After making a decision, each of the three left the barracks with a few personal soldiers. After Huang Xu provided the secret path given by the Celestial Empire's secret agents, it should have been difficult for these people to leave Jianning City, but now everything has become much easier.

Even General Wang Ping, who had been in charge of monitoring the Nanban military camp, did not find any surprises, which was also because he did not know that Meng Shu could learn the news of the front line so quickly.

At Huang Xu's suggestion, Meng Shu suppressed the shocking news that there was a war going on in front of him, at least from the outside, everything was normal, but secretly they were ready to retreat.

I have to say that in terms of prudence, Huang Xu has done a good job. It was precisely because Meng Shu listened to his advice and did not make any outrageous performances that Zhuge Liang was a little late to attack them, thus escaping a catastrophe.

In the year 214 A.D., in April of the twelfth year of the Celestial Empire.

Zhuge Liang made the decision to leave Jianning City and go to Jiangyang County, and before leaving, what he was most worried about was the 30,000 Southern Barbarian army that stayed ten miles away from the city.

Although there are only 30,000 people, relying on these people may not be of much use in the battle with the Celestial Empire. But if these people are left behind, it is equivalent to a timed explosion of 0 bombs, once it explodes, the power is indeed enough to subvert it.

Absolutely not leaving such a fatal threat behind, Zhuge Liang decided to invite Meng Shu and Zhu Rong to go north with him to the front line.

Although it is said that since something unpleasant happened, Meng Shu and Zhu Rong moved out of the mansion in the city and went to the military camp in the suburbs, but in Zhuge Liang's opinion, everything is still under control. It all stems from the fact that near Jianning City, he has 200,000 mobilized troops, which is his last hole card. And with 200,000 to 30,000, he has absolute self-confidence.

"Young Chang, you and General Wang Ping went together to invite the Nanban King and his wife over, remember, you must be polite, not too reckless." Zhuge Liang was still dressed in a white robe, and he said with a shining demeanor.

"No." Ma Tan agreed, knowing what it meant to be polite, and what it meant not to be reckless, he didn't even ask, what if they didn't come? Because he knows that in the face of absolute strength, the other party will not dare not come.

Ma Jian went, and General Wang Ping, who led an army of 50,000, was moving together, and they just wanted to use more people to bully fewer people.

It's just that after they really came to the Southern Barbarian Army, the scene they saw really shocked the two of them.

From the outside, the barracks were still barracks, but when they really entered it, they found that there were less than 2,000 soldiers left of the Southern Barbarians who were supposed to have an army of 30,000, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled.

"Where have the people gone?" Ma Tan anxiously pointed to the general who was staying behind and asked.

"Humph!" Although he has been surrounded by several Xishu soldiers, the Nanban general is still a picture of how old you are, I just don't say it.

"Killed." Wang Ping on the side, seeing that this person still had a little backbone, was naturally very disliked, so he made a gesture of cutting off his head, and immediately several Xishu soldiers shot together, and after a little resistance, the southern barbarian general was killed in front of people.

Continuing to point to another general-like figure, Ma Jian asked urgently.

The same result was that several Nanban generals were killed in a row, and Ma Jian knew that it was not a way to kill them like this, so he immediately said to Wang Ping on the side: "General Wang, please lead the troops to search carefully, I don't believe it, tens of thousands of people have disappeared, and there will be no trace left." ”

"Okay." After Wang Ping agreed, he immediately said to his subordinates: "Search for me, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find someone for me." ”

Not to mention, it really took three feet of digging into the ground to find an exit from a hole.

Looking at the entrance of this underground cave, which was more than a zhang deep and nearly two meters deep, Wang Ping and Ma Jian couldn't help but gasp. Only now did they know that the fact that the Southern Barbarian army was able to disappear from under their noses without knowing it was the credit of this cave.

"General Wang, send someone in to see where this leads to you." Ma Tan wanted to know how long this cave was, and where the vanished Nanban army had gone.

"Okay." After Wang Ping agreed, he sent someone into the cave. And a short time later, by the trees three miles away from the barracks, the soldiers sent finally showed their heads from there.

It's just three miles of land, but it caused the lights to go dark, making nearly 30,000 troops disappear completely, all of which is also the credit of Huang Xu.

As a kind of Zhangjia special army, they are not only good at tracking, assassinating, and camouflaging, but they are also required to learn to dig a hole in the ground. And this time, it was he who used what he had learned to bring the Southern Barbarian army out.

Originally, Meng Shu wanted to take these 30,000 people and Zhuge Liang to break the net, but was stopped by Huang Xu. The battle between these 30,000 people and the 200,000 people in Xishu is nothing more than a consumption of the opponent's troops, which will not help the overall situation. But if it can be hidden, it will be a big hit when it is critical.

The Southern Barbarians disappeared and hid in the woods. Facing the huge forest, Ma Tan sighed with some admiration.

"That's it, that's it, let's go back and report to the prime minister." Ma Yan shook his head helplessly.

When Zhuge Liang learned about what happened in the Nanban military camp, he was also dumbfounded. He thought he had done everything, but he still didn't expect that his opponent would be able to escape from under his nose. At this moment, he regretted it a little, if he had known that this was the case, he would not have let Meng Shu and Zhu Rong leave that night, as long as they were captured, presumably the entire Southern Barbarian Army would also be at his mercy.

"That's it, if you run away, you just run away. In this way, 50,000 soldiers and horses were left to defend Jianning City in case anyone made trouble. Let the army be ready to march. Although Zhuge Liang was a little unwilling, but now, seeing that the Celestial Empire army was about to attack, he really couldn't put his mind here.

Under Zhuge Liang's organization and orders, the 150,000 Xishu army followed him north, passing through Zhuti County and Nanguang County to Jiangyang County.

Jiangyang County, near present-day Yibin City.

At this moment, a total of millions of troops have been invested by both sides here, and a battle is about to take place here.

Just before Zhuge Liang arrived in Jiangyang County, he secretly arrived here to bring the cave master, Jinhuan Sanjie and Busy Tooth Chang and others to meet with the commanders of the Southern Barbarian Army here, Ah Huilan and Meng You.

After that, they joined forces with the commander of the Seventh Legion, Zhang Liao, who was originally fighting the enemy, and so far, Xishu completely lost the friendly army of Nanban.

It can be said that before Zhuge Liang arrived at the frontal battlefield, the battlefield situation had undergone tremendous changes, and the comparison of forces had also undergone qualitative changes.

As soon as Zhuge Liang, who was still marching on the road, heard the news ahead, he hurriedly formulated a new plan, ordering Zhang Fei to the west and Shamoke to the east to quickly retreat and shrink the defensive line. As a result, the 1st and 2nd Jiangdong Legions, which were originally surrounded, were also liberated and could return to the arms of the Celestial Empire.

The two groups in Jiangdong, which have been besieged for nearly half a year, are very embarrassed at the moment, after such a long time, the military rations have long been used up, and many of them have dug wild vegetables and eaten tree roots in order to survive, so that everyone's face is not good-looking, and there are even exaggerated, and they have lost a lot of weight.

When Zhang Chao, the emperor of the Celestial Empire, finally saw his eldest and youngest brothers-in-law Sun Ce and Sun Quan in the tent, he actually had a feeling that he couldn't recognize each other.

Seeing that the two of them were in tatters and had yellow muscles, Zhang Chao was also very unbearable, and hurriedly ordered someone to prepare enough food to supplement nutrition.

But no matter what, the Jiangdong 1st and 2nd Army Corps still withdrew unharmed, although the loss of troops was lost, but the strength was more than 600,000 people, except for some people who were sick and could not participate in the battle, there were also 600,000 usable soldiers.

After seeking the consent of the two brothers, Sun Quan and Sun Ce, Zhang Chao classified them into a legion, called the Ninth Legion of the Celestial Empire. In this way, in the entire land of Yizhou, the Celestial Empire had a total of five legions, namely the First Legion of Buqi, the Sixth Legion of Dian Wei, the Seventh Legion of Zhang Liao, the Vanguard Legion of Lü Bu and the Eighth Legion of Jiangdong, totaling more than two million people.

Among them, the Southern Barbarian Army, which had just returned to Shun, was incorporated into Zhang Liao's Seventh Army.

In comparison, the number of the Western Shu army led by Zhuge Liang was only 600,000. Zhang Chao, who has more than two million people, is full of confidence in this battle.

In the imperial tent, Zhang Chao waved his hand and commanded the five legions to slowly march in the direction of Jianning City.

The huge advantage in the strength of the army, so that Zhang Chao has no scruples, what he has to do now is to fight steadily, so as to eat away at the soldiers and horses of Xishu little by little, this time he wants to see what else Zhuge Liang, who is known as the unparalleled wisdom, has any way to solve the crisis.

After the situation on the battlefield changed, Zhuge Liang had a sad face.

The territory is getting smaller and smaller, and there are not enough troops, and this battle seems to many to be unsustainable. But in his hands, although he felt embarrassed, it was not without hope. At least the terrain of Xishu can still give him a lot of help.

The ancients said that it is difficult to go to Shu and to go to the sky. It refers to the narrowness and unevenness of the roads in the land of Xishu.

It is precisely for this reason that the terrain here is not suitable for large armies to fight, and this is the advantage of the location.

In addition to the spring and summer Xishu and rain, this means that Zhuge Liang occupies a certain advantage in the stone and geography, with these, he wants to have a good entanglement with Zhang Chao, and he even wants to defeat this Zhang Chao, who is known as invincible, in order to show his excellent command and military talent.

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