Chapter 021 Ancient and Modern Cases

I highly appreciate my wife's experience. However, I thought that if we were too cautious, it would cause Huan's suspicion. As long as we are more careful, we will be fine.

After that, my daughter often worked in the garden and invited her old friends to play in the house. She has more friends than mine, and she treats them more enthusiastically than me. At least she can still invite friends to come home, but I can't. Feeling bored at home, I will also go to the garden to watch them play with great interest. This is also a pleasure!

When the strong enemy was around, although Beifu worked and practiced every day, they were always trapped in Beijing and had nothing to do. Huan Xiu, the leader of the Beifu Army, a general, was full of friends and talked about elegance; Liu Yu and other deputy generals and military officials who joined the Chinese army were at home all day long. Isn't it a strange thing?

However, although everyone has different ideas, the soldiers of Beifu are killing time day by day.

After I moved to the general's mansion, I asked someone to renovate the old house and set up a neighboring yard to give it to my younger brother Liu Daogui. The house is not far from the old house, so the rules often come to my house. Although every time we talk about only the short topic between brothers among parents, I always feel that he seems to be unsatisfied.

Although our three brothers used to live together, I usually talked more with my second brother Liu Daolian. After all, my second brother became an official earlier. He and I are officials in the same dynasty, and we have the same opinions on things. My younger brother's ambition is different from ours, and I often can't talk to him.

Although Daogui and I come from a family, he has been cared for by two brothers since he was a child, and the world is cold and has no real taste. Since he became an adult, the use of the family has been between me and my second brother, and my younger brother who is not trapped with money has also been romantic. Although Dao Lian and I often advised him to do something serious, he thought that his ambition was not here, and he didn't think so.

Tao rules only know how to make friends with elegant people and talk clearly all day long. He is more talented than tube and happy, and he has to work hard in the mountains and fields to win the king. Daolian and I repeatedly adore that it was useless, so we had to let it go. Maybe our Liu family can really produce a Nanyang Zhuge talent.

Although the recent conversations with Taoist rules are not deep, I feel that this brother's thinking has become much more meticulous, not as eloquent and magnificent as before. Although he is full of words, he doesn't know what to say.

Recently, our topic has focused more on the military. Taoist rules have read a lot of military books, and he has always been very proud of himself. Although I joined the army as an officer, I mainly govern the army and don't have much experience in marching and fighting, so I never talked about military topics with Taoism before.

Since I returned to Jingkou for more than a year, the soldiers and civilians in Jingkou have regarded me as a hero who can fight. My image as an ordinary officer in the eyes of Taoism has also been greatly improved, so he discussed military topics with me.

At first, I felt that the Taoist rules were quite vigorous like me in those years. But gradually, I found that he was not blindly serious, but really thinking about the practical effects of strategy and tactics. As we talk more and more deeply, our views tend to be more and more common.

Madam Zang Ai's family is a poor wife, so my wife and I talk to my brother at home without avoiding suspicion. When it comes to the topic of marching and fighting, my wife is really not interested, so she often leaves to accompany her daughter.

As soon as the wife left, our brothers were free of restraint and talked more happily.

On this day, our brother talked about the ancient and modern war cases, and asked me, "Big brother has a lot of feelings about the Battle of Weishui. What do you think about Changping, Giant Deer, Kunyang, Chibi, etc.?"

"What do you think?" Although I do have a lot of research on these cases, I am not in a hurry to answer my younger brother's questions, but to test his understanding.

"I thought each of these battles had its own advantages. The Battle of Changping was a battle between Qin and Zhao. If one side loses, it must be controlled by the other party. Although Bai Qi, the general of the Qin army, was a peerless famous general, he did not underestimate the enemy in the face of Zhao Kuo, who talked about soldiers on paper. You should know that at that time, Zhao's strength was the highest among the princes. 400,000 soldiers in the first war is also a difficult move today. Bai started to set up a bureau, which made Zhao Kuo deeply trapped in it, and finally killed all Zhao soldiers with comparable troops. The victory of this battle is about caution.

"Hmm."

"The battle of giant deer, the so-called broken boat. If the victorious king is defeated, he can be called king, and if he is defeated, he will perish. For Xiang Yu, if this battle fails, the general trend is gone and cannot be reversed. So he put the soldiers to death and seek survival. The victory of this battle is about the situation.

"Let's go on."

"In the Battle of Kunyang, there was a huge gap between the enemy and us, which led to the enemy to despise the enemy. Kunyang is not a big city. It is reasonable to be surrounded by strong soldiers and break through. How can the Lord be proud not to put the city of Kunyang in his eyes? Liu Xiu took the opportunity to break through and transfer troops and take the initiative to attack the enemy. Although the enemy had the power to win, it did not have the heart to win. As soon as it took on the battle, it defeated itself, giving Liu Xiu an excellent opportunity to retreat from the enemy. The victory of this battle is amazing.

"Hmm."

"In the battle of Red Cliff, the opponents of the two sides were extraordinary people, and Cao Cao's advisers were like Yun and Sun Quan were the whole country to meet the enemy. Both sides were extremely cautious before the war, and the strong did not want to underestimate the enemy. However, Cao Cao led the troops from the north, but it was difficult for the enemy to attack with fire. The victory of this battle is about planning.

"Hmm."

"What do you have in my opinion on my comments?"

"You said it very well. The length of each battle is involved. However, in my opinion, no matter what the battle is, it is the first situation. The morale is the main theme of victory or defeat. Even if there is a small victory, if the morale is not good, it will eventually fail; on the contrary, even if there is a small defeat, if the morale is higher than the enemy, you can always find a chance to reverse defeat into victory.

When Cao Yu argued about the war, he pointed out the core purpose of the war, that is, a word 'potential'. The examples you mentioned, including Guandu and Yushui, are not real defeats, but defeats. Zhou Yu and Xie Xuan defeated only part of Cao Cao and Fu Jian's troops, which did not damage the army. As long as the deer is reorganized, it is not known who will die.

However, Cao and Fu were timid and could not fight any more, so they had to escape. As the saying goes, if the general trend is gone, and it is not for your own use, everything will be irreparable. As for what you said about caution, wonder and planning, it is all to achieve the effect of the military situation.

"Brother's words are completely different from ordinary soldiers."

"Sun Tzu and Sima Zi have done their best in military tactics, but countless soldiers have still published books to argue since ancient times. It is nothing more than adding your own understanding and inference to the gist of the art of war. Or take planning as the key, or take the army as the key, or take the formation as the key, no matter who can penetrate one category, you can gain a foothold in the world.

The momentum theory I just mentioned is the experience of entangling with Sun En in the past year. However, this is just my understanding. If you have any other opinions, you might as well talk about it.

"There is no opinion at present. I want to go back and understand what my brother said. If you have new ideas some other day, please ask for advice again.

"It's okay."

The Taoist rules that had just stepped out of the door turned around and said, "Oh, by the way, the recorder's mother has found it."