The matter has come to this, even if Cao Zhi regrets it in his heart, it is already irreversible, all he looks forward to is Liu Feng not to find out that this matter is led by him, otherwise the trace of affection he has accumulated with Liu Feng over the years will also disappear because of this matter.

"Those three people are dead soldiers, there is no mark, and they will not be betrayed on the line, the lord can rest assured, the reason why he worked hard to find these three dead soldiers is because no matter whether this matter is successful or not, there will be no worries, although the lord can rest assured, according to Yi's opinion, even if there is no harm to Liu Feng's wife this time, it will turn Liu Feng into a frightened bird, whether it succeeds or not, it will make Liu Feng have a trace of fear in his heart, and in the case that Liu Feng can't find the enemy, most of them will be counted on Zhuge Liang, and the lord doesn't have to worry."

Obviously, Sima Yi also thought a lot when he was looking for the three dead soldiers, he could attack and retreat and defend, whether he succeeded or not, he would clear himself and Cao Zhi, at least if Liu Feng calculated in his heart, Cao Zhi was the most unlikely candidate.

Cao Zhi listened to it, and nodded again and again, Sima Yi did almost a drop of water in this matter, but it made him secretly relieved that he was originally apprehensive, but what Sima Yi, who was extremely confident at this time, did not expect that because of the little negligence of the three dead soldiers he was looking for, he said words with a Yingchuan accent under the supervision of Li Chuang and other shadow guards, which made all his original thoughts in his heart come to naught.

On the surface, just as Sima Yi judged, Liu Feng did not return to Chengdu in a hurry because of the affairs in Chengdu, but still stayed in Jingzhou, so that Liu Feng also had the intention to show Zhuge Liang, if Liu Feng returned to Chengdu after seizing Xiangyang, it naturally shows that the possibility of Liu Feng continuing to advance eastward is very small, which will give Zhuge Liang a lot of opportunities, so Liu Feng's stay in Jingzhou will intensify the tension in Zhuge Liang's heart, and Liu Feng's purpose, It is to make Zhuge Liang quickly compete with Sun Quan for Jiangdong in the shadow of Liu Feng's imminent seizure of Jiangxia.

Now the situation on the land of the Central Plains is becoming clearer and clearer, if you want to seek a trace of stability under the attack of Cao Zhi and Liu Feng, you need to get the whole territory of Jiangdong, and rely on Jiangdong to deploy defenses, waiting for a big battle between Liu Feng and Cao Zhi, only in this way can you have a chance.

Compared with Sun Quan, Zhuge Liang is congenitally deficient, but through his own mind, he has already taken the lead in the competition with Sun Quan for Jiangdong, although it is not enough to say that Sun Quan is a piece of meat on a felt board waiting for Zhuge Liang to dispose of at will, but if Lu Xun and Lu Meng are still at a loss for Zhuge Liang's plan after the competition with Zhuge Liang, then the foundation of Jiangdong will fall in the hands of Sun Quan is not far away.

Liu Feng didn't care about the victory or defeat between Zhuge Liang and Sun Quan, what he wanted was to first obtain the Jiangxia land, which was also very important on the territory of Jingzhou, and then rely on Xiakou to develop his own naval forces.

At this time, Zhuge Liang did know what Liu Feng was thinking, but he was also very helpless in his heart, and now Liu Feng, after using Jiaozhou to seize Yizhou, was out of control, and it was no longer within Zhuge Liang's reach, and this initial geographical advantage was also won by Liu Feng when Liu Bei died in a hurry, which couldn't help but make Zhuge Liang feel a sense of powerlessness, one wrong step, one wrong step, at this time it is used to describe the struggle between Zhuge Liang and Liu Feng is no better, in the land of four wars, Zhuge Liang has been able to maintain his power so far, which is already a very remarkable achievement, and as for going up to the next level, it is really not something that can be achieved by manpower.

Liu Feng's stay in Jingzhou, coupled with the fact that he had just lost Xiangyang, forced Zhuge Liang to gather all the generals under his command again to discuss what to do next.

At this time, Xiakou is shouldering the same heavy responsibility as Xiangyang before, and this time, even Guan Yu, who went deep into Jiangdong's expedition, also returned to Xiakou, which shows how much Zhuge Liang attaches importance to his next step.

Up to now, Liu Feng has forced Zhuge Liang all the way, and he has also been forced to a big crossroads, and the decision that he didn't have to make so urgently before has become something that must be done at this time, otherwise, it is likely to be a fiasco that demoralizes him completely.

This crossroads is now that Zhuge Liang has won the land of the Lujiang River, and next, whether to go east to take Sun Quan's power center Wu County and directly attack Jianye, or go all the way to the south to obtain the land of Yuzhang and Luling County, where Sun Quan's troops are not well defended.

These two plans, the process and the results achieved are very different, Zhuge Liang has also secretly speculated in his heart for many days, and now when it is time to make a decision, he still summoned everyone to come to see the opinions of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others, after all, this time it was not his active decision, but passive.

Directly take Wu County, the distance is relatively short, and if you can succeed in one fell swoop, capture or kill Sun Quan, then the rest of the Jiangdong territory belongs to Zhuge Liang, but at the same time it is also very dangerous, most of the Jiangdong naval army is protected around Jianye, where Sun Quan is located, and the precautionary nature is that Zhuge Liang will one day suddenly march into Jianye, if it is eastward, Zhuge Liang will definitely send all the troops he can send, this is obviously a hammer deal, it has become, Jiangdong is all owned by him, not successful, this drama of the troubled times has nothing to do with Zhuge Liang, and he will also withdraw from the stage of history.

According to Zhuge Liang's prior understanding and investigation, if he invests enough troops, these two counties will definitely be able to be taken, but the only problem is that after taking these two counties, he can only use a step-by-step strategy to destroy Sun Quan, he doesn't know how much energy Sun Quan will burst out when he is about to be defeated, and he doesn't know how much time Liu Feng or even Cao Zhi will give himself to complete the campaign to destroy Jiangdong, if it takes too long, Zhuge Liang knew that once Liu Feng's navy became the climate, then when he captured Jiangdong, it would probably be the day when Liu Feng waved his army eastward.

This kind of pros and cons, today Zhuge Liang uncharacteristically introduced it to the generals under his command above the court, and then looked at everyone to see how they thought about it.