Chapter 26 second quarter

A major event happened in the military account. The surrendered Gao Ding rebelled for the second time, and led the remnants of the army to attack and kill Zhuge Liang in the first shift!When he broke into the camp, Gao Ding saw a man with a feather fan and a scarf, holding a tube of Xuancheng brush in his hand, he yelled, and swung his knife to chop!The man rolled on the spot, panicked.Gao Ding felt a strong disappointment in an instant. He thought that Zhuge Liang was also an ordinary person: when he saw the blood and the knife edge, he would keep quiet and tremble all over.The inflated sense of pride swelled in Gao Ding's chest, he didn't look back at his followers, and strode forward to strike again!The knife didn't fail completely, the sharp blade cut through Zhuge Liang's wrist, and drew a bloody gash of several inches. "Ah...it hurts! It hurts..." The feather fan was splashed with red spots, like plum blossoms blooming in the snow. "Haha..." Gao Ding laughed loudly, "How much I am Zhuge Kongming..." No one knows how "how" he wanted to say, because at that moment, a golden arrow shot from the back of Gao Ding's neck In, the front neck pierced out, cut his words in two!Gao Ding didn't even feel the pain, he looked at Zhuge Liang who was like chaff in front of him, and turned around blankly.The stars were dim, the moon was like blood, and in the deep red night, I saw a young man in his twenties holding a strong bow with a serious expression on his face.When the young man put the second arrow on the string, he was held down by a man in his early forties beside him.This man, with a quiet smile on his face, was wearing a light gray cloak. Under the cloak was a red and black official uniform: the prime minister's uniform.

Substitute...?As soon as Gao Ding's knee fell, he fell down. Zhuge Liang stepped forward and looked down to see the last sneer on Gao Ding's face. "Prime Minister, another Shuai Qu was captured alive." Mi Wei put the arrow in his bag and cupped his hands. He is handsome, the leader of the barbarians. "Bring it up." Zhuge Liangliang nodded. He looked at Gao Ding's body, then at Zhao Zhi whose wrist was still bleeding, and asked, "What do you think he is laughing at?" Zhao Zhi threw away the feather fan, tore off the Lun scarf, took a deep breath, and said with a sneer, "Zhuge Liang is a coward."

"Oh?" "If you guess something has changed, arrange for someone to die for you!" Zhuge Liang laughed out loud. "You're not dead, are you? Haha!" He said with a smile, "Just once." He walked up to Zhao Zhi, threw a tube of gold sore medicine for him, bent down to pick up the Lun towel, and patted the dust, "I He has been assassinated thirteen times since he came out of the hut. Look!" He rolled up his sleeves, and Zhao Zhi saw at a glance that Zhuge Liang also had a three-inch knife wound on his left wrist! "What a coincidence, the location is almost the same." He smiled, "I have been injured twice, and the other one is on the waist."

"So you now..." "No." Zhuge Liang interrupted Zhao Zhi, "No one can die for me." No one has this qualification——Zhuge Liang, who is like Beichenxing, thought so in his heart. "I asked you to pretend to be me to let you taste the taste of fear." Zhuge Liang said lightly, "Are you proud to make Zhu Bao turn back overnight? Fifty thousand Li people, trapped in fire and water, have all tasted the fear just now. .” The pain spread from Zhao Zhi's wrist to his whole body. He always said that he was a floating dreamer who lived in the air; when he looked at Zhuge Liang, he understood that this man wanted to grab his ankle and drag him into the mortal world , dragged into the mud and blood.

"Don't even think about it." Zhao Zhi said in his heart, he walked out of the camp and bumped into Mi Wei head-on. Mi Wei is holding a four-finger-wide hemp rope, and the rope is tied to the left and right thumbs of a barbarian.The Yiren was about thirty years old, with disheveled hair and bare feet, gold rings on his ears, and tattered clothes, but the quality of the clothes could still be seen to be extraordinary. There were even two giant pythons embroidered on the cuffs, and the pythons were rolling in the raging flames. "Zizheng." Zhuge Liang shouted from the camp.

Mi Wei pulled the rope and dragged the prisoner into the tent. "Do you want to stay or leave?" Zhuge Liang asked straight to the point. "Stay...kill?" The prisoner obviously understood Chinese and could speak some. "Not to kill." Zhuge Liang shook his head. "Then I, stay, stay." The answer was unexpected.Could it be that you want to be a second couture?Mi Wei thought to himself, and was about to remind him, but Zhuge Liang waved his hand to stop him, not only that, but also made a gesture, asking him to untie the prisoner's rope.Mi Wei did as he did, and secretly put his hand on the hilt of his waist.

"Name?" Zhuge Liang asked as concisely as possible. "Huo Ji." "Using a knife?" "yes." "What kind of knife?" He shifted his gaze to Huo Ji's right thumb. Huo Ji immediately bent his thumb into his palm, thought for a while, and spread out his palm: "Flying knives are better than plain knives." Zhuge Liang smiled. "Give him back the knife." He ordered Mi Wei, "and then assign Huo Ji to the guard." "Prime Minister, don't trust him too much." Mi Wei couldn't help but say. "You can tell the truth or a lie by looking at your eyes." Zhuge Liang stepped forward, pointed at Huo Ji Lihei's feet and said, "Besides a pair of shoes, I also want to give you something."

Huo Ji didn't speak, just looked at him. "A set of real throwing knives." Huoji's eyes sparkled. "I brought a first-class iron smelter, he can forge a thousand arrows a night." Zhuge Liang smiled, "I will ask him to forge thirty throwing knives for you within three days." Forging a flying knife is equivalent to making a hundred arrows! What a set of knives that is! ? Huo Ji asked with difficulty: "Iron smelter...is, is...?" "Pu Yuan." Zhuge Liang replied. It was the fifteenth day of the fifth lunar month when Huo Ji got the Puyuan flying knife.The throwing knife is sheathed in yak leather and has a fire-plated silver trim on the handle.With the knife in his hand, Huo Ji was shocked: Nanzhong had never seen such a sharp knife edge, a leather rope was stretched on the blade, and the rope was split in two with just a slight lift of his hand!This pair of knives made Huo Ji love him so much, seeing it made him happier than seeing a sixteen-year-old girl.He hid it in his bosom for a while, took it out for a while, stroked it over and over again, and unknowingly fell to the last of the guards.It wasn't until Mi Wei yelled loudly that he ran to catch up with his bare feet.When chasing to the main car, Huo Ji looked around and was stunned: a hundred steps away, the water was rushing, the miasma was steaming, and the heat wave was rolling—it turned out that the army had reached Lushui.

Ma Zhong and Li Hui led 10,000 troops each, and joined forces with Zhuge Liang here. "Prime Minister." The tall and thin Li Hui stepped forward to salute first. His many years of guarding the south made him have a thick and dark skin like a southerner. "Unexpectedly, both Gao Ding and Yong Kai have been executed." Ma Zhong then said: "Humble job has captured another person." "Oh? Who is it?" Zhuge Liang raised his eyebrows slightly, holding one in one hand, and said with a smile, "De'ang (in the words of Li Hui) and Dexin (in the words of Ma Zhong) have worked so hard."

Ma Zhong pushed one person forward.Zhuge Liang laughed dumbfounded, and couldn't help looking at Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi was sitting in the prison car, raising his head in disdain: This prisoner is Zhu Bao! "I hope the Prime Minister will show you how to deal with it." Ma Zhong asked with his hands clasped. "Bet on Wei County nearby, let him have more good dreams." Zhuge Liang said with a smile. "It's better to kill them together." Li Hui said suddenly. On the one hand, Li Hui ordered thirty prisoners of war to be escorted.With Lushui in front, the prisoners' legs and feet were weak and their teeth were chattering.Suddenly, a young man in his twenties rushed to Zhuge Liang's feet, kowtowing incessantly.Mi Wei took a step forward and stopped in front of Zhuge Liang.

"He said, he, don't die." Huo Ji translated. Zhuge Liang turned his inquiring gaze to Li Hui. "Yizhou County has been the residence of barbarians since ancient times. Only by praying to the gods and relying on the strength of Yin soldiers can we win." Li Hui said, "Only when people's heads are sacrificed beside Lushui, and the ghosts and gods enjoy the sacrifices, will they come to help." This has been the custom for many years.Qin Dynasty general Wang Hanzhengman killed 500 people here!It is said that the blood of the five hundred people made the originally cool Lushui boil overnight, and it has been hot for nearly five hundred years!The heat spread to Zhuge Liang's face, making his brows blurred.The executioner carried a big axe, and just waiting for the order, he chopped off thirty-one heads and threw them into the water one by one.The deeper the Lushui, the hotter it is, and when the human head sinks to the bottom, it is almost cooked.Zhu Bao shivered when he thought of his cooked head rolling in the water, his crotch was hot and wet a lot. "Unless the prime minister doesn't cross Lushui." Li Hui flashed a faint smile in his eyes. "Anyway, the chaos between Gao, Yong, and Zhu has been settled." Ma Zhong also said. The generals didn't want Zhuge Liang to go deep into the wilderness. Once he crossed the moat, his life would be at stake, no matter how difficult it is to grasp.In case the prime minister... Li Hui didn't dare to think about it any further, he could only hope that Zhuge Liang would accept the suggestion; and he had heard of the prime minister's stubbornness. Sure enough, Zhuge Liang quickly opened his mouth: "no." "If we only deal with these people," he pointed at Zhu Bao, and said with a light smile, "Liang won't come. Just sit in Chengdu and wait for the good news from the two of you. Liang believes in you," he looked at Ma Zhong and Li Hui, He asked again, "Where are you two? Don't you believe in Liang?" His purpose is to build a stable and prosperous rear, and Nanzhong is the rear of the country!Not only does he want to calm it down, but more importantly, he wants to change it, build it up, eliminate its shortcomings, and improve its strengths!He wants to make a steady stream of golden water and silver springs emerge from the barren land, to discover fur, mountain treasures, and lacquer as much as possible, to introduce medicine into the wild, to bring houses, farming, writing, and even history to the wild. Introduce them one by one.He wants to make Nanzhong truly incorporated into the "national" system, making it a part of the "national" just like Chengdu and Hanzhong.Zhuge Liang is a greedy person, even greedy, he saw Zhao Zhi at first glance, and suddenly laughed.That's right, Zhao Zhi once laughed at him for wanting to manipulate the stars, then—Zhuge Liang thought in his heart: Just once, he will manipulate the stars for people to see! "Cross the river," he ordered. Thirty-one prisoners did not die. Zhuge Liang used flour wrapped beef and mutton instead of human heads as a sacrifice to the gods. Across the scorching river. Through the wet jungle. Walk through dry sand. Gu art, poisonous springs, insect bites, snake coils... The world in the dream is vividly displayed in front of Zhuge Liang. The difference is that it is charming, dangerous and deadly.In order to preserve Hu Xiao's army, Zhuge Liang only selected 3,000 of them to accompany him.In addition to the soldiers led by Ma Zhong and Li Hui and some directly subordinate troops, the Shu Han army had 30,000 people in this entry into the barbarians. "Where are Meng Huo's men?" He asked Huo Ji.Huo Ji rubbed the tassels of the flying knife and said, "There are two hundred thousand men." "A man?" Mi Wei raised his eyebrows. "A man can kill." Li Hui thought about it and said, "Women here can too." "Women also kill people?" Mi Wei was taken aback. Li Hui spread his hands and made a helpless look. Zhuge Liang laughed out loud. "What kind of person is Meng Huo?" he asked again. Huo Ji frowned, and it took him a while to say, "He...is a bastard." Meng Huo was not a barbarian, at least not a barbarian.What happened to his parents had happened many times in the South.These stories often start with a vigorous love, mixed with favors, copulation, promises, singing and dancing, bonfires and weddings, and end with betrayal, escape, waiting, and resentment. Meng Huo said that every vine in Langdian is his own. A white hair of his mother; every drop of water in Lake Seir is a tear of his mother.These words are like birds with wings, flying all over Nanzhong.Meng Huo used a language that was incompatible with the local area, which made Zhuge Liang very curious. He once suspected that Meng Huo was educated, and he also suspected that it was precisely because of these legends mixed with lies and exaggerations that made the man— ——A "bastard" who became the strongest commander in the local area: As soon as he ascended the heights, the responders gathered. How interesting... Zhuge Liang thought, and wrote a military order with his own hand to inform the three armies. The military order only had four words: "Capture Meng Huo alive." Like lightning and rolling thunder, the war began with the sound of rumbling drums.The Shu army captured Jiusi City with lightning speed!The men in the city fled, leaving only some women and children sitting tremblingly by the roadside.Jiusi City is the most prosperous and strongest city in Nanzhong, and it is also the only big city. No one expected it to fall into the hands of the Shu army overnight!Because no one could have imagined that the Shu army would be able to escape from the ground!The solid soldiers jumped out of the ground in the blink of an eye, and the knife edge was stained red with blood. Those dying barbarians didn't think until they died: This knife...can... The ones who broke the ground...maybe... also cleaved the river, so that they... came over.Ah...here we come.When a heavy rain pours down, are the gods crying loudly, or are ghosts making waves?The rain beat heavily on a piece of emerald jade hanging from the city tower, and the wind roared, passing through the hole, like a dead spirit, flying wantonly.Bloodstains are scattered among the rocks, against the totem skull covered in gold and silver. As soon as Huo Ji entered the city, he held his breath, his fingers trembling uncontrollably. In the rainstorm, Zhuge Liang was heading towards the mountain city of Dazhai with his wet lupine in his hand.A drop of water hit his face, he didn't care, but Huo Ji saw that the water was light red! Huo Ji and Mi Wei followed Zhuge Liang up the emerald-embedded stone steps. Ma Zhong and Li Hui rectified their soldiers and horses a hundred steps away, and counted the prisoners of war. The rain woven into a dense curtain, so that Mi Wei couldn't see clearly. He held down the saber with his left hand, and supported Zhuge Liang's elbow with his right hand, just in case.The flying mallard arrow rustled in the leather bag, I don't know if it was spontaneous or it was hit by the wind and rain.Wu Hao's bow was also trembling, Mi Wei shrugged and pushed it up a few inches. "Old man, let's take a rest for a few days." Mi Wei thought, raising his hand to wipe the drops of water from his eyes. In a flash!A cold light strikes directly! "Prime Minister—" Mi Wei cried out in shock, grabbing Huo Ji's wrist! The flying knife that Huo Ji was holding in his hand was gone. Mi Wei let out a roar, and punched Huo Ji on the bridge of the nose, causing him to stagger and fall to the edge of the steps.Huo Ji didn't laugh or scream, he was completely stunned, staring blankly at his empty palm, as if he didn't know what he did just now!He... shot a throwing knife?Shoot a knife at the straight and broad back in front?A throwing knife he gave himself? !Before Mi Wei threw his second punch, Huo Ji suddenly turned his wrist around and slashed at his neck!Enough is enough, taking advantage of the rainy day to wash away the grudges and sins one by one, enough!I can't see my brother being ruined... Huo Ji thought, it's just death! "Stop him!" The flying knife was cut off by Mi Wei's horizontal palm and fell on the steps. The rain and tears were hazy, and in the haze, Huo Ji saw a figure swaying in front of him as if about to fall, but he just swayed and did not fall.This person... The faint, water-stained eyebrows seem a little sad, but the feather fan scarf is still the same, the turban, and the white fan are all darker.It was Zhuge Liang, he frowned and said with a smile, "Some...it hurts." As he stepped forward, La Huoji stood up.Because of the knife, the clothes on his back were torn. From the opening, Zhuge Liang was wearing a thin layer of armor under the outer robe. Even in such a dark rain, the armor was shining with a clean silver color. Zhuge Liang returned the flying knife to Huo Ji's hand and closed his hand. "I know you are in a daze for a while." He looked around the bloody wind and the rainstorm rushing to shoot guns, sighed and said, "If it were me, I'm afraid I would have to do the same... that's all." Pulling up, as if the assassination had never happened, he smiled and asked, "Do you know Meng Huo?" "I've seen it three or four times." Huo Ji replied blankly. "Okay. If I see you again, I'm sure you can point him out?" "Yes." Huo Ji said. "Come on." Zhuge Liang greeted Mi and Huo, continuing to walk up. He walked into the main village of Jiusi City. He said it was a village, but it was very similar to the palace of the Han people.Thirteen caves have been dug out of the mountain rock, one of which is a living room, which is connected and connected layer by layer. The deer skin, goat skin, raccoon skin, and bison skin laid on the ground are used to distinguish the superior and the inferior.The gorgeous decoration made Zhuge Liang laugh when he saw it. He wiped off his shoes outside the door before stepping in. "I didn't expect that." He looked around, and stopped his eyes on the huge stone table in the middle, on which was a silver mirror for women, and some hairpins, rings, gold threads, and finger pulls that seemed to be unused for a long time, and sighed, "If I were Meng Huo, I would not leave easily." When he reached the thirteenth room, Huo Ji pointed at the room, dumbfounded. Looking along his fingers, he saw a person sitting on the throne covered with tiger skin and inlaid with golden handles.On his shoulder, a pure black eagle with jewel-like black eyes stared like golden casts at the intruder.This man was wearing a tight black robe, with gold thread embroidered on the hem of the robe, and flying bears and ghost faces embroidered on the gold thread. His whole body was covered with only his hands exposed. They were a pair of thick-boned hands, and on his right glove were two rings, A wrench.He had lowered his head, but raised his face when he heard the voice.What appeared in front of Zhuge Liang was Zhang Erqiba's duck egg face. "It's so delicate..." Zhuge Liang thought, "He looks more like his father." At the first glance, the man suddenly smiled, his nose was slightly wrinkled, and his lips were curled up, making him look very childish. "Is it Meng Huo?" Zhuge Liang asked Huo Ji. The person on the seat replied before Huoji: "Exactly." "Why don't you go?" Zhuge Liang asked again. Meng Huo grinned and said, "This is where my mother is buried." "I heard that Jiusi City was built overnight?" "No." Meng De held his thumb up triumphantly, "One month." Then he pushed on the handrail, got up and walked to Zhuge Liang, when Mi Wei wanted to step forward to stop him, Zhuge Liang held him down.At this time, there was less than a foot between Meng Huo and Zhuge Liang, Huo Ji squeezed the flying knife again, thinking: If you use the flying knife again, you must be helping that person...not hurting him. "Have you been captured alive?" Zhuge Liang asked with a smile. The two stood together, Meng Huo was half a head shorter than Zhuge Liang. "Hehe, forget it." He smiled nonchalantly, and said again, "How do you know that the Han people will burrow into tunnels like mice? If you show me your army once, I won't lose again." "it is good." "Okay?" Meng Huo narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?" "I'll show you the three armies." Zhuge Liang took Meng Huo's hand and walked out briskly. The three armies stood in the rain, the torrential rain gradually subsided, and the wind blew more violently.Without Zhuge Liang's order, none of the five thousand soldiers who attacked the city went to the cave to shelter from the rain.Li Hui and Ma Zhong also stood still in the rain, holding their sabers in one hand and holding the command flag in the other. Water dripped from the edge of their helmets, and they were blown away by the strong wind with a "huh", and the corners of their clothes and robes "crashed". "The ground rang; the wind piercing the cave went straight to the sword, beating the sharp blade more violently than the other.The Five Thousand Army is like a golden man, whose eyes never blink.Seeing the prime minister walking out with a barbarian king, Ma Zhong and Li Hui looked at each other in blank dismay, then raised the command flag suddenly!Five thousand people knelt down on one knee, hitting the ground with their knife handles and sword seats in a "clanking" sound, making an "empty" sound. "Prime Minister—Prime Minister!" Shouting is like a knife, piercing the sound of the wind, making people want to break their hearts. Zhuge Liang pressed down with both hands. Like a spell, in an instant, there was no more sound! "There are more than 20,000 people outside the city." He turned to Meng Huo and said with a smile, "How?" Meng Huo's lips curled up into a sneer: "If it's just like this, I will be able to defeat you." "Bold!" Mi Wei shouted angrily, almost drawing his sword. Zhuge Liang gently held Mi Wei's hand, smiled and said to Meng Huo: "Okay, it's up to you." He held up his feather fan, pointed to the gate of Jiusi City and said, "Let's go, straighten out the army horses, and then come and fight with me again." I will fight. Before you are convinced, I will never kill you. I only want you to take care of yourself, don't die casually, so that I can't hear your words of "convinced."