The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

Some scholars are very talented and talented, but they are so clumsy that they cannot express their talents, and it is difficult for others to discover their talents. Sometimes they are recommended, and the words they say during the interview are even more blunt, and the king does not like to listen to them at all.

But there are also some people who are born to eat this bowl of food, and the tone of their speech is adjusted. They are obviously talking about a very common topic, but they can arouse people's desire to listen carefully through body language and tone.

Xun Qing is such a person. When he is teaching, he will let people follow his rhythm through eye contact and tone of voice.

After going through the initial adaptation period, Lu An quickly caught up with Xun Qing's teaching mode.As a world-class cultural master, Xun Qing will try to take care of every student when giving lectures, but even so, Lu An's level cannot compare with his seniors, especially his understanding ability is greatly insufficient.

This kind of comprehension mainly relies on cultural background and classic vocabulary, etc. It is not accessible to intelligence, and there is no other supplementary method except diligent study.

But Lu Buwei, a krypton gold player, prepared a lot of bamboo slips and pens and ink for him. In the classroom, everyone can see that the youngest junior brother picks up the bamboo scrolls and brushes on them while listening to the class.

After getting out of the hall, Lu Xiaoan, who is the shortest, is always the first to come over to ask for advice, and then he will be dragged by Xun Qing to clean his hands first, and then the master and apprentice will walk and open for him. small stove.

At the beginning, Xun Qing spent a lot of time after class to make up lessons for children, and in the end the bamboo scrolls used to record doubtful and difficult points became shorter and shorter, and the time went by for tens of thousands of years.

During this period of time, Xun Qing finally officially accepted Lu An as his student, and recognized the child's ability to take care of himself. Lu An no longer needed to go to day school.

The biggest advantage of the dormitory system is that you can sleep a little longer every day. Although we are in Handan, the ox carts are slow, and it is quite time-consuming to run from Lu's house to Xunqing's house.

Along the way, there was a bonus of shaking and bumping, and he couldn't sleep, and couldn't read clearly. Lu Xiaoan could only shake his little head in accordance with the rhythm on the bullock cart and was forced to "refresh".

Now that they can live together, he can sleep until he wakes up naturally every day!

...In fact, he didn't wake up naturally. The dormitory students still had morning classes to do, and Lu Xiaoan's sleep time was only a little bit longer than before.

He wasn't used to it at first, but fortunately, brother Wei, who was assigned to the same room, was very caring. He would cover his face with a cold towel every day to wake up the little brother who fell asleep until his belly turned over, and then put the person in the same room. Sneaking over to put on clothes, rinsing the child's mouth and washing his face, after finishing a series of tasks, Lu Xiaoan will be able to sit in class refreshed!

The key is that after the class, the seniors will take the juniors to play for a while, which makes Lu An, who has never played with his peers, very novel. He can play a few simple games with gusto, and the level of support is so high that the seniors Extremely satisfied.After playing the game, the sweaty little junior brother had to go to wash up with the senior brothers together, rub himself clean before being allowed to roll into the bed.

——After discovering that Lu An was not capable of scrubbing himself clean, the task of taking a bath was taken over by the respected senior brother Wei!

The children's life was happy, but it was not easy for Lu Buwei, Ying Yiren and others who stayed in Lu's house. They kept walking up and down to inquire about news.

They all sensitively sensed something strange in the air.

It's too quiet, the whole Handan City is too quiet.

This kind of quiet is not just because the young and middle-aged people in the city have been conscripted to the front line, nor is it because of the recent decline in industry and commerce in Zhao State, the economy has plummeted, and it is not because of the nobles who have held fewer banquets because of the war to avoid the bad luck of King Zhao. .

It's a great atmosphere.

It was midsummer, and it was supposed to be the season when all things were competing to grow and the cicadas were singing, but this summer this year seemed too quiet, and even the cicadas were a little weak and sparse.

how so?Lu Buwei soon found out the answer, because many young men were catching cicadas on the trees to eat.

Cicadas are, of course, edible.

In this era where people can eat as long as they don't die immediately, everyone has discovered this a long time ago.But people are generally more inclined to eat cicada pupae than cicadas, which are extremely difficult to catch.

Cicadas usually like to stay on the canopy of trees, and they are difficult to catch, and they have very little meat.Moreover, catching cicadas to eat is acceptable to a small number of people, and most people would rather eat something crawling on the ground than insects.

But this year is different. The number of people catching cicadas has greatly increased, and their desire to catch them is extremely strong. This is why this year's summer is different from the past.

Lu Buwei saw a deep crisis from this move.

This small move by the people exposed a problem - the country of Zhao was short of food, and what was lacking was not military food, but civilian food.

There is a difference between the two. The military rations are generally raised by the king, and they are usually placed in the treasuries of various places and used at critical moments. The sources include taxation, self-cultivated land, and purchases from foreign countries.

The civilian grain is completely the grain circulated in the commercial process of the folk farmers exchanging grain for goods out of living needs after harvesting.Of course, it is inevitable that there will be big grain merchants, rich people, or the state to regulate, but generally speaking, it is not on the same line as the source and use of military rations.

There are many reasons for the shortage of folk food, and it is usually because of a disaster year.

However, there has been relatively no major disasters in the Central Plains in the past few years, so of course there is only one reason for the lack of food among the people: the bottom farmers are unwilling to sell, and the merchants have no surplus food to use for market circulation.

At the same time, the government of the State of Zhao was also unable to transfer food, which caused a shortage of food in Handan, the capital of the State of Zhao.

And because it is summer now, there are more edible things in nature, so there is no famine.

So where did the food go?Whether it was confiscated or hoarded, Lu Buwei didn't care. From this information, he analyzed the fact that Zhao Jun could no longer fight a protracted war.

Once the court of King Zhao could not continue to support the huge military expenditure, the front line must be settled quickly, and the defensive country that could have been able to respond to all changes without change had to fight a tough battle. This has to be said to be a joke.

After Lu Buwei came to a conclusion, he immediately increased the frequency of wandering among the courtiers in Handan, and a large amount of gold and silver artifacts were continuously poured out from Lu's house.

But the most popular of these is pork.

The meat raised in Lu’s farm has a very light smell. Cut it into thin slices and roast it over a charcoal fire. Take a bite and pair it with a little iced wine. With the sound of lard dripping on the charcoal, it’s very hot on a hot day. It makes people feel inexplicably happy.

By the way, the ice was also sent by the Lu family.

It was winter when Lu Buwei bought a property in Handan. He was alone at that time, and he hadn't thought of the many turning points now, let alone taking his wife over.However, Lu Buwei, who is very business-minded, was unwilling to leave the warehouse empty, and he did not have so much to fill the warehouse, so he used local materials and asked people to fetch ice from the river, and filled all the warehouses at home with ice cubes.

The insulation effect of this kind of ice storage on the ground is not good, and the sealing effect is not perfect. From winter to now, three-fifths of the ice cubes stored have been lost, but the business is definitely profitable.

Of course there are ice sellers in Handan, and Lu Buwei had no intention of competing for the small profits, so he simply cut the ice into pieces and gave them as gifts.

In midsummer, an ice cube as big as a brick is already a great gift, and the people who received the gift showed great enthusiasm.And for the sake of the ice cubes, the recipients of the gifts couldn’t show themselves to be dignified by showing off their guests. No matter which house Lu Buwei went to, he would be quickly ushered in when he said he had brought ice cubes. of.

Even if someone doesn't fancy these ice cubes, they can't end up with the title of "drying the gifts brought by the guests to melt", which is really too rude to spread.

As soon as Lu Buwei discovered the benefits, he immediately admired the wife who proposed to use ice as a gift.

To achieve success, the right time, place and people are indispensable.

Nowadays, there are both people and geographical advantages, so Lu Buwei waited for the right time.

The opportunity came soon, and the messenger of Zhao Jun's battalion arrived in Handan. This time, his arrival was not to report victory, but the same as many times in the past-to ask for food and soldiers.

why? ! !

"But to expand the results of the battle? To wipe out the Qin army?" Zhao Wang had the last few expectations in his heart, but this was not the case. Zhao Jun and Qin Jun fell into a stalemate again.

Before that, the Zhao army went deep into the enemy's belly and captured [-] Qin troops. Later, Zhao Kuo keenly discovered that the Qin army seemed to be surrounded. However, the Qin army did not expect that the Zhao army would be the main force this time. The army tore open the gap and successfully broke through and crossed the river to return to the Changping camp.

Although Zhao Jun was inevitably bitten by Qin Jun in the process of returning to the east, Zhao Kuo led the elite troops of Zhao Guo.The biggest difference between the army and the militia is discipline.The trained Zhao army was not scattered even when it retreated eastward, and its losses were much smaller than that of the Qin army's lure the enemy deep this time.Generally speaking, in this war, Zhao Jun had the upper hand in terms of the situation and the number of beheads.

However, when Zhao Jun returned to the Changping camp, he was shocked to find that the reason why Qin Jun didn't send enough men to eat Zhao Jun was because they divided their troops.The Qin army separated two other troops, one from the south and the other from the north, inserted into the rear of the Zhao army.

The northern defense line of the Changping Camp, the Bailishi Great Wall and the Daliangshan passage leading to Zhao Jun’s grain storage, were cut off by the Qin Army. Now the Qin Army is like a friend making a hug gesture, opening to Zhao Jun arm.

But this embrace is undoubtedly fatal.

Daliangshan stored two-thirds of Zhao Jun's rations. In order to protect this part of the rations, Zhao Kuo sent most of the militia to defend there.

Moreover, the reason why Daliang Mountain was chosen as the hoarding place of Zhao Jun’s military grain has its own advantages. They are the highest mountains on both sides of the Dan River, and they are both high in the west and low in the east. There is nothing for the Qin army in the west.

In addition to storing grain, its excellent terrain can help Zhao Jun monitor the movements of the Qin Army. The changes in the advance and retreat of the Qin Army cannot escape the eyes of scouts on the top of Daliang Mountain.There is also a beacon tower on the mountain. If the Qin army wants to sneak attack, they can find and light the beacon immediately, and Zhao Kuo will send an army to rescue.

This kind of defense is almost impeccable, even the most experienced soldiers will have a headache for a long time if they want to break through this line of defense.However, Bai Qi, the general of the Qin Army, did not take the usual route. He never attacked Daliang Mountain, and even the soldiers of the Qin Army never approached Daliang Mountain for defense.

They first cut off the communication link between Daliang Mountain and Changping Camp, and then sent troops to guard the main channel of Daliang Mountain and Zhao Jun's transportation while Zhao Jun was trapped on the other side of the river.

The Qin army didn't need to clash with the militiamen on the mountain at all, it just needed to wait for work and food to kill and save.

It is true that there are many militias stationed on Daliang Mountain, but even if the army does not have a leader, it is still a mess, let alone a militia that is far inferior to soldiers?

There are bold people on the mountain, who have organized several counterattacks, but for the fully armored soldiers of the Qin army, it is not much more difficult to kill Zhao militiamen with no protection, no training, and no plan than cutting melons and vegetables.After killing a few batches, Shan Shang immediately calmed down.

Qin Jun didn't care whether these people were really scared out of their wits, or hibernating and waiting for Zhao Jun to come to rescue them. It didn't make much difference to them.

The fact is also the same. Zhao Jun immediately sent troops to rescue after discovering that the grain storage area was sealed off. They bypassed the road blocked by Qin Jun and chose to attack from Xiaodongcang Canyon on the east side of Daliang Mountain.

Xiaodongcang Canyon is a small canyon formed by the streams flowing from Daliang Mountain and Hanwang Mountain. The river here is not deep and the water flow is very slow. However, the overall terrain on both sides of the strait is high, the middle is low, and there is no shelter. Choose from here Attacking is like catching a turtle in a urn for the defender, which is extremely beneficial.

In this way, even if it can be captured, it is a strong attack, the kind of strong attack that uses life to hedge.

In order to cover them, Zhao Kuo sent troops to pretend to attack the battlefield where the Great Wall at the northern end of Baishili was located, trying to attract the attention of the Qin army, but it didn't work.

Relying on the solid protection of the Baishili Great Wall, the Qin army did not need to spend too much troops here, and Zhao Jun's intentions had long been understood by the Qin army. The soldiers Zhao Jun sent to transport food were desperately forced to pay a huge price Only harvest the food and grass for the whole army for three or four days.Zhao Jun's offensive on the north and south fronts failed, so he could only stay dormant for the time being.

The Changping camp itself also has a certain amount of food, which can provide Zhao Jun with recuperation. Zhao Kuo let the soldiers take the time to rest while sending fast horses back to Handan, asking King Zhao to send more soldiers and food. Although Zhao Jun is now passive, but overall It is said that the number is superior, but it was cut into two sections by the Qin army. The northern section has soldiers but no food, and the southern section has food but no soldiers. But if Handan supports, whether it is giving people or food, Zhao Jun can ease come over.

Once the north and south are connected, they can move eastward in one go. The Qin army paid a high price to block the Zhao army. As long as the Zhao army has enough numbers, it will first eat up the Qin army in the northern section and then the southern section, and then gather the entire army to advance eastward. With the advantage of numbers, the Qin army stationed in Guanglang City can be completely wiped out.

Zhao Kuo, who wrote this letter, did not just talk about it, let alone write a blank check to his boss.It is very effective to divide the troops when the strength of each other is similar. If it is not done well, it will give away the head to others, and the effect of dividing the troops will decrease with the passage of time.

To put it simply, Zhao Jun was caught off guard before, but when Zhao Jun knew that the Qin Army was divided, he could also group up and eat it.According to the current strength of the Zhao army, as long as there is sufficient food and grass, Zhao Kuo is confident that he can swallow them all.

But Zhao Guo's biggest embarrassment now is: they have neither people nor food.

In addition to guarding in Handan, the Zhao army’s heavy troops also need to be stationed in the northern section. The northern section of Zhao State is adjacent to the Huns. This neighbor is not very friendly. They have loved and killed the king of Zhao State for many years, that is, in the past few years Zhao Guo, who had only been strengthened after Hu Fu rode and shot, beat back one after another.

He really didn't dare to ask King Zhao to mobilize the army there.

Not to mention food and grass. Although it is a big country, the agricultural foundation of Zhao State is indeed not as good as that of Qin State.

On the one hand, it is policy reasons, on the other hand, it is also related to geographical location.

The area of ​​Wuyuan County, Jiuyuan County, Yunzhong County, Yanmen Jun, and Dai County in the north of Zhao State accounted for nearly half of the total area of ​​Zhao State. These were also important military towns in later generations, and their geographical location was even more agricultural and nomadic. transition zone.

The reason why the grassland becomes a grassland is because the soil is poor, and the local ecology cannot breed woody plants and grass plants, and in the end it can only make up for herbaceous plants.

So you can imagine how poor the soil in this place is.

What's more, as a military center, of course there are no professional farmers.Without farming, the local area cannot provide food, and these places have to allocate food from all over the Central Plains on weekdays.

Not all the rest of the Zhao country is suitable for growing grain, so in order to stabilize grain prices and reserve needs, Zhao Guo has to buy grain from other countries at high prices.But now, after two years of stalemate with Qin State, a large amount of military expenditure has left Zhao State's treasury empty, and the way of high-priced procurement is obviously no longer feasible, and the search from the people has reached its limit. If not, he would not rush to end this war war.

In the end, King Zhao had no choice but to turn over the grain depot, and then sorted out the grain and grass that the army could last for more than a month, and sent the militiamen to escort it.He hoped that Zhao Kuo could use this part of the food and grass to do what he said. If he could really repel Qin State, then Zhao State would still have the power to turn around.

And just after the grain transportation team left Handan, a wave of agitation spread in Handan City.

——Why don't we threaten Qin State with the life of Qin Gongzi?Isn't that what protons are for?

It is probably impossible to let the Qin army withdraw its troops, but you can try to make the Qin army retreat ten miles and withdraw from the Danhe area. Wouldn't the Zhao army be relieved of the siege?

If they don't want to retreat, it's okay, we will kill Ying Yiren to sacrifice to heaven, and use this person's flesh and blood to pray to the former monarch of Zhao State to protect Zhao State's military fortune and prosperity.

——Easy to think about!

To everyone's surprise, the first person to stand up and oppose was Pingyang Jun.

Uncle Zhao Wang, who had been depressed for a long time because he opposed Zhao Wang's acceptance of Shangdang more than two years ago, unexpectedly went to court, and happened to meet a courtier who presented this suggestion to Zhao Wang.

Lord Pingyang looked at the subject and sneered, "Isn't that thing on your neck used for other purposes besides eating? You might as well knock it with your hand to see if there is any echo in it?"

The author has something to say:

Sixth Junior Brother: Little Junior Brother can't take a bath...

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In fact, children really don't know how to take a bath. They usually huff and clap twice when they take a bath, so when parents rub their hands, they will be covered in mud.

The author witnessed the miracle in the hot spring cleaning area ==

This is the author's small lecture hall on the Battle of Changping

Last time we talked about Qin Jun sending Zhao Jun 5 heads to lure the enemy into deep, do you think that Bai Qi wants to surround and digest people?That's wrong, the siege force needs to be twice to three times stronger, so that people can't break through, otherwise once a hole is broken through, it will lose money.

Therefore, Bai Qi did not intend to force Zhao Jun to stay here from the very beginning. Of course, he did not expect that Zhao Kuo would attack with the whole army (soldiers), so the delay force left locally was not enough, and he was indeed at a loss. .

But in fact, Qin Jun's goal was also achieved.

As in the text, the Qin army divided into two troops, one going south and the other going north, blocking Zhao Jun's food and grass passage.

The Great Wall to the north was difficult to attack, so Zhao Kuo didn't have many people left when defending. As a result, Qin's army passed by and was eaten down. The source of food and grass here.

The Daliang Mountain in the south (you can tell from the name that this is a good place to store grain) is difficult to attack, so the Qin army didn't attack it.

Remember Zhao Kuo's arrangement?He placed a large number of militiamen in these two places. Militiamen and soldiers are different. Although they both have the word soldier, they are untrained farmers.It's not that the combat effectiveness is much worse, but the consciousness. The willpower of peasants is much weaker than that of soldiers.

People may be able to fight for a while, but very few can fight for a long time. This is what Qin Jun came up with (in fact, he also succeeded)

Zhao Jun used to have three food supply roads, but now only one of them is left.

Maybe some babies ask, that’s not right, food and grass supplies can go anywhere, can’t we just take a detour?

The wonderful thing here is that Qin and Zhao fought in the Taihang Mountains. Do you still remember the story of Yugong Yishan?The second mountain of Taihang Wangwu is here. The era of this story is the Warring States period. Do you still remember what it said?The square is seven hundred miles, and the height is ten thousand ren.

In ancient times, this data was very difficult to overcome by manpower, and it was difficult for people to walk, let alone carrying food, so they could only walk from Xiaoxing in Taihang Mountain.

There are a total of ten small Xings in Taihang Mountain, known as the Ten Xings of Taihang (there were only eight Xings later), but there are only three in the southern Taihang Mountains, which is the battleground. Yes, the Qin army now controls two of them.

Zhao Jun has only one way to go, and that is to go from Yangchangxing.

Originally, the most comfortable way for Zhao to transport grain was to go out from Fukouxing in the north and transport grain from Handan, and the Baishili Great Wall was built to protect this passage.

Zhao Jun knew that he had only this way, wouldn't Qin Jun not know?

To know how the next episode will be, please see the next chapter for decomposition.

PS: The battle of Changping is still based on the history books. No one knows the details. Everyone analyzes it based on historical materials, topography and archaeological findings, but for the sake of success, you have to trust the history books.

(Although the history books should not be so detailed)

Ah, what a responsible big man I am