Chapter 43 Zhao Botao alienated the Southern Barbarian King Zang Xuangaoli according to the Marquis of Hanning

"Kneel down!" E Huan, who was tied up, was escorted into Zhao Feng's military tent by two wolf-like guards. E Huan was extremely tall. Zhao Feng was 1.82 meters tall, which was almost a crane in this era. At least he was the tallest in Liu Bei's group except for Guan Yu, but Zhao Feng estimated that E Huan in front of him should be 1.9 meters tall. Obviously, Guan Yu also wants to be short of him.

Although E Huan was embarrassed, he was stubborn and did not kneel. Seeing this, Zhao Feng motioned the soldier to let him go, snorted and asked, "Would you like to surrender?"

"It has been captured, it's just death!" E Huan is very straightforward. He was defeated face to face, and he couldn't scold him for any tricks, but he didn't want to be a soft egg when he died.

"Your Excellency is a refreshing person. It's very good. You dragged him down with me and chopped him up." Zhao Feng waved his hand, and the two guards who escorted E Huan to the military tent were ready to take him back. E Huan didn't wait for them to do it. He held his head high and went out of the account first.

"Retain people under the knife!" Just as E Huan was about to pay the bill, he saw Shamoke open the curtain and hurried in. After meeting Zhao Feng and the generals, Shamoke gasped and said, "General Zhao, although this E Huan is the enemy of us, he is not Meng Huo's subordinate. Please forgive him!" While talking, Shamoke was sweating like rain. He was still collecting soldiers just now. Hearing that he was going to kill Ehuan, he hurriedly came.

"General Sha, he is not Meng Huo's subordinate. How can he be an enemy of us?" Chen said strangely beside him.

"General Zhao doesn't know that E Huan is a subordinate of Gao Ding, the governor of Yuejia. This march was the work of Meng Huo, and Gao Taishou was only forced to act. If E Huan is beheaded, I'm afraid that everyone in Nanzhong will be in danger, and they will have to wait with me to die!" Samoco said bitterly.

"That's it!" Zhao Feng pondered for a long time when he heard the words, and ordered someone to bring E Huan to him and ask, "Are you a subordinate of Gao Taishou?"

Although E Huan is not afraid of death, no one is in a hurry to die. Seeing that things have changed, he hurriedly responded, "Exactly, I am a general under the command of Gao Taishou."

"In this case, Gao Taishou is the governor under the rule of Liu Yizhou, and Liu Yizhou and my lord are brothers. Why do you help Meng Huo's rebels and violate our boundaries?" Zhao Feng asked with a heavy face. E Huan didn't know these twists and turns. Hearing Zhao Feng's fierce voice, he had to bravely reply, "How can we young generals know such a big thing, but Meng Huo bullied others by relying on the power, and I don't know that my master was coerced by him."

"If that's the case, I'll let you go back and write a book. You have to fight with Gao Taishou with your own hands, so that you don't follow Meng Huo to be a tiger again, okay?" Zhao Feng nodded and told him. E Huan didn't expect that he could still escape from death, so he hurriedly didn't mention it. Zhao Feng wrote a letter with a pen, then took the cowhide cover and sealed it, and asked E Huan to take it back to Gao Ding.

"General, do you want to provoke Gao Ding and Meng Huo?" Gan Ning, who watched the whole process, asked after E Huan left. Xingba didn't expect it to be bad. I'm just going to do it. Zhao Feng said with a smile. Seeing that Chen Zhi, Zhou Tai and others didn't quite understand, Zhao Feng Suo's surname told them more clearly.

According to Shamoke, the Southern Central Barbarian Department is different from their Wuxi Barbarian Department. The Wuxi Barbarian Department is the dominant family of the Samoko family, and the other dozens of tribes are obviously much smaller than their scale. This is not the case in the south. Since the pre-Qin period, there have been four major tribes and some small tribes in the south. A few years ago, the leaders of these four tribes were Meng Huo, Gao Ding, Zhu Xiong and Yang Feng. The population and strength of these four tribes are almost the same. They have been close to each other for so many years, and they are in peace with each other.

Liu Zhang's father, Liu Yan, can be said to be a skilled politician. However, in his whole life, he failed to solve the problem of southern barbarians, so he could only make their leaders Yuejia, Yunnan, Yongchang, and other counties. In Liu Zhang's generation, he basically gave up the ownership of the four counties of Nanzhong.

However, this balance was broken five years ago. The reason is that Meng Huo married Zhu Rong, Zhu Xiong's daughter. In addition, Zhu Xiong died of illness last year, and his son was still young. Meng Huo basically had the final say in the two tribes. After Meng Huo's strength rose sharply, Enwei Bingshi made Yang Feng and Gao Ding submit one after another, which basically unified the various departments of the Southern Central Committee. This march was the first time that Meng Huo sent troops after the unification of the south, in order to build a foundation and establish his own prestige. Of course, Meng Huo also pulled Gao Ding and Yang Feng. Although the two of them were not too willing to come to Jingnan to fight with people, they had to listen under the pressure of Meng Huo.

"So that's it!" After listening to this, Gan Ning and others suddenly realized that at this time, Zhao Feng ordered Samoka's Wudang Flying Army to send people to spread rumors among the captured prisoners of war, saying that Meng Huo's men must kill their heads, and Yang Feng and Gao Ding's men were fine. At this time, the prisoners were immediately worried. However, Zhao Feng didn't care about them for a while and only detained them for one night.

The next morning, the gate of the camp where more than a thousand prisoners were held opened with a "creak". A group of soldiers surrounded a lieutenant and ordered the prisoners to come forward one by one to report who they were. The prisoners listened to rumors last night. Now, except for a few two poles, who dares to say that they are Meng Huo's subordinates? All of them are said to be Yang Feng or Gao Ding's subordinates. As a result, all those who said that they were Meng Huo's subordinates were pulled away by the captain and chopped up by the captain. They said that they were Gao Ding and Yang Feng's subordinates, but they went to the side to get a bag of grain and rice, and then they were all released. At first, these people couldn't believe that they really let them go like this. When no one came to arrest them after leaving the camp, they believed it and thanked them one after another.

"Is there such a thing?" In the big tent of the southwest barbarian army, Meng Huo, the leader of the barbarian army, heard that his subordinates came to report like this, and his face suddenly turned gloomy. In front of him, several barbarians who had just been released were kneeling on the ground to tell him what had happened before.

Meng Huo is 26 years old this year. Unlike ordinary people in the south of the frog in the well, Meng Huo once traveled to Shuzhong when he was a teenager, and he was quite external to the culture and prosperity of the Han people. Over time, it's just that the yearning can no longer satisfy him. He hopes that he can no longer live in the poor south, but replace the Han people as the ruler of Yizhou and even the world. To this end, he integrated all the ministries of Nanzhong and put forward the slogan of establishing a country in the southern middle. At present, this battle is even more crucial. In case of defeat, there is no way to talk about it.

Looking at the few people kneeling in front of him, Meng Huo felt even more irritable in his heart and shouted, "In order to survive, you actually pretended to recognize Yang Feng and Gao Ding's subordinates. What's the use of me leaving you soft bones? Come on, drag it down with me!"

"Your Majesty, spare your life!" These people who escaped from death did not expect that they did not die in the hands of the Jingzhou army. Now Meng Huo wants to kill them, but even the begging for mercy is ignored. In the end, the hundreds of people who escaped with false names were ordered by Meng Huo to be executed. After the news spread, Meng Huo's subordinates felt chilled.

It's not to mention that Meng Huo was sulking at this time. After hearing E Huan's boss Gao Ding talk about the situation in the account, he read Zhao Feng's handwritten letter to him, but he was a little confused. At this time, he came down to report that it was Yang Feng asking for a meeting.

"Brother Yang, do you know what happened here?" Seeing Yang Feng coming, Gao Ding quickly asked.

"I know that I didn't expect Zhao Botao to be so benevolent and righteous. He won't kill any of us." Yang Feng sighed.

"It's rare that Zhao Botao is willing to understand our difficulties, but what should we do at the present?" Gao Ding knew that Yang Feng's wisdom was far better than himself, so he still had to listen to his ideas first.

"This is quite embarrassing!" Yang Feng thought for a long time, but shook his head and smiled bitterly. At present, Meng Huo's army was blocked by the Yuan River. Every time he sent people to cross the river, the Jingxiang sailors led by Gan Ning gave them a head-on blow. Under the impact of the turtle boat of the Jingzhou sailor, the raft was often hit into a pile of scattered bamboo sticks and pieces of wood, and the people on the boat died. In the past two days, Meng Huo has also tried his best to cross the river. However, his skills are not as good as others, and Meng Huo is not a resourceful man, so he is still at a loss.

"General, since you can't cross the river, and General Zhao is kind to us, why don't you give up and go back to Nanzhong?" E Huan knew that Yang Feng and Gao Ding were too much friends, and he did not avoid suspicion and said directly. Yang Feng looked at Gao Ding and E Huan with hope, and finally sighed, "We can't advance or retreat when we are trapped here. I think we'd better wait for a day or two first. When the king is angry, let's persuade the king to withdraw his troops." After a pause, Yang Feng said again, "Don't be an enemy of General Zhao unless you have to. He has the grace of not killing the soldiers, and if he is the enemy, the army will be unstable.

"I know!" Gao Ding also nodded. The people in the south have the clearest resentment. If they are enemies of their benefactors, I'm afraid that these big soldiers under their command will not want to do it. If it's serious, their rule in the clan will be affected.

Not to mention the different dreams of the various departments of the Southern Middle School, among the four armies, the most unobtrusive is the Hanzhong Army that attacks the mediocre. Of course, not being eye-catching does not mean that there is not much fierce battle. Under the personal command of Zhang Wei, Zhang Lu's younger brother, a wave of Hanzhong sergeants were killed at the head of Shangyong City, and then under the command of Zang Ba, Fu Tong and Shen Danshen Yi brothers, they turned into corpses and were thrown away.

After half a month of attacking the city, the Hanzhong Army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, while the Shangyong garrison suffered casualties of only more than 1,000. General Zang, these Hanzhong troops are really not afraid of death!" Shen Dan looked at the Hanzhong soldiers who rushed to him crazily. Although they suffered heavy casualties, the successors still came to the ground without hesitation, which shocked Shen Dan.

"I heard that Zhang Lu ruled the army with evil ways, so the sergeants were not afraid to die one by one." Zang Ba briefly explained the situation. After a pause, Zang Ba said again, "Although the Hanzhong army is brave, its combat strength is poor. I just need to stick to it step by step and be safe.

"That's good." Shen Dan nodded. Although the Shen brothers were the famous two or five children in the Three Kingdoms period, it also depends on whether the object is worth their surrender. If it were Cao Wei, maybe they would consider surrendering. But Zhang Lu, who is facing now, obviously does not have this kind of charm.

"Huh, does the Hanzhong Army still have cavalry?" Zang Ba suddenly found that after the disorganized army of the Hanzhong Army, there was still a team of cavalry waiting. Seeing this, Shen Dan explained to him: "Zhang Lu is in the middle of the Han Dynasty, and there is enough food. He often exchanges grain, rice and Xiqiang people for horses."

"So that's it. They are all good horses!" Zang Bajiu is in northern Xinjiang and used to be one of the generals of Bingzhou Iron Horses. Naturally, he is a great connounuch of Xiangma. At a glance, he knows at a glance that the Hanzhong Army is equipped with excellent Xiliang horses, and the quality is better than that of Youzhou horses, Bingzhou horses and Guanzhong horses. Although Liu Beijun has gathered more than 30,000 cavalry now, there are few really good horses among them, most of which are Shandong horses.

"Do Zhang Lu also have such a good horse? Wait, sooner or later, these good horses will be mine!" Zang Ba looked at the Xiliang horse in front of him and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Looking at his mouth-watering appearance, Shen Dan beside him couldn't help laughing secretly.

(to be continued)