At present, Liu Feng can only be sure of one thing, that is, the commander of the troops this time has been replaced by Yang Xiu, who has suffered defeat, to Sima Yi, who is the best at leading troops in Wei State, and other things such as the time of the Wei army's troops, where to attack Liu Feng, and the number of troops are not known, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of Liu Feng and his subordinates to deploy defenses.

After getting the news, Liu Feng also pondered and meditated alone for some time, and also had some thoughts in his heart, so he gathered the most trusted military generals under his command to the front, wanting to listen to their opinions, after all, Sima Yi is not Yang Xiu, and he will not let them lead the nose step by step, in the case of several times less troops than the Wei army, this battle is undoubtedly much more difficult than the last time.

Pang Tong heard that Liu Feng was the first to ask himself, and he was also very cautious, and after a long time, he brushed his short beard and looked at everyone: "Since Cao Zhi chose to trust Sima Yi again this time, he will not set up many obstacles for Sima Yi in the march, so Sima Yi must be dominant in this expedition, and throughout the past few years, Sima Yi must have been unexpected whenever he uses troops, and there are many victories and defeats. ”

Speaking of this, Pang Tong looked at Liu Feng with a smile, the reason why he said this was nothing more than to explain to his companions in front of him how difficult Sima Yi was to deal with, not to belittle Liu Feng, at this time, seeing that Liu Feng was still listening carefully, he continued his analysis.

"Therefore, the minister thinks that Sima Yi will probably not be as fanfare as Yang Xiu led the army last time, and was discovered by our army early, even if he also led an army of 300,000 to come, most of them will turn the 300,000 army into zero, sneak into the depths of our Jingzhou, and then suddenly launch, and then use the advantage of troops to catch our army off guard, so to do a good job of guarding Wancheng, Shangyong, and even Yangpingguan in Hanzhong, it is the top priority of our wait, and we must not sit firmly in Wancheng and wait for Sima Yi's arrival."

Pang Tong's reminder made Liu Feng bow his head again and again. Indeed, before he thought of doing a good job of guarding Wancheng and the mediocre land that is not far away, but he did not think that Sima Yi might attack from Yangping Pass, although Yangping Pass is guarded by the old general Huang Zhong, but after all, everyone's attention is focused on Jingzhou where Liu Feng is the emperor, and Huang Zhong has gradually shown an old state in the past two years, Liu Feng is not at ease and has let Yan Pu, who has always been strict and knows Hanzhong well, and Huang Zhong guard Yangping Pass together, which must be strengthened this time.

"In addition, we should not blindly defend passively, I have discussed with Gong Jin, General Meng Qi and others before, but I have not yet made your majesty, since I have received the news at this time, it is imperative for Sima Yi to send troops to attack us, it is better to send General Meng Qi and his cavalry to Wancheng to assist General Zilong in the near future, and send a large number of cavalry north of Wancheng to patrol every day, in order to be able to find Sima Yi's traces at the first time."

This matter is indeed something that Pang Tong and Zhou Yu thought of early on, but today's enthronement ceremony of Liu Feng has just ended less than a month, so the two of them don't want to use such a thing to disturb Liu Feng at this time, but since Liu Feng took the initiative today, Pang Tong naturally pushed the boat to say this.

Such a cautious approach, Liu Feng naturally has no reason to disagree, not to mention that Ma Chao's cavalry has almost no role in the watery places in the south, and can only play the greatest role in the terrain where there are mostly plains north of Wancheng, Ma Chao listened to Pang Tong's words, and his face showed a touch of joy, looking at Liu Feng waiting for his decision.

In these matters, Liu Feng has always been a resolute person, and immediately ordered Ma Chao to prepare, and the next day he led 10,000 cavalry to Wancheng to help Zhao Yun, this time, Ma Chao's cavalry is equivalent to Wancheng's eyes, whether he can find Sima Yi's traces first, almost all of them are in Ma Chao.

After receiving the order, Ma Chao did not feel difficult, but thanked Liu Fengqian for his kindness, and was able to go to the closest place to the enemy, which made Ma Chao very excited. And during this trip, Liu Feng specially asked Ma Chao to let Deng Ai, who was appointed as the Zhonglang general, go with him, although Ma Chao was a little puzzled, but still did it.

After that, Liu Feng discussed with everyone again, and arranged the defense of Shangyong and Xiangyang in detail, and then everyone dispersed. Liu Feng knew that under the situation of unclear enemy situation, it was absolutely impossible to do those arrangements that were too targeted, and once the situation did not develop according to their arrangements in the end, it would cause them great passivity.

Therefore, he decided to wait for some news, and then make a detailed decision, what the ministers didn't know was that when Liu Feng had just defeated Yang Xiu, Li Chuang had already led almost half of the shadow guards to Luoyang, and then sneaked into the vicinity of Yecheng, what he did was to let Liu Feng know some of the movements of Wei first, judging from the current situation, Li Chuang still completed the task given to him by Liu Feng very well, and the news of what happened in Wei almost reached Liu Feng's ears at the fastest speed.

On Liu Feng's side, he was staring closely at what was happening in the Wei State, and in Yecheng, Sima Yi, who had just been reinstated by Cao Zhiguan and regained military power, was thinking about something in the palace at this time.

Just after the court on this day, Cao Zhi found Sima Yi, and in addition to asking how he was preparing for the expedition, he also told Sima Yi a piece of news, which made Sima Yi quite unhappy in his heart.

It turned out that what Cao Zhi told Sima Yi was that he had summoned Cao Zhang, the obedient cavalry general who had been defending against Wuhuan on the northern border for several years, and had almost attacked Wuhuan, according to Cao Zhang's report, he could reach Yecheng within three days, according to Cao Zhi, this time he recalled Cao Zhang, and the person who did it was to use Cao Zhang as Sima Yi's deputy.

Sima Yi knew that Cao Zhang's arrival as a deputy could make the Wei army more powerful, but in fact, he was replacing Yang Xiu's position as the supervisor of the army.

Cao Zhangnai is Cao Zhi's brother, and since childhood and Cao Zhi friends, in the process of Cao Zhi and Cao Pi competing for the position of the lord of Wei, Cao Zhang's actions are also very satisfactory to Cao Zhi, plus Cao Zhi succeeded Cao Cao, Cao Zhang immediately asked for orders to suppress Wuhuan, and rarely returned to Yecheng for several years, these are enough to show Cao Zhang's loyalty to Wei, and these years of time, but also successfully won Cao Zhi's trust, this time Yang Xiu was excluded from the army by Sima Yi, Cao Zhi thought about it, and finally thought of his brother.