Chapter 3 Three, the strategy of attacking the mind

At the second watch, Zhou Xuan suddenly opened the curtain and broke into Sima Yi's sleeping tent, pulled him sleepily from the bed, and stuffed a bundle of short silk books into his hand: "Report to the general, Zhou Xuan Someone just received a letter from Feige..." "Written by your old friend from the same town?" Sima Yi only asked one sentence, then unfolded the scroll and buried his head in reading it - as he watched, his face gradually changed, and ecstasy welled up on his brows: " Good! Good! Good! Brother Zhou—you and your old friend have really done a great job for my great Wei! It turns out that Zhuge Liang set up such a poisonous plan in the upper valley... Great! Great! No wonder he filled buckets all over the grain silo above, and he's afraid of playing with fire and setting himself on fire!"

After finishing speaking, he calmed down, and immediately returned to a stern expression like a bronze statue, both as if facing Zhou Xuan, and as if talking to himself: "Alright! He wants to rack his brains to attract Ben As soon as Shuai enters Shangfang Valley, this commander will give him a trick - let his fighting spirit completely disintegrate from now on! Let him understand that all of this is God's blessing, destiny will change, irreversible!" Then, his tone paused for a moment, and he said again: "Senior brother Zhou, in the past few days, please take a good look at the astronomy and climate for me. It's best to be able to predict when there will be rain in the future."

Zhou Xuan grinned: "Zhongda, didn't my foster brother mention it in this Feige biography? Ten days later, that is, on the third day of August, there may be a sudden rainstorm." As soon as Sima Yi grasped his right hand, he looked straight at him, and said in a gentle but firm tone, "He did clearly point out this point in this silk script. But this matter has a lot to do with it. The success or failure of Shi's psychological attack is closely related to the outcome, and there is no room for sloppiness. This commander, please, Brother Zhou, you must carefully observe the astronomy and climate from today, and the divination must be accurate, there will be no mistakes."

Zhou Xuan had never seen Sima Yi so serious before, so he couldn't help but tighten his face, and replied solemnly: "Don't worry about Zhongda, after a while Zhou will go to Houying Observatory to carefully observe and capture the changes in the sky and climate." Sign. If there is any change, I will come to report to you at any time." In the next six or seven days, Sima Yi seemed to have completely forgotten about going to the upper grain warehouse to rob grain, but he sent troops to harass the Shu army's field area by the Weihe River many times. go south. Finally, on the afternoon of the second day of August, Sima Yi called the generals into his account, and the deployment tasks were as follows: dispatch generals Hu Zun, Huang Hua, and Wei Ping to lead 40,000 soldiers and horses to encircle Wuzhangyuan and block Shu At the same time, he personally led Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, commanded 30,000 cavalry, with Niu Heng and Niu Jin as the vanguard generals, and rushed with the titles to surprise the upper grain warehouse overnight.

When it was late at night and at the beginning of the Yin hour, the Wei army had already killed halfway, but Sima Yi suddenly asked Niu Heng brothers to retreat to the ranks of the Chinese army.He called them to a hidden place under the shade of a tree by the road and stopped, saying that he had some important orders. "What is the general's order?" Niu Jin asked in a loud voice, "Brother Niu can only drive." Sima Yi hesitated to speak, looked at Sima Shi and Sima Zhao brothers beside him, waved to them and said, "Shi'er, Zhao'er, you two, go around here and make good news for me. Except Zhou The doctor stays outside this place, and no one is allowed to approach without reason!"

Niu Heng looked at Sima Yi's mysterious appearance, and was surprised when he saw Sima Yi sitting cross-legged on a rock, staring at him.For a moment, Niu Heng felt his two gazes were as heavy as a mountain, and his breathing couldn't help being tight! "Niu Hengjun, how is the relationship between my Sima family and your Niu family over the years?" Sima Yi spoke slowly, speaking very slowly, but with an irresistible force. In an instant, Niu Heng seemed to understand something.He straightened his back immediately, and said without hesitation: "General! You have treated my brothers with great kindness! Both brothers will always remember it—both brothers were originally slaves in Wen County, Hanoi, and their ancestors have given them to you for generations. If other people do their best, if they hadn’t met you and the old man, they would never have been able to stand out! It’s you, General Sima, who is eclectic and talented, and abandons Cao An, Xia Houru, first-class nobles and dignitaries. You have raised my two brothers from their humble origins as slaves and handmaids, all the way to the general status of two thousand shi in the official rank and the title of Marquis of Guannei! Everything about my two brothers is bestowed by you alone! My brother Even if the two of you are smashed to pieces, it will be hard to repay you! If you have any orders, just tell me, if my two brothers frown, they will be struck by lightning!"

After hearing this, Sima Yi stared at Niu Heng with tears in his tiger eyes, and said, "Good! Good! Niu Hengjun is truly a unparalleled national scholar! It's a lifetime for me to meet a tough guy like you. Fortunately! I won’t say much else——Dr. Zhou, please tell Niu Hengjun and Niu Jinjun about our strategy to deal with Zhuge Liang!” Zhou Xuan, who had been hiding under the shade of the tree like a shadow, came forward at this moment, brushed his beard, squinted his eyes slightly, and said calmly: "Niu Hengjun, Niu Jinjun, let's go to surprise the Shu army tomorrow morning." The upper valley above is a middle-of-the-road strategy, which on the surface does not seem to be a great strategy. But in this middle-of-the-road strategy, we also contain another extremely subtle strategy. Niu Hengjun, Niu Jinjun, You two must be prepared. This time, Zhuge Liang has already dug a deep moat in the granary above, and buried thousands of barrels of dry firewood, smoke, kerosene, explosives, etc., just waiting for us Once they enter the valley, they will fire arrows at once, and they will "burn the turtle in the urn" and kill us all."

"What a vicious strategy!" Niu Jin's complexion suddenly changed when he heard that, "Since that's the case, why are we going to surprise Shangfang Valley? Isn't this going to die? Why don't we retreat quickly?" Zhou Xuan ignored him, and still looked at them with cold eyes, and said: "However, according to the great general's opinion, we should not retreat but advance at this time, and we will follow the plan and push the boat along the way, one step at a time." One step counterattacks himself with Zhuge Liang's strategy of attacking with fire. Didn't he exhaust all his heart and energy in this strategy of "attacking the upper valley with fire"? Didn't he use up the strategy of "burning the upper valley with fire"? Didn't he put all his expectations in the plan? Didn't he decide to use the plan of "burning the upper valley" as the last blow against our Great Wei Wangshi? General Sima just wanted him to watch This last blow was in vain and there was nothing to do! Therefore, General Sima decided to personally lead his troops into the upper valley, and finally escaped from under Zhuge Liang's eyes in a very clever way, surrounded by walls of fire..."

"Doctor Zhou, as the saying goes, 'Water and fire are the most ruthless things.' Zhuge Liang is a master at using fire to attack. If General Sima is surrounded in a valley, he will be a fish in the bottom of the pot. How can he escape safely? Yeah?" Niu Heng shook his head, "Your plan is too risky." "This... Niu Hengjun, you don't know something. I have already calculated for nine days and nine nights, and I have predicted that there will be a heavy rain in the upper valley at noon tomorrow. In this way, Zhuge Liang's raging fire will never be able to burn! Therefore, These 30,000 great Wei king masters will be able to escape safely from the upper valley!"

Niu Heng looked at Zhou Xuan suspiciously: "Really? Did you really predict that there will be a heavy rain at noon tomorrow?" "This matter is related to the life and death of tens of thousands of Wei Jun'erlang, how dare I be negligent?" Zhou Xuan stretched out his finger and pointed to his face, "Look at the pair of eye circles of this seat, it's coming early in eight or nine days. It will be as black as coke.” "Since Doctor Zhou said so, I can only try my best to take the risk." Niu Heng turned his head and glanced at his younger brother Niu Jin, and said resolutely.

At this moment, Zhou Xuan's gaze suddenly sharpened: "Niu Hengjun, Niu Jinjun, you two can go to Shangfang Valley to take a risk, but General Sima is the head of the three armies and the pillar of the country, but it is absolutely not suitable to go to the dangerous situation in person. " Niu Heng straightened his face, and took his words calmly: "Naturally. Niu and General Sima are about the same age, similar height, and roughly similar in appearance...Later, Niu will change his appearance a little bit. After putting on your armor, the general, you pretended to be you and led your troops into the upper valley, and used a trick of "crossing the sky, Li Daitao is stiff" to confuse Zhuge Liang's eyes and ears, and finally gave him a backhand blow The strategy of attacking the heart..." He was talking to himself, but when he raised his eyes, he saw Sima Yi's tears streaming down his face. He suddenly stood up from the rock, rushed forward, grabbed his hands, and said with a sob: "Niu Hengjun is really under my commander's command." 'Ji Xin' who went to the disaster on behalf of the lord! You will never forget your sacrifice to repay the lord's kindness!" When the blazing fire light slowly rose from the bottom of the valley above like a huge curtain, Zhuge Liang was sitting on a four-wheeled cart on the high square rock in the west of the valley, staring intently at the situation in the valley, so nervous that even the lupine in his hand was shaking. Forgot to fan. With unusually sharp eyes, he clearly saw the shining red-tasseled tiger-head sterling silver helmet exclusively used by Sima Yi leaping and galloping in the sea of ​​flames, like a bright silver fish desperately trying to break free from the shackles of the flames! Add three or four more rockets, and Sima Yi will surely be doomed. The greatest enemy in his life will no longer exist. The Han Heavenly Army will advance into Guanzhong and recover the two capitals, and it will be just around the corner!The revival of the Han Dynasty is no longer far away!Emperor Zhaolie entrusted him so much, and he finally completed it satisfactorily...Thinking of these, Zhuge Liang felt that his body, which was as weak as a dry bamboo, had added a lot of strength and spirit from nowhere, and his face was glowing red. Come!He jumped up, looked down at the raging flames at the bottom of the valley above, and said in a long voice: "The flames of the great man, the red luck is on the rise. The mere puppet Wei will die in this battle. Destroy this giant bandit and move eastward. Restore the Central Plains, Kyushu Normalization!" Following his groaning, the surrounding soldiers couldn't help raising their spears and raising their voices in unison! However, no one noticed that the corners of Qiao Zhou who had been standing beside the four-wheeled vehicle were filled with more and more worry - he kept looking up at the sky, as if he was expecting something and worried about something ... At this time, a strange change occurred in the blue sky under the scorching sun. Snake-like clouds crawled over, tightly tangled and coiled in mid-air like twisted flowers, and the color gradually changed from white to gray. , in the end it was as black as lead... Zhuge Liang, who was dancing and weeping excitedly, froze all of a sudden, and then his surprise overflowed from his face uncontrollably.Qiao Zhou's timid and low voice floated into his ears like mosquitoes: "Master Prime Minister... this... this day is about to change!" Zhuge Liang's figure staggered, and quickly stabilized - he looked up, the sky darkened, and the surrounding space had turned gray and blue.Only the raging flames at the bottom of the valley are still dancing unrelentingly... But, the dark clouds all over the sky are rolling down, pressing down like iron plates, suffocating the flames all over the valley seem to shrink into a thin cluster ... "Oops..." Zhuge Liang's complexion became more and more ashen, and the handle of the goose feather fan in his hand was almost shattered by him! A flash of steely lightning "brush" tore through layers of dark clouds and struck down, lighting Zhuge Liang's face blue!Then there was a series of "rumbling" thunder explosions-the pouring rain fell! "Prime Minister, take shelter from the rain!" Jiang Wei recovered from the shock, and hurriedly took off his armor to cover Zhuge Liang's head - but Zhuge Liang pushed him away, still standing there like a stone statue. On the edge of Fangyan, quietly watching the fierce red flame at the bottom of the valley gradually extinguished under the pouring rain... At the bottom of the valley, Wei Jun's cheers suddenly rang out!And the bright silver helmet with the red tasseled tiger head was still walking through the black Wei Jun Xuanjia peacefully, and the self-confidence that seemed to be strolling in the courtyard was almost palpable. Zhuge Liang closed his eyes, and the goose feather fan in his hand slumped to the ground. Two lines of tears mixed with the rain on his forehead and flowed down like broken pearls... He stood in the rain curtain like a solitary pine tree, and stayed until the top Everything inside and outside the valley fell into silence, until there was only the sound of rain in the sky and the earth—and that sound of rain, could it be the sound of God weeping and sighing? However, Zhuge Liang didn't see—on the towering "Qingying Rock" on the east side of the upper valley, under a Uro umbrella, Sima Yi, who was dressed as a soldier, and his two sons were quietly Watching all his actions and situations from a distance. Both Sima Shi and Sima Zhao saw that when the rainstorm first fell, the ecstasy of the father-in-law was beyond words; It was an inexplicable and complicated expression that was getting thicker and thicker; at the end, the father, like Zhuge Liang, also lowered his head slightly, and his shoulders twitched violently--this, neither of them expected, they had always fought against each other. The invincible and invincible father-in-chief is actually crying and sobbing at this moment. "Father, you don't need to be so excited, lest you hurt your body..." Sima Zhao stepped forward and gently persuaded. "You don't understand! You don't understand! You don't understand anything!" Sima Yi waved his hand vigorously and interrupted him. Through the blurred tears, he stared at the tall figure on the square rock in the opposite valley, his voice Choked with sobs, "Kong Ming! Kong Ming... I really don't want to treat you like this! It's really 'Ji Shengliang, He Shengyi'! This... This is the fate of destiny, the general trend, you and I can't go against it !" How did Master Sima know about the grievances between his father and Zhuge Liang back then, but he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and took a step forward, and said happily: "Father, you should be happy! He died in his heart. Now Zhuge Liang has clearly realized that he and his big man are abandoned by heaven and separated by people. His enterprising spirit will undoubtedly die from now on, and he will no longer be a strong enemy of our great Wei ...Father Commander's mind-boggling strategy of 'follow your plan, go into the urn with your master, and strike with a backhand' has finally achieved immediate results! My child is very happy for Father Commander!" With a "slap", Master Sima hadn't finished his sentence, and before he could react, there was a "buzz" in his ear drum - it turned out that he was slapped by his father inexplicably! Sima Yi looked at him viciously like a wounded wild wolf: "Fool! Do you think Zhuge Kongming will be happy as a father if his heart is dead? His heart is dead, and his father's heart is also so big. Kuai died with him... how lonely, how desolate, how boring the future, the life of being a father will be in the future!" At this moment, Sima Zhao slowly said: "Father, please listen to my son's words of forgiveness. Even if Zhuge Liang is really dead, your future days will never be lonely, never desolate, and never be lonely." It's boring. Because, because Sun Quan and Lu Xun are still there. The great cause of 'cleaning up the world and unifying Liuhe' is waiting for my father to decide the success!" After hearing Sima Zhao's words, Sima Yi's whole body shook slightly.He raised his eyes thoughtfully, glanced at Sima Zhao's face, and let out a long breath: "It seems that my Zhao'er has really grown up..."