Chapter 6 The Death of Zhuge Liang

Wuzhang was the original Wei army camp

Sima Yi, whose name is Zhongda, he was born in a family and has been smart and knowledgeable since he was a child. He successively assisted Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Rui for three generations of monarchs, and was a meritorious minister of Cao Wei.

Sima Yi is good at strategizing, and is known as a person of deep planning and foresight along with Jiang Ji and Liu Ye. In his early years, Cao Cao, who occupied Hanzhong, persuaded Cao Cao to attack Liu Bei, who had an unstable foothold in Shuzhong, but Cao Cao did not listen at first, and later regretted it, and Liu Bei had stabilized the situation in Shuzhong. During Guan Yu's northern expedition to Jingxiang, Sima Yi and Jiang Ji joined forces to dissuade Cao Cao from moving the capital, and suggested that Sun Quan join forces to attack Guan Yu. Cao Cao gladly accepted, and Sun Quan really sent LΓΌ Meng to attack Jingzhou and capture Guan Yu. It can be said that Sima Yi single-handedly broke the Longzhong strategy of Shu Han and Zhuge Liang to send troops on both sides, and the situation of the Three Kingdoms gradually took shape. With his outstanding performance, Sima Yi won the trust of Cao Wei, gradually entered the core of the government and the opposition, and became the confidant of Cao Pi, the crown prince of Wei, assisting Cao Pi to inherit the throne of Wei smoothly, and finally ascended the throne as emperor.

After Cao Pi ascended the throne, he reused Sima Yi, Cao Pi was outside and Sima Yi stayed inside, just like Liu Bei's trust in Zhuge Liang. Cao Pi died of illness after six years of reign, and on his deathbed ordered the hussar general Sima Yi, the general of the Chinese army Cao Zhen, the general of the Zhenjun army Chen Qun, and the general of the expedition to the east Cao Xiu to assist the new emperor Cao Rui. In this position, Sima Yi exerted his outstanding military talents, especially the most wonderful with a thousand-mile attack to capture the rebel general Meng Da, and also indirectly cut off Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition. After the death of the auxiliary generals Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu successively, Sima Yi took sole control of the military power, and became an important minister above 10,000 people under Cao Wei alone, and began to conquer the south and the north, cultivating two military and political cronies.

However, although Sima Yi had outstanding military talents, it was a pity that he met Zhuge Liang, a thousand-year-old wizard. In the battle against Shu Han, Sima Yi won few victories and lost more, first losing the meritorious general Zhang He, and then Wei Yan, who was sent by Zhuge Liang, was defeated in the field battle and retreated to the camp. However, the scheming Sima Yi soon sensed Zhuge Liang's weakness of insufficient grain and grass and did not dare to take risks easily, and was determined to avoid a head-on confrontation with Zhuge Liang, stick to the camp without a fight, and rely on Wei's vast source of grain and grass to drag down the Shu army. In this regard, Zhuge Liang was indeed helpless, and the Northern Expedition was repeatedly frustrated.

In the blink of an eye, when Zhuge Liang's fifth Northern Expedition, the two armies of Wei and Shu confronted each other in Wuzhangyuan for more than 100 days. Although Zhuge Liang sent people to challenge him many times, Sima Yi repeated his old skills and never came out. Even Zhuge Liang deliberately asked people to bring a set of women's clothes and headscarves to Sima Yi, ridiculing him for being as timid as a woman, but Sima Yi gladly accepted it. Sima Yi learned from the mouth of the envoy of Shu Han that Zhuge Liang had more things to do and less food, and he was overjoyed, so he insisted even more on not fighting, only caring about drinking and laughing with the generals every day, practicing soldiers, and waiting for Zhuge Liang to pursue the Shu army after he died of illness.

On this day, Sima Yi summoned all the generals to come to the meeting, and he sat on the general's seat, patrolling the people left and right. I saw that he had a thin face, raw eagle-nosed harrier eyes, and a scheming and scheming appearance.

Sima Yi said confidently: "Generals, I have been observing the sky at night recently, and I have seen that in the southwest direction, the main star is bright and the guest star is dark. ”

Although everyone didn't understand the gossip of the Book of Changes, they also vaguely heard the meaning, so they were overjoyed: "Southwest direction, isn't it the Shu army?" This is probably fulfilled in Zhuge Liang, I heard that he went out with illness! ”

Sima Yi nodded with satisfaction.

Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, the sons of Sima Yi on the side, stepped forward and said: "Tell the Metropolitan Governor that the Shu army has been closed recently, and combined with what the Metropolitan Governor has seen, Zhuge Liang must be critically ill." Please allow me to go out to battle and defeat the Shu army, right now! ”

Sima Yi thought for a while, and suddenly said in a deep voice, "What if Zhuge Liang's tricks?" Will he deceive me, Your Majesty will let us hold on without a fight. ”

Sima Yi had suffered from Zhuge Liang before, and he was far from being an opponent in a head-on battle. But as long as he sticks to it and doesn't fight, Zhuge Liang is helpless, and he will naturally retreat when he runs out of food.

"Oh, the Metropolitan Governor is always a scheming man, where did so many treacherous tricks come from. Zhuge Liang is also a human being, with all internal organs, what is so terrible. Please give me and my eldest brother 3,000 iron horses, we will lead the army and rush to the Shu army camp, which will be known by a try. Sima Zhao couldn't bear it and muttered, this is a great time in front of him.

"Grand Governor, the young general is right! As soon as Zhuge Liang dies, the Shu army will definitely retreat in chaos, if we sit back and watch the Shu army go calmly, it will be a painful loss of war, and Your Majesty will not be able to explain anywhere! ”

"Yes, yes, Dadu, the brothers have been in the bag for a few months, if they run out of food for the Shu army and force them to retreat, it will not be enjoyable to win. This time, we must beat the Shu army and show the bird's spirit of the past few months! ”

The generals also asked for instructions to fight.

Sima Yi saw that it was difficult to disobey the will of the people, and after thinking about it, he felt reasonable, so he said: "Okay, since you all say so, it's okay." Sima Shi and Sima Zhao listen to orders! ”

"The last general!"

"Let the two of you lead 5,000 elites to Wuzhang Yuan to spy on the truth. If the Shu army does not fight, Zhuge Liang will be seriously ill, and I should take advantage of the situation to enter the army. If the Shu army goes to war, the camera will act and then make a plan. ”

"Obey!"

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