Liu Biao died, Liu Bei also died, Liu Qi was still immersed in grief, Jingzhou affairs, all had Sima Yi in charge, and Liu Qi also trusted Sima Yi, due to excessive grief, Liu Qi finally fell ill on the third day of the wake.

After Liu Bei's death, Sima Yi began to mourn Liu Biao, and chose an auspicious day to start burying Liu Biao.

Liu Biao has been in Jingzhou for more than ten years, protecting the territory and the people, and has a deep understanding of the people, in addition, Jingzhou has become increasingly stable during his tenure. Liu Biao recruited displaced people, while reclaiming wasteland, building water conservancy, in the past few years, the Jianghan Plain on the fertile land of thousands of hectares. With these favorable factors, Jingzhou's agricultural production has also risen to a higher level, and it has been a bumper harvest for five consecutive years, so to speak, the people of Jingzhou are relatively wealthy, every family has surplus grain, and even the granary of the government is also stuffed to the brim.

Liu Biao died, almost the whole of Jingzhou was immersed in grief, when the people learned that Liu Biao was assassinated by Liu Bei and sent someone to assassinate him, they hated Liu Bei even more.

Poor Liu Bei Rong Ma half his life, worked hard, but in the end he ended up in a different place, ruined and ruined, and after his death, he was also pointed out by thousands of people, and was scolded by thousands of people.

Although Liu Bei is dead, but his sworn brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are still alive, Sima Yi did not agree with Liu Qi's order to kill Liu Bei's nine clans, but when he wanted to stop it, he found that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had taken Liu Bei's family and had taken refuge in Jiangdong.

This is extremely bad news for Sima Yi, after all, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are invincible people, brave and good at fighting, and bravely champion the three armies. Even if it can't be used. At least kill them. But now. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei fled to Jiangdong, and if the Sun family in Jiangdong took in Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, it would be equivalent to increasing their strength a lot.

In the past month or two, Jingzhou has been in turmoil, first the failure of Liu Biaoxuguo's expedition, then the killing of Cai's party, and then Liu Bei's rebellion, a series of things have developed. made the originally powerful Jingzhou weak. Although there are still nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Xiangyang area, the combat effectiveness of these soldiers and horses is definitely not as good as that of the Jiangdong Army, which spends time on the knife edge.

Since Sun Ce came to Jiangdong, the Jiangdong army has gradually become stronger in blood and fire, and they have fought against Zhang Yan, Shanyue, and thieves, almost all year round. Therefore, in the struggle of blood and fire, the Jiangdong Army gradually became stronger and bigger. The overall strength of the soldiers is also much higher than that of the more comfortable Jingzhou army. If Guan Yu and Zhang Fei arrived in Jiangdong and borrowed troops from the Jiangdong Sun family, or directly suggested that the Jiangdong army attack Jingzhou, then these soldiers and horses in Jingzhou might not be able to resist it.

Therefore, Sima Yi's heart is not easy. Now that Liu Qi is sick in bed, Sima Yi is up and down in Jingzhou, and Sima Yi is up and down to make up his mind, which is indeed a lot of pressure for Sima Yi.

However, what Sima Yi wanted was such a result, he was undercover in Jingzhou, in order to get the power of Jingzhou under his own hands, and then persuade Liu Qi to surrender, let Liu Qi surrender to Zhang Yan, and let Zhang Yan's soldiers take Jingzhou bloodlessly.

Therefore, in the land of Jingzhou, Sima Yi will never allow outsiders to come to get a piece of the pie.

Sima Yi took precautions and directly summoned Wen Ping and Li Tong, and asked them to lead the army along the Han River and garrison in Jiangxia to prevent the Jiangdong army from taking advantage of the situation.

In addition, Sima Yi also transferred Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to Changsha, and if the Jiangdong Army invaded Jiangxia, he would let Huang Zhong and Wei Yan send troops from Changsha to attack the Jiangdong Army from behind. If the Jiangdong Army attacked Changsha, then let Wen Ping and Li Tong attack the rear of the Jiangdong Army, and the two lines of soldiers and horses would be horns and horns of each other, relying on each other and coordinating with each other.

Sima Yi asked Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong to divide their troops into two routes, and each army led an army of 30,000 troops, with Huang Zhong and Wen Ping as the main generals, and Wei Yan and Li Tong as deputy generals.

There were a total of 100,000 people in Xiangyang City, and Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, Li Tong and others took 60,000 people, leaving only 40,000 people to defend Xiangyang City, which inevitably caused Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong to worry. Because after Liu Bei's death, Zhang Xiu led the army directly to the junction of Nanyang and Xiangyang, and put all his troops in Deng County, eyeing Xiangyang.

For this reason, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong expressed their opinions one after another, asking Sima Yi to transfer as few troops as possible, and not to transfer so many troops at once.

Sima Yi understood the worries of the four generals Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong very well, and he said: "There is me here here in Xiangyang, you don't need to worry, even if there is not a single soldier in Xiangyang City, the enemy army will not cross the border, and I have a way to deal with the enemy from the north." However, what I was really worried about was not the enemy in the north, but Sun Quan in Jiangdong. Sun Quan has a feud with Jingzhou, and the Sun family has coveted Jingzhou for a long time, this time something happened in Jingzhou all of a sudden, and there were not many soldiers and horses left on the border with Jiangdong, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei went to Jiangdong again, Liu Bei's death, after all, is inseparable from Jingzhou, I am worried that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will aim their hatred at Jingzhou and trick Zhou Yu into sending troops to deal with Jingzhou. Moreover, Zhou Yu himself is also eyeing Jingzhou, only because of the lack of generals who can fight in a reckless manner, so he does not dare to act rashly. If Zhou Yu knew that Liu Bei was dead, so many things had happened in Jingzhou, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei came to take refuge again, they would definitely not miss this opportunity, and it was very likely that they would lend troops to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to fight for Jingzhou, and he himself would sit in Chaisang, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and then try a good strategy. ”

After a pause, Sima Yi continued: "If you don't hurry up and lead the way to garrison, once Guan Yu and Zhang Fei arrive at Chaisang, Zhou Yu will send troops and horses, just ask such an elite general, who can resist it?" ”

Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong were indifferent, and stopped talking, feeling that Sima Yi was thinking far-reaching enough.

"Military advisor, why do you want our troops to be divided into two ways and stay in two places, in this way, isn't the strength too scattered, it is better to concentrate all the troops and fight to the death with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, as long as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are killed, then Jiangdong will not be worried." Wei Yan said.

Sima Yi shook his head and said, "Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are both the enemies of the three armies of Yongguan, and Zhou Yu is resourceful, the three of them together must be a force that cannot be ignored. What we have to do is to hold back the enemy and prevent the enemy from attacking Jingzhou, and when the enemy sends troops, we always have scruples and try to keep the enemy out of Jingzhou. ”

After Huang Zhong listened, his face showed displeasure, and he said to Sima Yi: "Although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are brave and good at fighting, the old man is not a vegetarian, I used to work under Liu Bei with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and I still know a little about the two of them, and the old man's martial arts are not necessarily worse than Guan Yu and Zhang Fei." If the military advisor gives me 3,000 soldiers and horses, and makes me the vanguard, I will personally go to meet Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, take the heads of the two of them, and present them to the military advisor, why do you need to mobilize the army so much? ”

After Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong heard this, they all echoed it, and they all shouted that they wanted to fight Guan Yu and Zhang Fei alone, and that they could capture Guan Yu and Zhang Fei alive, or kill them.

Sima Yi said: "Your martial arts are very good, but the two armies are fighting, and the competition is the strength of the army, but Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's martial arts are too strong, if you fight alone, I am worried about your ......safety."

"The military advisor should not increase the morale of others and destroy his own prestige, the old man does not believe in evil, and if he does not bring the heads of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the old man will never come back!" As soon as Huang Zhong's words fell, he hugged Sima Yi with a fist, and then turned around.

Sima Yi hurriedly shouted, "General Huang...... Don't be impulsive, General Huang...... General Huang ......"

Huang Zhong didn't pay attention to Sima Yi at all, got out of the palace, jumped on horseback, gathered two hundred personal cavalry from the army, and went directly out of Xiangyang City, galloping in the direction of Chaisang.

Seeing that Huang Zhong was gone, Sima Yi hurriedly said to Wei Yan: "General Huang must be in danger when he goes, General Wei, I am still bothering you to take two thousand cavalry to catch up with General Huang, no matter what, you must bring General Huang back." ”

Wei Yan nodded, turned around and walked out of the hall, but he was secretly thinking in his heart: "Old General Huang is excellent in martial arts, he may not lose to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, if Old General Huang can defeat Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, then it will be a great achievement, and I will lead the troops to arrest Guan Yu and Zhang Fei again, which is also a credit, if I don't take this kind of credit, wouldn't it be too wasteful?" ”

After thinking about this, Wei Yan snickered, he happened to lead two thousand cavalry to follow behind Huang Zhong, and then when Huang Zhong met Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he would press the battle for Huang Zhong, let Huang Zhong fight to his heart's content, win, he also had merit, lost, the sin was all on Huang Zhong alone, and he had nothing to do with him, this best of both worlds, why not.

After Huang Zhong and Wei Yan left, Sima Yi immediately said to Wen Ping and Li Tong: "Huang Zhong must go to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei desperately, Wei Yan may not be able to bring Huang Zhong back, the two of you each lead 30,000 troops, General Wen goes to Jiangxia, General Li goes to Changsha, stationed separately, prepare for the battle, and always pay attention to the situation in Jiangdong." ”

After all, Wen Ping and Li Tong were promoted by Sima Yi, so they obeyed Sima Yi's words, and both of them nodded, then "snorted" and left.

Out of the palace, Wen Ping and Li Tong went to the barracks, each ordered troops and horses, divided the troops into two routes, one was led by Wen Ping, took a boat down the river, went to Jiangxia Xiazhi, and the other road was led by Li Tong to Changsha Xiajun, the two armies formed a situation of each other's horns, if there was a difficulty on the way, the other road sent a large army to attack the rear of the Jiangdong Army, disrupt the Jiangdong Army, and force the Jiangdong Army to withdraw.

At this time, there were more than 60,000 troops in Xiangyang City at once, which inevitably made people have some worries, and the brothers Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue heard that Sima Yi had mobilized a large number of troops out of the city, so they could no longer sit still, and the two brothers went together to come to the government to find Sima Yi and ask what was going on. (To be continued......)