Zhang Liao looked at the barbarian curiously and asked, "I don't want such a wild place, there are people with good eyesight like you." As you said, I am Zhang Liao. ”

"It's really General Zhang!" The barbarian immediately kowtowed to Zhang Liao again and again, and shouted, "The little one knocks to see General Zhang!" ”

Zhang Liao sneered: "Your mouth is quite sweet, but it's useless to say this, do you think that Pontus will let you go easily?" Don't forget, you're the one I caught! ”

The barbarian hurriedly defended: "General, I sent it to the door by myself, not by you, I came to report to the general on the order of the king of my family!" ”

"Your king? Meng Huo? Zhang Liao was shocked and hurriedly asked.

The barbarian shook his head and said, "The king of my family is not Meng Huo!" ”

Zhang Liao asked: "Looking at the entire Nanzhong, only Meng Huo has established himself as the king, could it be that there are other people who have also established themselves as kings?" ”

"There is indeed only one king in Nanzhong, but the king of my family is not from Nanzhong, we are barbarians next to Nanzhong, and my king's name is Mulu, and he was invited by Meng Huo to help."

"It turns out that you are a subordinate of King Mulu!" Zhang Liao suddenly realized, judging from the news from the scouts, ≦ ■ should be true.

"Yes, the little one is a subordinate of King Mulu, and the little one came this time on the order of King Mulu to report to the general!"

"Ventilation news? Tell me about it! Zhang Liao seemed to have some interest, and stared at the barbarian intently.

"General, although the king of my family was invited to help, but in fact. The king of my family knows that Meng Shu is just a clown jumping off the beam. In front of the mighty Han army. It can only be Yelang's arrogance, so the king of my family has never wanted to be an enemy of the Han army, and this time he sent a small one to report to the general, hoping to help the general defeat Meng Shu and pacify Nanzhong as soon as possible. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Liao finally learned the purpose of this person's coming, and said to the person: "If only Meng Shu also had the self-knowledge of your king, it would not be possible to meet each other now." That's right. What kind of wind did the King of Mulu send you to give me, and what kind of message did you report? ”

"The king of my family asked me to tell the general that Meng Huo sent him to fight against the general, but in fact he wanted to introduce the general's army into the Snake Valley, and Meng Huo had already assembled a heavy army in the Snake Valley, just waiting for the general's army to arrive, and then suddenly attack and annihilate it."

After Zhang Liao heard this, his brows couldn't help frowning, and he was also panicked in his heart. He had seen Lu Kai's barbarian finger map, which clearly recorded all the terrain and mountains in Nanzhong. And it is marked in dangerous places, so he is particularly sensitive to the three words of Snake Valley.

The Snake Valley is located in the hinterland of the south and the middle, it is the only place to pass through to the Ailao Mountain, there are steep mountain walls on both sides, and in the middle is a narrow road that can only be walked side by side for five people, which stretches out for five or six miles in a zigzag, like a long snake circling, so it is called the Valley of the Snake by the locals.

In addition, the bottom of the valley is dark and damp, and there are streams flowing from it, so thousands of snakes gather at the bottom of the valley, large and small, dense, and ordinary people dare not go from here, and would rather waste more time and physical strength to go over the mountains and mountains, rather than go from here. Because this is the road to death.

However, not everyone dares to pass, and it is strange to say that as long as there are mountain people on Ailao Mountain following, they can pass by here calmly, even if they pass through the most dense places of poisonous snakes, those poisonous snakes will not attack. Legend has it that the mountain people on Ailao Mountain were born after a man mated with a snake, so the poisonous snake would not harm them.

"King Mulu wouldn't be so kind as to send you here to report the news, right? It must be something else, right? Zhang Liao knows that these Nanbans are all based on interests, and if there are no interests, it will definitely not be like this.

"Yes! There is only one! The king of my family hopes that after defeating Meng Huo's army, the general will personally hand over Meng Huo to the king of my family, and then the king of my family will slash Meng Huo to relieve the pain in his heart! ”

"What? Do Mulu King and Meng Huo have any hatred? Otherwise, why did King Mulu slash Meng Shu? Also, since there is hatred between them, why was King Mulu invited to come to help again? Zhang Liaohu asked suspiciously.

"It's not a secret, my king and Meng Shu don't have direct hatred, but indirect hatred is enough to make the two incompatible......"

Nanban made a special effort to tell the suspicion between King Mulu and Meng Shu in 1510, of course, naturally he would not mention that King Mulu was also ambitious, but said that Meng Huo killed his in-laws and took away his in-laws' tribe, so that the daughter of King Mulu wandered abroad and died tragically in a foreign land. Therefore, King Mulu hated Meng to the core.

After Zhang Liao listened, the doubts in his heart were eliminated one by one, and he said to the fine work: "Please go back and tell your king, just say that his kindness has been appreciated, and he is very grateful for this news." If you can, I hope that the king of your family can do the internal response, you can plan the plan, join forces to defeat Meng Huo, and when the time comes, after the pacification of Nanzhong, not only my credit, but also the credit of your king, when the time comes, the court will definitely reward the merits, and the benefits of your king are indispensable. ”

Nanban was full of joy and immediately bowed to Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao asked him to give him a piece of gold and sent him back to deliver a letter to King Mulu.

After Xizuo went back, only one day later, he came back again, and brought the news of King Mulu, saying that King Mulu was willing to submit to the court and obey Zhang Liao's arrangement.

For the next day, Zhang Liao ordered the army to stay still, rest in place, recuperate, and prepare their own plans.

The next day, Zhang Liao called all the generals together, explained to them the agreement with the King of Mulu, and prepared to give Meng Yu a plan.

After hearing this, some of them were happy, while others frowned.

Zhang Liao looked around at the crowd, and when he saw a trace of embarrassment on Huang Zhong's face, he asked, "Old General Huang, do you have anything to say?" ”

"Enlighten the Grand Duke, the last general does have something to say. The end will think. This time, King Mulu sent people to report the news, and his behavior was very suspicious. And the king of Mulu is this person. The Governor should not be easily trusted. ”

"Oh? Tell me about it. How is King Mulu suspicious? ”

Huang Zhong said: "If King Mulu really wants to join our army, why didn't he come to report the news early or late, but he came to report the news at this time?" Moreover, the Nanban has always been strange and cunning and changeable, their words cannot be easily believed, this operation is related to the life and death of our entire counterinsurgency army, if one wrong step, I am afraid that we will lose everything. When the time comes, it will be even more difficult to quell this rebellion. ”

After Zhang Liao heard this, his face became a little ugly, and he said sharply: "This matter is decided, if something happens, everything will be borne by me alone, and you will definitely not be implicated." All you have to do is do what I tell you to do. ”

Huang Zhong's face was hot, and in the face of Zhang Liao's anger, he didn't say anything, just like everyone else. He lowered his head and arched his hand and said, "Oh! ”

Subsequently. Zhang Liao issued a series of orders, and the generals of all the ministries withdrew one after another.

After Huang Zhong came out of Zhang Liaoli's big tent, Wei Yan followed closely and hurriedly said, "Old general, you shouldn't say that kind of thing in front of the Metropolitan Governor today. ”

"I just expressed my doubts, I have been in Jingnan for a long time, I often fight with the Nanban, I know the habits of the Nanban very well, and the King of Mulu is also one of the Nanbans, so the habits should be similar. I definitely don't want to be so happy to belong to the imperial court, in my opinion, this seems to be a conspiracy, he must have other plans! ”

Wei Yan said: "Even so, you shouldn't question the Metropolitan Governor in front of so many people, in this case, it will make the Metropolitan Governor very faceless." ”

"It's a big deal if he doesn't have face, and it's a big deal if the entire counterinsurgency army is in his hands, I can't help but say it." Huang Zhong said angrily.

Wei Yan said: "The old general is angry, the Metropolitan Governor has always been a fierce general who has never been defeated in a hundred battles, and he has a different way of commanding a war, as for what this battle is, none of us know, only when it happens." The old general might as well take one step at a time, as long as he is ready. ”

After Huang Zhong heard this, he arched his hand towards Wei Yan, and walked forward alone, without looking back.

Wei Yan wanted to follow, but after thinking about it, he forgot it, so he went back to his barracks to prepare.

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In the rebel base camp in Ailao Mountain, a scout knelt in front of Meng Shu and told Meng Huo the news he had found this time.

The cave master happened to walk in from outside, and when he saw Meng Huo's sad face, he asked, "King, is something wrong, why are you sad?" ”

"I just received the news that the Han army suddenly stopped and stopped advancing, and it has been more than a day, and I don't know what happened. You say, did the Han army discover our conspiracy? Meng Shu asked.

Bringing the cave master, he said: "Probably not, maybe they are tired of walking, and they just want to stop and rest." ”

"No, I always felt like something wasn't right." Meng said, "Since the Han army entered the country, it has not met a person for four or five consecutive days, and it must be this incident that has affected the Han army and made the Han army suspicious." No, I must send people to attack the Han army and lure them into the Valley of the Snake! ”

"King, haven't you already handed over this matter to King Mulu to do, let him do it, the king only needs to sit in Ailao Mountain."

"I've never been at ease with Mulu, after all, he and we don't have the same heart."

"But the king, if you want to get rid of him this time, you can only rely on him, if the king sends someone else to attack the Han army, I think the king of Mulu will definitely not be involved again. So, please wait and see what happens, anyway, the Han army has entered the hinterland, and there are our people in all directions, and they can't run if they want to! If the Han army really wants to run away, it will not be too late for the king to give another order! ”

Meng Shu felt that it made sense to bring the cave master, so he nodded, but he always had an ominous premonition in his heart, and he might not win a big victory in this decisive battle with the Han army...... (To be continued.) )

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