Zhao Yu knew that under the current system, soldiers were far away from political affairs and had no right to manage local administrative affairs. Therefore, unless this soldier is greedy for life and afraid of death, any soldier hopes to be able to attack the city and seize the land, win the battle and win the battle. And his words can be said to be in the hearts of the generals of the four armies.

Zhao Hao understood that if he could not untie the knot in the hearts of the generals of the four armies, it would inevitably affect the morale of the army after a long time, and then be content with the status quo and passively slack off, which would make the morale of a strong army exhausted, and it would be difficult to shoulder the heavy responsibility. And the best way to revive an army is to make them understand their value and that they are not dispensable pawns.

"Do you know Wu Zixu?" Zhao Hao asked loudly.

"I know, in order to avenge his father and brother, Wu Zixu assisted Wu Wangfu to destroy the state of Chu, dug up the tomb of King Chuping, and whipped three hundred corpses!" Wu Zixu, as a tragic hero, is well-known and praised among the people for his white head in one night, seven stars in the abyss, a thousand daughters repay his kindness, and the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, and there are temples in many places in the south of the Yangtze River, so there are many people who know his deeds. As soon as he finished speaking, someone replied in a loud voice.

"Yes, but do you know how Wu Zixu did it?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"I don't know, Your Majesty will tell us about it!" The little emperor was also a god-like existence in the Song army, he only led a team of guards to the Xing Dynasty to succeed to the throne, and was placed under house arrest in the palace by ministers with ulterior motives. And he was not afraid, and told the guards about the Three Kingdoms in the place of house arrest, so as to improve their military literacy, and the story was also widely circulated in the army, and when he heard His Majesty's question, someone immediately asked.

"Okay, I'm going to tell you this story today. You can all come and hear it! Zhao Yu saw that he had successfully mobilized the interest of the generals and nodded, and saw that after the guard was withdrawn, there were soldiers looking at the brain, and found that no one drove them away, so more and more people gathered over, but in the end they were afraid, and they didn't dare to get too close, just watching from afar, he beckoned to let the troops come over.

"Your Majesty, this ......" The little emperor's suggestion made Sun Kai, who was sitting in front of him, very embarrassed, and he wanted to persuade him, but was interrupted.

"Although I am not as good as Pan An, I am not worse than you, are you still afraid of being embarrassed? Besides, they have been in the army for several years, and they have seen Long Yan, and some have said it after retiring and returning to their hometown! Zhao Yu touched his face and said with a smile.

In fact, what he said is not false at all, speaking of which, in ancient times, there were really not many people who had really seen Long Yan except for the people around him, even if they had to go to the court, they were at least five grades or more, and if the people in the back of the queue were a little short-sighted, they couldn't see the emperor's appearance clearly. This also has the Ming and Qing dynasties because the court officials could not afford to buy the complement on the official uniform indicating the official rank, so they used paper to draw a joke pasted on the official uniform, but it also showed in disguise that the person standing behind could not see what the emperor looked like.

Officials are like this, and it is even more difficult for ordinary people, even if they look at the portrait of the emperor. The emperor's imperial statue is stored in the palace, not anyone who wants to see it, just take the imperial statue of Zhao Yu in Yingtianfu and enshrined in the Three Temples, people who are not of enough grade can't even enter the door, let alone take a look.

The Great Song Dynasty was a little better, the emperor would take a camel to enjoy the lanterns every Lantern Festival, and the curtain was not put at this time, so that the people could see the dragon face in person. And this has also become a grand event of the Tokyo Lantern Festival, attracting hundreds of people to come to watch, but a few people in the crowd can see it clearly, so ordinary people who have seen the emperor are even more scaly and phoenixy, and they can see the dragon's face enough to blow for a lifetime.

"Everyone can get closer, otherwise it's a pity that you can't hear my story clearly, and someone else wants to assassinate me, and someone happens to block the gun!" Therefore, Zhao Yu let the army come over to listen to the lecture, which can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Sun Kai had no choice but to let the army sit on the periphery of the generals and separate them from His Majesty at a certain distance, but Zhao Hao smiled and beckoned the army to get closer.

"We are willing to be loyal to Your Majesty and never give up!"

"Those who want to be unfavorable to Your Majesty are the public enemies of our four armies!"

"Your Majesty, rest assured, we are willing to block the gun for Your Majesty, although we have no regrets in death!" …… As soon as Zhao Yu's voice fell, there were people in the army who kept shouting, and for a while, the crowd was full of emotions and morale.

"I have such a good son, why worry about the immortality of the Tartars, and the ambition is difficult to reward!" Zhao Yu pressed his hand, and the field immediately quieted down, and he said excitedly.

"Your Majesty is mighty, and the Great Song is mighty!"

"Your Majesty is mighty, and the Great Song is mighty!"

"Your Majesty is mighty, and the Great Song is mighty!" When the troops heard this, they immediately raised their arms and shouted in unison, setting off a climax.

"Alright, let's start the story!" Zhao Yu asked people to hang up a map, and after calming down, he pointed to the map and said, "In the fourteenth year of King Jing of Zhou, a great war broke out between Wu and Chu. The reason was that Cai and Tang were bullied by the Chu State in the south, so they formed a Zhaoling Alliance and destroyed the vassal Shen State of Chu. The territory of Cai State is around Caizhou, and the territory of Tang State is mainly in Suizhou, that is, around the place where your four armies are now stationed! ”

"The State of Chu was furious, and led his troops north, passing through the Nanyang Basin and the Fangcheng Pass, to clean up the State of Cai. Wu Wang Lu immediately mobilized the strength of the whole country and gathered 30,000 people to go west along the Huai River to save Cai Guo. When the army came to Huangchuan, suddenly one of the generals in the army proposed: Let's not go west, let's go south. At that time, the main general Wu Zixu was particularly puzzled, let's go west along the Huai River, it's good for you to abandon the boat and land now, and give up the advantage of the Wu army in water warfare, have you drunk too much? ”

"And this general said that the soldiers are very fast, and now to save Cai Guo, we can only repel the Chu army, if we go south, we can directly enter the hinterland of Chu State, and we can do whatever we want. So this general with 3,500 people, straight to Xinyang, and then at a rapid speed through the tunnel, the choke, the straight yuan, these three places are the three passes of Yiyang, they from Tongbai, Dabie Mountain between the hole to kill, all the way south to the Hanchuan in one breath, the army to the Han River. Guess what will happen to the King of Chu when he learns about it? Zhao Yu nodded with his finger at the position of the third pass and asked everyone.

"The main force of the Wu army arrived later, and the King of Chu was directly scared!" Someone replied loudly, causing laughter from the crowd.

"That's right, the king of Chu was frightened. But there was also a capable man in the state of Chu, whose name was Shen Yinshu, and he suggested that the Chu army directly attack Xinyang from Fangcheng, and after defeating Xinyang, the enemy warships were burned, and the way back for the Wu army was cut off. Then the main general of the Chu army, Zi Chang, forced the Wu family to fight a decisive battle, and he could reap the full credit. Zhao Yu continued, "The plan is very good, if the Chu army follows the plan, even if it can't completely annihilate the Wu army, it can be severely damaged." But the Chu general was often greedy for merit, and without waiting for Fangcheng's troops to move, he launched an attack on the Wu army first. ”

"The Wu army saw through the strategy of the Chu generals, so they retreated all the way, waited for work between Hanchuan and Hanyang, and beat Zichang dizzy with a series of dazzling movements, and finally completely defeated the Chu army at Baiju." Zhao Hao dotted on the map and drew another line.

"The defeat of the Chu army retreated along Anlu and Jingshan, and the Chu general Shen Yinshu, who had already entered Henan, hurriedly returned to help after learning of the defeat and defeated the vanguard of the Wu army. As a result, from then on, the Chu army ran west crying all the way, and the Wu army chased westward all the way screaming, and actually knocked down Yingdu, the capital of Chu State, which is today's Jingzhou. Wu Zixu dug the tomb and opened the coffin, and the whipping corpse of King Chuping was here. ”

"You see, there was a huge difference in the national strength of Wu and Chu, there were 200,000 people in Chu and only 30,000 in Wu. But because the Wu army suddenly blitzed Sanguan and went south, entered the heart of the Chu State, confronted the Chu army with the Han River, and then saw through the Chu army's strategy to block the tunnel and cut off its back road, and finally broke through the Chu army. As a result, the Chu army lost the initiative and could only run for its life, and was finally broken one by one, and even the capital was lost. It can be seen how important the three levels are in strategy, and the person who planned this battle, one son fell, the offense and defense reversed, and the whole thing was alive, guess who this person is? Zhao Hao asked loudly again.

"Soldier Saint Sun Wu!" Someone replied from below.

"That's right, this person is the soldier saint Sun Wu. The world also calls it the teacher of the hundred generations of soldiers, the originator of military science, and the book "The Art of War" has become a must-read for generals, so we not only know the importance of the three passes of Yiyang, but the enemy also knows. And this is by no means an exception, the three guards of the Northern Wei Dynasty have rebelled back to the Southern Liang, and the whole country was shocked when he landed, and the king of Zhongshan, Tuoba Ying, led the army to besiege it, and it was finally recaptured; When Kublai Khan, the enemy chief of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, went south, he also broke the Jiuli Pass from here, and arrived on the bank of the Yangtze River within ten days to besiege Ezhou. ”

"We are analyzing the general trend of the world to have a steady stream of words, what is in a certain place, a certain key, a certain throat, a number of provinces, the north and the south, the west and the east and so on, in fact, the geography is not so complicated. In essence, it is nothing more than a passage and a pass. The flat land is divided into various shapes of areas by mountains, grasslands, deserts, and rivers, and there are communication channels between regions, and areas with many passages are thoroughfares, and cities located on the passages are checkpoints, and the facts are as simple as that. Zhao Yu changed his words and said.

"Yiyang Sanguan is just such three passes, all located in the south of Xinyang, on the dividing line between Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, and will divide the three narrow passages between Jinghu Lake and Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain in the Central Plains. And the position of the three levels is particularly positive, so that you can't get around it at all, so you have to go. Therefore, at the beginning of the Northern Expedition, the task of your Fourth Army clearly pointed out: In order to ensure the connection between the eastern and western battlefields, your troops must capture the three passes as quickly as possible, resist the enemy army according to the Dabie Mountains, and echo the actions of the Jingxiang and Lianghuai battlefields. ”

"This has already shown that your unit is not simply undertaking the task of garrisoning, but a strange soldier in ambush!" Zhao Yu knocked on the map and said solemnly......