Mi Han

Chapter 412 Taking the initiative to attack Yelang's arrogance
Gao Ding and Meng Huo are both well-known heroes in Nanzhong.

Among the two, Gao Ding is the leader of the Zhongyi people in Yuexi County, so people in Nanzhong usually call Gao Ding the barbarian king.

Since Gao Ding is not a Han nationality, Gao Ding is the one who is the most disobedient to Liu Bei among the many heroes in the southern and central counties.

In the 22nd year of Jian'an, Gao Ding led a large number of barbarians to attack Xindao County. That time he was defeated by Li Yanyue County and retreated.

It can be seen from this that Gao Ding has long wanted to lead an army to invade Yizhou Beijun.

Of course, it can also be seen from this point that Gao Ding's own strength is tyrannical. If the strength was not strong, Gao Ding would not have the confidence to lead the army to attack Xindao County alone.

Even though Gao Ding lost a lot of soldiers and horses in the First World War, when all the three counties in Nanzhong rebelled this time, Gao Ding was still the strongest among the rebels in the three counties.

As for Meng Huo, his reputation in Nanzhong area is no less than that of Gaoding.

In the memorials received by Liu Bei in the past, when local officials talked about the situation in Nanzhong, they often used the term "barbarian king" to Meng Huo.

In fact, this point is not very accurate, because tracing back to the source, Meng Huo is different from Gao Ding in that he is a Han Chinese.

Meng Huo was born in the Meng family of Yizhou County, and the Meng family of Yizhou County was a branch of the Meng family of Zhu Ti hundreds of years ago.

Because of the war that year, Zhu Timeng's family separated a tribe and went south to settle in Yizhou County, thus forming the Meng family of Yizhou County.

From this point of view, Meng Huo's background is quite similar to Yong Kai's.

After all, Zhu Timeng's family is also one of the common surnames in Yizhou.

However, the reason why Meng Huo was called the "barbarian king" by Nanzhong people is that Meng Huo's ancestors adopted a different development method from Yong Kai's ancestors.

After leading the tribe to settle in Yizhou County, the ancestors of Meng Huo won the trust of the local Yi people by virtue of the advanced productivity they brought.

With hundreds of years of deliberate integration and coexistence, the Meng family in Yizhou County has a very high prestige among the local Yi people.

Later, in order to strengthen the strength of his own family, the ancestor Meng Huo gradually declared himself the leader of the Yi people in Yizhou, and he led the people to learn the customs of the local Yi people.

Due to the prestige of the ancestors of the Meng family among the local Yi people, such claims could be regarded as rumors at first, but with the acquiescence of the local Yi people, Meng Huo has become a veritable leader among the Yi people in Yizhou County today.

According to the Spring and Autumn Annals: "If the princes use barbarian rituals, they will be barbarians, and if barbarians enter China, they will be China."

The actions of Meng Huo's ancestors, in essence, were voluntarily giving up his Chinese identity.

People at that time called Meng Huo the barbarian king, which was not wrong.

It is precisely because of Meng Huo's special identity as both a Han and a Yi, since Meng Huo became the patriarch of the Meng clan, he was able to have both sides in Nanzhong, which led to his growing reputation.

The reason why Yong Kai didn't lead the troops north to assist Gaoding this time was also because of Meng Huo's status.

It is good that Yong Kai and Gao Ding are political allies, but Yong Kai is from Huaxia and Gao Ding is from the Yi nationality. There are natural contradictions between them.

Now they will be united only because of the huge benefits that Cao Wei throws out.

But the conflict between them has not been really resolved, so whether it is Gao Ding or Yong Kai, they don't really want to see each other.

Meng Huo didn't have this hidden worry in front of Gao Ding.

And Gao Ding was very happy when he saw that it was Meng Huo, a "clan member" who led the army to assist him.

But no matter how happy Gao Ding was before, after learning about the military situation of Zhuge Liang leading troops into Bodao, now his entire rough face is almost squeezed into a mess.

This is worrying.

Depressed, Gao Ding subconsciously looked at Meng Huo who was sitting beside him, and then asked in Yi language, "Meng Wang, what should we do next?"

There is a common Mandarin in this world, and it has a very famous name-Zhengyin Yayan.

It can be seen from the name that most of this language can only be learned by the children of aristocratic families.

Although Gao Ding is a barbarian king, he can do whatever he wants in Yuexi County, but he is not from a Chinese family, so he had no way to learn the correct pronunciation and elegant language when he was growing up.

Later, when Gao Ding grew up, because of his hostility towards Huaxia, he never took the initiative to find Chinese scholars to learn Zhengyin and Yayan.

Therefore, it can be said that there are great obstacles for Gao Ding to communicate with any descendants of Nanzhong's aristocratic families.

This is also one of the reasons why Yong Kai looks down on Gao Ding.

But in front of Meng Huo, Gao Ding didn't have such worries.

Meng Huo, who has a special status, can speak many languages.

Meng Huo is a burly man who is not inferior to high-end clothes. Even in order to cater to the aesthetics of the local Yi people, Meng Huo did not wear Chinese costumes, but a pair of clothes with hair on the left lapel.

Wearing hair on the left lapel is a common attire for people of different races in this world. In the Chinese cultural concept, it is a very shameful attire.

His performance also represents how severely the Meng clan was assimilated by the local Yi people in his generation.

It's just that although Meng Huo looks as rough as Gao Ding, he comes from a family with a higher IQ than Gao Ding.

After Meng Huo listened to Gao Ding's question, his eyeballs kept rolling, as if he was thinking about some strategies.

After thinking for a long time, Meng Huo laughed and patted his leg and said to Gao Ding:
"Why should King Gao be worried? Although villager Zhuge is leading troops into Bo Dao, he has never led troops to fight. What are we afraid of him?"

"In the past, villager Zhuge was far away in Nan'an, and I was worried that I would not be able to capture him alive and offer it to the envoy of the Celestial Dynasty. Now he has come to my door by himself, it is really God's help."

When Meng Huo said these words, his words showed strong self-confidence.

Maybe it was infected by the confidence in Meng Huo's words, or maybe Meng Huo's words were exactly what Gao Ding was thinking, so after listening to Meng Huo's words, Gao Ding also showed some smiles on his face.

It's just that the reason why Gao Ding felt depressed was not because he was afraid of Zhuge Liang.

Seeing that there was no one around, Gao Ding said to Meng Huo, "King Meng is right, but the envoy of the Celestial Dynasty wants us to take down Bo Dao as soon as possible. No matter how incompetent Zhuge Liang is, after he leads the army to enter Bo Dao, we want to take it. Xia Bo said, that is not an easy task."

The envoys of the Celestial Dynasty mentioned by Gao Ding refer to the envoys from the Great Wei Dynasty.

When the Great Wei envoy came to Nanzhong, he did not come alone.

He not only brought a large amount of gold and silver, but also carried many officials' talisman seals.

All aliens have a common problem, that is, they are quite greedy for money.

After seeing the large amount of gold and silver brought by the Great Wei envoy, Gao Ding had already been subdued, not to mention the talisman letter that symbolized power.

Under the temptation of the envoy of Great Wei's power and wealth, Gao Ding is quite careful about his instructions to the envoy of Wei.

After all, those things are not taken for nothing.

Even Gao Ding knew that in the hands of the envoys of the Great Wei Dynasty, there was an edict personally issued by Cao Pi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty. The content of the edict said that whoever can win Chengdu will be the new Lord of Yizhou.

For the huge temptation of becoming the Lord of Yizhou, who can not be confused?
Gao Ding had this level of worry in his heart, so why didn't Meng Huo not?
Meng Huo also wanted to be the master of Yizhou.

So after listening to Gao Ding's words, Meng Huo told Gao Ding a trick he had just thought of in his mind:
"In my opinion, it is better to lead the army northward tomorrow, and go outside Bodao County to challenge the Han army and spy on the truth.

If the Han army is vulnerable, we will take advantage of the situation and take Bodao County.

If the Han army is difficult to defeat, we will retreat to join other armies, and then plan the next step.

In this way, the envoy will not blame us for not doing our best for Wei in the future. "

After Gao Ding heard the clever plan Meng Huo came up with, his face became more and more joyful.

It's a pity that Gao Ding has no culture, and he really can't think of any words to praise Meng Huo. He just laughed and clapped his hands and said, "Good!"

The reason why Gao Ding thinks that Meng Huo's strategy is good is because Meng Huo's strategy can achieve the effect of killing two birds with one stone.

Perhaps from the perspective of the whole world, the titles of Gao Ding and Meng Huo, the two barbarian kings, are more like a joke.

The two of them themselves are not the wise men of the world, but it doesn't mean that the two of them are fools.

Gao Ding and Meng Huo will despise Zhuge Liang, but they will not ignore it.

What's more, even if Zhuge Liang was incompetent, Gao Ding and Meng Huo heard that Zhuge Liang's southern expedition army had an elite soldier from Liangzhou.

Gao Ding and Meng Huo had heard of Mi Yang's prestige, and it was impossible for them to underestimate the elite soldiers he sent.

That's why Meng Huo wanted to fight Zhuge Liang first to test the enemy's strength.

Perhaps for other armies, if they are defeated in this battle, they may suffer heavy losses, but for Gao Ding and Meng Huo, they will not have this worry.

Because their tribes are essentially their clansmen, and they have a strong sense of belonging to them.

Unless the two of them died, their followers would not easily submit to Zhuge Liang.

And as long as their people don't want to submit to Zhuge Liang, they will lose if they lose, or escape into the mountains at worst.

For the local native Yi people, this is almost an innate skill for them.

The high mountains are a natural barrier to the enemy, but to the Yi people in Nanzhong, they are the places they are most familiar with and also their last natural barrier.

Therefore, Meng Huo's strategy can be said to be beneficial to them without any harm. How can Gao Ding not be happy?

After laughing, Gao Ding asked the tribe to present a lot of wine and meat, and then happily ate it with Meng Huo.

Judging from Gao Ding's performance, he seems to feel that victory is just around the corner?
Gao Ding is not stupid, but it is not very smart.

After a night of fun, Gao Ding and Meng Huo headed towards Bodao County with their respective tribes early the next morning.

Nanzhong is an area where Yi people and Han people live together, and there are a lot of Yi people here.

And most of the Yi people in Nanzhong gathered in Yuexi County and Yizhou County.

Under such circumstances, Gao Ding and Meng Huo were the leaders of the Yi people in the two counties respectively, and they must have many tribes under them.

After all, the Yi people are different from the Han people. Because the Yi people have lived in hardship for generations, this has formed their brave and fearless character.

If they were really fully mobilized, the Yi people and even the women in their tribe could go to battle to kill the enemy.

Of course, it is not yet the time of life and death, so the two barbarian kings did not gather all the Yi people in the clan.

But when they summoned most of the clansmen, the total strength of the two joined forces reached more than [-].

With an army of more than ten thousand, this amount of soldiers and horses is also a military force that cannot be underestimated in the Central Plains.

And this army of more than [-] is also the greatest confidence in the hearts of Gao Ding and Meng Huo.

As barbarian kings, Gao Ding and Meng Huo led their clansmen on an unusual marching route.

In order to hurry, they did not head towards Bodao from the official road or from the river.

After they led their army to leave Yuexi County, they plunged into the mountains of Qianwei County.

The mountains in the south of Yizhou are crisscrossed, which has led to many official roads being built by detours. If an ordinary army is in a hurry, they can only obediently follow the official roads and make detours.

But for the local native Yi people, since the mountains are in front of them, they can just pass through the mountains directly. This is what Shamoke led the army to support the police.

What matters is a straight line distance.

Because of the special marching route of the Yi people, they arrived outside Bodao County within a few days.

And because more than ten thousand Yi people have been marching in the deep mountains and lush forests, even though Zhuge Liang sent many scouts after arriving at Bodao, those scouts had no way of detecting the whereabouts of the Yi army in advance.

The scouts sent by Zhuge Liang did not detect their arrival until the Yi army had advanced from the deep mountains outside Bo Dao.

But at this time, the army led by Gao Ding and Meng Huo was already very close to Bodao County.

After detecting that tens of thousands of enemy troops suddenly appeared not far away, the scouts of the Han army were shocked and immediately reported the news to Zhuge Liang.

Not long after Zhuge Liang heard the news, a group of envoys sent by Meng Huo also came outside Bodao County and asked Zhuge Liang to meet him.

Zhuge Liang, who was convening the generals to discuss matters, was a little surprised when he heard the news.

The barbarian's thoughts really cannot be deduced according to common sense.

But in the end Zhuge Liang still had the envoys sent by Meng Huo brought to his tent.

The envoy sent by Meng Huo was his younger brother Meng You.

After Meng You was taken to Zhuge Liang's big tent by the Han army, he saw Zhuge Liang sitting on the top and a group of generals of the big Han.

When he first met Zhuge Liang, Meng You admired Zhuge Liang's graceful appearance.

Zhuge Kongming is really as the rumors say, his appearance is not like ordinary people.

People in the world are more concerned about faces than people in future generations.

As long as the appearance is good enough, even the enemy will feel good.

I like Zhuge Liang's appearance, but Meng You has not forgotten the purpose of his visit.

But before Meng You could speak, someone in the tent pointed at Meng You's nose and scolded angrily:
"You traitors, you still have the face to call yourself a messenger!

The big man has always treated you well, why did you rebel? "

The person who scolded Meng You angrily was none other than Zhuge Liang's supervisor, Yang Yi.

Under Yang Yi's angry reprimand, many Han generals in the tent also glared at Meng You.

But Meng You lived with the Yi people since he was a child, and his temperament is very similar to that of the Yi people who drink blood, and the mere scolding does not make him flustered.

Facing Yang Yi's angry reprimand, Meng You raised his head arrogantly and said: "Gai Wen said that there are no two days in the sky, and there are no two kings in the earth. Today, there are three kings in the court, so people far away are confused and don't know where to go."

Yo!

After hearing Meng You's words, Yang Yi's anger rose even more.

How dare a mere barbarian be so arrogant?
What is Yelang's arrogance, he has seen it today.

(End of this chapter)