Chapter 317: Great Courage
To do great things, you need to have great courage, and Lu Zhe has always agreed with this view. If you want to achieve a great career and seem hesitant in everything, plus there is a little twist and pinch, the opportunity is estimated to be missed in the hesitation and twisting.
Lu Zhe doesn't fully know his character, and in fact, no one can really understand his temperament. However, he knows that his personality is a bit of a panacea, to put it bluntly, there is no permanent personality, and he will change his personality according to the different circumstances and things, which actually has an advantage, that is, to form a changeable impression.
Whether it is in the war or in other games, the chess player will always guess the way of doing things according to the character of the opponent, which is the so-called "knowing the other", Lu Zhe's changeable personality took a great advantage in this confrontation with Xiang Liang, so that Xiang Liang could not guess how to act according to Lu Zhe's character, so he could not compete step by step, so that he could only be led by the nose.
Oh, it's not entirely correct to say that he has been led by the nose, Xiang Liang took the initiative for a while, and almost formed a trend of encircling Lu Zhe, but unfortunately Xiang Zhu had the ability but was too unlucky and used the wrong person, so that the defeat made Xiang Liang's good move fail to play its effect.
In fact, even if Lu Zhe has a fixed personality, after waiting to become a real superior, he will deliberately make his personality changeable. Cao Cao in history is like this, Zhao Kuangyin is like this, and Zhu Yuanzhang is like this, in a formal way, it should be called the temperament of the superior, and it is also called unpredictable.
Lu Zhe, who was full of plans to lure Xiang Liang into the trap step by step, never dreamed that his deployment had failed, and he used the rare time to discuss other matters with his subordinates before Xiang Liang walked into the trap.
According to Kuaitong's Jianyì, the dragon has reverse scales, and Lu Zhe has smeared the reverse scales of the First Emperor more than once, since he decided to take advantage of the shade under the big tree of Daqin, he needs to take precautions, but it seems stupid to touch his reverse scales again and again. Kuaitong wanted to persuade Lu Zhe to accept it when he saw it, and not to stimulate Daqin. It is even necessary to take the initiative to evacuate Ba County before Xianyang is furious, so as not to develop out of control again.
To tell the truth, Lu Zhe actually knew in his heart that it was inappropriate to attack Ba County again, he had thought about ordering Luo Shao to wait for Ba County to send troops to withdraw, but since he had already made the fact that he had waved his army to Ba County and captured Tong County, it was estimated that it would be stupid to withdraw the army now, not only could not withdraw the army, but also continued to attack Qu Ren according to the original plan, either not to do it or to do a full set, and then look at Xianyang's attitude.
Shu County is being invaded by the Qiang and Baiyue people, even if they don't pay much attention to the news of Shu County. Lu Zhe also learned from some information that the battle of Great Qin in Shu County was quite unfavorable, and the Qin army had broken through on the Moshui line. The combined forces of the Qiang and Baiyue have already entered Yandao (modern Yingjing), and some savages on the western plateau are also making trouble, and some people in Shu County have also begun to join in the fun. It can be said that no matter how you look at the Shu County of Great Qin, it is a bit in danger.
Troops rose from all over the Central Plains, the southern counties raised troops, the Xiongnu were about to go south, and all the bad things happened to Daqin, and another Shu county was in danger. It is only the First Emperor who can have this will to support and resolve the crisis one by one, and change to a vulnerable point of the Great Qin ruler, it is estimated that he will be made a mental breakdown by the situation of the whole world attacking Qin.
If Lu Zhe's superficial submission to the matter of autonomy did not have this major premise, it would not have been possible at any time. It is this dilemma. Daqin could endure it and had to compromise. In fact, for Great Qin, it was already a good thing that Lu Zhe was willing to surrender superficially and not attack Qin.
There are quite a lot of reasons for the erosion of Shu County, and the most important reason for this is not the shortage of troops in Great Qin? Under this premise, Lu Zhe felt that the First Emperor could tolerate his superficial submission and secretly self-government. It doesn't seem like an intolerable thing to send another army to Shu County?
The first emperor's mind is impossible to guess, but as a male lord who can dominate the world, when should he be patient and when to make a move. Have your own metrics (not typos).
Of course, the reason why Lu Zhe has this confidence is that he has already waved his army to attack the Chu State, as long as he keeps waving his army to attack the restored Six Kingdoms, the First Emperor will tolerate Lu Zhe to do some inappropriate things to a limited extent, which is an inevitable trade-off as the ruler of the empire.
Kuaitong was completely stunned when he heard that Lu Zhe not only did not withdraw Luo Shao's department, but also sent it deep into Shu County, Ba County's dispatched army was only about 60,000 soldiers and horses in Nanjun, and it was not wrong that there were 70,000 entangled Baiyue people among the 130,000 people, but Shu County and Nanjun were separated by a Ba County, even if it was really controlled, it was beyond the reach of the whip, isn't this a loss of strength?
"Only in this way can the occupation of Tongxian and Quren become an established fact." What Lu Zhe said was a kind of political exchange, and this was not what he thought of himself, but from Zhang Liang's solution before leaving.
Kuai Tong's blinking frequency is quite fast, he is in turmoil in his heart, he can understand Lu Zhe's layout for the future as soon as possible, but this move is too much in advance, it is very likely that the chess game will not go to that part, and Luo Shao and those people will be buried in Shu County, after all, the first emperor is not mud, compared to the first emperor to Lu Zhe is more like mud!
"If you throw it in, you will only lose the Baiyue people, and the hometown people who go out of Nanjun will stay in Tongxian County and Quren." Lu Zhe seemed relatively indifferent, and he didn't dare to think that he could compare with the First Emperor, but no matter what the result was, the loss would not be great.
Kuai Tong didn't know how many times he was speechless, he always felt that Lu Zhe's shamelessness had reached a certain level, and the cunning of the superior and the number of soldiers seemed to be used to it. He began to think back to the first time he met and talked with Lu Zhe, and the difference between Lu Zhe at that time and Lu Zhe now was a bit big.
The two were chatting as if they were talking, and Mei Kai broke in a little hurriedly without being announced.
Mei Kai is not a reckless person, something must have happened to cause this.
Lu Zhe looked at Mei Kai who broke in and didn't speak.
"Lord, Sima Xin and Ji Bu's reports arrived almost at the same time!" Mei Kai had his own reason for panicking, during the war, Kuaiqi would not carry any literal reports, and could only bring tokens to make a verbal statement, and obviously Kuaiqi didn't know what the reason was, and he didn't know what the report of Sima Xin and Ji Bu had not seen Lu Zhe yet.
Lu Zhe still didn't speak, but his face became very unkind.
As a fast cavalryman, you have to know how to keep secrets, how can you shout out the report of the commander of the first army to the commander of the whole army?
Xiang Liang did not march towards Danyang, but changed his route and went south. They're on the run! "It's big and unexpected, and that's why Mei seems flustered.
Lu Zhe was stunned, he wasn't sure if he had heard it wrong, the land under their feet was Huizhang County, and Xiang Liang had lost nearly 200,000 people (including but not limited to those killed in battle, scattered, captured, and lightly and seriously injured), and after paying such a big price, Xiang Liang didn't even try to fight again, he actually ...... Want to get out of it?
"It's incredible, it's amazing, Xiang Liang is really admirable!" Kuaitong was a little inexplicable to make such an exclamation.
Lu Zhe hasn't reacted yet, what's going on? The main forces of the two sides have not been fighting for a long time, and the whole battle is a competition between the troops that are separated from each other, and those losses, no matter how heavy they are, cannot be regarded as the key to determining the victory or defeat, after all, a partial division is a partial division. The most important battle between the two sides in a war can really decide the winner, see who is the one who has the last laugh, Xiang Liang is willing to admit defeat without trying?
"Admire?" Lu Zhe was still a little stunned, he glanced at Kuaitong, who seemed to understand something, and then looked at Mei Kai: "The fast cavalry who came will be imprisoned and dealt with by military law." In addition, send someone to pass on our military order, ordering Sima Xin and Ji Bu to merge the two armies, and be careful not to fall into Xiang Liang's trap. ”
Lu Zhe could only assume that Xiang Liang was using a trick to set a trap to eat either Ji Bu or Sima Xin, and this was a possibility that he was very worried about.
"No, Xiang Liang is really withdrawing," Kuaitong waited for Mei Kai to leave before saying to Lu Zhe alone: "Xiang Liang can't afford to gamble, and he doesn't dare to bet." You can take out more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops to fight, it is because the troops under your command are too easy, and the incorporation of the enemy army is always by your side, and those non-descendants have lost a lot of your heart, and you are only a little distressed rather than tired. ”
It's too direct and explicit! Lu Zhe has such a mentality, so he doesn't care how many "peripheral troops" such as Huan Chu, Shu Shi, Luo Shao and so on die, but these can only be understood but not spoken, how can this guy Kuaitong say it clearly?
"Xiang Liang's soldiers and soldiers are all teams that have worked hard to pull up, and he has lost nearly 130,000 in this battle, and the team that has just been restored to the Chu State is a big blow. Huizhang County should have been tossed by you, Chu Guo's altars and jars in Huizhang should have been broken, and Xiang Liang also calculated that you would not stay in Huizhang County and not leave, so he chose to preserve his strength. "The 130,000 Chu soldiers who died in battle and were captured are counted only in Kuaitong, and those who are scattered are not counted.
Lu Zhe still couldn't figure it out, he didn't plan to occupy Huizhang County and couldn't afford to occupy it for the time being, after all, there were still a lot of messes waiting to be cleaned up, how could he have the extra strength to swallow Huizhang? But! He didn't understand why Xiang Liang would just leave, and how much courage and will he must have to make such an unimaginable decision.
"Do you still have the idea before you went on the expedition?" Kuai Tong said that before the war, Lu Zhe and his henchmen agreed on a grand strategy of only weakening the Chu State and not fighting to the death.
"Hu ......" took a deep breath and spit it out, it was not a good thing for him for Chu to disappear too early, so he specified the strategy of only weakening and not fighting before the battle, but the sudden change made Lu Zhe begin to feel confused: "Xiang Liang retreats to the south, there is ......"
There was also a Tibetan army of 70,000 there, and Lu Zhe was puzzled because should this war end at this time? (To be continued......)