Chengdu, the general's mansion.

It was late at night, but the lights in the mansion's study were still bright.

Since Liu Beibei attacked Hanzhong, the huge government affairs in Shuzhong have all been pressed on Zhuge Liang's body, raising grain and grass, training soldiers, rectifying internal affairs, and preventing external troubles.

In the middle of the night, the sound of slight footsteps colliding with the wooden floor sounded...

Yang Yi deliberately walked in with extremely slight steps, and when she saw that Zhuge Liang had completed the approval of a document, she said: "Sir, Gongcao Shuzuo Li Hui asks to see!" ”

"Oh, isn't he in Jianning? When will you return from the night road? ”

Zhuge Liang groaned for a while, and immediately cheered up his spirit, "Please!" ”

It didn't take long for Li Hui to walk in quickly and salute, "Gong Cao Shuzuo Li Hui has seen the military advisor!" ”

"De'ang doesn't have to salute, sit!"

Zhuge Liang said in a calm tone, in fact, the internal and external troubles during this period of time have made his mind get a new refinement, no matter how urgent the matter, no matter how complicated his heart is, on the surface it is only unfazed.

Li Hui's face was extremely solemn, "Zhuge Military Division, the big thing is not good, Yunnan is in an emergency-"

During the Three Kingdoms period, Yunnan was under the jurisdiction of the Southern Barbarian King Meng, and if you look at the map of later generations, his territory is roughly in the west of Zhaotong in Baoshan, Yunnan, north of Kunming, south of Diqing, the eastern part of Myanmar and Tengchong, Ruili, and Nujiang in Yunnan.

And this is the limit of Yunnan, not the limit of Meng Shu.

In fact, such as the vulture of the king of the kingdom of Ugo;

King Mulu, who is said to be able to change the weather and manipulate wild beasts;

Known as the first wise man of the Southern Barbarians, King Dosi;

The three knots of the golden ring of the Wuxi Cave Barbarian Village, Dong Dana, and A Huilan;

Mrs. Zhurong's younger brother brought the cave master, these barbarian forces have crossed Yunnan and spread to the territory of Burma, these barbarian soldiers and horses are gathered, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people?

Even when the troops in Shuzhong were gathered, they never dared to underestimate this force, let alone the current Shuzhong... It's empty cities.

After Li Hui's report.

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but frown deeply, "You mean, the barbarian king summoned the Wei envoy Cheng Yu, and the whole of Yunnan was also called by the barbarian king Meng Shu, and the cave masters had begun to order troops, and even the vulture bones of the king of the Ugo Kingdom also responded one after another, and rushed to Yunnan with rattan armor soldiers?" ”

The Southern Barbarian invasion, Zhuge Liang had already gotten the news before, and he was psychologically prepared, but... The cave masters... Even the country of Ugo has entered the war, no doubt ... This is something Zhuge Liang didn't expect.

"The situation may be even more severe than what the minister has discovered..."Li Hui's expression was solemn, "If the Wuxi Barbarian King Shamoke also participates in the war, it will not only threaten the Southern Barbarians, I am afraid that even the Yiling side will also be attacked by the barbarians..."

Li Hui was concise and to the point.

But the fewer words, the bigger the matter.

"What?"

Zhuge Liang was taken aback, and his eyes fell into deep worry.

"Chen's hometown is in Jianning County, although Chen's family is not the top local wealthy family, but a hundred years of inheritance, the relationship is intricate, these information can still be guaranteed to be accurate, but..."

Speaking of this, Li Hui paused, "But, at least... The reliable information received now does not indicate that the barbarians have declared war on us and have invaded Chengdu..."

"They're waiting..."Zhuge Liang's eyes couldn't help but condense, and his hand subconsciously slapped on the table. One, they are waiting for the information of the first battle between Hanzhong, and two... I'm afraid that they have secretly sent someone to Shuzhong to investigate, to find out the truth of Chengdu! ”

"Is there a way to hide it?" Li Hui hurriedly asked.

Zhuge Liang shook his head, "How I wish I had the ability to scatter beans into soldiers, but now... All the soldiers and horses deployed in Chengdu together can't get together a thousand people, even if it's bluffing, I don't know where to start! ”

"So..."The inexplicable heavy atmosphere was suddenly suppressed, and Li Hui stopped talking.

Zhuge Liang seemed to see through what he was about to say from his eyes.

"Whew"... In a long exhale, Zhuge Liang groaned deeply, "The soldiers are coming, the water is coming to cover the earth, when the Southern Barbarians invade, even if there are only more than a thousand soldiers and horses, I should try my best to stop the enemy!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang seemed to think of the battle situation in Hanzhong again, and the situation over there was also not optimistic.

His brow deepened, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"At this time, you can't add pressure to the lord and filial piety..."

said so on the lips, but in his heart, Zhuge Liang sighed.

- "Blessings are incomparable, and disasters do not go alone... Eventful!'

Just when Zhuge Liang and Li Hui were discussing...

"Strategist..."

Yang Yi, who had just walked out of the room, hurried over again, this time, there was an extra bamboo tube in his hand, looking at the outfit... It is from Jingzhou.

"Zhuge Military Division, a letterhead from Jingzhou was sent by Guan Sigongzi seven hundred miles in an urgent manner..."

As soon as Yang Yi's words fell, Zhuge Liang hurriedly said.

"Present it to me—"

He couldn't wait to take the bamboo tube, and couldn't wait to unfold the letterhead inside, the familiar words came into view, but it was the content in it that made him think deeply.

"Zhuge Military Division... But what tricks did the cloud flag boy come up with? ”

Yang Yi couldn't wait to ask.

Zhuge Liang seemed to be still groaning, and after a long silence, he still said in a somewhat puzzled tone: "What Yunqi sent is not a clever plan..."

Yang Yi hurriedly asked again: "What is that?" ”

Zhuge Liang handed the letterhead to Yang Yi, but said, "Yunqi only said one, send his fifth brother Guan Suo to Chengdu..."

Yes...

When Zhuge Liang's words came out, Yang Yi showed an incredible look of consternation.

What time is this?

The tiger at the front door of Hanzhong is not flat, and the wolf at the back door of Yunnan is entering again...

At this juncture where there is no room for trouble, how... Why don't you send a Guansuo here?

Having said that, this Guan Suo doesn't seem to have made much achievements in his previous military exploits!

It seems that his wind review... Not so good!

This... This...

Yang Yi was still puzzled, but Zhuge Liang was already sighing: "Yunqi, he will never be untargeted, this move must be arranged!" ”

Yang Yi immediately retorted: "Zhuge Military Master must not be mythical to him, if he has everything arranged, then he will not just send Adou and Zhuge Ke with a few 3,000 people to rescue Dingjun Mountain... Maybe this time..."

Speaking of this, Yang Yi paused for a moment, then gritted his teeth, and still said all the words that were circulating in his heart: "Zhuge Military Division, maybe we should realize this time that whether it is "The Legend of Yun Farewell" or the son of Yunqi... He... Not a god, he can't be a prophet every time, he... He makes mistakes too! It's a mistake! ”

"Did you make a mistake? Did you miscalculate? Zhuge Liang repeated these six words softly.

However, from the bottom of his heart, from the previous calculations, from the subtle and desperate actions, he... He Zhuge Liang still didn't want to believe that Guan Lin would make mistakes and make mistakes!

That insight and strategic ability, Zhuge Liang is convinced.

At least, in the current situation, the Wei army has not won, and the Shu army has not lost either!

The Nanban Rebellion has not yet reached its deadliest time.

Everything is still up in the air!

And—wait and see! Let's wait and see!

…

…

Mountains on both sides of the entrance to Dingjun Mountain.

Because of the special structure of the stone and the sturdiness of the stone walls, even if the stone is needed in peacetime, it is rarely excavated from here.

Because of this, no one would consider the ambush here.

Ugly moments...

Zhuge Ke had already climbed to the mountains on both sides with his subordinates, and a heavy rectangular cloth bag was placed at the bottom of the stone wall, and the extremely eye-catching word "fried" on each cloth bag was particularly obvious.

"Is this the fried bun in Yuan Xun's mouth?"

Zhang Bao looked at the carefully placed cloth bags with gray and green colors, arranged the leads, and couldn't help asking.

In fact, he has no concept of this so-called "fried bag" at all.

It was Zhang Xingcai, she knew a little, so she explained to her brother Zhang Bao: "Previously, during the Jingzhou period, Yunqi drew drawings called 'gunpowder refining', of course, these... The so-called gunpowder is completely different from the white phosphorus collected in the Sifang Mountains outside the city of Najiang Xia'an, which only burst into flames to burn the enemy, and this gunpowder has terrible lethality and deterrence. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xingcai paused, and she carefully recalled the words Guan Lin had mentioned to her about this "gunpowder".

"Yunqi said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li, a strategist of the Yue Kingdom, recorded in his book called "Fan Zi Jiran", "Sulfur, realgar saltpeter, and honey burning" will occur, and the phenomenon of "flame rising, burning hands and burning houses" will occur, and the so-called "saltpeter out of Longdao", and the picture drawn by Yunqi is far more violent than in "Fan Zi Jiran"... Even before he had proposed to make gunpowder whip arrows, saying that... It can explode at the arrow as it hits the enemy's line, and even the strongest shield array will collapse and shatter in an instant! What if..."

Zhang Xingcai's gaze looked directly at those "fried buns", she groaned deeply for a while, and then continued, "If... If Yun Qi's original conception and his drawings were finally invented by Madame Huang, then the gunpowder really acted on the battlefield, and that was mentioned by Yuan Xun... Use these explosive packs to explode, causing the entire mountain rock to collapse, and then... Bury the entire Wei army between the narrow mountain roads here! This... It's entirely possible! ”

Listening to Zhang Xingcai's words... Zhang Bao's eyes couldn't help but widen, and he even gasped.

The bomb exploded, the rocks collapsed...

This... What kind of destructive power does this need?

Even later, Zhang Bao's voice was a little stumbling, "Really? How can it be... It can really blow up this rock! ”

Zhang Xingcai bit her lip, "Let's wait and see..."

Frankly speaking, she will always have confidence in Guan Lin, but even so, her mood has been "bang, bang, bang" and danced, as if she instinctively muttered and shouted in her heart.

- "Is this fried bun going to work?"

…

…

On the mountain road from Yangping Pass to the south pass of Dingjun Mountain, 60,000 Wei troops were hurrying.

Guo Huai sat in the Chinese army and keenly observed the surroundings.

A guide reminded him: "This mountain road... Surrounded by mountains on both sides, it is easy to set up ambushes, but in fact, because of the wind direction and the hard stone wall, it is impossible to dig stones or shoot crossbow arrows! This is also why, the Shu army entered the mountain so easily, and they were not worried about the Wei army setting up an ambush at all! ”

Listening to the guide's words, Guo Huai nodded, "I've also heard the terrain here... There are rumors among the mountain people that it is windy here... The stones that are easy to hang down have long been blown into this mountain road, and the stone walls left on the mountain are hard and abnormal! It is impossible to set up an ambush, but the speed of our army's march must be slowed down! ”

Zhang and Guo Huai came here together, and he also looked around at the mountains here, and said with emotion: "The ridges on both sides... What a miracle! However, General Guo is right, it is necessary to cut off the retreat and grain route of the Shu army as soon as possible, and then follow... As long as the water flow is stopped, the big-eared thief is afraid that he will follow the example of his righteous son Liu Feng and lead these more than 100,000 Shu troops to die alive on the mountains! ”

Guo Huai nodded deeply, obviously agreeing with Zhang Ji's words.

That's when ...

"Report..."A scout hurriedly came to report, "General, there is a thousand-strong Shu army team that I don't know where to kill, the weapons in their hands are as sharp as clay, they are not wearing heavy armor, but they are invulnerable... Already... Several legions of the Wei army have already been routed by them ... Even... Even General Sun Li... Also captured! ”

This person also just heard the information, so he came to report it to Guo Huai as soon as possible.

"Shu Army? Thousands? Sharpen iron like clay? Invulnerable? ”

Guo Huai looked at the scout with a questioning expression, he felt... It was the most ridiculous thing he ever heard.

Oh, yes...

You say that weapons are as good as clay, after all... King Wei's Heavenly Sword and Qingyu Sword can also be so sharp because of the special material casting, but... Not wearing heavy armor and invulnerable?

How? The human skin of the Shu army was cast of iron?

Hehe... Guo Huai felt that the scout in front of him was funny.

"Come on, take it..."

“… Checkmate! ”

"Didn't you understand me? Take—"

"Whoa..."

Hearing this, Guo Huai was a little angry, and immediately, the left and right guards took down the scout.

"General, I'm not guilty..."

The scout had just spoken.

But I saw Guo Huai pull out the general's sword with a "whoosh", the long sword crossed a brilliant arc in the air, and with a swing of the sword, he directly took the head of the scout.

Accompanied by the sound of "knock" and "knock" heads falling to the ground, Guo Huai roared loudly, "This person must be a meticulous work in Shuzhong, lying to deceive this general, disturbing the morale of the army, hindering my march, and being recognized by this general, now beheading his head, in order to set an example, if anyone dares to disturb the morale of the army, this is the end!" ”

Belch...

With such a simple hand, all the Wei troops were silent.

On the other hand, Zhang Ji, he groaned slightly, noncommittal to Guo Huai's behavior, he was a civil servant, and he may not understand why he was so crisp and decisive.

But he can somewhat understand Guo Huai's feelings, their team of 60,000 people shoulders the heavy task of cutting off the retreat and grain route of the Shu army, at this critical moment, the army's heart cannot be chaotic-

At this time, Guo Huai's eyes narrowed further, and his sword did not mean to be withdrawn, but pointed forward at forty-five degrees, "Hurry up, quickly pass through this mountain road——"

"Whew...", the lieutenant generals should drink one after another.

Then... The whole army, I don't know if it was because of the fear of the scout's head falling to the ground, or the instinctive uneasiness of walking between the mountain paths, they walked quickly.

…

…

At the entrance to Dingjun Mountain.

Only two miles inward from the place where Zhuge Ke was ambushed, there was a dense forest on a high ground.

Many of the Shu troops that had been defeated in the past few days were assembled here.

According to the information of the scouts, the road up the mountain from here to the Shu army has been cut off, and the entire Bashan mountain range is full of groups of Wei soldiers and horses.

At this moment, Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong are gathered here... The two met by chance, so they gathered the remnants of the various divisions together.

But even if the two of them joined forces, in the face of the Wei army everywhere and embattled, the two of them could not break through and were at a loss.

"Lao Huang, we can't hide here, follow a shrunken turtle, and do nothing!"

Zhang Fei was anxious, and he couldn't hold back this atmosphere anymore.

"Yide..."Huang Zhong squinted, "Tanma said, the tens of thousands of Wei troops in Yangping Pass are on the way to come, we have a strong enemy in front and a chasing soldier in the back, except for being able to hide here?" Tell me, what else can be done? ”

Facing this Huang Zhong's problem.

Zhang Fei scratched his head, he didn't answer directly, but muttered: "The direction of the first battle of Dingjun Mountain is completely different from that "Yun Farewell Biography", it seems that Yun Qi is still good at writing "Fighting God", Zilong's "Yun Farewell Biography"... It's almost funny! ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Fei seemed to suddenly think of something, "Lao Huang? You said... What if the Wei army of Yangping Pass rushed to the foot of this Dingjun Mountain? What will be the consequences of that! ”

"Set up camp and build a defense." Huang Zhong tried to analyze, but suddenly, he was shocked, "It's not good... If this Wei army really establishes a defensive line, even the lord's grain route and retreat will be gone..."

"Isn't this a last fight?" Zhang Fei hurriedly opened his mouth.

Huang Zhong frowned, "Ma Tan also thought so when he retreated to Dingjun Mountain..."

Belch...

Zhang Fei suddenly felt a bad feeling, he scratched his head, "Lao Huang, what do you mean, if this Dingjun Mountain really establishes the defense line against Wei, I and my big brother will be finished!" ”

"That's probably the case..."Huang Zhong's lips trembled.

Who would have thought that as soon as he said this, Zhang Fei Huoran got up, and at the same time picked up the Zhangba snake spear, and shouted at the Shu soldier who was resting: "Follow me who can still breathe..."

"Winged? What are you doing? Huang Zhong hurriedly shouted.

Zhang Fei walked like the wind, and while walking forward quickly, he shouted in response: "It's about the life and death of my eldest brother, even if I fight for this life, I have to intercept and kill this Wei army in Yangping Pass!" They can't be punished! ”

"But there are tens of thousands of them—"

Huang Zhong shouted hoarsely.

"Hahaha..."Who ever thought, Zhang Fei laughed, while laughing, his steps were fixed in place, but the hand that held the Zhangba snake spear was a little harder, and in that wanton laughter, he said:

"At that time, under the Dangyang Bridge in Changbanpo, I was alone and faced tens of thousands of Cao troops, at that time, I yelled three times and took away a young general of Cao Ying?"

Belch...

As he blurted out these words, Zhang Fei had already taken the lead in the direction of the entrance of Nadingjun Mountain.

The setting sun stretched his back long, and the sonorous and powerful steps seemed to be writing a line of shining big characters:

- Although there are tens of millions of people, I will go!

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… (End of chapter)