Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 316 Breaking through the fire attack strategy, attacking Zhuge's heart (4)
The "Liuma" is also like a real horse. The grain soldier sits on its back, holds the "horse ear" mechanism to grasp the direction, and drives it to pull a grain cart weighing more than [-] catties forward.

Although Li Jian had a deep prejudice against Zhuge Liang, he had to admire him.If Zhuge Liang hadn't carefully developed this batch of "wooden cows and horses" in the past few years, I don't know how troublesome the logistics supply of grain and grass for the Northern Expedition will be!
"Master Li, let's rest in the woods ahead!" A pawn hurried over and said to him, "The weather here is too hot..."

Li Jian looked up at the scorching sun and waved his hands: "Okay, okay, okay. Let's take a rest in that woods!"

Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly heard shouts of killing from all around.From the woods on both sides, a group of dead soldiers of the Wei army rushed out like wolves, and surrounded themselves and the grain transportation team!

Too bad, I was ambushed!Li Jian's heart skipped a beat, and he was so frightened that he rolled off his horse: "Quick! Quickly release the arrow—inform General Cen who is responding in front!"

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, Li Jian, the food supervisor, escorted 9 catties of grain, and was robbed by Wei thieves on Xiegukou North Road. General Cen Shu rushed to the rescue and took back more than [-] catties of grain. But Li Jian and A few 'wooden cows and horses' were captured by the Wei thief..."

After Zhuge watched and listened to the soldier's report, he twitched his eyebrows, sighed deeply, and waved the goose feather fan in his hand to make him retreat.

"Prime Minister, Li Jian's temperament has always been vacillating, and his integrity is not firm. Now that he has fallen into Sima Yi's hands, he will definitely rebel." Jiang Wei hurriedly said to Zhuge Liang, "If he leaked to Sima Yi the granaries of our Shu army We are a little passive..."

Zhuge Liang glanced at him, his eyes full of consideration: "Then, Boyue, in your opinion, what should we do with the three granaries of Shangfanggu, Jiupanshan, and Weihe Riverside?"

Jiang Wei talked eloquently: "My lord, the upper grain granary is the main warehouse for our army's grain storage, and there is the most grain stored there. If Li Jian informs Sima Yi of his rebellion now, the upper grain warehouse will be completely exposed. Therefore, We should quickly distribute the grain and grass there to the north, and stop storing them there too much. Sima Yi will definitely come to rob the grain!"

"Boyue! Your thoughts are becoming more and more mature now. I am very relieved to see the truth!" Zhuge Liang showed a satisfied smile on his face. He gently shook the goose feather fan in his hand and said leisurely, " If Sima Yi wants to come to Shangsanggu to rob food, then let him do it! Let’s see the truth, what kind of robbing method does he want to do this time?"

"You... you want to let the old thief Sima come to rob food?" Jiang Wei was shocked when he heard this.

Zhuge Liang smiled without answering, slowly shaking the goose feather fan, and suddenly asked Taishi Ling Qiaozhou who had been sitting quietly beside him: "Doctor Qiao, according to your method of observing the sky, how long will the weather in Wuzhang Plain be dry?"

Qiao Zhou's gaze was as deep as that of the ancient pool, and he quietly cast his eyes on the sun-drenched yellow earth outside the tent door, and slowly replied: "My lord, when Qiao watched the sky on a certain night recently, all I saw were stars competing for glory, and the moonlight was gloomy. This severe drought will last for twenty days..."

"Oh? That is to say, the severe drought will not ease until the eighth day of August? Doctor Qiao, you can't make a mistake, right?" Zhuge Liang gently tapped his knee with the goose feather fan held in his right hand, and said very seriously Watching Qiao Zhou.

"Your Excellency, Qiao dares to use his official position to guarantee that this statement is true. This year, it didn't even rain on the day of Liqiu, which means that the solar terms in autumn have not been fulfilled; and if the solar terms in autumn have not been fulfilled, then according to astronomical common sense, the whole It’s hard to rain in autumn. If it rains in the next [-] days, it will be a big difference. Qiao will have to accept the punishment and have no regrets.” Qiao Zhou replied decisively.

Zhuge Liang himself is proficient in astronomical and climate observations—his calculated conclusions are not much different from those of Qiao Zhou, and he only asked Qiao Zhou for confirmation.Now seeing Qiao Zhou's swearing appearance, he no longer hesitated.

So, Zhuge Liang turned around slowly, and solemnly ordered Jiang Wei: "Bo Yue, you will pass on the order for the truth later-from now on, quickly increase the two granaries by the Weihe River and the Jiupan Mountain by eight Thousands of elite soldiers are strictly guarded, and they will openly carry out the mobilization operation with great fanfare..."

"Will the upper grain warehouse be deployed to increase its defense?" Jiang Wei couldn't help asking.

"There is no need to increase troops for the time being, but we can send a team of chariots and horses to transport grain and move northward." Zhuge Liang pondered for a moment, then said slowly after thinking, "The upper valley is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Sima Yi probably won't It’s easy to send troops to touch it..."

Jiang Wei was stunned when he heard this, but thought in his heart: Your Excellency, Prime Minister!Since you have publicly sent troops to guard the two granaries by the Weihe River and Jiupan Mountain, the implication to the outside world is that you are preparing to increase troops to protect the grain.As the saying goes, "Increasing grain means increasing soldiers", so Sima Yi can't help but conclude that you will transfer most of the grain stored in the upper grain silo northward to the two big granaries!In this way, he will not care about "the terrain of Shangfang Valley is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack", and he will definitely take risks and do his best to step up the sneak attack on Shangfang Valley's granary!But it seems that you don't really want to go northward from the upper grain distribution, and you don't increase your troops to guard it. Doesn't this completely expose the upper grain warehouse to Sima Yi's eyes?In the event of sudden changes in the future, how will you deal with the aftermath, Mr. Prime Minister?How did you plan it?

On this side, Zhuge Liang walked slowly to the curtain of the handsome tent, squinted his eyes and looked sideways at the blue sky that had been burned by the scorching sun without even a trace of white cloud left, and sighed deeply: "If the sky is merciful, please give it to me again." Let me, a big man, give me a helping hand! Truthful life's volunteering and effort have been completely thrown into this one move!"

Hearing Zhuge Liang's words, Jiang Wei felt inexplicably heavy in his heart for some reason.

"Haier personally led people to go deep into the enemy's territory to investigate, and found that the scale of the granary above is indeed huge. There are more than 90 grain stores inside, and the amount of grain stored should not be less than 50 shi. These days, there are six or seven hundred every day. A 'wooden ox and flowing horse' pulled four or five thousand stones of grain and grass northward to the Wuzhang Plain. If you, Commander-in-Chief, were late and delayed for another twenty or thirty days, then the grain reserves in the upper valley would be even less."

Sima Zhao reported to Sima Yi seriously.After hearing this, Sima Yi half-opened and half-closed his eyes, a flash of light flashed in his pupils, and asked suddenly: "Did Zhuge Liang ever increase his troops to guard around the grain warehouse above?" After he asked this sentence, he couldn't help laughing again. , "Forget it! Forget it! This question is too stupid for the commander-in-chief Zhuge Liang must have sent troops to defend!"

Sima Zhao looked straight at him, and replied seriously: "No. Zhuge Liang didn't add troops to guard the upper valley."

"No? You mean he didn't send troops to defend the upper valley?" Sima Yi's eyes suddenly opened, and the cold light pierced out like a sword, "Are you sure?"

"My son saw it with my own eyes. There is no sign of reinforcements in the upper valley." Sima Zhao replied solemnly, "If my son makes a mistake, I am willing to be punished by my father."

"Huh? That's strange!" Sima Yi was a little puzzled, "Could it be that Li Jian's informant was wrong? Isn't Shangfang Valley the main warehouse for their Shu army's grain storage?"

"General, in Zhao's opinion, Zhuge Liang deliberately placed Shangfanggu in the appearance of being light or heavy, large or small, which happened to prove that he wanted to continue to keep Shangfanggu as his main grain storage warehouse. At this time, Zhao Yan opened his mouth to analyze, "Look, this upper valley is adjacent to Wuzhangyuan in the north and Xiegu Road in the south. He dispatched troops to help, so he did not increase troops to guard around Shangfang Valley. But judging from the current situation, Zhuge Liang has already started to transfer most of the stored grain in Shangfang Valley as a precautionary measure in the near future.”

"Mr. Zhao is right. However, we still can't let go of the situation inside and outside Shangfang Valley!" Sima Yi stood up and walked around the tent with his hands behind his back. "Zhaoer, you are still investigating inside and outside Shangfang Valley." Did something strange happen? Don't worry, recall slowly, and don't miss any details."

Sima Zhao frowned and thought about it for a long time, then replied: "As far as I can see, there is nothing unusual in Shangfanggu."

Sima Yi's thoughts turned darkly, and he asked, "Aside from guarding the grain store, what are those Shu soldiers doing?"

"The Shu soldiers seemed to be very afraid of the heat, so they searched for straw sheds and bamboo huts in the valley bottom, and went in to cool off in shifts."

"Oh," Sima Yi nodded slightly, and continued to ask, "Then are there any strange facilities and things around the grain warehouse above?"

"No, really not. Everything in and out of the upper valley is as usual, and there is nothing unusual." Sima Zhao pondered for a while, raised his eyebrows, and replied, "However, my child saw that Zhuge Liang did something that is really true. It seems a little too cautious. Commander-in-Chief, you never imagined that he would let the soldiers place a row of large wooden barrels filled with cold water around every grain storage in the valley, probably because he was afraid that the weather would dry out in this severe drought. Let’s set fire to the food store! Their wooden barrels are everywhere, there are so many of them!”

After hearing this, Sima Yi smiled slightly: "It turns out that Zhuge Liang was also afraid that his granary would be shot down and killed, and he would even burn it and rob it!"

"Father commander, we can't just watch Zhuge Liang empty out the granaries in the upper valley step by step!" Sima Shi cupped his hands and came forward to report, "If the Shu bandits rely on these grains and grass, they will try their best to survive this winter and next year. After harvesting the wheat in their fields in the coming spring, they will definitely lay down a foundation here, and they will no longer be afraid of our "delay" tactics. At that time, the forces of the Shu army were close to my elbow and armpit in Guanzhong, and they were in the dark. Long, after a long time, who can stop it! Commander-in-law, please don't hesitate any longer, just wait for the opportunity to attack!"

But Sima Yi didn't answer right away, but continued to walk around in the tent with his hands behind his back, "Master, have you ever thought about it, what if Zhuge Liang secretly set a trap in the upper valley? We can't Drill indiscriminately!"

"Didn't the commander-in-chief ask just now? Zhuge Liang didn't send troops to defend the Shangfang Valley, and Brother Zhao also said that there is no difference inside and outside the Shangfang Valley!" Master Sima said bluntly, "He just wanted to catch you, Commander-in-Chief" With a "meticulous and complete" mentality, I deliberately played this "empty valley trick" to confuse you. Father, you are too rigorous and prudent, and you don't even catch the prey you put under your nose."

When he said this, Hu Zun, Huang Hua, Wei Ping and General Wei also echoed in unison.

"Let's do this! This commander doesn't want to make the mistake of waiting for a rabbit and missing a good opportunity." Sima Yi rubbed his hands, pacing up and down in the tent a little anxiously, "Liang Ji, please quietly inform everyone we have placed in the Shu camp immediately." Eyeliner, let them find out what kind of tricks Zhuge Liang is going to play in Shangfanggu this time. Who can find out, this commander will present the great reward given to him by the imperial court as the hereditary Marquis of Guannei!"

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(End of this chapter)