However, although the momentum is full, after all, the other party has a team of thousands of people, and Zhuge Song only has a hundred people on his side, and everyone says that the barbarian soldiers are good at field warfare, although Zhuge Song is very confident in the physical fitness of the personnel in his team, but if he rashly takes people to the death, he will inevitably be caught and humiliated, or directly torn to pieces.

Therefore, Zhuge Song strictly ordered everyone, including the herald who had just arrived, not to say that he was going to relieve the siege of Taoyuan County, and to pretend to go to another place to play and slowly march towards Taoyuan County, and those who violated the order would be immediately killed!

Compared with the bloodless herald, Zheng Liang's face was full of excitement, and Zhuge Song said to him: "Zheng Liang, your boy's expression should not be too exaggerated, if the people under the mountain see the flaws, I can only take people back to the city directly." Frightened, Zheng Liang immediately pretended to be very serious, but Zhuge Song looked awkward, so he simply twisted his head to the side and didn't look at him.

Qing'er obviously hadn't experienced this kind of scene, she surprisingly didn't stop Zhuge Song, but just held his hand down the mountain, Zhuge Song originally wanted to send someone to send her back, it can be seen that she was so moved in her heart and suppressed such thoughts.

The soldiers under the mountain obviously didn't know that the herald had told Zhuge Song about the siege of Taoyuan County, and they who had been scattered to rest immediately gathered when they saw Taishou coming down.

Zhuge Song pretended to be relaxed and said to them: "The county magistrate of Taoyuan County heard that I have been bored recently, and sent someone to tell me that he has been holding a big sacrifice there recently, and hopes that I can participate in and preside over it, so let's go with me!" When you get there, you are naturally indispensable for good wine and meat! ”

The soldiers under the mountain all cheered, and only the dozen or so people who came down from Zhuge Song looked at each other, but because of his previous strict orders, none of them dared to speak more.

From Xiaoxi Mountain to Taoyuan County, it is less than 100 miles, and geographically speaking, you can reach Taoyuan as long as you walk upstream along the Yuan River. Since Zhuge Song became the Taishou of Wuling County, he may have been influenced by Mr. before, and he must study the map first whenever he goes, so although he still doesn't know much about the political affairs in Wuling County, he has carefully studied the landscape situation in Wuling County and which location is suitable for using troops.

At this time, Zhuge Song was sitting in the car and was looking at the map that he was going to come to Gong Zhi before, and he said to Gong Zhi at that time that a Taishou could not understand the terrain in the county and the location of the counties at all, or it would be bad if he could not answer the test of the lord in the future. Gong Zhi thought so, so he sent someone to Zhuge Song to find the most detailed map of Wuling County.

This map Zhuge Song let the servants take with him every time he goes out, although he only walks around the county most of the time, and there is a guide for travel, he only needs to follow the above signs to tour the mountains and rivers nearby, but this time when it comes to the real thing, it can be regarded as really used.

The team traveled more than ten miles, and during the first break, Zhuge Song and Qing'er sat in the shade of a tree spread out with a mat and unfolded a map of Wuling County.

The map shows that the Yuanjiang River is to the south of Taoyuan County, and Yuannan County is across the river from Taoyuan County in the southeast of Taoyuan County. Although the ancient maps did not have a very fine scale, judging from the scale labeling at the bottom of the map, the distance between the two counties should not even be ten miles.

Zhuge Song's heart moved when he thought of this, and the prototype of a plan had appeared in his head. Although sometimes there will inevitably be some deviations between the planned things and the actual things, fortunately, he always carried the seal of Taishou with him, so it was not too difficult to implement the plan. Thinking of this, Zhuge Song ordered the captain of a squad to take a few people on horseback to see if there was a ferry in front of him that could cross the river. The team leader took people away with a surprised face, Zheng Liang also looked at him with puzzled eyes, but Zhuge Song just waved his hand at him and signaled him not to speak.

Soon the people sent out came back and told Zhuge Song that there was a small ferry in front of him, but there was only one small boat at that ferry, and only four or five people could cross it at a time, and if hundreds of people wanted to cross the river, I am afraid it would take three or four hours.

Zhuge Song nodded with satisfaction, and continued to set off with everyone. Sure enough, after less than half an hour, I saw the ferry described by the team leader.

The captain of the ferry was actually a young man of about twenty years old, and he was obviously a little helpless by the sudden appearance of so many government soldiers. Zhuge Song asked him why he was so young to be a father-in-law, and he told Zhuge Song that the father-in-law was originally his father, and his father went to Taoyuan County to get medicine for his sick mother, and there could be no one here, so he asked him to replace him for a day.

This young man had obviously heard that the Taishou of this county was a very young scholar, so he was not too surprised to see Zhuge Song's expression. However, he obviously had a strong curiosity about this young Taishou, which Zhuge Song could easily see from his eyes.

At this time, Zhuge Song really couldn't hide it anymore. He gathered the team and announced in public the order to appoint Zheng Liang as the captain of the personal guard. This position has always been held by Zhuge Song himself before, and now the sudden announcement that Zheng Liang will be in charge will inevitably cause a burst of discussion.

Zhuge Song pressed down his hand to calm them down, sat down on a bluestone slab, spread out the map of Wuling County, and asked Zheng Liang and the captains of the other nine squads to gather and say that there were barbarian soldiers in front of him.

Except for Zheng Liang, the other nine squad leaders were taken aback when they heard that they were going to fight with the barbarians, but in order not to cause a commotion among them and even the entire hundred-man team, Zhuge Song told them that there was a small barbarian leader who took more than a hundred barbarian soldiers to Taoyuan County to loot property. This amount is obviously acceptable to these team leaders, so although they are a little dissatisfied in their hearts because Zhuge Song deceived them before, they are forced by Zhuge Song's identity as a guard, and they are all young and vigorous, and they also want to make some merits and receive rewards, so they can still listen to Zhuge Song very carefully.

Among them, only Zheng Liang glanced at Zhuge Song with a complicated expression, Zhuge Song knew what he wanted to say, but he didn't have the time to care about him, and directly told the few team leaders around him the plan he had come up with.

Zhuge Song's plan is very simple, he will take a team to cross the Yuanjiang River and go to Yuannan County to gather the military strength there, for an ordinary county town, although there will not be too many soldiers, but at least three or five hundred people should be available.

According to Zhuge Song's estimate, it takes at least two hours from entering Yuannan County to gathering soldiers to the Yuanjiang River, and from here it is only one hour to go up the river to Taoyuan County. It was already past noon, which meant that even if Zhuge Song could assemble his army as soon as possible on the south bank of the Yuan River, it was already almost dusk. And the order he gave to Zheng Liang was to always lead people to lurk not far outside Taoyuan County, once the enemy leader led people across the river to attack him, he would block their follow-up reinforcements as much as possible, and after Zhuge Song captured the enemy leader, he could retreat as soon as possible.

Zheng Liang immediately expressed doubts about his plan after Zhuge Song finished speaking, he asked Zhuge Song how the leader of the enemy could cross the river to attack him, even if these barbarians wanted to attack, there may not be a boat in a hurry, Zheng Liang begged Zhuge Song to let him directly lead the troops to attack the enemy, but Zhuge Song was angry at him with a glaring eye: "I said Captain Zheng, even if you are strong in martial arts, you must be careful about your brothers, you must know that the enemy is very "strong"! I deliberately accentuated the two words powerful, and Zhuge Song knew that he could understand the meaning of these two words. He said to Zheng Liang: "A good general cannot rely only on his own brute bravery, but must pay the minimum price while achieving victory, if you dare to disobey my orders in the first action, even if you defeat the enemy alone, I will cut off your head!" ”

Zheng Liang had never seen Zhuge Song be so angry with him, and in the face of Zhuge Song's powerful momentum, he only had Nuo Nuo's consent. He didn't know that the reason why Zhuge Song said to him so loudly was largely not to him alone.

In fact, there are too many variables in Zhuge Song's plan, and he can't even figure out the current situation of Taoyuan County and Yuannan County now, and the reason why he is so strict with Zheng Liang is not only to avoid other team leaders from raising objections, but also because he also wants to suppress his anxiety about the future.