Liu Biao hid in Jiangling City and watched the people inside and outside Jingzhou perform happily, and his feelings in his heart were very complicated. He suddenly remembered that when he was young, he was mixed in Luoyang He Jin Mansion, looking at the faces of others, and carefully climbing up in the past, and suddenly felt a little interested.

Life is just a drama, so why bother too much about it. Since everyone regards themselves as "sick cats", Liu expressed his determination to be a tiger, not for the family, not for the descendants, but for himself or Jingzhou herd.

There is more than one person who has the same idea as Liu Biao, at least Sima Yi in Yizhou is still making various efforts, trying to stand at the head of the upcoming big changes and become the person who calls for wind and rain and shocks China.

As the governor of the soldiers and horses of the Yizhou Fourth Route Army, in the more than a year of the armistice with Liangguo, Sima Yi's oppression of himself can be described as "cruel". He set himself a rule that he slept only two and a half hours a day, lay on the couch at three o'clock, get up at one hour, did not eat women's sex or drink alcohol, and devoted all his time to analyzing all kinds of intelligence and dealing with the affairs of various armies.

Although Sima Yi didn't know that Zhao Xing had an important force named "Shadow", he really felt the breath of this special force. After summarizing the reasons for the failure of the previous wars, Sima Yi did not hesitate to use the wealth of the Yizhou treasury to form an espionage organization similar to the "blood droplets" in later generations with the dead soldiers raised by the family as the team.

Sima Yi named the spy unit he set up "Wolf", which was responsible for sneaking into various places to reconnoiter and collect intelligence, and carry out assassination and sabotage tasks. Although the "Owl" is not necessarily more professional and systematic than the "Shadow" created by Zhao Xing, there is no doubt that Sima Yi is still ahead of the other forces. Because of Sima Yi's own insidious viciousness, sometimes the methods and style of the "wolf" are even more cruel and inhumane than the "shadow".

In the nearly a year since its formation, the "Owl" has become an invisible dagger in Sima Yi's hands, clearing out all the "dissidents" and "unstable" elements in the Fourth Route Army stationed in various parts of Yizhou. These generals at all levels who have been cleaned up have basically disappeared mysteriously, and they have never seen anyone or corpse since. All of a sudden, the rumors of all the military horses in Yizhou were loud, and everyone dared not speak, and their hearts were full of panic and worry.

Sima Yi believed that thunderous means were needed to control the chaos, so he had no regrets about the purge he had carried out within the army. Otherwise, how can the growing public opinion offensive from the north be neutralized?

In the middle of the year, Sima Yi ordered the "Owl" to send a small force to the area where the plague broke out in Tangyangqiang, and found the source of the plague infection, and then went directly to the Xiliang area to spread it. Although this small force was eventually wiped out, it also succeeded in directing the troubles to the four counties of Wuwei, Jincheng, Longxi, and Wudu in Liangguo. In July, with the news of the "large-scale plague outbreak in the Xiliang area" in the "Jin Daily" spread, Sima Yi waited with ease to see how the Liangguo would finally end.

It's a pity that Sima Yi guessed the beginning of this plague correctly, but he didn't think of the ending. Judging from the information transmitted back by the members of the "Owl" team who infiltrated the Xiliang area again, the so-called "large-scale plague" propagated by the Liang State using the "Jin Bao" to make a big noise was purely a fictitious thing, and the number of people who died during the spread of the plague in the entire Xiliang area was even less than 10,000!

When Sima Yi found out that Jia Xu had used this plague to successfully abduct a million people from the Guanzhong region for Zhao Xing, the feeling in his heart at that time could only be described as five thunderbolts.

He really couldn't imagine how Jia Xu could command the various levels of the Liang Kingdom to fight against such a terrifying man-made disaster, and control the death toll to a negligible number of thousands. In Sima Yi's view, after a great plague, less than 20% of the population in the infected area died was a successful defense and resistance. The population of the Liangguo region is conservatively estimated to be nearly two million, and the thousands of people are not negligible compared to two million?

What really made Sima Yi feel chills in his back was that Jia Xu used the plague incident to "use his strength to fight", which can be described as perfect and free. At that time, the news of the outbreak of the plague in the "Jin Daily" spread, which put everyone in the Guanzhong area in danger, but the Liangguo where the source of the news came from was stable except for some ordinary people who seemed to be organized to break into Guanzhong at the beginning.

In the later period, after half of the people in the Guanzhong area ran away, these people of Liangguo who broke into the Guanzhong area turned around and returned to their hometowns. It was from this point that Sima Yi noticed that there was something strange about the plague incident in Liangguo, and then hurriedly sent personnel to the Xiliang region to find out the news, and finally obtained the truth that shocked him.

Sima Yi had a vague premonition that when Jia Xu was busy with the internal affairs of Liangguo, the first thing he would do when he looked back was to launch a fierce attack on Yizhou. After fighting Jia Xu over the years, Sima Yi really knows Jia Xu's character and methods too well.

Jia Xu belongs to the kind of ruthless person who either doesn't make a move, and once he makes a move, he will never have a chance to turn over, and Sima Yi is the same kind of person from the bones.

Liang Zi has already settled, and it is useless to choose to retreat and avoid now, so Sima Yi is fully mentally prepared for Jia Xu's next move. The soldiers will block and the water will cover the earth, Sima Yi is full of fighting spirit and confidence in resisting the Liang Kingdom.

What really makes Sima Yi commendable and extraordinary is his keen insight and excellent view of the overall situation.

The focus of the "wolf's" intelligence exploration is in the north, which does not mean that Sima Yi does not attach importance to Jingzhou, which is close to the east of Yizhou. On the contrary, Sima Yi has always regarded Jingzhou as an important stepping stone to get out of Yizhou and achieve grand hegemony. Because he attaches great importance to Jingzhou, Sima Yi also arranged some important forces of the "Wolf Owl" organization in Jingzhou, and always pays attention to the movements of Jingzhou.

Originally, before Hanzhong was lost, Sima Yi planned to accumulate strength in Yizhou, send troops from Hanzhong to occupy Liangzhou, and then sit back and watch Zhao Xing and the imperial court fight in the Central Plains, and finally the fisherman will benefit. However, Sima Yi's abacus was sound, and Zhao Xing's earth-shattering puzzle was even better, and as a result, Sima Yi led an army of 100,000 troops to the north and did not make an inch, but lost Hanzhong.

Sima Yi now saw very clearly that with Yizhou's current strength, it was really difficult to go north to subdue Hanzhong, but there was a great opportunity to take Jingzhou from the east along the Yangtze River. When he received the news that Liu Biao had "fallen ill" in Gangneung, he smiled knowingly.

Sima Yi immediately sent a secret envoy to Luoyang via Jingzhou to meet Liu Bei in person, preparing to make a big deal with Liu Bei and Cao Cao.