"The third and fourth generals, they are coming." The guards shouted in the distance.

Li Yi turned his head to see that Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Han Dang, Xun Di and other generals were flying from a distance.

Li Yi patted his horse and greeted him, and asked with a smile: "Zilong, Yide, Yigong, Zifu, it's almost dark, why don't you rest in the camp, what are you running out for?" ”

"They came to you in the big tent and said that they had something important to discuss with you. I can't pester them, so I have to accompany them to find you. Zhao Yun said, "Aren't you tired of marching more than 100 miles today?" ”

"Not tired." Xun Di said with a smile, "We had a long talk with the lord all night yesterday, which delayed the lord's rest, and I don't know ...... lord."

Li Yi shook his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just that my head is a little dizzy." Why, you didn't talk enough last night? Do you want to continue tonight? ”

"Sleep tonight." Zhang Fei said with a smile, "There is no wine and food in the big tent of the eldest brother, and I can't support it after sitting for a long time, so let's sleep." ”

"Then you invite me." Li Yi immediately said, "Invite me to dinner, and we'll talk again." ”

Han Dang shook his head and smiled: "Lord, you are instigating us to violate military regulations!" You have stipulated that alcohol is strictly forbidden in the camp, and now you are asking us to drink, do you want to take the opportunity to punish us because our brothers have lost the battle? ”

Li Yi smacked his lips in disappointment and smiled wryly, "Oh." ”

Then he remembered something, and immediately said, "It's not that I don't invite you, it's that I can't violate military discipline......"

A few people burst into laughter.

Everyone laughed for a while, and Xun Di spoke: "Lord, now we have a way to annihilate the rebels immediately, which is why a few of us came to you." We advise the lord to immediately march forward with his army, quickly approach the swamp, and occupy the entrance to the swamp. Cut off the enemy's eastward escape route, and strive to surround the rebels in Fuli City, so that they will not be able to escape. ”

Zhao Yun bowed slightly: "Big brother, although Captain Xun's suggestion is very risky, but seizing the entrance to the swamp is to hit the vital point of the rebels. If we can encircle the enemy in Fuli City. It can completely solve the problem of the rebels of the subject state of Liaodong. ”

"The enemy is now retreating in a panic, and his strength has been greatly damaged, so he must be repaired a little in Fuli City. We took this opportunity to attack the entrance of the Swamp with iron cavalry and cut off the enemy's retreat, and the odds were very high. ”

He paused slightly and looked at Li Yi.

Li Yi was looking at him with a smile on his face, but his eyes were obviously wrong. It seems to be a little absent-minded.

Zhao Yun and Li Yi had a deep relationship, knew the roots, and immediately realized that Li Yi had no intention of going further. He immediately changed his tune and said, "But ......"

Zhao Yun turned his eyes to look at Xun Di and the others.

Zhang Fei, Han Dang, and Xun Di suddenly heard him say "but ......" and suddenly felt abrupt in their hearts, and they all looked at Zhao Yun.

"We marched continuously for more than ten days, and the soldiers were extremely tired and were able to chase the enemy to the White Rock Mountain. It's already our limit, and. Our grain and grass are far away in Changli City, and it is very difficult to supply them in a short period of time. Zhao Yun frowned and said slowly, "The troops of the three brothers have just experienced a bloody battle, and the physical strength and morale of the soldiers are very poor. There were also heavy casualties, and although the captured soldiers were all returned, they were largely ineffective. ”

He glanced at everyone and continued: "Although Captain Xun's suggestion is good, our strength is not good. It's difficult, and it's very difficult to complete. I think it's still the best policy to withdraw troops and repair them, what do you think? ”

Zhao Yun is Li Yi's brother-in-law, and he is quite relied on by Li Yi, and in the Youzhou Army, Zhao Yun's status and speaking weight are equally important. If he holds a negative opinion, Li Yi's attitude is self-evident.

Xun Di stood with his hands in his hands, contemplating.

Zhang Fei touched his thick eyebrows in embarrassment, bowed his head and said nothing.

Han Dang coughed and said slowly: "There are about 20,000 rebels left, and they have been defeated suddenly when they have already won the victory, and their morale is so low, the morale of the army is weakened, and the exhaustion of body and mind has reached a state of frequent collapse. At this time, we can wipe them out with just one blow. ”

"Although our 10,000-strong army suffered casualties, there are still 5,000 soldiers to fight. Together with the 20,000 troops brought by the lord, we can gather 25,000 troops. Even if we leave 5,000 men and horses to take care of the wounded soldiers and guard the prisoners at Dujialing and Sunjiayu, we still have 20,000 troops. And in this way, we have no worries at all. ”

"The lord's grain and grass baggage is about to arrive in Dujialing, which can temporarily relieve the urgent need. Our troops have just won the victory over the enemy, and morale is high. So I think we have the strength to annihilate the rebels. This battle can not only be fought, but also must be a victory. ”

Han Dang looked at Li Yi with a resolute expression, raised his voice and said, "Lord, all of our soldiers ask you to fight. ”

Li Yi smiled silently.

Zhang Fei then said loudly: "Big brother, don't miss the opportunity." Our losses in Sunjiayu can be recovered in this battle. ”

Xun Di looked at Zhang Fei, shook his head at him slightly, and motioned for him to stop talking.

Xun Di was very disappointed. He already felt that Li Yi had no intention of fighting again.

Li Yi really has no intention of fighting again. He led 35,000 troops eastward into Liaodong, and fought several battles in a row, although each battle was a great victory, and the results were brilliant, but the so-called killing of 3,000 enemies and self-loss of 800, the losses of the Youzhou army were also a lot.

Han Dang's calculation just now was good, and now there are only 25,000 soldiers in the Youzhou Army. In other words, after this series of battles, the Youzhou army has suffered a full 10,000 casualties. More than 4,000 were killed, more than 2,000 were seriously wounded, and about 3,000 were lightly wounded. It has become impossible for more than half of these seriously wounded soldiers to return to the army.

Moreover, the battle has been fought so far, and the strategic goals that Li Yi wants to achieve have almost been achieved. There were nearly 200,000 rebels in Liaodong, and now only 30,000 horses of Gongsun Lei remained, and about 20,000 horses in the hands of Gongsun Han and Gongsun Zhang. Moreover, these people are now afraid that they are all frightened by their own beatings, and they have no desire to fight.

According to the scout's report, after the battle of Fuli River, Gongsun Leibu, who was originally wandering along the White Wolf River, has disappeared on the front line of the White Wolf Water, and should have retreated to the boundary of Wuxian County, Liaodong County, east of Yiwulu Mountain.

As for the rebels led by Gongsun Han and Gongsun Zhang, they experienced a crushing defeat at Dujialing. Now it is impossible to hold Fuli County, and the only way to retreat is to retreat to the dangerous Hefang County in the east of the swamp, or even further east, cross the Great Liaoshui, and enter Liaodong County.

Through the news reported by the spies he sent to the three counties of Liaodong, he was intimidated by his great achievements on the battlefield of exterminating the Yellow Turban Army last year. As well as the brilliant achievements in the subject country of Liaodong, now the will to fight of the heroes of the three counties of Liaodong is very low. Most of the heroes tend to take refuge in him, and only a few people are still thieves and try to resist stubbornly.

Under such circumstances, what I have to do is to win over the majority of those who intend to take refuge in me and fight against the very small number of rebels.

As a general, Li Yi certainly hopes to gallop across the battlefield and teach those enemies how to behave with the weapons in his hands. But. As the lord of a party with more than 3 million people under his rule, reason told Li Yi that war is no longer the best way to solve the current situation in Liaodong.

In Li Yi's view, war and politics are not just the same initials. Clausewitz once said in "On War" that "war is nothing more than the continuation of politics through another means", and Li Yi believes that this sentence is very reasonable.

On the face of it. War is full of blindness, cruelty and unpredictability, and it seems to be governed by a transcendent power, like a king of terror suddenly descending from the sky. In the blink of an eye. People who didn't know each other frantically tore each other apart in a strange place, and the battlefield was full of blood and corpses, which was terrible to see.

Still, the philosophers were able to see through the bizarre and complex appearance of war, the international and domestic political factors that triggered the motives of war," they told the people. War is often not the result of such and such beautiful so-called reasons and reason, nor is it the result of the action of unknown forces full of mysteries, but the necessity of politics, that is, that war is the continuation of politics by another means (violence), or rather, war itself is politics.

Even in the modern society where Li Yi once lived. Examining modern warfare and international conflicts from such a point of view also gives the impression of seeing the light of day. Just like the representative Iraq war and the series of international struggles and political crises triggered by the post-war Iraq situation, all show the truth of this principle.

At the turn of the century, the capitalist world economy experienced an unprecedented recession and shock, and no economic or political means seemed to be of any avail, and the resentment aroused by the long-term economic gloom among the increasingly burdened social strata that constituted the overwhelming majority of the population exerted enormous political pressure on the ruling governments of various countries.

In order not to lose control of the social situation, the ruling class needs to divert public attention and need to have unexpected events that are of concern to their own people. At this time, war is often one of the options of adventurous governments. For its part, the US imperialism, motivated by its interests – economic, political, and with the illusion of a way out of the crisis – will use its superior political, economic, and military power to wage the war it desperately needs, but without justification.

It can be seen that the war in Iraq is by no means just an end pursued by high-sounding reasons such as weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, freedom and liberation, but on the contrary, it is necessary for the political needs of the United States itself and the future economic interests of the United States.

After the United States achieved its military occupation of Iraq as scheduled, it was unable to truly control the situation in Iraq, the planned post-war reconstruction of the United States to revitalize and stimulate domestic economic recovery and the policy of tapping for oil profits were bankrupt, the domestic public's expectations for the Iraq war were disappointed, and after the historical mission of the Iraq war was completed, the Iraq war turned into a crisis of political confidence in the ruling parties in the United States and Britain, thus making it the focus of public attention again.

The political insiders such as the US disinformation crisis, the Iraq Gate scandal in Britain, the Kelly suicide incident, and the grudges and quarrels between powerful countries are constantly and automatically exposed. These events have fully demonstrated that the political turmoil in Iraq has once again turned into a political performance in which different political factions in the victorious countries and international political forces are fighting each other for power. Here, war and politics truly merge into one.

For today's Li Yi, why is this not the case? Why did he attack Liaodong, it was not to achieve domination over the four counties of Liaodong.

Ruling Liaodong was his political goal, and the war that took place was just a means of continuation when his political goal was not achieved.

Now that there are other possibilities to achieve his political goals, the ultimate means of war can be let go for the time being. (To be continued.) )

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