In December of the second year of Han Zhangwu, Zhuge Liang, who had just led the Han army to a great victory, left some soldiers and horses to guard the road, and then led most of the other Han troops to pursue all the way south and came to the outside of Yuewang County.

When Zhuge Liang's army arrived in Xianxian, due to the complete victory in the Battle of Yandao, Zhuge Liang's prestige in Nanzhong soared.

Therefore, the county magistrate of Xian County, who was originally attached to Gaoding, immediately took the initiative to open the city gate to welcome Zhuge Liang's army into the city on the day Zhuge Liang's army arrived.

The two ends of the head rat of the county magistrate of Xian County naturally couldn't hide Zhuge Liang, but Zhuge Liang had no intention of punishing the county magistrate.

Xianxian is only a small county, and it is difficult to recruit even hundreds of county soldiers in the county, and in the face of the powerful rebels, the county magistrate of Xianxian County was helpless to rebel at the beginning.

If he didn't rebel, Gao Ding was the leader of the Yi tribe, and he was very likely to do such a thing as slaughtering the city.

Moreover, the choice of the county magistrate is the same as that of most county magistrates in Nanzhong.

Most of the county governors in Nanzhong are not all interested in the rebels, and the reason why they choose to rebel is that when the rebellion first broke out, they were alone, and in this case, rebellion is the best choice for self-preservation.

Of course, if Zhuge Liang loses the battle of Yandao, then the magistrate of Xianxian County will definitely become more and more loyal to Gaoding.

One positive and one negative, all change according to the times.

Zhuge Liang not only did not punish the county magistrate, but also comforted the magistrate of the county in words.

Zhuge Liang's attitude made the county magistrate of Xianxian County grateful.

Seeing that he had pacified the magistrate of Xianxian County, Zhuge Liang commanded more than 10,000 Han troops to settle in Xianxian County and repair the city defenses, thinking that Xianxian County would be used as a temporary base for him to pacify Yuewang County.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhuge Liang appeased the magistrate of Xianxian County, since Xianxian County is his temporary garrison base next, then the stability of Xianxian County is of course quite important.

The stability of the county is inseparable from the strong support of the county magistrate.

In addition, his attitude towards the county magistrate today will sooner or later be publicized through the mouth of the magistrate of the county.

After this matter spreads throughout Nanzhong, the county magistrates of other counties who heard about this matter will not be too resistant to the arrival of Zhuge Liang's Han army.

With such a mentality, as long as the situation continues to develop in favor of the Han army, then there will be more people like the county magistrate of Nanzhong in the future.

This is Zhuge Liang's political attack on the rebellion in Nanzhong - only punish the evil, not the subordinates.

After arranging the affairs of the army stationed in Xian County, Zhuge Liang sent a large number of scouts to investigate the movements of Gao Ding and Meng Shu.

The battle outside Yandao County last month can be said to have dealt a powerful blow to the rebels of Gao Ding and Meng Huo, but that battle was not enough to break up the tribes of both men.

According to the information collected during the later cleaning of the battlefield, more than 1,000 Yi troops were killed and more than 2,000 were captured in the First Battle of Yandao, and the remaining nearly 7,000 people were scattered and escaped.

After having a clear understanding of the enemy's losses, Rao is Zhuge Liang also secretly sighed: The Yi people are really good at running.

It was only after sighing that Zhuge Liang realized that there were still several vicious battles to be fought in the peaceful war in Nanzhong.

If it was to fight with Cao Wei or Jiangdong, even if most of their armies fled after defeat, Zhuge Liang would not have this worry, but the Yi army in Nanzhong was different.

The Yi army is an army based on tribes, and such an army has the weakness of lax military discipline and insufficient training, but it also has very significant advantages.

This advantage is that they have a strong sense of belonging to their leader, after all, their leader is actually their patriarch.

Under this advantage, if the Wei army or the Wu army fled in large numbers, many of them may not return to the army, and even if they return, it will take a long time, but the Yi army will not have this worry.

According to Zhuge Liang's calculations, it won't be long before Gao Ding and Meng Shu will gather most of their scattered clansmen together.

And just a few days after Zhuge Liang led the army into Xianxian, the scouts he had sent before came back and reported to him the latest information they had discovered.

"Gao Ding and Meng were defeated and fled to Qiongdu, collected the rout, and the army recovered."

This latest information represents that all the previous inferences of Zhuge Liang have become facts.

Since he had expected it in his heart, after getting this military information, Zhuge Liang was not too surprised.

He gave the scout a new mission.

After Zhuge Liang sent good news to Chengdu before, Chengdu naturally fell into jubilation.

After the "presiding" prince Liu Chan got the good news, he was even more overjoyed and difficult to control.

In the excitement, the crown prince Liu Chan specially sent the envoy Dasi Nong Meng Guang to the south to reward the army in Zhuge Liang's army.

It wasn't that long ago that this happened.

But now Zhuge Liang is going to make a fuss about it.

He asked the scouts to go outside the capital to spread the false news that Chengdu was constantly sending reinforcements south.

After receiving this task, the scout immediately set off for the outside of the Qiongdu City to act according to the plan.

When Zhuge Liang assigned tasks to the scouts, Li Hui, the governor of the Imperial Prefecture, was in Zhuge Liang's big tent and reported some military affairs to him.

When the scout left, Li Hui was a little puzzled why Zhuge Liang let the scout do this.

"The defeat of the enemy army is when the army is frustrated, and now that our army is superior to the enemy, why don't the prime minister take Qiongdu in one go?

Now the prime minister ordered the scouts to spread the news of the continuous flow of reinforcements from our army, Gao Ding and Meng Huo were already frightened, and seeing that our army was gathering, they were bound to ask for help everywhere in a hurry.

At that time, if Zhu Bao and Yonghong both lead the army to defend Qiongdu, it will not be so easy to capture Qiongdu. ”

Hearing Li Hui's concern, Zhuge Liang smiled and said to Li Hui: "What I want is Zhu Bao and Yonghong to come." ”

Zhuge Liang's words made Li Hui even more puzzled.

Seeing Li Hui's puzzled expression, Zhuge Liang patiently explained to Li Hui:

"The battle of Yandao is enough to prove that it is easy for the Yi people to be defeated, but it is not easy to annihilate them, and if they are not annihilated, the rebellion in Nanzhong will never be peaceful.

In addition, the rebels in the south and the central part of the country are not subordinate to each other, and each has its own borders, so if our army wants to pacify the south and the central region, it will not be able to do so.

However, if they lead the army to Pingding one by one, the terrain in Nanzhong is dangerous and the miasma is rampant, which is a rather dangerous and time-consuming matter.

Reverse Wei is ready to move, and time is running out.

Since this is the case, it is better for me to use a plan to lure all the rebels together, gather and annihilate them, and finish their work in one battle. ”

Seeing that Zhuge Liang was planning to do this, Li Hui was convinced of Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang saw that Li Hui understood his intentions, and he nodded slightly.

Li Hui is the governor of the city, and after he pacifies Nanzhong in the future, Li Hui will be acting for the military and political affairs of Nanzhong.

For the purpose of long-term peace and stability in Nanzhong, Zhuge Liang had to let Li Hui understand where the trick to governing Nanzhong was.

Soon after, Li Hui, who had finished reporting all military affairs, withdrew from Zhuge Liang's big tent.

After Li Hui withdrew from the big tent, Yang Yi asked to see him outside the tent again.

Hearing that it was Yang Yi who asked to see him, Zhuge Liang hurriedly asked him to come in.

Yang Yi walked out of the tent with a happy face, and before he walked in front of Zhuge Liang, he said to Zhuge Liang with joy:

"Prime Minister, Deng Ai has led the army to quell the Huang Yuan Rebellion not long ago.

The Huang Yuan thief was beheaded by our army on the spot, and his head had been sent to Chengdu. ”

When he heard the good news, Zhuge Liang's face also showed joy - he really didn't see the wrong person.

Yang Yi walked quickly to Zhuge Liang and handed an unopened battle report to Zhuge Liang.

Although Yang Yi had not read the contents of the battle report, he had just learned everything from the messenger sent by Deng Ai.

Zhuge Liang quickly took the battle report in Yang Yi's hand and unfolded it.

But when Zhuge Liang unfolded the battle report in his hand, he found that there were two documents in his battle report.

This abnormal scene instantly alerted Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang first quietly asked Yang Yi to step back, and then he sat on the main seat and looked at the two documents sent by Deng Ai.

One of the documents was Deng Ai's battle report to quell the Huang Yuan Rebellion, and Zhuge Liang had already read it in a while.

But when Zhuge Liang picked up another document, he found that it was actually a letterhead.

Zhuge Liang immediately unfolded the letter and looked at it.

After reading the contents of the letterhead, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but let out a sigh.

This letter was found by Shi Bao from Huang Yuan, and it was the letter that stated that Sun Quan would finance the rebellion in Nanzhong.

As early as when he went south, Zhuge Liang faintly guessed that the rebellion in Nanzhong had the shadow of Cao Wei behind it.

But what he didn't expect was that Sun Quan turned out to be one of the backers behind the rebellions in Nanzhong.

This Sun Quan is really a wolf's ambition!

But compared with Sun Quan's wolf ambitions, Zhuge Liang was more worried about the deep connection behind this matter.

The letter only mentions that Sun Quan will help the rebels in Nanzhong, and on the surface it seems that this is a matter between Sun Quan and the rebels in Nanzhong.

But Zhuge Liang sensed that Sun Quan's actions were likely to be instructed by Cao Wei.

Otherwise, Sun Quan is a wolf and has good ambitions, but he is also good at hibernation.

If there was no collusion from Cao Wei's side, if it was only on his own side, Sun Quan's character would not rashly meddle in Nanzhong.

Moreover, at the same time as Cao Wei and Nanzhong secretly communicated with each other, Sun Quan also intervened in this hand, Zhuge Liang did not believe that there would be such a coincidence in the world.

Due to the difference in strategic vision, Zhuge Liang got more hidden information from this letter.

But after getting those hidden information, Zhuge Liang's brows wrung deeply.

This look of his face rarely appeared on his face, even when he first learned that Cao Wei showed signs of a large-scale attack on Hanzhong.

The reason why Zhuge Liang has this performance is not because he is worried that Sun Quan will help Nanzhong too much, and it is not that he does not have the confidence to face the current situation in Nanzhong, which seems to be becoming more and more difficult.

What worries him is that the situation in the world seems to have changed in the way he least wants to see.

That situation is – the whole world is the enemy.

This is what makes Zhuge Liang, a Wolong, feel very worried.

The world may think that the current situation of the Han Dynasty has reached the same height as he originally envisioned in "Longzhong Pair", but Zhuge Liang knows that the current Han is not like a god.

From the perspective of territory, the current Han is good across Jingyi.

But the reason why Zhuge Liang put forward this strategic idea at the beginning was the time period when he proposed "Longzhong Pair", which was when Jingzhou and Yizhou were both strong states in the world.

Especially Jingzhou at that time - with 100,000 armor, grain can support ten years, what a heroic national strength.

When the arrogant national strength is matched with the strategic location extending in all directions, plus a handsome talent, then Jingzhou's war potential is something that everyone will fear.

Only with such an arrogant national strength can he have the confidence to "Xiang Wanluo", and at the same time, he can also deter the Jiangdong Sun family who are downstream, so that his "Longzhong Pair" strategy has the possibility of complete success.

But now Jingzhou's national strength is broken, and it is not the same.

Even Jingzhou has now become the biggest weakness of the Han Dynasty.

In this case, the current Dahan just looks quite powerful, if it falls into a situation where the whole world is the enemy, then

Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang couldn't sit still any longer, he had limited information at present, and he didn't know where Cao Wei and Sun Quan's collusion had reached, but many things had to be prepared in advance.

Zhuge Liang immediately leaned over and wrote a note, which he played to Liu Bei.

Even if he knew that Liu Bei was still recuperating now, he had discovered things that were related to the life and death of the Han Dynasty, which made him have to play these things to Liu Bei in time.

Zhuge Liang quickly finished writing the note in his hand, and then he ordered someone to call Yang Yi.

Yang Yi didn't know why Zhuge Liang had just asked him to step back, so why he was in a hurry to summon him in, but before and after he came to Zhuge Liang again, he found that Zhuge Liang's face had a dignified look that he had never seen before.

Before Yang Yi could ask Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang handed over the music in his hand to Yang Yi's hands, and then he said to Yang Yi: "Baili is sent to Chengdu urgently, and it must be sent to His Majesty's hands with his own hands." ”

It was such a sentence that made Yang Yi realize the seriousness of the matter.

He hurriedly took the song from Zhuge Liang's hand, and then he heard Zhuge Liang instruct again: "You prepare a warrant in my name and send it to Hanjia, so that after Deng Ai receives the warrant, he will quickly lead the army south." ”

Yang Yi heard the eagerness in Zhuge Liang's words, and he didn't dare to hesitate and immediately bowed down to receive the order.

After ordering these two things, Zhuge Liang gave Yang Yi one last order:

"Order the whole army, and the whole army will march to the capital early tomorrow morning."

When Zhuge Liang's last password was finished, Yang Yi hurriedly left Zhuge Liang's big tent to pass the orders one by one.

After Yang Yi left, Zhuge Liang seemed a little tired, and he kneaded his brow with his fingers.

Zhuge Liang knew why Sun Quan gradually fell to Cao Wei, even though his eldest son Sun Deng was still in Jingzhou.

Sun Quan, or many people in the world, they are afraid that the big man who overwhelmed the world back then will come back.

Once that day comes, the clan is gone, will you still care about a son?

The world is difficult, and it is all caused by human desires.

In December of the second year of Han Zhangwu, in Chencang City in Liangzhou, Cao Zhen looked at the roster of the army in his hand with a happy face.

I have to say that Xiahou Nan is indeed quite talented in internal affairs.

In just three months, Xiahou Nan had already gathered nearly 60,000 troops for Cao Zhen, as well as countless grains, grasses and ordnance.

It won't take long for the 100,000 troops to be assembled, how can this not make Cao Zhen feel happy?

Just when Cao Zhen was overjoyed, a sergeant came to report that Guo Huai had arrived.

Hearing Guo Huai's arrival, Cao Zhen got up from his seat, and he hurriedly asked Guo Huai to be summoned.

It's too late today, so let's start with a chapter.

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