It was already dark at night, but a group of civil and military generals were urgently summoned by Su Zhe and hurried to the king's tent.

Su Zhe sat there with a calm expression, sipping a little wine, but there was a silk book on the desk.

All the generals speculated that Su Zhe's overnight summons must be related to that urgent message.

"King Wei summoned me to come late at night, I don't know what's the urgency?" Veteran Huang Zhong was the first to ask.

Su Zhe glanced at the information, "Zhongkang, read it to everyone." ”

Xu Chu picked up the silk book and read it out in public.

It was an urgent report from Chen Zhen, the Taishou of Wuling, in which he claimed that the barbarian king of Wuxi Shamoke had rebelled, and led 30,000 barbarians to rebel again, attacking the city and plundering the land one after another, and was now besieging Ruanling City, the seat of Wuling.

When the generals heard this information, they all changed color slightly.

Deng Ai said: "King Wei, this Wuling County is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north, once it is captured by Wuximan, we will be attacked by Liu Bei and Wuxi Man, and we must not sit idly by." ”

"It's strange, the Wuxi barbarians just rebelled once before, and they were extinguished by Gan Xingba, why did these barbarians suddenly rebel again in just a few months?" Huang Zhong was puzzled.

"Wenhe, what do you think?" Su Zhe looked at Jia Xu.

Jia Xu stared at the map a few times, stroked his white beard and said: "Wuxi is quite suspicious, if the old man is not mistaken, this must be Liu Bei is worried that the King of Wei will come to Yiling in person and go all out to deal with him, so he sent someone to instigate Shamoke to rebel again, so that the King of Wei cannot go to Yiling with all his division." ”

The generals suddenly realized.

Su Zhe smiled slightly, Jia Xu's analysis was the same as he had speculated.

Shamoko is no more than a barbarian leader, and capriciousness is normal, and to deal with these barbarians, as long as you subdue them.

It was only Gan Ning who hurt them a while ago and forced them to surrender again, but at this juncture, there was a rebellion all of a sudden, and it was not Liu Bei who secretly instigated who else.

"King Wei, Yiling is the top priority, and the old man is willing to lead an army to quell the Wuxi rebellion."

The veteran Han Dang took the initiative to stand up and ask for battle, as a new general, he couldn't wait to make meritorious contributions and use his merits to win his place in the Wei camp.

The voice fell, but Jia Xu said: "The old man thinks that the king of Wei should personally lead his troops and horses to quell the Wuxi rebellion. ”

Everyone's eyes looked at Jia Xu.

Han Dang also puzzled: "Liu Bei is the great enemy, Wuxi Man is just a skin problem, how can King Wei ignore the great enemy, but go to pacify Wuxi Man in person?" ”

Su Zhe flicked his hand at him and motioned for Jia Xu to continue.

Jia Xu said: "Although Wuxi Barbarians are barbarians, but Wuling County is full of rivers and mountains, only the King of Wei personally comes out to pacify it as quickly as possible, otherwise we will at least divide half of the soldiers and horses to be contained in Wuling, once it takes a long time, wouldn't it be in Liu Bei's hands." ”

Su Zhe nodded slightly, and said happily: "What Wen He said is extremely true, pass the order, the army will not go to Yiling first, change the route to the south, and follow this king to destroy Shamoke first." ”

The decision was made, and Su Zhe didn't have time to let the soldiers rest and recuperate, so he set off from the camp that night.

The army left Baqiu Port, first entered Dongting Lake, and then entered Yuanshui from Yuankou, and went deep into the territory of Wuling.

An army of nearly 70,000 marched by land and water, all the way south along the Yuanshui River, to Yuanling to relieve the siege of Chen Zhen.

The army marched day and night, and in the afternoon a few days later, the advance was less than 70 miles away from Yuanling City.

Seeing that it was getting late, Su Zhe called to set up camp on the spot, wait for the soldiers to have a full meal for one night, recuperate, and kill Ben Yuanling City directly tomorrow.

After the camp was completed, Su Zhe summoned the generals in the king's tent to discuss how to fight tomorrow.

"Don't hide it from the King of Wei, the old man has been in Changsha for a long time, and he has also dealt with the Wuxi barbarians, these barbarians are usually hidden in the mountains, mostly hunting for a living, and tigers and leopards, all of them are fierce people, if you don't need to count, go head-to-head, we have to pay a price to break them."

As the former Tiger of Changsha, Huang Zhong was a little jealous of the Wuxi barbarians.

"Use a trick, this is our strength, against the brave and unscrupulous barbarians, it is naturally better to outwit it......"

Su Zhe sneered, drank a little wine, and lowered his head thoughtfully.

Before the wine was finished, a plan had sprouted in his heart, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but sneer a secret.

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Yuanling City.

The periphery of the city, which was not too strong or thick, was densely packed with tents and hung all kinds of strange battle flags.

The barbarians do not have surnames, they are divided by tribes, and each tribe takes birds, beasts, fish, insects and other birds and animals as totems, and uses the patterns of birds and beasts as battle flags.

The camp that stretched for several miles, a full 30,000 Wuxi barbarian army, surrounded Yuanling City into an iron bucket array.

There is only one camp, but there is a battle flag with the word "king" hanging high, and the layout of the camp is also in line with the art of war, not as chaotic as other camps.

That camp was the camp of Shamoke, the king of Wuxi.

Although Shamoke was born in a barbarian tribe, he traveled to Xiangyang as early as the reign of Liu Biao, and he knew a little about Han culture.

It was with the advanced knowledge he learned from the Han people that Shamoke was able to lead his tribe to grow stronger and stronger, and eventually became the strongest one, and was promoted as the king of the barbarians by the Wuxi barbarians.

In the king's tent, Shamoko was drinking sullen wine, and was angry and complaining.

"Damn, if I knew that this king should have caught more Han craftsmen, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to build a trebuchet, this Yuanling City would have been broken by this king!"

Shamoke took a few shots, and he kept blaming himself.

After blaming himself, Shamoke set his eyes on the leaders and shouted: "You also have an idea, how can you break through Yuanling City as soon as possible, and then Su Zhe will lead a large army to kill it later." ”

The leaders were silent, and none of them came up with an idea.

"King, I have a plan, not only can I quickly break through Yuanling City, maybe I can also not die a single soldier!"

In the silence, a confident voice suddenly sounded.

Shamoke was overjoyed, looked for the sound, and saw a military general dressed in Han armor.

"Xing Daorong, you have always had a lot of ghost ideas, what kind of ghost ideas have you come up with?" Shamoko asked impatiently.

This Xing Daorong is also a native of Wuling County, born in a local wealthy family, when Su Zhe captured Jingnan, Xing Daorong was not convinced, and led his people to occupy Yuanling City, trying to resist Su Zhe's conquest.

As a result, it can be imagined that Su Zhe himself did not go out, but only sent Gan Ning to attack Yuanling City.

As a punishment for the Xing Dao clan, Su Zhe beheaded all the captured Xing Dao clan to show the public, only Xing Daorong escaped by luck, so he fled incognito into Wuxi Man and defected to Shamoke.

Xing Daorong's martial arts are not weak, and he has a bit of resourcefulness, which is deeply appreciated by Shamoke, and he is soon regarded as his right-hand man.

Xing Daorong also lived up to Shamoke's weight, gave him advice, charged into battle, and made great contributions to Shamoke's unification of Wuxi Man.

Liu Bei sent Deng Zhi to provoke Shamoke to rebel against Su Zhe, and Deng Zhi also found Xing Daorong for the first time, and after getting his secret help, he successfully persuaded Shamoke to raise troops.

Now that Yuanling City has been unable to be attacked for a long time, at this time, only Xing Daorong stood up and offered his plan again.

At that moment, Xing Daorong explained his plan unhurriedly.