Yong Kai was in a very bad mood during this period.
From ancient times to the present, most people who have rebelled, either for psychological comfort or to be deceived by others, will have hallucinations similar to "Destiny is mine".
Yong Kai is naturally not exempt from vulgarity.
When he had just killed Zheng'ang and separatized Yizhou County, the hallucination in Yong Kai's heart was still quite strong.
After all, the situation at that time was that with Gao Ding, Zhu Bao, Meng Huo and others responding to his rising of troops, and Huang Yuan, Cao Wei's envoy and other powerful factions outside supporting him, the situation was very good.
Yong Kai felt that his illusion was quite reasonable.
But what Yong Kai never expected was that the seemingly good situation had undergone tremendous changes a year ago.
First, the coalition forces of Gaoding and Meng Huo were defeated by Zhuge Liang's army outside Bodao County. In recent days, he received news that Zhuge Liang's army was stationed outside Qiongdu County in pursuit of victory.
Judging from the current situation, it seems that Qiongdu County is already in danger.
Of course, this is not Yong Kai's conjecture. This is what Yong Kai inferred from the multiple emergency letters for help sent by Gaoding and Meng Huo.
If the situation wasn't critical, why would the two barbarian kings Gaoding and Meng Huo be so anxious to ask for help?
After realizing this, Yong Kai's face was so gloomy that he could almost shed tears.
I don’t know how many servants have died under Yong Kai’s rod recently.
But anger is anger, and Gao Ding and Meng Huo must be saved.
Qiongdu City is there, and Yueqi County is there. This is a very simple relationship of interest.
In order to prevent his own situation from getting worse, after receiving the letter asking for help, Yong Kai actively mobilized his troops and generals, thinking of going north to support Gaoding and Meng Huo.
Before Yong Kai led the troops to the expedition, in order to boost the morale of his own army, the Cao Wei envoy in his palace took out several seals and conferred the title of general on behalf of Cao Pi, including Yong Kai, Gao Ding, and Meng Huo.
The most powerful Yong Kai was even officially worshiped as the governor of Yizhou by the envoys of Cao Wei.
Facing the worship of Cao Wei's envoy, Yong Kai did not resent the fact that Cao Wei's court was beyond his reach.
He was very happy to accept the worship of Cao Wei's envoy, and after making a series of promises to Cao Wei's envoy, he immediately led an army of 6,000 to the north.
Next he was going to meet Zhuge Liang in person.
Yizhou County is some distance away from Yueqi County, but thanks to the fact that Yong Kai's troops are all quick-footed, Yong Kai led an army of 6,000 to Qiongdu County half a month later.
After learning that Yong Kai personally led the army to help, even Gao Ding, who had a feud with Yong Kai in the past, had to take the initiative to go out of the city to welcome Yong Kai's arrival.
It's just that Yong Kai has an arrogant temperament, plus he doesn't like Gao Ding's incompetence, so when he met Gao Ding, Yong Kai didn't look good on Gao Ding.
Yong Kai's unruly performance made Gao Ding angry.
But now Gaoding needs the help of Yong Kai, so he didn't show any signs of attack.
He was dismissive of Gaoding Yong Kai, but Yong Kai was much more amiable to Meng Huo, who had been an ally of his family for generations.
After Meng Huo and Gaoding introduced Yong Kai into the city, Yong Kai asked Meng Huo: "Have the reinforcements from Governor Zhu arrived?"
The Zhu Taishou mentioned by Yong Kai refers to Zhu Bao.
Yong Kai knew that since Gao Ding and Meng Huo would ask him for reinforcements, Zhu Bao and the others would certainly not let them go.
Facing Yong Kai's inquiry, Meng Huo showed a trace of anger on his face and said: "On the grounds that he wanted to protect his territory and his military strength was weak, he only sent one tribesman and two thousand troops to come to help."
Hearing what Meng Huo said, Yong Kai also had an angry look on his face.
Zhu Bao is really a short-sighted person.
He doesn't like haute couture so much, but he is still willing to lead the army to Qiongdu to help. Isn't it just because of the words "dead lips and cold teeth"?
It seems that Zhu Bao did not have this awareness.
As for the reason Zhu Bao said for the weak military strength, Yong Kai knew it was false as soon as he heard it.
Although Yongkai didn't know how many soldiers and horses Zhu Bao had in his hands, his military strength would not be worse than his own, let alone so weak that he could only send two thousand reinforcements.
If the army was really weak, why would Zhu Bao rebel?
But after all, Zhu Bao was not his subordinate, and Zhu Bao still sent reinforcements, so Yong Kai no longer paid attention to this matter.
Zhu Bao's 2,000 soldiers and horses, plus the 6,000 troops he brought this time, totaled 8,000 reinforcements, which was more than enough to defend the city.
After asking about Zhu Bao's movements, Yong Kai asked with concern about the recent movements of Zhuge Liang's army.
Under Yong Kai's questioning, Meng Huo told everything he had observed recently.
"Zhuge Villager's army was stationed ten miles outside the city. According to the report from Erlang who went to investigate, Zhuge Villager ordered the soldiers to rest every day and allowed the soldiers to play games in the army.
Especially on the New Year's Eve some time ago, Zhuge villagers even killed pigs and sheep and feasted with the generals all day long."
During the time when Yong Kai led his army to Qiongdu County, the world had quietly turned around.
It is now the first month of the third year of Zhangwu.
Meng Huo's answer made Gao Ding frown.
This, this, this.
Who is Zhuge Villager looking down on?
After a moment of astonishment, Yong Kai became furious and said angrily: "He actually underestimates our army so much!"
No wonder Yong Kai is so angry. People who are arrogant by nature are most afraid of others being more arrogant than themselves.
But Yong Kai soon noticed something was wrong.
"Could King Meng just sit back and watch Zhuge villagers defeat our military morale like this?"
Zhuge Liang ordered the Han army to live like a vacation outside the city of Qiongdu. This may be a great joy for the Han army.
But after this news spreads in Qiongdu City, it will definitely cause a huge blow to the morale of our own army.
Zhuge Liang almost wrote the word "contempt" directly on the face of every Han soldier.
And if morale is severely damaged, how can it be beneficial to the subsequent defense of the city?
There was a questioning tone in Yong Kai's words, but Meng Huo was not angry at Yong Kai's accusation.
He also knew that he didn't do enough.
But Meng Huo had no choice.
The Yi army was defeated in the First Battle of Bodao. Although this did not cause a big blow to the Yi army in terms of numbers, it made the Yi army somewhat afraid of the Han army led by Zhuge Liang in terms of morale.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! With the morale of the army not restored, Gao Ding and Meng Huo had just suffered a big loss from Zhuge Liang, so of course they wanted to stand still.
Faced with Yong Kai's questioning, Meng Huo had no choice but to respond. After thinking about it, Meng Huo could only say:
"General, I don't know, but there is a white-robed veteran general in the Han army named Zhao Yun. He is as brave as a god and should not be underestimated."
Meng Huo finally attributed his fear of fighting to Zhao Yun.
Seeing Meng Huo mentioning Zhao Yun, he happened to understand the word "gaoding", and his face revealed a look of fear.
The Yi people have grown up with hair, drank blood, and been around ferocious beasts. This not only gives the Yi people a physique like ferocious beasts, but also makes them naturally fearful of the strong.
Obviously, with the bravery Zhao Yun showed that day in front of the two armies, he deserves to be feared by any Yi people.
After Meng Huo mentioned Zhao Yun, even though Yong Kai was fearless, a look of fear appeared on his face.
Zhao Yun's bravery that day had already spread throughout Nanzhong through the mouths of nearly ten thousand Yi people.
However, because he had never faced Zhao Yun's bravery, Yong Kai was only afraid of Zhao Yun.
The existence of Zhao Yun would not make Yong Kai fearful.
Yong Kai did not express his opinion on Zhao Yun, but instead began to think about the information he had just received.
According to what Meng Huo just said, on New Year's Eve, Zhuge Liang rewarded the three armies lavishly to celebrate the New Year.
Yong Kai is also a Han. He certainly knows how important New Year's Eve is to the Han people, so he is not surprised by this.
But at the same time, Yong Kai seemed to have grasped a clue to defeat the Han army.
Today is the tenth day of the first lunar month, and in five days it will be the Lantern Festival.
It is said that the Shangyuan Festival was established during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty to commemorate the "Battle of Execution of Lu".
At that time, Emperor Xiaowen was deeply aware that peace and prosperity were hard-won, so he designated the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which was the day when the "Zhu Lu Rebellion" was quelled, as a day to have fun with the people. On that day, every family would light up lanterns and streamers to celebrate.
Since then, the Shangyuan Festival has been passed down as a traditional festival of the Han people to this day.
Later, during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, the sacrificial activities for "Taiyi God" were scheduled on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Due to Emperor Xiaowu's move, the Shangyuan Festival had an irreplaceable position in the hearts of the Han people.
To this day, in terms of importance, Shangyuan Festival and New Year's Eve are indistinguishable.
So since Zhuge Liang will hold celebrations in the army on New Year's Eve, it is very likely that he will do the same on the Lantern Festival.
And once Zhuge Liang celebrates the Lantern Festival in the army, the Han army will definitely be at its most relaxed on that day.
After a while, Yong Kai had already made various inferences in his mind.
Then Yong Kai couldn't wait to tell Meng Huo his reasoning one by one.
As for why I didn’t tell Gao Ding, it’s because Gao Ding only understands Yi, so it’s useless to tell him.
After Meng Huo heard Yong Kai's judgment, he heard two words from Yong Kai's mouth that surprised him - attack the camp.
Gao Ding saw a look of surprise on Meng Huo's face after listening to Yong Kai's words, so he asked Meng Huo in Yi what Yong Kai had said.
After Meng Huo's report, Gao Ding also knew Yong Kai's intention.
After learning that Yong Kai had plans to attack the camp, a look of surprise appeared on Gao Ding's face.
Before that, he and Meng Huo had planned to hold on to Qiongdude.
When Yong Kai saw that both Gao Ding and Meng Huo were surprised by his plan, he knew that Gao Ding and Meng Huo did not agree with his plan.
But Yong Kai led his troops north this time not just to assist Gaoding in guarding his base camp.
Moreover, Yong Kai believed that based on his analysis, his attack on the camp was very likely to succeed.
Yong Kai knew that he could not persuade Gao Ding, and he did not want to persuade Gao Ding. Yong Kai just looked at Meng Huo and asked him: "Would King Meng be willing to go through this journey with me?"
Yong Kai's inquiry made Meng Huo feel some pressure.
Yong Kai and he were both powerful commanders in Yizhou County, and the reason why one mountain could accommodate two tigers was because the ancestors of the Yong family and the ancestors of the Meng family had long formed a political alliance.
As time went by, the political alliance between the Yong family and the Meng family had already become very close.
Faced with the appointment of his allies, even though he felt that the night attack was a bit risky, Meng Huo could not refuse directly for a while.
When Yong Kai saw the hesitation on Meng Huo's face, Yong Kai, who knew Meng Huo's character well, immediately spoke provocatively: "Did King Meng lose all his courage after being captured by Zhuge villagers once?"
After the news of the Yi army's defeat outside Bodao spread, the news that Meng Huo was captured by Zhuge Liang and then surrendered was also known to many people.
Of course, given Meng Huo's prestige in Nanzhong, others did not become suspicious after learning about this incident.
It's one thing to not be suspicious, but this incident made Meng Huo lose face.
No matter how much Meng Huo learned the culture of the Yi people, he was still influenced by some family knowledge. If he were an authentic Yi people, he would not be ashamed of it, but this is not necessarily the case for Meng Huo.
Seeing Yong Kai mentioning the pain point in his heart, Meng Huo's whole face turned red. He opened his mouth and wanted to defend himself, but in the face of the iron-clad facts, he didn't say any final words of defense.
But under the sense of shame in his heart, Meng Huo's brain suddenly became hot and he said directly to Yong Kai: "I have been in Nanzhong for decades, how can I be afraid of mere night attacks?"
When Meng Huo said this, Yong Kai was overjoyed.
Meng Huo had fallen into his trap.
After Meng Huo agreed to join him in the night attack, Yong Kai became more confident about the Shangyuan Festival night attack.
The soldiers and horses under Meng Huo's command would not be more elite than his, but Meng Huo had several fierce generals under his command. With the help of those fierce generals, the night attack on the Shangyuan Festival would be twice the result with half the effort.
Then Yong Kai discussed with Meng Huo the specific matters of the night attack on the Shangyuan Festival.
As for haute couture, Yong Kai had no intention of involving him in this matter from the beginning. In Yong Kai's heart, he had never believed in haute couture.
Coincidentally, Haute Couture also had the same attitude towards Yong Kai.
Gao Ding saw Yong Kai and Meng Huo on the side and were discussing matters on their own. While he kept drinking, his eyes kept flickering, wondering what kind of plan he was thinking about.
Five days are coming in a blink of an eye.
Soon, the Lantern Festival has arrived.
Early this morning, Yong Kai sent many scouts to investigate outside the Han army's camp.
Although he had previously inferred that Zhuge Liang would celebrate the Lantern Festival, that was just an inference before.
Whether Zhuge Liang will celebrate the arrival of the Lantern Festival today still depends on the scouts' feedback.
After sending out the scouts, Yong Kai kept pacing back and forth nervously in his tent, anxiously waiting for news.
Yong Kai didn't have to wait long. At noon, the scouts he sent came back one after another.
Upon hearing that the scouts had returned, Yong Kai quickly summoned them to inquire about the details of the Han army's camp.
Under Yong Kai's inquiry, the scout said that the Han army's camp was decorated with lights and colorful decorations today. Looking down from the high mountain, there were still bursts of smoke in the Han army's camp.
Moreover, they were so close to the Han army camp that they could even smell the scent of meat.
Yong Kai sent more than one scout, but the intelligence returned by the multiple scouts he sent was basically the same.
This made Yong Kai feel excited.
Sure enough, everything was not as he expected.
The excited Yong Kai immediately summoned Meng Huo. After meeting Meng Huo, Yong Kai shared the information he had found with Meng Huo. Then he laughed and said:
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