After the defeat of Zhu Bao and Gao Ding, the army retreated to the west for more than ten miles, and Zhu Bao and Gao Ding discussed: "The elite of Shu soldiers is difficult to be." A certain got the news that Liu Du sent Ma Chao to lead an army of 30,000 from Lingling into Sichuan to reinforce Zhuge Liang. The two of us might as well lead the army to join Meng Shu and fight against the Shu army. ”

Gao Ding agreed on the surface, returned to the big tent at night, summoned E Huan and asked, "Zhu Bao wants to vote for Meng Huo, is it okay?" ”

E Huan hurriedly dissuaded: "Although Meng Huo has the support of 50,000 barbarians and various barbarians in the southwest, he is probably not Zhuge Liang's opponent. And Ma Chao will go to Yongchang to join forces with Zhuge Liang in a few days, who is Ma Chao? The Qiang people still think that they are heavenly people, and they are deeply afraid of it, and they are not afraid of it! It's better to kill Zhu Bao to vote for Zhuge Liang. ”

Gao Ding thought that E Huan's suggestion was good, so he secretly summoned people that night, and at dawn the next day, while Zhu Bao and others had not yet woken up, he led the army to attack and kill Zhu Bao.

All the sergeants under Zhu Bao surrendered to Gao Ding, and Gao Ding led two troops to surrender Zhuge Liang and offered Zhu Bao's head under the tent. Zhuge Liang sat on the tent, glanced at Gao Ding under the stage, and shouted: "Left and right, push Gao Ding out, behead and report." ”

Gao Ding hurriedly asked: "I feel the great grace of the prime minister, why did you come to lower Zhu Bao's head today?" ”

Zhuge Liang laughed and said, "You come to surrender." Dare to hide it! ”

Gao Ding shouted: "Why does the prime minister know that I have surrendered? ”

Zhuge Liang ordered someone to take out a parchment letter from the box and show it to Gao Ding: "Zhu Bao has sent a secret surrender letter, saying that the three of you have made friends of life and death, why did you kill these two people one after another?" That's why I know that you are cheating. ”

"Wronged~" Gao Ding shouted, and was beheaded by the tent sergeant.

E Huan knelt on the ground and begged Zhuge Liang to spare his life, Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and looked at him and said: "These three thieves have repeatedly descended to me today, but because of the situation." Thou art my sincere surrender, and I want to take thee as a general, but thou wilt be willing? ”

"Dare to disobey?" E Huan bowed down to thank him, and then went out of the camp to rectify the surrender of the troops, and returned to Zhuge Liang to listen to him.

Zhuge Liang led the army into Yongchang City, Zhang Bang Anmin, Lu Kai and Wang Kang came to visit. After the ceremony. Zhuge Liang asked Lu Kai: "I have heard that the Duke of Yongchang is a master of Yongchang, thanks to the Duke for protecting this city." If you want to calm the barbarian side today, what is the high opinion of the public? ”

Lu Kai took a map and presented it to Zhuge Liang: "Since the beginning of the history, the people of Zhinan have wanted to rebel for a long time; Therefore, the secret sent people into the territory, inspected the place where the troops could fight, and drew a picture, which was called 'Pingman's Palm Map'. Dare to dedicate to Ming Gong today. Ming Gong tried to look at it, and it can be a help for the barbarians. ”

Zhuge Liang was overjoyed, so he used Lu Kai as a marching professor and guide. So Zhuge Liang raised his troops and went deep into the realm of the Southern Barbarians.

On the second day of the march, Ma Chao led the army to rendezvous, and the two armies combined. Zhuge Liang was overjoyed and said: "Meng is here, our army is like a tiger with wings, and the Nanban will be broken soon." Hahaha~"

Ma Chao bowed and said: "Your Majesty's tens of thousands of troops have been tuntian in Nanyang, Xiangyang and other places, just wait for the prime minister to return to the dynasty victoriously, and then discuss the Northern Expedition!" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming, there is hope for the recovery of my great Han!" When Zhuge Liang heard this, his confidence was greatly boosted, so he taught the army to speed up the march and come to find Meng to win a decisive battle.

"When my army arrives here, it is advisable to explore the reality of the barbarian soldiers first. Guan Xing, Guan Suo, I ordered you to lead an army to visit the enemy camp, catch the natives, and then teach the introduction, with the enemy barbarians, to raise the prestige of our army! ”

So the two men got on their horses and came in the middle. After walking for less than a few miles, I saw a big dust rise from afar. When the two of them went up the hill to look, they saw dozens of barbarians coming on horseback. The two rushed out in two ways. When the brute saw this, he was frightened and left. Guan Xing and Guan Suo each captured a few people, returned to the village, entertained them with wine and food, and asked the barbarians about the arrangement of each village.

The brute replied: "In front is Marshal Dazhai of the Golden Ring and Three Knots, and he is in the mountain pass. There are two roads on the east and west sides of the village, but after the Wuxi Cave and Dong Dana and Ah Hui Lan. ”

Guan Xing and Guan Suo led 5,000 elite soldiers to teach the captured barbarians to lead the way. The army took advantage of the moonlight to march, and when it first arrived at the Golden Ring Sanjie Dazhai, it was about four watches.

The barbarians had just gotten up to make food and were ready to fight in the morning. Suddenly, the soldiers and horses of Guan Xing and Guan Suo entered, and the barbarians were in chaos. Guan Suo directly entered the Chinese army, coinciding with the marshal of the Golden Ring Sanjie, handing over the horse only one together, was cut off by Guan Suo with a knife, and he was at the head of the army, and the rest of the military horses broke and left.

Guan Xing divided half of his troops and copied Dong Dana Village on Wangdong Road. Guan Suo divided half of the troops, and looked at the West Road to copy Ahui Murmur. By the time the barbarian soldiers were killed, the sky was already peaceful.

Guan Xing killed Dong Dana Village, Dong Dana heard that there was an army to kill after the village, so he led the troops out of the village to resist the enemy. Suddenly, there was a shout at the front door of the village, and the barbarians were in chaos. It turned out that Zhuge Liang had sent Zhao Tong to lead the army, and he had already killed it. Two flanking attacks, the brute army was defeated. Dong Dana took the road and ran away, and Guan Xing couldn't catch up.

When Guan Feng's soldiers killed behind Ahui Village, Ma Chao had already killed in front of the village. Two flanking attacks, the brute soldiers were defeated, and Ah Hui took advantage of the chaos to escape. Collect their troops and come back to see Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang asked: "The barbarians of the three caves, the lord of the two caves, where is the head of the marshal of the Golden Ring and the Three Knots?" ”

Guan Suo offered his head to ask for credit. Everyone regretted: "Dong Dana and Ah Huilan both abandoned the horse and crossed the ridge, so they couldn't catch him up." ”

Zhuge Liang smiled: "I have captured the two of you." ”

The generals didn't believe it, and after a while, Ma Dai escorted Dong Dana to arrive, and Guan Ping held Ah Hui to arrive. Ma Dai said: "The prime minister has already made arrangements and ordered the two of us to set up an ambush behind the mountain. ”

All the generals bowed down and said: "The camera is counted, the gods and ghosts are unpredictable!" ”

Zhuge Liang asked Dong Dana and Ah Huilan to be escorted to the tent, loosened the ties for the two, gave them wine, food and clothes, and ordered them to return to the cave and not rebel against the court. The two of them were grateful to Zhuge Liang, and they went back to the small road.

Zhuge Liang ordered the generals to make a plan, and then said to the generals: "In the coming day, Meng Shu will definitely personally lead the troops to fight, and he can be captured." ”

The barbarian king Meng Shu was sitting in the tent, and suddenly the whistle horse reported that the marshal of the three caves had been captured by Zhuge Liang. Meng was furious, and the barbarian army marched and met the Guanping army. The two formations were in a circle, and Guan Ping looked at it with a horizontal sword: he saw that the door flag was open, and hundreds of southern barbarian horsemen put the two forces open. In the middle, Meng got out of the horse, and saw Meng get a peacock feather on his head, riding a curly-haired horse, and hanging two loose swords.

Meng Shu watched proudly, turned back to the left and right barbarian generals and said: "Every time people say that Zhuge Liang is good at using soldiers; Looking at this formation today, the flags are chaotic and the teams are staggered; Knives, guns and instruments, none of them can defeat me. I knew this was the case, and I had been doing it for a long time. Who dares to capture the Shu generals to boost the army's prestige? ”

A general behind Meng Shu came out in response, called the busy tooth chief, made a big knife with a truncated head, rode a yellow horse, and came to take Guan Ping. The two generals clashed, and before the battle was counted, Guan Ping left. Meng was chased by his troops. Guan Suo fought and walked again, about 20 miles back.

Meng Huo was chasing and killing, and suddenly shouted loudly, with Ma Dai on the left and Liu Feng on the right, and the two soldiers killed and cut off Meng Shu's way back. Guan Ping and Guan Suo led troops back again. The front and rear attacked, and the barbarians were defeated.

Meng was led to fight to the death, and fled with the mountain. The three soldiers behind him are chasing and killing the future. Meng Huo was running when he shouted loudly in front of him, and a Biao army stopped him. The head of the general is Ma Chao Ma Mengqi.

Meng was shocked when he saw it, and hurriedly ran to the Jindai Mountain path. Ma Chao rushed to kill for a while, the brute soldiers were defeated, and there were countless captivators. Meng Shouzhi and dozens of horsemen rushed into the valley, chasing the soldiers behind them, the path in front was narrow, and the horses could not cross, so they abandoned the horses, climbed the mountains and fled.

Suddenly, a drum sounded in the valley, and it turned out that Zhao Tong was under Zhuge Liang's strategy and led 500 infantry troops to ambush here. Meng was unable to resist the enemy and was captured by Liu Fengsheng, and the rest of the people all surrendered.

Zhao Tong escorted Meng Shu to Dazhai to see Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang sat on the tent, only to see the barbarians crowding one after another, capturing countless people. Zhuge Liang called the soldiers to loosen the ties for them, and said: "You and the others are all good people, but unfortunately they were detained by Meng Huo, and now they are frightened. I think that your father, brother, and wife will lean against the door, and if I hear that I am defeated, I will cut my belly and intestines, and I will let you go back now, so as to calm his heart. ”

After saying that, they gave each one wine, food, rice and food, and dismissed the barbarians. The barbarian soldier deeply felt Zhuge Liang's kindness and wept and left.

Zhuge Liang taught the warriors to escort Meng Shu, and it didn't take long for the warriors to push forward and hug back, escorting Meng Huo to the front of the tent. Meng Shu knelt under the tent, and Zhuge Liang asked, "Do you know that my Han Heavenly Soldiers are mighty?" ”

Meng Shu replied: "Those who are to the Xiangxiang do not know the truth and truth, so they are defeated." Now I am given to watch the camp, and if it is so, it will be easy to prevail. ”

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "If you don't accept it, I will let you go, what if?" ”

Meng Shu replied: "You let me go back, and then reorganize the army and horses, and decide the male and female together; If you can capture me again, I will obey me. ”

Zhuge Liang immediately let Meng Huo go, saddle his horse, and send someone to send him a way out, and Meng Huo looked at the village and left.

The generals asked Zhuge Liang in the account: "Meng is the leader of the southern barbarian canal, and now he is fortunately captured, and the south is decided; Why did the prime minister let it go? ”。

But seeing Zhuge Liang beside him, Ma Yan, who joined the army, said: "Attack the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top." As long as you subdue Meng Huo's heart, Nanzhong will naturally be peaceful. ”

"This sentence of the young man won my heart!" Zhuge Liang said with a smile. He remembered what Ma Chao had said before: Your Majesty had already predicted that Meng was dissatisfied, and the prime minister had to capture seven times before he could accept his heart.