There is a saying that Sima Yi took a spectatorial attitude towards Zhuge Liang's torture of the Liangxian family.
These days, a bunch of ordinary people don't know about the energy and status of aristocratic families. How could Sima Yi, who is a descendant of an aristocratic family, not know about it.
Zhuge Liang actually asked for a mere month's worth of military rations from a noble family in Liang County. Is he crazy? !
From Zhuge Liang's actions, Sima Yi was also thinking seriously about a question-why Zhuge Liang did this.
Sima Yi is a son of a noble family and knows the importance of aristocratic families in local governance. Zhuge Liang is also a son of a noble family. In addition, he has been in charge of Shu Han for seven or eight years, so it is impossible not to know this reality.
So what is Zhuge Liang's purpose? He would rather risk offending the Heluo family than insist on doing this. Is a month's worth of food and grass really worth Zhuge Liang's risk? !
In other words, Zhuge Liang is really running out of time now and must decide the winner in the Heluo area within a month? !
Moreover, is it really hard for the Shu thieves to sustain their food supply for even a month? !
If this is the case, Sima Yi is a little tempted.
Sima Yi didn't care much about the pressure put on him by the aristocratic families. He was not the kind of person who couldn't bear the pressure, so whether Sima Yi decided to send troops was entirely based on his own judgment.
Apart from the real lack of food in the army, Sima Yi really couldn't find any reason for Zhuge Liang to take the initiative to offend the wealthy family. After all, this method of torturing the wealthy family would have a huge chain reaction.
Of course, even so, Sima Yi was only considering in his heart whether it was necessary to take the initiative to send troops, but it was not enough for him to make up his mind.
After all, delaying change by defending is a strategy that Sima Yi has always adhered to. Now that the Shu thieves are short of food, it may not take much time to retreat without a fight. If this is the case, Sima Yi can still defeat the Shu thieves by continuing to defend Luoyang. the goal of.
Moreover, by doing so, the losses will be smaller than taking the initiative.
Of course, taking the initiative to fight is not without its benefits. These days, any general who wants to save face will not choose to passively stick to it. This means that there is no longer any way to deal with it, and he can only hold his head and get beaten.
This is a great shame for any military general and is also very detrimental to military morale.
Taking the initiative to attack and seek to defeat the enemy can not only boost the morale of the army, but also defeating it in one battle will bring unparalleled reputation bonus.
Don't forget, Sima Yi's action of withdrawing his troops after the challenge at the gate of Luyang City can be said to have completely risked his own reputation.
The war is still at a stalemate, and it is not final yet, so not much has been spread about this matter.
But if Sima Yi continued to be beaten passively and waited for Zhuge Liang to run out of food and retreat, then he would have defended Luoyang, but the loss in reputation would not be a small loss.
A reputation of "fearing Shu as much as a tiger" will definitely not escape you.
But if Sima Yi could seize the opportunity to defeat the enemy in a single battle outside Luoyang City and severely inflict heavy losses on the Shu thieves in the Northern Expedition, then his previous behavior in Luyang could be completely whitewashed as "bearing humiliation and bearing a heavy burden" and "regardless of personal reputation for the sake of national affairs." Instead, it can establish an image of being "loyal to the king".
So, selfishly speaking, Sima Yi still wants to take the initiative if the time is right.
However, Sima Yi was still hesitant because he always felt that all Zhuge Liang's actions during the Northern Expedition seemed to be premeditated and were too unexpected.
You want to say that Zhuge Liang was completely forced by the situation and eager to fight, and had no choice but to do it because Sima Yi's intuition told him, but that's not necessarily true.
In the end, Sima Yi still has not found the real reason why Zhuge Liang is eager to fight.
Judging from the superficial actions, Zhuge Liang's army was short of food, and the food logistics channel was facing the threat of Chen Tai, so it was reasonable to be eager to fight.
However, Sima Yi never found a reasonable explanation for the lack of food. As for the military food channel, if possible, Zhuge Liang was actually able to defend it and did not necessarily have to be exposed to Chen Tai's attack range.
Moreover, Chen Tai has not launched a strong attack on Kunyang and Luyang now. Although the Shu thieves' food transportation channels have been affected to some extent, the impact is not too great. How can Zhuge Liang be short of food? !
Unable to figure out this problem, Sima Yi never dared to make up his mind and sought opportunities to take the initiative to fight.
Just continue squatting in Luoyang City. Sima Yi believes that if Zhuge Liang is really short of food, Zhuge Liang should be the one who is anxious now.
In this way, half a month had passed since Zhuge Liang's "Liang County Request for Food" incident, and there was still no movement from Sima Yi stationed in Luoyang.
Also, the fighting situation at Mengjindu on the north side of Luoyang has slowly calmed down.
After receiving 10,000 reinforcements sent by Sima Yi, the two brothers Sima Shi and Sima Zhao finally stabilized their position at Mengjin Ferry. On the opposite side, Wei Yan, Zhang Fei, and Pang Tong, after a long attack on Mengjin Ferry, could not make it. There was no choice to continue the attack.
The morale of the soldiers will also change depending on the success of the attack. If the attack is unfavorable, the morale of the soldiers will slowly decrease as the casualties increase. Even if the defense is unfavorable at the beginning, as reinforcements arrive, the morale of the soldiers will gradually decrease. , if the situation is slowly stabilized, the morale of the soldiers will also increase.
Therefore, after a fierce attack and hard defense, both sides slowly began to gather their forces, suspended the fighting, restored each other's morale, and prepared for the next war.
In this way, the war in the Heluo area slowly calmed down in the strange atmosphere.
Zhuge Liang did not want to see this atmosphere, but Sima Yi in Luoyang City was really calm, and Zhuge Liang had nothing to do for a while.
All the tricks that should be used have been used. If Sima Yi continues to station troops and cannot go out, Zhuge Liang has no other better way except to continue the siege and then mobilize troops from Jingzhou or Chang'an.
As for the outcome of this war, I'm afraid it really depends on God's will.
And "God's will" arrived under such circumstances.
Yes, it was sudden, at least for Zhuge Liang.
But for the initiators of "God's Will", this is not a sudden thing. They have been preparing for more than a month.
In early December of the seventh year of Jianxing, Zhou Yu, who was originally stationed at Lukou, Jiangxia, suddenly raised 50,000 troops and divided them into two groups to attack Jiangling County.
On the water route, led by Zhang Zhao's second son Zhang Cheng, 20,000 naval troops approached Hanjin Ferry, trying to land from here, and approached Dangyang County, cutting off the reinforcement channel from Xiangyang to Jiangling.
On the land route, Zhou Yu personally led 30,000 army soldiers from Jingling County, Jiangxia County, to directly attack the newly established Jiangling County of the Han Dynasty. They directly defeated Huarong County at the beginning of the war, and then divided their troops to go south to conquer Wulin and Hanyang. The three counties of Mianyang were captured and the four southeastern counties of Jiangling County were directly captured.
Now the army peak is approaching Ying County.
Zhu Ran, who was originally stationed at Lukou, suddenly led 30,000 naval troops up the river to attack the public security forces. Lu Dai, the prefect of Wuling Wuling, also led 20,000 troops to attack Lingyang, which was guarded by Shi Bao, with the intention of a pincer attack between the land and water armies. public security.
All in all, Dongwu mobilized 100,000 troops to attack Jiangling County by both land and water.
As for Jiangling County, the Lingyang and Public Security Bureaus in the south of the Yangtze River only have a total of 10,000 horses. On the other side of the river, Jiangling County governs Jiangling City and only has 20,000 guards. Plus Zhijiang and other county soldiers, the total is only 30,000. Only five thousand people.
In Xiangyang, because a large number of armies were dispatched to the north to participate in the Northern Expedition, Xiangyang now only has 20,000 naval troops and 10,000 land troops. The navy can still take the initiative to fight and contain the 20,000 naval troops led by Zhang Cheng, but the army can only To defend Xiangyang, it is difficult to provide practical support to Jiangling.
Therefore, in terms of the actual strength comparison of Jiangling County, Soochow's 70,000-strong army is superior, and Soochow's naval force is superior. Once Soochow captures the south bank of the Yangtze River and completely cuts off the connection between the Han armies on both sides of the Yangtze River, then Jiangling County will The defenders could only fall into a situation of fighting alone.
Jiangling County is in danger.
Wang Ji, the governor of Jingzhou, sat in Jiangling. While preparing for war, he wrote letters to Xiangyang and even the front line of the Northern Expeditionary Army asking for help.
Under such circumstances, Zhuge Liang received an urgent military report from Wang Ji.
Faced with such an urgent battle report, Zhuge Liang not only did not panic, on the contrary, he also smiled.
The last piece of the puzzle has finally arrived.
It seems that "God's will" is on Yanhan's side after all.
This time, let’s see if you, Sima Yi, can continue to cower in Luoyang City.
(End of chapter)
