Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 199 On insidiousness, I, Sima Yi, surrender
Guo Huai described himself as a literati who had fled from Liangzhou. He was quite talented and learned.

After an explanation, even though Guo Huai did not disclose his real name, Sima Fang's expression changed.

At first, because of Guo Huai's huge change in size and slovenly appearance, he didn't recognize the latter--he had only seen Guo Huai a few times from a distance before.

But following Guo Huai's narration, the image of the person in front of him and Guo Huai gradually overlapped.

"Guo Huai, you are Guo Huai!" Sima Fang couldn't help blurting out.

"It's me!" Guo Huai nodded excitedly, almost crying on the spot. He felt that the haze covering his head was about to dissipate. Since the little official in front of him recognized him, he would definitely help him see Sima Yi and explain the whole story. Snow stigma.

Just as his heart was agitated, he suddenly heard Sima Fang yelling: "Come here, arrest this spies from the Kingdom of Shu!"

"Shut up in the dungeon!"

"???"

Guo Huai was stunned.

Two high-ranking and three-rough military officials came over upon hearing the sound, and brutally dragged Guo Huai, who was stunned on the spot, down.

……

It's night, the temporary General's Mansion in Ji County.

Master Sima walked into the inner room with a stack of bamboo slips in his arms, placed it in front of Sima Yi, brought another candle, and said softly, "Father, there is news from Liangzhou that Guo Huai attempted to escape from Shu and return to Han, but failed and was rejected." arrested, caught plague in prison, and died. All the information is here."

"Father, from this point of view, the Shu army's publicity that 'Guo Huai is about to be the governor of Liangzhou in the Shu Han' is all false news. Mr. Guo did not betray the country and vote for Shu."

Sima Yi nodded slightly, took the candle, and began to review the detailed records about Guo Huai in the past few months, one by one, in order to confirm two points, one, whether Guo Huai really never betrayed Wei; has died.

If the first point is confirmed, it can be rehabilitated; if the second point is confirmed, the rescue plan can be implemented immediately.

Even if he spends some money, even if he pays some price, Sima Yi will get Guo Huai back.

No matter what, he needs to show such a positive attitude, not only to win over the hearts of his subordinates; moreover, because Guo Huai has always been close to him, he needs to clarify to the court the suspicion that he does not know people well.

Before, the news of "Guo Huai's vote to Shu" and "Guo Huai's upcoming appointment as governor of Liangzhou in Shu Han" spread to Luoyang, the capital city, and the civil and military officials had already criticized him a lot.

Everyone knows the relationship between Guo Huai and Sima Yi.Guo Huai surrendered to the enemy, how could he, Sima Yi, separate himself from the relationship?
Sima Yi knew very well that his "demotion" was not "ineffective in rescuing Liangzhou".

As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, Sima Yi has his own unique judgment on the situation.

So he wanted to find out whether Guo Huai was still alive!

But it is a pity that after searching carefully, there is no relevant information to prove that Guo Huai is still alive. It can only prove that Guo Huai did not vote for Shu.

Sima Yi sighed in disappointment.

At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a bamboo slip with the word "Guo Huai" written on it. He quickly pulled out the roll of bamboo slip, spread it out on the table, stretched out his hand to cover the candle flame carefully, and leaned over to take a closer look. .

"On the third day of February in the ninth year of Jianxing, Guo Huai was burned in Luanshigang in the south of the city."

Due to the many battles against Shu in recent years, Sima Yi has seized many official documents of the Shu Han, and he is familiar with the recording methods of the official documents of the Shu Han.There are a dozen short words in front of him, but they contain a lot of information in his eyes.

This is an ordinary military record, dated five days ago, that is, one month after Guo Huai's first failed escape, and the content is to cremate Guo Huai.

These things are fine on the surface.

What really made Sima Yi suspicious was the last sentence: "Guo Huai was burned on the Luanshigang in the south of the city". This statement is very intriguing.If Guo Huai died of the plague first and then was burned, this sentence should be written as "burn his body in Luanshigang in the south of the city".And this document records "Guo Huai was burned in Luanshigang", which means that Guo Huai must have been alive when he was burned, so it was recorded like this.

In other words, Guo Huai was burned before he died.

not dead...

A bright light flashed in front of Sima Yi's eyes.

This is very likely to be Guo Huai's plan to escape by feigning death.

It is not possible, it is certain!
This idea quickly formed in Sima Yi's mind, and became more and more clear.

He knew Guo Huai well, the latter was both civil and military, good at running the army, and well versed in strategy, he was a rare talent in the Wei state.

In the Battle of Jincheng, if Ma Di had not possessed so many excellent and novel weapons, even if Ma Di attacked with [-] times the superior force, Sima Yi believed that Guo Huai would be able to deal with him for at least a month.

Instead of being broken into the city in one day.

While he was thinking, Sima Zhao pushed open the door and entered, shouting: "Father, a small official from the official house has come to report that he has captured a spy from the Shu army, who looks like Guo Huai."

Sima Yi quickly collected his confused thoughts, straightened up, did not immediately order Guo Huai to be summoned, but looked around at his two sons, and fell silent.

He was [-]% sure that the person caught in the official residence must be Guo Huai, it must be Guo Huai.

Guo Huai, who survived the plague, fled back.

plague……

Sima Yi said something to himself, suddenly his expression changed drastically, and he said urgently: "Quickly, seal off the official building, and no one is allowed to enter or leave. Immediately, immediately!"

Sima Shi was pleasantly surprised at first, because he saw the information earlier than his father Sima Yi, and deduced the possibility that Guo Huai had not surrendered and died earlier, so he was overjoyed when he heard his younger brother Sima Zhao say "Guo Huai is back".

But as soon as he heard his father's order, he immediately realized that there was a fraud in it, and he was shocked and hurried out.

Unlike his "stupid" younger brother Sima Zhao, Sima Shi realized the seriousness of the matter in an instant, and he wanted to deal with it himself.

The father and son were left in the room.

Sima Yi looked directly at Sima Zhao without saying a word.

Sima Zhao felt a little terrified when he saw his father's incomparably sharp eyes, and asked anxiously, "Father, what happened?"

Sima Yi withdrew his gaze and sighed secretly.

Too tender, this son is still too tender.

Because Sima Division is in charge of the guards, and Sima Zhao is in charge of intelligence, so Sima Zhao has read the intelligence that Sima Yi and Sima Division have read in advance.

Normally, Sima Zhao should have realized that something was wrong as soon as he learned of Guo Huai's return, immediately sealed off the official building, and then reported it.

If you report it first, in case something goes wrong and the plague spreads...

How can the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in Ji County survive?
But don't blame him, he's only 20 years old after all... Sima Yi shook his head, didn't say anything to blame Sima Zhao, but ordered:
"Sima Zhao. This general orders you to send all the soldiers and horses in the city to station outside the city immediately."

As soon as Sima Zhao heard this title, he knew that the matter was serious, so he quickly bowed his hands to accept the order and left with his sword in hand.

After Sima Zhao left, the peaceful Ji County suddenly became lively.

The general's yelling and the horse's neighing intertwined, resounding through the night sky.

A messy night.

At dawn, Master Sima turned around with his exhausted body, and brought back bad news:

Sima Fang, a small official in the official building, developed symptoms of the plague, and then the prisoners, laborers, and refugees in the dungeon of the official building also developed mild measles.

Sima Yi shook his head helplessly.The bad news he least wanted to hear finally happened.

In fact, ever since he deduced that Guo Huai was not dead, he had doubts: What kind of person is Ma Di?This is an old silver coin that is more scheming than Zhuge Liang.

When Zhuge Liang pacified the Nanman, he offered "Attack the heart first", and when he was the governor of Yongliang, he offered the "counter-indirect strategy", which made him very embarrassed.

Such a person will be deceived by others?
Impossible to think about.

Although Guo Huai is indeed a talent, Sima Yi admits that there are few people in the world who can match Ma Di in terms of playing tricks.

This person's marching and fighting may be very ordinary, except for hiding and not fighting and sneak attacking, there is nothing else.But he is really insidious in calculating others!
Sima Yi still remembers the joke that Ma Di told Cao Zhen that "Cao Rui and the four ministers took a boat trip".

[Wei Lord Cao Rui and four Gu Ming ministers traveled together on the same boat. When the boat was in the middle of the big river, it suddenly began to leak and sink.

The situation is extremely critical, at this time someone must be willing to sacrifice himself and jump off the boat in order to keep Cao Rui from drowning.

At this time, Cao Zhen bravely stood up, shouted 'for the Cao family's dominance...', and then jumped out.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the big ship's fall was suspended, and praised Cao Zhen as a good general of the Cao family and a loyal minister of Wei!
But after a while, more water leaked, and the downward trend accelerated again, and another person had to be jumped out to reduce the weight on board.

So, Cao Xiu had no choice but to shout, "For the people of the world...", jumped out, and the sinking of the ship was suspended.

However, after a while of delay, it failed again, and the ship continued to sink.Chen Qun hesitated for a while, shouted 'for the sake of loyalty...', and jumped down too.

The big boat didn't stabilize for a long time, and soon it began to draft again. At this time, there were only two people on board, Cao Rui and Sima Yi.

Sima Yi stood up vigorously, and shouted righteously, "For the great Wei Jiangshan!"

After saying that, he threw Cao Rui out. 】

……

It was this joke that made Sima Yi not dare to take the initiative to face the emperor for a long time, and behaved with his tail between his legs every day, almost keeping a low profile in the dust.

Even so, he still felt that the way His Majesty Cao Rui looked at him was not right, very wrong.

The culprit who put him in such a predicament was Ma Di.

Although he did have such a small thought that he couldn't tell, who among the powerful families in the world didn't think carefully?
Everyone is tacitly aware that each of them runs their own family according to their own abilities. Only Ma Di, who not only sees it through, but also publicizes everywhere that he, Sima Yi, has the heart of disobedience, will turn against him after a long time, and will devour the Lord after a long time.

This made Sima Yi very angry.

But there was nothing he could do with Ma Di.

So, Ma Su...is too insidious!

(End of this chapter)