Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 287 The Controversy Between Shu and Wei (6)
Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang couldn't help sighing deeply.They have been confronting their own army here for nearly ten days. As soon as their own army leaves the camp to harvest wheat on the Shangyu Plain, the opponent will be condescending, attacking with all their strength, and always making it impossible for their own team to harvest enough wheat with peace of mind. food.But they never engage in large-scale frontal battles with their main force, they are completely guerrilla like poisonous snakes!Although the number of soldiers and horses on their own side is far superior to theirs, but because they occupy a geographical advantage, the initiative of the war is always in their hands.This fact, no matter how unwilling he was, Zhuge Liang had to endure the pain of being knocked out of his teeth and swallowed in his stomach, affirming this to himself.He saw from a distance the two giant characters "Sima" embroidered on the flag of the Chinese army flying high above the opposing barracks, shook his head melancholy, and said to himself: "Unexpectedly, I, Zhuge Liang, led ten elite soldiers." Yu Wan, roaming the world, has no ambitions, but he is helpless against Sima Yi, an extremely cunning old tortoise!"

Jiang Wei stood behind Zhuge Liang, gritted his teeth, and said in a deep voice: "This old man Sima pretends to be the commander-in-chief of Wei, but he is as timid as a mouse. He only knows that he is hiding in the camp and dare not come out to fight—Prime Minister, Why don't we organize a large army to launch a counterattack against them at the foot of Xiaolong Mountain tomorrow, and see if he will come down the mountain to fight!"

Zhuge Liang pondered for a while, waved his hand lightly, and said, "What is the courage of a man to rely on? The terrain of Xiaolong Mountain is dangerous. It is easy to attack from a high position, but difficult to attack from a low position. I am afraid that if they do not come down to fight, we have already lost." There are a lot of elites! This strategy is really not advisable!" At this point, he paused, and then said: "Sima Yi is not a simple opponent! After hearing the report from the spies inside Wei, In the puppet Wei Dynasty, he was always famous for his courageous, decisive and decisive style of action. He was always vigorous and ruthless. However, when he came to Guanzhong to fight against the truth, he blindly forbeared and submerged to show weakness in many ways, and turned into a kind of The forward-looking and cautious style is almost completely different from the impression of Sima Yi that I heard before. Do you know why he is?"

Jiang Wei shook his head with a blank expression on his face.

Zhuge Liang was silent for a moment, and said leisurely: "This shows that Sima Yi is keeping a low profile. As the saying goes, 'An eagle stands like a sleeper, a tiger lies like a sick'. He has been paralyzing the truth, and has been waiting for an opportunity. When the time is right, He will suddenly launch the final fatal blow to the truth! Moreover, for this final fatal blow, he can bend down and accept the humiliation in his crotch like Han Xin beforehand, and he can also grit his teeth like Goujian and suffer the courage! All these Is everything that you and my other opponents can do? Alas... I never thought that during this Northern Expedition, it would be a great misfortune for a man to meet such a strong enemy!" As he said, he raised his head and looked at the sky, but Seeing the clouds in the sky and the red sun looming, he couldn't help saying with a sense of regret: "Not long ago in the puppet Wei, the two forces of Queen Mother Guo Ni's party and Cao's clan were suddenly frustrated. The government was turbulent and people's hearts were unstable. These are big fuss. But I didn't expect that two such big troubles happened in their country, and they were all resolved in the end. The pseudo-Wei country is still solid as a rock-could it really be that Wei's thieves are inexhaustible? The truth Is it really too urgent to raise troops for the Northern Expedition?" After saying that, his face was filled with sadness, which could not be shaken off.

Suddenly, Zhuge Liang seemed to have remembered something, and turned to Jiang Wei and said, "Li Yan wrote a letter a few days ago, saying that Cen Shu and Zhang Heng had already set off to deliver food and grass, and they should arrive within a day or two! Why are you still here?" No news? Besides, how many days can we have leftover food in our army?"

Jiang Wei looked gloomy, and said: "The surplus food in our army can last for seven days, and with the grain looted from Shangyuyuan, it can only last up to nine days at most. Cen described the grain and grass they escorted If it is not in place in the next few days, we will be in big trouble."

Zhuge Liang patted himself on the head with the goose feather fan in his hand, and said to himself: "In the past few days, I have only been thinking about challenging Wei thieves and grabbing wheat, but I have neglected this important matter. The order of the truth, let Wang Ping Quickly lead 1 people to Hanzhong to meet Cen Shu's grain transport team, and there must be no accidents."

Jiang Wei responded and wanted to fly away.

At this moment, a rush of horseshoes was heard from behind the two of them.Zhuge Liang looked back and saw a small school galloping from the side of the camp. He rushed to the front, rolled off the saddle, and said in a trembling voice: "Prime Minister, something is wrong! General Cen Shu and the others escorted the grain from Chengdu." On the way, he was robbed by a Wei army that came out of nowhere! General Zhang Heng, the grain guard, died in battle, and the 8000 troops who transported the grain were also completely damaged. Only General Cen Shu and hundreds of brothers from the Shu army remained. Fighting desperately, he broke out of the siege and came to report to the prime minister! General Cen Shu knew that he had no face to come to see the prime minister, and now he and Jing are tied up in the camp to wait for the prime minister to return!"

These words were like thunder in the clear sky, Zhuge Liang's expression changed greatly, his whole body shook a few times, and he almost fell down.Jiang Wei was shocked, took a step forward, and hastily stretched out his hand to support Zhuge Liang who was on the verge of collapse, and called out in a crying voice, "Prime Minister! Prime Minister!"

Zhuge Liang's face was as pale as snow, he tried his best to stand still, stood still for a moment, looked up to the sky with a long sigh, and said slowly: "The truth is only now understood, it turns out that Sima Yi's last fatal blow was to go behind us and rob the Northern Expedition!" Food and grass for the army! Great, great...

"Oh, I should have thought of that! This time when I was transporting food, I was so focused on grabbing Shangyu with the bandits Wei that I forgot to send someone to meet Cen Shu and the others...it shouldn't be! It really shouldn't be... "

While muttering, he stomped his feet repeatedly.

Jiang Wei said urgently: "Prime Minister, don't worry! We can quickly send people back to Chengdu to let Li Yan bring in the food and grass again!"

Zhuge Liang looked a little sad, shook his head lightly, and said: "Li Yan wrote a letter claiming that the food and grass escorted this time is enough for my more than [-] troops to feed for two months, and it has almost exhausted the bottom of the country's grain depot. There is no way to raise extra food! Alas, this time it was all robbed by the Wei army. It is really a heavy loss! Moreover, even if Li Yan can quickly transport the food, Sima Yi will still stick to it and not fight until we are back again. If you run out of ammunition and food, you will retreat without attacking!"

When Jiang Wei heard this, he couldn't help being stunned, and murmured: "In this case, what should I do?" Camp back.In fact, he still had some things in his heart that he didn't say to Jiang Wei in detail.The day before yesterday, Jiang Wan, the head of the prime minister's mansion who stayed in Chengdu, sent a secret letter, telling him that Li Yan seemed to have received the support of the palace, and actually used the 30 bolts of Shu brocade in the treasury for emergency preparations during wartime in exchange for food and armaments. , I exchanged many pearls, beautiful jade, tortoiseshell, and ivory from Soochow without authorization, and brought them back to the palace to please the emperor.This made Zhuge Liang very angry.He didn't expect that Li Yan deliberately catered to the king's heart for personal gain to such an extent that he forgot the country and destroyed the public, and he didn't think about the foundation of the country. wind.Not long after the Northern Expedition started, and such things happened in the country, such as ignorance, desolation and injustice, how could Zhuge Liang's worries about the future not become more and more intense?In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, when the countries were fighting for hegemony, Goujian, the king of Yue, was able to sacrifice his salary and suffer a lot in order to restore the country and destroy Wu.Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang wished he could immediately fly back to Chengdu with wings on his body and give the emperor a warning!
At this moment, a horse neighed again, and another schoolboy galloped over on horseback, with a letter in his hand.When Zhuge Liang saw it, he couldn't help being startled, and stopped.All of a sudden, I saw the little school running up to him, jumped off the horse, took the letter with both hands, and said, "I tell the prime minister, this letter was taken from a Wei army messenger after we intercepted him on the way." If you find out, I ask the prime minister to take a look."

Zhuge Liang pondered for a moment, reached out to take the letter, slowly opened it, and read it carefully.Looking at it, his face was cloudy and uncertain, and it became very complicated, and he muttered to himself: "Is what he said true... Forget it, let's trust him this time, anyway, the truth is withdrew." You will always stay behind and recruit later, so let's plan!"

At this moment, Sima Yi and Sima Shi were also standing on the watchtower on the top of Xiaolong Mountain overlooking the wheat field in Shanggu and the camp of the Shu army stationed behind the wheat field.

From a distance, he saw a few figures like black dots moving slowly on the wheat field over the camp of the Shu Army, so he smiled and pointed at them, and asked Master Sima, "Master, what do you think?" Is there Zhuge Liang among the few people?"

"There must be Zhuge Liang. He must have learned that Hai'er and General Niu Jin have robbed their food and grass at this moment, and he is probably running around like ants on a hot pot!" Sima Shi replied with a smile, "food and grass Being robbed, the Shu army must be in a state of confusion and dare not love to fight. Why didn't my father take this opportunity to launch a big counterattack immediately? We waited so long with humiliation, didn't we just hope that this day will come soon?"

"Don't be in a hurry, just wait and see. Boy! You think Zhuge Liang is too easy to deal with! To be honest, with the current real strength of our Great Wei Guanzhong army, if you want to swallow them all in one bite, then It's almost impossible." Sima Yi smiled and waved his hands, and said lightly, "The hungry tiger is the most terrifying! They can't wait to fight us hard before returning to Hanzhong in style!"

"Then... Father really means that Zhuge Liang will have no food to retreat, and we will not take the initiative to chase them?" Sima Shi asked in surprise, "Could it be that father is really afraid of Zhuge Liang? He is so indecisive! In the past few months, we have not fought with Zhuge Liang, so we let him go, I am afraid Chen Qun, Hua Xin and the gang of old people will take this opportunity to make trouble again and humiliate father in every possible way..."

(End of this chapter)