The sky over Chengdu is already bright, and the sky in Luoyang is almost bright too. Father-in-law Sun showed a fair and bright smile,
And Sima Yi from the Taifu Mansion is still immersed in the memory and nostalgia of the past glory...
In the third year of Taihe (229), Shu Prime Minister Zhuge Liang sent troops to attack Wei for the third time and occupied the two counties of Wudu (now Wudu District, Longnan, Gansu) and Yinping (now northwest of Wenxian County, Gansu).
In the fourth year of Taihe (230), Emperor Wei Ming, Cao Rui, decided to raise an army to attack Shu. He promoted Sima Yi to the rank of general, made him the governor, and appointed Huang Yue as the fake Huang Yue. Together with the great Sima Cao Zhen, he attacked Shu.
In August, Emperor Wei Ming ordered Cao Zhen to lead the main force from Chang'an into the Ziwu Valley, General Zhang He from the left left the Xie Valley, and Sima Yi followed the Han River from Jingzhou out of Xicheng, and divided his troops into three groups to attack Hanzhong.
Sima Yi opened up a road from Xicheng, advanced by land and water, and went upstream along the Mian River to Quren, conquered Xinfeng County, and garrisoned Dankou. Later, he encountered heavy rain and retreated.
In February of the fifth year of Taihe (231), Zhuge Liang led his army in the fourth northern expedition to Wei, surrounded Jia Si and Wei Ping in Qishan, and used wooden oxen and flowing horses to transport grain and grass.
Cao Rui sent Sima Yi to station in Chang'an to defend the Shu army. This time he fled to Shuhan and had been in Chengdu for six or seven months. He had no chance to see the wooden cow and flowing horse made by Zhuge Liang again. He studied it carefully.
However, he only came to Shuhan to serve as a sinecure, one of the three princes, and had no chance to contact military power. These "black technologies" in the contemporary Shuhan army must be hidden in heavily guarded places in the Shuhan army.
Only a few important military officials of the Shu Han could see it. It was not something that he, the Taifu, who had just come to the Shu Han and whose loyalty had yet to be "tested" by time, could see it. But if it was not possible now, it does not mean that it would not be possible in the future!
Sima Yi left his generals Fei Yao and Dai Ling to guard Yong with 4,000 men, and led the main force to the west to rescue Qishan. Zhang He advised Sima Yi to divide his troops and station them in Yong and Yi to serve as a backstop for the army, but Sima Yi disagreed.
Advancing into Yu Mi and fighting against Zhuge Liang. The results of this battle are recorded differently in different history books.
In "Book of Jin: Chronicles of Emperor Xuan", Sima Yi defeated the Shu army, but in "Han Jin Chun Qiu", Zhuge Liang defeated the Wei army. It can be seen that the history books of later generations are written according to the will of the victor.
The different wills of the victors in different dynasties will lead to different versions of events and results.
And the result of such writing is that future generations will have a good or bad impression of this great figure from the previous generation. Whether he is good or bad, loyal or traitorous, resourceful or extremely stupid, all are rewritten by the will of the victor.
If Sima Yi had won the battle of Gaopingling, then the history books of later generations would be written according to the will of his Sima family, and the great achievements of the Sima family would also be praised one by one.
It's a pity that Sima failed. The front of the history book of the Wei Dynasty will be written by Cao Shuang's will, while Sima Yi and Sima will be left on the back of the history book.
But this is not what I want, and I don’t want to be infamous for thousands of years after his death, and bear the reputation of being a traitor in the Wei Dynasty.
I have to take the position of the famous and powerless Third Master of the Shu Han Dynasty and find another opportunity to do what I want to do again until I can accomplish what I want to do! After all, the history pen is like a knife.
People from a scholarly family like Sima Yi are still very afraid, so we have to worry about his posthumous name.
He was not worried before the Gao Pingling Incident. After all, he had always regarded himself as a loyal minister of the Wei Dynasty, and he was not afraid of shadows. He was not worried when the Gao Pingling Incident happened. After all, as long as he won,
Sima Yi can have the final say in the world of the Wei Dynasty. Then he will no longer be afraid of the history pen as a knife. After all, history has always been written by the winner. As for the ministers and the people,
As long as we treat them better, in the past ten or twenty years, the world will only be loyal to him, the Sima family, and not know about the Wei Dynasty. It is a pity that he failed in the end.
Even though Cao Shuang blamed some bad things on him, he was not even half wise. He was unwilling to sink into history, so he ran away with all his strength, and finally escaped.
Logically speaking, he should have bravely committed suicide at that time, but he was unwilling to do so! He had endured so many years of hard work, paid so much for the Wei Dynasty, and assisted four generations of Wei emperors.
He believed that these achievements were enough for his Sima clan to take over the power of Cao Wei. If you pay, you will be rewarded. In the past, you had to pay for sowing and cultivating, but this year it is time to harvest.
When it was time to harvest the fruits of victory, it was supposed to be a great opportunity for him to harvest the power from Cao Shuang, the clan leader of the Wei Dynasty, but in the end, he, a veteran of four dynasties who had been on the battlefield for a long time, was harvested by the relatively immature powerful minister Cao Shuang.
He was unwilling to give up, and because he could endure and survive, he managed to escape to Shuhan alive. Therefore, he vowed to start over and restore the glory of the Sima family. He could not let the Hanoi Sima family decline in his hands like this.
No matter what the cost, we still have to revive the Sima family!
In addition, there are different accounts of the death of Wei general Zhang He during this period. According to the "Biography of Zhang He", Zhang He ignored Sima Yi's advice and took the initiative to attack. "He ordered the generals to go west to Lueyang, and (Zhuge) Liang also protected Qishan, and He pursued them to
Wooden Gate, fighting with the Liang army, hit his right knee with a flying arrow, and died.",
However, in "Wei Lue", it is recorded that Sima Yi's command was improper. "King Xuan sent He He to pursue him. He said: "Military law, a way out of a siege must be opened, and the returning army must not pursue him."
"King Xuan sent He to pursue him, and He said: "Military law states that a way out of a besieged city must be opened, and the returning troops must not pursue them." King Xuan refused to listen. He had no choice but to advance. The Shu army set up an ambush on a high ground, and their bows and crossbows fired randomly, and the arrows hit He's thigh.
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In the first year of Qinglong (233 years), Hu Bo Juzi, the leader of the Huns who was protecting Ping'an, rebelled. Sima Yi sent Hu Zun and others to pursue him and break the surrender.
After the Shu army retreated, military advisor Du Xi and warlord Xue Ti predicted that Zhuge Liang would invade again the next year when the wheat was ripe, and suggested transporting grain and grass in winter to solve Longyou's shortage of grain problem.
Sima Yi believed: "Zhuge Liang went out to Qishan twice and attacked Chencang once, but was frustrated and returned. Even if he will send troops in the future, he will no longer attack the city, but seek field battles. The location will be in the east of Longxi, not the west.
Zhuge Liang often resents the lack of food, so he will definitely accumulate food and grass when he returns. I estimate that without three years of savings, Zhuge Liang will not rush to send troops to the Northern Expedition."
In February of the second year of Qinglong (234), Shu Prime Minister Zhuge Liang led an army of 100,000 people out of Xiegu to attack Wei. In April, Zhuge Liang arrived at Yi County (located in today's Baoji, Shaanxi Province) and stationed south of the Weishui River.
Sima Yi led his army across the Wei River and built a fortress with his back to block the attack. The generals wanted to stalemate Zhuge Liang across the water in the north of the Wei River. Sima Yi said: "All the food and property accumulated by the people are in Weinan. This is a must-win area." So he crossed the Wei River and set up camp on his back.
Many people disagreed, but Sima Yi thought so, so he asked Guo Huai to garrison Beiyuan and confront Shu Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang here, making it difficult for the Shu Han Northern Expedition army to advance into the hinterland of the Wei Dynasty.
Advancing into the Guanzhong region was the highlight of his life. It was his honor to play against Wolong again.
Sima Yi thought for a while and then said to the two brothers Sima Zhao and Sima Lun: "Ahem, my father used to think of serving the Wei Dynasty for the rest of his life. After all, the Hanoi County where the Sima family has lived for generations belongs to the Wei Dynasty.
territory,
He was a lifelong enemy of the Shu Han Dynasty, so he spared no effort to resist Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition for the Wei Dynasty. Unfortunately, God's will has come up with it now.
My father actually led the remaining members of the Sima family to leave their hometown of Hanoi County and come to Chengdu, the land of Shu, to serve for the former sworn enemy Shu Han!"...