Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Based on Li Ji's understanding of Liu Yan, Liu Yan might be a typical person who doesn't understand military affairs, but he is definitely not someone who makes reckless moves.

The situation in Yizhou is already precarious. Doesn't Liu Yan know that once he is defeated, the situation may become irreversible?

Or could it be that Liu Yan is really on his last legs?

These two guesses lingered in Li Ji's mind.

Zhou Yu, who was sitting below, was also deep in thought.

After a moment, Zhou Yu stood up, bowed to Li Ji, and said,

"Reporting, Great Commander, Yu has something to say."

Li Ji, lost in thought, looked at Zhou Yu's face and listened to the address, feeling a strange sense of disorientation.

After Li Ji came back to his senses, his eyes still held a hint of strangeness as he said,

"Gongjin, if you have any brilliant ideas, feel free to share them."

Zhou Yu revealed his thoughts, saying, "Yu believes... there is a trick here, perhaps an attempt to secretly move troops, or an intention to make Jingzhou underestimate us."

Secretly move troops?

Li Ji had also considered this possibility.

However, the passages between Yi and Jing are limited, and only a few are suitable for large armies to pass through.

Even if there are some secret passages, how many confidants can be quietly sent into the heart of Jingzhou?

Moreover, as far as Li Ji knows, once the war starts, Xiangyang City will completely close its gates, and a large number of elites will defend the city.

Even if a surprise force descends from the sky, it is impossible to capture the giant city of Xiangyang.

As for making Jingzhou underestimate them?

Jingzhou is firmly guarding the line from Zigui to Yiling, which is not a single pass, but a dangerous terrain stretching for dozens of miles, no less formidable than the natural barriers of Sichuan.

Even if Jingzhou is tricked into underestimating them for a while, at most they will only capture Zigui. Subsequently, Jingzhou will still have sufficient terrain to carry out layer-by-layer resistance, depleting the morale of the Yizhou army.

The use... is not great!

However, even though Li Ji was familiar with the general terrain of Yi and Jing, he still had people bring a map of the Yi and Jing regions into the tent and hang it up.

After obtaining the books from the Eastern Pavilion, there were naturally maps of the territory drawn and compiled by the Han Dynasty over the years.

Although the skill of the drawers may vary, or hundreds of years may be enough for some terrain to change, it is still a rare treasure for military operations.

After this huge and clear map of Yi and Jing was hung up, everyone in the tent looked at the map and pondered.

Zhou Yu was shocked, completely unaware of how Li Ji had obtained such a precious map.

With this map in hand, not to mention attacking Jingzhou, even taking Yizhou, which is said to be protected by natural barriers, would be greatly reduced in difficulty.

Immediately, Zhou Yu abandoned his distracting thoughts and stared at the map, thinking carefully.

Soon, Zhou Yu's expression became a bit gloomy, realizing that his previous guesses were somewhat unrealistic, and said in a deep voice,

"With such terrain, Yizhou will not be able to bypass or break through the defenses set up by Jingzhou, whether they intend to secretly move troops or feign weakness."

Sun Ce said angrily in his heart, "In that case, could it be that the old thief Liu Biao is really blessed with a great victory, and even opens the passage to Yizhou as a result?"

Li Ji, who had been pondering silently, suddenly had an unconventional thought flash through his mind as he listened to everyone's discussion.

Immediately, Li Ji, feeling a sense of urgency, used the "Strategy Simulator" to quickly deduce the situation, and the final outcome further verified Li Ji's guess.

"Heh, so that's how it is..."

Li Ji immediately realized where the strangeness he had been vaguely feeling before lay, and he almost got tricked.

At this moment, based on the limited information, many of the inferences Li Ji had made were based on assumptions, without further information to verify.

However, after Li Ji had this judgment, looking at the map of Yi and Jing again was no longer like looking at flowers in the fog, uncertain, but had completely grasped the veins of the situation.

"What a wonderful plan to enter the game personally, but unfortunately... it has been seen through by me!"

Li Ji said in a low voice, and then ordered to continue to transfer available military households and soldiers to Chaisang to await orders. At the same time, many messengers quickly left the camp with secret orders, either riding fast horses or taking fast boats, heading to different destinations.

...

Three days later.

The messenger, who had been traveling day and night, arrived in Xiangyang. He revealed his status as a servant of Sun Qian and was verified by Sun Qian's steward, who had been summoned. Only then was he allowed to enter Xiangyang City, which shows the high degree of martial law.

It was only because Sun Qian was staying in Xiangyang City as Liu Bei's envoy that even if he pretended to be Sun Qian's servant, he might not be able to enter Xiangyang City at this critical moment.

After Sun Qian's steward led the messenger back to his residence, the messenger met Sun Qian himself and spat out a small wax pill hidden under his tongue.

These messengers were only responsible for delivering urgent secret orders, and each of them was like a death warrior, all personally trained by Xiahou Bo.

Hiding the wax pill containing the secret letter under the tongue was also for confidentiality.

In case of an emergency, the messenger only needed to bite the wax pill, and the text written with some special juice would disappear without a trace as soon as it came into contact with saliva.

Even if the enemy quickly dissected the messenger and found the note in his stomach, they would only get a blank note.

Sun Qian's expression shook as he took the wax pill. He quickly asked everyone around him to retreat outside the door to guard, and then carefully broke the wax pill and read the contents.

[From this day on, pay homage to the governor's mansion every day, speak more about the kinship of the Han Dynasty, and strongly persuade Yi and Jing to cease fighting and make peace. Furthermore, state that the lord has no intention of taking Jingzhou, and will never set foot in Jingzhou with a single soldier or soldier without the permission of Jingzhou's governor.]

Sun Qian looked around, suddenly stunned, and read it again from beginning to end, word by word.

Immediately, Sun Qian's eyebrows were almost knitted together.

Previously, Sun Qian's mission as Liu Bei's envoy was to demand that Liu Biao return Liu Zhang in an extremely tough manner. This was both to show Liu Bei's attitude towards the attack on Liu Zhang and to put pressure on Liu Biao.

However, this sudden secret letter made Sun Qian completely unable to figure it out.

Now that Yizhou is attacking, it looks like Liu Yan, who is seriously ill, is making a desperate attempt to save Liu Zhang.

But at this moment, Yangzhou is expressing its neutrality and intention to persuade peace, and even letting Sun Qian, as an envoy, openly promise that without the approval of Jingzhou's governor, not a single soldier or soldier will set foot in Jingzhou.

No matter how you look at it, it seems to be supporting Liu Biao, so that Liu Biao will have no worries.

Immediately, Sun Qian carefully identified the handwriting of the secret letter, confirmed that it was Li Ji's own flying white script, and then summoned the messenger, carefully interrogated him, and verified his identity again and again.

Only then did Sun Qian put down his suspicion, and had to suppress his doubts, burn the secret letter, then tidy up his clothes and go directly to the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion to meet Liu Qi, who is now in charge of the overall situation in Xiangyang.