One thing to say, Sima Yi has a lively attitude towards Zhuge Liang's torture of the Liang County family.

In these years, the energy and status of the big family family, a group of ordinary people don't know, as a child of the family, Sima Yi, can not know.

Zhuge Liang actually tortured the Liang County family for a month's worth of military rations. Brain-dead, right?!

And from Zhuge Liang's move, Sima Yi is also seriously thinking about a question - why Zhuge Liang did this.

Sima Yi is a child of a family and knows the importance of the family to local rule, and Zhuge Liang is also a child of a family, plus he has been in charge of Shu Han for seven or eight years, so it is impossible not to know this reality.

So what is Zhuge Liang's purpose, he would rather take the risk of offending the Heluo family than insist on doing so. A month's grain and grass, is it really worth Zhuge Liang to take this risk?!

Or, Zhuge Liang really doesn't have much time now, and he must divide the winner in the Heluo area within a month?!

Moreover, is it really to the point where the grain and grass of the Shu thieves can hardly be supported for even a month?!

If that's the case. Sima Yi was a little tempted.

Sima Yi didn't care much about the pressure given by the big families, he was not the kind of person who couldn't bear the pressure, so whether Sima Yi decided to send troops was entirely based on his own judgment.

In addition to the real shortage of food in the army, Sima Yi really couldn't find a reason for Zhuge Liang to take the initiative to offend the family, after all, this way of torturing the family would cause a very big chain reaction.

Of course, even so, Sima Yi only considered in his heart whether it was necessary to take the initiative to send troops, which was not enough for him to make up his mind.

After all, it is Sima Yi's strategy that Sima Yi has always adhered to, and now that the Shu thieves are short of food, it may not take much time to retreat from the enemy without a fight, in this case, Sima Yi continues to defend Luoyang, and the same can achieve the goal of repelling the Shu thieves.

Moreover, in doing so, the loss will be smaller than if you were to take the initiative.

Of course, it is not without benefits to take the initiative to fight. In these years, any general who wants to save face will not choose to be passive, which means that there is no way to deal with it, but to be beaten with his head.

This is a very great shame for any general in the army, and it is also very bad for the morale of the army.

Taking the initiative to attack and seek to break the enemy can not only boost the morale of the army, but also bring incomparable prestige bonuses to break through the first battle.

Don't forget, Sima Yi's move to withdraw his troops after the battle under Luyang City can be said to have completely put his reputation away.

Now the war is still in a stalemate, and it is not a foregone conclusion, so this matter has not spread much.

But if Sima Yi continued to be beaten passively, waiting for Zhuge Liang to run out of food and retreat, then he would certainly hold Luoyang, but the loss of reputation would not be a little bit.

A reputation of "fearing Shu like a tiger" will definitely not be able to escape.

But if Sima Yi can seize the opportunity to break the enemy in a battle outside Luoyang City and severely damage the Northern Expedition to Shu thieves, then his previous behavior in Luyang can be completely whitewashed as "enduring humiliation and burden" and "disregarding his personal name for national affairs", but can establish an image of "loyalty to the king".

So, selfishly speaking, if the timing is right, Sima Yi still wants to take the initiative.

However, Sima Yi was still hesitating, because he always felt that all Zhuge Liang's actions on this Northern Expedition seemed to be premeditated, and his actions were too unexpected.

If you want to say that Zhuge Liang was completely forced by the situation and was anxious to fight, Sima Yi's intuition told him that it was really not possible.

In the end, Sima Yi still did not find the real reason why Zhuge Liang was eager to fight.

Judging from the superficial actions, Zhuge Liang's army was short of food, and the grain and grass logistics channel was facing the threat of Chen Tai, so it was reasonable to be anxious to fight.

But the reason for the lack of food, Sima Yi has never found a reasonable explanation, and the military food channel, if it can, in fact, Zhuge Liang is conditionally defended, and it is not necessarily exposed to Chen Tai's offensive range.

Moreover, now that Chen Tai has not launched a strong attack on Kunyang and Luyang, although the grain transportation channel of the Shu thieves has been affected somewhat, the impact is not too big, how can Zhuge Liang be short of grain? !

couldn't figure out this problem, Sima Yi never dared to make up his mind and seek the opportunity to take the initiative to fight.

Just continue to squat in Luoyang City, Sima Yi believes that if Zhuge Liang is really short of food, it should be Zhuge Liang who is in a hurry now.

In this way, half a month has passed after Zhuge Liang's "Liangxian Grain Request" incident, and Sima Yi, who is stationed in Luoyang, still has not moved at all.

Evenly, even Mengjindu on the north side of Luoyang, the current battle situation has slowly calmed down.

After receiving 10,000 reinforcements sent by Sima Yi, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao finally stabilized their positions in Mengjindu, while Wei Yan, Zhang Fei, and Pang Tong on the opposite side did not choose to continue the attack after attacking Mengjindu for a long time.

If the attack is unfavorable, with the increase in casualties, the morale of the soldiers will slowly drop, and even if the defense is unfavorable at the beginning, but with the arrival of reinforcements, the situation will slowly stabilize, and the morale of the soldiers will also increase.

Therefore, after a fierce attack and hard defense, the two sides also slowly began to gather their own forces, suspend operations, restore each other's morale, and prepare for the next big battle.

In this way, the war in the Heluo area slowly calmed down in a strange atmosphere.

Zhuge Liang didn't want to see this atmosphere, but Sima Yi in Luoyang City was really calm, and Zhuge Liang didn't have anything to do for a while.

The tricks that should have been used have been used, and if Sima Yi continues to garrison troops, then Zhuge Liang has no better way than to continue the siege and then transfer troops from Jingzhou or Chang'an.

As for the outcome of this big battle, I'm afraid it really can only depend on the will of God.

And "providence", in such a situation, came.

Yes, very suddenly, at least for Zhuge Liang, it was like this.

But for the initiators of "Providence", this is not such a sudden thing, it has been prepared for more than a month.

At the beginning of December of the seventh year of Jianxing, Zhou Yu, who was originally stationed at Lukou in Jiangxia, suddenly raised 50,000 troops, and the troops were divided into two routes to attack Jiangling County.

The waterway, led by Zhang Zhao's second son Zhang Cheng, 20,000 sailors approached the Hanjin Ferry, trying to land from here, directly approaching Dangyang County, and cutting off the reinforcement channel from Xiangyang to Jiangling.

By land, led by Zhou Yu himself, 30,000 army soldiers sent troops from Jingling County, Jiangxia County, directly attacked the newly established Jiangling County of the Han Dynasty, and directly broke through Huarong County at the beginning of the war, and then divided the troops to the south, conquered the three counties of Wulin, Hanyang, and Chuyang, and directly captured the four southeastern counties of Jiangling County.

Now Bingfeng is approaching Yingxian.

And Zhu Ran, who was originally stationed in Lukou, also suddenly led 30,000 sailors to the north against the river to attack the public security, and Lu Dai, the Taishou of Wuling in Eastern Wuling, also led 20,000 troops to attack Lingyang, which was guarded by Shibao, intending to attack the public security by land and water.

All in all, on the Eastern Wu side, 100,000 troops were raised, and they advanced by land and water to attack Gangneung County.

As for Gangneung County, the total number of Lingyang and Gong'an in Jiangnan is only 10,000 horses, while the Jiangling County on the other side of the river is only 20,000 guards, plus Zhijiang and other county soldiers, adding up to only 35,000 people.

In Xiangyang, because a large number of army troops were dispatched north to participate in the Northern Expedition, now Xiangyang has only 20,000 naval troops and 10,000 army troops. The navy can still take the initiative to fight and go to contain the 20,000 sailors led by Zhang Cheng, but the army can only defend Xiangyang, and it is difficult to provide practical support to Jiangling.

Therefore, in terms of the actual strength of Jiangling County, the 70,000 troops of the Eastern Wu Army have the advantage, and the naval army has the advantage of the Eastern Wu Army, once the Eastern Wu conquers the south bank of the Yangtze River and completely cuts off the connection between the Han troops on both sides of the Yangtze River, the defenders of Jiangling County can only fall into the situation of fighting alone.

Gangneung-gun is in critical condition.

Jingzhou Thorn Shi Wang Ji sat in Jiangling, while reorganizing the army for battle, while writing letters, to Xiangyang, and even the front line of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Under such circumstances, Zhuge Liang received an urgent military report from Wang Ji.

In the face of such an urgent battle report, Zhuge Liang not only did not panic, on the contrary, he also smiled.

The last piece of the puzzle has finally arrived.

It seems that "Providence" is on the side of Yan Han in the end.

This time, let's see if you Sima Yi can continue to cower and stay still in Luoyang City.

(End of chapter)