the last three tiger barbarian warriors were completely shattered.
Somewhere behind, the tiger barbarian who was a little tired from chasing him paused for a moment. Seeing this scene, his eyes immediately turned red again. He screamed a few times crazily and rushed towards him desperately. A flying ax was thrown behind him with a roar.
"Brother Tiger, you look like a fool!" Meng Huo cursed and immediately started running with "Ha Chi Ha Chi".
Pingmanying, who was following the escort, glanced at Si Hu, his face was speechless, and he hurriedly followed.
"Run to the mountain road and lure the tiger barbarian dog out of the southern forest!"
Mrs. Luan Yu ran very fast and passed by Si Hu. She couldn't help but knocked down a chestnut.
Si Hu screamed, covered his head and started chattering, shouting greetings as he ran.
Like a rising tide, more and more tiger barbarians gathered. The crazy roar resounded throughout the entire mountain forest. Accompanied by the war drums of the Shu army behind them, as well as the military chants.
"Wai!"
"Wai!!"
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