Originally, Gan Ning thought that his troops would be easy to win against these mere 20,000 enemy troops.

However, when the troops of both sides really started to fight, Gan Ning realized something was wrong.

The soldiers and horses of Xiongxi barbarians occupied the advantage of this terrain and played with Gan Ning's subordinates in their hands, leaving Gan Ning's soldiers exhausted and did not fight head-on with Gan Ning's troops.

After a while, the Xiongxi Barbarians did not lose much. Instead, Gan Ning's men were exhausted and half dead. Although not many people died, their physical strength was greatly consumed. When the physical strength was exhausted, the Xiongxi Barbarian warriors could easily counterattack.

Gan Ning has not many shooters under his command, most of them are brave and good at fighting infantry.

However, in such a mountain, charge was useless and could not show their strengths. Instead, the warriors of Xiongxi barbarians directly used arrows to shoot from a distance after they had distanced themselves from Gan Ning's men.

Ganning soldiers, who were already at a disadvantage, immediately suffered more casualties after charging back and forth with the Xiongxi barbarians. The opponent's arrows would not recognize anyone.

After several rounds of shooting, Gan Ning's troops immediately killed and injured a lot.

Gan Ning came on the field himself and led his troops to charge on the battlefield.

But except for some barbarian warriors around him who were killed by him, the remaining barbarian warriors had no casualties at all.

At this time, Liu Zheng also realized something was wrong here.

Although he had known for a long time that these Southern Barbarian warriors would definitely have a great geographical advantage in fighting the mountains of Wuling County, Liu Zheng, who had no experience in fighting with them, cautiously let his generals deal with Ah Huilan, but he still did not gain any advantage.

Not only did he not gain any advantage, he also lost a lot of people under Gan Ning.

At this time, if Gan Ning's soldiers continue to fight with Ah Huinan's troops here, Gan Ning will suffer a great loss immediately, so Liu Zheng did not dare to hesitate and immediately let Sun Jian's troops join the battle.

"Brother Wentai, Xingba's troops are not enough to deal with Ah Huilan's Southern Barbarians. You can also go there, be sure to use the shooter to deal with these Southern Barbarians."

In infantry fighting, there is no advantage here, and only shooters can have a greater advantage.

Most of the shooters under Liu Zheng were under Huang Zhong. This time, Huang Zhong did not come here, and he miscalculated it. However, some of the shooters under Sun Jian’s team could barely be used to deal with these Southern Barbarian soldiers.

After Liu Zheng's order was expressed, Sun Jian immediately received the order.

Immediately, with his 20,000 troops, rushed towards Ah Huilan. With the help of Sun Jian, so many troops joined the battle, this generation of mountains and forests has become a fierce battlefield, with people everywhere in the mountains and fields.

Liu Zheng didn't care about Ah Huinan and others at this time. What he had to do was to destroy the Xiongximan's village. As long as the village was gone, even if the people from Xiongximan were still there, they could only sleep in the wilderness and it would take time to build the village again.

Liu Zheng led his thousands of elite troops, regardless of the battles here, and directly led people to the Xiongximan mountain village.

He had already found out where the main village of Xiongximan was. The current rush was to burn all the place where Xiongximan lived for a fire.

When Liu Zheng's men rushed towards the main village, Ah Huinan finally discovered Liu Zheng's purpose. He originally wanted to fight guerrilla war with Liu Zheng, but now when he saw Liu Zheng heading straight to the main village, Ah Huinan was still a little nervous. After all, it was his own nest. If Liu Zheng broke it, he would not be able to bear the face.

He was anxious about his own personnel and began to do his best to stop Liu Zheng's elite, which made Ah Huinan's people fight against Liu Zheng's subordinates on the front battlefield.

These southern barbarians were familiar with this area. This head-on battle allowed Liu Zheng to truly see the power of these Xiongxi barbarian soldiers.

In a single body, these Southern Barbarian soldiers are no worse than the soldiers under Sun Jian.

Some even have stronger strengths, especially when fighting in such places, they naturally have the advantage. The 20,000 Southern Barbarians fought against Liu Zheng's 40,000 troops, and in a short period of time, they did not get at a disadvantage.

Seeing that the charge had no result and could not defeat these Southern Barbarian soldiers, Liu Zheng then called out to withdraw his troops, and did not allow Sun Jian and Gan Ning's troops to continue to charge and make unnecessary sacrifices.

Originally, this time, Liu Zheng had no intention of using his troops to fight directly with these Xiongxi barbarians. Liu Zheng also had troops seconded from Youxi and Yuxi. Those people from Youxi and Yuxi were wrong from the local southern barbarians. With their help, it was easier to deal with the people from these Xiongxi tribes, so Liu Zheng did not intend to rely on his troops to destroy these Xiongxi tribes.

He took his men and horses and temporarily retreated, retreating for several miles, and after both sides were injured.

Liu Zheng arranged the next big tent and invited generals from Sun Jian, Gan Ning and others to come to discuss matters.

More than a dozen generals came into the big tent at once.

"Everyone, you have seen the strength of these southern barbarians now. This is their cunning place. Instead of fighting head-on with us, they just fight guerrillas with us. How can we break this way of fighting?"

Gan Ning and Sun Jian were both injured in this battle, but they were not much of the damage. They each lost thousands of soldiers, killed more than two thousand people and injured four thousand.

Gan Ning's hatred for these Southern Barbarians became even stronger. When Liu Zheng asked, he immediately stood up.

"Lord, these savages in the Southern Barbarians are so cunning that they are so angry. I think, if you want me to tell me, we will use fire to attack this mountain and let the Southern Barbarians directly burn all of them to death."

"Burn to death? Xingba, those people have grown feet and can run away, it's not so easy to burn them to death."

"Then rush forward and kill them directly to see how they can do anything else."

"But now they are defending and we attack. If we attack strongly, the loss of troops will be huge. In that case, although we are sure to defeat the Xiongxi barbarian, the losses of your troops will definitely not be small."

"How about it, using the least amount of troops to achieve our goals is what we should do the most."

The conversation between Liu Zheng and Gan Ning made several other generals nodded repeatedly.
Chapter completed!