Chapter 30 The Four Counties Conscription Order.
It turns out that another condition of the barbarian king is that because his daughter lived in Zhuge Song's house for a night, his reputation will be ruined no matter what, although he can't be Zhuge Song's main room, but now even the side room can be, otherwise the barbarian war to the last person will catch Zhuge Song to get this statement back.
Zhuge Song didn't expect that his prank on Shana would eventually hurt him, although it would not be a loss for Zhuge Song to marry Shana, after all, Shana is not only very good-looking, but also has a unique heroic spirit that is not found in everyone's ladies. But Zhuge Song has only been newly married for a short time after all, and he wants to marry another one so soon, and he doesn't know if Qing'er can stand it.
Zhuge Song ignored Xie Xian's persuasion and forced him to go down, but Xie Xian just couldn't go down, and repeatedly said something oppressive to Zhuge Song that focused on the people, which in Zhuge Song's eyes was simply a moral kidnapping that didn't care about his feelings at all. In the end, Zhuge Song couldn't stand it anymore, so he let Xie Xian drag him down, telling him to let him think about it for one night and give him an answer tomorrow.
After returning to his house and seeing Qing'er, Zhuge Song inevitably felt a little guilty, and wanted to say it to her several times, but he just said it. Qing'er saw that Zhuge Song was full of worries and kept asking, and when Zhuge Song finally told her about it, she was only stunned for a moment, and then immediately changed her smile and said to Zhuge Song: "I am already grateful that my husband can let me be your main room, since you have become a county guard, it is not only me, for the sake of the lord, but also for the people of the county, you agree!" Don't worry, I'll get along with her in the future! ”
Zhuge Song was deeply moved by Qing'er's words, and he felt that God could give his family such a gentle and knowledgeable wife, which was really a blessing he had cultivated in several lifetimes. Thinking of this, Zhuge Song couldn't help but say to Qing'er affectionately: "Qing'er, no matter what the future holds, you will always be my favorite woman!" ”
Zhuge Song's affection made Qing'er blush, and he also took advantage of the situation to carry Qing'er to bed and lingered for a long time.
The next day, Zhuge Song ordered someone to release Shamoke and the other captured barbarians out of the city, and asked Shamoke to go back and tell his father that he had promised to marry Shana, but Zhuge Song had just gotten married, and it was not good to marry again so soon, so he had to wait for another three months, and after the three months were over, he would personally go to the barbarian territory to marry Shana.
This is also the only thing Zhuge Song can do for Qing'er now, and he also hopes that this will make him feel a little less guilty in his heart. Shamoke was also very happy to hear Zhuge Song's words, and the barbarian king finally accepted Zhuge Song's condition, and soon the news of all the barbarian soldiers retreating reached Hanshou. After bidding farewell to Xie Xian, Zhuge Song returned to the county seat. Gong Zhi's face did not have a little dissatisfaction and unnatural expression, but a large banquet to celebrate Zhuge Song, Zheng Liang and others.
At the banquet, Gong Zhi could be said to have been singing praises for Zhuge Song, and Zhuge Song's goosebumps fell straight down when he heard it. However, this time Zhuge Song successfully survived the crisis, except that he still had to marry the daughter of the barbarian king, everything went well, so he happily drank a few more glasses, and when he was drunk, he said something and woke up the next day, and most of them couldn't remember clearly.
In this way, more than half a month passed, and the news that Liu Bei had returned came from Nanjun, and Zhuge Song expected that Zhou Yu would soon lose his wife and then fold his army. Sure enough, not long after, Tanma reported that Zhou Yu had carried out a general mobilization of the whole army in Lukou, and there were no less than 50,000 troops in the army, which was obviously a precursor to a big move.
Although the strength of 50,000 troops is much less than Cao Cao's 830,000 army before, these 50,000 people are the elite of the Wu army of Chibi Po Cao, and once the two armies of Sun and Liu fight, the first thing to decide on the ground in Jingzhou is the water army, which can be said to be a big disadvantage for Liu Beijun, who is mostly the old department of the Jingzhou army, and it is estimated that Liu Bei will have to mobilize all his family resources to deal with it if he wants to defeat the Wu army.
As Zhuge Song expected, on the second day of the return of the horses, a messenger from Nanjun brought Liu Bei's military order to transfer troops from various counties.
In fact, Liu Bei should also know that the current guards in the four counties of Jingnan are only enough to protect themselves, and in this case, he still has to transfer troops, which can be said to fully show his fear of Zhou Yu. In the romance, the duel between Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang is written so without suspense, it is mostly intended to set off Zhuge Liang's wisdom.
But what Zhuge Song is experiencing now is a real history, and stratagem may really affect the outcome of the game, but the military force that uses stratagem is naturally the stronger, the better. Liu Bei wants to send 5,000 elite soldiers from Wuling County to Nanjun to listen to the tune, that is to say, 20,000 elite soldiers from the four counties of Jingnan will gather near Nanjun, correspondingly, the defenders of each city will also drop to about 5,000 people, and they are all old and weak remnants.
Of course, Zhou Yu's attempt to capture Nanjun under the guise of cutting down Shu in the romance is also recorded in the official history, so although Zhuge Song was quite worried about the decline of the defense of the four counties of Jingnan, he still took his 600 personal soldiers and 4,500 other soldiers to Nanjun after consulting with Gong Zhi.
Because it was an expedition, Zhuge Song didn't want to take Qing'er, but as soon as Qing'er heard that Zhuge Song was going to Nanjun, she begged Zhuge Song to take her with her after not seeing her for a long time. Zhuge Song originally felt guilty about Qing'er because of Shana's matter, so this time he agreed to go with her without thinking.
When Zhuge Song sent out his troops, the solar term was already in early autumn, although the weather was not as hot and dry as midsummer, and he was sweating when he was wearing armor on a horse when the sun was full. Because there were 5,000 troops with him, Zhuge Song's pomp this time far exceeded the previous two times when more than 100 people went to save Taoyuan and 5 or 600 people tried to lure the enemy.
Because among the four counties, Wuling County is the closest to Nanjun, so Zhuge Song is also the earliest. He didn't expect Liu Bei to go out of the city to greet him in person, so he was so shocked that he hurriedly rolled off his horse and stepped forward to salute.
Liu Bei hugged Zhuge Song with a smile, and patted his right shoulder twice with his right hand and said to him: "Before, I was very worried that you were still young and would make a mess when you became a county guard, but I didn't expect you to not only be able to appoint talents, listen to Gong Zhi's opinions, and still have talents in military affairs, not only killed and retreated the barbarians twice, but also used the way of union to marry the daughter of the barbarian king as his wife, I heard that Nashana is a beauty, not only will Wuling County worry in the future, but you yourself can be regarded as a good fortune!" ”
Zhuge Song was forced to reluctantly agree to the barbarian king's request to marry his daughter, and he was helpless, but now he saw that Liu Bei was still said to be his own talent, he was really dumb and couldn't say what he was suffering from. Of course, Zhuge Song can't deny that being able to get Shana is really a blessing for him, but after all, he is from modern times, and the idea of monogamy has long been ingrained, thinking that if you love someone, you should be two people together, and at this time, with others, I still feel sorry for Qing'er in my heart, so I have such bitterness.
However, when Zhuge Song heard Liu Bei say this, he could only follow his words and say: "Weichen is for the lord, not to mention that the daughter of the barbarian king looks good, even if she looks like a monkey, I can only marry!" ”
These words made Liu Bei and Kong Ming beside him laugh, and Liu Bei tapped Zhuge Song's head with his finger and said to Kong Ming: "Look at you, a scholar, you are sharp-toothed, and you are so obedient when you get cheap!" ”
Kong Ming also kept shaking his head, not because he felt that Zhuge Song was incorrigible, but because he was so amused by Zhuge Song that he could only rely on this to soothe his emotions.
After the joke was finished, Zhuge Song led the army into the city with Liu Bei, and after entering the city, he ordered Zheng Liang to lead 5,000 military horses to the military camp that had been planned with the guide, and he followed Liu Bei into the palace, waiting for the generals of the other three counties to arrive and wait for Liu Bei to send them.
Zhuge Song settled down in Liu Bei's mansion, and Qing'er also went to see Huang Yueying without mentioning it. It took another two days for all the soldiers and horses of the other three counties to arrive. However, the strange thing is that Kong Ming ordered the soldiers and horses of these three counties to be stationed outside the city, which means that among the four counties, only Zhuge Song's soldiers and horses entered the city, and Kong Ming excused himself to say that the city was crowded and the barracks were full. But now there are only 30,000 troops and horses in Nanjun City, even if Zhuge Song's more than 5,000 people are added, there are only 35,000 people, and the huge Nanjun has 100,000 troops as Chibi backup when Cao Cao's troops are at their peak, Zhuge Song is really hard to believe the reason Kong Ming said.
He guessed that Kong Ming must have his plan to only let his five thousand people enter the city, since Zhuge Song couldn't guess, he didn't bother to think about it, let the genius military master called Wolong master plan in the city, and then Zhuge Song only needed to follow the order, and defeating Zhou Yu would definitely be just around the corner.
Five days later, Zhou Yu reported that he was about to raise troops from Lukou the next day and sailed to Jingzhou, but at the military meeting that night, Liu Bei had a rare dispute with Zhuge Liang on how to deal with it