"The Art of War says, if you are ten, you will be surrounded." Lao Cao took a tea bowl, put it on the table, pointed at it and said, "It can also be understood that if you have a strong city in hand, you can defend ten times the enemy."
The man's eyes lit up: "I understand! What Brother Wu means is that if the leader of the Xixia Kingdom sends his troops to turn back, he will want to fight quickly, but we did the opposite and defended according to the city, slowly delaying with him."
Lao Cao waved his hand, shook his head and said with a smile: "If it's just to delay, why bother defending the city? Wouldn't it be better if I just lead the army across the east of the river, wandering everywhere, and let him follow behind?"
After saying that, a sly smile appeared on his face: "My dear brother, the art of war says that if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger. It can also be understood that if you want to defeat the enemy, you should be unexpected, and then you can use a clever move."
The man's eyes lit up again, he thought for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "To be honest, my dear friend, I seem to understand this, but how to do it, I am still confused."
Cao Cao laughed and said: "If you explain it in detail, it's just to make him think he knows, but in fact he doesn't know. He thinks I don't know, but in fact I know everything. What he knows is what I want him to know. I have mentioned it. All of them are unknown to the other party! If you don’t know, you can’t predict it.”
When Lao Cao said these words, not only the man named Li, but also Lao Cao's brothers and the man's leaders all looked thoughtful.
Hua Rong, Shi Bao, Yao Xing, Li Huai... a few of them were already reciting silently with their words moving slightly.
Jiao Ting even took out the pen and paper from his arms, licked the tip of the pen with his tongue, moved his eyes to the left and right, scanned the people on both sides, and then reset them. Although his face was expressionless, there was a look of pride in his small eyes.
Hu Sanniang exclaimed: "Oh, brother Jiao Ting really knows how to make progress now. A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. He is really attentive."
Jiao Ting couldn't help but smiled and handed Shi Qian a pen and paper: "Write it down for me."
Shi Qian pretended to be angry and said, "Am I your servant?"
Jiao Ting said with a matter-of-fact expression: "I can't read."
Shi Qian was stunned. He picked up the stack of paper and looked at it. He saw that there was really no word on it. They were all little people with long or short hair. He couldn't help but wonder: "What is this?"
Jiao Ting pointed at the villain and told him: "This is a woman, this is a man, this is my brother..."
Hu Sanniang's heart moved. She remembered what she had told Jiao Ting to pay attention to who Lao Cao had been close to, and she was immediately moved: This silly brother really means his best!
Lao Cao looked sideways, and Jiao Ting said to Shi Qian seriously: "Brother Qian, help me write it down: everything he knows is what I want him to know..."
Lao Cao's expression suddenly became subtle, and he was suddenly not sure whether the Jiao Ting he knew was the real Jiao Ting, or the Jiao Ting he wanted to know.
Shi Qian's expression also became subtle, and he thought to himself that Jiao Ting said he couldn't read. Was he really illiterate, or did he want to know that he couldn't read?
Shi Bao never thought about this much. He recited Lao Cao's words. If he gained something, he thought for a while and suddenly clapped his hands: "Ah, I understand! In the eyes of the Xixia people, we are alone on an expedition, and our whereabouts are extremely hidden." , then our troops must be limited. This 'limitation' is where he 'knows the enemy'! He knows that our troops are limited, so the partial troops he sends must not only try not to harm the overall situation of Taiyuan, but also be enough to kill him in one fell swoop. He destroyed us, so I guess he has about 50,000 troops."
Cao Cao praised: "Good brother, you are right! Tell me more, how should I respond when he sends these people?"
Shi Bao couldn't help frowning, thinking as he said: "Now that he wants to attack Taiyuan, he must send troops back to wipe out us as soon as possible. Well, he wants to 'fight quickly'. This is my 'know the enemy', then Since I know he wants to fight quickly, I naturally don't allow him to be proud, so I just don't fight..."
"No!" Hua Rong suddenly interrupted Shi Bao: "Shuai Shi took it too lightly! He didn't want to fight quickly, he wanted to swallow up the Song Dynasty and become a great country. For this reason, he wanted to fight quickly to make the rear To pacify it as soon as possible, we can focus on fighting on the front line. Therefore, in the final analysis, 'becoming a big country' is our 'knowing the enemy', and we will not allow him to become a big country. However, we must carefully consider how to tolerate it..."
When Yao Xing heard this, his expression was stunned, and then he showed a look of ecstasy: "That's right! Why did the military commander take the risk to attack Xingqing Mansion? It's just to prevent Xixia from becoming bigger! Xixia is now sending troops to deal with us, Our original intention was not to win this soldier, but to not allow him to become powerful! Therefore, therefore..."
"Hahahaha!" Lao Cao laughed heartily and encouraged: "Brother Yao, tell me quickly, so what?"
This young general who once assassinated Fang Qifu alone and had no expression on his face when he was captured was now almost breathing out white air from his nostrils. His face was as red as a piece of cloth, and his eyes were as wide as a bull in heat. It seemed that he himself was He didn't believe what he was about to say: "Therefore, therefore, we should take advantage of his division of troops, thinking that there is no chance of anything happening in the rear, and drive straight into Taiyuan! Ah! No way, right? Commander Wu, no way?"
Yao Xing jumped to his feet, his face full of disbelief, but he looked at Lao Cao expectantly.
The rest of the people were also so shocked that they opened their mouths wide and looked at Lao Cao blankly. It was obvious that Yao Xing's words "drive straight into Taiyuan" shocked them quite a bit.
Lao Cao also expressed surprise, but he never expected that everyone at the scene would actually figure out his plan.
Especially when he finally guessed that this person was young Yao Xing.
He couldn't help admiring his eyes, and stretched out his hand to caress his back: "What kind of military commander, you don't even want to call me brother?"
Yao Xing's face became redder and redder: "Brother Wu! Good brother, are we really going to fight Taiyuan? Then what should we do with the soldiers he killed?"
Lao Cao smiled and looked at the man named Li.
The man trembled, remembering what Lao Cao had said, his eyes widened suddenly, and he pointed at his nose and said, "Me? I pretended to be you, guarding, guarding the city? To contain his partial troops?"
"That's right!" Cao Cao said sternly: "Brothers, Xixia invaded this time with the full strength of the country, an army of 150,000. I defeated his bluffing army of 20,000 suspects outside Tongguan. He besieged Taiyuan, at most. There are 130,000 Xixia soldiers, thousands of Jurchen soldiers, and the rest are the surrendered Song troops. If, as I expected, 50,000 soldiers are sent to suppress me, there will only be 80,000 left!"
He took a few cups, placed them on the table, and signaled to all the troops: "Brother Li is guarding here and holding his partial army, while I lead my own army and rush straight to Taiyuan! The discipline boys are unexpected. , Big defeat!"
Speaking of going straight to Taiyuan, Lao Cao took a cup and pushed it fiercely. The cup slid away and knocked away all the cups that symbolized Taiyuan. One of them fell out of the table with a "pop" sound. Fall to pieces.
The man surnamed Li stared blankly at the broken cup, and then said for a long time: "It's unexpected! But in the siege of Taiyuan, in addition to Xia Gou, there is also the Song Army!"
Cao Cao curled his lips and said: "Now that the master is dead, the running dogs will inevitably fall apart. If you really dare to come to ask for wild fire, your intestines will be kicked out."
The man surnamed Li nodded repeatedly and said in admiration: "After running thousands of miles to attack Xingqing Mansion and then turning back to support Taiyuan City, Brother Wu's use of troops is really wonderful! That's all, brothers and I will..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Huai suddenly took a step forward: "If Wu Jiedu does this, the army defending the city will never be lost. I am willing to invite two thousand soldiers to defend the city to the death to resist the enemy."
"Hey!" The man kicked his eyes and shouted quickly: "Brother, don't fight with me. Many of my brothers have local soldiers. If we defend the city, not to mention fifty thousand, but one hundred thousand Xia Dogs are also confident that they can hold on for several months without losing anything!”
Li Huai shook his head and said: "The local soldiers have been defeated again and again, and they are no longer brave. But I am afraid that if you wait for a day or two, the city will be breached and the secret will be lost. Won't you miss a big event?"
As soon as these words came out, all the brothers under the man were furious: "You guys are eating the ashes of lamp grass and farting! It's obvious that the imperial court has done something wrong and dispatched the best soldiers and generals from each of our armies one after another. The superior officials are unable to deal with it, so that the brothers have nowhere to spill their blood! You said that I am not brave enough to wait, come on, come on, let me use my fists, let you know how to write the word "brave" first. "
The man surnamed Li also said unhappily: "Brother Wu, none of my brothers is a coward. Who doesn't have the lives of ten or eight summer dogs on his hands?"
Cao Cao smiled and said: "Mr. Xiao Li, I want to go straight to Taiyuan. I rely entirely on the strength of Jishan's cavalry. You can't leave me for a moment. And you, my family member, don't underestimate him. In Wu's heart , the words 'Longyou Hero' are worth thousands of troops! As for the 'Three Heroes of Shaw Brothers' and the 'Six Tigers of Qingzhou', which one is not a well-known tough guy?"
The officer heard that this man named Li has a very special background!
This man is twenty-six years old this year. His surname is Li and his twin names are Xiaozhong. He is the most famous hero of the Longyou generation. He is famous for his righteousness and high ability.
If someone was bullied and had no choice but to come to him and beg him, he would knock his head on the ground and explain the reason, and he would poke a hole in the sky and stand up for him.
Therefore, his reputation spread far and wide at a young age, and he was known as the "Longyou Hero" by people in the world. Regardless of Han people, anyone who claimed to be a chivalrous person looked up to him.
If in the original history, Li Xiaozhong heard about the tragedy of Jingkang, he aroused the resentment of the enemy, destroyed his family to relieve the disaster, and recruited troops to serve the king. In the first year of Jianyan, he wrote a letter to impeach Li Gang for "not knowing how to fight". As a result, he got into a lawsuit, changed his name and fled. On the rivers and lakes.
It wasn't until the Jin soldiers occupied Hedong that they became indignant and joined the army under a pseudonym. They fought and won consecutively, becoming the official of Youwu, the observer envoy to Ningzhou, and the envoy to Guozhou. Even the Lou family suffered under his hand. , and later died in the battle of Shaanzhou at the age of thirty-six, which can be called heroic.
The pseudonym he used was Li Yanxian.
As for the "Three Heroes of the Shao Family" mentioned by Lao Cao, they are the brothers "Uncle Shao" Shao Xing, "Second Uncle Shao" Shao Yi, and a hero named "Liu Yunjian" Shao Yun; the "Six Tigers of Qingzhou" are "Swallowing Tiger" Dang Song, "Overlord Tiger" Lu Yuandeng, "Flame Tiger" Song Yan, "Returning Tiger" Jia He, "Xiaoshan Tiger" Yan Ping, and "Haha Tiger" Zhao Cheng are all Li Xiaozhong Brothers of life and death.
Previously, Liu Qi's father, Liu Zhongwu, the governor of Longyou, was defeated by a group of barbarians and fled to Xizhou. It was Li Xiaozhong's help that allowed him to gain a firm foothold.
Later, Liu Qi was found, and the two parties had a good chat over wine. During the dinner, Liu Qi talked about Cao Cao's feat of sweeping Youyun and surprise attack on Lanzhou. Li Xiaozhong was so impressed that he immediately led the three heroes of the Shao family and two or three thousand athletes to join him.
Unexpectedly, when they arrived in Lanzhou, Cao Cao had already gone along the Yellow River. Li Xiaozhong did not dare to go along the Yellow River and wanted to take a detour to meet him, but suddenly he remembered the "Six Tigers of Qingzhou" brothers.
These six tigers were originally Han soldiers of the Western Army. After being defeated by Xixia, they resented the incompetence of their general and simply set up a stronghold. They also gathered one or two thousand men and horses, determined to make trouble for the Xixia people.
Li Xiaozhong went to Qingzhou, hoping to join the six people and join Lao Cao together.
When the two sides met, Liuhu had other ideas, saying: "It is a shame that Qingzhou was left in our hands, so I only want to recover. I am not strong enough and I have no choice. Now that my brother is here, what can I do?" Don’t you make decisions for us?”
Li Xiaozhong was helpless by him, so he decided: "I will help you to restore Qingzhou, and you will still follow me to surrender to Marshal Wu."
So several people made a plan, taking advantage of the dark moon and high winds on a certain day, to cooperate with the inside and outside, seize the Gyeongju city gate, and then go in with great fanfare to kill.
Unexpectedly, it was a coincidence that Lao Cao had fought all the way here and was about to seize the city to rest. He originally wanted to touch the city at night. When he arrived, he saw Li Xiaozhong's men and Xixia soldiers fighting inextricably.
Of course, Lao Cao was not polite. He took advantage of the fight at the east gate of his two families and took advantage of the situation to seize the north city. He went around and struck behind, killing all the defenders.
This is not a big deal, but Lao Cao's vanguard is the "one-eyed tiger" Ma Jin.
After killing all the defenders, the two sides faced each other, and each could not help but be wary. The other side shouted: "We are the Six Tigers of Gyeongju, who are you?"
When Ma Jin saw that the opponent's three or four thousand men were fighting evenly with more than a thousand Xixia soldiers, he couldn't help but look down upon him and said something cheap: "Hey, what kind of domestic cat cub dares to fight in front of our 'one-eyed tiger'?" Called a tiger? You'd better change your nickname and don't let the heroes of the world laugh at you."
How could the Six Tigers not be angry after hearing such arrogance? "Hahaha Tiger" Zhao Cheng immediately invited him to fight. Ma Jinjinjin was not afraid of him, so he started to fight with his spear. The two sides fought against each other for more than ten rounds. Ma Jin gained the upper hand, so "Returning Tiger" Jia He and "Xiaoshan Tiger" Yan Ping were eliminated one after another.
Three tigers fight against one tiger. This tiger only has one eye. How can it be defeated? He had no choice but to be dragged down by his opponent, and then he was captured alive.
At this time, Shi Wengong arrived. When he saw that Ma Jin had been captured and tied up, he was furious and refused to let him go. He immediately went out in person and captured the "Xiaoshan Tiger" alive with only three moves.
Seeing how fierce he was, the remaining five tigers all rushed out. Shi Wengong's ability was not comparable to that of Ma Jing. A ghost cry gun was launched, and they fought for forty times, beating the "Tiger Tiger" and "Flaming Tiger" one after another. After falling off their horses, the remaining three had their livers and gallbladders broken and fled in a hurry.
Shi Wengong was about to be pursued. Li Xiaozhong came after hearing the news and stopped Shi Wengong with one shot and one shot.
Thirty years after the two sides fought, Shi Wengong's spear appeared and screamed again and again. Although Li Xiaozhong was proud of his ability, he was still sweating from the fight. He hurriedly stopped and asked his name. When he heard that it was Shi Wengong, the "magic spear", he was instantly I remember hearing Liu Qi mention this person!
"Hey, aren't you a general under Commander Wu? Where is Commander Wu now? It's hard for me to find him."
This is also exactly:
How can we be friends if there is no misunderstanding? It's hard to get to know each other without fighting. The golden soup strengthens the defense of ten thousand men, and the heavenly wolf kills and attacks thousands of miles away.
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