Chapter XVIII.

Fan Anguo's search for someone to shout did have a little effect, the daughter of the barbarian king seemed to be able to understand Chinese completely, she asked her follow-up subordinates to take care of her booty, and she took a dozen people to a place two hundred meters away from the city gate to ask Zhuge to open the city and interview her.

Zhuge Song ordered Fan Anguo to set up dozens of archers on the city wall, if this person catches up with the army to attack the city, I am afraid that there will be no movement in the city in the next round of volleys. However, fortunately, the number of opponents is not large, and the possibility of forcibly storming the city while seeing the archers full of strings should not be too high.

The gate of Yuannan City was slowly opened, but Zhuge Song was not stupid enough to really go down to the city to face the barbarian girl, he just asked the barbarian king's daughter to come into the city to talk. As soon as Zhuge Song finished making his request, he asked Fan Anguo to order him to go down, and once the barbarian girl led people to a distance of fifty meters from the city gate, he would immediately close the city gate. Zhuge Song thought that she had left her snow-white war horse on the other side because she crossed the river, so this distance should be enough for his soldiers to react in time, and the other party would definitely be able to block her out of the city gate in case of a sudden storm.

Sure enough, the daughter of the barbarian king raised the concern that it was too unsafe for her to enter the city by herself, and Zhuge Song was very "generous" and said that she could bring dozens of subordinates in, and the daughter of the barbarian king felt that it was still too little, and said that she would bring at least a hundred people, and Zhuge Song also agreed. He saw from a distance that there was a hint of ridicule on her face, obviously treating him as two hundred and five, Zhuge Song didn't care, she still looked very gentle and sincere.

Zhuge Song asked the archers to put down their bows and arrows first according to the request of the barbarian king's daughter, and the barbarian king's daughter led more than a hundred of his men to the city gate slowly with a smile.

Two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters, Zhuge Song now regrets a little why he didn't make an appointment with Zheng Liang to let him attack, after all, this is his first time commanding a battle, and it is in the case of the enemy's strength being stronger on the surface, it is inevitable that he will not be thoughtful, and now he can only hope that Zheng Liang can bring the quality that a famous general should have. Just when the barbarian king's daughter and her men were nearly fifty meters away from the city gate, the city gate of Yuannan City immediately began to close extremely quickly.

The smile on the face of the barbarian king's daughter disappeared in an instant, and she immediately drew the sword at her waist and shouted, "Kill!" "Take the lead and kill the city, trying to rush into the city before the gates are completely closed.

The archers in the city immediately raised their bows and shot arrows downward, and the scattered dozen arrows were obviously not too much of a threat to the enemy. Fortunately, although there was no moat in such a small county, the solid gate wrapped in iron was closed before the enemy rushed in. And no matter how fierce the barbarian soldiers are, they are helpless without siege weapons.

Zhuge Song could no longer see the enemy who might have reached the door from the city tower, but there was a swelling sound of slamming the door under the city, and it was obvious that those barbarians wanted to rely on the large number of people and their strong bodies to force the door open.

"Oh my God!" Zhuge Song sneered and thought: "Don't these barbarians know that the inside of the city gate can be topped with huge wooden pillars except for killing people and stealing money?" ”

There began to be barbarian soldiers who were hit by stray arrows from the city, and although they all carried simple rattan cards with them, hundreds of people gathered in a small area at the city gate, and it was really rare to be shot by a few arrows.

At this moment, a large number of shouts and killings suddenly sounded from the dense forest in the east of the city, and the leader was a majestic general in soft armor. There were only nine cavalrymen following him, and the rest could only sit on the 11th road, shouting behind to kill the barbarians guarding the gold by the river.

Fan Anguo, who was beside Zhuge Song, almost immediately came to pat his ass, and this guy shouted loudly: "My lord, you are really clever!" Now look where they're going! ”

Zhuge Song watched this team of strange soldiers rush into the barbarian soldiers resting on the shore, although the first to arrive was only ten people and ten horses, but the ten people who seemed to be like tigers entering the flock of sheep had already cut off the heads of several barbarians in an instant.

His mood at this time can be said to be different, Zhuge Song sighed in his heart: "My good girl, Zheng Liang, how did you appear here?" ”

Zhuge Song's previous plan was to lure the daughter of the barbarian king over and drag her under the fortified city, and on the other side of the river, Zheng Liang suddenly launched a surprise attack on the enemy army that had no leader for the time being, forcing the daughter of the barbarian king to take people across the river to rescue, and finally he led people to chase and kill from behind, Jiang Xiaoyu volleyed on the river to see if he could capture the daughter of the barbarian king when the enemy was in chaos.

However, this plan was already full of loopholes when Zhuge Song led the enemy across the river. First, the enemy has captured Taoyuan County, which means that the barbarians who were left on the other side of the river are all guarding the fortified city, so how can they raid? Second, judging from the situation of the barbarians chasing Zhuge Song on the river, their water properties should not be bad, even if Zheng Liang can lead them back to the river, it is really a bit of a fool's dream to catch the barbarian king's daughter by Jiang Xiaoyu alone.

So now Zhuge Song could only watch Zheng Liang lead people to kill the barbarians guarding the gold by the river, and he only muttered to himself: "He is really a genius!" ”

Fan Anguo, who was beside him, gently pulled Zhuge Song at this time, the expression on his face was no longer as excited as when he first saw the strange soldier killed, he asked Zhuge Song with doubts: "My lord, it seems that there are no 3,000 people in this ambush!" ”

Of course, Zhuge Song knew that this was not enough for three thousand people, and his current power was only enough to command a team of 100 people, and he had to bring out a few for his personal protection. At this time, the barbarian soldiers under the city seemed to be confused by this sudden surprise soldier, but soon, the barbarian king's daughter reacted and shouted: "Retreat!" Hit the trick! He was very happy and led the men to abandon the city gate and flee to the river.

As the so-called enemy instigated me to be brave, Zhuge Song saw that the situation was good and he didn't plan to hold on anymore, only to see him draw his sword and roar: "How many are counted, the whole city, whether it is soldiers or young people, will go out with me to grab merit!" After saying that, he ran directly to the city.

This was the first time that Zhuge Song had personally experienced how much of a role the combat situation could play in the combat strength of both sides. Under the infection of his leading soldiers, although there are not many "ambush soldiers" outside the city, the barbarian soldiers who fled in embarrassment well confirm that all this is going on according to Zhuge Song's plan, and this feeling of everything under control has greatly given confidence to everyone around Zhuge Song!

The gates of Yuannan City were wide open, and all the soldiers and the young and strong people of the temporary formation followed Zhuge Song and rushed to the riverside. Of course, Zhuge Song was subconsciously surpassed by the soldiers who had already regarded the barbarians as pigs and sheep after a small rush, not to mention the dozen or so small leaders with war horses mixed among the soldiers.

Zheng Liang, who had already rushed to the shore to slaughter the barbarians, was like a fierce beast that had been suppressed for a long time, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere he passed, and the barbarian soldiers who ran back to the shore from the city all had no intention of fighting, and the daughter of the barbarian king not only did not organize her subordinates to fight back on the spot, but after killing a few soldiers who tried to stop her, she jumped on a bamboo raft first, and ran faster than anyone else!

She didn't wait for other subordinates to jump up and support her, but became a boatman herself, desperately rowing the boat towards the center of the river. Zhuge Song set his eyes on Jiang Xiaoyu hundreds of zhang away upstream, Jiang Xiaoyu had already locked his eyes on the daughter of the barbarian king at this time, he seemed to be paddling lightly, unhurried, but he had taken advantage of the upstream to intercept the center of the river.

Gradually, the abandoned barbarians were surrounded by Zheng Liang and the soldiers killed in the city of Yuannan, because of their own victory, the young men in the city also joined the periphery of the encirclement with wooden sticks to boost the momentum of their own army. Zhuge Song ordered the soldiers to stop the attack for a while, and said loudly to the barbarians: "Your leader has abandoned you, and there is only one way to die if you resist, think about your wives and children, lay down your arms, and let your king exchange his captives for you!" ”

Although the soldiers of the barbarians are all bloody men who are not afraid of death, in this desperate situation, it is obvious that Zhuge Song's last words of changing prisoners have worked. They threw down their weapons one after another and were escorted back to the city by Zhuge Song's soldiers, and at this time, in the center of the Yuan River, when Jiang Xiaoyu's boat was only a few zhang away from the bamboo raft of the barbarian king's daughter, Jiang Xiaoyu jumped into the river from the small boat at once.

Soon, Zhuge Song saw that the bamboo raft on which the barbarian king's daughter was riding had been cut with a short sword. The bamboo raft dispersed in an instant, and the barbarian king's daughter could not stand, and fell into the river at once.

Zhuge Song was afraid that Jiang Xiaoyu would not be able to capture the female general alive, so he ordered some soldiers with good water skills to follow him on the painting boat, Zheng Liang jumped up without saying a word, Zhuge Song patted him on the shoulder and praised: "Good job!" Then he ordered the boat to sail and sail towards the center of the river.

When the boat headed towards the center of the river, Zhuge Song saw the female general sticking her head out of the river several times, as if she wanted to catch the scattered bamboo pipes, but she was dragged down by Jiang Xiaoyu. Jiang Xiaoyu also seemed to be jealous of the strength of the barbarian girl, so he had been using the tactic of constantly attacking but not entangled with her. By the time Zhuge Song's painting boat finally drove to the center of the Yuanjiang River, the two of them were obviously exhausted.

Zhuge Song thought: "Now if there is a fishing net on the painting boat, it will be quite perfect, then you can directly bring this mermaid up!" It's a pity that the ship didn't prepare this, which made Zhuge Song feel that he still had a lot of omissions when planning things now.

He had no choice but to signal Jiang Xiaoyu to come up first, and the beautiful barbarian king's daughter was so wet that she seemed to have only the strength to hold on to a bamboo pipe because she was wearing a battle armor. Zhuge Song asked the painting boat to slowly approach her, and put down a paddle that supported the boat for her to grab. She seemed angry, and though she seemed to want to grab the oars and get onto the boat, she held on and didn't stretch her hand.

Zhuge Song had no choice but to sigh and repeat his old tricks, only to hear him shout to the wet barbarian girl under the boat: "Hurry up and catch it!" As long as the barbarian king is willing to pay me more gold, I will definitely let you go back!" ”

The barbarian king's daughter hesitated, but finally reached out and grabbed the oar. When she grabbed the oars and climbed to the boat, Zhuge Song had already ordered someone to prepare the rope, and there was nothing else on the boat, but there were a lot of hemp ropes. After she came up, she was exhausted, and she was completely defenseless by the soldiers under Zhuge Song's hands behind her back and tied her hands.

The barbarian girl was pressed on the board of the boat and knelt in front of Zhuge Song, the clothes and armor kept flowing down, she seemed to want to struggle in the process of being tied and pressed to kneel, but she was helpless and could only obediently surrender in front of Zhuge Song.

Zhuge Song walked in front of her, gently brushed away the hair on her forehead with her right hand, her helmet had long since fallen to the bottom of the river, the daughter of the barbarian king glared at Zhuge Song with a hateful gaze, but Zhuge Song just patted her little face with his right hand without fear, and said to her in an almost flirtatious tone: "Little beauty, it's good, it's so spicy!" Let me accompany you tonight, uncle. ”