Sima Yi is Sima Yi in the end, but between the lightning and the flint, he thought about the various pros and cons and made a decision.

Still have to tell the truth.

On the one hand, Sima Yi did not believe that Cao Ei did not know anything about the situation in Jingzhou, and it was easy to arouse Cao Ei's dissatisfaction and suspicion by telling nonsense.

On the other hand, when Cao Rong ascended the throne, he once summoned Liu Ye to talk freely for a whole day, and afterwards, according to Liu Ye, Cao Rong "has the legacy of Emperor Wu".

In other words, Cao Ei's personality is a bit similar to Cao Cao.

What is the end of being cautious in front of Cao Cao, Sima Yi has too much right to speak.

Sima Yi guards Nanyang all the year round, and he doesn't know Cao Rong in the end, but because of this, Sima Yi feels that he should not be clever and show his sincere side as much as possible, so that for Sima Yi, it is the least risky choice.

"According to the Jingzhou detailed report, since last winter, the Shu thief Jingzhou guard Guan Yu is seriously ill and can not be a director, after the beginning of spring this year, I have not heard of Guan Yu's movements, I want to come or recuperate in the house, Jingzhou departments, temporarily under the jurisdiction of Shu thief military division Xu Shu."

"There are about 100,000 troops in Jingzhou, 30,000 troops in Jiangxia, 10,000 troops in each of Lingling and Wuling counties, and 15,000 troops in Jiangling.

"The remaining 35,000 people, the Shu thieves are all stationed in Xiangfan, of which the Shu general Zhou Tai led 5,000 troops in Deng County, thinking that the Shu thieves were outposts, and the other more than 30,000 people were stationed in Xiangfan to threaten Nanyang."

"The generals of the Shu thieves in Jingzhou, Guan Yu, Xu Shu, Wang Ji, etc., are all in Xiangyang, Wenpin, Shi Bao, Zhang Ren, Xi Hong, and Pan Jun are divided into prefectures and counties, and there is no large-scale transfer of soldiers, horses, grain and grass."

"Whoever the minister knows, all of them are here, and I hope Your Majesty will see it."

Sima Yi told the truth, but in the end, Sima Yi still played a clever trick.

He told everything he knew about the situation in Jingzhou, but he just didn't give his own conclusions, but gave up the right to judge and decide to Cao Rong.

Sima Yi treated Cao Yi according to his attitude towards Cao Cao.

If it was really Cao Cao, then it is estimated that Cao Cao would be very satisfied with Sima Yi's approach of knowing how to advance and retreat. There is no way, who let Cao Cao have always had an opinion on Sima Yi, Sima Yi faced Cao Cao, it was better to say more and make more mistakes, it was better to say less.

In addition, Cao Cao's own military talent is outstanding, he has his own judgment, even if the strategists give completely different suggestions, Cao Cao will start from his own reality and make his own decisions, and he does not need Sima Yi to say too much.

Sima Yi used this way to deal with Cao Cao, which was Cao Cao's favorite.

But Cao Ei can't do it, Cao Ei's military talent may not even be as good as his father. His father has been on the battlefield anyway and followed Cao Cao to fight.

Cao Ei listened for a long time, and he could indeed understand what Sima Yi said, but the problem was that Cao Ei did not have enough confidence in his military talent and did not dare to make judgments easily.

After all, the Shu thief is not easy to provoke, but if he is easy to provoke, his father will not give up Guanzhong and choose to retreat himself.

Cao Yi could hear that Sima Yi meant that there was no change in the Jingzhou group of Shu thieves, but. The theory of the art of war is true and false, and Cao Rong still understands it.

Is this really no change, or is there no change in what people pretend?!

Cao Allah held the northwest defense, and after collecting information about the Shu thief's movements, no matter what the purpose was, he also gave his own analysis and judgment.

You, Sima Yi, as the leader of Nanyang, will only give this kind of intelligence analysis that can be inquired about by ordinary details?!

Thinking of the two letters that Sima Yi took the initiative to send to him before. Cao Rong was a little dissatisfied with Sima Yi.

"According to the meaning of the hussar general, the Shu thief has no intention of going north to the Central Plains?!" Cao Rong opened his mouth slightly and asked Sima Yi again.

Sima Yi still maintained this posture of bowing his head at this time, and he didn't notice the change in Cao Rong's face for a while, he was still dealing with Cao Cao in the same way.

"The minister is stupid, he doesn't dare to make a rash assertion, and he asks His Majesty to see it." Sima Yi said.

This answer, Cao Rong was a little really angry.

I didn't care about you and your son for so many things, just because you really have the ability to stop the Shu thieves in the south. But now, let you come to the discussion, as the leader of Nanyang, you can't even judge the Shu thief, so what use do you have? !

Cao Rong is not Cao Cao after all, he has no confidence in his military talents, and he is also self-aware, so he needs his subordinates to help analyze and come up with ideas, so he can make a choice to execute Sima Yi to do this, Cao Rong does not feel that he is taking care of his authority at all, but feels that Sima Yi is a little suspicious of picking on people.

But Sima Yi is Cao Pi's auxiliary minister after all, and his own ability is really outstanding, and Cao Yi is not good at getting angry and reprimanding Sima Yi because of such a trivial matter.

Therefore, Cao Rong could only endure the dissatisfaction in his heart, turned his head to look at Cao Zhen, and asked, "General Zhenjun, can you judge this?!" ”

As soon as Cao Yi said this, Sima Yi suddenly chuckled in his heart, knowing that he seemed to have something bad about him.

After asking himself, he turned his head and asked Cao Zhen the same question, and it was obvious that Cao Ei really needed to give a conclusion by himself, and he seemed to have misunderstood Cao Ei's true intentions.

Sima Yi knew that the answer he had just given must have made Cao Rong dissatisfied, otherwise he would not have turned his head and asked Cao Zhen, who was in charge of the defense of Guanzhong, how he should view the defense issue in Jingzhou.

But Sima Yi had just said that he had no conclusion, and now he naturally can't stand up and say that he has an idea. If you really do this, the Son of Heaven will be angry.

I asked you just now, but now I asked others, but you said what do you want to do Sima Yi?! Do you still put the Great Wei Tianzi in your eyes?!

Therefore, Sima Yi could only say nothing and sit back and watch Cao Zhen speak.

"Soldiers, treacherous, false and real, unpredictable." Cao Zhen thought for a moment, and said to Cao Rong, "The minister thinks that the Shu thieves in Jingzhou have not moved, and they may not have inadvertently entered the Central Plains north. ”

"Jingzhou is different from Guanzhong, the transfer of troops and grain can only be taken by land, the land of Jingxiang, the Han River, the Yangtze River, with the water army to transport troops and grain, the time required is far less than the road to transport grain. In the past, the Shu thieves in Jingzhou and the time spent in the military war were less than the Yizhou Shu thieves, which is exactly the reason. ”

"Jingzhou Shu thief, the one with the most soldiers, Xiangyang, Jiangxia and other places. These two places can be connected by the Han River, between Jiangling, Wuling, and Lingling, there is also the Yangtze River, and it is very convenient to transfer troops. If the Shu thieves really want to enter the Central Plains in the north, it only takes more than a month to transfer Jiangxia's troops to Xiangyang to help in the war, and they can also connect Jiangling, Jiangxia, and Wuling counties in a short period of time to prevent Jiangdong from entering the Kou. ”

"Therefore, the minister thinks that there is no change in Jingzhou now, which is not enough to show that the Shu thieves have no intention of entering Guanzhong in the north."

Don't care if what Cao Zhen said is right or not, what he said is exactly what Cao Rong wants to hear.

But there is one thing, Cao Ei also understands that he can listen to Cao Zhen's words, but he can't fully believe them.

After all, Cao Zhen is not the real leader in the Nanyang region, and the judgment he made is only based on the information that Sima Yi just gave, although the analysis he made has a certain amount of truth, but Cao Rong also knows that Cao Zhen is really selfish.

Cao Zhen's selfishness is actually not difficult to understand.

A few years ago, Cao Zhen, the governor of Yongliang, was beaten and lost Yongliang Erzhou, which was a great shame for Cao Zhen.

The dignified governor of Yongliang, the two states of Yongliang, not an inch of land is under the control of the Great Wei, how ridiculous.

Cao Zhen was ridiculed privately because of this.

In the past few years, the Shu thieves have been recuperating, and Cao Wei is actually recuperating.

With Cao Wei's economic size, he has already digested the people of Guanzhong who moved inward, and at the same time has re-accumulated enough money and grain, and the national strength has almost recovered. Cao Zhen really felt that he was doing it again, thinking about fighting with the Shu thief, and he would be ashamed.

There were no large-scale battles for five years, only small-scale raids, which did not satisfy Cao Zhen, and now that the main forces of the Shu thieves gathered in the northwest, Cao Zhen certainly hoped to counterattack the Shu thieves.

Even if you can't destroy the elite of Shu thieves in a battle, you must at least recapture Guanzhong and Liangzhou, so that you, the governor of Yongliang, can live up to your name.

Cao Rong knew that Cao Zhen was careful, so he also understood that Cao Zhen's real purpose was to take this opportunity to persuade the imperial court to preemptively launch an attack on the Shu thieves.

His words can be believed, but not all of them, and there is an alarmist part.

At this time, Cao Rong glanced at Sima Yi, who bowed his head and didn't speak, thought for a while, and shifted his gaze again to look at Xiahou Shang.

In the end, he is younger, Cao Rong can't hide his thoughts well, and he is dissatisfied with Sima Yi at this moment.

Although he knew that it was the most correct thing to ask Sima Yi at this time, Cao Rong still wanted to dry Sima Yi a little.

Therefore, Cao Rong looked at Xiahou Shang and asked. "What is the opinion of the general of the Chinese army on this matter?!"

Xiahou Shang bowed his head slightly, and hurriedly said, "Since the first emperor, the minister has been leading the army to guard the Chinese army, and he has no understanding of local practice, so he dare not say that the minister thinks that the matter of the northwest should be asked to Cao Zidan, and the matter of Jingzhou should be asked to Sima Zhongda. ”

Xiahou Shang said this, it is very level.

First of all, Xiahou Shang said that he didn't know much about local practice, which was true, and it was different from Sima Yi's shirking behavior of being in Nanyang but not daring to judge the Jingzhou Army.

Secondly, Xiahou Shang also gave his own suggestion - the change of Shu thieves in the northwest direction, you are right to ask Cao Zhen, but the change of Shu thieves in the direction of Jingzhou, you still ask Cao Zhen, it is a bit wrong to ask the wrong person.

This matter, in the final analysis, you still have to ask Sima Yi.

To tell the truth, Xiahou Shangzhen was not helping Sima Yi find a step, he was actually very dissatisfied with Sima Yi.

An old boy, as a guard, didn't even dare to say anything about the enemy's judgment, and deserved to be hated by the Son of Heaven.

But the problem is that Sima Yi has been guarding Wancheng for five or six years, and he has the most profound understanding of Wancheng and Jingzhou, no matter how he goes around, he can't get around Sima Yi.

Xiahou Shang just talked about the matter and gave Cao Yi a practical advice, and he really didn't have the intention to help Sima Yi.

But Xiahou Shang said so, and Cao Rong also made sense when he thought about it. He looked at Sima Yi again.

"Hussar General, Cao Zhenjun's words, what about the public will?!"

This is to give Sima Yi another chance.

(End of chapter)