On the border between Nanman and Dachu, a brutal fight is about to come to an end.
Although Nanman was the younger brother among the original four barbarians, after all, with the rise of Chi You, he took on a new look.
Therefore, when the Pope issued a papal decree calling for the Crusaders to launch a holy war, in addition to secretly sending people to Beidi, he also secretly sent people to the Southern Barbarians. When the four dynasties began to gather, these envoys from Xirong were already closely
Start contacting Beidi and Nanman.
Beidi is also a big family, and it is not easy for Xirong to persuade them. They will not sit back and watch the seven dynasties unite to conquer Xirong, but they also have their own interests to consider, and will not join in until the critical moment.
But compared to Beidi, the Southern Barbarians are much easier to deal with.
Although the Nanman occupies the three lands of Wu Dao, which are equivalent to the original 100,000 mountains of the Nanman, it is naturally an anointed land, but if it is placed within the seven dynasties of the Central Plains, it will be relatively desolate.
Among the seven dynasties, the central geography was basically the most prosperous, while the border areas were more desolate.
Therefore, although Nanman's current good life is not much better than before, it is still far from achieving common prosperity and becoming well-off.
Moreover, the people of the Southern Barbarians were accustomed to living in poverty. After entering Wu, they completely let go of their nature. In the first period of time, it was really burning, killing and looting, and the three lands almost became a human world.
hell.
And the resistance in these three lands has never stopped, which is why Chi You had the elite Nanman soldiers but was unable to expand.
Although the people of the Southern Barbarians were in an extremely harsh environment before, it was this harsh environment that created the strong bodies of the Southern Barbarian warriors. In the entire continent, the seven major dynasties and the four barbarians combined had the highest physical fitness in terms of physical fitness.
No one can surpass Nanban.
The reason why the Southern Barbarians could not defeat Da Wu before was not because of the incompetence of the Southern Barbarians, but because the dangerous external environment affected the population growth of the Southern Barbarians, and the impoverished Southern Barbarians were far from being able to compare with a dynasty in terms of equipment.
Since entering the Wu Dynasty and making up for the gap in this aspect, coupled with the training of Chi You and other famous generals, the discipline of the Southern Barbarians has also been greatly increased.
Today's Southern Barbarian warriors have the highest average combat strength in the world. Of course, this is excluding some elite battalions and when the numbers are equal.
However, the Southern Barbarians are still very poor and all kinds of resources are quite scarce. Xirong benefits from a large amount of food, grass, soldiers and equipment, and many people among the Southern Barbarians are willing to help Xirong.
Especially, after the Southern Barbarian warriors were equipped with the battle armor of the Wu Dynasty, these generals and the powerful Southern Barbarians led the soldiers and horses of the South Gate to defeat the Wu Dynasty and retreated steadily, even until the Da Li Dynasty was established.
You must know that among the four barbarians, apart from the predecessor of the Beidi Golden Horde who established a dynasty, they are the only ones. Although the Dali Dynasty is far from comparable to the dynasty established by the predecessor of the Golden Horde, but
The Dali Dynasty is still the pride of the Southern Barbarians.
This also made many people in the Southern Barbarians feel proud and generally underestimated the fighting power of the Central Plains people.
It was against this background that when the troops of the Daxia and Dachu dynasties harassed the southern and central parts of Xirong from the sea, the Southern Barbarians sent troops to the Dachu dynasty to implement the strategy of surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao.
The Southern Barbarians were not afraid of sending troops this time. They fought against the Wu Dynasty before, not the Chu Dynasty. Even if the Chu Dynasty wanted to retaliate against them, there would be hundreds of thousands of mountains to stop them. With the Chu Dynasty, he could
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In the past, when the Southern Barbarians were in decline, they could rely on hundreds of thousands of mountains to block the Great Wu and Great Chu in the north, let alone the rise of the Southern Barbarians now.
The Southern Barbarians were united as one. What powerful enemy could they not defeat? Although the Shengman Cult still did not completely surrender to Chi You, for the sake of the Southern Barbarians, they never stopped Chi You and even helped him out.
As for the Chu Dynasty, although they were not negligent against the Southern Barbarians, they never thought that the Southern Barbarians would have the courage to attack them.
The Great Chu Dynasty is not the weak Great Wu Dynasty. Among the seven dynasties today, the Great Chu Dynasty is the most well-preserved one. Da Cang and Da Xia exist in name only, there are many rebel kings in Da Qian, and the Wei leader is weak and his ministers are strong.
The powerful ministers were fighting against each other, and Da Wu was troubled externally and internally. As for Da Wu, he was his younger brother.
Not to mention that there is no problem with Da Chu, but at least it is a relatively complete dynasty, and the power that a relatively complete dynasty can exert is not comparable to the previous cripples.
Not to mention, he, Da Li, had already provoked Da Wu before...
Chiyou personally sat on the border with the Chu Dynasty and commanded from the center. He also sent generals Kafur and his adopted son Ayu, each leading an army of 100,000 to send troops to Chu. What he wanted was never to conquer any territory, but to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao.
At the same time, take the opportunity to grab a handful. The border area was desolate for the Chu Dynasty, but it was a rare and wealthy place for the Southern Barbarians.
However, the only thing that Dali didn't expect was that Xiang Yan, a veteran of the Chu Dynasty, happened to be patrolling the border area, and because of this information gap, Ayu was caught off guard.
Xiang Yan is calculated mentally but not carelessly. In addition, the current Ashoka is not the King Ashoka yet and is still far away from his peak. Naturally, he is still not as good as the sophisticated Xiang Yan, so he accidentally fell into it.
Fortunately, Kafur was a famous general in the world. He deliberately allowed Da Chu to win for a while, but he got rid of the entanglement of the enemy forces facing him and sent troops to detour to block the two armies of Da Chu Dynasty that were outflanking Ayu.
It gave Ayu a chance to break through.
However, although Ayu seized this opportunity to break out, he also lost less than half of his troops and horses along the way, and Xiang Yan was still holding on tightly, so he had to stay in a dangerous place to wait for relief.
It was precisely because of this sudden change that the scale of the war between the two sides further intensified.
Ayu was one of Chi You's two adopted sons, and Chi You had always placed high hopes on him.
Furthermore, there is no problem with the muscles of the Dali Dynasty, but there are very few wise men, and there are very few people who have the ability to govern one side. And one dynasty is indispensable for talents like Ayu.
Chi You could not ignore both public and private affairs.
Furthermore, Ayu was followed by 50,000 Southern barbarian warriors, and we could not allow these Southern barbarian warriors to die in a foreign land.
Therefore, Chi You personally led the Jiuli warriors to send troops. Xiang Yan originally sent his grandson Xiang Yu to lead the troops to block it. However, Xiang Yu was good at offense, not defense. He originally delayed time by holding on, giving Xiang Yan time to deal with Ayu.