Xiaoqi

When Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang were talking, Li Li's face was very calm, so calm that he didn't have any emotional fluctuations.If Guo Jia and Kong Ming are chess players, then he is the owner (behind-the-scenes boss) who opened the chess game. It was he who first proposed to drive away tigers and wolves, and it was a comprehensive layout specifically for the Southern Han and Northern Wei.The death of Tie Zhu, Xia Houlan and others on the battlefield made Li Li very sad, but once the generals were successful, as a veteran of the battlefield and the supreme commander of the entire army, he had seen too many life and death, and he was used to it. The career of licking blood at the edge of the knife, so the death of the generals under his command cannot affect his emotions, let alone affect his decision-making.

After pondering for a moment, Li Li said calmly: "Maybe you two are thinking too much. It is best to do your best in one battle, but you can't deliberately pursue perfection in everything. There is no perfect thing in the world. Striving for perfection often means There are too many scruples, looking forward and backward, and worrying about gains and losses. It is important to know that soldiers in the military family are most afraid of being resolute and constantly rebelling against them. At present, half of the success is already achieved in luring snakes out of their holes. It is enough to lure the Southern Han and Northern Wei countries to dispatch nearly 30 troops. If it can be done in one fell swoop Killing these 30 troops, the plan of expelling tigers and wolves will be more than half successful, and then send the army south to attack Jingxiang, this is the whole plan of expelling tigers and wolves."

Chapter 250 Flying Dragon and Phoenix Dance ([-])

"Therefore, the current situation is unclear, and it is still too early to tell whether success or failure will be achieved. It is impossible to determine who will win or lose until the last moment. The plan will never keep up with changes. This requires us not to be restrained, to look forward and backward, and to act when it is time to act. It is the best policy to change the original plan due to changes in the situation. So you don't have to worry too much, get rid of distracting thoughts and give it a go!" Li Li's words were obviously aimed at Zhuge Liang.

Maybe Zhuge Liang himself didn't realize that he strives for perfection in everything he does, but whenever he encounters a military operation, he always makes a decision before making a move. If there is no more than [-]% chance of winning, he would rather not move than take risks.Zhuge was only cautious in his life. This is the evaluation of him by later generations.It is impossible for him to know this kind of evaluation, but Li Li knows it well and has a deep understanding of it.

Speaking of which, Li Li and Zhuge Liang have known each other for seven years.In the past seven years, more than half of the time, the two have worked together, getting along day and night, getting to know each other, and knowing each other's temperament and preferences.

Li Li recognized Zhuge Liang's prudent use of troops, but he did not fully agree; he believed that prudence was important, but excessive prudence was timidity, which was no different from timidity.Therefore, he often encouraged Zhuge Liang to use his troops boldly, not to worry about it, to plan carefully before the battle, and to do whatever he wanted without hesitation when he was in battle.This was the case in the Lulongsai battle when Zhuge Liang led the army for the first time in the past.Before the battle, Li Li once said to him, if he wins this battle, my virtuous brother should take the lead; if he loses, all the blame will be borne by me.As a result, Kong Ming, who had not yet reached the championship, won the first battle. Since then, he has been fighting with the army all year round, and led the western expedition to Nanman alone.He has not lost a single defeat in seven years, and is the only general of the three armies under Li Li's command who has not lost a single defeat.

Except Zhuge Liang.The army of the Western Jin Dynasty went from top to bottom, from the commander-in-chief Li Li to the military marquis.All have lost battles.Li Li, Guo Jia, and Zhou Yu were defeated in Yecheng, Zhao Yun was defeated in Kaifeng, Teng Xiao was careless in Changshan, Xu Rong was negligent and thrown into the Bohai Sea, Bocai was trapped in Wancheng, and so on.These defeats are relatively large battles, and there are countless local wars or small battles, but Zhuge Liang is not among all the defeats.Even when Jizhou was defeated.All the generals including Li Li were trapped in a heavy siege, and all the generals under his command were defeated. Zhuge Liang was the only one who had nothing to do but made a contribution. He led his army to Huguan after returning from a trip in Yizhou, just in time to meet Li Li, who escaped from the siege after a narrow escape. Entry.

Because of this, Zhuge Liang, who returned from the Western Expedition, enjoyed a very high prestige in the army. He was officially worshiped as one of the generals of the Fourth Army, the rear general, and his rank was higher than that of the Sangong.

This time to fight against Sili again, Li Xuan and Jia Xu stayed in Chang'an.He and Guo Jia followed Li Li to the expedition.According to the prior arrangement, after arriving in Luoyang, the three of them, the monarch and his ministers, divided the troops into three groups, each leading an army and horse to fight.Guo Jia led the army in the north.Resist the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty; while Kong Ming led his troops to the south and confronted the army of the Southern Han Dynasty led by Pang Tong; Li Li was in Luoyang and took charge of the central army.Support in the middle.

At this time, Li Li once again encouraged Zhuge Liang to use his troops boldly, precisely because Zhuge Liang would then lead his army south to fight.Confront Pang Tong's army.Although crouching dragon and phoenix are equally famous, the dragon is in front and the phoenix is ​​behind.The two came from the same school and knew each other very well; but Li Li knew that Pang Tong used troops in an eclectic manner and was good at using strange soldiers. As long as he seized a chance, he would dare to put all his eggs in one basket and fight with all his strength.It was Pang Tong's plan that Liu Biao of Jingzhou forced the Sun family to descend to Jiangdong in the past. He used the assassination of Sun Ce in Jiangdong to make a big fuss, and pulled out the blood of the Sun family in one fell swoop, causing the Sun family to wither. Then there were endless internal struggles, the national power declined, and he was forced to attach himself to Liu Biao.

When the news of Jiang Dong's submission to Liu Biao reached Li Li's ears, he was stunned for a while and shocked.From this, Li Liqie also realized that Pang Tong was really a great man, and he forced him to surrender to Jiangdong with a snap of his fingers without a single soldier. .

It was Pang Tong's feat that made Li Li quite jealous of him, and then Pang Tong sneaked into Chang'an and conspired with Cao Pi to form an alliance, which made Li Li once again realize that Pang Tong was amazingly courageous, unconventional, and good at using tricks to make risks , which is quite different from Zhuge Liang's personal and cautious style of doing things.So this time Zhuge Liang led the army to conquer the south, and he was bound to face Pang Tong, who was good at using strange soldiers. This made Li Li really worried about him, so he specially encouraged him to use troops boldly and do whatever he wanted.

If it wasn't for the emperor's status that restricted Li Li from going to the front line, he really wanted to compete with Pang Tong, because his method of using troops was quite similar to Pang Tong's, and he was good at using deceitful methods.Soldiers are deceitful; this is the essence of the art of war.This is the essence of Li's use of soldiers, and Pang Tong's method of using soldiers is also cunning. Traces can be found.

In contrast, Zhuge Liang is an upright and upright army when using troops, fighting steadily, step by step, and the word "cautious" runs through all the time.It is precisely because of his good use of the army that Li Li sent him to lead the army to fight against Pang Tong. The two used their troops one positively and the other strangely, and the outcome was very unpredictable.Therefore, although Li Li was a little worried about Zhuge Liang leading the Southern Expedition, he did not think that he would definitely lose.

Compared with Kong Ming, Guo Jia is good at using strange soldiers, which is very similar to Pang Tong's way of using soldiers.If Guo Jia were to play against Pang Tong, the situation in Nanyang would become even more unpredictable; there were only two possibilities for the outcome of odd versus odd, either a big victory or a disastrous defeat, and there was no third possibility other than that.

It was based on this consideration that Li Li finally chose Kong Ming to go south to face the Jingzhou army, Guo Jia to go north to resist the Cao army, and he sat in Luoyang to support him in the middle. If the situation was unfavorable, he immediately led the army to reinforce.

As the night falls slowly, wind lamps and incense burners are lit in the gazebo. There are many mosquitoes by the lake at night, and the incense can drive away the mosquitoes.

Even so, Li Li didn't want to stay here any longer.Before leaving, he solemnly exhorted Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang: "It is said that Zilong led the army to rob the camp this time and used Huolei (black bumps). No other battalion in the army has such a thing. There are still some Huo Lei left in the battle cavalry battalion that followed Kong Ming to conquer the Southern Man. Presumably that is the case with the Wushuang cavalry under Zilong’s tent. It was not used up during the Western Expedition to the Southern Man, but this time it was used on Cao Ren’s army. Forget it this time, It’s just that I didn’t make it clear in advance. But after that, fire mines are not allowed in internal warfare, and they must not be used as a last resort!”

"This..." Guo Jia and Kong Ming were stunned when they heard the sound. They looked up at Li Li's solemn expression, and couldn't help being a little dazed.Then Kong Ming said in a low voice: "Fire and thunder are a sharp weapon for attacking cities and villages. In the past, when the humble minister led the army to march west, many villages in Nanman were frightened by fire and thunder, so they surrendered without bloodshed. I don't know if your majesty can explain clearly why this is so. Can our army use fire mines?"

Li Li seemed to have known about Kong Ming and Guo Jia's question for a long time.Then he said without hesitation: "Things like fire and thunder should not appear in the world, let alone be used on our Han people. Therefore, they must not be used in combat in the future, and those who violate the order will be severely punished. Anyone who leaks or loses fire and thunder will be punished." Three clans!"

Speaking of this, Li Li paused and sighed softly: "Actually, I made Huolei as early as ten years ago. Then I secretly set up a Huolei workshop and personally selected [-] disabled soldiers and veterans to make it." Fire mines. During the Eastern Expedition to Wuhuan and Xianbei, the Jinyi Weiying brought [-] fire mines, but they did not use them in the end. Five years ago, when Kong Ming conquered the southern barbarians in the west, I took [-] fire mines to prevent accidents. Secretly handed over to you. This is the first time this kind of firearm is used in foreign wars. Right now, the production of fire mines is still very poor, except that they can make loud noises and are flammable and explosive. The power is not great, but this The harm of this thing is immeasurable.

to this day.I'm still not sure whether it was right or wrong to make this thing, whether there should be such a killing weapon in the world.You may not know that once the fire and thunder leak out, or flow into the hands of barbarians and foreigners, the consequences will be unimaginable, and we Han people will be the biggest victims at that time.Because on this continent, only our Han people have the most people, and only our Han people are the most industrious and wealthy, and at the same time, we are the most envious of foreigners, always peeping at our big Han territory.

Therefore, in order to eliminate future troubles, since this thing has come out, we must continue to develop it, but it can leak or fall into the hands of others anyway.If you want not to reveal the secret, the first thing to bear the brunt is to use it frequently. Secondly, the people who participate in the production of fire mines must be strictly controlled. It is better to kill one thousand by mistake than to let one go. Finally and most importantly, fire mines can only be used to expand the border. Soil, used for foreign wars.Right now, the first batch of more than [-] people who participated in the production of Huolei have all died, and the Huolei workshop has also been transferred out. No one will know its existence after that.Remember, I will only say this once, and I will never bring it up again. I hope the three of you will keep it in mind, and don't mislead others or yourself! "After speaking, Li Li got up and left the gazebo, and went straight to Xingyuan.

In fact, Li Li's fire thunder is black powder mixed with nitrate, sulfur and charcoal.The black lump used in Zhao Yun's army is the crudest and simplest fire mine. It is flammable, explosive and loud, but not very lethal.Except for Li Li, no one knew that this kind of black bump was made by him ten years ago. It was regarded as an experimental product, and it was also the worst firearm product.After ten years of trial and error, the firearm produced now is five times more powerful than Heipidao. In addition to the relatively poor craftsmanship and unsightly appearance, its power is not inferior to the hand-made grenades of later generations.

But after making this kind of thing, Li Li often felt uneasy and suffered a lot in his heart. The firearm itself was not of much value.Therefore, the memory of being in the military in his previous life brought him not good memories, but endless distress. He can make simple grenades, and even develop more powerful weapons following the imprint of memory, but after a hundred years What he will leave to the world will be endless killings.

This is by no means what he wants to see, and he doesn't want to be a murderer who kills countless people alive and continues to kill after death.So he created Huo Lei with his own hands, but now he personally blocked it, or it would be more appropriate to say that it was sealed up.

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Chapter 251 Flying Dragon and Phoenix Dance ([-])

In Nanyang County, twenty miles outside the south gate of Wancheng, the Jingzhou army camp.

In the commanding tent of the Chinese army, there are no empty seats at the moment, and all the Jingzhou generals above Zhonglang general who are attacking Nanyang County are assembled.

On the upper stage of the big tent, Huang Zu, the chief general of the three armies, is the commander-in-chief. The two sides of the lower stage are: military commander Pang Tong, deputy commanders Zhang Yun, Han Dang and Tai Shici, vanguard generals Wenpin and Liu Pan, deputy general Wei Yan, joining the army Xu Shu, and accompanying the army leader. Book Liu Ba, the later army commanders Han Song, Pan Zhang, and Xu Sheng, and more than [-] generals including Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Feng Xi, Huo Jun, and Li Yan.

As of now, it has been ten days since the Jingzhou Army raided Nanyang County.

Seven days ago, the Jingzhou army captured more than ten cities in one go, and the soldiers approached the city of Wancheng, besieged Wancheng on three sides, and immediately launched an attack on the city.

Five days ago, the army had successively captured more than [-] counties under the jurisdiction of Nanyang County, and sent soldiers and officials to take over the counties, as if they planned to occupy them for a long time, instead of plundering the treasury for money and food and then leaving.

However, five days later, the Jingzhou army continued to attack the city day and night, but they still stayed in the south of Wancheng, unable to advance an inch.

As the sun set, a full ten days passed, and Wancheng had been besieged for seven days, but was blocked by the defenders of Wancheng.

Not only that, the Jingzhou army's siege of Wancheng is completely different from the previous siege of Deng County.The Battle of Deng County was a surprise attack by the Jingzhou army. They attacked the East Gate in one fell swoop, and then captured the city with lightning speed. Huan Yi and more than ten generals died in battle.In the end, only Yu Jin survived the disaster and fled back to Wancheng alone.But this time to attack Wancheng.The Jingzhou army's good luck seems to have run out.As soon as they came up, they encountered a hard nail. The vanguard general Wenpin led more than [-] cavalry under his tent to fight an encounter with Nanyang defender Bocai.

then.Wenpin's army went down to four cities in two days and ran for more than [-] li. The whole way was like a broken bamboo, and they came straight to Wancheng.The whole army thought that Bo would shrink their troops and guard the city to the death, and they dared not lead their troops out of the city to fight. Even Xu Shu, who joined the army, did not think that the defender of Wancheng would dare to fight head-on.However, the facts were quite different from what they had expected. When they arrived at Xipingao, which was thirty miles away from the south gate of Wancheng, a group of people suddenly rushed out from both sides of the mountain.It was the [-] Wuwei battalion infantry led by Bocai.

It was a battle, and the two armies met on a narrow road. The Wenpin army almost had no time to react and started fighting with the Wuwei camp under Bo Cai's tent.Although the Wuwei Battalion was an infantry army, there was a cavalry force of more than [-] men under Wenpin's tent. However, the cavalry was unable to charge because of the narrow mountain pass;So at the beginning of the battle, Wenpin's army lost thousands of soldiers, and then Bocai caught Wenpin's army by surprise with only [-] infantry under his account.After paying more than [-] casualties, Wenpin was forced to lead his army back.

In that encounter, Wenpin lost more than [-] cavalry, plus the more than [-] cavalry lost in the previous attack on Deng County, the [-] vanguard and [-] front army suffered more than half of the casualties.Destroying the previous achievements in one fell swoop is equivalent to stumbling and wasting all previous achievements.

The later period of the Battle of Xiping'ao.Bocai didn't lead his army to pursue, but stopped when he saw a good situation.Quickly withdrew the troops and withdrew to Wancheng.When Pang Tong and Huang Zu led the Chinese army and Wenpin's former army to join forces, they approached the south gate of Wancheng.However, outside the city gates on all sides of Wancheng, eight blockhouses were built at a place a hundred steps away from the city gate, that is, beside the moat, echoing the defenders on the top of the city. Outside the city, an "outer city" dedicated to defense was built.

It is precisely because of the appearance of these eight blockhouses guarding the city gate that the Jingzhou army's dream of attacking Nanyang County was completely broken. Can't get close to the walls.If you can't even attack the blockhouse that guards the city gate, how can you talk about attacking the city?

Therefore, strictly speaking, during the seven days and seven nights of continuous siege battles, the Jingzhou Army had actually been attacking the bunkers outside the city, and they were always blocked five hundred steps away from the city gate, unable to approach the city gate at all, let alone attack The defenders on the top of the city launched an effective attack.Although the Jingzhou Army is unwilling to admit its failure, the facts have proved that they have made no achievements and no progress at all except for the huge casualties of more than 3 people in seven days.

When night fell again, it was the tenth day of attacking Nanyang County.Half an hour ago, scouts sent news that Li Li, the emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty who was in Luoyang, had sent [-] troops to reinforce Bocai, and they would arrive in Wancheng in a few days.The most important thing is that the [-] reinforcements are all iron cavalry from Xiliang, and their attack speed is extremely fast. It is said that they can cover [-] miles in one day and night, and it only takes two days and three nights to get from Luoyang to Wancheng.

Wancheng has been unable to attack for a long time, and now it has to face [-] Xiliang iron cavalry, but after the news was leaked, the whole army was panicked, and even many generals felt like retreating, as if they had lost their vigor and were timid before fighting.

The situation was urgent and grim, Huang Zu, the chief general of the three armies, immediately summoned the generals of the battalions to discuss the matter, pool their wisdom and efforts, and jointly discuss countermeasures.

After the generals were seated one after another, Huang Zu didn't exaggerate the greetings, and stated the purpose of calling the generals to discuss in a few words, then ordered the scout captain to report the enemy's situation to the generals.

The scout captain didn't dare to hesitate. He first confirmed that the rumors that had been circulating in the army were not rumors, and then reported the specific number of reinforcements from the Western Jin Dynasty.Immediately afterwards, he reported in a respectful voice: "The army of the Western Jin Dynasty who came to reinforce Wancheng this time is called one hundred thousand cavalry, but in fact it is far more than one hundred thousand soldiers and horses. Generals, the soldiers and horses of each battalion of the Xiliang Army You should have heard about the configuration of the Xiliang Army and our Southern Han army. Most of the battalions of our army have 5000 or 3000 troops, and there are even [-] or [-] troops, which is also called a battalion. But the Xiliang Army There are at least [-] people in the first battalion, and some of the main battalions have as many as [-] people.

Correspondingly, all the battalions of our army are led by school lieutenants, and the commanding generals command at least two to three battalions of troops; while the battalion commanders and deputy generals in the Xiliang Army are famous generals or powerful generals who are powerful in the world , each main battle battalion has a chief general and two deputy generals, and each commands [-] soldiers and horses, and each has ten thousand commanders, that is, school lieutenants.

In addition, each battalion of the Xiliang Army is not a single cavalry or infantry, and there are many special arms, such as two thousand or three thousand heavy armored cavalry, five thousand crossbow cavalry and two thousand scouts in the cavalry battalion , and the generals who command these arms are generally Zhonglang generals or partial generals.Therefore, the soldiers and horses of each battalion under Jin Emperor Li Li's command can fight alone, and their combat power is not bad. Famous General of the Western Jin Dynasty"

Seeing the expressions of all the generals in the tent were different after listening to the scout captain's narration, Pang Tong, the military adviser sitting first on the right, suddenly interrupted him: "The generals here already know these trivial military facts, so you don't need to repeat them. The battle is urgent, so cut down on gossip and report the enemy's situation directly." Although the tone was calm, it was not difficult to hear that Pang Tong was very dissatisfied with the scout captain.

Because this person's words all revealed fear and timidity towards the Xiliang Army, and there was a bit of yearning in them, the tendency was too obvious, and he seemed to be picking on inside and outside.If he is allowed to continue talking, it will be equivalent to a lobbyist sent by the Western Jin Dynasty. Not only will it be of no benefit to the immediate war, but it will make the generals in the tent more fearful and timid, and their morale will be even lower.So Pang Tong had to interrupt him, reminding him to pay attention to his identity and position, what to ask and what to say, not to be credible, to confuse the army.

The captain of the scouts changed his countenance upon hearing this, and hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, simply because Mr. Pang Tong had a large number of people, who were not as knowledgeable as him, and waved his hand to signal him to continue to report the military situation.

After being beaten by Pang Tong for a while, the scout captain no longer dared to show off his eloquence, and said in a concise and clear respectful voice: "The Western Jin army that rushed to assist Wancheng this time has a total of 12 troops, which are: [-] wolves led by Fenwei General Lu Bu. For the cavalry, the Zhuque Camp under Zhang Fei’s tent and the Longxiang Camp under Ma Chao’s tent. The commander in charge of this army is Zhuge Liang, the general after the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Yi in Hanoi, the commander of the army, and Yang Fu, the supervisor of the Zhuque Camp. Zhuge Liang was accompanied by two up-and-comers and a long-established general: Sun Li, Hao Zhao, and Guan Yu."

Speaking of this, he paused, then remembered something, and quickly added: "According to the scout report from the sentry cavalry, Zhuge Liang led his army to set off two days ago, and he will arrive at Wancheng at noon tomorrow at the latest." , immediately stepped aside, and said nothing.

As the scout captain remained silent, there was no sound in the tent, so quiet that the scout captain stood at the door of the big tent and was ready to leave the tent at any time. Rapid breathing.

Lv Bu, who is brave and crowned the world, is here, Ma Chao, the mighty general, is here, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, the three heroes of Hulao, are also here, and with them is Zhuge Liang, the "Crouching Dragon" who became famous in Jingxiang seven years ago. , and Hanoi Sima Yi, who is still unknown. 12 warriors, all warriors on the battlefield, plus a Mr. Wolong who compares himself to Guan Zhong and Le Yi, this is definitely a super luxurious and even extravagant powerful lineup.

These well-known names hit the hearts of all the generals in the tent like a hammer, making their heads buzz, and their minds fluctuated violently like turbulent waves, full of imagination and fear.

At this moment, more than 30 generals in the commander's tent had different expressions and were in a trance.But Pang Tong, who has always been calm and calm, has a dignified expression, deep and dark eyes, and the expression on his face changes again and again, cloudy or sunny; Lost in mind, terrified; Wei Yan, who thinks of himself so high that he is almost defiant, has flushed cheeks, heavy and rapid breathing, and looks excited and excited, but his eyes are erratic, showing that he is not only emotional at the moment, but also a little afraid from the bottom of his heart ?