"Slow, king, the minister has something to say."

"Oh, what does Zhongda have to say?"

Looking at Sima Yi who stopped him, Cao Cao was curious, and he wanted to know what Sima Yi had to say, could it be a better way to solve the plague?

Obviously, this point, not only Cao Cao thinks so, but even Zhao Yun and other generals think so, it can only be said that the plague has really become an obsession in their hearts.

It's just that unlike Zhao Yun and others who are worried about the plague, Sima Yi clearly remembers what he came here for this time, thinking of this, Sima Yi smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "Back to the king, Sun Tzu said: Fan Xing soldiers 100,000, go out for thousands of miles, the people's expenses, the public's service, the daily cost of thousands of gold, internal and external turmoil, neglect the road, not to do things, 700,000 families, stay together for several years, in order to win one day, although our army is funded by a wealthy merchant family in Hebei, but the people who transport money and grain are mostly from the people, If the stalemate with the enemy army continues for a long time, it will be really unfavorable for our army. ”

It is impossible for Cao Cao not to know the pressure brought by the 100,000 army to the people, and he can get the money and grain from the Hebei family, but the manpower to transport the money and grain can only be recruited from the people.

What Sun Tzu said in the past, not only is it not wrong, but it is a little small today, and the progress of the times is the expansion of the scale of the war, and in the same way, there are more people recruited than during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

If this goes on for a long time, even Cao Cao, who has a big family, can't support it, and the people can't support it either, if he can, Cao Cao really wants to have a quick decisive battle with Ma Teng and others.

It's just that let's not talk about the plague, even if Cao Cao wanted to, Ma Teng and the others at that time were not necessarily, even if they really agreed, they must have fought in the field, after that day of fire attack, Cao Cao really didn't know, whether the Wei soldiers still had the courage to do so, and the insidiousness in their hearts disappeared.

Thinking of all this, Cao Cao just wanted to stop Sima Yi from continuing, but after seeing the confident smile on his face, he thought about it for a while, and blurted out a different look: "Well, what you said is very true, but if you don't solve the plague, then how can you get out of the customs to fight with Ma Teng and the others, even if you go out of the customs and fight with the enemy army in the field, Lone is still a little worried?" ”

"Wang, in fact, we have all entered a small circle, we all agree that Ma Teng and Guo Yan both belong to the Xiliang Army, but we have forgotten it, they are united, before that, the two were hostile!"

Sima Yi's words hit the hearts of everyone present like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, but they all forgot about Ma Teng and Guo Yan, they are not good brothers, before, these two people fought for the right to rule Xiliang, but they went through a good fight.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao understood a little in his heart, and said, "Could it be that Zhongda wants to do it?" ”

"Just as the king thought."

Sima Yi smiled and continued: "Sun Tzu once said in the past, so the Ming monarch is a virtuous general, so he moves and wins people, success comes from the many, the prophet also, the prophet, can not be taken from ghosts and gods, can not be like things, can not be tested in the degree, compared to people, know the feelings of the enemy. ”

"Therefore, there are five kinds of use: there is a cause, there is an inner room, there is a reverse room, there is a death room, and there is a life room. The five rooms are up, I don't know the way, it is called the record of the gods, and the treasure of the king. ”

"Those who are in the middle are used because of their villagers, those who are in the middle are used because of their officials, those who are in the middle are used because of their enemies, and those who are in the dead are used for the sake of the affairs and the outside, so that I will know it, and pass it on to the enemy, and those who are born will report it back, and the plan that the minister thinks in his heart is the counter-plan of the five rooms!"

"Counter-plotting?"

Cao Cao touched his beard, and after thinking about it carefully, he pointed at Sima Yi and said, "How to turn around, Zhong Da you and listen to it carefully." ”

"Obey orders!"

After bowing his hand, Sima Yi straightened his waist and said: "Ma Teng and Guo Yan, in the past, they were incompatible, they both wanted each other to die, so as to unify Xiliang, the reason why they are united today is only because our army is moving in Guanzhong today, which caused the two to be jealous, plus someone made a hindrance from it, the two were reluctant to unite, but since ancient times, although the United Army is huge, it is easier to defeat them, just because the United Army focuses on unity, among which the people are not aligned, and there is a slight trace of interest to cause contention, It was enough for the Combine to fall apart. ”

"But the military advisor, to this day, what are the interests that can make Ma Teng and Guo Yan turn against each other and kill each other?"

The anti-intrigue strategy is indeed the easiest strategy to disintegrate the enemy army throughout the ages, but Zhao Yun doesn't understand, it has reached the current state, how to make Ma Teng and Guo Yan turn against each other, is it difficult to let the Wei army withdraw from Guanzhong.

Glancing at Zhao Yun, Sima Yi instantly understood what he was thinking in his heart, waved his hand, and said with a smile like a sinister old fox: "General Zhao is too worried, although it is useful and profitable, but it is also not only this, the king, the minister once heard that when the crusade against Dong Zhuo in the past, the king and Ma Teng were the same party?" ”

"Indeed, when Dong Zhuo was defeated in the past, Gu and Ma Teng were in the same crusade camp, and in a blink of an eye, so much time has passed."

Thinking of the old days, Cao Cao also felt some emotion in his heart, who would have thought that after being inconspicuous in the past and even despised as a eunuch, he would become the king of Wei who ruled the entire north today.

Who would have thought that Sun Zijian, the Han who was loyal to the Han family in the past and dedicated to the Han Dynasty, has now become a warlord who has seized Jiangdong.

Who would have thought that Ma Teng, the bold Xiliang man in the past, would join forces with Dong Zhuo's remnants today, and time has really changed too many people and too many things.

"So very good, the king can go to a letter with Ma Teng, write more nostalgic words on it, and the helplessness of having to fight against each other, but in the letter, the words in some places must be crossed out, so that when the time comes, as long as Guo Yan and others see this letter, Ma Teng can't wash it even if he wants to!"

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, because Sima Yi's words suddenly made him think that in history, when facing Ma Chao, the Wei army also used this strategy, which really made Cao Cao suddenly have a sense of time and space illusory.

However, this feeling quickly disappeared, and Cao Cao turned to another question, that is, with a letter, can Guangguang really separate Ma Teng and Guo Yan, this question, Cao Cao asked directly to Sima Yi. (To be continued.) )