Listening to Dou Tong's words, Xu Mu took it into consideration for a moment.
Behind the camp, there were nearly two thousand barbarian campers, all of whom had red faces. Several of Shunan's generals couldn't persuade them at all, and were about to rush to the mountain.
One of the barbarian youths even wanted to run out with an iron ax in his arms, roaring, and even several Shunan soldiers could not stop him.
"Dou Tong, send people to burn the mountain."
"Burn the mountain? My lord, Mrs. Luan Yu is still on the mountain."
Xu Mu said calmly, "I haven't finished speaking yet. Dou Tong, please lead people at the foot of the mountain to burn more turf tree roots that are giving off thick smoke."
"What do you mean, lord?"
"Attract the tiger barbarian's attention."
"In addition, pick a hundred plain barbarians to follow me up the mountain."
"My lord, I'd like to go up the mountain myself...otherwise I'll bring more people." Dou Tong felt that his head was not full.
"It's easy to be discovered when there are many people."
"Take two hundred animal skins and follow me into the mountain when the smoke clears. If Mrs. Luan Yu is dead, wait for my signal and immediately attack the mountain with a large army."
Dou Tong still wanted to persuade him, but seeing Xu Mu's determined eyes, he had no choice but to give up in silence. Finally, following Xu Mu's request, he selected more than a hundred barbarians and took 200 animal skins.
"Burn the mountain!" Dou Tong gritted his teeth.
…
Covering his body with animal skins, and hearing the roars of the tigers on the mountain, Xu Mu, with a cold face, led nearly two hundred people, and carefully walked up the mountain under the cover of the thick smoke.
"Fix the crossbow gate."
"Ping the barbarian camp, twist the arrows."
The mountain was a bit steep, and two hundred people scattered in all directions, hiding in the middle of the mountain forest. In the distance, the tiger barbarians could be heard yelling and cursing.
"My maternal nature is pure and fierce. If I am forced, I will bite my tongue and kill myself." Next to Xu Mu, a barbarian boy in his fifteenth or sixteenth year old said with a crying voice.
Xu Mu was silent for a moment, stretched out his hand, and carefully wiped away the animal blood that seeped into the corners of the young man's eyes.
"what's your name."
"Meng Huo."
Xu Mu was stunned for a moment, as if he was from another world.
"My mother said that when I grow up, I will unify the barbarians."
"Good boy."
After shaking his head to get rid of the inexplicable thoughts, Xu Mu focused his eyes again and looked ahead carefully.
This should have been a barren mountain originally. Due to the difficulty in getting water and being too close to southern Sichuan, no tiger barbarians settled here.
As we got closer, we could see several temporary straw sheds in the distance.
"General of the Central Plains, that is my mother." Meng Huo's voice was louder, but Xu Mu immediately reached out to cover it up.
Thick smoke had drifted up the mountain, captivating people's eyes. And because he was afraid of making coughing sounds, Xu Mu had no choice but to order people to put wet linen cloth under their noses and mouths.
In the direction Meng Huo pointed, there was indeed a strong barbarian woman who was tied up tightly.
There were seven or eight big barbarian men standing guard next to him. They were laughing ferociously. One moment they raised their swords and cut off a few hairs of the barbarian women. Then they laughed loudly and spit their saliva on the barbarian women.
The sudden thick smoke and the appearance of Dou Tong burning the mountain caused more and more tiger barbarians to gather on the side of the mountain and try to shoot down with wooden bows.
Xu Mupan was thinking about how to save Mrs. Luan Yu in front of him——
"How dare you insult my mother!"
Beside him, Meng Huo, whose face was full of anger, had already picked up an ax and rushed forward like a crazy beast, roaring.
Xu Mu was stunned, "Si Hu, take the barbarian battalion to rescue people!"
Si Hu excitedly opened the animal skin, dragged his giant ax, and rushed forward to kill more than a hundred plain barbarians.
"Captain, fire the signal arrow."
"The rest of the people, form the crossbow formation!"
A signal arrow exploded on the top of the mountain.
Nearly a hundred soldiers, upon hearing Xu Mu's order, quickly formed a crossbow formation.
The alarmed Human looked like a madman when he saw Xu Mu and others, like a tide of frightened beasts, and rushed towards them with stone hammers and battle axes.
"aim."
The five powerful shots of the first batch of continuous crossbows knocked down the tiger barbarians who rushed over first.
When it was time to mount the crossbow gate, the other fifty soldiers behind him quickly took up their positions and fired hard.
After taking turns, before they could even rush to the front of the formation, hundreds of tiger barbarian corpses were densely packed.
However, there were too many people, and they were about to rush forward.
"Put away the crossbow and change the sword and shield!"
Nearly a hundred soldiers, roaring and raising their shields and swords, faced the charging tigers and fought bravely.
Bang.
A soldier's shield was smashed away, and before he could get out of the way, he was knocked down by Human's stone hammer and fell to the ground with his face covered in blood.
"You are the Dog General of the Central Plains!" A tiger-barbarian leader like an iron tower raised his battle ax with both hands and struck Xu Mu down.
Xu Mu calmly raised his long sleeves and fired an iron arrow from his crossbow, piercing the face of the tiger barbarian leader.
What Xu Mu didn't expect was that the tiger barbarian leader was extremely ferocious. His face was seriously injured, but he still swung his battle ax regardless -
boom.
A figure rushed towards him, and the tiger barbarian leader flew backwards.
"Si Hu!"
Xu Mu turned around in surprise and found that the person rushing towards him was not Si Hu, but the barbarian boy Meng Huo. His mother, Mrs. Luan Yu, also held two swords and guarded her closely.
"Brother Mu, he can run faster than me. But if he can't hit anyone, I will throw the axe."
"nothing."
Xu Mu smiled. In his previous life, when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, he was still saving his breakfast money to buy skins with a 20% discount. Meng Huo was fifteen or sixteen years old and was already as fierce as a tiger.
Could it be that this is the man who really wants to be the king of the barbarians?
"Thank you, General." Mrs. Luan Yu's voice was joyful, and her face full of wounds was full of gratitude. After saying this, she held up her two swords and firmly guarded Xu Mu.
"My mother said that you are a good person and I owe you my life." Meng Huo looked at Xu Mu with a serious tone.
"I'll remember it." Xu Mu stood up steadily, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. Of course, this idea was a bit overwhelming and could only be put into practice later.
In front of us, the tiger barbarians have all gathered together, roaring in the sky and becoming even crazier.
"Wuli." Mrs. Luan Yu raised her two swords and spoke in a high voice.
"Uri!!" Nearby, a camp of nearly a hundred civilians also roared loudly.
Xu Mu guessed that this should be the totem of the Pingman people's faith, just like the "Tenggri" of the Beidi people.
"Crossbow array!"
After killing off a wave of incoming tiger barbarians, under the cover of the plain barbarian camp, only sixty or seventy soldiers remained, roaring angrily and reorganizing their crossbow formations.
The two sides were fighting to the death, the tiger and the barbarian, and someone fell down from time to time.
"Kill the wild dogs in the mountains!"
At this time, Dou Tong, who had already rushed up with a large army, only recognized them a few times, and then led thousands of soldiers, together with the peaceful barbarian camp, towards the more than 2,000 tiger barbarians to cover up and kill them.
Under the thick smoke, in the mountains and forests.
Dead bodies could be seen everywhere. The more than 2,000 tiger barbarians could not withstand the joint efforts of the Shunan soldiers and the peaceful barbarian camp, and retreated step by step. In the end, many tiger barbarians knelt on the ground, begging for life and mercy.
Madam Luan Yu's face was expressionless as she kept cutting with her two knives, slicing off the heads one by one.
After killing them all, Madam Luan Yu put away her swords, tore off the blood-stained beast robe, leaving only a piece of inner armor, and walked steadily in front of Xu Mu.
"My lord, she thinks the blood of tiger barbarians is a kind of filth."
"so……"
"She's taking an oath."
Mrs. Luan Yu bit her finger and dabbed the blood on Xu Mu's forehead. She then retracted her hand and smeared a line on each cheek.
"The Luanyu tribe of Pingmanying will live up to their oath and are willing to serve the general."
Madam Luan Yu knelt down, Meng Huo knelt down, and the nearly two thousand Pingman camp also knelt down.