Inside Luoyang City, outside the elephant army camp of Dian Wei.

Two heavily armed Qin troops patrolled back and forth along the streets.

In the entire Luoyang City, including the palace, the black-clothed soldiers who patrol the streets are all black-clothed soldiers who maintain law and order in the city, except for the periphery of the Dian Wei Xiangbing barracks, who are responsible for defense are the soldiers drawn from the main force.

A pair of patrolling Qin soldiers were marching along the street, and when they saw a group of people in front of them from a distance, they quickly stopped, and everyone pressed their hands on the hilt of their swords and looked ahead.

The team marching towards them was getting closer and closer, and when the officer who led the patrol of this group of soldiers saw that it was Liu Wei who was coming towards him, he hurriedly waved his hand behind him and shouted: "Give way, Your Highness is down!" ”

When the officer saw Liu Wei clearly, the soldiers of the Qin army behind him also saw Liu Wei and were already ready to give way.

As soon as the officer's voice fell, the Qin troops behind him retreated one after another and stood on the side of the road.

Standing in line on the side of the road, the entire Qin army all bowed with their fists in their fists, quietly waiting for Liu Wei and the others to come.

Escorted by Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and a team of guards, Liu Wei rode a horse and walked slowly down the street.

Walking in front of the Qin soldiers standing on the side of the street, Liu Wei did not turn his head to look at those Qin soldiers, but went straight to the elephant soldier barracks.

Seeing Liu Wei walk in front of him, when he was far away, a Qin soldier muttered in a low voice: "Your Highness is very strange today!" ”

"What's wrong?" Another soldier beside him whispered a question when he heard him muttering.

"Ever when His Highness saw me and others, he would nod his head, I don't know why he didn't even look at me today!" Looking back at Liu Wei's team that was gradually moving away, the soldier who spoke first lowered his voice and replied.

"Less nonsense!" While the two soldiers were talking, the officer who led the Qin army to patrol the streets whispered to them and said, "Go! ”

Liu Wei, who was escorted to the elephant camp by Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and others, had been thinking about how to fight back to Cao Cao and wanted him to know how to send soldiers and horses to pretend to be horse thieves.

When he arrived outside the gate of the elephant barracks, as soon as Liu Wei stopped his horse, he saw Dian Wei running out of the barracks.

As soon as he ran in front of Liu Wei, Dian Wei clasped his fists and bowed to him and said, "The last general will greet the late, and I hope His Highness will forgive his sins!" ”

Hearing the sound of Dian Wei's urn, Liu Wei smiled at him, turned over and got off the warhorse, walked to his side and patted his big arm gently, and asked him, "How are you doing?" ”

Liu Wei originally wanted to ask Dian Wei how the elephant soldiers were, but Dian Wei was a rough man after all, and thought he was asking him how he was, and his expression suddenly turned a little wilted.

"Your Highness!" Following Liu Wei's side, while walking into the barracks, Dian Wei said to Liu Wei: "Daqin has been fighting for many years, since the last general commanded the elephant soldiers, and now even the Mao of the Cao army has not been touched, so if it goes on, it will be suffocated by the last general!" ”

Listening to Dian Weifa's complaints, Liu Wei stopped with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said to him: "Great Qin is like a cloud, but there are many generals on horseback, but you are the only general on the back of an elephant." When the elephant soldiers go to war in the future, I'm afraid that if you want to fight or not, this king will rush you forward! ”

"Alas!" From Liu Wei's words, Dian Wei heard that he had not had a chance to go to the battlefield for the time being, sighed, and said to Liu Wei depressedly: "If it is a war horse, if it grows for three or five years, it can also be on the battlefield." But these elephants are slower! ”

Dian Wei's words were full of complaints, which did not make Liu Wei feel unhappy, but he smiled tastefully and listened quietly.

Seeing that Liu Wei didn't mean to be angry, Dian Wei, who had been following him for a long time, became even more bold, and then said: "The last general tastes more of their forage all day long, and even the beans and rice are fed a lot, but no matter what, they still don't grow!" If you provoke the last general one day, you are not allowed to blow them up with ****! ”

Wang Liu and Wang Zhen, who were following Liu Wei and Dian Wei, heard Dian Wei say that he wanted to blow the **** of the elephant for them, and both of them couldn't help laughing.

Dian Wei's complaint also made Liu Wei cry and laugh.

He shook his head with a smile and said to Dian Wei: "If you really blow them up, this king is afraid that these elephant soldiers will all be fed in vain!" ”

Blinking his eyes at Liu Wei, Dian Wei asked confusedly, "Could it be that His Highness doesn't want the elephant to grow up earlier?" ”

"How not?" Glancing at Dian Wei, Liu Wei also said a little depressedly: "It's just that if the elephants are blown up by you, this king can't let thousands of puffed up balls go to the battlefield to kill the enemy!" ”

Liu Wei said a word, and Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and the guards who followed behind were all amused.

The elephant soldiers guarding the gate also wanted to laugh, but when they saw Dian Wei, they could only endure it one by one and didn't dare to laugh.

Scratching his head, Dian Wei still said a little heartlessly: "If Your Highness doesn't say it, the last general will really forget this stubble!" ”

Grinning, Liu Wei patted Dian Wei's back lightly on the back, and said to him: "Let's go with this king to see those elephants!" ”

Liu Wei asked to see the elephant, and Dian Wei answered and accompanied him towards the depths of the elephant barracks.

Entering the first military camp, Liu Wei saw the elephant soldiers who were training.

Since the war elephants have not yet fully grown, most of the elephant soldiers can only practice on the ground, with infantry tactics, and occasionally have the opportunity to step on the elephant's back for short-term training.

Glancing at the elephant soldiers who were practicing in the phalanx, Liu Wei did not say a word, and strode towards the second military camp.

The military camp inside is where the elephant soldiers domesticate war elephants.

For war elephants, the Qin army has always been very protective of them, even in the barracks of elephant soldiers, to enter the second military camp, they must go through a strict check.

Outside the gate of the barracks on the inside, there were more than a dozen heavily armed elephant soldiers.

Seeing Liu Wei coming over, the more than a dozen elephant soldiers hurriedly straightened up, clasped their fists and bowed to him and Dian Wei.

Liu Wei just raised his hand to the elephant soldiers who saluted, and led Dian Wei and the others into the inner barracks.

As soon as he entered the barracks, he heard the roar of war elephants.

Compared with the cry of the baby elephant at the beginning, the roar of the war elephant is much thicker and longer.

Although he hadn't seen the war elephants yet, he could hear the roar of the elephants, and Liu Wei also knew that it wouldn't be long before these war elephants would be able to train in formation, and eventually they would be pulled onto the battlefield to fight their enemies.

Following the roar of the war elephants, Liu Wei, accompanied by Dian Wei and others, walked all the way to the depths of the second military camp.

What appeared in front of him was an elephant running back and forth in the clearing.

Although Dian Wei said that he had some complaints about not being able to go to the battlefield all the time, he could take care of the war elephants, but he was never ambiguous.

Although the war elephants have not yet fully grown, they are all stocky like mountains of meat, roaring and running in the clearing, and their thick feet are stepping on the ground, making a loud "boom" sound.

Between the open space where the war elephants run and the rest of the barracks, there are three or four paddocks made of thick logs.

Since the jumping ability of the war elephant is not very strong, the height of the paddock is not very high, but it reaches Liu Wei's chest.

Walking outside the paddock, holding the upper side of the paddock with both hands, Liu Wei looked at the war elephants running inside.

There are too many war elephants, and standing on the edge of the paddock, you can smell a strong strange smell of wild animals.

Liu Wei frowned slightly, and asked Dian Wei, "How often do you wash the body of the war elephant?" ”

"Return to Your Highness, wash every three days!" Knowing that Liu Wei asked because the smell was too strong, Dian Wei hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "It's just that these elephants can eat and eat, and the last general led the soldiers to wash them alive, and they can't get rid of this smell!" ”

Knowing that what Dian Wei said was not bad, Liu Wei nodded and did not say anything more.

Although the elephant camp is not small, it can be densely packed with 2,000 war elephants, which is still too crowded.

In such a crowded environment, if there is no smell, it is really strange!

"War elephants are still afraid of fire!" Looking at the behemoth that had grown into more than half of it, Liu Wei asked Dian Wei.

"I'm not afraid!" Holding his fists again, Dian Wei said to Liu Wei: "Not only are they no longer afraid of fire, but even when they beat gongs and drums, they are not afraid at all!" ”

"Good birth and domestication!" Turning around, Liu Wei faced Dian Wei, and said with a very solemn face: "I'm afraid that our army can't wait for them to reach adulthood, and the elephant soldiers are about to go on the march!" ”

Dian Wei, who had been domesticating war elephants in Luoyang City, suddenly heard him say such a sentence, he was stunned at first, and then hurriedly clasped his fists and bowed to him and said: "Your Highness, rest assured, in the next month, the last general will definitely domesticate the elephant soldiers!" ”

Nodding his head, Liu Wei beckoned to Wang Liu and Wang Zhen and said, "Go back to the palace!" ”

"No!" Wang Liu and Wang Zhen responded, and followed Liu Wei to the outside of the elephant soldier camp, surrounded by a group of palace guards.

has been sending Liu Wei and others out of the barracks, personally serving Liu Wei on the war horse, watching him lead a group of guards away, Dian Wei was a little difficult to suppress the excitement of rubbing his hands, and shouted to a few elephant soldiers guarding the gate behind him: "Pass the order, starting today, we will practice the tactics on the back of the elephant!" ”

"No!" The elephant soldiers who followed Dian Wei to domesticate war elephants had not been on the battlefield for a long time, and they seemed to hear something from Dian Wei's words, and several elephant soldiers guarding the gate hurriedly responded, and one of them turned around and ran towards the barracks.

When the elephant soldiers who gave the order ran into the barracks, Dian Wei turned his head to look at Liu Wei and the others who were about to disappear at the end of the street, with excitement on his face that could not be concealed.

Liu Wei's words before leaving were undoubtedly a warning to Sù Dianwei that it would not be long before he and his elephant soldiers would gallop on the battlefield of the Qin army's southern and northern wars!