Dianchi Lake, Yong Mansion mansion.
"Come on, do it, hahaha!" Yong Kai toasted a man in strange attire opposite him.
The middle-aged man had various long chicken feathers on his head. He was wearing a short coat and a wide felt shirt. He was barefoot and had a monkey sitting on his shoulders...
The monkey was deftly peeling a nut. After peeling the shell, he blew on it and then brought it to the man's mouth.
The man chewed the nuts and picked up the wine cup: "You also invite, let's invite together."
The wording and intonation of Chinese are very strange, but it is not easy to understand and speak it.
"King Ci Tu, I can't thank Yong enough for your family's help this time, haha." Yong Kai put down his wine cup and said with a smile, "After defeating the Han army, I, the Yong family, will give you the best land in Kunming. , pasture.”
This man is the King of Kunming - King Pu Citu.
Yong Kai never mentioned the fact that his main force had been destroyed, and began to paint a picture of the King of Kunming.
In fact, he is short of time now. The Yong family is very rich. As long as he can have more time, it will not be difficult to raise an army of ten thousand people after he has exhausted it.
When Meng Huo heard this, he glanced at Yong Kai and said nothing.
The Kunming clan was invited by his Meng family, and the relationship with his Meng family has been good for many years. Yong Kai wants to win over, but it can't be done with just a few empty words.
He was not worried about this, and even wanted to laugh a little.
Sure enough, King Pu Citu, who was dressed strangely, didn't buy Yong Kai's words.
"It doesn't matter what you say about this matter. I will discuss it with the Meng family after the beating."
The monkey sitting on his shoulder threw the nut shell in the direction of Yong Kai and clapped his hands, as if even the beast looked down upon him.
Puwang Citu, who didn't know how to speak tactfully, made Yong Kai very angry. But now the situation was stronger than others. His Yong family's power in Yizhou County was being uprooted with Liu Chan's massive attack.
People who have lost their strength and have no wealth are no different from fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered in this land.
"Brother Yong, King Citu is not good at Chinese and sometimes fails to express his ideas, so you don't have to be offended." Meng Huo pretended to reassure him.
In Nanzhong, it is very troublesome to reconcile the interests and conflicts between Han and Yi. There is still room for the Yong family to be used afterwards.
It was enough to use King Pu's words to give Yong Kai, who was acting like the Lord of the South, a little warning, so that he could understand the situation, and there was no need to completely break up.
The situation is still unclear, but this side seems to have a firm grasp on victory, and has even considered the distribution of benefits after the war.
However, even though Yong Kai said this, he only took the opportunity to find out the attitude of the Kunming people.
Yong Kai, who had been psychologically affected by the Han army, was not as relaxed and calm as he appeared.
"Uh... It's not strange, of course it's not strange." Yong Kai suppressed his anger, adjusted his expression, and said, "It's just that Liu Chan's soldiers are well-equipped and the generals are cunning. Can Kunze Xishan's layout... be able to stop them?"
"Hmph!" King Pu Citu snorted coldly and said proudly, "I, the Kunming Snake Controller, can enter the mountain alone and I can defeat thousands or ten thousand Han soldiers. If Liu Chan dares to cross here, the army will suffer heavy casualties."
Yong Kai felt a little unsure after listening to the unfluent Chinese.
Meng Huo also spoke at this time: "King Kunming's snake formation is very powerful. Anyone who has never seen it will suffer heavy losses when encountering it for the first time. Moreover, the morale of his soldiers will be greatly shattered when they see this formation for the first time.
"If he sets fire to the mountain, the opponent's army will also be blocked by the fire. Moreover...if there is a fire in Kunzexi Mountain, poisonous smoke will be emitted and the poisonous smoke will spread for miles. The Han army will be defeated without a fight!"
Yong Kai nodded, feeling relieved.
"Report——!"
While he was talking, someone came to report outside the door.
Yong Kai was so frightened that his heart trembled. Could it be that the Han army had broken through the snake formation...
"Master, there is a letter from Soochow from Jiaozhou. At the same time, I sent someone to deliver armored soldiers, bows and crossbows, which have now arrived outside the city."
"Oh?" After so long, Yong Kai finally heard the good news, "Bring the letter quickly!"
Yong Kai quickly browsed through the letter. In the letter, Sun Quan greatly praised his willingness to join the "imperial court" and said a lot of nice but useless commendation nonsense.
In the end, he said that Jiangdong would not treat him badly and offered him the position of prefect of Yongchang.
In the entire letter, not even a single word was mentioned about Lao Liu's group. Yong Kai was treated as a person who was willing to surrender to the Han Dynasty.
The reason why the person in the above list is Yongchang Prefect is because Wu Laoer handled this matter very arrogantly.
You see, if Yong Kai is willing to submit to the Han Dynasty, he does not necessarily have to submit to Liu Bei, the King of Hanzhong.
It was the same when he joined Sun Quan, my hussar general, because he was serving the imperial court.
Yongchang is located in the southwest of the south, with long distances and inconvenient transportation, and there is little communication with the Central Plains.
Even after the previous Yongchang governor died, there was still no appointment.
Boss Cao is too lazy to care about the affairs of the remote countryside, and it is not within his own sphere of influence.
But Lao Liu was busy attacking Hanzhong and put it on hold, so now there is no prefect in Yongchang County.
This just gave Wu Lao's second son, Sun Quan, a good vacancy. If Yong Kai was blatantly represented as another official position that Lao Liu had already appointed, he would definitely become enemies again.
Sun Quan, who had just lost a leg and lost an army in Jingzhou, did not want to have another conflict with Lao Liu.
In this way, it not only showed the acceptance of Yong Kai, but also did not break the armistice agreement. Even if Lao Liu showed the letter to Emperor Xian, he still couldn't find fault with Sun Quan.
As for the fight between you two, that is your business. What does it have to do with me, Jiangdong?
I will congratulate whoever wins. Anyway, it’s not my Jiangdong soldiers who died...
Although Yong Kai was not satisfied with the official position of Yongchang Prefect, Jiang Dong's attitude was still very good.
After mentioning this matter, the attitudes of Meng Huo and King Pu Citu also softened a lot.
After all, from this moment on, Yong Kai is no longer just a simple Nanzhong surname. He became the spokesman for Soochow's interests in Nanzhong, and his influence immediately changed.
If they had enemies with Lao Liu and Jiang Dong at the same time, their lives would never be better.
"Let's go and see what General Sun has sent." Different from the performance just now, the smile on Yong Kai's face now really comes from the heart.
Sun Quan's gifts were not insignificant, and they did not include gold, silver, or jewelry. They were all practical military supplies.
There are not only sophisticated swords and guns, strong bows and crossbows, bundles of fine arrows, but also twenty sets of mysterious armor, which is most lacking in South China.
There is even a particularly huge metal armor.
"This... but I don't know what the purpose of this armor is?" Yong Kai looked around but didn't understand.
How can anyone wear such big armor? Not to mention people, even horses can't wear it.
"The governor of Jiaozhou Bu has heard for a long time that the Kunming people are good at driving wild beasts into battle. He also heard that the King of Kunming has a rare white elephant mount. It is the leader of the group of elephants and is as powerful as any other. He specially ordered craftsmen to cast an elephant armor and come here as a gift."
The person from Jiaozhou who brought the things introduced.
Bu Zhi and Shi Xie in Jiaozhou had a much more accurate grasp of the situation in Nanzhong than Sun Quan.
Sun Quan's intelligence was still at the stage of Yong Kai and Meng Huo's cavalry, but Jiaozhou already knew that Liu Chan was in unstoppable strength and the Kunming tribe was actively preparing for war.
Therefore, they specially made this concrete armor, hoping to help them reverse their disadvantage.
King Kunming's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw the armor, and he stepped forward to touch it. He couldn't put it down and said with a smile: "It's a good thing, thank you very much. It's a pity that it won't be used this time. The Han army was defeated and could not cross the Western Mountain..."
"Report——!"
Before King Pu could finish his words, another soldier came flying to report, this time it was the scout sent by Meng Huo.
"Your Majesty! The Han army has passed through Kunzexi Mountain!"
Prince Pu's Citu was stunned for a moment, and he felt what seemed like a hot slap on his face, making a crackling sound.
Meng Huo's face immediately darkened.
After all, they were still grasshoppers on a rope. Yongkai laughed at them unintentionally and asked hurriedly: "What are the casualties of the Han army? Are they dejected and morale low?"
The scout was a little embarrassed by the question: "The Han army... we didn't see any obvious casualties in the Han army. From a distance, the troops looked in good order, and it seemed... they seemed to be singing together while marching, and their morale was very high."
King Kunming was furious, slapped the elephant armor and glared: "Impossible, absolutely impossible! You are talking nonsense!"
The monkey on his shoulder also grinned at the scout.
The scout didn't dare to refute, but he had seen these with his own eyes.
Meng Huo said with a dark face at this time: "Let's stop talking. We will assemble the army and send out troops as soon as possible. If we wait for the enemy to surround the city, I am afraid it will be detrimental to our army's tactics."
King Kunming's face was uncertain, and he still couldn't figure out how the Han army defeated his snake formation...
"Okay, since you want to die, then give us a good time, them!"
Even if the Han army could break through the snake formation, King Pu Citu did not believe that the other party could defeat his people head-on.
However, the unlucky meaning he conveyed in some Chinese words that stretched his hips made the faces of the others darker...
(End of chapter)
