Sun Qian hurriedly whipped his horse, and arrived at Nan'an County, an important frontier town, three days later, expressed his intention to Shi Dakai, and announced that Shi Dakai would go to Chengdu to discuss the military.

Shi Dakai has not been much reused since he joined Liu Bei seven years ago, but he is not neglected, and his status has always been under Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Liu Yu, Fu Youde, Wei Wentong and others, and most of the time he pacified the barbarians in the south to ensure the stability of Liu Bei's rear.

When he first entered Yunnan, Shi Dakai performed quite well, attacking cities and plundering land all the way, and pacifying most of the southern and central regions. The iron-blooded policy was implemented against those barbarians who refused to submit to Liu Bei's regime, and tens of thousands of barbarians were slaughtered before and after, so that most of the barbarians in the southern and central regions had to bow to Liu Bei and accept the officials sent by the king of Hanzhong to govern the place.

Just when Shi Dakai was in high spirits, hoping that one day he would pacify Yunnan and march into Jiaozhou to expand the territory for Liu Bei and achieve a great cause of hegemony, Liu Yu raised the banner of rebellion against Liu Bei in Hanzhong.

Under the call of Liu Zhang, Yang Huai and Gao Pei, two old generals, successfully rebelled against more than half of the old Bashu department, and unexpectedly attacked Shi Dakai, causing Shi Dakai to flee in defeat and almost die in Jianning County. Fortunately, he was able to get the response of the vulture bones, and he broke through and retreated to Juti County to stabilize his position.

Since Shi Dakai implemented an iron-blooded policy against the barbarians in Yunnan, logically speaking, the vulture should hate Shi Dakai to the bone, why did he send troops to rescue him? This has to tell the story between the two.

There is not only one barbarian tribe in Yunnan, large and small. At least, there are twenty or thirty races, with large ethnic groups numbering tens of thousands of people, and small ethnic groups having only a thousand or even hundreds of people. And the vulture is the leader of one of the barbarian tribes called the country of Ugo. There are about seven or eight thousand people.

Abandoned in the barren mountains and mountains since childhood, I don't know who my parents are, and I don't know which race he is descended from, when he was dying, he was found and taken in by a deaf and mute man in the country of Ugo, and since he was a child, he has been accompanied by poisonous snakes and beasts, and has developed the ability to communicate with wild beasts, insects, snakes, birds and beasts.

Under the care of this deaf and dumb man. The vultures are growing day by day, and the shoulders are large and the waist is round, and the height is more than one zhang and two. His skin was hard and abnormal, and there was a layer of fish scales between his ribs, and if he didn't use all his strength, ordinary knives and guns wouldn't hurt him at all.

Vulture bones do not eat whole grains on weekdays. Instead, he uses his ability to summon some worms, snakes, and jackals to satisfy his hunger. As if under a spell, these animals were willingly eaten by the vultures. Moreover, the vulture bone did not drink hot water since he was a child, but only fed his hunger with stream water, and never got sick and diarrhea. Moreover, the vultures never wore shoes, and the soles of their feet were worn as if they were wrapped in a layer of armor, so that they would not be stabbed even if they stepped on the gravel.

Where there are people, there is war, let alone the southern and central regions where so many barbarians live together. In such an environment, the country of Ugo will naturally not be left alone. Conflicts often broke out with the Gaochang people. However, due to the fact that the population of the Gaochang tribe is as high as 15,600, the Ugo country is often humiliated.

Since the vulture has grown into adulthood. The country of Ugo, which has always been bullied, finally ushered in a strong leader, relying on the courage of the vulture bones, the Gaochang people were terrified, ceded land and paid compensation, and sent women, cattle and sheep, and honestly bowed their heads, and the vulture bones were regarded as leaders by the people of the Ugo country.

As the largest indigenous person in the southern and central regions, Yonghong, who has been serving as the Taishou of Jianning, gathered tens of thousands of barbarians such as Muma, Buyi, and Ailao to provoke and attack the Ugo country. Although the vulture bone was brave and good at fighting, his two fists were invincible to his four hands, and he was finally expelled from the Jianning region to the remote and barren Zhuti by Yonghong, which made the vulture bone and the people of the Ugo country hate Yonghong to the core.

Shi Dakai led the army to conquer the Nanzhong region, and the first to be suppressed was the local wealthy clan headed by Yonghong, but in the face of the fierce offensive of the Shu army, Yonghong and others could only temporarily succumb in order to protect their interests and status in Jianning.

Shi Dakai also sensed Yonghong's wolf ambitions, so in Jianning, Yunnan and other places, he killed the barbarians such as Muma and Ailao who were attached to Yonghong, killing seven or eight thousand people in one go, which greatly weakened Yonghong's influence in the Nanzhong region. This made Yonghong and the leaders of the barbarian tribes grit their teeth with hatred for Shi Dakai, but the 40,000 Shu troops were all armoured soldiers, and they could not compete with the combat effectiveness of the natives in these places, and they could only dare to be angry and dare not speak.

Just when Yonghong and the barbarians were living like a year, the Shu army had internal strife, Yang Huai and Gao Peice rebelled against nearly 20,000 Shu soldiers to attack Shi Dakai, and killed more than 7,000 Liu Bei's descendants in one fell swoop.

Yonghong was naturally overjoyed, and united local wealthy clans such as Gaoding and Zhu Bao, as well as the leaders of various barbarian tribes to reach an alliance with Liu Zhang's old department, and pursued the remnants of Shi Dakai together.

The enemy of the enemy is his friend, and the vulture who retreated to Zhuti County learned that Shi Dakai was beaten in a mess, so he led the people of the Ugo country to rescue Shi Dakai, so that Shi Dakai avoided the end of the entire army.

After learning the news of the turmoil in Nanzhong, Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei and Pang Tong to raise 50,000 troops to the south to conquer Yang Huai, Gao Pei, as well as local natives and barbarians such as Yonghong and Gaoding.

Zhang Fei's army pressed the border, and these people naturally fled. It's just that the good times didn't last long, Liu Bei, who was attacked by the north and south, took care of one thing and lost the other, and was sung by Liu Yu and Zhao Kuangyin, and even went down to Zitong, Langzhong, Jiangzhou and other important towns, so he could only give up Yunnan painfully, transfer Zhang Fei's army back to Chengdu, and order Shi Dakai and Li Hui to guard the Zhuti area.

After Zhang Fei's army withdrew, Yang Huai, Gao Pei, Yonghong and others gathered the barbarians to make a comeback and stormed Zhu Ti, Yuewang and other places. And the vulture bone had a mortal enmity with Yonghong and others, and there was no place for him in the Nanzhong region, so he could only retreat north with Shi Dakai.

Zhuge Liang and Sun Wu received the holy decree, and led Zhao Yun, Long And, Yang Youji, Jiang Wei, Cheng Yanjin and other five generals to raise 100,000 troops from Jiaozhou into Bashu, and swept away the natives and barbarians in Nanzhong with the momentum of the wind and falling leaves. And Shi Dakai retreated to Nan'an, an important town under the jurisdiction of Qianwei County, to recuperate, and to defend Liu Bei's chrysanthemums, so as not to be exploded by Gao Huai, Yang Pei and others.

Zhuge Liang and Sun Wu used troops in the Nanzhong region for nearly two years, and sent Zhao Yun, Jiang Wei, Long Ji and others to march separately, and successively pacified the five counties of Qiqi, Xinggu, Jianning, Yunnan, and Yongchang. He successively killed Zhu Bao, Gao Ding, Yang Huai and others, squeezed Yonghong and Gao Pei into a narrow range such as Yuewang and Zhu Ti, and completely included the vast Nanzhong region into the territory of the Han Dynasty, taking an important step on the road to unifying the whole country.

Seeing that the Eastern Han Dynasty army was like a rainbow, and Yonghong and others, who were beaten without much effort, fled in embarrassment, Shi Dakai repeatedly exclaimed that "the momentum is like a bamboo, and it is difficult to compete".

However, Shi Dakai, who has a stubborn personality and thinks highly of himself, did not have the intention of defecting to the Eastern Han Dynasty, but hoped to assist Liu Bei in reversing the predicament, achieving a kingly career, and writing his name of loyalty in history. As for Zhao Yun's arrival in Chengdu with his cavalry, Shi Dakai was completely unaware.

Because Zhuge Liang and Sun Wu deduced the situation many times, they believed that Liu Bei was very likely to be afraid of the fierce offensive of the Eastern Han Dynasty and chose to defect to the Western Han court, so he ordered Shi Dakai to cut off the road to Nan'an and block the army from going north. So he ordered Zhao Yun and Yang Youji to lead more than 10,000 cavalry in front, and Jiang Wei led 30,000 infantry behind, and arrived in Chengdu under the leadership of Nanban guides. In other words, Pang Tong's inference completely wronged Shi Dakai.

After listening to Sun Gan's intention, Shi Dakai fell into a long period of contemplation, and after a while, he slowly raised his head, stared at Jian Yong and said: "Sun Gongyou, we don't say dark words in front of the Ming people, the king of Hanzhong sent you to transfer me back to Chengdu, because I am afraid that I will have two hearts, right?" ”

"Uh...... Where did General Shi say this? What the king's intentions are, I don't know, you go to Chengdu and it will be clear. Sun Qianqiang was calm and refused to admit Liu Bei's true intentions.

Shi Dakai let out a desolate sneer: "I, Shi Dakai, have been working hard and never having two hearts since I followed the king of Hanzhong for seven years. Now that the king of Hanzhong is gone, I, Shi Dakai, am still loyal, but the king suspects that I have two hearts, how can it not make people feel cold? ”

Shi Dakai drew his sword in his hand as he spoke, pointed at Sun Gan and said, "If it weren't for the affection of my colleagues, I wouldn't spare you today." ”

"Why did General Shi say this?" Sun Qian was so frightened that he changed color.

Shi Dakai personally wrapped the seals and runes with a bag and handed them to Sun Gan: "You take them back and hand them over to the king of Hanzhong, just say that the king is suspicious of the minister's death, but I, the minister, don't want to die, because I don't deserve to die!" Since the king suspects Shi, there is no need for me to work for the king anymore. But I also asked Sun Gongyou to tell the king of Hanzhong, I, Shi Dakai, am by no means a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, greedy for glory and wealth, and even if I Shi Dakai falls into the grass, I will never surrender to the Eastern Han Dynasty! ”

Seeing Shi Dakai's resoluteness, Sun Qian hurriedly mediated: "Hehe...... General Shi's words are serious, the king may not have this intention, you will know if you follow me back to Chengdu. ”

Before the words fell, Shi Dakai waved his knife and cut off the sleeves of his robe, and said proudly: "Suspicious people don't need to be suspicious, since the king of Hanzhong suspects Shi, the righteousness of our monarch and ministers is like this robe sleeve, and there will be no more to do with it!" ”

Seeing that what Shi Dakai said was categorical, there was no room for maneuver, Sun Gan had no choice but to sigh, took Yin Shou, Fu Jie and others to turn over and return to Chengdu to report to Liu Bei.

After Sun Qian left, Shi Dakai immediately summoned more than 28,000 of his subordinates to discuss what to do next: "Soldiers, now is the time to make a choice about the future!" (To be continued.) )