Chapter 329 Adventure into Shu
Yizhou is dangerous, this is what Zhuge Liang himself said, and it is a real truth. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info On the thirteen states of China, no state can compare with Yizhou. At the beginning, Liu Chan only held the land of Yizhou, and he was able to compete with the Cao family and the Sun family for a short time, mostly because of this.
Now Liu Bei holds the land of Yizhou and Jingnan counties, and after a year of care, although there has been a slight improvement, the criticism left by Liu Yan is still difficult to eliminate, so that the bandits in Yizhou are rampant, although they send troops to exterminate, but it is still difficult to resolve.
The root cause is because these bandits have been separated for many years, and their power cannot be resolved for a while; In addition, even if Zhao'an is difficult to move, even if he can't eat enough for a while, he will divide the mountains and wilderness, and the topography of Yizhou is enough to occupy the mountains and compete with the government.
Zhuge Liang's entry into Yizhou at this moment is tantamount to a sheep entering the mouth of a tiger.
He has two difficulties, one of which is that he has just left Jingzhou and escaped into the mountains of Yizhou. Second, Zhuge Liang is a person from Jingzhou at the moment, and he is from the same door as Liu Bei's subordinate Pang Tong, if Liu Bei thinks that he came to lobby for Xun Gang's strategy, the road ahead must be much more difficult.
When Sun Ce was stationed in Changsha, he was always preparing for the Northern Expedition; And Zhuge Liang did not choose to lobby Sun Ce first, the reason is that his eldest brother Zhuge Jin served Sun Ce, and it was relatively simple to lobby. Moreover, Cao Cao was about to go south in the near future, and the alliance with Liu Bei was his best choice, and he had no reason to refuse.
The problem is, how to persuade Liu Bei and Wu to resist Cao. Now Sun Ce has attacked Jingzhou first and captured a large number of Liu Bei's cities, so that Liu Bei, who is connected to Jingyi and Jingyi in the west, has lost the only capital to compete with Cao Cao! Liu Bei will inevitably be furious, if he hates Sun Ce because of this, the plan to join Wu to resist Cao will inevitably fail.
Although his subordinates Pang Tong and Fa Zheng are the masters of the Ming Dynasty, with Liu Bei's old and spicy, this trip is bound to be difficult.
Zhuge Liang was thinking about what capacity to go to lobby, and suddenly saw the river rushing, and it turned out that he had walked to the mouth of the Yangtze River. Zhuge Liang planned to go up the Yangtze River to Ba County, and then travel overland to Chengdu, which was the safest journey.
The early trip was quite smooth, after all, there were many troops arranged by Xun Gang near the Yangtze River basin in Jingzhou, and there was no small night to plunder; But when he arrived in Yizhou, Zhuge Liang instantly became uneasy and asked: "Boat man, dare to ask what dangerous places are there in Yizhou?" β
When the shipman heard this, he laughed at Zhuge Liang: "Looking at your eight-foot-tall and powerful appearance, is it possible that you are still afraid of the robbers?" β
"When I first came to Yizhou, I naturally had to be cautious!"
When the boat man heard this, he also became serious, looked at the surging river, the spring flow was surging, and said softly: "This Yizhou thief is divided into two parts, one is the mountain thief who lives in the mountains and rivers, and the other is the river thief who hides the river. It's okay to say that this river thief has been peaceful since Gan Ning dispersed the Jinfan thief from Liang, and the Yizhou River has also become peaceful; Although there are occasional thieves, there is nothing to worry about. The only thing you need to pay attention to is the bandits in the south of Yizhou! β
"Why the south of Yizhou?"
The boat said: "The bandits in the south of Yizhou are not small, and the leader is a young man named Meng Huo. This man was eight feet long, with an ugly face and great courage; Originally from the Jianning Shi clan, he was good friends with Yonghong. Later, because Liu Zhang dismissed Yonghong from his official position, Meng lost power, and was driven by Liu Zhang to Jiangyang and Qianwei. Because Meng was ruined, he lived by robbing his family. If you think about it, he hasn't been a thief for a year! β
Zhuge Liang thought that he was only in the area of Jiangyang and Qianwei, so he only needed to go north from Ba County, and detour to Brazil and Guanghan to enter Shu County. How do you know that the boat man persuaded instead: "Young man, don't think about things too easily, this Meng Shu didn't know where he got the ability to go to heaven, and he actually recovered all the bandits in Yizhou to serve him, even Liu Bei had no way to do it!" Zhao'an has been rejected repeatedly, and seeing that Meng Huo's power is getting bigger and bigger, even if you want to make a detour to Brazil, I'm afraid that you will be caught by him. β
Zhuge Liang was shocked when he heard this, thinking that such a thief could still be difficult for Liu Bei? It's just a little thief, this boat is exaggerating, if Liu Bei really intends to exterminate Meng Shu, it's just a matter of one sentence!
"But if I can convince Meng Shu as a meeting gift to Liu Bei...... I guess he wouldn't be suspicious of me! β
With a preliminary plan, Zhuge Liang planned to find Meng Huo's lair first, and under the guidance of the shipman, Zhuge Liang roughly knew that Meng Huo's lair was near Qianwei. But when the shipman learned that Zhuge Liang wanted to go to negotiate with Meng Huo single-handedly, he hurriedly stopped: "Young people, don't be impulsive, this Meng Huo supports the army and respects himself, how can you say anything in a few words?" Don't want you to go up the mountain by then, and you won't even leave a dirty pants! β
Zhuge Liang just smiled, signaled the boat's safety to be safe, and got off the boat in Bajun.
The first time he went out alone, Zhuge Liang felt a little nervous, thinking about how to solve Meng Shu's matter. It is definitely unrealistic to ask Liu Bei to borrow soldiers, he is a white-faced scholar, why should Liu Bei or his subordinates believe in themselves?
"Why don't you set up a big array and lure Meng Huo to come?"
Zhuge Liang studied with Sima Hui for a long time, and naturally learned a lot of Dunjia and large arrays, which were arrayed with stones to trap tens of thousands of people. But this idea is too naΓ―ve, first of all, the formation needs to be flat, where can Yizhou find such a natural boundary? Secondly, how to attract Meng Huo to come by riding alone?
Zhuge Liang looked at his salute, except for some clothes, money, and feather fans for coercion, there were only a few treasured paper books left. What can it do with this little thing?
He was lost in thought.
As he entered the city, he inquired about the news of Meng Shu. Although the people in the city all knew about this bandit, they only knew that he was the leader of the Yizhou bandits, and they knew almost nothing else.
In desperation, Zhuge Liang had to find a place to stay first. Coincidentally, the owner of the tavern where he stayed happened to be the original subordinate of the thief Meng Huo. Because Ba County was too guarded by Wu Yi's conquest, he surrendered to Wu Yi, gave up being a soldier, and returned here to open a tavern.
From that mouth, Zhuge Liang learned that although Meng Huo was born in a wild land, he was quite interested in music, but due to the changes in his family, he deliberately rejected music, so the people who played music around him were all beaten to the ground.
And Zhuge Liang is just good at music.
In this way, a strategy to lure the snake out of the hole was laid in Zhuge Liang's heart.
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A few days later, Zhuge Liang got a piano from nowhere, borrowed a fishing boat from the boatman, and went down the river to enter Qianwei. He let the light boat go up with the waves, but he was caressing the piano on the bow of the boat, the piano was melodious, and he was not a bosom friend, afraid that no one would know the meaning.
At the end of the journey, the fisherman who drove the boat was a little frightened, and asked as if asking for advice: "This son, this place is a place where bandits are frequent, but I'm afraid that when I am now, there will be hundreds of bandits staring at me, so don't play the piano to attract thieves!" β
Zhuge Liang's piano voice suddenly became high-pitched, so frightened that the fisherman instantly knelt down and put it on. You must know that this place is the purest, and the king of the mountain hates noise very much, and if they hear it, they will not skin the two of them?
"Where did the outsiders come from, don't they know my rules?"
A thunder leopard drink suddenly sounded on the top of the mountain, it was actually a pause in the river, Zhuge Liang was secretly shocked, although he originally intended to seduce Meng Shu, but he didn't expect that this person's bravery could shake the power of the river!
"I hope everything goes well......," Zhuge Liang prayed silently.
This is his first plan to go out of the mountain, maybe even he is not sure of ten wins.