"Drive! Drive! Herod!" A scout came from the direction of Dunqiu, whipping his horse, reining in his horse and stopping in front of Xu Zongwen.
The scout turned over and dismounted, came closer, clasped his fists towards Xu Zongwen and performed a standard military salute: "General, this is the military report sent by Mr. Auxiliary Machinery and Captain Shen. Please take a look at it."
Xu Zongwen nodded slightly and raised his hand to signal the scouts to excuse themselves. When he heard that it was the military report sent by Pei Qing, Xi Jian who was following Xu Zongwen also urged his horse forward slightly.
"Mr. Keeper of the Promise, come and take a look." Xu Zongwen read it carefully and handed the secret letter to Xi Jian who was sitting on the horse. The latter took it with a smile and began to read it attentively.
The military report sent jointly by Pei Qing and Shen Yu was actually reporting their detailed plan to attack Dunqiu. Xu Zongwen felt a pity when he learned that Pei Qing and Shen Yu had divided their forces to attack the five cities of Dunqiu!
In fact, Xu Zongwen's original intention was to capture Dunqiu City immediately, and at most control Wei County to the east of Dunqiu City. By taking these two important places, he could control the waterway from the old Yellow River to the Wangmang River, and to a certain extent, the Jin army could The greatest advantage was formed during the decisive battle with Murong Chui.
However, Pei Qing and Shen Yu seemed to have misunderstood their original intentions. They thought that the more cities they could capture, the better.
In fact, if there are more cities, the troops must be divided and garrisoned, which disperses the strength of the Jin army. If Murong Chui temporarily gives up the siege of Yecheng and goes south to fight the Jin army in a large scale, won't he be defeated one by one?
This move is too risky!
"General, even if the two armies join together, our total strength is only 10,000. Murong Chui has an army of 100,000. With one against ten, can the Jin army be able to defeat it? Can it win? What's more, our army is divided and stationed in various places. The strength is too scattered. , it is difficult to concentrate superior forces to deal with the Yan army’s Xianbei cavalry attack!”
Xu Zongwen looked sideways slightly. As expected of Xi Jian and Xi keeping their promise, he could see at a glance the key point of Pei Qing and Shen Yu's plan to divide their forces to attack the cities of Dunqiu!
"What you said is exactly what I am worried about," Xu Zongwen looked at Xi Jian, who handed the secret letter back to Xu Zongwen, "It seems that it is necessary to inform Mr. Auxiliary Machinery and Shen Yu."
"I am willing to do the book repair work for you." Xi Jian immediately recommended himself to Xu Zongwen.
Xu Zongwenzheng couldn't get what he wanted. Although he could understand Han Li, at first his calligraphy was like a ghostly calligraphy, just like a heavenly book.
However, Pei Qing and Xi Jian's calligraphy are both sophisticated and have their own merits, and Xu Zongwen is also very happy to read them.
Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Han Li began to develop and change towards the real script, that is, regular script. This change is mainly reflected in the method of writing and the form of strokes.
His strokes have clear strokes, strokes and strokes, fewer round strokes and more square strokes; more square strokes and square strokes, but still retain the interest of official script.
It is said in the "General Explanation of Calligraphy" of later generations: "Since Zhong Yao, the two kings have transformed it, and the world calls it the 'real calligraphy'. When I wrote it, I didn't know it was the official method." Wu Qiuyan's "Seven Bian of the Origin of Words" He said: "There are Qin Li and Han Li, and Zhuo is the best at discussing it. Now we should call it 'Jin Li' based on the authentic calligraphy of Jin people, and it will naturally be easy to understand."
During this period, thanks to the guidance and creation of a large number of calligraphy masters, official script, cursive script and regular script went hand in hand. Scholars each had their own strengths and had the habit of collecting famous calligraphy.
"Let Shen Yu concentrate his forces to capture Dunqiu City. The main force of our army is temporarily hoarded in Dunqiu, accumulating ordnance, and actively preparing for war." Xu Zongwen continued: "But the city that has been obtained cannot be given up in vain, and it is an advantage to the Yan army. "
If the occupied city is abandoned in vain, wouldn't the lives of the soldiers who died be in vain?
Xu Zongwen couldn't do such a thankless thing.
"Tie straw into a human shape instead of defending the city, set up traps around the city, set up our army's flag to confuse the Jin army, and once delayed the Yan army's advance..." Xu Wen squatted on the ground, Xi Jian used Xu Wen's back as a case, spread out On the bamboo slips, I talked and wrote, and offered suggestions from the side.
"Okay, sir, please write this method into it and give it to Mr. Auxiliary Machine and Shen Yu. I hope the Yan army will not go south so quickly, and at least wait until our two armies meet before attacking Dunqiu."
Xu Zongwen's face was full of thinking, and he seemed to have a special attachment to Murong Chui.
Maybe it was because Murong Chui was famous, or maybe it was because he was still a little afraid of Murong Chui, a fear of an unknown but known person.
After all, there is a saying that it is better to have no books than to believe in books. The Murong Chui recorded in the history books may not be the real Murong Chui.
"General, that boy next to the young princess of Yan State is too arrogant and arrogant!" Zhang Si supported his waist and ran over from behind the army.
Xu Zongwen was interrupted from thinking, and turned around to look carefully at Zhang Si, who couldn't see anything strange about him.
"Turn around and let me take a look."
"General, isn't this not good?" Zhang Si seemed to be hiding something. Even his casual refusal was full of loopholes. It was obvious that he didn't want Xu Zongwen to see through his purpose.
Xu Zongwen glanced sideways at him: "I asked you to turn around."
Sure enough, a large piece of Zhang Si's back armor fell off.
No, it’s a neat slash!
"Tell me! What's going on?"
There was no other way, Zhang Si couldn't withstand Xu Zongwen's questioning in the end, so he could only tell the truth.
It turned out that Murong Ling, a young princess of the Yan Kingdom, voluntarily followed Xu Zongwen to Dunqiu in order to meet her father Murong Bao. Everything went smoothly at first. Murong Ling, her sixth uncle Murong Lin and the Xianbei prisoners followed the Jin army southward, eating and drinking well.
However, after two days of marching less than a hundred miles, Murong Ling was very anxious and even asked Zhang Si, who was responsible for escorting the Xianbei prisoners, to go to Dunqiu to see Murong Bao alone.
Not to mention whether Pei Qing would let Murong Ling see Murong Bao, Zhang Si couldn't let Murong Ling go easily without receiving orders from Xu Zongwen, right?
If one wants to leave and the other wants to stay, there will inevitably be quarrels, and if there are quarrels, there will inevitably be physical violence...
The result was that Zhang Si made a bet with the guard of the little princess Murong Ling. If Murong Ling's guard, the thin man named Zhuang Qingdi, could defeat Zhang Si, Zhang Si promised Murong Ling to leave.
In the end, Zhang Si was defeated miserably. If the escorting Jin army had not come to rescue the siege, Zhang Si might have lost the prize!
Zhang Si was just talking about the bet. Seeing Zhuang Qing's emaciated appearance, he felt that he would be able to subdue Zhuang Qingdi with his own force, so he arranged the fight privately without Xu Zongwen's consent.
"As expected of a princess, she is surrounded by capable people," Xu Zongwen laughed at Zhang Siyibo, "You overestimate yourself. If you go back and practice swordsmanship for two more years, you won't even be able to deal with a bigger kid. "
Zhang Si's face was full of shame, and Xu Zongwen could only go to deal with the matter in person.
Zhang San raised the hilt of the knife and knocked Zhang Si hard on the head, "You! The general asked you to escort the prisoners, what do you think you did? You still fought bravely with the prisoners, and that's all if you win. ! You still lost!"
Facing his brother's reproach, Zhang Si could only cover the back of his head and keep bowing to apologize.
