Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 635 Situation

Henan Yin, Xincheng.

At dusk, Sima Yi stopped at the post station, looked at the imperial edict in his hand, and sighed.

"Father, Your Majesty wants to summon us, but now he orders me to return to the army. Why?" Sima Zhao asked doubtfully, leading the horse.

Compared with Sima Shi's keen political sense, Sima Zhao, who lacks experience, is still a little immature.

Sima Yi raised his head, clasped the imperial edict with lowered hands, and said calmly: "Without it, His Majesty is seriously ill. The only thing that is difficult to decide is the selection of Gu Gu, and the matter of retreating to Shu and moving the capital."

Sima Zhao caught the deep meaning in Sima Yi's words, and said: "Your Majesty ordered my father to join the Chinese army because he wanted to make him the choice of Minister Tuogu. Today's edict tells my father to guard against the Shu Han and not to join the army, but he does not want to appoint my father as the minister. Minister Tuogu?"

When Sima Yi received the first edict, he handed over the army to Xia Houba and Sun Li to lead the army, and hurried to the southern expedition army by himself.While in Xincheng, he received a second edict from Cao Rui, asking Sima Yi to return to the army to guard against the Shu army.

Sima Yi looked at the south reluctantly, and said, "Your Majesty is repeating this, that's exactly what happened."

Sima Zhao asked unwillingly: "Father, shall we return to the army like this?"

"Prime Minister, it's time to drink the medicine." The attendant said, holding a bowl into the account.

His words: the country is above, Chen Liang nodded.Liang heard that Sima Yi was defeated by the country, and that he was so powerful in the middle of the country.However, Sun Quan sent [-] troops to attack me. Although Cao Rui was seriously ill, he had to guard against the northern border.Moreover, the country's soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and Liang was ill. The old minister implored the country to go south to unify the army and ensure that Nanyang would not be lost.

Sima Zhao was slightly startled, and said, "How can Xincheng be two or three hundred miles away from Nanyang in one night? And my father still has an arrow wound on his shoulder, so how can he travel like this?"

As he spoke, the cavalry pawn recalled Sun Zi's instructions, and said in a low voice: "General, Sun Zhongshu has a word, let the general enter the army quickly, so as not to change later, and be stolen by incompetent people."

But just for a moment, Sima Yi consciously turned the steed around and asked, "Your Majesty, what can I do?"

For example, Zhang Ni was promoted from the position of captain, and Wang Ping also served as captain of the west.And at the state level, a governor is set up to control the state military power.As for the frontier areas, the prefect still controls the military power, and the captain is not appointed unless it is stable.

Therefore, when Zhuge Liang found out the news, he immediately wrote to Liu Chan who was in Yiyang, asking him to return to Nanyang to lead the army and appoint a general to guard Yiyang.And informed Pu Zhong of the news to Pu Zhong, who was guarding Xiangfan, so that he could resist Soochow in the south with peace of mind.

Before they had gone for a long time, another troop of cavalry came from the south. Seeing Sima Yi in front, they shouted, "General, Your Majesty is in a hurry."

You must know that Cao Wei's military power is different from that of Shu Han. Liu Chan emphasized to Zhuge Liang the key points of the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty at the beginning of his ascension to the throne.That's why Zhuge Liang started to attack the localities in the early years, splitting the military power from the prefect, and appointing the post of captain to control the military power.

In addition, Zhuge Liang's illness was not fully recovered, and he was dealing with military affairs again, and his illness relapsed again, so it was difficult for him to lead the army with energy.Under the combination of the two, after Zhuge Liang thought about it, there was no one in the army who could be of great use, so he had to send Liu Chan who was in Yiyang back to the army to share his pressure.

Under the candlelight, Zhuge Liang held a handkerchief, covered his mouth and coughed.After a while, Zhuge Liang put down the handkerchief, took a deep breath, and his lung cavity was relieved a little.

……

After finishing speaking, Sima Yi got on his horse, shook the reins lightly, pretended that nothing happened in his mind, and walked forward slowly.

Zhuge Liang moistened the tip of his pen and wrote a letter to Deng Zhi.

Faced with such an abnormal move, Zhuge Liang sent a large number of scouts to the north to investigate, and asked Cao Wei officials who had taken refuge in the Shu Han. The combination of the two had guessed that Cao Rui was seriously ill.

Regarding the battle report of Liu Chan's tragic victory over Sima Yi, Zhuge Liang only held his beard and smiled, lamenting that His Majesty has grown a lot in military strategy, and with the assistance of Deng Ai and Wang Ping, he was able to defeat Sima Yi, which is a great talent.As for the damaged soldiers and horses, Zhuge Liang just glanced at them briefly, and ordered Jiang Wan in the country to take care of them.After all, the big man who is about to conquer the four counties of Nanyang and win 20 people can still bear it.

"Can!"

Gualidu, the camp of the Han army.

"promise!"

Zhuge Liang relied on the proof, pointed to the table, and said: "Put it down!"

"No!" Sima Zhao clasped his hands and said, "Zhao will go with my father."

Zhuge Liang put his hands on the table, picked up the battle report in front of him, and looked at it carefully, very happy.

After a while, Sima Yi raised his head and said with a smile, "It's been hard work for you all to send the edicts. Your Majesty will take them to the city to rest and send money."

Sima Yi, who was looking at the edict, narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he saw the open and secret struggle in front of Cao Rui's bed.

Xinyan: The battle in Nanyang is urgent now, Sun Quan raised 8000 troops to attack us, and quickly recruited [-] soldiers from central Shu and Jiangzhou.Let the governor of Jiangzhou command [-] troops, join Chen Dao's troops with [-] troops, and go east to resist the infantry.

Zhuge Liang took the warm medicine and drank it in one gulp, wiped his wet lips with a towel, and wrote a letter to Jiang Wan with a pen.

It's not that Cao Rui didn't want to keep the funeral secret, but that he didn't dare to hide it at all.There are two princes, King Qi and King Qin, in the country. First of all, it is necessary to confirm who is the prince.After the establishment of the crown prince, Cao Rui, who was seriously ill, still had to choose a minister to support Gu.In the future, it is necessary to let Qi Wang Lingqian succeed to the throne, and let the generals in the army kneel down and establish the title of monarch and minister.

Although Liu Chan did not succeed in attracting Gualidu Wei's army to go north, Gualidu's Wei army recently transferred Cao Shuang and Qin Lang back because of Cao Rui's illness, which led to a suspension of the offensive.In addition, Cao Rui ordered Qi Wang Cao Fang and Yan Wang Cao Yu to go south with great fanfare.

"promise!"

After all, this matter is no small matter. If the prestige of the central government declines, and the local state and county chiefs hold military power, it is very easy to evolve into a separatist regime.This is also the core reason why the Sima family was in power in history and the Huainan Three Rebellions occurred.

If Cao Rui does not mourn, let King Qi succeed in secret.In a short period of time, how can the eight-year-old Zitong appease the lieutenant soldiers? On the way back to the army, it is estimated that there will be many people who change their bosses and join the Shu Han.

Sima Yi glanced at Sima Zhao, sighed and said, "I can't wait to go south. If I don't return to the army today, what else can I do?"

After a pause, Zhuge Liang wrote a memorial to prevent Liu Chan from commemorating Yiyang's desire to enter Luoyang instead of going south.

The leading cavalryman reined in the reins, comforted his horse, took out an imperial edict from his cuff, and handed it to Sima Yi, saying, "Your Majesty ordered the general to go south, and he will entrust important matters."

Hearing this, Sima Yi was overjoyed, and turned his head to the back, but his body remained still.The opponent's horse was so frightened that it stopped suddenly, not daring to move forward, feeling that the person in front of him looked like a wolf.

Zhuge Liang sealed the three envelopes and ordered the cavalry to rush them to Liu Chan, Jiang Wan, and Deng Zhi.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang felt a dull pain in his lung cavity. Although Cao Rui was seriously ill, Sun Quan was still in the south.

Sima Yi raised the corner of his mouth and said meaningfully: "As you said, if it's too late, things will change, that's all. If it's too late, maybe it's another order to stick to the army. As for the arrow wound, it's not worth mentioning compared to Sima's future. "

Sima Yi smiled and said: "In that case, I will leave for Nanyang immediately for my father, and I will arrive at His Majesty's bed tomorrow to accept the heavy responsibility."

After Sima Zhao bowed his hands in response, he stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "Father, hurry to Nanyang immediately, lest things change later."

However, Cao Wei's military power has always been in the hands of the local prefects and governors.Once Cao Rui handles it improperly, or the handover is unclear, it is easy to trigger some incidents of changing the flag and returning to Han.

However, there was also bad news. Sun Quan in the south was furious because Lu Xun was blocked under the city of Xiangfan. He sent Zhuge Ke 3000 people to go north, and led 3000 soldiers to go up the river, preparing to conquer Xiangfan.At the same time, Bu Zhi led [-] soldiers from Bu Zhi and Wuling County to go up the river and attack Yong'an City, which was guarded by Chen Dao.Bu Zhi, Sun Quan, and Lu Xun's three armies totaled [-] people and sent troops to Shu Han.

The letter said: Bo Miao is the governor of Jiangzhou in Han Dynasty. Now the people of Wu have violated the alliance and invaded me. In order to solve the predicament of Yong'an and the siege of Jingbei, we still need to encourage him.

"Han Ji Guangwen Emperor Ji": "In the 16th year of Jianxing, Zhongzu broke through Wuguan and entered Nanyang, and everything he went was conquered. Because of Wu's backing of the alliance, Zhongzu led the crowd to attack Yiyang, and when Sima Yi arrived, everyone said to retreat. Zhongzu refused. Later Zhongzu learned Yi's strategy and defeated his army in Luoshuibei. Beheaded over ten thousand, beheaded three generals, Le Wei, Yin Shu, and Lu Jian, and his power shocked the middle land."

"Han Ji·Wang Deng Jiang Huo Biography": "In the 16th year of Jianxing, Pingzuo Zhongzu went north and defeated Sima Yi.... Ai Cong Zhongzu attacked Sima Yi, and he really did something."

"Han Ji Zhuge Family": "When the Prime Minister heard that Zhongzu defeated Sima Yi, he sighed and said: 'We are so powerful in Zhongtu'."

"Han Ji Cao's Biography": "Cao Rui heard that Zhongzu defeated Sima Yi, he was extremely angry, the arrow wound recurred, and he was seriously ill on the bed."

Chen Shou: Your Majesty, give me~
(End of this chapter)