Brother. When Sima Lun saw Sima Shi coming, he immediately put down the scroll and saluted respectfully.

  "I've seen the general." The teacher who gave Sima Lun a lecture also hurriedly saluted.

  The teacher that Sima Shi arranged for Sima Lun is not an ordinary person, at least he is also a Confucian-level figure, and he also has a position in the imperial court, which shows Sima Shi's good intentions.

  Sima Shi waved his hand very casually and said, "You go on, I'm just walking around." Lun'er, how have you been reading lately? ”

  Sima Lun said: "Brother, the younger brother has been reading "The Art of War" recently, but there are still some doubts, and the teacher can't solve them. ”

  Sima Shi sighed and said, "If you have any doubts, tell me to listen to my brother." ”

  Sima Lun said: "Sun Tzu said: Therefore, the method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and if it is doubled, it will be fought, and the enemy can divide it, and if it is less, it can be escaped, and if it is not, it can be avoided." Therefore, the small enemy is strong, and the big enemy is also captured. ”

  Sima Shi smiled and said, "This is very easy to explain, in actual operations: if I am ten times the enemy, I will encircle and annihilate, if I am five times the enemy, I will attack, if I am twice as strong as the enemy, I will try to defeat the enemy, and if I am evenly matched, I will try to disperse and destroy each of them. If the force is weaker than the enemy, avoid fighting. Therefore, if the weaker side fights to hold on, it will become a prisoner of the strong enemy. ”

  "However, in last year's battle of Merging Prefectures, our army was defeated by 50,000 troops with 170,000 people, suffered successive defeats and suffered heavy losses.

  Sima Shi didn't expect Sima Lun to mention this matter, his face couldn't help but change, and the teacher who taught him hurriedly said: "Nine princes, don't talk nonsense." ”

  Sima Shi stretched out his hand to stop him, and said with a faint smile: "It's okay, you can retreat first." ”

  The teacher retreated, Sima Shi pulled Sima Lun, sat on the fence of the flower pavilion, and said: "Lun'er, water is impermanent, soldiers are amorphous, Sun Tzu's Art of War talks about the conventional combat method under general circumstances, and the real war is far more complicated than this, not only the number of people on both sides, but also the factors of military morale, weapons and equipment, and the factors of time and place. The biggest reason why we failed in the battle of Bingzhou is that the information is unclear, and we don't know that the traitor Cao Liang has developed a new type of equipment, which has improved the combat effectiveness of the cavalry as a whole, so in the battle, our army is at a disadvantage, and it is not surprising that the battle is defeated. ”

  Sima Lun nodded and said: "Lun'er understands, no wonder I heard that Brother often comes to the workshop to supervise the manufacture of new harnesses, presumably Brother also wants to equip our cavalry with new harnesses to improve the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, and in the next big war, we can defeat the traitor Cao Liang and avenge my father." ”

  Sima Shi smiled, touched Sima Lun's head and said: "You are right, the skills of the enemy are used to control the enemy, and sometimes the enemy's strengths are also what we need to learn. Lun'er, you are good at learning, when you grow up, I will take you to the battlefield as a brother, and really experience the war, it is useless to talk about the war on paper, only in actual combat can you really know the military. ”

  Sima Lun looked expectant, nodded, and said, "Why is Brother worried, but is there anything to worry about?" ”

  Sima Shi said casually: "The traitor Cao Liang captured the seven counties of western Liaoxi in Youzhou, the government and the opposition were shaken, in order to prevent him from attacking Jizhou, he specially appointed Zhong Shiji as the governor of Hebei for his brother and went to defend against the enemy, but Zhong Shiji opened his mouth to bring 100,000 soldiers and horses, and his brother was worried, where to raise these 100,000 people?" ”

  Sima Lun looked stunned and said, "Oh, I see. ”

  Sima Shi also said casually, and after finishing speaking, he couldn't help but smile a little, Sima Lun is just a ten-year-old child, is it possible that he can still be expected to give him advice? Sima Shi smiled and said, "Lun'er continue to study, work hard, the future military affairs will be decided by you." ”

  Sima Lun pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, Lun'er doesn't think this matter is difficult to solve. ”

  Sima Shi was very curious, if it was not difficult to solve, why should he be worried, he smiled and said: "In this case, you said that you should listen to your brother, how to solve it?" ”

  Sima Lun said seriously: "The land of Jizhou, fertile fields for thousands of miles, a large population, Lun'er read the "Book of Han" a few days ago, and once read that when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the giant deer Zhang Jiao started in Jizhou, with millions of soldiers, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to save their edge, in fact, the people led by Zhang Jiao are all homeless people, and the ordnance is mostly vulgar things, why can they attack the state and plunder the county, disturb the world, is to rely on the number of people. Now the elder brother has limited soldiers and horses, and he has a lot of difficulties in sending 100,000 troops into Hebei, so why not order the collection of the people of Jizhou, although it is difficult to have a million, but it should not be a problem to gather hundreds of thousands of people, and the elder brother can order Zhong Shiji to carry the arsenal of armaments, as for the grain and grass, Jizhou is solid, and it can be supplied for the time being, if it is a long time, it is not too late to transfer it from other states. These people were recruited, and although they did not have the combat effectiveness of the army, they were sufficient to defend the city. ”

  After listening to Sima Shi, he felt that Sima Lun was a little naïve, how could it be child's play to recruit troops, casually requisitioning hundreds of thousands of people and distributing some weapons and equipment, even if it was an army? Such an army cannot guarantee its combat effectiveness at all, and can only be counted as a rabble.

  But if you think about it, Sima Lun has some truth in what he said, when Zhang Jiao rebelled, didn't he rely on these rabble to sweep the world, making the Han court anxious, and indirectly leading to the final fall of the Han Dynasty.

  Although it is said that the fighting quality of these temporarily recruited troops is low, they are not asked to fight in the field, but also to defend the city. The field army needs to be arranged, and it must be trained soldiers to be competent in this battle formation, otherwise, a group of rabble will be in a chaotic formation, and before the enemy can attack, the position will already be in chaos, and such an army will definitely be vulnerable.

  The army defending the city naturally has lower requirements, and will use weapons such as bows and arrows, and it is enough to have a little strength to move rolling logs and stones, and if hundreds of thousands of people can be recruited from Jizhou, why worry about the lack of garrison force.

  Sima Lun's words really brought Sima Shi a lot of inspiration, and he said in a loud voice: "Good idea, good idea, Lun'er, your idea is really good, you have to think about it for my brother." ”

  Sima Shi hurried back to the council hall, gathered all the staff, and asked them to calculate how to recruit people.