Wei Ba's hand shook, and he almost splashed the water in the cup on his chest. In an instant, it dawned on him.

Among the secret orders given to him by Zhuge Liang, there is one item that is not clear, not that Zhuge Liang does not want to explain it to him, but because Zhuge Liang himself is not sure, so naturally he cannot explain it to him, and he can only understand it from his actions.

The two countries formed an alliance, and Zhuge Liang agreed to recognize Sun Quan as emperor, which was a good time for Sun Quan to get rid of the problem of his name. It stands to reason that at this time, he shouldn't do anything to provoke Shu Han and bear the notoriety of breaking the alliance - unless he is sure enough.

Wuxi is located at the intersection of Jiaozhou, Yizhou and Jingzhou, the mountains are continuous, the mountains are undulating, and there is no arable land, it is definitely not a rich place, from ancient times to the present, the Central Plains government can not directly rule these areas, can only be restrained, as long as these barbarians do not take the initiative to make trouble, the central government generally will not take the initiative to make trouble, the reason is that the terrain here is limited, not suitable for the action of the army at all.

Sun Quan mobilized three heavy generals, Lü Dai, Pan Jun and Bu Qi, with a total of more than 30,000 people to attack Wuling, which seemed to have a lot of troops, but it was not easy to conquer Wuxi. Thirty or forty thousand people threw themselves into the mountains, but they had no practical effect other than forcing the barbarians back. Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots? Dream!

However, with Liu Xian and Zhu Bao, it is different.

Liu Yan is Liu Zhang's second son. After Liu Bei entered Shu, Liu Xian was stationed in the public security with Liu Zhang. Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, Lü Meng attacked Jingzhou, and Liu Xian's father and son became prisoners of the Wu army. After Liu Bei's death, Yizhou Haoqiang rebelled and prepared to seize Nanzhong. At that time, Liu Zhang was already dead, and Sun Quan appointed Liu Xian as the assassin of Yizhou, and wanted to split Yizhou under the guise of seeking back Yizhou for Liu Xian. Later, Zhuge Liang came to power, and before quelling the rebellion in Nanzhong, he first allied with Dongwu, one of which was to require Dongwu not to make trouble behind his back. Sun Quan agreed to Zhuge Liang, and on the surface canceled his support for Yizhou Haoqiang, but behind the scenes, he never stopped the idea of seizing Yizhou, but all actions could only be carried out in private.

After Zhuge Liang pacified the Nanzhong Rebellion, several people led by him died. Runaway, run. Liu Xian could not support it alone, so he retreated to the junction of Jiaozhou and Yizhou, and Zhu Bao also fled to the territory of the Wu people. Zhuge Liang is not clear about these situations. It's just estimated that these people may have fled to the country of Wu. Deep mountains and old forests. It couldn't be easier to hide a few people. What's more, there is also the acceptance of the Wu people.

Liu Xian was Liu Zhang's son, and he had a more reasonable ownership of Yizhou in name than Liu Bei. When there is no strength, this name does not work, but if there is strength to support it, this name has a lot of effect. Zhu Bao is a big family in Yizhou, and he represents the attitude of the powerful people in Nanzhong to a certain extent. Although Zhuge Liang pacified Nanzhong, killed Gao Ding and others, and brought Meng Shu to Chengdu to be an official, Nanzhong was not completely pacified, and all Zhuge Liang could do was not to mess up.

If Zhu Bao returns to Yizhou, can he divide Yizhou and not say, at least Zhuge Liang's Jihua will definitely fail, and next, he must shift his attention to Nanzhong again. If he is not careful, it is not impossible for Sun Quan to take advantage of the situation to infiltrate Nanzhong. At that time, Zhuge Liang must not be able to take care of both the north and the south, so he can only make concessions to Sun Quan.

Probably considering this possibility, Zhuge Liang issued a secret order to Wei Ba, asking him to advance into Wuxi, smash the conspiracy of Wu, and at the same time contain the army of Wu in the Wuxi area, so that they could not free up their hands to contain the Yongan area.

These are shady actions that can only be carried out in secret, and the two sides are secretly fighting wits and strength, and on the surface, they have to "cooperate sincerely".

"Zhu Bao is not dead yet?" Wei Ba glanced at Xu Yuan: "Since he is back, why didn't he go to Keke, but came to Yuanxi instead?" ”

Xu Yuan hesitated, Wei Ba coughed, Jin Suo'er let go of the rope in his hand, and the two big dogs were about to pounce, so frightened that Xu Yuan screamed: "He wants to find the Order!" ”

The Order? Wei Ba smiled. The Yuanxi tribe was originally the strongest of the Wuxi tribes, and the barbarian king Shamanke was the master of the Yuanxi tribe, and their shili covered all the way to Chenyang and Lipu, and the forward reached Yuanling. When Ma Liang entered Wuxi, Shamoke respected him very much and supported him to build a city in Lipu to grow rice. However, Yiling was defeated, Shamoke was killed in battle, and the Yuanxi tribe suffered the heaviest losses, and since then it has been reduced to a third-rate small tribe.

Shamoke's death in battle not only changed the Shili contrast of Wuxi Man, but more importantly, the disappearance of the Pan Gu Order, which made it impossible for the Wuxi tribes to gather together. Zhu Bao wanted to go to the Yuanxi tribe to find the Ling, which was expected. However, none of them expected that the piece of the Gourd Order was in Wei Ba's arms.

This matter is naturally a major matter, and it can only be understood by people at the level of the leaders of each tribe, and at present, only Xiangfu, Shuai Zeng and One Cheng know about it, and even Han Ru, Jin Suo'er and others are not clear.

"How many people did Zhu Bao bring?"

"I didn't ...... Not many people. Xu Yuan's eyes rolled for a moment, and then he found that Wei Ba's cold eyes were looking at him. Wei Ba tugged at the corners of his mouth and turned his head to look at the armor soldier: "Give you a chance to speak." ”

The soldier couldn't wait to cry out, "He's lying! Zhu Bao had at least 3,000 men and hundreds of warships. ”

"Brute!" Xu Yuan was furious, jumped up, and pounced on the armor soldier. Wei Ba snorted, and Dun Wu flew up and kicked Xu Yuan in the stomach fiercely. Xu Yuan was already scared softly, Liliang, who was just aroused by anger just now, where could he stop Dunwu's kick, he was kicked and flew sideways, and fell to the ground with a thud. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a big dog pounced, bit his foot and neck fiercely, and dragged him back hard. The pain in his heart made him unable to control his fear, and he screamed.

Wei Ba waited for a moment, waved his hand to signal Jin Suo'er to take back the big dog, and he said lightly: "This is a chance for Zuihou, if you still want to lie, I will not satisfy your desire to make sacrifices." ”

Xu Yuan was paralyzed on the ground, his thin chest rose and fell violently, and the dog's mouth escaped, so that he no longer had the courage to resist, Wei Ba asked anything, he answered, poured beans into the bamboo bucket, and did not dare to hide anything.

After listening to Xu Yuan's confession, Wei Ba frowned. Zhu Bao brought 3,000 Wu troops to the Yuanxi tribe, obviously preparing to deceive and conquer by force. The Yuanxi tribe is not strong enough and is likely to succumb to them.

"My lord, what can I do about this?" Seeing that Wei Ba was silent in thought, Han Ru couldn't help but get anxious. "There are so many enemies that we don't have a chance."

"And what do you mean?"

"Return to Chenxi to transfer troops."

"Don't talk about Chenxi, even if you can transfer Nanxi's soldiers, there is no chance to defeat these Wu troops head-on." Wei Ba shook his head, his eyes gradually becoming firm. "Besides, we don't have time either. It will take at least six or seven days to go back and forth, and by that time, I am afraid that the Yuanxi tribe will no longer exist. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Send two people back to report the news, and we will go to Yuanxi to see if there is a chance."

Hanru gasped. More than 30 people to attack more than 3,000 people? He smacked his lips, didn't say a word, and looked at Wei Ba with a strange gaze, as if he was looking at an idiot.

Wei Ba also ignored him, he took turns interrogating those armor soldiers, and asked in detail about the situation of the Wu army stationed in the Yuanxi tribe. From the mouths of these captives, he learned that the person in charge of this Wu army was nominally Zhu Bao, but in fact there was a more noble person, that is, Lu Dai's eldest son, Lu Kai. Lu Kai is in his forties this year, and he has been fighting with Lu Dai for many years, and he has rich battlefield experience, which is Lu Dai's right-hand man.

Hearing that there is such a person, Hanru is even more nervous. He tentatively suggested: "My lord, there is a huge disparity between us and the enemy, should we be more cautious?" ”

Wei Ba sighed: "The reason why the Yuanxi tribe is being bullied now is because the losses in the Battle of Yiling were too great. If it weren't for the fact that Shamanke died in Yiling, how could their wives and children be so humiliated. We can't wait for this to happen, they have been wronged for an extra hour, and they are deepening our sin. Hanru, I have an important task for you. ”

"Your Excellency......" Hanru's face turned pale.

"You take someone back to Chenxi, tell Zhao Zhonglang and Miss Guan, and say that I am going to Yuanxi, and let them bring someone to help immediately." Wei Ba looked at Han Ru's twitching face, and smiled casually: "Your task is not to fight against the Wu army, but to prevent those two foxes in Nanxi from taking advantage of the fire to rob. ”

Han Ru breathed a long sigh of relief, as long as he was not allowed to fight against the elite of the three thousand Wu army, he would be relieved.

"What about Yuanxi?"

"I'll do the matter of Yuanxi." Wei Ba didn't explain, and calmly sent the cold on the road. Han Ru was suspicious and took one of his subordinates on the return journey. Jin Suo'er looked at her brother's back, pursed her lips with disdain, patted her chest and said, "My lord, you say it, what to do, we listen to you." ”

Wei Ba smiled: "Thank you for the girl's trust." This time, if you want to succeed, you really have to rely on the girl and these two divine dogs. ”

When Jin Suo'er heard this, she smiled.

"Girl, are you familiar with the village of the Yuanxi tribe?"

"Familiar, I am very familiar with the king's daughter Shalaman, and we often discuss how to serve the sacred dogs together, and I have also gone to their back village to play."

"Then do you remember the back road that the Yuanxi tribe escaped?"

"This ......" Jin Suo'er shook her head in embarrassment: "My lord, this road is the top secret of each tribe, and it will not be told to outsiders. ”

Wei Ba sighed. Jin Suo'er didn't know, but he knew the road, and it was clearly marked in that map. It seems that this road should have been told to Maleonn by Shamoko. If it weren't for his unreserved trust in Ma Liang, Shamoke would not have told Ma Liang such an important matter. And now, because of this map, he has a little advantage that the Wu people don't have.

"I thought, maybe I'll find that way." Wei Ba met Jin Suo'er's surprised gaze and said in a deep voice: "King Shamoke's Heavenly Spirit must want us to save his family, and he will help us." Miss Jinsuoer, would you like to come with me? (To be continued......)

PS: The third update, I think there should have been 50 votes by now, right?