Chapter 17: The Sacrificial Mockery.
Of course, Zhuge Song knew that the strategy he was talking about was no different from suicide, but now there were only three hundred old and weak soldiers in Yuannan City, and without this strategy, he estimated that with Zheng Liang's character, he would have to use almost all of his belongings to fight to the death with the barbarian soldiers.
Besides, how high can a barbarian woman who dares to lead a small number of troops deep into enemy territory and attack the city with great fanfare? Zhuge Song firmly believed that as long as he gave enough bait, he didn't believe that she would not take the bait!
Thinking of this, Zhuge Song stood up with a smile, walked to Fan Anguo's side, gently held his shoulders and said to him: "Fan County, don't panic, do you think I'm stupid when I'm young?" Tell you the truth. Saying that, Zhuge Song pointed to the dense forest east of Yuannan City and said to him: "I borrowed three thousand elite soldiers from your brother-in-law before leaving, and now I am ambushed in that dense forest. As long as the leader of the barbarians takes the bait, as soon as my three thousand elite soldiers come out, she will be captured even if she is Lu Bu in her second life! ”
"Hahahaha, you didn't say it sooner." Fan Anguo's face immediately turned cloudy and clear, and he said to Zhuge Song with a relieved smile: "Xiaguan is only worried about your safety, and he has no intention of cowardly the enemy. ”
Zhuge Song also laughed, pulled him to sit down again, and said to him: "Lord Gong's relatives still need to say, quickly order someone to do it!" Kill the barbarians, and I will give you a great credit to the lord! ”
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Fan Anguo's eyes were so happy that they were about to narrow into a line, only a few people who came from Zhuge Song, including Qing'er, looked at each other a little, but Jiang Xiaoyu had a serious face, Zhuge Song knew that he had already opened up to save his father at this time, and he would not expose his lies to Fan Anguo at all.
Fan Anguo was very cooperative and prepared two boats by the river according to Zhuge Song's instructions, one boat was slightly larger, similar to the painting boat for high-ranking officials and nobles to amuse, and the other was very simple, similar to the ferry boat that Jiang Xiaoyu carried Zhuge Song before.
Sacrifices such as pigs and sheep were prepared on the painting boat, as well as the drumming of dozens of people requested by Zhuge Song, of course, this is nothing, in front of the bow of the boat facing Taoyuan, and the pig's head on the table, a silver plate was filled with a large amount of gold. Although it was now dusk, the sunset at this time was also exceptionally bright, shining on the pile of gold that completely achieved the effect that Zhuge Song wanted.
Fan Anguo took a hundred soldiers to cheer for Zhuge Song on the shore, and Jiang Xiaoyu's boat was hundreds of feet upstream of Zhuge Song's painting boat, and he himself didn't need to pretend to be a living captain.
The painting boat slowly drove towards Jiang Xin, Qing'er was strictly ordered by Zhuge Song to stay in the city, although he thought this strategy was a clever plan with a high probability of success, but in case of failure, he didn't want to put Qing'er into it.
Before the boat reached the center of the river, the drums began to play in unison, and when they reached the center of the river, Taoyuan City gradually became clear, and Zhuge Song knew why he only saw a few enemy soldiers looking at the bamboo raft on the other side of the river. As the gate of Taoyuan City opened far away, a young female general wearing red armor and riding a snow-white war horse rushed over with hundreds of barbarian soldiers waving their flags and shouting.
There are many forests in the south, Zhuge Song doesn't know where Zheng Liang is hiding now, and now he has nothing to retreat from, the drums are still playing on the painting boat, Zhuge Song even picked up the largest gold ingot from the silver plate on the offering table and raised it to the woman to see the color of the gold in the sun.
How ironic is that? On the other side of the river, the female general in a red robe wrapped in red armor arrived at the riverside without hesitation and got on a bamboo raft, and her subordinates not only did not stop her, but rushed to get on the rest of the bamboo rafts, and a few sturdy barbarian men supported the penny and got the bamboo rafts out of the shore in a few moments.
There were forty or fifty bamboo rafts rushing over, and there were four or five people on each raft, and the total number of people was two or three hundred. No wonder they didn't give face to the "cheerleaders" on Zhuge Song's shore at all, and the hundred heavily armed soldiers who rushed to love all became the heads of the people who asked for rewards in their eyes!
Zhuge Songben wanted to put down the gold ingots slowly like Zhuge Liang, waiting for them for a while, and then ordering people to leave like teasing children. Unexpectedly, the barbarians' kung fu on the water was not covered, and they were already rushing over in the blink of an eye, and at this speed, if Zhuge Song had another cup of tea, the barbarians would have jumped on his painting boat and captured him.
Zhuge Song hurriedly ordered people to drive the boat back, but he didn't expect that after driving for a while, he found that things were a little bigger, and at this speed, Zhuge Song would definitely be caught up by the barbarian soldiers before he reached the shore. Especially the red-robed female general, her bamboo raft is obviously the best boat master, and other bamboo rafts have been pulled away by her four or five feet away, and the first raft is rushing to Zhuge Song.
Zhuge Song secretly regretted that he was not prepared for difficulties, this Wuxi barbarian tribe has lived in this land for hundreds of years, how could he not be proficient in water kung fu? It is certainly not an accident that the daughter of the barbarian king led people down the river to capture Taoyuan County so quickly!
Zhuge Song was very embarrassed and shouted at the musicians who were still drumming but were already a little weak because they were afraid of blowing: "Don't blow!" One counts as one! Let's go rowing for Lao Tzu! "Suddenly the boat was full of musical instruments, but fortunately, there were enough spare oars on the boat, and these musicians, although they were not very skilled in rowing, the speed of the boat was a little faster.
It's a pity that even so, the face of the barbarian king's daughter is still getting clearer and clearer, and it is really a beautiful face, heroic and refreshing, and has a different taste. This heroic, this face, Zhuge Song is in danger, and there is still a moment of some thought.
But the female general had already drawn out the sword at this time, how could there be a trace of tenderness in Zhuge Song's eyes? Zhuge Song has seen this kind of look countless times on TV, and it is obviously a kind of eyes that kill and then hurry!
The "cheerleaders" on the shore did not panic much. Because they had long known that Zhuge Song had 3,000 elite soldiers ambushed in the dense forest east of the city, but Zhuge Song was very panicked now, and he knew that if he was caught by that woman, he would definitely end up in a miserable situation.
The painting boat finally arrived at the shore before being overtaken, and the bamboo raft of the barbarian female general was less than ten zhang away from Zhuge Song at this time, and Zhuge Song was the first to jump on the ferry board of the small pier on the shore and shouted: "Retreat to the city with me!" ”
Zhuge Song's "cheerleaders" ran towards the city in front of him with a bang, because he didn't expect the enemy to chase so fast, Zhuge Song didn't even prepare a horse in advance, if Kong Ming must have prepared it a long time ago, just in case. Zhuge Song ran to the city gate with his life, and said to himself in his heart: "I said Song, you can have a snack!" Look at your loss now! ”
Fortunately, the gold on the painting boat bought Zhuge Song some time to flee to the city, and Zhuge Song saw that the red-robed female general and her men on the ship had jumped onto the painting boat that he had just used for sacrifice. When he and Fan Anguo climbed up to the top of the city out of breath, the people on the painting boat let out cheers in celebration of victory. Not far away, the raft under the rest of the barbarian grandmother was only twenty or thirty zhang away from the painting boat, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
Fan Anguo looked at the dense forest in the east of the city, and said to Zhuge Song a little anxiously: "Lord Taishou, where are your ambush soldiers?" If you don't kill it again, the barbarian will run away with the gold! ”
Zhuge Song sighed, and more than a dozen of his subordinates, including Qing'er, looked at him with a helpless expression, he knew that it would not work if he didn't make a decision now, Zhuge Song pretended to be calm and said to Fan Anguo: "It's not okay yet, as soon as these three thousand people come out, it is estimated that the barbarian girl will definitely run away, you find a few loud voices to shout at the barbarian girl, saying that the Taishou of Wuling County is here, let her come to the city and I will negotiate with her!" ”