"Get on your knees!" Ehuan, who was tied up with five flowers, was escorted into Zhao Feng's military tent by two wolf-like guards, Ehuan was extremely tall, Zhao Feng himself was 1.82 meters tall, and he was almost standing out in this era, at least Liu Bei was the tallest except for Guan Yu, but Zhao Feng estimated that the height of this Ehuan in front of him should be 1.90 meters, and Guan Yu was obviously shorter than him.

Although E Huan was embarrassed, he was stubborn and did not kneel. Seeing this, Zhao Feng motioned for the soldiers to let go of him, snorted and asked, "Are you willing to surrender?" ”

"Now that you have been captured, you are just dead!" Ehuan was very simple. He was defeated face to face, and he couldn't scold him for any tricks and the like, but he didn't want to be a soft egg when he died.

"Your Excellency is a cheerful man, very good, drag him down with me and chop him up." Zhao Feng waved his hand, and the two guards who escorted E Huan to the military tent prepared to escort him back. E Huan didn't wait for them to make a move, and walked out of the tent with his head held high.

"Keep people under the knife!" Just when E Huan was about to pay the bill, he saw Shamoke open the door curtain and hurriedly walked in. After saluting Zhao Feng and the generals, Shamoke panted and said: "General Zhao, although this Ehuan is an enemy of us, he is not Meng Shu's subordinate, and I ask the general to spare his life!" Between the words, Shamoke was sweating like rain, he was still collecting and surrendering his pawns just now, and he hurried over when he heard that he was going to behead Ehuan.

"General Sha, he is not a subordinate of Meng Shu, how can he be an enemy of us?" Chen Zhiqi on the side.

"General Zhao didn't know that E Huan was a subordinate of Yuejia Taishou Gaoding. This advance was the work of Meng Huo, and Gao Taishou was only forced to act. If you behead Ehuan, I am afraid that everyone in Nanzhong will be in danger, and I will have to wait for death! Shamoko said bitterly.

"That's it!" Zhao Feng was silent for a long time when he heard this, and ordered someone to bring E Huan forward and asked, "Are you Gao Taishou's subordinate?" ”

Although E Huan was not afraid of death, no one was in a hurry to die, and seeing that things had taken a turn for the better, he hurriedly admitted: "Exactly, I am a general under Gao Taishou." ”

"That being the case, Gao Taishou is the Taishou under Liu Yizhou, and Liu Yizhou and my lord are brothers, why do you help Meng to get a rebel and violate my borders?" Zhao Feng's face sank and he asked. How could E Huan know about these twists and turns, and when he heard Zhao Feng's voice, he had to reply stubbornly: "How can we and other young generals know about such a big thing, but Meng is bullied by the battle, and it is not known that my lord is coerced by him." ”

"That being the case, I'll let you go back, order a book, and you have to hand it over to Gao Taishou yourself, so that he won't follow Meng Huo to act as a tiger again, you know?" Zhao Feng nodded and asked. E Huan didn't expect that he would still be able to escape death, so he hurriedly agreed not to mention it at the moment. Zhao Feng took a pen and wrote a letter, then took the cowhide sleeve and sealed it, and asked E Huan to take it back and hand it over to Gao Ding.

"General, do you want to provoke Gao Ding and Meng Huo?" Gan Ning, who watched the whole process on the side, asked after waiting for E Huan to leave. "Xingba is not bad, I am exactly prepared for this." Zhao Feng said with a smile. Seeing that Chen Zhi, Zhou Tai and the others still didn't quite understand, Zhao Fengsuo's surname was more clear to them.

According to Shamoke, the Nanzhong Barbarians were different from their Wuxi Barbarian Tribe, which was dominated by Shamoke's family, and the other dozens of tribes were obviously much smaller than them in size. This is not the case in Nanzhong, where there have been four major tribes and some small tribes since the pre-Qin period. Until a few years ago, the leaders of these four tribes were Meng Huo, Gao Ding, Zhu Xiong and Yang Feng. The population and strength of these four tribes are about the same, and they have been close in strength for so many years, but they are still at peace with each other.

Liu Zhang's father, Liu Yan, can be said to be a politician with a lot of skill. However, throughout his life, he failed to solve the Nanban problem, and could only make their leaders Yuejia, Yunnan, Yongchang, and Qiqi counties too guarded. In Liu Zhang's generation, he basically gave up the ownership of the four counties in Nanzhong.

However, this balance was broken five years ago, because Meng Shu married Zhu Xiong's daughter Zhu Rong, and Zhu Xiong died of illness last year, and his son was still young. After Meng Huo's strength soared, Enwei and Shi made Yang Feng and Gao Ding surrender successively, so that they could be regarded as basically unifying all the departments in Nanzhong. This march was the first time that Meng sent troops after he unified the south, in order to lay a foundation and establish his prestige. Of course, Meng Shu also pulled Gao Ding and Yang Feng. Although the two were not too willing to come to Jingnan to fight with others, they had to obey under Meng Shu's coercion.

"I see!" After listening to this, Gan Ning and the others also suddenly realized, at this moment, Zhao Feng ordered Shamoke's Wudang Feijun to send people to spread rumors among the captured prisoners of war, saying that Meng Huo's subordinates must be killed, and Yang Feng and Gao Ding's subordinates would be fine. However, Zhao Feng didn't care about them for a while, and only detained them for one night.

The next morning, the gate of the camp where more than 1,000 prisoners were held creaked open, and a group of soldiers gathered around a lieutenant and ordered the prisoners to come forward one by one to report whose subordinates they were. The captives listened to the rumors last night, and now except for a few second-poles, who dares to say that they are Meng Huo's subordinates? All of them said that they were Yang Feng or Gao Ding's subordinates. As a result, all those who said that they were Meng Shu's subordinates were all taken away by the lieutenant and chopped up; said that it was Gao Ding and Yang Feng's subordinates, but they went to the side to receive a bag of grain and rice, and then they were all let go. At first, these people couldn't believe that they were really let go like this, and when no one came to arrest them for miles out of the camp, they believed it and bowed and thanked them from afar.

"Is there such a thing?" In the big tent of the barbarian army in the southwest of the Yuanjiang River, Meng Shu, the leader of the barbarian army, heard that his subordinates had reported this, and his face suddenly turned gloomy. In front of him, several of the newly released brutes were kneeling on the ground and recounting to him what had happened.

Meng Huo is 26 years old this year, and unlike the ordinary frogs at the bottom of the well, Meng Huo traveled to Shuzhong when he was a teenager, and he is quite outward to the culture and prosperity of the Han people. Over time, just yearning can no longer satisfy him, he hopes that he can no longer live in the impoverished Nanzhong, but replace the Han people to become the ruler of Yizhou and even the world. For this reason, he integrated the various ministries of Nanzhong and put forward such a provocative slogan as the establishment of a country in Nanzhong. This battle is even more crucial at the moment, and if it is lost, it will be impossible to talk about anything.

Looking at the several people kneeling in front of him, Meng Shu felt even more irritable in his heart, and shouted at the moment: "In order to survive, you actually pretended to be Yang Feng and Gao Ding's subordinates, what is the use of me leaving you soft bones?" Come on, drag me down and cut it down! ”

"The king spares his life!" These people who escaped death never expected that they did not die in the hands of the Jingzhou army, but now Meng Shu wanted to kill them, and even begged for mercy but no one paid attention to them, and finally these hundreds of people who escaped back under false names were ordered by Meng Shu to be beheaded. After the news spread, Meng Huo's subordinates were all chilled.

Not to mention that Meng Shu sulked at this time, after listening to E Huan's boss Gao Ding explain the situation in the account, he read Zhao Feng's handwritten letter to him, but he was a little confused. At this time, his subordinates reported that Yang Feng wanted to see him.

"Brother Yang, you also know about this matter, right?" Gao Ding saw Yang Feng coming, and hurriedly asked.

"I already knew, but I never expected Zhao Botao to be so benevolent and righteous, and he would not kill any of our soldiers." Yang Feng sighed.

"It's rare that Zhao Botao is willing to understand our difficulties, but what should we do now?" Gao Ding knew that Yang Feng's wisdom was far superior to his own, and he still had to listen to his ideas first.

"This is quite embarrassing!" Yang Feng thought for a long time, but shook his head and smiled bitterly. At present, Meng Huo's army was blocked by the Yuan River, and every time he sent people to cross the river, the Jingxiang Shui Division led by Gan Ning gave them a head-on blow. Under the impact of the turtle boats of the Jingzhou sailors, the hastily tied rafts were often smashed into a pile of scattered bamboo sticks and wood chips, and the people on board were even dead. In the past two days, Meng Shu has also tried his best to cross the river. However, his skills are not as good as others, and Meng Huo is not a resourceful person, so he is still at a loss.

"General, since we can't cross the river, and General Zhao is kind to us, why don't you just stop and go back to Nanzhong?" E Huan knew that Yang Feng and Gao Ding were fatal friends, and he did not shy away from suspicion at the moment and admonished directly. Yang Feng looked at Gao Ding and E Huan with a look of hope, and finally sighed and said: "I can't advance or retreat when I am trapped here, I think it is better to wait for a day or two, and then persuade the king to withdraw his troops when he is angry." After a pause, Yang Feng said again: "Don't be an enemy of General Zhao unless you have to." He has the grace of not killing the soldiers, and if he is the enemy, the army will be unstable. ”

"I know!" Gao Ding also nodded. The people in Nanzhong have the most clear grievances, if they are enemies of their benefactors, they are afraid that these big-headed soldiers under their command may not be willing to do it, and if it is serious, their rule in the clan will be affected.

Not to mention the different dreams of the various departments in the south and central China, among the four route armies, the most unnoticeable is the Hanzhong army that attacked the mediocre. Of course, not being eye-catching does not mean that there is not much fierce fighting, under the personal command of Zhang Lu's younger brother Zhang Wei, a ** Hanzhong sergeant killed the head of Shangyong City, and then under the command of Zang Ba, Fu Tong and Shen Tan Shenyi brothers, they all turned into corpses and were thrown down.

After besieging the city for half a month, the Hanzhong army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, while the Shangyong defenders suffered no more than 1,000 casualties. "General Zang, these Hanzhong troops are really not afraid of death!" Shen Tan looked at the Hanzhong soldiers who rushed up one by one, although there were heavy casualties, but the successor still came up without hesitation, which made Shen Tan quite shocked.

"I heard that Zhang Lu's gang rules the army with evil ways, so the sergeants are not afraid of death one by one." Zang Ba briefly explained the situation. After a pause, Zang Ba said again: "Although the Hanzhong army is brave, its combat strength is poor. We just need to stick to it step by step and be safe. ”

"That's fine." Shen Tan nodded. Although the Shen brothers were famous in the Three Kingdoms period, it also depends on whether the object is worthy of their surrender. If it were replaced by Cao Ying, perhaps they would consider surrendering. But Zhang Lu, who is facing now, obviously does not have this kind of charm.

"Hey, there are still cavalry in the Hanzhong Army?" After Zang Ba suddenly discovered that the Hanzhong army was not very neat, there was still a team of cavalry waiting for him. Seeing this, Shen Tan explained to him: "Zhang Lu is in Hanzhong, and he has plenty of food, and he often exchanges grain and rice for horses with people from Xiqiang. ”

"I see, they're all good horses!" Zang Ba has been in northern Xinjiang for a long time, and was once one of the generals of the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, naturally he is a great expert in Soma, and at a glance he knows that the Hanzhong Army is equipped with excellent Xiliang horses, and the quality is better than Youzhou horses and Bingzhou horses and Guanzhong horses. Although Liu Beijun now has more than 30,000 cavalry, there are very few really good horses among them, and most of them are Shandong horses.

"Zhang Lu Xiao'er is also equipped with such a good horse? Wait, these good horses will be mine sooner or later! Zang Ba looked at Xiliangma in front of him and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Shen Tan, who was beside him, couldn't help but be secretly amused when he saw his salivating appearance.

(To be continued)