With these 200,000 cavalry, plus the 400,000 Western Shu troops in Mianzhu City, Zhuge Liang was confident that he could eat the Seventh Army of the Celestial Dynasty under the city. However, people are not as good as heaven, Liu Bei, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, because his second brother Guan Yu was besieged, and Wei Yan of Jingzhou rebelled, so he went out of Chengdu and went straight to Jingzhou, so Zhuge Liang had to return to Chengdu to stabilize people's hearts. He has already received the current report, under the guard of Chengdu Wuzhongchen, many of the old ministers of the former Yizhou have actually begun to contact the Celestial Empire in private, is this leaving a way back for themselves?

If Chengdu is unstable, or even if there is a sudden occurrence of the minister's surrender to the Heavenly Empire, then Xishu will have no place to stand, and it will be threatened by the front and rear attacks. For this reason, Zhuge Liang had to lead his troops back, and at the same time brought the three generals Zhang Fei and the fierce general Zhang Ren.

Zhuge Liang has always been at odds with the old ministers of Yizhou because of interests and power, and few people are willing to listen to his words, but with Zhang Fei and Zhang Ren together, the result will be completely different, these two people are people trusted by Liu Bei, and their appearance is an indication of an attitude.

With two generals, and with 100,000 troops to retreat to Chengdu, Zhuge Liang handed over the defense task of Mianzhu to his general Wang Ping, although this person is still young, but he is very steady, but the defense is not offensive, I believe that this task can still be completed very well.

And as long as Zhuge Liang can solve the matter in Chengdu, he will immediately bring the army back, so that he can complete the task of copying two breads and eating the Seventh Legion.

It's just that two things that surprised Zhuge Liang appeared, breaking his plan to encircle and suppress the Seventh Legion.

One of the things was that Deng Ai sent scouts to find a path accidentally saw the Xishu scouts, so as to find out that the cavalry of the Wuqiang State was about to advance.

The second thing is that the affairs of Chengdu are not so easy to put away, especially as soon as he returned to Chengdu, he was questioned by Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Wu Yi and others, the old ministers of Yizhou. During the period when Emperor Liu Bei led his troops out, the prime minister returned with an army of 100,000, what did he want to do, was it a rebellion?

Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Wu Yi and others are indeed old ministers in Yizhou. At the beginning, they agreed that Liu Bei would lead the army into here, replacing Liu Zhang, the pastor of Yizhou at that time, and they took a fancy to Liu Bei is the side of the hero, and in the troubled times, there was a powerful master, which was also a good thing for the courtiers.

Therefore, Liu Bei received a lot of support when he entered Shu at that time, and he was happy and made a lot of promises at that time. It's just that time is the best weapon to verify everything. It has been a year since Liu Bei entered Chengdu, and the changes in Yizhou are indeed not very big, and some of the money obtained from the original economic development has also been used to develop the military and consolidate important cities.

The lives of the people have not improved, that is, they have not even received much benefit from Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Wu Yi and others, which makes them wonder whether it was the right move to introduce Liu Bei to Yizhou in the first place. And at this moment, Xishu and the Celestial Empire started a war, and lost the five northern counties in a row, and then there was more about Guan Yu being besieged and Wei Yan rebelling.

So many things appeared one by one, which made Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Wu Yi and others begin to doubt whether the original decision was correct. At this time, Liu Bei conscripted troops because of Jingzhou, and now there are no big people in Chengdu, and these Yizhou ministers began to consider their own interests.

Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Wu Yi and others had ideas in their hearts, and the members of Tianyan who had been lurking in Chengdu also saw the opportunity.

The Celestial Empire is already powerful, and if nothing else, it is only a matter of time before they unify the country in the future. Now that people have thrown out an olive branch, there is a reason not to answer, and at the moment, Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Wu Yi and others have all expressed their stance to the secret agents of the Celestial Empire, and they will definitely do things from the perspective of the Celestial Empire.

With these premises, waiting for Zhuge Liang to bring people back to Chengdu is tantamount to disrupting these people's plans, and it is strange that it is not aimed at him.

As soon as the remarks came out, it naturally had some impact on the coming Zhuge Liang. To say that there was indeed no Liu Bei's holy decree when he returned to Chengdu, it is no wonder that others would comment on him like this.

Compared with Zhuge Liang in history, he did not have the strength of the late Xishu period at this time, at least Liu Bei was not dead, and the matter of Tuogu did not happen, and his power was just the prime minister of a country. It is obviously difficult to use the power in your hands to suppress these old ministers of Yizhou.

Knowing that the battle of Mianzhu could happen at any time, Zhuge Liang had no better way to adopt an iron-blooded policy, he first persuaded the three generals who came with him, and told the thoughts of Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Wu Yi and others, and then with the cooperation of Zhang Fei, he first arrested Huang Quan.

This is to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, in order to warn other Yizhou ministers, if you are disobedient, then you will be the next to be arrested.

As soon as Zhuge Liang's iron-blooded policy came out, it did deter the Yizhou ministers, but it was only for a while, and after two days, the Yizhou ministers headed by Liu Ba, Wu Yi and others began to rebound strongly, and under their manipulation, the operation of many military and political departments came to a standstill, and even the most basic food problems could not be solved.

People can't go without eating, and the army can't go without food, otherwise where will there be strength to fight?

The chaos in Chengdu made Zhuge Liang's idea of wanting to be a killer not dare to continue, so he had to choose to negotiate peace with the old minister of Yizhou and discuss a method acceptable to everyone.

Zhuge Liang was taken off by the chaos in Chengdu, and he couldn't leave it for a while, but the battle of Mianzhu was imminent, and he had no choice but to ask General Zhang Ren to return to Mianzhu first and look for an opportunity to fight. Just because he was not at the scene, the request he gave was to go out of the city to fight if he had the opportunity, and defend the city if he didn't have the opportunity, as long as Mianzhu was still in his hands, he was invincible.

Because of his identity, Zhang Fei was left to deal with the problem of Chengdu with Zhuge Liang, and General Zhang Ren led dozens of personal soldiers to Mianzhu City.

Outside Mianzhu City, under Deng Ai's plan, a big pocket has already been opened, waiting for the Xishu army to enter the set?

Originally, Deng Ai was not too sure, because he knew that Zhuge Liang was very powerful, and he was afraid that his methods would not be able to escape the eyes of others. But when he learned from the Tianyan intelligence that this person had returned to Chengdu, he was relieved, and when he talked about the plan with Commander Zhang Liao, he swore an oath.

Zhang Liao had naturally seen the plan a long time ago, and he was still very satisfied with it, although there were some loopholes in the hurry, but it was one of the ways to capture Mianzhu, which was much better than his strong attack policy, so he could give it a try.

With the passage of time, the 200,000 cavalry of the Wuqiang Kingdom had entered the land twenty miles behind the Seventh Legion of the Celestial Empire. It's ridiculous that they thought that their actions had not been discovered, and they were still hiding in the dense forest, feeling like a fierce tiger that could hide in the darkness at any time with its mouth open and spurting blood, but in fact, their every move was under the surveillance of the scouts of the Seven Legions. Even if Zhang Liao is willing, he can strike at them hardest at any time.

It's just that destroying the cavalry of the Wuqiang State is just a matter of convenience, this time the main thing is to capture Mianzhu City, Zhang Liao had to order the deputy commander of Pang De, who led 200,000 troops here, to temporarily suppress the fighting spirit in his heart and look for an opportunity to fight.

This so-called opportunity seeking is to wait for the Qiang State to make the first move, and wait for the Western Shu army in Mianzhu City to leave the city.

Zhang Ren finally rushed to Mianzhu City before the war. As soon as he entered the city, he was greeted by General Wang Ping, who was guarding the city, and when he saw that the prime minister and the three generals had not returned, he had a look of doubt on his face.

"Okay, General Wang doesn't need to be watching, I'll be back this time, the prime minister and the three generals are still dealing with some things in Chengdu, I'm afraid I'll have to wait for a while. By the way, what's going on out there? After Zhang Ren arrived, he strode towards the city while inquiring about the current battle situation.

Zhang Ren's position is much higher than his own, Shangguan asked, Wang Ping didn't dare not answer, which explained, "According to the scout's return, the 200,000 cavalry of the Wuqiang State invited by the prime minister have been in place, just waiting for us to join forces inside and outside and attack the Seventh Army of the Celestial Empire under the city." ”

"Oh, they are already in place, then it is good, in this way, please arrange it for General Wang, and go out of the city to fight tomorrow night, we will take the Seventh Army by surprise, and we should join forces with the outside and eat them. By the way, please also send scouts to inform those Qiang cavalry and ask them to fully cooperate. Hearing that everything was ready, Zhang Ren is fighting spirit was great, and now there is no Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei by his side, if this victory is achieved, it is conceivable that his credit is the greatest, and no one can snatch it.

Hearing that Zhang Ren was preparing to start tomorrow night, General Wang Ping said with a nervous face, "General Zhang, the situation is like this, some of the scouts we sent disappeared and did not return to the team on time, I suspect that the Seventh Army did it, so is it possible that they have discovered our intentions?" ”

"Oh, there's such a thing?" Hearing this, Zhang Ren couldn't help frowning. If the scouts don't return on time, it's likely that something happened, and maybe the Seventh Legion did it.

Could it be that they really discovered the cavalry of the Qiang Kingdom?

This idea just flew away in his mind, and then, Zhang Ren shook his head and said: "I can't care so much, now the arrow is on the string, we have to send it, the longer we wait, the more disadvantageous it will be for us." In this way, the plan remains the same. ”