Chapter 478 Thousands of elephants, shocking scenes!

Jianning City Prefect's Mansion.

Lu Bu sat high in the lobby. Soon after, he saw Ma Chao and Liu Xun walking in with the Golden Ring Sanjie and King Duosi.

Ma Chao clasped his fists at Lu Bu and said, "Report to the king, Meng Huo and Meng You ran away before they even started. These two are the leaders of the barbarians in this trip."

Jinhuan Sanjie and Duosi were on the way. After Ma Chao finished speaking, they all fell to the ground toward Lu Bu.

"Three Knots of Golden Rings, Meet the King of Tang!"

"Dosi, the Lord of the Tulong Cave in the South Central, pays homage to the King of Tang!"

With a faint smile on his face, Lu Bu waved his hand and said lightly: "Raise an army to attack our Yizhou. Now, when you find that you can't beat it, you surrender on the spot?"

"How can such a good thing be true? With the crimes you committed in Yizhou, even if I want to spare you, the people of Yizhou will not agree."

"Come on, drag it down for me and behead you!"

When Jinhuan Sanjie and Duosi heard this, they felt a dizzy moment in their minds, and they didn't react for a moment.

When the soldiers coming in dragged the two of them out like a dead dog, the two who finally came to their senses shouted loudly at Lu Bu.

"King Tang...King Tang, please spare your life. We were bewitched by Meng Huo and did such unwise behavior."

"We sincerely surrender, why did the King of Tang treat us like this?"

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Unfortunately, Lu Bu ignored the two of them, but turned around, carried his hands on his back, staring at the map on the wall and pondering something.

The reason why Lu Bu wanted to capture them alive was nothing more than to capture more labor, and it was completely meaningless to keep these two guys.

Not only does it make no sense, keeping it may also drag yourself down and cause trouble for yourself.

But Lu Bu wants to use the tribesmen of these two buddies as free labor. Will these two buddies agree?

Besides, if you surrender without even fighting, whoever dares to believe them, will anyone dare to use them?

If there are more special troops in the tribes of these two buddies, Lu Bu might still keep them and give them certain preferential treatment, and then take their special troops to conquer the world for him.

But today, the things under their command are simply useless to me and are useless at all. They seem to be only used as labor. These two people have no value left at all.

Today, above the city wall, he did not see the legendary vine armored soldier, and Lu Bu couldn't help but feel a little headache.

Although today is a great victory, Lu Bu should have been happy to capture 100,000 prisoners at the cost of zero casualties.

But, after Meng Huo entered the iron cavalry that he had so many, would he still lead the remaining barbarian soldiers out to fight against him in this wilderness?

Lu Bu didn't know if there were any other tribes in Nanzhong, but as far as I saw today, there was no legendary vine armored soldiers. They had a way to deal with them, which could be used to learn from Zhuge Liang's fire attack in history.

However, I did not plan to go into the mountains to encircle these tribes.

These vine armored soldiers will definitely be a big obstacle for Zhu Rong to unify Nanzhong for himself.

If I remember correctly, there should be the legendary elephant soldier in Nanzhong. Now, Lu Bu can only hope that Meng Huo can bring out the vine armored soldier when he finds the elephant soldier to help.

Although the iron cavalry is very powerful, Lu Bu believes that this will not make Meng Huo dare not go out of Nanzhong from now on. This little cavalry is nothing to the elephant soldiers. Under the intimidation of giant beasts like elephants, it would be nice to run away without turning around, and how could it still rush?

Even if it rushes to the ground, it will be difficult to pose a threat to these elephant soldiers.

Thinking of this, Lu Bu turned around and looked at Li Yan and said, "Zheng Fang has lived in Nanzhong for a long time. I wonder if he has ever heard of something like an elephant?"

Li Yan was stunned and said, "Yes, there are many elephants in the south. Many tribes even use this object as a totem. I wonder where the king learned about this giant elephant."

Lu Bu's sudden words made Li Yan feel a little puzzled. At this time, Lu Bu mentioned what this thing is for? Could it be that Ye Xiang caught both ends?

"Elephant? What is that?"

Xu Chu, Ma Chao and other generals from Guanzhong couldn't help but turn their doubtful eyes on Li Yan.

Looking at the puzzled eyes around him, Li Yan coughed lightly and explained slowly: "I have only heard of this kind of thing before, and I have never seen it."

"A huge giant beast is said to be a place called Bana Cave in the south. The cave owner, Mulu, not only has a giant elephant soldier under his command, but also has the ability to drive tigers, leopards and jackals."

After saying that, Lu Bu turned his head and said to Li Yan: "I heard that the giant statue has a thick outer skin and is hard to enter. The barbarians put on bone armor on the giant statue. If this is true, what good strategies can Fang Zheng have to help me fight the enemy?"

Lu Bu's words made everyone present uproar. Not only did the generals in Guanzhong brought by Lu Bu were full of surprise, but even the generals in Yizhou were looking at Lu Bu incredible.

Although they had heard of something called elephant in the south, they had only heard of it, and no one had actually seen it.

In their impression, the thing called elephant is nothing more than the imaginary things used by barbarians as totems.

Just like the totem dragon of the Han Dynasty, it is just a legendary thing.

I thought that judging from the expression on Lu Bu’s face, this thing seems to really exist.

It is conceivable how shocking Lu Bu's words were, just as someone told them that your dragon is a real thing, and it is also incredible and terrifying.

Li Yan lowered his head and pondered for a moment, looked embarrassed, and said, "If this giant statue is true as the king said, it is really a troublesome thing. I don't know about the giant statue. I am ashamed and have no good plans to deal with such giant beasts."

Li Yan couldn't think of a way to deal with elephants, but Lu Bu could understand it. After all, no one had seen such an elephant in this era, and he didn't know what to do, so he naturally didn't know how to deal with it.

Lu Bu smiled and waved his hand, saying, "It's okay, I have a way to try it!"

After saying that, Lu Bu looked at Li Yan and said, "I'll bother the official to find some craftsmen to make something for me."

Afterwards, Lu Bu told Li Yan in detail what he wanted to do. After hearing this, Li Yan's eyes lit up. He bowed to Lu Bu and slowly retreated.

When they saw each other, all the civil and military officials in the hall looked at Lu Bu curiously.

In fact, what Lu Bu asked Li Yan to do was very simple, just use wood to make some strange beasts, then put the color on the picture and make something that would make fire inside.

As for the strange beasts, they are just fine. Those are not important, fire is the most important thing.

In Lu Bu's impression, Zhuge Liang used this method to defeat the Xiang Soldiers.

In fact, the ones that broke the elephant soldiers were not those strange beasts made of wood, but fire.

Elephants are as afraid of fire as war horses, but unlike war horses, war horses can overcome the shortcomings of fear of fire through training. But war elephants cannot overcome them no matter what.

In history, in addition to Zhuge Liang, the Song Dynasty's Pan Mei also defeated the Southern Han Dynasty's Elephant Soldiers, which was basically reliable, and was also fire attack.

Wang Xuance of the Tang Dynasty once used the Fire Bull Formation to defeat the Elephant Soldiers, so Lu Bu had many ways to deal with the Elephant Soldiers.

The reason why the Fire Bull Formation was not used was that Lu Bu fell in love with those elephants and tried his best to avoid causing casualties from elephants.

Although if an elephant is equipped with heavy armor and then set up an arrow tower on it, it can indeed be used as a tank of this era, what Lu Bu values ​​is not to use the elephant for military use.

The elephant's movements were slow and not very useful. With the current combat power of the Tang army under Lu Bu, the elephant soldiers were nothing more than a waste of money to him.

What he values ​​is the power of elephants. In this era, there are no trucks or anything else. Basically, most of the things rely on human power.

But if elephants are used as trucks for transportation, they will save a lot of manpower for construction. The population of this era is the most precious thing for Lu Bu.

At this moment, Xu Chu suddenly clasped his fists at Lu Bu and said, "Master, is there really the kind of thing you said?"

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Of course, you will see it soon. I believe Meng Huo will definitely bring this thing this time."

The young horse in the south, after seeing so many cavalry of Lu Bu, Meng Huo's only hope was these elephant soldiers.

Lu Bu believes that even if Meng Huo does not bring the legendary Qijia Army this time, he will definitely bring elephant soldiers.

For Nanzhong, the only thing Lu Bu could remember is this elephant and the Vine Armor Army. It doesn’t matter if the Vine Armor Army comes or not. At worst, you can tell Zhurong that for this army, you will use fire to attack.

This time, it is time for Meng Huo to receive a lunch box.

Nanzhong, Silver Killing Cave...

Meng Huo walked around the cave anxiously. He thought that the 100,000 barbarians who had three knots of Duosi and Jinhuan could successfully capture Jianning and save his wife, but he did not expect that there were so many cavalry under Lu Bu's command.

Although Meng Huo had heard that Lu Bu was a cavalry boss born in Xiliang, he did not expect that the other party would bring so many iron cavalry this time.

You know, this is not the north, nor the Central Plains, with most mountains here. Did he have a mind that he brought so many cavalry to conquer a place that was not conducive to cavalry combat?

Now, his only hope can only be placed on this person, and he is the only one who does not have Lu Bu's iron cavalry at all.

While Meng Huo was waiting anxiously for the news in the cave, a barbarian general ran in excitedly.

Seeing this person, Meng Huo hurriedly walked forward, grabbed the person's shoulder, and asked anxiously: "Tell me quickly, what's going on, has that old guy agreed?"

The person who came took a breath and said excitedly: "It's done, the Mulu King from Bana Cave not only agreed to send troops, but also the people were waiting outside the cave at this time."

Upon hearing this, Meng Huo was overjoyed and said, "Okay, please invite him in... No, I'd better go out to greet him in person."

After saying that, Meng Huo hurriedly ran out of the cave.

As soon as he walked out of the cave, he saw a white elephant, wearing golden bead tassels, two big knives hanging on his waist, leading a group of people feeding tigers, leopards, and jackals and wolves in a cluster.

Meng Huo was overjoyed and quickly greeted him happily, and said with a smile: "King Mulu, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time."

A few days later, Meng Huo and Mulu led thousands of elephant soldiers and brother-in-law to bring tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers brought from Zhurong's troops across the Lushui River and headed towards Jianning.

During this time, the scout had already reported the news to Lu Bu who was in Jianning.

When I arrived at the top of the city, I looked up and saw that with the vibration of the earth, huge objects came into everyone's eyes.

Thousands of war elephants slowly approached the city like moving hills.

Looking around, thousands of elephants are coming, and they can't see the end at first sight. The continuous groups of elephants float towards Jianning like dark clouds. The sound of hooves like thunder makes people feel cold behind their backs.

The mountain-like momentum gives people the feeling that the mountain is about to collapse and is unstoppable.

The elephant riding was accompanied by tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves. Even Lu Bu, who had seen elephants in the zoo in his previous life, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
To be continued...