Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms podcast.

This is episode 111.

Last time, Zhuge Liang had easily put down the three renegade governors

who had allied with the Nanman barbarians,

and he was marching toward a showdown with the barbarian king, Meng Huo.

But first, he had to deal with three mini-bosses sent by Meng Huo to stop him.

To do this, Zhuge Liang handed out assignments to everyone, except his two best generals,

Zhao Yun and Wei Yan.

Not only that, he repeatedly told their subordinates that he did not dare to send his best two guys

because they were not familiar with the geography.

Oh, that and they were past their prime.

And he said all this while the two of them were standing right there.

Once the meeting broke up, Zhao Yun invited Wei Yan to his tent and said,

The two of us are the vanguard's, and yet the prime minister refused to use us on some excuse about

not being familiar with the terrain.

Him using these youngens is a slap in the face.

Wei Yan agreed.

Let's go scout out the terrain right now.

We will catch some locals and make them tell us about the geography so that we may fight the

enemy and achieve victory. So the two of them rode off along the main path. They had not gone far

when they saw a dust cloud up ahead. They rode to the top of a hill to get a better look,

and from there, they saw a few dozen barbarian soldiers galloping this way.

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