Gao Ding and Meng Shouju are well-known heroes in Nanzhong.

Among the two, Gao Ding was a leader of the Yi people in Yuewang County, so people in Nanzhong usually called Gao Ding the barbarian king.

Because Gao Ding is not of Han nationality, among the many heroes in the southern and central counties, Gao Ding is the one who is the most disobedient to Liu Bei.

In the twenty-second year of Jian'an, Gao Ding led a large number of Yi troops to attack Xindao County, and that time he was defeated by Li Yanyue County and retreated.

It can be seen that Gao Ding has long had the heart of leading the army to invade the north county of Yizhou.

Of course, it can also be seen from this point that Gaoding's own strength is strong, if the strength is not strong, Gaoding will not have the confidence to lead the army to attack Xindao County alone.

Even though Gaoding lost a lot of soldiers and horses in the first battle that year, in the case of the rebellion of the three counties in Nanzhong this time, the rebels of the three counties were still the strongest in Gaoding.

As for Meng Huo, his prestige in the Nanzhong area is no lower than that of Gao Ding.

In the past recitals that Liu Bei received, local officials often referred to Meng Shu as a "barbarian king" when talking about the situation in Nanzhong.

In fact, this point is not very accurate, because tracing back to the source, Meng Shu is different from Gao Ding, he is a Han Chinese.

Meng was born in the Meng clan of Yizhou County, and the Meng clan of Yizhou County was a branch of the Meng clan of Zhuti hundreds of years ago.

In that year, because of the war, the Zhu Ti Meng clan divided a tribe to settle in Yizhou County, thus forming the Meng clan of Yizhou County.

From this point of view, Meng Huo's background is quite similar to Yonghong's.

After all, Zhu Ti Meng is also one of the big surnames in Yizhou.

However, the reason why Meng Huo was called the "barbarian king" by the people of Nanzhong was that Meng Huo's ancestors adopted a different development method from the Yonghong ancestors.

After leading his clan to settle in Yizhou County, the ancestors of Meng Huo won the trust of the local Yi people by taking advantage of the advanced productivity they brought.

With hundreds of years of deliberate integration and getting along, the Meng clan of Yizhou County has a very high prestige among the local Yi people.

Later, in order to strengthen the strength of his family, the ancestor of Meng Huo gradually declared himself to be the leader of the Yi people in Yizhou, and he led his people to continue to learn the customs of the local Yi people.

Because of the prestige of the Meng ancestors among the local Yi people, that kind of claim could be regarded as a rumor at first, but with the acquiescence of the local Yi people, to this day, Meng Huo is a veritable leader among the Yi people in Yizhou County.

According to the view of the Spring and Autumn Period: "The princes will raze it if they use the Yi ceremony, and if they enter China, they will be China."

Meng Yu's ancestor's move was, in essence, a voluntary renunciation of his Chinese identity.

It is not wrong for the people of the time to call Meng Huo the barbarian king.

It is precisely because of Meng Huo's special status as both Han and Yi that since Meng Huo became the patriarch of the Meng family, he can do left and right in Nanzhong, which has led to his growing fame.

The reason why it was not Yonghong who led the troops north to assist Gao Ding this time was also because of Meng Huo's identity.

It is good that Yonghong and Gaoding are political allies, but Yonghong is a Chinese and Gaoding is a Yi person, and there is naturally a contradiction between them.

Now they will unite only because of the huge interests thrown by Cao Wei.

But the contradiction between them has not been truly resolved, so whether it is Gao Ding or Yonghong, they don't really want to see each other.

Meng Shu has no such worries in front of Gao Ding.

And Gao Ding was very happy when he saw that it was the "same clan" Meng Shu who led the troops to assist him.

But no matter how happy Gao Ding was before, after learning about the military situation of Zhuge Liang leading his troops into Yandao, now his whole rough face is about to squeeze into a twist.

It's sad.

Depressed, Gao Ding subconsciously looked at Meng Shu who was sitting on the side, and then asked in Yi language: "King Meng, what should we do next?" ”

At that time, there was a common official dialect, and there was a very loud name - Zhengyin Yayan.

As you can see from the name, most of this language can only be learned by the children of the family.

Although Gao Ding is a barbarian king and can do whatever he wants in Yuewang County, he is not from a Chinese family, and he has no channels to learn Zhengyin Yayan when he grows up.

Later, when Gao Ding grew up, because of his hostility to Huaxia, he never took the initiative to find Huaxia scholars to learn Zhengyin Yayan.

Therefore, it can be said that there is a big obstacle for Gao Ding to communicate with any of the children of the family in Nanzhong.

This is also one of the reasons why Yonghong looks down on Gaoding.

However, in front of Meng Shu, Gao Ding did not have this kind of trouble.

Meng Shu, who has a special identity, knows a lot of languages.

Meng Huo is a burly and strong man who does not lose his high order, and even in order to cater to the aesthetics of the local Yi people, Meng Huo did not wear Chinese clothes, but a dress with left hair.

Wearing a left hat is a common attire for people of different races in the world, and it is a very shameful dress in Chinese cultural concepts.

This performance of his also represents how badly the Meng people were assimilated by the local Yi people in his generation.

It's just that although Meng Huo's appearance is as rough as Gao Ding, he was born in a family, and his IQ is still higher than Gao Ding.

After listening to Gao Ding's inquiry, Meng Shu's eyes kept rolling, as if he was thinking of some strategy.

After thinking for a long time, Meng Shu laughed and patted his leg and said to Gao Dingyan:

"Why should King Gao worry, although Zhuge Villager is leading the army into Yandao now, he has never led troops to fight, what are we afraid of him doing?"

"In the past, Zhuge Villager was far away in Nan'an, and I was worried that I couldn't capture him alive and present it to the envoy of the Heavenly Empire, but now he has sent it to the door himself, it is really God who helps me."

When Meng Shu said this, his words revealed a strong confidence.

may be infected by the confidence in Meng Shou's words, or it may be that Meng Shou's words are exactly what Gao Ding thinks in his heart, so after listening to Meng Shou's words, Gao Ding's face also showed some smiles.

It's just that the reason why Gao Ding feels depressed is not because he is afraid of Zhuge Liang.

Gao Ding saw that there was no one around, so he said to Meng Shu: "What King Meng said makes sense, but the envoy of the Celestial Empire wants us to take the Yan Dao as soon as possible, Zhuge Liang is no longer incompetent, after he leads the army into the Yan Dao, if we want to take the Yan Dao, it will not be an easy task." ”

The envoy of the Celestial Empire in Gao Ding's mouth refers to the envoy from the Great Wei.

When the Great Wei envoy came to Nanzhong, he didn't come alone.

Not only did he bring with him a large amount of gold and silver, but he also carried many official seals.

There is a common problem among all foreign races, and that is that they are quite greedy for money.

After seeing the large amount of gold and silver brought by the envoy of the Great Wei, Gao Ding had already been subdued, not to mention the symbolic seal letter that symbolized the power.

Under the temptation of the power and wealth of the envoy of the Great Wei, Gao Ding is now quite attentive to the instructions of the envoy of the Great Wei.

After all, those things are not taken for nothing.

Even Gao Ding knew that in the hands of the envoy of the Great Wei Dynasty, there was an edict personally issued by Cao Pi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, and the content of the edict was that whoever could take Chengdu would be the new lord of Yizhou.

For the great temptation of becoming the lord of Yizhou, who can not be confused?

Gao Ding has this worry in his heart, why not Meng Shu?

The lord of Yizhou, Meng Shu also wants to be.

So after listening to Gao Ding's words, Meng Shu said to Gao Ding a clever plan he had just thought of in his heart:

"In my opinion, it is better for us to lead the army north tomorrow and go to the outside of Yandao County to challenge the Han army to spy on the truth.

If the Han army is vulnerable, we will take advantage of the situation to take Yandao County.

If the Han army is not defeated, we will retreat to join the other armies and plan the next step.

In this way, the envoy will not blame us for not doing things for the Great Wei in the future. ”

After Gao Ding listened to the clever plan that Meng Shu came up with, the joy on his face became more and more intense.

It's a pity that Gao Ding has no culture, and he really can't think of any words to praise Meng Shu, he just laughed and clapped his hands and said: "Okay! ”

The reason why Gao Ding felt that Meng Huo's strategy was good was because Meng Huo's strategy could achieve the effect of killing two birds with one stone.

Perhaps from the perspective of the whole world, Gao Ding and Meng won the title of these two barbarian kings, which is more like a joke.

The two of them themselves are not the wise men of the world, but that doesn't mean that the two of them are fools.

Gao Ding and Meng Huo will despise Zhuge Liang, but they will not ignore it.

What's more, even if Zhuge Liang is incompetent, Gao Ding and Meng Huo heard that in Zhuge Liang's southern expeditionary army, there is an elite soldier from Liangzhou.

Mi Yang's prestige and Meng Wei had heard of it, and they could not despise the elite soldiers he sent.

Therefore, Meng Xu thought about fighting Zhuge Liang first to test the reality of the enemy army.

Perhaps for the other armies, if this battle is defeated, they may suffer heavy losses, but for Gao Ding and Meng Shu, they will not have this worry.

Because their tribesmen are essentially their people, and they have a strong sense of belonging.

Unless the two of them die, their subordinates will not easily submit to Zhuge Liang.

And as long as their subordinates don't want to submit to Zhuge Liang, then if they are defeated, they will be defeated, and it is a big deal to flee into the mountains.

For the local Yi people, this is almost a natural skill for them.

The lofty mountains and mountains are a natural moat for the enemy, but for the Yi people in Nanzhong, they are the most familiar place and their last natural barrier.

Therefore, Meng Huoti's strategy can be said to be beneficial to them and harmless, how can Gao Ding not be happy?

After laughing, Gao Ding asked his people to bring a lot of wine and meat, and then he happily ate it with Meng Shu.

Judging from Gao Ding's performance, he seems to think that victory is just around the corner?

Gao Ding is not stupid, but he is really not very smart.

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After a night of pleasure, early the next morning, Gao Ding and Meng Shu respectively led their respective subordinates to march towards Yandao County.

Nanzhong is a region where Yi people and Han people live together, and the number of Yi people here is very large.

Most of the Yi people in Nanzhong are gathered in Yuewang County and Yizhou County.

In this case, Gao Ding and Meng Huo were respectively the leaders of the Yi people in the two counties, and there must have been many subordinates under them.

After all, the Yi people are different from the Han people, because the Yi people have lived in a difficult life for generations, which has developed their courageous and fearless character.

If they are truly fully mobilized, the Yi people can even go into battle to kill the enemy.

Of course, it is not yet the time of life and death, so the two barbarian kings did not summon all the Yi people in the clan.

But when they gathered most of the clansmen, the total strength of the two of them reached more than 10,000 after they joined the army.

More than 10,000 troops, this number of soldiers and horses, in the Central Plains is also a military force that cannot be underestimated.

And this army of more than 10,000 people is also the biggest confidence in the hearts of Gao Ding and Meng Huo.

As barbarian kings, Gao Ding and Meng Huo led their clansmen on a very unusual marching route.

In order to be in a hurry, they did not march from the official road or from the river to the road.

After they led their army out of Yuewang County, they plunged headlong into the mountains of Qianwei County.

The southern mountains of Yizhou are crisscrossed, which leads to many official roads being built around the road, and if the ordinary army is in a hurry, it can only obediently advance along the official road.

But for the local Yi people, since the mountain is in front of them, they can just pass through the mountain, which was also done when Shamoke led the army to support the police.

It's all about a straight-line distance.

Because of the special marching route of the Yi people, only a few days later, they came to the outside of Yandao County.

And because more than 10,000 Yi people have been marching in the deep mountains and forests, even if Zhuge Liang sent many scouts after arriving in Yandao, those scouts could not detect the whereabouts of the Yi army in advance.

It was only after the Yi army had passed through the mountains outside the Yan Road that the scouts sent by Zhuge Liang detected their arrival.

But at this time, the army led by Gao Ding and Meng Shu was already very close to Yandao County.

After detecting that tens of thousands of enemy troops suddenly appeared not far away, the Han scouts were shocked and immediately reported the news to Zhuge Liang.

Soon after Zhuge Liang learned of this news, a team of envoys sent by Meng Huo also came to the outside of Yandao County and asked Zhuge Liang to receive him.

Zhuge Liang, who was convening the generals to discuss the matter, was a little surprised when he learned the news.

The idea of the barbarians really cannot be inferred according to common sense.

But in the end, Zhuge Liang still had the messenger sent by Meng Shu to his big tent.

The messenger sent by Meng Shu was his own brother Meng You.

After Meng You was taken to Zhuge Liang's big tent by the Han army, he saw Zhuge Liang sitting at the top and a group of Han generals.

When he first saw Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang's graceful appearance made Meng You a little admired.

Zhuge Kongming is really as rumored to be, and his appearance is not like that of a mortal.

When the world looks at the face more than the people of the later generations.

As long as the appearance is good enough, even the enemy will feel good.

I like Zhuge Liang's appearance, and Meng You has not forgotten the purpose of his visit.

But before Meng You could speak, a person in the tent pointed at Meng You's nose and scolded angrily:

"You are a traitor, and you have the face to call yourself a messenger!

The Han has always been waiting for you, why did you rebel? ”

The person who angrily reprimanded Meng You was none other than Yang Yi, Zhuge Liang's chief bookkeeper.

Under Yang Yi's angry reprimand, many Han generals in the tent also glared at Meng You angrily.

But Meng You has lived with the Yi people since he was a child, and his temperament is very similar to that of the Yi people who drink blood, and the anger and reprimand will not make him panic.

Facing Yang Yi's angry rebuke, Meng You raised his head arrogantly and said: "Gai Wen has no two days in the sky, and there are no two kings in the earth. ”

Young!

After hearing Meng You's words, Yang Yi's anger rose even more.

A mere barbarian, how dare you be so slow?

What is called Yelang's arrogance, he has seen it today.