Zhuge Liang kept nodding, these ideas were all desirable, and finally looked at Wang Baoyu, wanting to hear what he could do.

Wang Baoyu said: "Although the fire bead cannon is powerful, try not to use it, after all, we don't have much inventory, so we can reduce waste." I heard that the Mulu King is good at spells, and we don't know his depth, so it's best to test the enemy situation before making other discussions. ”

In this southern expedition, there are only ten fireball cannon launchers brought by Qian Mo, and now there are only more than 100 shells left, and it will definitely be too late to call back to Yiling temporarily, the most important reason why Wang Baoyu chose not to use it is that after beating Meng Shu, he will go to fight the Guishan country that does not know the details, and he can be prepared to be safe.

Zhuge Liang agreed with Wang Baoyu's point of view, and after comprehensive consideration, he ordered the superior forces to continue to garrison the north gate, and Wei Yan and E Huan each led a team of men and horses to guard the east and west gates respectively.

The south gate of Sanjiang City is a big problem, close to the river, there is no place to stop the soldiers and horses, which shows that this is also a retreat left in the city that cannot be trapped.

Although there is a summer soup, but the heat of the weather still makes the army miserable, Zhuge Liang did not want to delay here for too long, and then led an army of 200,000 troops to the city of Sanjiang.

"Prime Minister, Guan Suo is willing to take the lead." Guan Suo, as a pioneer, took it for granted that he came over to ask for his life.

Zhuge Liang waved his hand, expressing his disagreement, he still didn't know much about the enemy's defense, lest Guan Suo be reckless and encounter danger, he turned to Zhao Yun and said: "General Zilong, for the sake of safety, you should go and call the battle!" ”

Guan Suo retreated, sighing, thinking that the first two recklessness had made Zhuge Liang lose trust in him. Zhao Yun happily accepted the order, and with only 10,000 soldiers and horses, he rushed to the foot of Sanjiang City, and began to shout that Meng Shu and Mulu came out to fight!

"Fourth Uncle Bao, I think I have a lot of faults and have already corrected them, why can't the prime minister trust me?" Guan Suo asked dejectedly.

"Guan Suo, the prime minister is broad-minded, not comparable to ordinary people, and we are not familiar with here, the prime minister is afraid that you will be injured, but he is actually a preference for you." Wang Baoyu comforted.

"If my father were alive, the prime minister would not be so obstructive." Guan Suo gambled on the airway.

"Hehe, wait until you reach your father's martial arts level before complaining." Wang Baoyu no longer bothered with the rope, took the telescope and looked at the city wall, only to see that the barbarians guarding above were densely packed, and the gap between the wall battlements of Sanjiang City was very small, and the barbarians were all showing their heads, and it was quite difficult to shoot them from below.

Judging from the situation of the defense of the city wall, Meng Shu and King Mulu did not plan to go out of the city to meet the battle for the time being, but still held the posture of dragging the Shu army.

After Zhao Yun shouted for a moment below, rows of bows and arrows stretched out from the gap between the battlements, Zhao Yun smiled disdainfully, waved his hand back, and the soldiers behind him raised their shields to defend.

The number of bows and arrows is rare, and the sun is high, which should reflect a large area of cold light according to common sense, but at this time there is none. Could it be the spell of the King of Mulu? Wang Baoyu hurriedly looked carefully from the binoculars, and suddenly found that the arrows were actually black.

"Not good! Sir, hurry up and come back! Wang Baoyu hurriedly shouted loudly, judging from his experience, these arrows must have been soaked in poison.

Zhuge Liang saw that Wang Baoyu looked nervous, and did not ask the reason, and immediately ordered the gong to be sounded. Zhao Yun was stunned, and then led the army to retreat quickly.

At this moment, the arrows on the city wall were like raindrops, intensively attacking Zhao Yun's team under the city.

Zhao Yun was naturally not afraid of these, and the bright silver spear danced into a silver shining shield, knocking down these arrows one after another. However, although the soldiers were holding shields, it was inevitable that they would be scratched by stray arrows, as Wang Baoyu judged, the arrows were poisonous, and they were highly poisonous!

Without making a sound, the venom-stained soldier convulsed and fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth and dying of poison. In a moment, Zhao Yun's 10,000-strong army killed 2,000 soldiers, and the army immediately retreated after hearing the order, but the poisonous arrows kept chasing and shooting.

By the time Zhao Yun led the army back to the formation, the 10,000 army had already lost 5,000 people, fortunately Zhao Yun obeyed the military order, if he delayed for a while, he was afraid that these people would all die under the poisoned arrows.

Guan Suo's face changed when he watched the battle, and finally knew why Zhuge Liang didn't let him go just now, first, the drum sounded, he didn't necessarily evacuate as quickly as Zhao Yun, with Guan Suo's character, he would definitely shout for a while, and then such a dense rain of arrows, I was afraid that Guan Suo would be difficult to resist, and there was basically no return, so the respect for Zhuge Liang in my heart was more layered.

Looking at the corpse of the soldier whose body had begun to turn black and decay on the battlefield not far away, Zhao Yun sighed, Zhuge Liang's heart ached, a moment of effort, thousands of fresh lives died, how calm he was, he couldn't help but be furious, the feather fan closed and pointed to the height of the city wall, and angrily reprimanded: "I, Zhuge Kongming, swear to the sky, not to take the head of the wooden deer, to pay tribute to the soul, and to swear not to be a man!" ”

Although there is no rule that poisoned arrows cannot be used on the battlefield, such a large-scale use is unheard of. Zhuge Liang concluded that this was not Meng Huo's idea, because he could still feel some kindness from Meng Huo.

It didn't take a single soldier to shoot and kill 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Shu army, the King of Mulu was very proud, but Meng Shu was not happy at all, he frowned and found the King of Mulu, and asked: "Mulu, how can you use so many poisonous arrows?" ”

"Why not, on the battlefield, win first, this king will never be like you, one after another, which makes people laugh." King Mulu retorted unceremoniously.

"This move is against the principles of heaven!" Meng Shou shouted.

"Hmph, how many people were killed and wounded when Zhuge Liang led the army to fight, did he ever consider Tianli?" King Mulu asked rhetorically.

Meng Shu left speechlessly, and if the argument continued, he was worried that Mulu would attack him, and at the same time, Meng Shu felt in a trance that Mulu must have really offended Zhuge Liang by doing something like this, but he was afraid that his death would not be far away.

Under the fence, he dared to come to question, which made King Mulu feel very unhappy, and secretly thought that he had to knock Meng Shu.

went to a battle and lost 5,000 soldiers and horses, which shows that even if the gate is opened with fireball cannons, the loss of going to capture the city will not be small.

Because of the special structure of the walls of Sanjiang City, it is very difficult to suppress the attacks from above by shooting arrows from below, and if you can't suppress these archers, you won't be able to talk about the real attack later.

After repeated discussions, Zhuge Liang and Wang Baoyu determined the final plan for this battle, since Meng Shu would not use troops like this, then target the King of Mulu, force the King of Mulu out of the city, and then kill him, and then try to win Meng.