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Chapter 267

Zhuge Liang and Zhang Ren retreated into Mande City in the Black Milky Plain with more than a thousand remaining troops, and met with Yan Yan's two thousand defenders.

A month later, Galava also led the Zhuluo army and marched forward along the water. As for why they delayed for a month before they arrived, it was because they had to conquer more than a dozen Liang army strongholds set up along the Dulong River along the way.

This time, the Liang army retreated completely by land. If they retreated along the water route, they would be very slow. Most of the Viking warships accompanying the army were sunk and destroyed in the Shawadie Delta. Most of the Viking ships left in Mande City were used to transport supplies.

Therefore, even if the Liang army, which lacks warships, is in the middle of the Dulong River, this waterway that is not suitable for Zhuluo's warships to sail, is unable to stop Zhuluo's warships and dominate the Dulong River waterway.

In addition to lacking Viking warships, the Liang army in Mande City also lacks the "war beasts" unique to the Liang army. Originally, Zhuge Liang brought more than a hundred giant ape warriors, but these giant ape warriors were "not adapted to the local conditions". After conquering Mande City, they fell ill one after another and were sent to Yongchang County in the rear for treatment.

The so-called "unaccompaniment to the local environment" is actually because these giant apes cannot have self-control like humans. They are used to drinking raw water and are unwilling to apply mosquito repellent on their bodies, which leads to malaria infection.

In addition to giant apes, falcons, including Qiang Vultures, are not adapted to the humid and stuffy climate environment in the forests of the Hongshawadie. It seems that only mountain dogs and cheetahs can barely maintain normal conditions in such a climate environment.

Despite this, Zhuge Liang was confident in defending Mande City, and he had already sent a letter of help to Feng Yu, who was far away in Yibin, through Feige's relay.

Outside Mande City, when the Liang army scouts and the frontier scouts of Zhu Luo army confronted each other sporadically, Zhuge Liang had already made preparations for the defensive battle in Mande City.

Galavar, the commander of the Julu Army, also knew that Mande City could not be able to attack and conquer like those small strongholds, so he set up a camp fifty miles south of the city and confronted the Liang army.

He patiently waited for a kind of siege equipment to be transported up. The siege equipment was a giant counterweight trencher. In the battle at Shawadi Port, the Zhuluo army seized twenty trenchers abandoned by the Liang army in front of the formation.

...

In Mande City, a personal guard hurried into the mansion and said to Zhuge Liang who was lying in front of the case: "Report to the military advisor, according to the notice from the upstream post, our reinforcements have approached Mande City."

Zhuge Liang put down his pen and ink, raised his head and said in surprise: "Oh, it's coming so soon. How many troops have come? Who is the leader of the army?"

"The military advisors, the troops who came mainly came from the water route, did not stop for a long time at the outpost base, nor did they inform the soldiers and generals of the outpost base to more details in the army, saying that they wanted to keep it confidential. They just checked the seal letters for the outpost base. However, according to the outpost base soldiers and generals, they estimated that the other party had at least three or four thousand troops when they came. Judging from their numbers, they belonged to the Gaoshun Corps."

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and said to himself, "Oh, it turned out to be Gao Shun. I guessed that he was leading troops to come because his army was stationed in Yongchang. I guess when will they arrive in Mande City?"

"By the distance, they should arrive in two hours."

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly and said, "Since that's the case, we are ready to welcome them."

Nearly two hours later, a large number of fleets appeared on the Dulong River in the north of Mande City, and a large number of war elephants were also on the Black Mid Plain, and infantry were winding. In addition, several huge mountain-like airships were dragged by war elephants.

After the scouts outside the city determined that they were reinforcements from the Liang army, Zhuge Liang immediately led his troops out of the city to greet them.

When Zhuge Liang met the reinforcement army, he saw the chief general of the army riding on the elephant's back and wearing a huge hat on his head to cover the sun, and the shadow of the hat covered most of his face.

Zhuge Liang bowed his hand and said to this person: "General Gao Shun, Liang has been here to welcome you for a long time."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a voice coming from beside him: "Kongming, who are you talking to? Gao Shun is here."

Zhuge Liang was shocked and looked up in the sound. It turned out that the person on the elephant's back was not Gao Shun, but the real Gao Shun was standing next to the battle elephant, looking at him with a giggle.

Zhuge Liang was confused for a moment and said stammeringly: "Then...you...this person is."

At this time, the guest of the hat on the battle elephant had jumped down the elephant's back along the bamboo ladder and came to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly knelt down and said, "It turns out that the king has come in person, forgive me..." The other party quickly helped him up and said, "Kong Ming, no, there is no need to be too polite."

Zhuge Liang instantly understood the other party's intention and whispered: "Liang understood the king's intention. Please go to the city and the mansion and talk about it in detail."

The person who came was King Liang Feng Yu. After receiving Zhuge Liang's letter of help, he immediately ordered Jia Xu to go to Yongchang and mobilized the Gaoshun Army stationed in Yongchang to support Zhuge Liang.

Unexpectedly, Jia Xu was not healthy and fell ill before he even arrived in Yongchang. This person was really not accustomed to the local environment, not infected with malaria.

After thinking about it, Feng Yu finally decided to come and support Zhuge Liang by himself. Because the sea outlet in the west was too important to him.

Considering that if the Zhu Luo people found out that the King of Liang went on an expedition in person, they might mobilize heavy troops from the local area to attack and kill this high-value target. So along the way, Feng Yu took confidential measures. Most of the soldiers of Gaoshun's army, even generals under the battalion commander, did not know that the generals from this capital were King of Liang himself.

In Mande City's mansion, all the generals above the camp commander were summoned to the hall to discuss the situation of the war.

While waiting for the generals to come, Zhuge Liang knelt down in front of Feng Yu and apologized to him: "This time, Liang was bluntly advancing to Shawadi because he underestimated the enemy and did not find out the situation of the enemy. In the end, our army suffered an unprecedented defeat, which was indeed Liang's crime. Please give up the king and punish him."

Feng Yu nodded and smiled, "Kong Ming, please come up quickly, victory or defeat is common in military affairs. To be honest, you sent you out this time to increase your experience. If you are so young, if you don't suffer a defeat, I will never dare to use you again in the future. Because the experience and lessons are summarized from the defeat,"

After hearing Feng Yu's words, Zhuge Liang felt relieved and introduced Feng Yu the details of the Zhu Luo army and the past and after the Battle of Shawardi.

After listening to them silently, Feng Yu said, "You said they got the crossbows from the Great Qin Kingdom, that is, Rome? And they hired an elite army from the Kushan army? How did you know this?"

"Your Majesty, we didn't know about this at first. But recently, the scouts outside our city had a confrontation with the scouts of Zhuluo, and we captured several Zhuluo scouts, all of which were learned from them."
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