forced Sima Yi to finally make the decision to withdraw his troops from Hanzhong, not only because he was suspicious of Zhang Ren, but more importantly, because he was worried that the situation in Chengdu would be unstable, once Sima Fang died, if he continued to lead the army to defend Hechi, maybe he would face the danger of no backup, and even if he wanted to retreat, it would depend on whether the army of Liangguo would agree.

Zhang Ren received an order from Sima Yi to withdraw to Hanzhong, but he eventually led his army back to Guanghan County, a move that is very intriguing. Because soon after Zhang Ren received Sima Yi's order, he received Sima Lang's order, and finally he chose to follow the order of the temporary head of the Sima family and bring 20,000 troops back to Guanghan, so as to avoid Sima Yi holding too many troops in his hands and threatening Sima Lang's position.

The news spread from the Liang Kingdom to the Jin Kingdom and back, even if it was to use a fast horse and take the official road, it would take more than ten days.

While waiting for Zhao Xing's next instructions, Jia Xu temporarily took over the position of Wudu Taishou, sent people to carefully sort out the people of Hechi City and Fu County, and arrested all some suspicious people according to the original household registration records, and asked these people to provide local witnesses who could prove their identities, otherwise they would be punished as spies. At the same time, Jia Xu also asked people to post a notice that if anyone dared to shield an unknown person in his private possession, he would be punished as a collaborator.

Jia Xu's move was ruthless enough, and he dug out all the eyeliners and spies that Sima Yi secretly reserved in Wudu at once, and he would not be able to transmit information through these people in the future and grasp the situation in Wudu. After a long time, in the future, whether the Sima family attacks Wudu or the Liang State attacks Hanzhong, Sima Yi will face the problem of not knowing the true situation of the opponent, and this is Jia Xu's purpose.

This time, Wudu City was occupied by the Yizhou army, firstly, because they were busy using troops against Han Sui at that time, so the troops were insufficient, and they were suddenly exploited by the Sima family; second, they underestimated the courage and ambition of the Sima family, and did not expect that the Yizhou army really dared to fight without declaring war.

After suffering such a loss, the Liang Kingdom will strengthen its defense against Wudu in the future, not only to build a strong fortress where the water of the Western Han Dynasty flows through Guanghan, and to send heavy troops to garrison it, but also to completely block the two roads leading to Wudu from the Taiyi Mountains and Nanzheng. Even if the trade exchanges with Yizhou are cut off, the absolute security and internal purging in the territory of Wudu must be achieved, so that the Sima family will always be afraid of being counterattacked by the Liang State in the future.

A few days later, the envoy sent by Sima Lang arrived late, and he didn't know what to say after seeing Jia Xu. The name of the messenger sent by Sima Lang is Wang Lei, a guy who admits death, and he was determined to get the antidote back no matter what, but now Sima Yi himself has withdrawn first, so he has no cards to play in his hand, and he doesn't know what to do for a while.

Jia Xu saw Wang Lei's embarrassment, but comforted him to wait quietly for a few days, and when Zhao Xing's instructions arrived in Wudu, Liang Guo would definitely give an explanation to the Sima family. Although Wang Lei was stubborn, he was quite courageous, so he really lived in Xiafen City and waited according to Jia Xu's suggestion.

In early June, a secret letter from Zhao Xing was finally sent to Jia Xu's hands, and all the things in Wudu were completely settled.

In the letter, Zhao Xing praised all the civil and military generals who participated in the subjugation of Wudu, and especially praised Jia Xu and Tian Feng for taking into account the overall situation, being good at preserving their own forces, and forcing Yizhou to withdraw their troops by stratagem alone. He also talked about his next strategic concept, and the request to Liangguo was to "hold on to the eastern front and advance on the western front", which meant that he would not have a head-on conflict with Huangfu Song in the Sili region and the Sima family in the Yizhou region for the time being, and would devote his main energy to opening up the direction of the Western Regions battlefield.

Because the general direction is to maintain peace with the Sima family, Sima Fang's life is naturally to stay, so Zhao Xing means to agree to the Sima family's proposal and hand over the antidote to the messenger sent by the other party as soon as possible. But Zhao Xing also put forward a special quid pro quo, the other party must send someone to personally escort Zhao Hu back to Wudu, and among the people responsible for escorting Zhao Hu's return to the north, there must be either Fa Zheng or Zhang Ren.

Zhao Xing didn't say it explicitly, but Jia Xu saw that the whole quid pro quo was that Zhang Yi added the antidote in exchange for Zhao Hu and Zhang Ren or Fa Zheng.

No matter how you look at it, this business seems to be Zhao Xing's steady profit, but I don't know which one the people of the Sima family will give up? No matter who the Sima family asks to escort Zhao Hu back to the north, which one stays naturally means that the Sima family values it more, and the one who goes north will be ridiculed by his former colleagues, what face does he have to return to Yizhou?

From the analysis of the current situation, it seems that the Sima family has more reasons to give up Zhang Ren and reuse Fazheng, after all, Fazheng has just made a great contribution, but Zhang Ren has been suspicious of Sima Fang and Sima Lang. But maybe, what if Sima Fang, who woke up after taking the antidote, insisted on continuing to believe in Zhang Ren?

Jia Xu unmistakably conveyed Zhao Xing's meaning to Wang Lei, and asked him to quickly report the situation to Sima Lang in the direction of Chengdu and make a choice as soon as possible.

When Sima Lang received Wang Lei's letter, Sima Yi had already quietly returned to Chengdu. After the brothers met, many misunderstandings were completely eliminated, and they naturally saw through Jia Xu and Tian Feng's plan to separate Zhang Ren and Yizhou at the beginning, and now after receiving Wang Lei's letter, the feeling in his heart is worse than eating flies.

The exchange conditions proposed by Zhao Xing were too conformist, and asking Yizhou to exchange one of Zhao Hu and Zhang Ren or Fa Zheng was simply forcing the Sima family to cut off their own arms. Zhang Ren is a rare commander of the army, and the Sima family is now short of such a person, so they are naturally reluctant to send it out; Fa Zheng is a rare strategist, if he can cooperate with a fierce general like Zhang Ren or Yan Yan, he can defend one side or expand the territory. The two of them are very important to the Sima family, and giving up any of them makes their hearts twist.

Sima Yi thought for a moment and asked, "The spies sent to Jingzhou to find Doctor Zhang Ji, is there any news to send back?"

Sima Lang replied: "The road is far away, and I don't know the specific location of the machine, it is really difficult to find it for a while!"

"In this case, we might as well find a way to spend a few more days with Wudu, let's just say that Zhang Ren has now been transferred to Yongchang County to quell the rebellion, and Fa Zheng happens to accompany him as a military advisor, so it will take some time to recall either Zhang Ren or Fa Zheng. In order to convince Liang Guo of our sincerity, we might as well take the initiative to exchange Zhang Yi with Zhao Hu, and I believe that if we only use Zhao Hu for Zhang Yi, Liang Guo will definitely agree. Sima Yi put forward his own suggestions.

Sima Lang nodded and said, "Alas, now we have to deal with it like this, and it will be a huge loss for us to abandon either Fa Zheng or Zhang Ren." Zhao Xing has many strategists and fierce generals, if he is allowed to get one of the two, how can Yizhou still resist!"