Liu Hou's arrival did not cause too many waves in the fleet, and in order to avoid trouble, the emperor's personal conquest was kept strictly secret, and only the sailors on the flagship of the Duke obviously felt that the battleship was much more heavily guarded. They found that there were many guards with new faces in the flagship, and all of these guards were muscular and imposing, and they looked like they were experienced in battle.

The point is that these new face guards are all mouthwateringly well-equipped, and the sailors have only seen that much of the equipment in the special forces. A regiment of special forces? Are there so many special forces in the Han army? Could it be that the emperor saw that General Guan's attack was unfavorable, so he deliberately transferred the special forces of all armies to help General Guan open up the situation?

No matter what those sailors thought, Liu Hou was now sitting firmly on the main seat of the bridge, holding a royal meeting with a group of generals. Ordinary sailors did not know about the arrival of the emperor, but the high-ranking generals still knew.

Liu Hou first listened carefully to Guan Gong's account of the battle situation, especially about the encirclement arranged by the Eastern Wu naval army in front. Although he received the battle report in Jingzhou and knew that the Dongwu people had set a trap in front of him, he did not know much about the specific situation.

Now, while listening to Guan Gong's report, while comparing the combat map, he quickly understood the situation clearly. After listening to Guan Gong's narration, Liu Hou also had a little headache, the people of Eastern Wu put on such a big scene, it is not that they cannot be defeated, you know, the Han army is not a veteran soldier who cannot fight a tough battle, but if you enter the encirclement and fight them hand-to-hand, both sides will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

And the last thing Liu Hou wants to see is too many casualties among the Han Chinese. How can we achieve victory without too many casualties? It's a real headache. Then, he listened to Zhuge Wang's report again. Zhuge Wang's report was the battle plan drawn up by the General Staff Department in the past few days. After listening to everyone's reports, Liu Hou began to ask about countermeasures:

"Sima Aiqing, do you have any good plans to break the encirclement of Dongwu?"

In addition to the Imperial Forest Army with a regiment, Liu Hou also accompanied many officials, the most important of which were Sima Yi and Guo Youzhi. Although Zhuge Liang is the first military division in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in fact, he is longer than internal affairs, and as the prime minister, he has to take care of everything.

Liu Hou, the emperor, is actually a hands-off shopkeeper, and most of the major affairs of the court and politics are still handled by Zhuge Liang, just like the division of labor between Adou and Zhuge Liang in history. However, when encountering important events, Zhuge Liang will still ask Liu Hou for instructions. He was so busy, of course Liu Hou couldn't take him on the expedition.

The "Three Stinkers" group that shined in the Wei Dynasty was officially disbanded, Deng Zhi is actually better at government affairs, and he is really not very good at war strategies, especially some shady tricks, who wants him to be a humble gentleman.

Needless to say, Buqi was originally a minister of Eastern Wu, and when he returned to Liu Hou before, he said that he would not participate in the war against Wu, so he also stayed in the court with Deng Zhi to help Zhuge Liang deal with the government.

In the end, only Guo Youzhi was left of the "three stinkers", and he still followed Liu Hou on the expedition. Guo Youzhi can be said to be one of Liu Hou's most trusted people, following Liu Hou all the way to the east and west, and he is now serving as Shangshuling, helping Liu Hou deal with all clerical issues.

To put it bluntly, Liu Hou is the president, and he is the secretary general, so basically he follows Liu Hou wherever he goes. Of course, he did not follow the emperor to enjoy happiness, but to meet all the emperor's requirements at any time.

In this sense, his role is similar to that of the chief of the eunuchs. The difference is that the chief eunuch has to meet the emperor's daily life and some personal requirements anytime and anywhere, while Guo Youzhi has to carry out and supervise the implementation of the emperor's orders in political affairs, or state affairs.

Shang Shuling is an inner court position, and has not completely departed from the Shaofu sequence, so the grade is not high, as for the power, it depends on whether the emperor gives it to you. Like Guo Youzhi, who has the power to do things, and almost all the emperor's orders are issued through him, the power is terrifying.

Because of this, although his grade is not high, no one in the court dares to underestimate him, and almost everyone wants to slap him, at least no one dares to offend him.

Who wants people to see the emperor almost every day, if one day people say a few good words in front of the emperor, maybe they will be able to fly Huang Hongda and soar into the sky. In the same way, if he crooked his mouth in front of the emperor that day and said bad things about someone, then someone would be unlucky.

Sima Yi was also given an official position by Liu Hou as a scholar, but it was not a real position. Originally, there was only one Shangshu Ling, who was the one who "led the Shangshu Affairs", but after the chaos in the world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, not only the general's title was rotten, but even the official position was rotten.

In order to entrap their subordinates, those princes took the names of some miscellaneous generals at every turn, such as rebellious generals, broken generals, military generals, town army generals, etc. Similarly, for civil officials, it is also a casual division of official positions.

This is the same reason as the managers of later generations are flying all over the sky. In later generations, even a small salesman will be named a manager, even if he has just graduated for two days, and there is no one under his control, the title of a certain manager will be printed when printing business cards.

If you don't have the name of a manager, you are embarrassed to hand your business card to others, and if you don't have the name of a manager, you are embarrassed to come out to run business and talk business.

After the chaos in the world, the princes of all families no longer disregarded the original system, and they could all focus on arbitrarily sealing their official positions. Liu Hou is no exception, for some officials who have just taken refuge and whose loyalty is still difficult to determine, they are also given some vacant positions, so that they can enjoy treatment, but they have no power. Sima Yi was unfortunate enough to enjoy this kind of treatment.

There is no way, who wants their Sima family to be so "famous" in history, even if they are at ease with anyone, Liu Hou does not dare to rest assured of Sima Yi. However, Sima Yi is indeed very talented, and it would be too violent to waste it if he put it there like this.

So Liu Hou still called him over from time to time to ask him about the plan and let him come up with ideas. To put it bluntly, Sima Yi is now equivalent to the role of a consultant, just ask if you can take care of it, forget it if you can't take care of it, as for power, I'm sorry, no!

Sima Yi lost the right to do things, although he was dissatisfied, but he also understood that he was now equivalent to sending people under the fence, he was a minister of the dead country, and it would be good to be able to live, so he didn't dare to complain, but every time Liu Hou consulted him about something, he obediently cooperated and tried his best to help the emperor plan.

Of course, no one knows what he thinks in his heart, whether he will completely succumb to the Tianwei of the Great Han and the Little Emperor, or whether he wants to gain the emperor's appreciation as soon as possible by performing well, so as to return to power? No one knows about this, after all, this person's mind is too deep for anyone to see through him.

But Liu Hou knew very well what was terrible about this person or this family, so he had an attitude from beginning to end: this person can be used, but he has to be guarded against. Therefore, Sima Yi has been used by him in the position of consultant.

In this personal expedition, Zhuge Liang, Deng Zhi and other ministers were busy with political affairs, and Liu Hou lacked top advisers around him, so he brought him over as a military adviser. However, Sima Yi is indeed very talented, and his military ability is no worse than Zhuge Liang, Lu Xun and others, and he is fully qualified for this work.

ps. Everyone said that I hadn't seen Liu Hou appear for a long time, so I had to dig him out and make an appearance. There's no way, it's impossible to do everything yourself as an emperor, especially for something as dangerous as a war, where is it possible to go into battle in person, if the real emperor rushes to the front line to fight, it must be unreasonable. So this kind of emperor Wen must be in the limelight when he arrives at the back, and the pig's feet are refrigerated for a long time.