Chapter 201 The Prince of Peace of Mind

As mentioned last time, Deng Zhi originally entered Xiangyang to persuade Sima Yi to return to the Han Dynasty, but who knew that Sima Yi found that someone was eavesdropping outside the window, not only rejected Deng Zhi's solicitation, but also gave a war letter to Shu on the spot, and made an appointment for a decisive battle the next day.

Tonight is destined to be sleepless, and the monarchs and ministers of Shu State discussed the response plan all night, no matter how good the three stinkers and Liu Hou's head is, they can't understand Sima Yi's intentions. In the end, he can only adopt the strategy of responding to all changes with the same, he wants to fight, then fight, after all, the combat power of the Hong army is there, no matter how you fight, you don't have to be afraid of them, as the so-called soldiers will block the water to cover the earth, what are you afraid of them doing?

The only pity is that Sima Yi's family members who came to Sima Yi at a great cost did not play their due role. Now there is no way but to fail this operation.

However, even if he felt that Sima Yi's family had lost his role, Liu Hou did not plan to kill them now, Liu Hou was not addicted to killing, and maybe after defeating the Wei army, if Sima Yi could be captured alive, then these people would still have a role. So, Liu Hou still provided them with good food and shelter as before.

Sima Yi couldn't sleep tonight, so he hurried to see the eunuch, expressed his loyalty to Cao Pi again, and successfully won the eunuch's trust with the rhetoric of launching a decisive battle tomorrow.

After meeting the eunuch, he didn't sleep either, he thought about a lot of things and arranged a lot of things. Although the plan had been decided when he declared war on Deng Zhi, the time was very rushed, and many details had not been thought out clearly, and now it was necessary to improve the plan in the same way, plugging all the loopholes that might appear in each link, so as to be seamless.

Maybe the best sleep tonight is the eunuch Wang Gonggong sent by Cao Pi, on the surface he came to the labor army, but he only took half a day to bring dozens of wine from the labor army, a dozen pigs and sheep sent down, said a word of encouragement that is not salty or light, and hastily ended the whole process of the labor army.

As for how to divide such a little thing among the more than 200,000 troops, it is none of his business, he has another responsibility, he has the responsibility of monitoring Sima Yi, which is the biggest purpose of his trip. If you want to monitor a metropolitan governor with an army of more than 200,000 people, you must have some reliance in your hands, and the prince's reliance is not Shang Fang's sword, but a secret decree comparable to Shang Fang's sword.

Once it is found that Sima Yi has traces of rebellion, the prince can sacrifice this secret decree given by Cao Pi, seize his military power, and take his head. The prince who thought that he had the power of life and death came to Xiangyang was not very prestigious, showing off his might everywhere, extorting and blackmailing, and he did not pretend to Sima Yi, and beat him between words, so that Sima Yi was not depressed.

If it is an ordinary person, it can only be depressed, and it can only be secretly hated, although it is very important to cut off the head of this eunuch as a urinal, but on the surface it has to be dealt with carefully. Sima Yi also dealt with it carefully, but he got a lot of information from the timing of this eunuch and his attitude, especially after learning that his family was captured by Shu, he instantly strung everything together and figured out the cause and effect of the whole thing.

The point is, he guessed that the eunuch sent by the emperor must have a sharp weapon against him, as long as he has a little bit of something wrong to deal with, I am afraid that he will suffer. Therefore, he was unprecedentedly thoughtful in his hospitality to this eunuch, and in the court, he could be disdainful of the "three dukes", and he did not have a good face in the face of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, but now he is offering to this eunuch like his own father.

Since he came, he has been waiting for him to eat and live well, and his attitude towards him is extremely respectful, taking him to eat, drink and have fun, and he also gave him a lot of gold, silver and jewelry to bribe him.

However, the prince is a loyal person to the king, otherwise Cao Pi would not have sent him, although Sima Yi served him well, but he never forgot his task, he was still always on guard against Sima Yi, and was always ready to take out the secret decree that could decide the life and death of people, and take down this governor. Until the moment when Sima Yi announced in front of Deng Zhi that he was going to fight a decisive battle with the Shu army, his heart was completely relaxed.

Before, the prince was enjoying a massage of several beauties in the backyard, and suddenly learned that Shu sent someone to see Sima Yi, so he immediately put aside the charming beauties that Sima Yi gave him, and ran to the window of the reception room to eavesdrop on the conversation between Deng Zhi and Sima Yi.

At the beginning, when he heard that Deng Zhi was trying his best to win over Sima Yi, he was very anxious, especially when Deng Zhi threw out that Shu had mastered Sima Yi's family, he was so anxious that he almost wanted to call someone to take Sima Yi.

Fortunately, things took a turn for the worse, and Sima Yi not only resolutely refused the pull of Shu, but also issued a war letter to the little emperor of Shu on the spot, agreeing to fight tomorrow. The heart of the prince hanging outside finally swallowed back into his stomach.

What made him even more reassuring was that as soon as Sima Yi finished his meeting with Deng Zhi, he came to him to report to him, and told him the details of the meeting with Deng Zhi without concealing it at all.

Because he was eavesdropping outside the window, he knew very well about the conversation between the two, which made him sure that Sima Yi really didn't hide anything from him.

Of course, what he didn't know was that Sima Yi had long known that he was eavesdropping outside the window, and he knew that he couldn't hide this matter from him, so he had to be so frank and frank to win his favor and trust. How can a eunuch who rarely leaves the palace be the opponent of an old fox like Sima Yi?

Wang Gonggong was very relieved that Sima Yi could confess to himself, which also made him trust him completely, and his heart that had been hanging for many days finally let go, so he slept soundly tonight, and it was the most soundly slept day since he left Beijing.

As for the other thing that Sima Yi proposed, he didn't care about going out of the city tomorrow to fight to the death with the Shu army. He is only responsible for examining Sima Yi's loyalty, he just needs to confirm that Sima Yi has no resentment, as for military things, he doesn't understand and doesn't want to care. So when Sima Yi invited him to go out of the city with him tomorrow to attack the Shu army camp, he didn't agree.

Of course, he refused to go out of the city to fight with the army, in addition to not understanding military affairs, he still had a little caution, that is, he was afraid of death. He thought it would be safer to hide in Xiangyang City, where the walls were thick.

There is really no need for him to risk the arrow to rob any military merits, as long as he can do a good job of supervising Sima Yi, it is already a great achievement, no matter how great the military merits are, it is useless to him, but there is a possibility of being suspicious of Cao Pi.

So, he told Sima Yi that the Metropolitan Governor personally led the troops to battle, and Xiangyang City still lacked a person to defend the city, so it was better to let himself stay in Xiangyang City and help the Metropolitan Governor defend the base camp.

For his request, Sima Yi naturally did not refuse, so Sima Yi took a decree to him, giving him the power to be responsible for the defense of Xiangyang City. So, holding the talisman, he could finally sleep peacefully.

Compared with his restful sleep, the camps of the Shu army and the Wei army were brightly lit all night, and the men and horses on both sides were actively preparing for the next day's battle.