When the night gradually deepened, Zhang Bao and Mrs. Zhurong were still in a state of confrontation, and the beacon fire in the distance made Mrs. Zhurong anxious, but Zhang Bao obviously wanted to rescue Guan Xing, so she was naturally unwilling to let Mrs. Zhurong leave.

The barbarian soldiers are already loose in military discipline, if this is a sudden withdrawal, Zhang Bao rushed from behind, I am afraid that it will be a situation of collapse immediately, from this point of view, Mrs. Zhurong in addition to the explosive muscles, the brain is also very good, know the severity, at this time no matter how urgent it is, it can't be chaotic, a mess is a situation where the whole situation is lost.

However, when the rout in the direction of the main camp retreated, Mrs. Rao is Zhurong could not continue to calm down, this was not only related to Meng Shu's safety, but more importantly, in this way, her troops would be surrounded from two sides, maybe three sides!

"General, the Pavilion Marquis has an order, slowly withdraw the army!" When Zhang Bao was planning how to cooperate with the army on the other side to completely annihilate Mrs. Zhurong's army, a soldier who came in a hurry bowed to Zhang Bao and said.

"What's going on?" Zhang Bao was a little puzzled, such a good situation, one more step, these barbarian armies would be completely defeated, why did they withdraw instead?

"I don't know what I do." The soldier shook his head, Liu Yi obviously didn't explain the reason to him.

Although he was dissatisfied, Zhang Bao still strictly implemented Liu Yi's military order, and with a wave of his hand, the originally tense army took the initiative to start retreating.

Mrs. Zhurong did not chase after her, she was worried that this was a trick of the Han people, until Zhang Bao completely retreated and returned along the original road, Mrs. Zhurong breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly summoned the rout to inquire about the reason, and the news that Meng was captured was undoubtedly another blow to Mrs. Zhurong.

……

"Tinghou, Anguo was captured by the enemy, why are you retreating now!?" Zhang Bao rushed to Liu Yi's room with some anger, with a thick dissatisfaction in his voice.

"Meng Huo has been caught, plus the cave master you captured, we have enough chips to exchange with the other party." Liu Yi pointed to the location of his start, and in his room, Wei Yue, E Huan, Ma Jian and others were all there, ready to discuss the next move.

When Zhang Bao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he was still puzzled: "With the momentum of the talent, it is easy for our army to break the barbarian army, and the enemy army will be destroyed with only two flanking attacks, why do you want to collect troops?" ”

"All you see is the war itself." Liu Yi shook his head and said: "Things in this world, sometimes it's not just war, the purpose of our southward journey this time is to subdue the southern barbarians, to subdue their hearts, not to simply eliminate them, this southern Xinjiang, countless mountains in the barbarians are inexhaustible, if these people are killed today, hatred will make the entire southern Xinjiang fall into the quagmire of war, endless war, will only deepen the hatred between the two races, and our original intention is to eliminate such unnecessary wars." ”

Zhang Bao sat down as if he didn't understand, he still didn't quite understand, didn't they come here just to fight? There is no immortal in war.

"Go and bring that Meng Shu." Liu Yi didn't say anything more, just said to the guard at the door.

"Whoa!"

The guards agreed, turned around and left, and after a while, they saw the burly Meng Shu being brought in by the five flowers.

"Let go of me!" Meng Shu broke free from the restraints of the two guards and glared at Liu Yi angrily.

"Let's go down." Liu Yi waved his hand, motioned for the two guards to step back, and looked at Meng Yu with a smile: "What does the barbarian king think of my walled city?" ”

"Not how." Meng Shu sneered and said proudly: "I know you, Liu Yi." ”

"Oh?" Liu Yi looked at Meng Shu and said with a smile: "It seems that Yongchang has contributed a lot. ”

"We Yi people will not betray our friends, even if you kill me today, you don't want me to obey you!" Meng Shu sneered.

"I don't want to kill you, it's just that one of my generals was captured by your army and returned, if you still want to fight again, it's not too late for us to fight again." Liu Yi said with a smile.

"This is a good saying, let me go and bring the cave master, and I will let people put him back." Meng Shu said disdainfully.

"Yes." Liu Yi nodded and said, "Untie him." ”

"Are you really going to let me go?" Meng Shu frowned and looked at Liu Yi.

"We Han people pay attention to words and have faith." Liu Yi got up slowly, came to Meng Shu's side, and personally untied him: "On the battlefield, soldiers are not tired of cheating, but when we get off the battlefield, we are willing to treat every friend sincerely." ”

"We're not friends!" Meng Shu said coldly.

"Friends sometimes can't see clearly." Liu Yi helped him untie the rope, looked at Meng Xu and said: "People's eyes will deceive people, but the heart will not, in the next time I entered Nanzhong, I hope that this land in Nanzhong will no longer cause unprovoked wars because of the difference between barbarians, no matter what, war is cruel, I don't want more people to die, whether it is Yi or Han, I don't want anyone to die." ”

Meng Shu looked at Liu Yi and frowned, "You really let me go?" ”

"I said I would walk the talk." Liu Yi nodded.

Meng Shu looked at the others again, swept over E Huan at the door, and then looked at Liu Yi again, his eyes flashing with a dangerous light: "What about bringing the cave master?" ”

"The one who put me back, he will naturally be sent back." Liu Yi said with a smile.

"Didn't you say you could release people?" Meng Shu frowned.

"But I didn't say when." Liu Yi said indifferently.

"You Han people like to play these little tricks." Meng Shu sneered.

"You are the Barbarian King, you should be more important than the cave master who brought it." Liu Yi looked at Meng Shu and said: "Let you go, it is to show my sincerity and credibility, but you have not proved your integrity to me, let back my people, and bring the cave master without damage!" ”

Meng Shu nodded, suddenly looked at Liu Yi and said, "If I capture you now, don't I have to release you?" ”

"Theoretically, that's so." Liu Yi waved his hand, signaling everyone not to be anxious, and looked at Meng Yudao: "But I believe that you can deal with problems as a barbarian king, and you will consider a lot of things, right?" ”

Seeing that the cold crossbow arrows exposed from Liu Yi's cuffs were aimed at him, such a close distance...... Meng Shu nodded sincerely: "Yes, I won't." ”

"Please, three days later, I hope to be able to bring back the cave master, and I also hope that the barbarian king can consider it, you and me, in fact, there are not too many grudges, many things in the past, in fact, there are many misunderstandings, if you can let go of your prejudices, whether it is for all ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang, or for us, it is a good thing." Liu Yi said with a smile.

Meng Huo nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Well, this matter needs to be discussed with the caves, although I am a barbarian king, I can't decide everything." ”

"Well, that's understandable." Liu Yi nodded seriously: "Do you need me to send the Barbarian King?" ”

"Not necessarily!" Meng Shu only hoped that he could stay away from Liu Yi, waved his hand, and strode out.

"Tinghou, just let him go like this?" E Huan looked at Liu Yi puzzled.

"You want to keep him down for dinner?" Liu Yi glanced at E Huan and said with a smile.

"Naturally not, it's just that he's a barbarian king!" E Huan frowned.

"That's why I want to let it go." Liu Yi nodded.

E Huan felt that his worldview was in a bit of a collapse trend, and looked at Liu Yi blankly, not knowing what to say.

Wei Yue looked at Liu Yi and muttered: "Meng Yu, this person doesn't seem to be a good person, and if he leaves this time, I'm afraid he will go and return soon." ”

"If you can catch him once, you can catch him ten times! Beat him until he wears! Looking at the direction outside the door, Liu Yi stood up, waved his hand at everyone and said: "Go and prepare, the day Guan Xing comes back, I'm afraid it will be the time to fight again, before that, this walled city will be built first, and then it will be our logistics supply point." ”

"Whoa!" When the generals heard this, they got up, the city has not been fully built, and in the past few days, Liu Yi is ready to build a prison and come out, hoping to have some special effects.

……

On the other side, after Meng Shu left the walled city, seeing that Liu Yi really didn't send anyone out, he looked at the direction of the walled city, sneered, and hurried towards the direction of his own camp.

Mrs. Zhurong was arrested overnight, her husband and brother were arrested, and she was so anxious that she recruited the fleeing troops overnight, preparing to storm the camp and rescue Meng Huo and her brothers, but was told that Meng Huo had returned.

Mrs. Zhurong was overjoyed when she heard the news, and hurriedly went out to greet her, looking at her husband, Mrs. Zhurong asked while groping: "Husband, how did you escape?" ”

Meng Shu was a little embarrassed by his wife, and said a little unnaturally: "Then after Liu Yi collected his troops and returned to the camp, his precautions were lax, and I took the opportunity to kill two Han soldiers and escaped from the Han walled city, but unfortunately I couldn't find it." ”

"It's okay if the husband is fine, as for bringing ......" Mrs. Zhurong's eyes flashed with a touch of murderous intent and said: "Let's go and rob it ourselves!" ”

"No!" Meng Shu hurriedly suppressed the thought of Mrs. Zhurong and comforted: "If you really force the Han people to be anxious and harm the brothers, it is not worth it, I heard the Han people say that Mrs. also captured a Han general?" ”

"Hmm." Mrs. Zhurong nodded and said, "That general has some skills, and now he is locked up in the camp by me." ”

"We sent someone to exchange with the Han Chinese, and used him in exchange to bring brothers." Meng Shu said in a deep voice: "Leave this matter to me, and I will definitely be able to bring it back to the camp safely." ”

"Hmm." Mrs. Zhurong leaned her head on Meng Huo's chest with some admiration: "It's good to have a husband here." ”

Meng Shu's cheeks twitched twice, and he felt a little numb in his chest, but thinking of his wife's anxious appearance before, his heart softened, and he reached out to stop Mrs. Zhurong's broad arms, and didn't say anything more.

In the course of three days, after Meng Huo sent someone to discuss the details of the exchange of prisoners with Liu Yi, on the third day, five miles away from the walled city, he exchanged Guan Xing for the cave master.

The first confrontation between the two sides came to an end here, although Guan Xing was captured, which somewhat made this battle a little flawed, but overall, the capture of Meng Huo plus a cave master, the barbarians brought by Meng Huo were half scattered, and this first battle was considered a win.