Three Kingdoms

Chapter 35 Zhuge Liang Captures Meng Huo Seven Times (4)
Zhuge Liang hurriedly ordered to withdraw his troops.

Zhuge Liang did not order to fight for five days in a row.At dusk on the fifth day, the wind blew outside the barracks.At this time, Zhuge Liang ordered to attack the Southern Barbarian army. Zhuge Liang ordered each of his soldiers to carry a large earth bag. Whoever attacked the Sanjiang Tower first would be rewarded; if he did not carry the earth bag, he would be punished according to the military law and be beheaded!
The soldiers of the Shu army were all in high spirits, waiting for Zhuge Liang to issue an attack order.

Zhuge Liang said to the soldiers again: "Wrap the city with soil, and whoever grabs the enemy's tower first will win the first prize." He shouted again: "Let's go, attack!"

So hundreds of thousands of Shu troops and tens of thousands of Nanman soldiers who surrendered rushed towards Sanjiang City regardless of their own safety.

In just a short while, Sanjiang City was captured by the Shu army.King Dosi died among the enemy troops.When Meng Huo heard the news in Yinkeng Cave, he was shocked and fidgeted.

At this moment, Meng Huo's wife, Mrs. Zhu Rong, came out from behind the palace and said to Meng Huo, "What are men afraid of?
As a woman, I am willing to lead soldiers to fight for you. Meng Huo knew that his wife was skilled in martial arts, especially good at using throwing knives. Meng Huo was very happy and appointed her to lead the soldiers to attack the Shu army.

Mrs. Zhu Rong led [-] barbarians to block the advance of the Shu army aggressively.Zhang Ni, the general of the Shu army, was fighting with Mrs. Zhu Rong. Mrs. Zhu Rong released a flying knife and knocked down the horse. It turned out that the flying knife hit Zhang Ni on the shoulder.Mrs. Zhu Rong ordered her soldiers to capture Zhang Ni. Ma Zhong came to rescue Zhang Ni, but was also captured by the barbarians.

Meng Huo was very excited to see Mrs. Zhu Rong returning in a big victory.Mrs. Zhu Rong said to Meng Huo, "Kill these two generals of the Shu army to relieve your hatred!" Meng Huo said, "Zhuge Liang let me go five times. If I kill his generals, others will laugh at me for my lack of benevolence. I will be imprisoned first. Inside the cave, it won't be too late to kill Zhuge Liang together." Mrs. Zhu Rong followed Meng Huo's advice and drank and had fun.

Zhuge Liang knew about this and immediately held an emergency military meeting.Zhuge Liang whispered some tricks in the ears of Ma Dai, Zhao Yun, and Wei Yan, telling them to be ready to leave at any time.They took orders.

The next day, Zhao Yun challenged Mrs. Zhu Rong. Mrs. Zhu Rong fought with Zhao Yun. After several rounds, Zhao Yun pretended to escape. Mrs. Zhu Rong was afraid of an ambush, so she did not pursue and went back to the cave.Wei Yan led his troops to challenge Mrs. Zhu Rong again. Mrs. Zhu Rong fought against Wei Yan, and only fought for a few rounds. Wei Yan pretended to be defeated, but Mrs. Zhu Rong did not pursue.

On the third day, Zhao Yun came to challenge Mrs. Zhu Rong again. Mrs. Zhu Rong fought Zhao Yun for several more rounds. Zhao Yun pretended to be defeated again, but Mrs. Zhu Rong still did not pursue.At this time, Wei Yan scolded Mrs. Zhu Rong in front of the battle.Mrs. Zhu Rong was so angry that she came to chase and kill Wei Yan.Wei Yan fled into a remote path on horseback, and Mrs. Zhu Rong chased after him. Ma Dai had been lying in ambush here and tripped Mrs. Zhu Rong to the ground with a trip rope. The soldiers of the Shu army tied up Mrs. Zhu Rong.

Zhuge Liang ordered his men to go to Yinkeng Cave and tell Meng Huo that he was willing to exchange Mrs. Zhu Rong for Ma Zhong and Zhang Yi.

Just as Meng Huo was about to agree, King Mulu had already led his troops to the entrance of the cave.Meng Huo hurriedly received King Mulu.

King Mulu is coming to fight the generals of the Shu army.Zhao Yun and Wei Yan led troops to fight King Mulu.They were very surprised to see that King Mulu was so thick.Zhao Yun said to Wei Yan: "I have fought for so many years, and I have never seen such a mighty character."

When Zhao Yun and Wei Yan were discussing King Mulu, King Mulu performed a magic spell, chanting a spell in his mouth and shaking his sword.Suddenly there was a strong wind, flying sand and rocks, rushing out of countless tigers, leopards, wolves, poisonous snakes and beasts, attacking the Shu army with their teeth and claws.The Shu army couldn't resist and returned in defeat.

Zhao Yun and Wei Yan came to Zhuge Liang's barracks to plead guilty.

Zhuge Liang said: "I don't blame you. I knew that the Nanban had the ability to drive away tigers and leopards with magic spells. When I was in Chengdu, I had already prepared the weapons to destroy the tigers and leopards. There are twenty carts in the army. Those They are all weapons for destroying evil and demons, and they have been sealed with paper strips. I will use half of them today, and the rest will be useful in the future.” So he ordered his subordinates to roll out ten red oil tank trucks and keep ten black oil tank trucks No, none of the generals under his command knew what Zhuge Liang was going to do.

Zhuge Liang ordered to open the wooden cabinet cart.The inside of the car is full of woodcut and colorful beasts, with teeth and claws open, and a beast can seat more than a dozen soldiers.Zhuge Liang selected a thousand elite soldiers and ordered them to hide the gunpowder in the car.

The next day, Zhuge Liang led an army to attack Meng Huo.King Mulu thought he was invincible, so he rushed out of the cave first and brought his men down to face Zhuge Liang.During the confrontation between the two armies, King Mulu recited a mantra, pointed his long sword, and immediately there were sand and stones flying on the battlefield, and countless poisonous snakes and beasts suddenly appeared and rushed towards the Shu army.Zhuge Liang ordered to line up the woodcut colorful beasts. He shouted loudly, and fire spewed out of the beasts' mouths, very ferocious.Those poisonous snakes and beasts of King Mulu were scared away by Zhuge Liang's woodcut colorful beasts.

King Mulu's army was defeated by poisonous snakes and beasts in a short while.King Mulu was also trampled to death by poisonous snakes and beasts.The Shu army won a great victory and occupied Yinkeng Cave.

At this time, Meng Huo did not know where he had fled.The next day, Zhuge Liang was about to send troops to capture Meng Huo, when suddenly his soldiers reported to him: "Meng You captured Meng Huo, Mrs. Zhu Rong and more than 100 of Meng Huo's accomplices to surrender to the prime minister."

Knowing that it was Meng Huo's trick, Zhuge Liang ordered Zhang Ni and Ma Zhong to lead two thousand warriors to lie in ambush on both sides of the barracks, preparing to catch Meng Huo and all his men who came with him.

As soon as Meng Huo and the others entered the barracks, Zhuge Liang ordered his men to arrest Meng Huo and others.Zhuge Liang said to them, "You guys are trying to plot against me with such a little scheme. What else do you have to say?" Meng Huo said, "This time I came to die in person. We didn't fight, so I still won't admit defeat!" Said: "I know you won't admit defeat, how about letting you go back again and fighting to the death next time?" In this way, Zhuge Liang has released Meng Huo for the sixth time.

Because Meng Huo had no place to live, fortunately his subordinates brought him the cave master and took him to King Wu Tugu of Ugo.Wu Tugu was willing to help Meng Huo attack the Shu army.There are [-] rattan armor troops in Wutugu, and the soldiers are brave and invincible in battle wearing rattan armor, which is invulnerable to swords and guns.

Wu Tugu ordered [-] Tengjia troops to station at Taohua Ferry to resist the attack of the Shu army.Peach Blossom Ferry is also a natural danger of Ugo, the water at the ferry can only be drunk by Ugo people, if not Ugo people will die if they drink a little.

Wei Yan led troops to attack the Ugo soldiers at Taohua Ferry under Zhuge Liang's order.Ugo soldiers wore invulnerable rattan armor to fight the Shu army, and the Shu army was defeated and returned.

Knowing this situation, Zhuge Liang personally went to the front line to observe the enemy's terrain.

Zhuge Liang came to a big valley, which was very long.The terrain is very dangerous.Zhuge Liang decided to use troops to defeat the Tengjia Army of Ugo Kingdom here.

Zhuge Liang returned to the big barracks and immediately held an emergency military meeting.Zhuge Liang ordered Wei Yan to lure the Ugo soldiers to fight, and to lead all the Tengjia troops into the valley, and none of them could escape; he also ordered Zhao Yun to lead troops into the valley to bury gunpowder and explosives; The soldiers built fifteen military strongholds along the way, and ordered Zhang Yi and Ma Zhong to lead the troops into the valley to lay an early ambush.After everything was ordered, Zhuge Liang ordered the soldiers to act.

Wei Yan led his troops to challenge the Ugo soldiers at Taohua Ferry again. After only a few blows, Wei Yan pretended to escape. The Tengjia army did not dare to pursue them, because they were afraid of an ambush.

The next day, Wei Yan came to challenge the Tengjia Army again, and Wu Tugu fought him a few more times. Wei Yan scolded Wu Tugu while running away.Wu Tugu was furious and ordered the army to chase and kill Wei Yan.Wei Yan led his troops and fled into a large army village.Wu Tugu led his troops and rushed in.Wei Yan pretended to be defeated again, and Wu Tugu chased after him.Wei Yan defeated fifteen army camps in a row.Wu Tugu thought that the Shu army was afraid of being beaten by him, and no one was his opponent, so he kept chasing and killing Wei Yan.Wei Yan fled into the big valley, and he also chased him into the big valley.

Wei Yan disappeared after a while.Only then did Wu Tugu realize that he had been ambushed by Zhuge Liang.Zhuge Liang saw that the [-] Tengjia troops of the Ugo Kingdom had entered the valley from the valley, and immediately ordered the fire to cut off the two entrances and exits of the valley.Wu Tugu and his [-] Tengjia army were all burned to death by the fire and the underground explosives.

Immediately Zhang Ni was ordered by Zhuge Liang to pretend to be a Ugo soldier and report to Meng Huo: "Zhuge Liang and his troops are besieged in the valley by King Wutugu. Please go and fight a battle of annihilation that is sure to win."

Meng Huo believed it to be true, and led his confidant army to rush to the Dagu Valley to destroy Zhuge Liang.

As soon as he entered the valley, Meng Huo saw that all the [-] Tengjia troops of the Ugo Kingdom had died in the valley.Knowing that he had fallen into Zhuge Liang's trick again, Meng Huo turned around and fled towards Taniguchi.At this time, Ma Zhong and Zhang Ni led troops to kill from both sides of the valley. Meng Huo was killed by the Shu army again, caught him by surprise, and was captured alive again.

Meng Huo was taken to the barracks, and some soldiers brought food and wine for Meng Huo and his men to eat.After Meng Huo and the others finished eating, a soldier walked up to Meng Huo and said, "Prime Minister Zhuge has no face to come to see King Meng again. He said you should go back and recruit soldiers and horses to fight to the death." Meng Huo burst into tears: " I was arrested seven times by Prime Minister Zhuge and then released seven times. I know that Prime Minister Zhuge doesn't care about my previous suspicions. Although I am a rude Southern barbarian, I also know what kindness and righteousness are. I will not be so mean and shameless .”

Meng Huo led his wife, younger brother and all his soldiers to Zhuge Liang's camp to plead guilty.Meng Huo took the lead and said to Zhuge Liang: "Prime Minister Zhuge is brave, mighty, benevolent and righteous. I, Meng Huo, a Nanman, will never rebel again." Zhuge Liang hurriedly helped Meng Huo and the others up, and said to Meng Huo, "Are you convinced now?" Huo said loudly: "We, the Nanman people, have always obeyed the great man for generations."

Zhuge Liang invited Meng Huo to drink again.Zhuge Liang named Meng Huo the Great King of Nanman and ordered him to govern the land of Nanman.Meng Huo and his clan were very grateful to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang defeated the Nanman Meng Huo, and immediately ordered his troops to return to the court.

(End of this chapter)