You can't blame Sima Yi for being so unvirtuous, it's true, the affairs of Dongwu are done, which really makes the monarchs and ministers on Cao Wei's side have a stomach full of grievances.

Now that both sides have made an alliance, and the protons on both sides have already gone their separate ways, then theoretically speaking, the confrontation of troops on the front line of Huainan should be over, right?!

At that time, Yanzhou Assassin Shi Jia Kui also thought so, and he even told Sima Yi that he would mobilize Yanzhou County soldiers in the shortest possible time, enter the eastern part of Henan County, and hand them over to Sima Yi for control.

However, the problem is that from the formal establishment of the alliance in September to November, the confrontation between the forces of Wei and Wu in the Huainan area showed no sign of elimination.

The Soochow side will not withdraw its troops.

Yanzhou's defense is already tight, and the total strength is at a disadvantage, if Dongwu does not withdraw its troops, how dare Cao Wei transfer troops without authorization and don't want to think about this past "history" of Dongwu, who dares to believe that they will fulfill the covenant normally?!

For this reason, Jia Kui once sent an envoy to negotiate with the Eastern Wu side. As a result, Lu Xun, who was sitting in Shouchun, said that since the two sides had signed an alliance, it was okay for Cao Wei to withdraw his troops first, so why bother with who would withdraw first? !

Jia Kui was choked by this sentence.

Why don't we dare to withdraw our troops first, don't you guys have any points in your hearts?!

But helplessly, in order to raise Yanzhou soldiers for Sima Yi as soon as possible and not delay the counterattack plan formulated by the Son of Heaven to attack Luoyang, Jia Kui could only try to transfer the county soldiers of Liang State to Chenliu County to assemble.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Jia Kui transferred his troops, Dongwu immediately increased his military input in Runan, and the troops were stationed at the junction of Qian County and Runan County.

Why Jia Kui is going crazy, what are you going to do in Dongwu?!

Liang is a county adjacent to the north of Qian County, if Qian County is attacked, Liang State is the fastest place to support Qian County, and now I have only transferred part of the county soldiers of Liang State, and you Dongwu will immediately Chen Bing the border of Qian County, what do you want to do?!

Jia Kui immediately sent someone to negotiate with Lu Xun in Shouchun, but Lu Xun said that he was also withdrawing his troops, concentrating his troops in Runan County, and then leading his troops down Rushui South to Lujiang County, isn't it very convenient? !

Jia Kuixin said I believe you are a ghost!!

If you really want to withdraw your troops to Lujiang County, why don't you take the land route and gather troops in Shouchun, but instead take the water route and gather all the troops to Runan?!

Anyway, Jia Kui didn't believe that Dongwu could have such good intentions, but Lu Xun's words couldn't be said to be unreasonable. People like to take a boat to the south, can you still say that people are wrong?!

On the surface, there is no big problem with Dongwu's rhetoric, but Jia Kui doesn't dare to take risks now, he doesn't dare to transfer any county troops in the southeast of Yanzhou now, and continues to maintain such a confrontation of troops, and only dares to transfer troops in Taishan County and other northern counties close to the Yellow River to concentrate in Chenliu County.

As for the troops of the southern counties, it is better to wait for the withdrawal of troops from Eastern Wu and then find a way to transfer them.

In this way, after nearly a month of procrastination, the Eastern Wu side had no intention of withdrawing troops at all, resulting in the Chenliu County side only gathering more than 17,000 Yanzhou County soldiers.

Jia Kui will not send these troops to the Tiger Prison Pass now, not to mention that the troops are not enough to form an advantage, and it is possible that his strategic intentions have been exposed in advance.

Therefore, Jia Kui could only write a letter to Sima Yi, explaining the reason, and asking Sima Yi to wait for a while, and after the Eastern Wu withdrew his troops, he gathered all the Yanzhou county soldiers and sent them to Sima Yi together.

Of course, Sima Yi can't blame Jia Kui for being ineffective, and in this matter, even if Sima Yi is in Jia Kui's position, he doesn't dare to easily transfer troops from southern Yanzhou to blame, so he can only blame those Wu dogs with bad intentions.

But now, with Zhang Xi's arrival in Gongxian County, after arousing Sima Yi's vigilance, Sima Yi felt that he couldn't continue to drag on like this.

Zhang Xi has arrived in Gong County, who knows how many Jingzhou troops he brought to the north when he came?!

Although none of the Wei troops in Jingzhou gave information about any changes in the Jingzhou army, Sima Yi believed that Zhang Xi could not appear in Gongxian for no reason, and must have his own purpose.

Perhaps, Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang really found a way to avoid the eyes of the fine work, and sent a group of elites of the Jingzhou army to the north.

And now Sima Yi's troops, guarding the Tiger Prison Pass is not too worried, but for the strategic consideration of the future counterattack on Luoyang, Sima Yi cannot take the initiative to start a war with the Shu thieves in Gongxian County, so as not to startle the snake and destroy the implementation of the entire strategy.

Under the premise that he couldn't take the initiative to attack, and at the same time needed to listen to the reality of the Shu thief, Sima Yi thought of a way.

He ordered someone to write the news that the Eastern Wu army would attack Jingzhou on silk cloth, and ordered the scout rangers to shoot arrows to the scout rangers of the Shu thieves when they went out to inquire about the situation.

If Zhang Xi chooses to take the initiative to withdraw his troops after learning the news, it means that the Shu thieves are not ready to strike first, and the Great Wei still has time to gather troops and carry out a strategy of counterattacking Luoyang.

If Zhang Xi not only did not withdraw his troops after learning the news, but took the initiative to attack the Tiger Wolf Pass, it means that the Shu thieves have a complete set of preemptive strategies, and Zhang Xi must have brought a large number of Jingzhou troops to help, wanting to break through the Tiger Pass as soon as possible and then return to Jingzhou.

In this case, then Sima Yi can only take the risk of letting Jia Kui gather troops from Yanzhou as soon as possible and come over to support him, and what strategy for counterattacking Luoyang has to wait until he repels the attack of the Shu thieves.

As for whether doing so will expose the plan of action of the Soochow Army. What does this have to do with him Sima Yi?!

Sima Yi leaked the battle plan of the Eastern Wu Army in advance, and he himself used this news with hope to force Zhang Xi's return army to defend Jingzhou.

And this letter did end up in Zhang Xi's hands.

Zhang Xi did not doubt the authenticity of this letter at all. As far as the virtue of Eastern Wu is concerned, after forming an alliance with Cao Wei, it would be strange if he didn't fight Jingzhou's idea.

And the biggest significance of this letter is to tell Zhang Xi that the Eastern Wu army is still in the process of withdrawing from Huainan, which means that it will take at least one to two months of preparation time for the Eastern Wu to attack Jingzhou.

As for why Cao Wei told Zhang Xi these things, it is actually not surprising.

In the battle of Xiangfan in history, after Cao Cao sent people to form an alliance with Eastern Wu, he turned around and sent people to shoot into Guan Yu's camp about the sneak attack on Jingzhou by Eastern Wu.

The purpose of this is not only mixed with some Cao Cao's selfishness, but more importantly, it is to take an unstable factor in Guan Yu's army, causing confusion in the army's morale, so as to force Guan Yu to withdraw his army and return to Jiangling.

In this time and space, because Guan Yu fought too fast, when Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, Cao Cao had just withdrawn his troops from Hanzhong, and when Cao Cao sent people to form an alliance with Eastern Wu, and Eastern Wu had not yet sent troops to sneak attack, Guan Yu had already captured Fancheng, all according to the Xiangfan defense system.

Cao Cao didn't have time to engage in such a little trick.

Now it's okay, Sima Yi has made up for Cao Cao.

But the problem is that Zhang Xi really came to visit his relatives, not to lead troops to attack the Tiger Pass, so Sima Yi's plan had no effect at all.

The Han army confronting Tiger Prison Pass is the elite of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, not Jingzhou soldiers at all, whether Jingzhou is lost, except for making Zhang Xi think more, it will not affect the morale of any army at all, and it is impossible to withdraw troops directly.

At the same time, Sima Yi did this, which also made Zhang Xi discover a problem, that is, at this time, Cao Wei was not fully prepared to counterattack Luoyang.

If everything is really prepared, Sima Yi will wait for time and look for an opportunity to launch an attack, and there is no need to deliberately reveal the rhythm of the Eastern Wu army's actions.

In other words, Sima Yi not only misjudged his intentions, but at the same time, this old fox had no bottom of his own psychology.

One thing to say, if Zhang Xi really brought the elite Jingzhou army to Gongxian to support, he would immediately launch an attack now and storm the Tiger Pass.

Even if you can't defeat the Tiger Pass, it is good to destroy the strategic layout of the Wei army.

But it's a pity that Zhang Xi did not bring troops to Gongxian, and even the Han also needed time to transfer troops from all over the country to support the defense of Luoyang.

Therefore, Zhang Xi thought about it a little, and immediately ordered someone to drive out his Daxu and hand it over to Deng Ai, and stand in the camp to bluff, but don't take the initiative to launch an attack, and continue to stalemate on the spot.

Don't advance or retreat, but bluff and let that old fox Sima guess, see if you can guess what the purpose of your coming to Gongxian is.

As for Deng Ai's proposal, should he let his subordinates go out of the city at night and enter the city under the banner of the Jingzhou Army early tomorrow morning.

Doing so, although it can also disrupt Cao Wei's strategic deployment, the problem is that there is also the possibility of Cao Wei hastily raising troops and counterattacking Luoyang in advance, and now Luoyang is not ready to fight, so don't irritate the old fox too much.

After Zhang Xi did this, he immediately set off and returned to Luoyang with his son and daughter-in-law. The letter is not waiting, just give it to Deng Ai to read it himself, and now it is still a war matter.

After returning to Luoyang, Zhang Xi told Sima Yi about archery and writing, and Zhuge Liang immediately frowned.

"Yuan Chang is different. It is indeed a good plan to set up a false flag, but if it is supplemented by an active attack, Sima Yi will inevitably fall into the plan, defend the Tiger Prison Pass with all his might, and dare not go out lightly. Zhuge Liang shook his head slightly and said, "But now, there is the banner of Yuan Chang in the army, but if he does not move, he can hide it from Sima Yi for a while, but he may not hide it for a few days." ”

When Zhang Xi heard this, he was also stunned for a moment, and then shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Even so, Luoyang is empty, and Xi doesn't dare to take such risks." ”

After Zhuge Liang listened to Zhang Xi's explanation, he thought about it for a while and nodded.

Such a strategy is also in line with Zhang Xi's style of using soldiers.

It's just that there is a high probability that Sima Yi will not be able to hide it for a few days, and it is difficult to say whether Sima Yi will make some tentative attacks next.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang thought for a while and said to Zhang Xi, "In this way, Yuan Chang will return to Jingzhou quickly and transfer Nanyang troops to Luo, and I am afraid that I will make a mistake." ”

Be completely prepared.

(End of chapter)