Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 278 For the Tranquility of the Great Wei Border

Usually, the greatest difficulty with this tactic comes from the soldiers.People will worry that the troops sent to lure the enemy deep will definitely be wiped out.

Therefore, if you want to use this strategy, you need to convince the soldiers first, give them a unified thinking, and tell them that this thinking is not correct.

If all the troops sent to lure the enemy to go deep are killed by the enemy, how can the enemy be lured into the preset ambush circle?
The army that lures the enemy deep is like the bait used when fishing. It is necessary to let the "fish" feel that they have a chance to swallow the bait, but not let the bait be eaten by the fish.To achieve this effect, the troops that lure the enemy deep need to achieve a few points: [-]. High mobility, and retreat while fighting; However, it is impossible to really turn a feigned defeat into a real defeat.

Frankly speaking, luring the enemy deep is a superb art of war, which extremely tests the quality of generals and soldiers.The general who is responsible for luring the enemy to go deep is like a fisherman sitting on the shore, who has experienced it but is detached from it. He needs extraordinary courage and patience beyond ordinary people.In the process of luring the enemy to go deep, the troops will indeed suffer casualties, but they will not be completely wiped out.Only on this basis, coupled with the generous rewards of high-ranking officials, the soldiers are naturally willing to act as "bait".

This tactic of luring the enemy into depth is usually only possible when the strength of the two warring parties is similar.Or when the attacking party has an advantage in numbers, the weaker party, that is, the defensive party initiates, and the effect is the best.

The essence of the tactics of luring the enemy deep is: lure the superior enemy to the ambush circle that has been arranged in advance, and the defensive side takes advantage of its own advantages to concentrate its superior forces and annihilate the enemy.

It can be seen that luring the enemy deep is a superior tactic of defeating the strong with the weak.

If we want to talk about the classic battles in history that lure the enemy into deep, it is the Battle of Maling.

In the early days of the Warring States period, the Wei State was powerful. Although the Wei army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Guiling, the Wei State quickly reversed the unfavorable situation by relying on the foundation laid by years of reforms.Wei Guo, whose strength had recovered, decided to retaliate.

In 344 BC, the State of Wei convened a meeting of twelve vassal states in Fengze, hoping to use this alliance to improve their prestige and at the same time make King Wei Hui the leader of all the vassal states.

In 341 BC, King Hui Hui of Wei sent General Xiangzhen to attack Korea on the grounds that the Korean monarch had not participated in the alliance.Although South Korea resisted desperately, it was still not a powerful opponent of the Wei army. South Korea was forced to ask for help from Qi, which also did not participate in the alliance.

King Wei of Qi saw the fierce battle between Han and Wei for a long time, and wanted to get some benefits from it (Qi State did not want Wei State to become bigger), so he immediately appointed Tian Pan as the general, Tian Ying and Tian Ji as lieutenants, and Sun Bin as the army adviser, leading the army of Qi State to support South Korea .

At that time, Sun Bin believed that the Qi army might not be able to defeat the mighty Wei army with Wei soldiers if they rashly supported South Korea. Therefore, after discussion, Tian Pan and Sun Bin decided not to let the Qi army go to South Korea to confront the Wei army head-on, but to let the Qi army detour and go straight to Wei. The capital of the country became Daliang, and the method of besieging Wei and saving Zhao was carried out.

After Wei Jun learned of the fire in the backyard, he hurried back to rescue Daliang.King Wei Hui saw that Qi State was against him again, and immediately became angry from embarrassment. He ordered Prince Shen and Pang Juan to lead the Wei army who had returned to rescue Daliang to attack Qi army.

At the beginning of the war, the Wei army had the upper hand {just defeated the Han army, with high morale}, while the Qi army was in an away game and was in an unfavorable situation of being unfamiliar with the place.Faced with a situation that is not conducive to his own side, Sun Bin once again proposed a new strategy to Tian Pan: reduce the stove to lure the enemy, set up an ambush to wipe out the enemy.

As expected, Pang Juan, who had won consecutive battles, fell into the trick. He ordered the infantry and supply battalion of the Wei army to follow, and personally led the Wei soldiers on light cavalry to chase after the Qi army day and night.

When the Wei army arrived at Maling, Pang Juan didn't know that he had entered the ambush circle preset by Sun Bin.After seeing the humiliating words left by Sun Bin on the big tree by the roadside, he realized that he had hit the trick, but it was too late, and more than ten thousand archers of the Qi State ambushed outside the circle, and began to shoot and kill the soldiers of the Wei army.Seeing that the Wei army was about to be defeated, Pang Juan drew his sword and killed himself.

The Battle of Maling is a classic example of luring the enemy deep in history.Sun Bin turned passivity into initiative. By creating false appearances, Pang Juan underestimated the enemy and made a wrong judgment. In the end, the weak defeated the strong.

Maybe many people have a question, Pang Juan is also a top famous general (otherwise Wei Jun would not be invincible all over the world at that time), Sun Bin used the method of reducing the stove to lure the enemy, couldn't Pang Juan see it?
The real answer is: Pang Juan can't see it.

Because while luring the enemy to go deep, Sun Bin also sent a partial division to attack the important town of the accompanying capital (the city where Pang Juan's family is located) near Daliang. The general order of this partial division was that they could only lose but not win. This made Sun Bin's method of reducing stoves seem reasonable (the soldiers were sent to other places). That's why Pang Juan didn't see through Sun Bin's strategy of reducing stoves to lure the enemy to set up an ambush, and finally committed suicide when he was defeated.

In order to achieve the ultimate goal of luring the enemy to go deep, Sun Bin used a total of three strategies in this series of wars, encircling Wei and saving Zhao, dividing troops to confuse the enemy, and luring the enemy to go deep.

Surrounding Wei and saving Zhao shattered Wei's strategy of annexing South Korea, making it exhausted, gaining nothing, and planting the cause of failure-the general will raise troops out of anger; dividing troops to confuse the enemy showed Wei Jun's weakness, and created an opportunity for the next plan to reduce the burden. condition.

In short, luring the enemy to go deep is a strategy that comes naturally according to the current situation.

Just talking about the situation between Wei Guo and Xianbei today, from a strategic point of view, this is called a situation. After losing more than 3 cavalry, Kirbineng's momentum turned from prosperity to decline.

From an easy-to-understand aspect, Kirby can suffer heavy losses in this battle, even though he wins, he loses.This is in line with the basic conditions for luring the enemy to go deep-that is, the Xianbei army is very weak now, and as long as Wei comes to attack, the winning rate will be very high.

The strategy that Ma Su offered to Kebi was to divide the more than 3 Xianbei cavalry currently in Luochuankou into two groups, and thousands of them, as suspicious soldiers, went to outflank the rear of the Wei army and pretend to attack Taiyuan. .The other [-] cavalry made a detour and set up an ambush in Stone City in Monan in advance.

Shicheng is located in a depression, surrounded by mountains, once it is besieged, it is difficult to fly.

In the end, Kirbineng led the 1 people stationed at Luochuankou to make false promises to the Wei army, fight and retreat, lure the Wei army all the way to the ambush site Shicheng, and then wait for work, gather and wipe them out.

The whole plan is interlocking, and perfectly borrowed from Sun Bin's strategy. In order to prevent Wei Jiang Bi Gui and Qin Lang from seeing the clues, Ma Di deliberately concealed the method of reducing the stove.

After hearing this strategy, Kirby's eyes widened immediately, and he was speechless for a long time.

Although he has learned some Chinese culture and is proficient in Chinese, he has not yet learned the part of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao".Therefore, he thought that Ma Su had come up with this strategy himself, so he was extremely shocked.

While adopting this strategy, Kirby could secretly swear that if Ma Di was still alive, the Xianbei people would never be against him, nor would they be against the Shu Han.

Even before a war started, Ma Su had already seen the end, and even planned this end by himself.

Such a calculating person is undoubtedly terrifying.

If you think about it with your butt, you will know the fate of being an enemy.

Kirby could immediately use the eagle communication method to arrange this trick to lure the enemy one by one.After that, a banquet was held in the camp to thank Ma Di for his wonderful plan.

Although there is no word on this strategy so far, whether it can be successful is still open to debate, but Kirby can inexplicably believe that this strategy will definitely succeed!

However, since this day passed, Ke Bineng was deeply impressed by Ma Di's cruel methods hidden under his harmless face.From then on, he never dared to underestimate this general Shu Han who was smiling all day long.

In the past, Kirby always felt that Ma Di was exaggerating. The latter's impressive performances in Longyou and Liangzhou were exaggerated and luck, and it must be because of the powerful Zhuge Liang's restraint from the front, Ma Di created Opportunities for sneak attacks and surprises.

But now, Kirby can no longer think so.

This Ma Su is not only steady, but also ruthless enough to attack.

A man who does great things.

the other side.

Xiaoqi General Qin Lang led an army of [-] to the north, and went straight to Luochuankou, approaching Ke Bineng's army.

After a brief confrontation between the two sides, Kebi Neng retreated, gave way to the big camp outside Luochuankou, and retreated fifty miles to the boundary of Yunzhong to set up camp.

After Bi Gui led the remnants of the troops to join forces with Qin Lang, the total number of Wei troops had reached 5000, including [-] cavalry.

According to the scouts' investigation, Kirbineng's troops currently only have [-] cavalry, and the other [-] cavalry are missing.

Based on the above information, Qin Lang cautiously thought after analysis: Don't chase after the poor, just force Kirby back to the grassland.

Bingzhou Governor Bigui disagreed with this point of view, he stood up fiercely, thinking that at this time, Kirby should be killed while he was weak, so as to eliminate the side trouble forever.

The two disagreed, and the dispute was difficult.

Almost jacking up a cow in the big tent.

Enraged, Bi Gui blurted out: "Your Majesty is a son of the clan, and he has never commanded an army before, so it is understandable that he does not know whether Kebi is capable of being in the army. According to today's calculations, Kebi can be pursued!"

Although Qin Lang ascended to the high position of General Xiaoqi by virtue of his status as Cao Cao's adopted son, he is a general with real skills.However, due to various reasons, he has not been appointed as an official during the Cao Cao and Cao Pi eras. It was not until the first year of Taihe, after Cao Rui ascended the throne, that he was appointed as General Xiaoqi.

Afterwards, Qin Lang repeatedly asked his troops to march northward to the grasslands to stabilize the frontier fortress.The memorials in the above list are also sincere in words, pointing to the key points, never challenging Cao Rui's authority, and never competing with Cao Shuang, Sima Yi and others for power.But even so, he has always had a false job and has not been reused.

There are two reasons for this situation. One is that there are too many good generals like him in Wei Dynasty, and it is not his turn;

Now Bi Gui's words directly hit his sore spot, making him speechless to refute.

Because what Bi Gui said is true.

Moreover, Bi Gui has been stationed in the northern border all the year round, and he knows the details of Kobineng. Before that, he had severely injured Kobineng with only 2 horses (the [-] cavalry from Budugen were not included here).Therefore, Bi Gui's words are of great reference value.

Qin Lang had to take back his point of view and reconsider Bi Gui's proposal.

"Okay. According to the plan of the envoy, what should our army do? The [-] Xianbei cavalry have to defend..." Qin Lang is not a stubborn person. He knows that it is a big taboo for military strategists to disagree with the generals before the two armies.If you really want to fall out with Bi Gui, it will not be good for everyone.

Then he waved his hand, sat back on the main seat, and looked at Bi Gui.

"Since Luochuankou was cut off, the [-] Xianbei cavalry have disappeared, and they have not yet joined Kebi. In my opinion, the [-] cavalry are still in Taiyuan. Kebi can retreat today because he wants to Lure my army to go north, so that the [-] cavalry can take advantage of the situation and take Taiyuan and cut off my way back."

"In this way, our army only needs to stay in Taiyuan with [-] soldiers and horses to be safe."

"Cursing to the north now, first kill Ke Bineng, all of them, and his tribe, and then turn around and deal with the [-] Xianbei cavalry."

Listening to Bi Gui's clear analysis, Qin Lang noticed the confident light in the former's eyes, and at the same time, he became very interested in how much he hated Kirby.

"I don't know why Shijun hates Ke Bineng so much?" Qin Lang asked curiously.

It stands to reason that in the previous battle, Kobe Neng was victorious but still lost, and Bi Gui seemed to be winning, but he didn't suffer a loss, so he wouldn't hate Kobe Neng so much.

Bi Gui nodded, and said word by word: "In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once said: Anyone who offends my great Han will be punished no matter how far away; today I swear this word, whoever violates my country will be punished no matter how far away!"

Qin Lang was shocked, and hurriedly re-examined Bi Gui. He suddenly remembered that a few years ago, Bi Gui had a bad reputation among the officials of the Great Wei.

At that time, everyone said that Bi Gui's words and deeds were exaggerated, and because Bi Gui had a good relationship with Cao Shuang, and his son was a concubine of the princess, etc., he became more and more arrogant and indulgent.As a last resort, under Cao Shuang's recommendation, Cao Rui arranged for Bi Gui to serve as the governor of Bingzhou, so as to raise his reputation, improve his military exploits, and change his reputation.

Originally, after learning that Bi Gui had seriously injured Kirbineng, Qin Lang once thought that Bi Gui had become more mature and prudent, and he didn't want to see him today, good guy, he is even more arrogant than when he was young.

Qin Lang couldn't figure it out, how did such a Bigui rely on [-] cavalry to severely injure Kirby's [-] cavalry?
Could it be that Kirby is really too weak?

In the battle report sent to the imperial court, Bi Gui did not clearly state how much Budugen played in this battle. He only said that he first led his troops to rebel against Wei and returned to Xianbei, and then planned to defect from Xianbei to Han, so he could fight with Kebi up.Afterwards, Bi Gui took the opportunity to lead his army out and severely injured Kirbineng.

Silently chewing the information, Qin Lang suddenly realized something.

Bi Gui is still the same Bi Gui, so overjoyed, his arrogant and arrogant temperament has not changed.

As for whether military capabilities have improved, this remains to be seen.

Thinking of this, Qin Lang nodded, and at the same time, as if he was looking for someone to blame for his actions, he solemnly declared: "For the peace of the Wei border, follow the plan of the envoy!"

"For the peace of Wei's border!"

In August of the sixth year of Wei Taihe, a series of wars broke out again on the northern border of the war-torn Wei State. The two Wei armies led by General Xiaoqi General Qin Lang and Bingzhou Governor Bigui went deep into the grasslands, chasing Ke Bineng who was retreating steadily.

(End of this chapter)