After Qian Tong sat down, the lords on both sides discussed a lot, but none of them supported "not sending troops". These lords all know Qian Tong's temper, if anyone has a different opinion, or echoes too much, the party will have to end early, and in the end Qian Tong still acts according to his own ideas.

Qian Tong deliberately said that he would not send troops, he was throwing bricks and stones, hoping that the owners of the mountain would work together to support him, and he would no longer be a plate of loose sand. But these lords are very shrewd one by one, expedition to Xishu, take away most of the strong labor force in Dong Village, spring ploughing is imminent, who will plough the fields and farm?

Yang Kaiqing previously said that he would send 500 troops, and the Dong Zhai Miao people he led were only 4,000 people, and the 15-55-year-old Zhuang Ding was full of 1,000 people. Now he regretted it a little, touching his white beard and sweeping it around Yang Chengsheng.

"Lord Qingtong, what are you just looking at what I do?" Yang Chengsheng said with a smile.

"How many troops are you going to send?" Yang Kaiqing, with a white beard, squinted and asked tentatively.

Mo Yitong's territory is several times larger than Chenxi, rich in products, and the population is almost ten times that of Chenxi, not to mention sending 500 troops, even 5,000. But Yang Chengsheng didn't want to send troops to help Zhuge Liang suppress the rebellion of Yonghong and others, if it was to confront Shu, he would be a hundred willing. Yang Kaiqing wanted to make the first bird, so he let him do it well.

"Lord Qingtong, I have sent so many troops......" Yang Chengsheng stretched out a finger.

"A thousand?" All the lords looked at Yang Chengsheng together.

"No, I can't draw so many soldiers." Yang Chengsheng shook his head.

"It can't be 100, right?" Qian Tong leaned forward a little.

"Whoever knows me, so does the king." Yang Chengsheng hugged his fists and said.

Qian Tong pondered, Mo Yitong is only willing to send a hundred troops, aren't you demolishing the king's platform? If you don't express your position, the 16 lords will also follow Yang Chengsheng's example, and they only promise 100 people, where can they get 15,000 people? Gotta show these old guys.

"It's up to you to knock on the door. This king's Gutian Mountain is 200 miles in radius, with a population of nearly 100,000, I will send 5,000 troops, 500 of Yang Kaiqing's lord, you have to have 1,000 troops anyway, and the rest of you will gather 10,000 horses for me, can you? Qian Tong finally spoke.

"King, five hundred Hengling Mountain."

"Six hundred."

"Chishui Mountain, eight hundred."

"Four hundred." ……

The owners promised that the people were more than 400, and Yang Chengsheng was embarrassed to only send 100 troops, so he had to agree to the quota of 1,000 people allocated to him by Qian Tong, after all, Mo Yitong is rich and rich, there are too few people, and he can't hold his face, especially Yang Kaiqing of Chenxi is more active than himself, and he can't let others look down on Mo Yitong's father and fellow villagers: "King, Mo Yitong 1200." ”

"Good." Qian Tong stroked his palms and laughed. Among the lords, Yang Chengsheng reported the largest number of people, which was the result that King Miao wanted the most.

Two days later, the men and horses of the Eighteen Mountains gathered in the open space of Xiangshan in the Tucheng (Zhuge City) of Zhusi Mountain, and the Miao King Qiantong held a grand military parade and delivered a passionate speech: We firmly believe that it will never be us who will perish. The road to victory will be sprinkled and extended with our blood. Our spirit lives on and our faith lives on. We use sacrifice to witness blood and declare justice with life. We are the messengers of the flames, the swords of the guardians, and we will fearlessly lay down our lives and fight to the death......

Although these 15,000 people were recruited temporarily, working in the fields and mountains on weekdays, as long as they changed into battle uniforms, they were a regular army whose combat power could not be underestimated.

"Kaiba-" Qian Tong shouted as he held up the Heavenly Demon Halberd. So, more than 10,000 Miao soldiers went to the Yuan River along the post road on the bank of the Wushui River......

"Miao Wang—" A woman's voice came from behind a boulder.

Qian Tong grabbed the horse's head and saw that seven or eight Miao girls wearing blue silk scarves jumped out of the boulder with cloth bags on their shoulders, holding short swords in their hands.

"Who are you?" Qian Tong asked in surprise.

"We have been waiting here for a long time on the orders of Mrs. Lan, the lord of Hengling Mountain." One of the girls at the head took off her silk scarf.

"Lord Shengtong has a heart. But this is a long way to Nanzhong, can you afford it? Qian Xiaofei asked.

"Madame has worked tirelessly and has gone out with the army, so we should do our part." The girl replied, "Although we can't go into battle to kill the enemy, we know how to heal the injuries of the Miao brothers as military girls." ”

"Done. Then join my medical team. Qian Xiaofei applauded.

"Yes, ma'am." The girls said in unison......

A month later, Miao Jun marched mightily to the outskirts of Chengdu, where Ma Yan, Wang Ping, Jiang Wei and others were waiting.

"King Miao, we meet again." Ma Tan rode out of the crowd.

"Lord of the army, this king said that he will see him in Chengdu, and he will never break his word." Qian Tong, who was standing in front of the team, also shot out of the battle, and when he looked around, he didn't see Zhuge Liang in the Shu army, and his heart was cold.

"What about the prime minister?" Yang Chengsheng was blunt.

"King Miao, who is this?" Ma Jian asked.

"I am Yang Chengsheng, the lord of Moyi Mountain, Bucheng." Yang Chengsheng replied, "The old man has seen the army. ”

"I've seen Lord Yang Dong." Ma Tan hugged his fists.

"My lord, what about the prime minister?" Yang Chengsheng asked again about Zhuge Liang's whereabouts. Ma Tan had no choice but to tell the truth.

It turned out that twenty days before Qian Tong arrived in Chengdu, Zhuge Liang couldn't wait, and personally led a large army to defeat Yonghong, and Ma Jian saw him off for dozens of miles.

Zhuge Liang took Ma Yan's hand and said, "Although we have been planning this matter together for many years, you stay in Chengdu, and today I ask you to put forward a good plan again." ”

Ma Tan thought for a while and said: "Nanzhong relies on the dangerous terrain and long distances, and the rebellion has been disobedient for a long time. Even if we crush it today, tomorrow they will rebel. At the moment you are preparing to concentrate the forces of the whole country on the Northern Expedition against the bandits, who know that there is an emptiness within the country and will accelerate the rebellion. If they were all killed to get rid of the troubles, it would not be the work of the benevolent people, nor would it be possible to do so in a short time. The principle of using troops to fight is to attack the heart as the top and the city as the bottom; With psychological warfare as the top and hand-to-hand combat as the bottom, I hope you can make it sincerely subdued. ”

"That's right." Zhuge Liang took Ma Yan's suggestion.

As a result, the Shu army marched to the border of Nanjun, and there was infighting on Yonghong's side, and Yonghong had been killed by Dinggao and the tribe. The "barbarian king" who joined forces with Yonghong collected the remnants of Yonghong's army and continued to confront the conquest of the Shu army.

In fact, Meng Shou has no record in Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms"! But the story of "Seven Captures of Meng Huo" was opened up by later generations of novelists, and Meng Huo became famous among the people.

But after fighting, Zhuge Liang didn't really want to really destroy Meng Shu in his heart, and it was not difficult to take Meng Shu with his ability, because he felt that the people over there were not very civilized, they belonged to barbarians and the like, these people had straight tempers and brains, and it was not easy for them to change the things they believed, and Meng Huo was even more so as their commander.

Even if Meng Shu is destroyed, the hatred of these barbarians for Shu will not disappear, and there will be other people who will continue to do things in place of Meng Shu, and it is unrealistic to kill them all one by one. Zhuge Liang was bent on recovering Meng Shu and using his prestige in the hearts of the barbarians to ensure the peace of the place.

After Zhuge Liang and Meng Huo fought for a few rounds, because they did not fight to the death, Meng Shu's strength remained the same.

In order to defeat his opponent completely, Meng was invited to help him. These rattan armor soldiers were not originally Meng Shu's, they were borrowed by him from the vultures, although the number was not too many, but the rattan armor they wore was very powerful.

This thing is made by the locals with an exclusive secret recipe, and even a big knife can't cut into it. Barbarians are already savage, and they don't even want their lives in battle, and now they are wearing such an invulnerable thing, and the battle is simply impossible to fight......

"Haha, with this king here, Meng will be defeated." Qian Tong looked up to the sky and laughed, "Please join the army, Lord Join, show us the way-"

"King, you travel a long way, rest for a while, and then go to Nanzhong County to support the prime minister." Ma Tan said.

"There is no need to rest, give this king 15,000 men of food and grass, and I will go later." Qian Tong said anxiously.

"Okay." Ma Yan nodded.

So, Miao soldiers set off to Nanzhong County non-stop. As soon as he arrived in Nanzhong, Zhuge Liang handed over the power of front-line command to Qian Tong.

After fighting with Meng Huo's rattan armor army for a round, he didn't take advantage of it, and he couldn't help but be stunned: "This king can't kill them, so push them into the water and drown them!" ”

"King, it seems that the rattan armor can float in the water!" Lei Xue said, "When we were in Gutian, didn't we use fire to destroy Liu Zhang's vine armor army? ”

"But the prime minister won't let me. How about we drive the Fuji Armor Army to the water's edge and try it? ”

So, Qian Tong pressed all the Miao soldiers up, surrounded thousands of rattan armor troops, and beat them fiercely, the vine armor army was invincible and was driven to the river, Qian Tong forced them to pounce and jump into the river.

I didn't expect that the rattan armor could float in the water, and the barbarians wore it like they were wearing life jackets, and they couldn't sink at all, and they couldn't drown the rattan armor army!

After a happy bath in the river, the vine armor soldiers climbed ashore one by one, jumping alive and celebrating their escape again.

In particular, the vulture raised a finger and said on the other side: "Qian Tong, there is a kind of flying over and grabbing me!" ”

"This king will catch you, don't get too complacent!" Qian Tong grabbed a stone and threw it at the vulture. The stone fell in the center of the river, causing a splash.

The corners of the vulture bone's mouth hooked, and he made a grimace at Qian Tong, and then threw a small pebble into the river, and then walked away, and just like that, the vine armor army once again ran away from under Qian Tong's nose.

The battle lasted for an hour in vain, and the Miao army suffered hundreds of casualties. Qian Tong was so anxious: "Alas, this king is going to reason with the prime minister!" ”

Qian Tong carried the Demon Halberd and found Zhuge Liang in a huff: "Prime Minister, you have really chilled the hearts of those barbarian leaders who are truly obedient. For example, Yang Feng, the owner of the cave, captured Meng Shu and handed it over to you for disposal, but you turned around and released Meng Shu, what is this for? Didn't he connive at Meng Huo to seek revenge on Yang Feng? It's too unkind. ”