War is something that has to change with the changes in the situation on the battlefield, and cannot be based on the original rigid regulations.

So Fa Zheng personally wrote an official document request, and sent someone to immediately send it back to the Youzhou cabinet, and then the entire army simply withdrew directly from the Yangtze River estuary, set up a water village outside the Yangtze River estuary, and waited for the news of the lord and the cabinet.

After Xu Shu received Fazheng's official letter, he urgently discussed with the ministers, but the cabinet ministers had huge differences of opinion, and the faction that supported Fazheng believed that the approach of Fazheng was very right, even if Cao Wei could not be destroyed, the entire Xuzhou could be recovered, and in the future, based on this Xuzhou, the south could cross the river to attack Cao Wei, and the west could outflank Liu Bei.

And the opposing faction also has good reasons, the land under their control is too unformed, it is simply a huge circle, but the core is the chaos of the three families of Cao, Liu and Wu, and now it looks like their territory is vast, but in fact, it is beyond the reach of the whip. If you have to attack Cao Wei, you must give up Jingzhou, and from the current situation, once you give up Jingzhou, the probability of Liu Bei regaining Jingzhou is quite large.

However, judging from the situation in the whole world, Jingzhou must not fall into the hands of Liu Bei, that is, to add wings to the tiger, which will be a huge trouble in the future.

Since Jingzhou can't give up, then on his side, he doesn't have the ability to fight Cao Wei again when dealing with Eastern Wu, he has to eat one bite at a time, and he has to do things one by one, otherwise he will lose sight of one another.

The two sides had their own reasoning, and it was inevitable that there would be another quarrel, and the result was that no one could convince anyone, and it would be embarrassing to use the method of voting by a show of hands to decide this matter, because Tian Feng, an important member of the cabinet, was leading troops outside, and the number of cabinet members was exactly equal, and the result of raising hands was two and one and five.

In such a situation, according to the original rules, it must be reported to the lord for decision. So Xu Shu of the cabinet wrote a detailed report and sent someone directly to Lu Peng on the Yiling front line to make a final decision.

After Lu Peng received the report, he did not hesitate, because he knew the trend of history, Liu Bei would never be able to get Jingzhou back, based on this point of view, Lu Peng wanted to use this opportunity to let Dongwu cut Liu Bei, how could he give up this great opportunity?

However, the east and west attacked Sun Quan, which was also a big plan set at the beginning, and suddenly lost an arm, which really made Lu Peng scratch his head.

I really didn't expect that the Cao-Wu Alliance would be so strong, and Cao Pi's little boy was really deadly, this time the matter was big, and the whole plan was completely disrupted, what should I do?

Seeing that his lord was in a dilemma, the military advisor Pang Tong complained again: "I'll just say you, if you take Yiling early, why bother so much?" ”

Lu Peng glanced at him, no wonder Pang Tong complained that he knew the direction of the result of history, that was because he was a traverser, where did Pang Tong know this result? There is really no way, in the end, Lu Peng had to leak the heavenly secret: "This war between Sun Quan and Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang must have no problem there, with Lu Su and Lu Meng's human ability, he can't beat Zhuge Liang, but Liu Bei is a pig, in the face of Lu Xun, he is absolutely defeated and invincible, I am grinding here, one is to put pressure on Liu Bei, so that he has to attack Xiangfan with all his strength, so as to occupy Jingzhou before I capture Jingzhou, so that I will help Lu Xun force Liu Bei to make mistakes, In order to achieve my goal of weakening Liu Bei's strength. ”

Pang Tong, who suddenly realized, couldn't help but stretch out his hands and give Lu Peng a thumbs up: "The lord's foresight and wisdom are indeed beyond the reach of his subordinates. ”

Being admired by the number one bull in the Three Kingdoms, Lu Peng felt very proud.

"But, my lord, how can you know that Liu Bei will be defeated, once Liu Bei occupies Jingzhou, won't we miss the opportunity?"

Lu Peng said firmly: "Liu Bei will be defeated, I firmly believe in this." ”

Pang Tong patiently admonished: "My lord, it is a good thing to be confident, but too much self-confidence is self-serving, as the lord of a country, this is unacceptable, I must persuade you well." ”

Lu Peng has an easy-going personality, and Pang Tong is arrogant, so when the two of them talk, there is no level of monarchs and ministers at all, more often than not, Pang Tong likes to educate Lu Peng.

For Pang Tong's preaching, Lu Peng really had no excuse, and finally had to be far-fetched: "Liu Bei will be defeated, this is God's will." ”

"How do you know?"

"My ancestors are immortals."

Pang Tong insisted on this: "You pull it down, as far as your background is concerned, it is simply nothing, put gold on your face, and ask all the people in the world, who believes in you?" Don't keep saying that in the future, you'll be laughed at. ”

Lu Peng was completely speechless, and finally had to straighten his chest and slap the table: "I have the final say here, I can fight as I say, you don't chirp with me here, you have that leisure, you still help me solve the matter of Sun Miao in front of me." ”

Pang Tongyi saw that his lord was a little annoyed and angry by himself, so he accepted it when he saw it, or this guy was really anxious and beat himself up, then he would be wronged to death, and he still had to control the balance of advance and retreat.

Since he said this question, he can be regarded as finding a step by himself, so he closed his eyes and thought about it for a while, and finally replied to Lu Peng: "It was too much to let Sun Miao attack Dongwu at the beginning, and I opposed it, but the guys in the cabinet didn't understand it, and obeyed the majority with the minority, and finally rejected my proposal, but Dongwu didn't fight, but set up Cao Wei, a mortal enemy, but it's not too late now, so I simply let Sun Miao retreat, as long as Sun Miao retreats, I think Cao Sun's alliance will collapse immediately, Cao Pi's little son will take advantage of the huge pressure we put on Dongwu and let Dongwu take care of himself, and directly stab Sun Quan in the back to seize more territory. ”

Lu Peng patted his head, but it suddenly became clear, this is really a fan of the authorities: "Yes, we put pressure on Cao Wei, so that he has to stay warm with Sun Quan, once we remove the pressure, Cao Pi will immediately go under the knife against Sun Quan, as the so-called born in sorrow and died in peace, this is the truth." ”

So he replied directly and simply ordered Sun Miao to return to the army, which also saved the fatigue of the soldiers and wasted money and food.

Sun Miao received the order, what he regretted at that time was to stomp his feet again and again, he originally wanted to expand the war, but it backfired, in such a war to destroy the country, he actually became a spectator, which really had a feeling of lifting a stone to hit his own feet, so he couldn't help but complain a few words of Fazheng.

Fa Zheng took the document sent by the cabinet, and after reading it twice, he just smiled indifferently at the complaint of the old general Sun Miao: "It's still the wisdom of the lord, I can't wait." ”

General Sun Miao asked suspiciously: "What can Mr. see from this simple official document?" ”

"I see the lord's thoughts, I see that the lord's mastery of human nature is that I can't wait, as long as we retreat, Cao Pi will inevitably do something to Dongwu, and then he will replace our task, let's wait to see the excitement."

Sun Miao couldn't help but suddenly realize, and was also impressed by the wisdom of Fazheng, everyone is really smart people, and it is not okay if you don't accept it.

"But in that case, wouldn't it strengthen Cao Wei?" Sun Miao was also worried about the lord's thoughts.

Fa Zheng laughed: "No matter how vast the land is, it needs the hearts of the people, how many of Cao Pi's subordinates are loyal to him?" At best, it is only a population of more than 3 million, even if he occupies the largest land, it is a new population that has alienated him from Germany, what help will it be for him, it is just a temporary scenery, as long as we solve Jingzhou, when the time comes, we will free up our strength and make every effort to deal with the Jiangdong land occupied by Cao Pi, who is detached from Germany, it will be just easy. ”

Sun Miao was stunned, so he ordered the whole army to directly pull out the camp and return to Youzhou.

As Pang Tong expected, as soon as Sun Miao's navy left, Cao Pi immediately commanded an army of 100,000 and turned over to kill Dongwu.