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Chapter 198: Capture Meng Huo

On the bank of Shu River, three elephants suddenly emerged from the woods. Looking closely, these elephants also had a saddle building on them. They were the war elephants of the barbarian army, one of which was Meng Huo's car.

Since the defeat of the barbarian army, Meng Huo fled to the upper reaches of the Shu River northwest. Now only these three battle elephants are left by his side.

"Hurry, look along the river to see if we can find a bamboo raft or a shallow place. We must seize the time to cross the river." Meng Huo on the war elephant ordered.

Meng Huo, who had just finished speaking, vaguely heard the sound of dog barking, and then the sound of sharp arrows roaring.

"No, I was discovered by the other scout. Run!" Meng Huo roared. The three battle elephants continued to escape to the upper reaches of the Shu River, but the elephants were different from war horses and had no lasting endurance at all.

These elephants were tossed for a night yesterday, and then they passed a big battle in the morning. Then they carried three people and ran for nearly an hour, and were exhausted. Under the control of the elephant slave, they were struggling with difficulty and could not raise their speed.

After a while, several horses rushed out and bit three war elephants more than twenty battles away. They were scouts of Zhao Yun's army. The elephants continued to flee, but the barbarian archers on the elephants had pulled their bows and shot arrows, trying to kill the scouts of these cavalry.

The scouts of Liang State immediately fired their bows and shot them back. Meng Huo's ears heard the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and suddenly felt a warm object stained on his face. He wiped it with his hand and it was blood in one palm. He looked at the side of him again that the barbarian archer beside him had been shot through his temple by an arrow, and blood was sprayed everywhere.

In a short while, all the archers on the battle elephant were shot and killed. Two of the scouts were injured by the other party's arrows, and one died by the arrows shot into the throat.

Seeing that they could not get rid of the opponent's entanglement, Meng Huo shouted quickly: "Turn around and kill them!" The elephant slave turned to the direction of the battle elephant and rushed towards the scout. The barbarian spearmen on the battle elephant also raised their spears. But the cavalry scouts saw the opponent turn around and rushed towards him, then rode their horses away, fled outside twenty battles before stopping, and continued to shoot with arrows.

At this time, a heavy sound of horse hooves came from behind. The twenty heavy iron cavalry of Zhao Yun's army had arrived. Meng Huo's pupils shrank into a thin slit due to the secretion of adrenaline. He shouted in his heart: "It's over!"

The heavy-armed iron cavalry quickly rushed to the side of the war elephants. The elephant slaves tried to control the war elephants to collide with these iron cavalry, but the latter was much more flexible than the war elephants. In addition, these war elephants were already weak, so of course they could not succeed.

A heavy cavalryman used a horse's galloping speed to stab the war elephant with a horse's spear, and the two spears on the war elephant had stabbed him quickly.

The spear blade brushed over the shoulder armor and overturned the entire shoulder armor of the heavy cavalry. However, the horse spear stabbed into the abdomen of the war elephant at this moment. The elephant whined and fell down. The barbarians in the saddle rolled to the ground and were trampled to death by the galloping war horses.

In just a moment, the two battle elephants were hunted. The elephant slaves on Meng Huo's battle elephant were also shot dead by the scout's arrows. Several heavy riders surrounded the battle elephant with horse spears. The battle elephant was so tired that it was extremely tired and lie down. Four or five horse spears were placed on Meng Huo's neck.

On another wilderness, two Liang Guo gun and shield soldiers wearing ring armor were running hard. He was chasing four or five barbarian soldiers. With the speed of running, they threw out the spears in their hands, and instantly pierced the bodies of the two barbarians.

However, the two gun-shield soldiers in heavy armor were getting further and further away from the other barbarians. At this time, dozens of cavalry and cavalry flew past them, one of them was Zhao Yun with a white horse and silver spear. He and the cavalry of Liang State waved swords and guns and chased forward, killing the other barbarians who were still running to the ground.

Zhao Yun was on the bank of the Shu River, holding the reins of the horse. He looked around the fields, and the bodies of barbarian soldiers were everywhere, and floating corpses in the Shu River were also everywhere.

Two hours ago, Zhao Yun and Yan Yan defeated Meng Huo's elephant army formation and broke into the barbarian defense line. They divided into two strands with Yan Yan, sweeping across the banks of Shu River and Tuo River respectively.

The barbarians who were still building fortification camps were attacked by the enemy. They were caught off guard by thousands of Liangshu cavalry and were defeated one after another. They were chased by the Han army to the Shu River and both sides of the Tuo River.

At this time, a large number of war cavalry rushed towards Zhao Yun. The one who was walking in front was a cavalry scout. Before he arrived in front of Zhao Yun, he had already flew off his horse and said hurriedly and happily: "Report to General, the Barbarian King Meng Huo has been captured by our troops."

When Zhao Yun heard this, he looked up. Sure enough, he saw a luxuriously dressed barbarian brought over by a bunch of flowers, and was immediately overjoyed. He ordered: "Get out the troops and return to Jiangyang City. I will reward the three armies today."

Chengdu Shu King Liu Zhang was holding a banquet to celebrate the great victory in Jiangyang. In this decisive battle, the Liangshu coalition forces defeated the barbarian soldiers who were several times more than 5,000. They beheaded nearly 20,000, captured more than 5,000 people, killed the barbarian general Ah Huilan, and captured the barbarian king Meng Huo alive.

Although there were more than 200,000 barbarians, the population of these more than 200,000 is all the population, including men, women, young and old, slaves and slaves. Among them, there were only 40,000 young and strong men, and all the barbarians who participated in the Battle of Jiangyang were young and strong. In other words, this battle actually completely destroyed the Southern Barbarians, and they could no longer have the ability to attack the plains in Shu.

As the banquet began, the ministers toasted Liu Zhang one after another.

Zhang Song said, "Congratulations to the King, congratulations to the King. After the Jiangyang War, the Southern Barbarians were greatly damaged. As long as our army works harder and sweep the remaining barbarians in the southern central area south of the Shu River, they can quell the Southern Barbarian Rebellion and restore peace in our Shu Kingdom." Everyone said yes.

At this time, Wang Lei raised an inappropriate topic. He bowed and said to Liu Zhang: "Your Majesty, since the Southern Barbarians are now in lingering. Then there is no need for Liang to stay in Shu anymore when the Liang Kingdom comes to support our friendly troops. I think it is best to reward them and send them back to Liang Kingdom as soon as possible."

After hearing this, Liu Zhang's face changed slightly. He put down the wine lord in his hand, but said nothing. He waited for others to reply to Wang Lei. Except for Liu Zhang, the others naturally knew what Wang Lei meant. So, at the banquet, everyone whispered to each other.

Huang Quan saw that no one answered for a long time, and brought the wine to the hall, first toasted Liu Zhang with a glass of wine. Then Shi Shiran said:

"Of course, the Liang army needs to withdraw from Shu territory, but it is too early to let them go now. Although the Southern Barbarians have been severely damaged, most of the main forces have been wiped out. However, the centipede insects die without being stiff. After they retreat to the south of the Shu River, they can use the high mountains and ridges there to deal with our army. We still need the help of the Liang army to encircle and suppress them."

The ministers of Shu Kingdom in the hall began to argue in a low voice.

At this time, an eunuch from the Shu Palace came to Liu Zhang, whispered a few words, and handed Liu Zhang a letter. Liu Zhang unfolded the letter, and as he read, his brows couldn't help but frown.
Chapter completed!
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