Chapter 578 Zhang Ren is not a human being
Fa Zheng couldn't negotiate with Zhao Hu, so he had to report the situation to Sima Lang, and everything was decided by the temporary principal of the Sima family.
When Sima Lang heard Fa Zheng say that the spy he caught turned out to be Wudu Taishou, a bad feeling suddenly surged in his heart. The other party is too guarded by Wudu, not a cat or a dog, but only with 5,000 infantry to defend the city and capture Zhang Yi's fierce man alive! Since Zhao Hu dared to venture to the state pastoral mansion to spy on the news, he must have a basis, not to mention that he is the identity of Zhao Xing's own brother, just using Zhang Yi's life to blackmail Yizhou, and the Sima family can't really do anything to him.
Worried, Sima Lang came to see Zhao Hu, he said: "The contemptible Shu County is too shou Sima Lang, I have seen Zhao Taishou!"
Zhao Hu bowed his hand in return, and then said: "Sima is too humble, your subordinates are really hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and a Fa Zheng will give me a headache." Now that I have fallen into your hands, we don't need to be pretending to be polite here, you should hurry up and contact Shi Jiawenhe, the Liang Governor in Wudu City, and see how you can understand this matter!"
Seeing that Zhao Hu was so straightforward, Sima Lang stopped talking to him and said directly: "My father has been in a coma in bed for many days now, presumably thanks to Zhao Taishou, please come up with an antidote, as long as my father can wake up, everything is easy to say." ”
Zhao Hu had a dark face, did not save face for Sima Lang at all, and said: "I wonder if Sima Taishou ever remembered that Zhang Yi plotted against me in the city a few months ago?
Sima Lang was questioned by Zhao Hu like this, and his face suddenly showed cruelty, and said: "This matter was done by the second brother Zhongda privately, not the intention of my father and me. Afterwards, we also severely reprimanded him, asking him not to do such a sneaky and vicious thing in the future, and asked Zhao Taishou to ignore his past suspicions!"
Zhao Hu had a sneer on his face and said, "Hmph, if I say that this assassination of Sima Zhou Mu has been merciful, just to retaliate for the assassination of Yizhou last time, how does Sima Taishou feel?"
Sima Lang suddenly stammered, and his face gradually showed a look of concern. Fa Zheng said beside him: "In this case, please also ask Zhao Taishou to stay in the state pastor's mansion for a few days, and wait for us to get in touch with Wudu before deciding on the future." ”
"That's right, I'll live in the governor's mansion, and it's not too late to leave after the news of Sima Yi and Zhang Ren's withdrawal from Wudu comes!" Zhao Hu said in an indifferent tone.
The conversation could not go on at this point, Zhao Hu's purpose was to drag the news of his capture back to Wudu through the team, and Sima Lang's idea was to find out Zhao Hu's true weight in the Jin Kingdom, and then bargain with Zhao Xing.
Just when the city of Chengdu was in chaos because of Sima Fang's assassination, the forces in the direction of Wudu were not idle. The speed of the Shadow Members' actions was obviously faster than Sima's spies, and when the news of Sima Fang's assassination was sent to Wudu by their own means, Jia Xu learned the news a whole day earlier than Sima Yi.
It was the time of this day that caused many things to come true by mistake.
The news that Sima Yi received was naturally not like what the people of Chengdu had heard, Sima Zhoumu had woken up, but that after his father was injured by the assassin, he was poisoned and unconscious, and his life and death were unpredictable!
At that time, Sima Yi had just received a secret letter from Zhang Ren of Fuxian County, mentioning that the Blue Wolf Army had destroyed forests and built rafts in the Shanglu area, and made a gesture of attacking Guanghan County downstream, but according to Zhang Ren's analysis, this was all an illusion made by the Blue Wolf Army, and they definitely did not dare to go deep into the hinterland of Yizhou alone, and the consequences of doing so would only be self-destruction.
If you consider it purely from a military point of view, there is indeed no problem with Zhang Ren's analysis, but if you add the political incident of Sima Fang now being unconscious, then many things must be reconsidered.
If Sima Fang hangs up in a few days, Sima Yi will face the problem of advancing and retreating. He is the second, if Sima Fang suddenly leaves, Yizhou will naturally be ruled by the boss Sima Lang, and his eldest brother is a more conservative and stubborn person, once he takes charge of Yizhou, it is likely that Sima Yi and Zhang Ren will withdraw to Yizhou. And once that time comes, Sima Yi's efforts in the past six months will be in vain, how can he be willing?
The more realistic question is that if Zhang Ren is not of the same heart as himself, or even with Yizhou, will he do something unexpected when Sima Fang is in a coma now?
Sima Yi studied the reasons for Dong Zhuo's defeat and found that he had suffered a total of three losses in the military, except for the first time because Li Dao and Guo Yan underestimated the enemy and were beheaded by the fierce generals Guan Yu and Lu Bu, the other two times were because of improper employment. Lu Bu surrendered by fraud, but Dong Zhuo did not find out, and as a result, he was defeated by Gao Nu again, and he was in a slump from then on; Zhang Xiu responded internally, cut off Dong Zhuo's back road, and never turned over.
Now, Zhang Xiu has come to get close to Zhang Rentao again, climbing the same friendship, which makes Sima Yi feel more and more bottomless.
Just when Sima Yi began to have doubts about Zhang Ren, the Blue Wolf Army suddenly really moved, and the army went down the river, rode a large number of rafts to Guanghan County, and actually broke into the territory of Yizhou! And Zhang Ren was indifferent during the whole operation of the Blue Wolf Army, and still stubbornly defended the county, which made Sima Yi feel that Zhang Ren really had a problem.
In fact, the Blue Wolf Army was really just like Zhang Ren speculated, just making a lot of noise, and did not really want to attack Jiameng Pass in one go, regardless of life or death, but only probed into the corner of Guanghan County, and quickly retreated from the land.
It's just that Zhang Xiu's military feint happened to coincide with one thing in terms of time - that is, Zhao Hu and they had released rumors in Chengdu that the army of Liangguo was about to enter Yizhou along the Western Han River. Zhang Xiu's army did indeed break into Yizhou, although it was only operating on the border of Guanghan, close to Wudu, but it was enough to confirm the accuracy and credibility of this information.
When Sima Lang in Chengdu received an urgent report from Guanghan Taishou, his first reaction was what Zhang Ren wanted to do? Why did he watch the Blue Wolf Army break into the territory of Yizhou and be indifferent? Could it be that he was to support his second brother Sima Yi, and he was afraid that he would lead the army back to defend and be taken away from it, so he would rather watch the Blue Wolf Army offend Yizhou than be indifferent?
Sima Lang even thought of a more terrible situation, the second brother Sima Yi in order to snatch power with himself, had already secretly bought Zhang Ren, this time I heard that his father was unconscious, so he teamed up with Zhang Ren to start a new stove, and deliberately put the army of Liangguo into Yizhou, wanting to use the enemy's hand to weaken the power in the direction of the city......
Sima Yi suspected that Zhang Ren and Zhang Xiu were not clear, Sima Lang suspected that Zhang Ren and Sima Yi were not clear, but Zhang Ren, who was loyal to his duties, did not know at all. Do you say that he provoked anyone, and in the end ended up in a situation where both ends are not human?