The news of the discovery of the traces of the Wei army in the northern mountains and forests of Nanyang County reached Liu Feng's ears less than a day later, and this rather unexpected discovery did not disrupt Liu Feng's position, but made Liu Feng's already somewhat restless heart gradually cool down.

When there was no news about the Wei army before, Liu Feng really had no way to guess where they would go in the future, but at this time, he found traces of the Wei army north of Nanyang, and the direction was mostly from west to east, which gave Liu Feng a lot of possibilities for him to analyze, and secretly decided in his heart that after this battle, if he could really hold Jingzhou intact, he must reward Deng Ai heavily, Liu Feng came to the front of the topographic map of Jingzhou, looked at the terrain found by Deng Ai, and slowly fell into contemplation.

For half a day, Liu Feng was pondering in front of the map, and the possible attack routes of Sima Yi appeared clearly in his mind, and the second news sent by Wancheng after half a day made Liu Feng ecstatic, and the person who came to report this time was Deng Ai, who discovered the matter.

Deng Ai, who led a thousand cavalry to the mountain forest, returned to Wancheng after spending less than two hours exploring, and informed Zhao Yun of his discovery.

After a simple salute, Liu Feng directly brought Deng Ai to the map where he had been staying for half a day, and asked Deng Ai to inform him of his findings in detail.

"Your Majesty, after my investigation with the defenders of Wancheng last night, I found that within two days, when no less than 30,000 Wei troops passed through that dense forest, in order to cover their whereabouts, they should all travel lightly, without horses, and there are special people behind to cover up the footprints and other traces left by their passing, at least there are almost no traces left on the periphery of the forest, if the lord did not send Ai to survey and map the terrain in Nanyang County, this march of the Wei State would never have been discovered!"

Liu Feng smiled and waved his hand after hearing this, although Deng Ai's stuttering problem has been greatly improved compared with when he just arrived in Yizhou from Yingchuan, but this somewhat flattering words came out of his mouth, which still made Liu Feng can't help but show some smiles on his face, Deng Ai's mind is very simple, after saying these words, seeing Liu Feng's expression, he himself lowered his head with a red face.

Liu Feng naturally didn't care about these details, he just pointed to the map and drew a circle, and asked: "In Shizai's opinion, where does this Wei army want to go, and what is its purpose?" It's just you and me here, what do you think, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

With Liu Feng's last calm words of encouragement, the tension in Deng Ai's heart subsided by half, if Liu Feng is judged by his age, he is not much older than himself, but Liu Feng's momentum is not angry and powerful, but Deng Ai is very impressed, he has a faint feeling in his heart, under Liu Feng's command, he will definitely be able to complete his childhood dream.

Regarding the whereabouts of the Wei army discovered this time, Deng Ai has been secretly speculating in his heart since he found out about this, and at this time Liu Feng asked, he did not spend time thinking about it, and directly said what he thought in his heart.

According to the minister's opinion, the number of this group of Wei troops is not very large, but it is from west to east, according to the time they set out from Yecheng and the number of the army, most of them are in a place close to my Jingzhou to divide the troops, and their target, naturally, can only be Jiangxia, thirty or forty thousand troops, although compared with the number of Jiangxia defenders has a slight advantage, but it is impossible to capture Jiangxia in one fell swoop, so the minister speculated that most of this small group of sergeants is just Sima Yi wants to use it as a feint, and their goal is not Jiangxia, but somewhere else! ”

Deng Ai said while pointing with his hand on the map hanging on the wall, and after Liu Feng listened, he also fell into silence, and after a while, he spoke again.

"Did Na Shizai ever think that since these 30,000 men and horses were for feints, what was their real goal? Sima Yi has a total of 300,000 men and horses, and the number of 30,000 is only one-tenth of it. ”

Deng Ai didn't expect Liu Feng's thinking to be so unique, but when he thought about Liu Feng's words carefully, he found that Liu Feng's words were very possible, after all, there were as many as three locations for Sima Yi to choose, if he really sent two suspicious troops to feint, and when Liu Feng transferred all the mobile forces from Xiangyang and then attacked his real target with heavy troops, Liu Feng wanted to return to help, but it would probably be too late.

"This ...... The minister did not think of ......"

At this moment, he knew that he still had a long way to go before he could really become a general who could take charge of himself under Liu Feng's command, and he secretly thought to himself in his heart, if he sat in Liu Feng's position at this moment, most of them would stand still when these soldiers attacked Jiangxia, but once the Wei army attacked the next place, he would definitely go out to rescue with all his might, and in this way, it was indeed very likely that he would fall into Sima Yi's strategy, and the result was, Jingzhou will almost certainly not be able to hold it.

Liu Feng glanced at Deng Ai, who looked lost, and did not say anything to blame, in Deng Ai's experience and age, it was impossible to think of the things that these people who had experienced so many battles thought in their hearts, and what Liu Feng said to Deng Ai before was also the conclusion he had reached in the past half a day.

The reason why Liu Feng suspected that Sima Yi had more than one group of suspicious soldiers was precisely because Sima Yi was likely to have a total of 300,000 horses, and to capture an important city at one time, it was enough for hundreds of thousands of horses to besiege the city, even so, he only sent 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers for feints, this proportion was indeed a bit low, according to this, Liu Feng judged in his heart that Sima Yi must have another group of suspicious soldiers, and most of them were about to be arranged at this time.

"Shizai don't have to be discouraged, soldiers, treacherous ways, Sima Yi is a person who knows this way, when you fight with him a few times, you can think of some things that you can't think of now, this time, if you don't notice the suspicious soldiers of the Wei army, we don't even know that the Wei army has suspicious soldiers, so if you can really crush its plan this time, Shizai is still a great merit!"

For a young man like Deng Ai, Liu Feng naturally couldn't just let him know the cruelty of the battle, if there was no words of encouragement, Deng Ai's temperament would be easy to fall into defeat.