After receiving the news from the Eastern Front that confirmed that the Han Army's Eastern Division had given up its adventure plan to sneak attack the Jin army's granary, Zhang Zhicai breathed a sigh of relief and put it back in his throat. Only then did he focus his main energy on Sima You, who was facing him.

The situation on the battlefield in the middle road of Hanzhong was roughly like this. The 20,000 Han troops led by Zhang Zhi personally stationed at Nangukou, blocking the Jin army's southward road. The 50,000 Jin troops led by Sima You set up camp at Qingqiaoyi, about 20 miles away from the Han army camp. At the same time, after the two armies encountered each other, the Jin army, as the attacking party, had never sent troops to fight. They just built solid camps in deep ditches and high bases, and the intention of entangling the main force of the Han army to create opportunities for partial divisions was also very obvious.

He is good at decisive battles, especially infantry decisive battles. Of course, Zhang Zhi really hopes to fight a decisive battle with the Jin army in mountainous areas where cavalry is difficult to exert its power. He also hopes that Sima You can start the attack stupidly and attack the Han army's solid camp for free. In order to achieve this goal, Zhang Zhi also came up with a very vicious idea, which was to let Cuan Gu cut Shi Bao's second son Shi Qiao in public, who refused to surrender, and then use the excuse to return the corpse and send envoys to send Shi Qiao's body to Sima You's army.

Zhang Zhi had two vicious purposes for this. One was to psychologically attack Shi Bao, a veteran Jin army general in his seventies, so that he could bear the pain of human ethics of losing his son in his old age, or torture physically and mentally, or act impulsively in anger, revealing flaws in front of the cautious Han army general Cuan Gu. The second was to tell Sima You that the situation on the Western Front was not good, prompting Sima You to adjust his tactics and create a mobile phone opportunity for his own army.

On the evening of the same day when Shi Qiao's corpse was sent to Sima You's army, the Han army envoy successfully returned to the camp to report. Zhang Zhi also received the envoy to understand the situation as soon as possible, especially paying attention to Sima You's reaction. The Han army envoy replied truthfully: "Reporting to the general, Sima You is very dignified. Although all the civil and military officials of Jin saw Shi Qiao's corpse, they cursed, but Sima You acted naturally and asked the villain to thank you for returning Shi Qiao's corpse."

"Then what else did he say?" Zhang Zhi asked.

"Sima You also said that although he was very grateful to the noble general, you were so kind to return Shi Qiao's corpse and let Shi Qiao get buried." The Han army envoy replied again: "But on the battlefield, Sima You will never show mercy to the superior general, and will definitely capture and execute you, as a revenge for the soldiers of the three armies of Jin. In addition, Sima You also personally hosted a banquet to entertain the villain and asked the villain about you, many of your situation."

"Mainly asking me what the situation is?" Zhang Zhi quickly asked.

"The main question is about your diet and daily life," the Han army envoy continued to answer: "The villain answered truthfully, saying that you have good food and daily life, and insist on exercising every day. Sima You also praised the general for your knowledge of maintaining your health. Unfortunately, you cannot destroy the general like his grandfather Sima Yi, who killed Prime Minister Zhuge, and he did not say anything else."

After hearing this, Zhang Zhi laughed out loud and said, "This ordinary man can really show off. If this general had not known his character well, he would probably have thought that he was a gentleman who could not show his emotions."

"Hou General, from your tone, you seem to be very disdainful of Sima You?" Yan Yu said with a smile.

"I don't need to respect this hypocrite." Zhang Zhi, who is familiar with Sima You's related history, answered very directly and sneered: "He is also lucky. He met an emperor brother with a truly kind personality. Otherwise, he would have been pretending to behave and not knowing how many times the heads had fallen. Also, this hypocrite still has a secret ambitions. If he really had a chance, he would definitely replace Sima Yan!"

I don’t understand why Zhang Zhi despised Sima You so much. Yan Yu was unwilling to continue on this topic, so he just asked: “Last General, what should we do next? Judging from Sima You’s reaction, he didn’t seem to care much about the setbacks on the Western Front, and he would likely continue to count on the Eastern Front to make a breakthrough.”

Zhang Zhi calculated for a moment, picked up the brush and said, "Then of course we will continue to confront each other patiently, but being idle is also idle. Since Sima You pretends to be a hypocrite in front of us, I will act like a gangster and expose his true face, so that Sima Yan will first become suspicious of Sima You."

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Let’s take a look at the situation on Sima You. After accepting the body of Shi Qiao that the Han army voluntarily returned, Sima You not only sent someone to send Shi Qiao’s coffin back to Luoyang and handed it to Shi Bao’s family for burial, but also wrote a letter of consolation to Shi Bao, encouraging Shi Bao to turn grief into fighting spirit, continue to attack Yang'an Pass, and put pressure on the flanks of the Han army. Another thing is to try to contact Yang Hu, let Yang Hu step up the attack on the eastern front and break the Han army’s eastern side division as soon as possible to make a breakthrough.

After making these arrangements, Sima You followed up with the previous strategies and tactics and ordered 50,000 Jin troops to continue to confront the Han army in deep ditch and high avenues, so that the main force of the Han army could not take action to rescue the battlefield on both wings. However, what surprised Sima You was that only one day after the incident, the Han army actually sent another envoy to send him Zhang Zhi's handwritten letter. Although Sima You was strange in his heart, in order to understand Zhang Zhi's intention, he ordered the summoning of the Han army envoy.

Not long after the order was issued, the Han army envoy was taken to Sima You. While saluting Sima You, he presented a letter very directly and said, "King of Qi, this is a handwritten letter sent to you by our later general. The letter is delivered. If there is nothing else, the villain will say goodbye first."

After saying that, the Han army envoy handed the letter to Sima You's guards and turned around and was about to leave. Sima You was surprised when he saw it and said, "Why are the noble envoys so anxious? Why don't you have to leave after dinner? I may have a reply to your letter to you?"

"Thank you, but it's not too late, so the envoy will leave first." The Han army envoy was obviously a little panicked and continued to walk out and said, "If the King of Qi has a reply, he can send someone to our camp directly, and we will definitely welcome you warmly."

Seeing that the Han army envoy was so anxious, Sima You was even more surprised. However, Sima You’s biggest advantage was that he liked to pretend that he was better than Sima Yan in everything. In order to show his kindness, Sima You nodded and agreed to the Han army envoy’s departure. Then he took Zhang Zhi’s handwritten letter and looked carefully. However, it was fine if he didn’t read it. After a closer look, Sima You not only opened his mouth wide, but his hair was standing on his body, and a chill appeared in his heart...

Zhang Zhi's handwritten letter was written in vernacular, with the following content: "Your Highness, King Qi, has long admired his reputation and only regretted not being able to meet him. I am really sorry. I hope that one day I can sit down and have a drink, and I will treat you."

"I won't say much nonsense. I contacted you this time to discuss a big event with you. I know that Your Highness, King of Qi, is the legitimate son of Emperor Jing of Jin, and is more qualified to inherit the throne than Sima Yan. It's just that Sima Yan's despicable villain usurped the throne, so you failed to become the emperor. You must hate him very much, right? Don't lie to me, and don't lie to yourself. You actually want to be the emperor in your heart, right?"

"Brother King Qi, if you really want to be the emperor, I can help you. Now is an opportunity. As long as you take advantage of the opportunity to take action, kill all the civil and military officials loyal to Sima Yan under your command, and then join forces with me to kill Chang'an and seize Tongguan. Then you can raise the banner of righteousness in Guanzhong and call on the benevolent and righteous people in the world to attack Sima Yan and regain the throne of the emperor that originally belonged to you!"

"Brother, don't worry, as long as you do this, I will definitely support you with all my strength. I want food and grass to give you food and grass, and weapons to give you weapons. Even if I ask me to send troops to help you, there is no problem. After the matter is completed, I will only have two rewards. One is to return all the land of the Han family when Prime Minister Zhuge was alive, and the other is to send back to our Han emperor and become a brotherly country with our Han. Then we can join forces to advance eastward to attack the Eastern Wu, and divide the land, city and population of the Eastern Wu equally..."

When he saw the letter here, Sima You could no longer bear it. He slapped Zhang Zhi's letter with a heavy palm and roared: "A common man! Extremely shameless! Absurd! Ridiculous!"

"King of Qi, what happened? Why are you so angry?"

It was also coincidental that at this moment, Sima Yan's absolute confidant and military supervisor Feng Yan suddenly sounded in front of the tent. When he heard this, even Sima You, who had always been in extreme anger, could not help but change his face. He subconsciously wanted to hide Zhang Zhi's handwritten letter. Unfortunately, Sima You had just grabbed the letter and Feng Yan had already walked in and asked, "King of Qi, I heard that Zhang Zhi's rebels sent an envoy to contact us again. I wonder if this is the case?"

"The news about Feng Jianjun is so well-informed." Sima You is sometimes not good at hiding his emotions, and he is obviously displeased in his voice, and he said, "Journal of Feng Jianjun just left."

"Where is the responsibility, please forgive me, King Qi." Feng Qing laughed and asked again: "I dare to ask King Qi, why did the thief army send people to contact our army?"

After hesitating for a while, considering that such things have always been getting darker and darker, Sima You still handed Zhang Zhi's letter to Feng Yan with a dark face. Feng Yan took it with a smile. After opening it carefully, Feng Yan, who had tried hard to help Sima Yan belittle Sima You in history, of course, smiled happier, and shouted in a hypocritical manner: "Zhang Zhi's rebel traitor is so brave. He doesn't count his own rebellion, but he actually wants to encourage King Qi to commit rebellion. You should also commit rebellion? This rebel traitor is simply a crime of death!"

Sima You looked dark and said without saying a word, while Feng Yan couldn't wait to say: "King Qi, what should we do next? How should we send this letter?"

"You decide." Sima You replied with a gloomy face: "If you want, send a quick horse to Luoyang to hand it over to the emperor's brother. I will never stop you."

"The officials dare not." Feng Yan replied with a quarrel, and he carefully folded the damn letter without hesitation, then put it in his arms, and smiled and said, "King of Qi, the officials have another unkind request. If you meet and contact the envoy of the thief army next time, can you let the officials participate?"

"What? Are you worried about me? You still have to monitor me?"

When Sima You heard that it became even more angry, Feng Yu said he didn't dare, and then quickly bowed and left Sima You alone to smash the case in the central army's tent to vent his anger. At the same time, Sima You himself also felt a little strange, how could he get so angry and angry about this matter?

Needless to say more, after returning to his tent, Feng Yan of course arranged for his confidant to send Zhang Zhi's letter to Luoyang to present to Sima Yan with a fast horse. At the same time, he also wrote a memorial to report that Sima You was giving favors and winning people's hearts, making many generals and soldiers of the Jin army willing to act as dead soldiers for him, etc.

However, this is not unjustly accusing Sima You. In history, when Sima You stepped down as General of Guard and was promoted to General of Cavalry, thousands of soldiers in his direct army insisted on refusing to leave Sima You and insisted on following Sima You to return to General of Cavalry, and successfully forced Sima Yan to agree. Sima You's good at winning people's hearts, which shows that.

Back to the point, Feng Yan's brief report and Zhang Zhi's letter were sent to Luoyang together, of course, it immediately touched the sensitive nerve in Sima Yan's heart. In addition, Sima You personally led an army of 50,000 to go deep into Baoxie Road, and Yang Hu led a 40,000 army from Fangling to Hanzhong, which further increased the logistics burden of the Jin court's food and grass. So after thinking about it, Sima Yan still sent someone to send Sima You an edict, asking the Jin army to launch a decisive battle with the Han army as soon as possible and take Hanzhong as soon as possible.

Sima Yan's edict also of course posed a big problem for Sima You. He had no confidence in winning the decisive battle. The Han army had already built an extremely solid camp at the dangerous point of Nangukou. If he forced himself to attack the tough, he would not only not be sure to win, but on the contrary, he would be very likely to be bleeding in front of the Han army's strong camp. So after thinking for a long time, Sima You still said with a dark face: "The general is outside, and the king has no choice. I have the final say on how to fight the war on the front line. I will continue to confront each other. I will talk about it when Shi Bao and Yang Hu have a breakthrough!"

"The King of Qi forgives his crimes, please forgive me for your own words." Wei Guan reminded carefully next to him: "Your identity is sensitive, and you will not give any instructions to the outside king. It is best not to say anything casually, just to prevent any accidents from happening in the partition walls."

Sima You had a dark face and said nothing, and suddenly had this idea in his heart, and he thought to himself: "If I were in the position of the emperor, things would be much easier."

Sima You's thought was also the key reason why Zhang Zhi dared to sow discord between Sima brothers. When Zhang Zhi studied the history of Sima Yan's choice to let his idiot son succeed to the throne, he once saw such a record: in the second year of Xianning, Sima Yan fell ill from the plague. Sima You sent someone to secretly contact his father-in-law Jia Chong, trying to replace Sima Yan's idiot son when Sima Yan was seriously ill!
Chapter completed!