【Chapter 688】 Allied Forces
"Be filial and cautious, don't criticize the lord's right or wrong."
After hearing Guo Jia's words, Jia Xu reminded him softly, and then said with a smile: "Actually, Feng Xiao only knows one but doesn't know the other. You only saw that the lord seemed to be unable to scold Yuan Shao, so he was angry and forced Yuan Shao to fight, but you ignored that the lord himself was also a person who could speak well. It should be noted that answering questions before the battle is no better than talking in private, and every word and deed is directly related to the morale of the two armies, and it is not that they can say whatever they want; the slightest mistake is caught by the other side, which will often lead to a great loss of face, which will then affect the morale of the whole army. ”
When Jia Xu's voice paused for a while, Guo Jia interjected: "Brother Wenhe means??? The lord deliberately showed weakness, pretended to defend Yuan Shao, and then pretended to be annoyed and angry, grabbed Yuan Shao's mouth and forced him to fight in front of the battle? ”
Jia Xu bowed his head and smiled: "Feng Xiaoke has ever seen the scene of a fight between the small people in the market?" ”
"Of course I do. The people in the market often fight when they don't agree with each other, until one side of the fight breaks their heads and begs for mercy, and I have seen such fights in the market more than once, which can be said to be common. Why did Brother Wen and Brother ask this? ”
"Putting aside identity and status, Feng Xiao will take a look at the current situation between the lord and Yuan Shao, whether it is déjà vu?"
"This ???" Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this, but he had a flash of inspiration and suddenly realized: "Hey, that's really the case!" At first, the lord and Yuan Shao secretly ridiculed each other, and then tore their faces and scolded each other, and then the lord pretended to be unable to argue with Yuan Shao, so he wanted to fight with Yuan Shao in public. This scene is really the same as a brawl in the market, and he scolds without speculation. When you can't scold others, you will fight. It turns out that this is the true intention of the lord! ”
"Exactly. The main man's actions have always been traceless, as unpredictable as the imagination, and the grander the scene, the more unpredictable it is. Many things that we think are tricky are often very easy in the hands of the Lord. Just like the tense scene in front of him, it is difficult for anyone to be calm and comfortable in the face of the hundreds of thousands of horses and horses of the two armies. But the lord regarded the princes' armies as nothing, and used the simplest way to achieve the goal of defeating the morale of the allies, which is the real weight lifting and the demeanor of a king! Jia Xu admired it.
"Ugh!" Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this: "Isn't it a little ??? for the lord to do this?"
"Child's play? Or maybe it's hard to get into the hall of elegance, right? Jia Xu laughed.
"Exactly. The lord is a hussar general, and if he does this, he will inevitably fall into the inferior. Anyone with a discerning eye can naturally figure it out afterwards. In this way, will not it damage the prestige and prestige of the lord? ”
Jia Xu shook his head with a smile: "Feng Xiao's words are wrong. The lord often said: What song to sing on what mountain, it doesn't matter whether it is elegant or vulgar. The key depends on the identity of the person listening to the song. In the face of ordinary people's poetry, even if it is an elegant work, I am afraid that few people can understand it, and it is far less comfortable than listening to it in a small country tune.
The same is true of the situation in front of us. The reason why Yuan Shao invited the lord to go out to talk about it. It is nothing more than an attempt to use the advantage of tongue to undermine the morale of our army. The audience was the officers and men of the two armies. And how many of the officers and men of the two armies are the children of the scholar clan who have read and can read and write, presumably there must be not many, or even very few. How different are these soldiers from the ordinary people who fight in the market? Therefore, for them, the advantage of the tongue does not have much effect at all, and it does not have much effect, but the fist is different. No matter how old Yuan Shao is, this is sitting on the battlefield and not in the mansion, since he dares to go out to talk to the lord. And if you speak to provoke the lord and fight the decisive battle, then you must have the courage and psychological preparation to fight with the lord.
And what about the lord. On the surface, he pretended to scold Yuan Shao, and then used Yuan Shao's previous provocative slip of the tongue to force Yuan Shao to duel in front of the battle. We all thought this instantaneous change was absurd and too sudden, but the officers and men of the two armies saw it clearly and thought it was reasonable.
If you can't say that others will start fighting, who doesn't understand such a simple truth, it seems reasonable, at least the officers and soldiers of the two armies can understand it, and they don't think there's anything wrong with it. But such a simple truth, an extremely simple method, can make Yuan Shao lose face and greatly reduce his prestige among the princes' army. Therefore, the lord's move is undoubtedly the most effective method, and no matter how skillful Yuan Shao's tongue is like a spring and his tongue is like a lotus, he can't resist the brawl of the scoundrel in the market after all.
And the reason why Yuan Shao fell into such an embarrassing situation was not that he was stupid, but that there were no ordinary soldiers in his eyes. He also thought that the confrontation between the two armies was the Jizhou Mu Hall, and the people he faced were all scholars and eunuchs, and well-educated people, but he didn't know that today's audience was ordinary soldiers, and many people couldn't even write their names. Therefore, the more simple and understandable the way, the first time they can accept it and be able to agree. The so-called way of strategy, 'strategy' is the foundation, but how to do it is the key to success or failure, which is 'strategy'. ”
"What Brother Wen He said is very true, and Jia has been taught." After bowing down, Guo Jia said convincingly.
"Bonghyo doesn't have to be like this. This is a small way, and it is difficult to get into the hall of elegance, but the lord once said that the most timely strategy is the best strategy. Now that I think about it, I still need to put aside worldly prejudices and be eclectic! ”
"Brother Wen He is reasonable, but Jia is a little pedantic. After that, we must introspect and self-examine, so as not to mislead ourselves and others, and delay the lord's hegemony. ”
"Bong-filial piety doesn't have to be humble. The talent of the virtuous brother is not inferior to any wise man in the world, and he is young and strong, and he has won the weight of the lord, and he will have a bright future in the future. Now the foolish brother has passed the age of not being confused, and he is not far from the year of destiny; After this battle, the road of the lord to dominate the world will definitely go out of Xiliang and go to the northeast and the counties of the Jiangnan states. At that time, even if the foolish brother has the heart to follow the lord to conquer the Quartet, he is afraid that the lord will not agree, so Feng Xiaoxian will have to shoulder more and heavier burdens, assist the lord to calm the world as soon as possible, and achieve hegemony for thousands of years! ”
"Thank you Wen and brother for your love, Jia will definitely live up to his brother's trust, and do his best to assist the lord to clear the world and calm the world!"
At this point, Guo Jia finally understood why Jia Xu explained a small matter in such detail today, which was completely inconsistent with his previous taciturn style of doing things. But now he completely understands that it turns out that Jia Xu intends to train him to take over military affairs with full authority, so that he can follow the lord Li Li to fight in the south and fight in the north in the future, and bring the world to peace.
After all, Jia Xu is older, and he has always been relied on by Li Li, and the military and politics are shoulder-to-shoulder, with the continuous expansion of the territory of the Xiliang Army, Jia Xu will inevitably be entrusted with important tasks, and will not follow Li Li all year round to give advice. Since then, Guo Jia, the division of the right army, is naturally the one who takes the lead, takes on the military affairs of the army, and always follows Li Li to give advice and fight with the army.
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Da-da-da-da!
"Li Thief is rampant, Han De under the command of Yuan Alliance will fight with you!"
Riding a horse to the front of the battle, Han De, Han Meng's uncle and nephew drove side by side, and when they reached a hundred steps in front of the formation, Han De shouted loudly while prancing on his horse and raising his sword.
Han De is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield and experienced in the field, and he shouted at this time, one is famous in battle, and the other is to relieve Yuan Shao.
There is a saying: If the lord is in trouble, the subordinates obey their labor.
At this moment, Han De and Han Meng's uncle and nephew played against Li Li, which can be said to be the right time, and it did not waste Yuan Shao's long-term trust in their uncle and nephew. When Yuan Shao replaced Han Fu to lead Jizhou, he went to invite the uncles and nephews of the Han family to help, and since then, Han De and Han Meng's uncles and nephews have been very valued by Yuan Shao, and their status in the army is quite high, although they cannot be compared with Yan Liangwen and Chou, but they are also higher than Zhang He Gaolan, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang and other generations.
Yuan Shao, who was confronting Li Li in front of the Le Ma formation, was relieved as if he had a great drought and a rainy day, and his pale expression suddenly regained a little ruddy. Then he turned his horse and left, but he kept an eye on Li Li out of the corner of his eye, lest Li Li take advantage of his horse and turn around.
However, Yuan Shao is indeed a gentleman with the heart of a villain. When he reined in his horse and turned around, Li Li held the war knife and did not move, allowing him to fight his horse back into battle and ignore it, as if he had no intention of taking the opportunity to kill him.
Seeing this scene, who could not understand that Li Li's move was the real intimidation of Yuan Shao, and his purpose was to intimidate Yuan Shao to retreat voluntarily, so as to lose face and lose his majesty in front of the 300,000 soldiers of the Allied army, and then hit the morale of the Allied army. From beginning to end, Li Li didn't want to kill Yuan Shao in public at all, not because he didn't want to kill Yuan Shao, but because he couldn't, or because the time had not come.
After all, Yuan Shao is the leader of the alliance of the princes' army, the leader of the alliance, and he is over fifty years old. If Li Li took advantage of the situation to kill Yuan Shao, it would undoubtedly be a quick attempt and a lot of trouble; The first victory is not martial, and the second is that Yuan Shao was killed in front of the battle, which will inevitably lead to the indignation of the allied soldiers, and they are united in hatred of the enemy. In this way, even though the Hangu Pass is extremely strong, it is enough to resist the strong attack of the Allied forces; However, under the fierce attack of the allied forces, the 50,000 infantry troops guarding the pass in the pass will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and it is bound to force the Xiliang cavalry to go out of the pass early to meet the enemy. This move is contrary to Li Li's original intention of luring the enemy into depth, and will break the impromptu tactics that he has already arranged, and then change the entire situation of the battle, leading this decisive battle to an unpredictable and unknown direction.
If Yuan Shao, the leader of the princes' alliance, is lost, the allied army's food and grass will inevitably be interrupted, making it difficult for the more than 300,000 troops to continue, and it will inevitably disperse in a hurry. If this is the case, the Xiliang army will definitely win, but Li Li's original intention of gathering the army of the princes and annihilating them cannot be achieved. The death of Yuan Shao will inevitably lead to turmoil in the Central Plains, but as long as the princes of the towns still exist, it will not be able to completely change the situation of the Central Plains princes; Then Li Li's previous efforts were tantamount to vain and futile.
Therefore, for Li Li and his Xiliang army, Yuan Shao could not die before the army of the princes was eliminated, and only after the living force of the allied forces was completely wiped out, the best time to get rid of Yuan Shao and the princes of the towns was to get rid of it.
"Death to the thief!" Seeing Yuan Shao leave, what jumped into Li Li's sight was Han De and Han Meng's uncle and nephew who rushed from the prancing horse.
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