Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 667 Xu Shu
Hao Jiben, the lieutenant of Jinxiang County, had the intention of attacking proactively. When he heard that the enemy army was approaching, he immediately took the case: "A thousand cavalry said that it is a lot less, but it is not much, but the surrounding areas of Jinxiang are plains, so there is no danger , if they are allowed to approach the city, spread out their formations, and gallop and charge, they will easily attack the city gate, which is a big disadvantage!"

"I intend to send a group of troops first, outside the city of the army, to stop the bandit army for a while, what do you think?"

All the generals in the tent had no objection, Hao Ji pondered for a moment, and then said, "Arranging an array is not enough. Another army must be dispatched to go around the camp and ambush in the dense forest on the side. It was difficult to stop them, so they rushed out from the side, thinking of them as 'surprise soldiers'."

The plan has been decided, and the order was immediately issued: "All the ministries will go out of the camp separately, either to form an array, or to be a 'surprise soldier'. I will lead the Chinese army myself, and after you disturb the bandit formation, I will make a noise and fight to defeat the enemy!"

If Hao Ji's name was introduced to Wang Zheng's ears, he would probably be evaluated as a "nobody".

Ordinary mediocrity, when the enemy cavalry is attacking and the backup has not arrived, they may choose to hide in the city and stick to the city. Although this method is safe, it gives the initiative to the enemy at the beginning.

Not only the outer city of Jinxiang, but also the surrounding area of ​​Jiangling, an important town in South County, is empty and empty. The flat terrain of the flat plain, no matter how high the city wall is, after all, it is not a grand pass suitable for defending like Xiangyang and Pengcheng. After learning the enemy's situation, it is an important reason to make a decisive decision and decide to take the initiative to attack.

There is a saying in the art of war: If the general is right but not strange, he will defend the general; if strange but not right, he will fight the general.If all odds and positives are used, it will be the aid of the country. Although Hao Ji's response was hasty, there are both "right and odd".It can be seen that if you can defeat the enemy and win, you can boost the morale of the army. It is a great achievement, even if you lose, it doesn't matter. You can retreat into the city and choose to stick to it again.

After the military order was issued, the Jinxiang army moved up and down.

For the cavalry, the plains are the best terrain to give full play to their own advantages. In such a battlefield, any armament will suffer a big loss if they fight head-on, and the infantry will bear the brunt of it, with obvious disadvantages.

Since they know that using infantry and cavalry will be innately restrained, the generals will naturally try their best to fight and even counter-restraint. The Western spear array is a typical example, but Wei Qing, a famous general in the Western Han Dynasty, came up with another method. The solution is to form a car formation!

In the fourth year of Yuanshou (119 BC), the Han Dynasty had successively wiped out the powers of Youxian King, Hunxie King, Xiutu King and other forces of the Huns, and basically eliminated the enemy's threat to the capital Chang'an, but the Huns' Shanyu headquarters still remained Possessing a very strong strength, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decided to launch another big war. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing would be the commanders respectively, and they would go deep into Mobei from east and west, and completely wipe out the Xiongnu.

This is the famous "Battle of Mobei".

At that time, Wei Qing traveled more than a thousand miles, crossed the desert, and fought against Shanyu's headquarters, which had already formed an array. He first surrounded Wugang chariots (warrior chariots) as a battalion, and his infantry lined up side by side. After resisting the Huns' cavalry for a full day and night, they took advantage of the situation to encircle and annihilate the enemy army from both wings with [-] cavalry, completely defeated the Huns, and Shan Yu fled.

This is the first successful case of infantry confronting cavalry in a large-scale battle recorded in the history of China, and everyone knows that as long as you deal with it properly, you can use foreign objects to resist the cavalry's collision and delay them The mobility of the infantry, then the infantry will not be afraid of the cavalry at all.

Later, the letter array of Tan Daoji, a famous general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Queyue array used by Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu when he defeated Yan, all evolved from the chariot array.

Under Hao Ji's military order, the soldiers of the Jinxiang Army pushed out all the foreign objects such as the baggage carts, formed a ring outside the city, set up the camp outside the camp, placed horses in front of the baggage carts, and sprinkled a lot of barbed wire , Before Wu Niubu approached, the car formation had already been set up.

A total of 400 people lined up in the first outing of the city, one hundred shieldmen, one hundred spearmen, and two hundred archers. The shieldmen were at the front, close to the inside of the heavy vehicle; At the end of the gun, release the spear from the muzzle specially left on the shield, and it looks like a hedgehog from a distance; the third is the archer. In the innermost part, two hundred archers are divided into four rows. When the enemy arrives, they will take turns. The archery and several trebuchets were also moved out of the city and placed behind the chariot formation as support.

Hao Ji ordered all the people and horses in the city to silence their flags and drums, no matter whether people or horses were allowed to make a sound, it didn't take long for the huge city to be completely silent.

When Wu Niu led his troops to the city, he saw such a scene.
However, outside the city, a square camp composed of various military vehicles was erected. Behind the vehicle formation, shadows could be seen, at least hundreds of them. Ten miles to the left of the formation, there was a swamp of water, with little ripples in the sun. Five miles to the right of the formation is a small dense forest, and there are flocks of birds flying in fright, which is quite strange.

"Could this guard be stupid?" Wu Niu wondered, "Abandoning the city and taking the initiative to put so many people outside the city, is he planning to fight our army?"

At this moment, a general in the car formation in front of him shouted from a distance: "Come and tell whoever is here!"

"It's Wu Niu of Qingzhou!" Wu Niu rode out alone with a knife in hand, "It's Xuzhou Mu's Tianjun Du Branch Captain!"

"Your lord is also a Han subject. Why did you invade my territory for no reason? Do you think you are a traitor and a traitor? You must know that I, Jingzhou Woye, have thousands of good generals and millions of victorious soldiers. I advise you not to help the tyrant to do evil, or you will die here. It's too late to regret!"

"Haha, it's really a thief calling for a thief. If you say that you broke the border without a reason, you did it first!"

Wu Niu sneered and said, "Yuzhang has been the county of Yangzhou since ancient times, but your prefect Liu Cong instigated Hua Xin, the prefect of Yuzhang, to stir up an army and make rebellion, separate the regime and stand on your own. Everyone in the world thinks it's cold, who doesn't look at it?"

"It's ridiculous. When Hua Xin fought with you, my state shepherd hadn't even succeeded to the throne. How could you incite it?"

The two exchanged their swords for a while, and the general, under Hao Ji's instructions, deliberately delayed the time, and the more he spoke, the louder his voice became, but Wu Niu gradually felt that he was running out of words, and became angry from embarrassment. Thief, who is the master of the king, what's the use of talking about it, and we will see it on the battlefield!"

Returning to the formation, he said to the left and right: "Our army has come from a long distance. Although it is as powerful as a broken bamboo, we have broken through the weak mausoleum and defeated the enemy army, but I am not sure about taking the big city of Jinxiang."

"But I didn't expect that the enemy, regardless of their strengths, would divide their troops out of the city and want to fight our army in the field. Isn't this seeking their own death?"

"Brothers, the war opportunity has arrived, and it is time to destroy the enemy and break the city! Who will be with me?"

Halfway through the rhetoric, Wu Niu suddenly remembered what Wang Zheng had told him before, that he was the leader of the road, and he should not rush to the front easily, and then changed his words: "Who will go up to plunder the enemy's line and show me the courage of Qingzhou?"

When wars were raging outside Jiangling City, Yuzhou in the Central Plains was on the other side.

In Chen County, the capital of Chen State, a newly built mansion.

Entering from the gate of the mansion, you can see towers, pavilions and pavilions, lined up one after another, with beautiful distribution, hanging willows blowing the ground, cypresses and locust trees, deep ring stones, along the bluestone paved ground, go straight forward, you can reach the main hall, There is a fork in the middle, turning to the depths of the mansion, passing through several pavilions, passing through several courtyards, and then seeing a high platform with trees protruding from it, overlooking the farthest, there is another small courtyard on the west side of the high platform, with a plaque on the gate, inscribed For "Judo", the two exquisite elegant rooms on the left and right of the courtyard are the study of the new Yuzhou Shepherd Liu Bei.

"Judo" comes from the famous saying of Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty: "I manage the world, and I want to practice it with judo."

People in later generations think that Liu Bei and Liu Bang, the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, have a lot of similarities, but few people know that his idol is actually Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu. He imitated everywhere, such as being generous and benevolent, treating the people kindly, caring for his subordinates, thinking of talents and thirsting for them, and confiding in others at every turn.

At this time, in the small courtyard of the study room, the courtyard is deep, and there are two people playing chess on the platform under the reflection of the hanging willow.

One is Liu Bei, and the other is his new advisor, who was born in Yingchuan County, named Xu Shu.

In the original history, Xu Shu also took the initiative to defect to Liu Bei because Liu Bei was a relative of the Han Dynasty and his faith was famous all over the world. However, because his family and mother were both in Yingchuan, and Yingchuan was Cao Cao's power, it was useless. The real name is due to the blessing of the list, but in this life, because of Wang Zheng's sudden birth, the relationship between Cao Cao and Liu Bei is not too bad, and Xu Shu naturally no longer needs to keep it secret.

Go is one of the Four Elegances of Confucianism. Although he once worshiped Lu Zhi, a great scholar of Confucian classics, as his teacher, Liu Bei himself is more sensual and sensual. He was originally not good at it, but Xu Shu liked it very much. It is said that it is unavoidable to be affected by falling asleep at night.

These years of experience have already made Liu Bei deeply understand the truth of "talent is rare". Now that he finally met his "first love", in order to get closer to Xu Shu, he learned to play chess with him, and played two games when he had nothing to do. , At first, it may be that the ulterior motives are not drinking, but after learning and learning, Liu Bei really likes it.

First of all, Go is the most complicated and oldest intellectual game in the history of the Chinese nation. It is black and white, all-encompassing, and it is full of games between moves, but it has an addictive charm.

Second, Go and the art of war have a lot in common. Ma Rong of the Eastern Han Dynasty regarded the game of Go as another kind of battlefield in "Fu of Go", "A three-foot game is a battlefield; The enemy is equal."Among the heroes in the world at this time, such as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Sun Ce who was defeated by Wang Zheng, they are all masters of Go while they are galloping on the battlefield. Liu Bei is a hero with great ambitions, so he naturally wants to be a hero The master of "outside martial arts, internal training game".

Thirdly, Xu Shu is a master of Go, and he is extremely smart. When playing against him, he can often see some ingenious and wonderful layouts, which can often inspire Liu Bei.

At this moment, the chess game is halfway through, Liu Bei holds the black stones, and Xu Shu holds the white stones. While looking at the chess game, Xu Shu touched his chin with a smile and said, "Although my lord has only learned chess for a short time, the details still need to be honed, but The overall situation has won many ministers."

"When did Yuanzhi learn to flatter?"

Liu Bei looked at the chessboard. At this time, there were fewer black pieces and more white pieces. Seeing that the opponent was gaining the upper hand, he couldn't help but laugh and cry: "You are about to win this game, why do you say that I have a better view of the overall situation? You are teasing me Is it?"

Xu Shu laughed, shook his folding fan lightly, and said calmly: "Whether it is blunt words or flattery, it is the way to be a minister. If the latter is too frequent, it is not advisable, but if you always only say the former in front of the superior, May I ask my lord, what is the meaning and fun of being the supreme one?"

These remarks are really novel. Liu Bei, who listened directly, was stunned and speechless for a while, but he quickly reacted and laughed and said, "Wonderful, wonderful, just based on this statement, you can know that Yuan Zhi is really a genius in the world." !"

"But if you want to flatter me and please me, why don't you do it thoroughly?" He pointed to the chessboard and said with a smile: "When you were playing chess just now, your moves were like flying, and the chess style was swift and fierce, and the opponent was chasing after you." Hit hard, but don't show mercy at all!"

"A gentleman does something, and he doesn't do something. The four elegance are the voice of the heart. The master's eyes are as bright as a torch, and he plays chess with his minister. He can observe the nature of the minister through the style of chess. If he deliberately cheats, isn't it like lying to the king?"

Xu Shu laughed and said, "I respect my lord, and I respect my lord. How can I do such an unfaithful thing?" "

"Ha ha."

Liu Bei was more and more amused by Xu Shu's witty words. Fu An laughed for a while, messed up the chessboard, stood up, stretched himself, walked to the back window, and looked at the Xu Shu waved his hand.

Xu Shu got up as promised, moved to Liu Bei's left and stood a little later, and accompanied him to enjoy the summer scenery outside the garden under the blowing wind.

The water in the pool behind the courtyard is blue, and there are lotus plants in the pool, fields of lotus leaves, and a bamboo forest farther away, which can be seen from a distance. After looking at it for a long time, Liu Bei suddenly said: "Yuan Zhi, seeing this scene, by coming here The wind is really refreshing."

"Everywhere in the lord's mansion is elegant, but in the eyes of my ministers, wealth and honor are everywhere." Xu Shu smiled and said: "The sages have a saying that they know etiquette when they have real warehouses, and know honor and disgrace when they have enough food and clothing. The weeping willows in the garden are curling up, and the garden is full of green bamboos, hey, but you must be rich and prosperous to enjoy it."

Liu Bei was silent, yes, without the support of Mi Zhu's family wealth, how could he be able to build such a mansion?And if he hadn't become the state shepherd of Yuzhou, how could he be qualified to live in the center of Chen County?

The former is financial power, while the latter is power. In contrast, the latter is invisible and intangible, but it is also a real existence. Moreover, having money does not necessarily mean having power, but having power can definitely lead to having money, not only being able to Control your own destiny, and you can be superior and control the destiny of others!
He, Liu Bei, only needs to control the two counties, so he can have the enjoyment he has now and drive all the people to serve him. How much power and supreme enjoyment can Xuzhou, which has taken him, now cover the kingship of the nine counties?
(End of this chapter)