On the way back just now, Wang Shichong had already thought of a brilliant idea, he glanced outside the tent, took two steps forward, and said in a low voice: "Marshal Shi, the last general is willing to take the initiative to stay behind this time to ensure the logistics and transportation of the army, and the method we discussed in Daxing before may not work." ”

Shi Wansui was a little surprised, and glanced at Wang Shichong: "Why doesn't it work?" ”

Wang Shichong sighed: "The matter is obvious, what the King of Shu wants is to make a difference in this battle to pacify Ningzhou, he is different from what we want, so although he can't come, he just wants to send that confidant Wan Zhiguang over as a supervisor, if Marshal Shi still wants to let the 20,000 Shu troops drag behind as a transport team, I am afraid that it will anger the King of Shu, and then he will use countless small tricks to deal with us." ”

Shi Wansui's face changed, his teeth itched with hatred, and he said in a deep voice: "He dares!" Bad for the big thing of the imperial court to quell the rebellion, even if he is a prince, the emperor will not show favoritism, when Yang Jun, the king of Qin, messed up things in Yangzhou, what happened to the most reckless, everyone knows what happened. ”

Wang Shichong waved his hand, and the green light flashed in his eyes: "Marshal, you can't be angry with someone like the King of Shu, how the emperor will punish him afterwards is a matter for the future, go down with him, but we will suffer the loss, besides, we are mainly fighting this battle to make a fortune, in fact, it is not in conflict with him to ask for military merits, why not win-win?" ”

Shi Wansui said "oh": "What a win-win situation?" The one surnamed Wan is not a good bird at first glance, let him follow all the way, we are afraid that the matter of making a fortune all the way will give him a knowledge, do you think this person will buy us with some gold? Besides, even if the two of us don't want military merit. There are so many generals in Guanzhong who came with me this time. I won't talk about Yu Juluo and Yang Wutong. It's the five people you recommended, as soon as they heard the news, they rushed at a speed of 800 miles a day, do you think they don't want military merit? ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "This matter is also easy to do, military merits, can be divided, the biggest military merit this time is the leader of the Xijiao who took the lead in the rebellion, and when he wiped out his tribe at the end, he counted the prisoners to the generals." And the planing himself was handed over to that Wan Zhiguang, the people of the King of Shu got the great merit of capturing the enemy's head, and the generals had the number of prisoners to go back to discuss the merits and promotions, everyone was happy, wouldn't it be a win-win situation? ”

Shi Wansui lowered his head and thought about it, but still shook his head: "How many barbarians can there be in Ningzhou?" This time is not the last time you pacified Lingnan, the whole Lingnan shook the situation, there are only tens of thousands of households under the plan, and they are scattered within thousands of miles, our army moved quickly this time, and it only took two months to complete the assembly here in Chengdu. I'm afraid that I won't have time to gather all the villages and give us a chance to catch them all. Twenty generals should divide these military exploits. I'm afraid that there won't be much left in everyone's head. ”

Wang Shichong said in a low voice: "So we have to kill the horse gun this time, and march with great fanfare at the beginning, and there are only two options, either to gather all the departments, or even find a way to get the support of his brother Dongjiao's leader Zhen Zhen, and fight a decisive battle with our army in Queensland, or escape into the mountains and forests, defend the mountains, and fight guerrilla attacks with us."

If the former method is the case, it will be easy to deal with the first battle, if the latter method is the case, it will be very troublesome, and it is necessary to exterminate these stockades one by one, which is very time-consuming, it is better to send messengers to appease the leaders of these stockades respectively, grant them false positions, express that they are not to blame for the past, and then pretend to be a class teacher, but leave the elite troops, these barbarians will definitely get together to celebrate the success of the wine when they learn that our army has returned, and when the time comes, we can use surprise soldiers to raid them all and win a complete victory!"

Shi Wansui has been listening very carefully, nodding again and again, and when he heard the most reluctant, he pondered for a moment and said: "This method can be resolved quickly, but in this way, the results are not big, how can this be explained?" ”

Wang Shichong said in a low voice: "This battle is a battle to attack the heart, the original intention of the emperor and the high servant is that Ningzhou can be at peace forever, and at the same time of achieving military merits, it can make the Nanban obedient, then it can't be killed.

As a result, Zhuge Liang made a bun with white flour, made it into a human head, stuffed with meat, called a steamed bun (barbarian) head, and threw it into Lushui, which made the army move forward again, plus the matter of seven captures of Meng Shu, so that the entire Nanzhong region ended in Shu Han I, and there was no more rebellion.

Therefore, the last general thought that there should not be too many beheadings in this battle, just more prisoners, and when the time comes, we will detain the leaders of those barbarians, make an agreement with them, let them surrender, count the number of people in the whole village as prisoners, and then release them on the spot.

In this way, the number of captives is enough, and when I go back and explain to the emperor, I only say that I am thinking of the emperor's benevolence, release the captives on the spot, let them be grateful to Dai De, and be loyal to my Great Sui from now on, and only return to Beijing with a few leaders, and then share the credit for catching the planing to the king of Shu, I think all aspects can be explained in this way. ”

A look of satisfaction flashed on Shi Wansui's face, he touched his beard again, and said with a smile: "This method is really good, but it's just a matter of gold and silver treasures?" ”

Wang Shichong said in a low voice: "When the time comes, the marshal can privately agree with these barbarians, let them hand over enough gold and silver treasures as a guarantee not to kill their leader, and also let the nephew of the nephew continue to lead the Xijiao, anyway, there is a father in his hand, it is estimated that the son will not dare to rebel, if he really wants to rebel, he will put the nephew back to clean up this unfilial son, as long as Ningzhou does not have an accident in the future, the emperor and the high servant will not care about this kind of trivial matter." ”

Shi Wansui's eyebrows finally relaxed, and said with a smile: "General Wang, if you still have a way, just do as you say, but in this way, you can completely act with the army, why do you want to lag behind?" ”

Wang Shichong secretly said in his heart: Can I tell you that this is because I want to stay away from you, so as not to implicate you? But Wang Shichong had a helpless expression on his face, and spread his hands: "Marshal Shi, this is just a gesture to show the people of the King of Shu, otherwise send them all to the back as a transport team, I am afraid that this Wan Zhiguang will also have opinions, but if I take General Mai and General Feng and them, I will bring three thousand people to drag behind, so that the Shu soldiers will have nothing to say." ”

Shi Wansui said with a smile: "General Wang, I really can't figure out what you think, you bothered to get the five of them, but you followed yourself to watch the grain road behind, not to mention what you can get from the southern expedition, just a few of them, can you agree?" ”

Wang Shichong said with a straight face: "When Marshal Shi triumphs, he will give us a part of the accounts of these prisoners, that is, the army is on an expedition, the grain route is important, presumably other generals will not have too many opinions, and I am also doing this just in case, the king of Shu really wants to do something behind, and I am here to watch, and it will not escape my eyes, so as to ensure that General Shi is safe in the front." ”

Shi Wansui didn't speak, stood up, paced back and forth, and after walking back and forth a few times, he turned his head to look at Wang Shichong, his eyes flashed: "General Wang, I accept your proposal, but I can't put you too far behind, after all, this time I went deep into Ningzhou, the miasma gas is very troublesome, you just have a way to deal with this, or follow me for a while."

Like Duan Da, Sima Dekan, Feng Xiaoci, these people, first stay behind, and then let them build a village and defend it, put more than 1,000 Shu soldiers to garrison, and then put our Guanzhong soldiers on two or three hundred, so that the king of Shu has nothing to say. After all, this time the Shu soldiers have soldiers and no generals, and they also need these generals of mine to control them. ”

Wang Shichong secretly screamed in his heart: Bitterness. But a smile appeared on his face, and he gave a military salute and said, "Obey the commander's orders." ”

After coming out of the tent of the commander of the Chinese army, Wang Shichong returned to his tent, and as soon as he looked up after bowing his head into the tent, he found that Mai Tiezhu and the other five people were sitting cross-legged in their tents, looking at him one by one. As soon as he saw Wang Shichong, the anxious Mai Tiezhu shouted: "Okay, is there any news?" What are we going to do this time? (To be continued......)