With the help of maps and compasses, a total of 150,000 troops in the three caves of Nanban were immediately discovered by the imperial army scouts as soon as they stepped into the reconnaissance field of the imperial army.

Zhuge Kongming immediately summoned his generals to make military arrangements, he glanced at Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun under his account, and turned to Guan Suo, Zhang Bao, Dianman, and Zhao Tong: "Fang Jin, the barbarians are killed in three ways. I originally wanted to send Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu and Zilong to meet the enemy, but these three people didn't know geography, so they didn't dare to use it. Send the four of you today, Guan Suo and Dian Man will meet the enemy on the left, Zhang Bao and Zhao Tong will meet the enemy on the right, and Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun will respond. There must be no mistake in rectifying the troops and horses today, and dispatching troops tomorrow. ”

Kong Ming said to Zhang He and Gao Ran: "Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun don't know geography and can't fight easily. Send the two of you to lead an army together, mainly attack the opponent's middle army, and go out of the village with Guan Suo and Zhang Bao tomorrow, there must be no mistake. ”

Guan Suo, Zhang Bao, Zhang He, and Gao Ran took the order and left.

Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun saw that Kong Ming did not let them go out of the battle, and repeatedly told people in front of the public that they did not know the geography of the mountains and rivers in southern Xinjiang, and secretly harbored fire in their hearts.

Zhuge Liang glanced at the three of them with the rest of his eyes, secretly laughed in his heart, waved his feather fan three times, and explained to Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun: "It's not that I don't need the three generals, but I'm really worried that the three generals are middle-aged and in danger, which is calculated by the barbarians. ”

Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun were angry, Zhang Ren wanted to fight back, but was pressed down by Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun, and motioned to Zhang Ren with his eyes, "Zhuge Liang has the Shang Fang sword given by His Majesty hanging behind him!" Seeing Shang Fang's sword, if he sees His Majesty in person, with it in hand, Zhuge Liang has the right to cut first and then play. If you offend him, you will lose your life. ”

The moment he saw Shang Fang's sword, Zhang Rendeng was deflated and left the Chinese army's tent with his sleeves flicked.

After returning to his camp, Zhang Ren said to Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun: "You and I have been fighting horses for decades, and they are also well-known figures in the empire. Unexpectedly, Zhuge Xiao'er went on this expedition because he had not studied in Yanwutang, and he didn't need to wait for me to understand the topographic map, but let those juniors take the lead, and I felt ashamed to think about it. ”

Zhao Yun was also angry. "What if you can't read the topographic map?" A mouth under the nose, if you don't know the way, you won't ask! Grab a few natives and show us the way, and we can still kill the barbarians. ”

"That's it!" Zhang Xiu agreed. "This is how we fought in the past! You can still win battles without going to school. ”

"By the way, I have been by His Majesty's side all day in the past, and I have learned to read topographic maps." Zhao Yundao.

"Then why didn't you say it when you were in the military?" Zhang Rang asked.

Zhao Yundao: "What did you say? Today, Kong Ming obviously doesn't want to use us, even if he can understand the topographic map, he will find other reasons to prevaricate me and wait, and not let me wait to fight. ”

"Why didn't he let us fight?" Zhang Xiu exhaled.

Zhao Yun thought for a while and explained: "In my opinion, it should be that the reputation of our three brothers is too high, and the success or failure of the battle will directly affect the morale of the army. In order to prevent us from capsizing in the gutter. That's why he won't let us fight. ”

"Overturned in the gutter?" Zhang Ren snorted coldly, "The gutter in this world that can make us capsize has not yet appeared!" ”

"That's it!" Zhang Xiu echoed.

"Or else!" Zhao Yun pondered for a moment and said, "If Kong Ming doesn't send us to fight, let's go by ourselves." Give him a victory, let him know that he knows how good our brother is. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Xiu hesitated, "It's good!" But the military order is like a mountain, Kong Ming is clearly better than going into battle, if we act without authorization, we will disobey the military order. When the time comes, the Shang Fang sword in his hand is not an ornament. ”

Zhao Yun defended: "What about disobeying military orders? It's a big deal to win the battle and the merits are worth it! It's better than letting the juniors take the lead and make the world laugh, right? ”

"The third junior brother is right." Zhang Ren nodded again and again, "Let those boys see what it means to be a treasure sword." ”

Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun immediately selected the elite of the army and led more than 10,000 men and horses to kill the barbarian army at night. Not far from the army, the scouts of the army spotted a group of barbarian sentry horses.

The three of them secretly rejoiced, ordered the army to extinguish the torches, and set up an ambush on the left and right. More than 30 barbarian sentry riders did not know the situation, broke into the encirclement, and were captured alive by Zhao Yun and his party.

After capturing the barbarians, Zhang Ren presented them with delicious food and wine, and while serving as an uncle, he interrogated the information of the barbarian army. And those barbarian sentinels, on the one hand, out of fear of death, on the other hand, are attached to wine and food, so they have to answer Zhang Ren's questions.

They told Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun that the Golden Ring Sanjie was the main commander of the barbarian mid-lane army. His camp was located not far from here in the mountain pass in front of him. In addition, there is a mountain path on the east and west sides of Dazhai, which can lead directly to the rear of the barbarian Dong Dana and Ahuilan Dazhai.

Hearing this, Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun glanced at each other, and they knew that the time had come to make great contributions.

At the second watch of the same day, they ordered the captured barbarian sentries to lead the way, and quietly touched the Chinese army Dazhai in the third junction of the golden ring under the cover of night. When they arrived outside the Jinhuan Sanjie Village, the sky was just dawning, and the barbarians in the village were burying the pot to make rice, and when they looked up, they saw a strong man from the Central Plains who was neatly draped in the dense forest outside the village.

The barbarian was shocked, "The Central Plains people are coming, and the Central Plains people are coming." ”

Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun went hand in hand, and with a round of hand melon shots, the barbarians' walled gate collapsed.

Southern Xinjiang has always been closed, where have the barbarians seen gunpowder? "Boom, boom, boom" explosions sounded, and they also said that they had offended some god, trembling and kneeling, and became a live target for the slaughter of the imperial guards.

The imperial army took advantage of the situation to fight back and forth in the enemy formation, and when they saw the tent throwing a handmelon into it, the tent flew into the western sky with a "boom".

Hearing the sound at the gate of the village, Jinhuan Sanjie personally led the troops to rescue, and met Zhao Yun halfway. Zhao Yun didn't even look at him, and raised his hand to slap the bird's nest. Before he could react, he felt a chill in his chest and fell off his horse.

The death of the barbarian generals, coupled with the fear of the Imperial army's gunpowder, quickly spread among the barbarian army.

Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun divided the soldiers and horses into three, Zhang Renshuai took the west mountain road to detour through Dong Dana Houzhai, Zhang Xiu led the first to take the east mountain road to attack Ahuiran, and Zhao Yun led 5,000 troops to continue to pursue the enemy. The three soldiers and horses acted together.

At the fourth watch, Zhang Ren's army was the first to arrive at Dong Dana's back village. Dong Dana has an army of 50,000 under his command, and when he heard that there were only a few thousand enemies coming in, he smiled coldly, "How arrogant is the dog in the Central Plains, when no one cares about me in southern Xinjiang?" Then he sent a large army to encircle and suppress.

However, as soon as he arrived in the back village, he heard a disturbance from the front village, followed by an earth-shattering roar. It turned out that Guan Suo and Dian Man killed Qianzhai according to Zhuge Liang's arrangement.

There are imperial soldiers and horses in the front and back villages, and the barbarians are in chaos. The Imperial Army was flanked back and forth, and was defeated. The Imperial Army clashed back and forth in the enemy villages, and no one could stop it, killing thousands of enemies, capturing more than 10,000 enemies, and countless escapees. Dong Dana fought to the death, Zhang Ren chased all the way, how could he not know geography, after Dong Dana fled into the deep mountains and old forests, he couldn't catch up.

At the same time, Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses also killed all the way to Ahuinan Houzhai. At this time, Ah Huilan was commanding the barbarian soldiers to resist the frontal attack of Zhang Bao and Zhao Tongjun, where did he think that there would be people coming from the back road. Zhang Xiu led the troops to kill the barbarians by surprise, and 5,000 men and horses rushed into the military village like a whirlwind, sowing hand melons and fires everywhere along the way, and the camp was deeply immersed in flames with less than a stick of incense.

Zhang Bao and Zhao Tong saw the fire in the rear of the enemy village, and knew that reinforcements were coming to help, so they immediately ordered a general attack, and tens of thousands of imperial guards shouted "For the glory of the Virgin" to the death.

The Imperial army pursued and killed for a while, and then retreated. After returning to the Chinese army Dazhai, Zhuge Liang asked and said to everyone with a smile: "You have worked hard to achieve this great victory, where is the head of the three cave masters?" You can hand it over, and I will show my majesty my merits in the future. ”

Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, Guan Suo, Zhang Bao, Zhao Tong, and Dian Man all regretted it. Zhao Yun put the head of the three knots of the golden ring on the case, and said, "The head of the three knots of the golden ring is here...... As for Ah Huilan and Dong Di, they both abandoned their horses and fled over the mountains and mountains, and we couldn't catch up, hoping that the boss would atone for his sins. ”

"Haha......" Zhuge Liang finally couldn't hold back a laugh, "These two have been captured by me." ”

The generals were stunned, "Isn't the handsome seat joking?" ”

Zhuge Liang explained: "Before the battle, according to the information reported by the scouts, I knew the narrow position of the barbarians. Then he deliberately used words to provoke the spirit of the three generals, Zhang Xiu and Zilong, so that the three emperors ventured deep into the Jinhuan Sanjie Chinese army, and then divided their troops to attack Dong Dana and A Hui Lan Houzhai, and attacked Guan Suo, Dian Man, Zhang Bao, and Zhao Tong. This great task can only be undertaken by the three imperial warriors Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu and Zilong. I also expected that Dong Dana and Ah Huilan would retreat around the mountain road. He sent Zhang He and Gao Lan two generals to ambush him. The two of them really hit the trick and have now been captured by the two generals Zhang Gao. ”

"Shuai is really clever."

Zhuge Liang then asked Dong Dana and Ah Huilan to be taken into the tent, personally untied the two, and gave them war horses, food and clothing, and at the same time handed over the captured barbarians to them and let them leave.

After the barbarians left, the generals were puzzled, "Dong Dana and Ah Hui are both thieves, and the handsome seat did not sacrifice the flag, but let them go." Why is that? ”

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and said: "There is a cloud in the new book of Mengde: the siege of the city is the bottom, and the attack of the heart is the top. Dong Dana and Ah Huilan were frightened by the generals, and they witnessed the strength of our imperial army. After returning to the barbarian village, they and their barbarian soldiers not only could not help Meng Shu, but would spread the experience of this trip to the barbarian tribes, disturbing Meng Shu's military morale. ”

"I see!" The generals suddenly realized.

Zhuge Liang said again: "The barbarian three caves are defeated, and the barbarian king Meng Shu will personally lead troops to fight." Before the big war, we still need to make some arrangements. ”

"The last will obey."