Nanzhong, Meng Huo's tribe.

More than a month has passed since that defeat, and the Han army has not taken advantage of the victory to pursue it. It is said that it is confronting the vine armored soldiers of the Ugo Kingdom.

In the past, Meng Huo's tribe was considered a large tribe in the Yi people. It was extremely prosperous and had a population of over 10,000, but there were 3,000 soldiers. Meng Huo was once very passionate and wanted to expand his capital tribe, the largest tribe in the southern part of the city, to become the barbarian king.

Unfortunately, all these ambitions and dreams were shattered as Ye Zhao led his army southward, and the barbarian army was defeated in succession. Now, there are less than a thousand warriors in this tribe. Jianning, Yongchang, and the barbarians in the three counties, now most of them have surrendered to the Han people under the lobbying of the Lord of Tulong Cave, the Lord of Bana Cave, and the Lord of Yinye Cave Yang Gao.

A few days ago, the Lord of Tulong Cave also came to convince him that he was rejected by Meng Huo.

This time, the Shu Lord was different from the previous Shu Lord. The Shu Lord was seeking stability in the past, and actually did not attach much importance to the southern central land. Even if the two sides were defeated in the war, as long as they surrendered and the Shu army retreated, they would still be the leader of the southern central land.

But this is not the case with the Shu Lord. Meng Huo is not a fool. Otherwise, it would be impossible to almost mobilize the entire barbarians in the Southern Central without the identity of the Barbarian King, because he could see that this Han man named Ye Zhao was not just as simple as suppressing them this time.

Since Zhuti, Meng Huo has been paying attention. The Lord of Shu was constantly naturalizing the barbarians. Judging from the policies of Zhurong clan, the Zhurong clan has almost been moved into the city and lived a stable life. Moreover, a large number of Han people have been moved into the Zhuti area.

After that, Jianning was the same. The Lord of Shu even specially established a city like Zhurong and Yincheng, which was specially built for the barbarians, so he wanted to completely turn the barbarians into Han people.

Others can't see it, but Meng Huo can. He wants to be the Barbarian King, integrate the forces of the Southern Central, and become the Barbarian King of the entire Southern Central. His purpose is different, and his perspectives are naturally different. This is also the reason why he can detect the ambitions of the Shu Lord. They all have the same purpose.

The Lord of Shu now provides a large number of favorable conditions, just to concentrate the barbarians scattered throughout the southern center into the city to facilitate his governance. Is the barbarians who leave the mountains and forests still considered barbarians?

It is precisely because of seeing through this that Meng Huo did not accept Ye Zhao's surrender, but he did not accept it, which does not mean that other cave masters would not accept it. In fact, after this defeat, under the persuasion of the Tulong Cave Lord, Bana Cave Lord and others, the twenty-one cave masters of the former alliance have not yet accepted the surrender, and there are only less than five caves left. They need Ye Zhao's support. In fact, Meng Huo also needs it, but he is unwilling to give up. Meng Huo has a premonition that once he accepts Ye Zhao's surrender, his dream of becoming a barbarian king will be really just a dream.

He was waiting, and he believed that Ye Zhao could not stay in this deserted southern barbarian land forever. He wanted to wait until Ye Zhao left Nanzhong before reorganizing his team!

...

After Ye Zhao arrived in Yunnan, the Tulong Cave Lord sent more than a dozen elephants. The Tulong Cave was of medium strength in Nanzhong. If it were only human power, any cave master would be able to annex Tulong Cave. However, it was precisely because of its ability to control beasts, and the terrain of Tulong Cave was dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, Tulong Cave had a place in this jungle law that preyed on the weak. This elephant was also a gift given to Ye Zhao by the Tulong Cave Lord.

Originally the place where the martial arts field was occupied by more than a dozen elephants. Elephants were leisurely walking in the spacious martial arts field, but there were curious troops around. For the Shu army, this behemoth was undoubtedly new.

Dian Wei wore a piece of vine armor and then put on a piece of iron armor. He looked a little funny. He held an iron halberd in one hand and carefully approached an elephant.

These elephants were all domesticated and were not afraid of strangers. When they noticed Dian Wei's approaching, they just turned their heads and looked at Dian Wei, and then continued to eat grass.

Dian Wei stretched out his hand and looked at the elephant's actions vigilantly, touching the elephant's body. The soldiers around him couldn't help but hold their breath and looked at Dian Wei nervously.

When he touched it, the elephant did not respond, which made Dian Wei breathe a sigh of relief, and said with a chuckle: "This beast is thick in skin and flesh."

After walking around the elephant for a few times, Dian Wei simply crawled onto the elephant's back, and then saw the elephant's trunk rolled up and handed a bundle of fodder in front of Dian Wei.

Looking at the forage in front of him, Dian Wei was a little confused and looked down and said, "What is this?"

"General, I think this elephant is for you to eat!" Several soldiers who had a good relationship with Dian Wei laughed.

"Uh..." Dian Wei took the forage, looked at the forage in his arms, and kicked the elephant hard: "I eat meat!"

“Hahahaha~”

In the distance, Ye Zhao took Xu Rong, Zhao Yun and Huang Quan watched Dian Wei touching the elephant's back, shook their heads and smiled, "Would there be any movements in the vine armored soldiers of the Ugo Kingdom recently?"

The king of Ugo was a very ambitious person. This time, on one side, Wu Tugu led his army to help the Southern Barbarians fight, but on the other side, he secretly gathered a large army. Taking advantage of the battle between the cave masters and the cave masters, he directly led his army to plunder the rear of the southern barbarians and plundered a lot of resources and population. If the cave masters had not turned against Ye Zhao, they would probably have become the territory of the Pu tribe, Ailao, and Yunnan.

Now where Ye Zhao is located is in Yunnan. There are Tulong Cave Master and other cave masters to help transport troops and supplies, which makes Ye Zhao's march in the south smoothly and does not encounter any additional risks.

The Ugo Kingdom is too far away for Shuzhong. It can be said to be an enclave and is useless. Therefore, Ye Zhao did not want to fight with the Ugo Kingdom, but he needed the vine armor in the hands of the Ugo Kingdom. Now it seems that just a single Wutu bone is obviously not enough to make the king of the Ugo Kingdom agree. This is also the purpose of Ye Zhao leading his troops to Yunnan this time. He needs to intimidate the Ugo Kingdom, make an attitude of attacking the Ugo Kingdom, and force him to sign some treaties that are powerless and humiliating. Since it is useless, it is a neighbor. A weak neighbor must be a good neighbor. The Ugo Kingdom, which has 30,000 vine armored soldiers, is obviously not a good neighbor in Ye Zhao's opinion. Moreover, the Ugo Kingdom has plundered a lot of population this time.

Since these cave masters have now been loyal to Ye Zhao, as the master, Ye Zhao naturally needs to seek justice for his subjects.

"Now it is stationed in the Ganshui area. I am polite to the messengers we sent, but I have not accepted our conditions." Xu Rong bowed and said, "It is reported that this vine armor took a very long time to make it. After a family in the Ugo country made it into vine armor, it needed to soak it in oil and then dry it. After this repeated, it took more than ten years to make it. These 30,000 vine armors can now be said to be the entire vine armor of the Ugo country, and the king of the Ugo country would probably be unable to agree."

"We spent so much effort to come to Yunnan, but we didn't come to listen to his complaints." Ye Zhao looked at the soldiers who were braver and began to look for the elephant, and shook his head and said, "Most of the vine armor seized in the army were damaged. Since we had hit the 30,000 pairs of vine armor, it was mine. He would not agree, so let the country of Ugo change to another king."

"My lord wants to..." Xu Rong looked at Ye Zhao.

"Na Wu Tugu is honest and admires our generals and is willing to be kind to my Han. I think he is more suitable to be the lord of the Ugo Kingdom." Ye Zhao found a bluestone to sit down.

"Wutugu may not accept it." Xu Rong shook his head. Even if the king of Ugo abandoned it, it would have a great blow to Wutugu, but it would not be able to betray his tribe members.

"It depends on how you persuade you." Ye Zhao smiled and said, "I'll bring Nawu Tu's bones, and then send someone to get a few pairs of heavy-duty vine armor. Remember, don't take him directly to me later. Let him see how we break the vine armor! Gongheng, you can arrange this."

"Here!" Huang Quan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and nodded and left.

After a while, several soldiers brought more than a dozen pairs of vine armor, and at the same time, Wu Tubo, led by Huang Quan, also came here.

"The main Shu will let me go back? Has the king agreed to exchange it with vine armor?" Wu Tugu followed Huang Quan and asked with a frown.

"That's not. It's just that my Lord is preparing to go to war with your country. Since we want to fight, we must defeat you upright and convince you." Huang Quan explained with a smile while walking forward with Wu Tugu.

"I, the country of Wuge, have 30,000 vine armor troops, how could I be afraid of the Lord of Shu?" Wu Tugu sneered and shook his head. As he spoke, he had already arrived at the open space where Ye Zhao was. At this moment, Ye Zhao and others were dispersing with their backs to them, and there were more than a dozen pairs of vine armor placed on the open space.

Wu Tugu was about to speak, but saw Ye Zhao take the torch from a guard and throw it on the pile of vine armor.

The flames blew up and more than a dozen pairs of vine armor burned quickly.

"Congratulations to the lord, the weakness of this vine armor has been seen through by the lord, and it is not far from destroying the enemy!" Xu Rong bowed to Ye Zhao with a smile.

"But these 30,000 troops were burned to pieces, which would really hurt the harmony of heaven. If the Lord of Ugo had not been forced to each other several times, I would not have made such a bad decision!" Ye Zhao shook his head with some regret.

"My lord is kind, but since the lord of the Ugo Kingdom is stubborn and the Ugo Kingdom is not under my jurisdiction, why should the lord be kind to him?" Xu Rong shook his head and said.

Wu Tugu's face turned pale. Suddenly, regardless of Huang Quan's obstruction, he stepped forward and said, "Master Shu, wait!"

"Wutu Gu!?" Ye Zhao turned around and frowned slightly when he saw Wutu Gu. He then smiled and said, "You are here just in time. I am about to release you and tell you that the king of the country, since he is unwilling to cooperate with me and Shuzhong and release those people back, this marquis can only solve this matter by force."

"Can the Lord of Shu give me the next opportunity to go back and persuade me personally? I will persuade the Lord of Shu to cultivate and never invade!" Wu Tugu knelt on the ground and said to Ye Zhao.

"This..." Ye Zhao looked at him with some embarrassment: "I don't want to kill more, but your country's lord talks a few times and refused to let go. Our army is now on an expedition, which is extremely costly. If he delays further, I'm afraid..."

"Don't worry, Lord Shu, I only need to give me three days. After three days, if the king of the country still refuses to agree, let the Lord of Shu be dealt with!" Wu Tugu said clangly.

"Well, it's only three days, but after three days, if the Wuge Kingdom is unwilling to compromise, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Ye Zhao sighed and nodded and said, "In addition, let Huang Quan go with you. If he agrees, he will agree on some details."
Chapter completed!