Guanzhong, which is nearly a year old and has no drums and horns arguing, seems very peaceful.
No matter whether the Han army, which occupied most of the right Fufeng, or the Yongliang and Luoyang armies of the Wei State, they interfered with each other and broke out conflicts. Each other strictly ordered the soldiers to stay away from the buffer zone between the two armies, just like the Wei River and Jing River.
Where the water converges, the turbidity should be clear and everyone should be safe.
But everyone knew the peace was short-lived.
As mortal enemies, Han and Wei had no possibility of making peace.
Today's tranquility is just a preparation for a war that will determine the fate of the country in the future.
The only difference is that the Han army is looking forward to this day coming as soon as possible, while the Wei army, who is also working hard to recover Guanzhong, is stalling for time.
Yes, stalling for time.
After the Han army sent 50,000 troops to attack Wu and was trapped in the war in the three eastern counties for nearly a year, everyone in the Wei state felt that the time was ripe to expel the Han army from Guanzhong and regain Longdong.
Even the crude soldiers who had no chance to study were vaguely aware that the war was coming.
However, Sima Yi, the governor of Yongliang who had absolute decision-making power on the Guanzhong war, felt that the time was not yet ripe, and the reason was not that he had to wait for the autumn grain to arrive in the warehouse in August.
Because he felt that the opportunity for "Wei Kequan to recover Guanzhong" seemed to be deliberately done by the Han army.
There is no solid reason.
But every time he planned to attack all the troops in Guanzhong, he would always feel uneasy; there would always be a faint voice reminding him that the decision to initiate a decisive battle was wrong.
At first, he laughed at himself, thinking that he had suffered too many defeats against Shu in recent years, and his mentality was as "fearing Shu as a tiger" as he had been criticized for before.
But as he felt uneasy for many times, he felt that he must have neglected something.
The wary Sima Yi temporarily allowed himself to ignore the Jiji camp in the Guanzhong, and ordered the generals not to come to ask for battle. He regarded himself as an "outsider" and told what happened in the Han army's battle against Wu.
, I went over everything over and over several times, trying to find out the reason for my uneasiness.
Perhaps, the person who knows you best will always be your enemy.
Sima Yi's caution also made him discover two doubts.
First, the purpose of the Han army's attack on Wu is puzzling.
This is not to say that the Han army should not attack Wu, but that the Han army did not take the opportunity to expand its results after taking advantage of both the northern and southern fronts.
When the army goes out, it must seek profit.
If after occupying the three counties in the west of Jiaozhou, the southern front withdrew its troops in order to appease the territory it had just won, then why did the Han army on the northern front not take advantage of the situation and pursue it after Lu Xun and Zhu Ran's tribes were defeated?
For example, if you go south along Jingshan Mountain and occupy Dangyang and Maicheng, you can attack from both sides to capture the Xiling Gorge; if you capture the Xiling Gorge, you can go east to trap Jiangling City for reinforcements, and you can cross the river and go south to recapture the counties in Jingnan!
In this way, the Jiangdong monarchs and ministers who may suffer consecutive defeats and lose countless soldiers will be unable to eat and sleepless at night, right?
Can the hatred of the old war between Xiangfan and Yiling be restored?
Moreover, the Wei State was unable to cope with such tactics.
The Han army only needs to abandon the three eastern counties and hold on to the golden garrison of Hanzhong County, so that the Wei army cannot rescue Jiangdong.
After all, it was impossible for the Wei army to cross Xiangyang and rush to Jiangling for a fierce battle.
But things turned out to be so bizarre!
The Han army really missed the opportunity and stopped advancing!
Sima Yi did not think that Zhuge Liang and Scar Pu, the prime ministers who rebelled against Shu, were such unscrupulous people.
If we say that the Han army attacked Wu just to vent their hatred and had no intention of occupying Jingzhou, it also cannot withstand scrutiny.
After the Battle of Yiling in the past, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister who rebelled against Shu, did not hesitate to put aside his hatred and promote an alliance between Shu and Wu. This shows that he was aware of the general trend of the world. However, Jiangdong only betrayed the alliance and has not yet assisted Wei in the attack.
During the Bashu incident, he actually abandoned the city of Chang'an, the old capital of the Han Dynasty, and instead raised troops to attack Wu?
How unwise and evil it is to waste the country’s achievements just to vent hatred!
Taking a step back, if Jiangdong betrays its alliance and makes peace with Wei, it will not pose much of a threat to Ni Shu!
After the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Shouchun, Liao Shi's rebellion in Jiangdong was more than a year old, and he still had the strength to invade Bashu from Kuimen in Yong'an or Huanghuangxia Gorge in Hanzhong, but he failed!
Therefore, Sima Yi felt that the Han army's move to attack Wu must have hidden intentions for Wei.
On the other hand, the development of the current situation was too smooth for Wei.
As soon as Wei Guo made peace with Jiangdong, the Han army transferred troops to attack Jiangdong as they wished; just after Jiangdong was defeated and Wei Guo invited Sun Quan to return to the army, the Han army forced Jiangdong to comply with Wei Guo's invitation; and Wei Guo hoped to rebel against Shu, and Prime Minister Zhuge Liang and
Zheng Pu, who was "the great trouble of Wei", was restrained in the three eastern counties so that Wei could have a chance to regain Guanzhong, but Ni Shu also got his wish!
It was obvious that the Wei State had sent troops, and Pu had formed a camp in the Dushui River Valley to guard it. Why did Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu, stay in Xicheng instead of rushing back to Guanzhong to take charge?
Is it possible that he couldn't even predict the danger that Wei's more than 100,000 troops could take the opportunity to return to the pass?
Sima Yi couldn't believe it.
There were too many coincidences, as if Wei had been favored by God, which made him extremely frightened when he thought about it.
Therefore, he suddenly felt that the Han army was tempting him to launch a decisive battle in Guanzhong.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the Han army was so confident!
But as soon as he came to the conclusion, he fell into new doubts - where did the Han army's confidence come from?
When the Han army conquered Wu, the number of troops entering Jiaozhou on the southern front was beyond Jiangdong's expectation; the 50,000 troops entrenched in the three eastern counties on the northern front proved to be powerful in the battle to defeat Jiangdong, and they were not recruited for farming on the spot.
He pretends to be a guest or a soldier, and he is the undoubted main force!
In this way, even if the Han army wanted to plot against Wei in Guanzhong, where would their strength come from?
Just relying on Wei Yan, Wu Ban, Jiang Wei and other troops currently garrisoned in Guanzhong, with about 60,000 soldiers and horses, are they going to start a battle with Wei that risks the fate of the country?
Before this doubt was solved, Sima Yi could not refuse the urging of the Wei government and the public to fight.
Therefore, he recorded all his inferences and doubts in a book and passed it to his eldest son, Sima Shi, who was currently accompanying him in Wancheng, and asked him to privately pass it on to Emperor Cao Rui.
The people who avoided the temple and the princes talked a lot and discussed with Cao Rui privately.
Because as long as Cao Rui supports his speculation, other people's demands for war or verbal criticism will not affect his planning.
Cao Rui, who learned the lesson of his previous insistence on pushing troops to besiege the Fortress of Manyin and paid a heavy price, lived up to his expectations and allowed him to decide everything on his own.
No matter whether the time for dispatching troops is postponed or changed, there is no need to write a report again.
Yes, Sima Yi plans to stay dormant for a while, waiting to see how the war in the three eastern counties goes or until he clears up the doubts in his mind before launching a decisive battle in Guanzhong. For example, in December when the mountains are blocked by heavy snow and the Qinling Valley Road is impassable, for example
