"My boys, hurry up. The King of Hanzhong invited us to come here. We are here to fight, not to play! Speed ​​up! After the war is over, you can choose the money, grain, and women in Chengdu!" Meng Huo, who had a small braid, shouted loudly to the barbarian soldiers and generals under his command.

Under Meng Huo's urging, the barbarians accelerated their pace and shouted loudly: "Get money! Grab food! Grab women! Roar roar--"

Seeing the barbarians under his subordinates lifting their spirits, Meng Huo laughed loudly, raised his whip and whipped hard on the horse's thighs of his war horse, and ran forward first. This time, Meng Huo verbally promised Liu Bei to send 100,000 troops, but in fact he only dispatched 40,000 barbarian soldiers, and used the excuse that the other barbarian soldiers were still in rectification and would come to participate in the battle one after another. In Meng Huo's view, the Han people were all sheep, and there were 40,000 barbarian soldiers like wolves and tigers, which was enough to deal with it! Therefore, at this moment, there were only three cave masters who followed Meng Huo. Each of them mobilized a unit of 10,000 people, and together with the 10,000 personal guards of Meng Huo's headquarters, they jointly formed this Northern Expedition Army.

After a full day of rapid march, Meng Huo brought his barbarians to the north of Yongchang County. As long as he climbed another mountain, he could reach Jianwei County. At that time, he could join forces with Liu Bei to fight against the Han army north together.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Meng Huogeng's troops stopped marching and looked for places to go back to rest at the foot of the mountain. The custom of the Southern Barbarians was not to set up camps. They simply surrounded a sparse circle on the periphery with mules, horses and pack horses for transportation, and then blocked them with carriages on the inner layer, acting as fences for the camp, and filled them with barbarians in the two loose defensive gaps.

Then under such simple defensive measures, thousands of tents of different sizes were built from the middle to serve as camping places. The tents of the Southern Barbarians during the march and war also had a specific order. Generally speaking, Meng Huo's big tent was set up in the middle; the three cave owners' big tents were closely relied on Meng Huo's tents, located around the central tents, and protected Meng Huo's big tents in a triangle shape, forming a core area; the outer layer was nearly a hundred slightly smaller tents.

The tent is for the deputy generals of the cave owners; another circle is outside, there are thousands of small tents, forming a large circle. The tents of Meng Huo and others are surrounded in the center, which are similar to grassroots officers such as squad leaders; the outermost periphery is the temporary residence of ordinary barbarians. Often, in a tent less than five steps wide, more than a dozen barbarian soldiers have to rest at the same time. The southern barbarians are extremely strict in their ranks, and they can predict one or two of them from the stage of setting up tents.

It also took time to set up thousands of tents. Amid the laughter, forty thousand barbarians took the lead in setting up the big tents of Meng Huo and the three cave masters, and then began to work hard to get their own tents. After a sudden incense, they only set up half of the tents.

In the central army tent, Meng Huo sat in the middle, three cave masters, Golden Rings and Three Realms, Dong Tuna and Ah Huinan sat around him. Meng Huo's majestic voice sounded first: "Brothers, I heard that the Han army was brave and had strict laws. After entering Jianwei County later, we can't be so casual, don't capsize in the gutter and be plotted against by those sheep."

Jinhuan Sanjie laughed and said, "The king is worried too much. No matter how brave Ao Lie's Han army is, it is only relative to the waste under Liu Bei's men. In front of us, the Han army is only a slightly stronger sheep at most. How could it be the opponent of our group of brothers like wolves and tigers?"

Dong Tuna and Ah Huinan also nodded in agreement, agreeing with the view of the Golden Ring Three Sections. Meng Huo actually didn't care too much. Seeing that the three cave masters under him were all full of confidence, he didn't say anything more, but just smiled and said, "I also know that the Han army's sheep are not very threatening, I just remind you."

When Meng Huo and the three cave masters didn't take the Han army seriously, Zhuge Liang appeared on the mountainside not far from their camp. Seeing the barbarians busy in a disorderly manner, Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, then waved the feather fan in his hand and pointed at the barbarians' temporary camp.

In fact, when Ao Lie decided to return to the north a few days ago, Zhuge Liang had already set his strategic goal today. He wanted to take advantage of the Southern Barbarians' despise the Han people, take advantage of their unstable foothold, and take the opportunity to wipe out part of Meng Huo's power.

Seeing Zhuge Liang's actions, Wang Ping immediately raised the sword in his hand and shouted loudly behind him: "Soldiers, rush!" Under the leadership of Wang Ping, ten thousand Han cavalry rode their horses from the hillside and rushed down from the side of the barbarian camp with the impact force brought by the war horses from a high place. Forty thousand horses trampled on the rocks at the same time, kicking the stones away, bringing up dust in the sky, forming an earth dragon in the air.

The barbarians who were setting up tents were alarmed by the sound of horse hooves of the Han army. Many people looked up at the sky in confusion. They didn't understand why the weather was still good in the evening, but now it suddenly started to thunder. It was not until dozens of breaths that someone reacted and shouted: "No, that's not thunder, it's the sound of horse hooves. There are cavalry nearby!"

The curtain of the central army's large tent was suddenly lifted open. Meng Huo and three cave owners walked out of the large tent, looking in the direction of the sound of horse hooves, and trying to distinguish the number of people from the sound of horse hooves. Jinhuan Sanjie lay on the ground, listened carefully for a while, and stood up and said to Meng Huo: "It's strange. The frequency of listening to the sound of horse hooves seems to be only more than 10,000 riders, but the force of listening to the horse hooves trampling the ground is not like only 10,000 riders."

Not only was the Golden Ring Three Story strange, but even Meng Huo was confused. He knew that Golden Ring Three Story was a veteran and it was impossible for him to not even analyze the number of war horses, but the answer he gave was so ambiguous. What was going on? If Meng Huo knew that every war horse in the Han army had auxiliary equipment such as horseshoes, he would not have felt strange. Unfortunately, he did not know this detail. Now they are in Yongchang County, which is Liu Bei's territory. Meng Huo mistakenly believed that Liu Bei must have sent an army to welcome him, because the war horses carried a lot of food, so the sound of horses trampling on the ground was particularly heavy.

After dozens of breaths, the barbarians who saw him had already seen the Han army rushing towards him on the horizon and facing the sunset. When he saw the Han army's flag clearly, he immediately threw away the tent in his hand and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Enemy attack! It's the Han army's cavalry!"

Unfortunately, it was too late for him to discover it. Now the barbarians have no formation at all. Most of them don’t even have weapons in their hands. The hand that should have held weapons is now holding a corner of the tent!

After seeing the Han army's flag clearly, Meng Huo quickly shouted to the three cave masters beside him: "Gather up people and dismantle this raid of the Han army! Hurry!" The three cave masters reacted and quickly turned around to summon their respective tribal warriors. At this moment, two loud drum music sounded from the left and right sides of the camp at the same time, which was the unique general order war drum of the Han army!

On the left, General Wei Yan slapped his horse and danced his sword, showed up with ten thousand Han troops, and shouted: "The general Wei Yan of the Han chariot and cavalry is here, and those who surrender will not be killed!"

On the right, a young general in white horse and silver robe, with a spear and a horse, leading a group of about 10,000 people. The Han army, mixed with infantry and cavalry, appeared in the eyes of the barbarians, shouting: "The champion of the Han Dynasty, Jiang Wei, is here, and those who surrender will not be killed!"

At the same time, the 10,000 cavalry led by Wang Ping had already rushed to the camp of the barbarians. Under the huge inertia, the war horses knocked down the mules and horses arranged by the barbarians on the periphery. Then, amid the sarcastic sounds of the mules and horses, the horse's hooves trampled past the mules and horses, and rushed towards the barbarians in the inner layer. The hundreds of barbarians standing in the front row were immediately knocked back and blood was squirting away.

Wang Ping took the lead in killing the barbarian soldiers, cut off the head of a barbarian soldier with one sword, and shouted sternly: "Wang Ping, General Anbei of the Great Han Dynasty, is here, and those who surrender will not be killed!"

Before this battle, Zhuge Liang had already set the tone of this battle, adopted a strategy of attacking the heart first, and tried to focus on education, and did not kill the barbarians if they could, so as not to arouse more fierce resistance from the Southern Barbarians. After all, the Nanzhong region has been controlled by the Southern Barbarians for decades. If you want to completely manage Nanzhong in the future, you must ultimately rely on the Nanzhong hands. Adapting to local conditions and using barbarians to control the barbarians is the best solution to the problem.

Therefore, after a fierce battle, there were few casualties in both rebels, and at most they were slightly injured. However, the result of the battle was far beyond Meng Huo's expectations. The 40,000 barbarian soldiers who he thought were killed by the 30,000 Han troops surrounded by three groups were defeated. All the 40,000 barbarians were captured. Even Meng Huo himself was not spared. He was eventually defeated by Wei Yan's sword and became a prisoner at the bottom.

When Zhuge Liang was riding a four-wheeled carriage and pushed by a group of personal guards, Meng Huo and his three cave masters were already tied to the ground.

After laughing a few times, Zhuge Liang asked Meng Huo: "Meng Huo, you are brave in the barbarian soldiers, but today you are defeated by 30,000 soldiers of my great man with 40,000 people. Are you convinced or not?"

Meng Huo raised his head and said angrily: "The mountain road is narrow and our army is not prepared. You have succeeded in sneak attack. How can I be convinced? Even if I kill me, I will not be convinced!"

Upon hearing this, Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "Okay, okay, if you don't accept it, why don't we make a bet. Our mansion can only use 30,000 troops to capture you anytime and anywhere on Liu Bei's territory. If you are captured next time, you will sincerely surrender to my regent."

Meng Huo rolled his eyes and said hesitantly: "If you let me leave, wait until I am rectifying my troops and decide the male and female. If I lose to you again, I will promise you that I will return to the Han Dynasty sincerely."

When Zhuge Liang heard this, he stopped talking, but said to Jiang Wei beside him: "Beat them all, wait until dawn, and let them leave on their own." (To be continued...)
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