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Chapter 769

Chapter 769

"General, my subordinates believe that the opponent has 10 people, twice as many as us, and all of them are cavalry. There is a saying in the art of war: all fighters, use righteousness to win by surprise. We should avoid their fronts and wait for the general manager The Chinese army is here." A general got up and said.

"Every warrior wins with the combination of justice." This is a sentence from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.

This sentence is understood by many people as the need to rely on ingenuity in warfare. After all, there is an idiom called ingenuity to win.

In fact, this is the biggest misunderstanding caused by polyphonic characters.

"Use justice to win with odds" is the most misunderstood sentence in Sun Tzu's Art of War.The biggest misreading is to use odd to win odd, not to pronounce qí, but to pronounce jī, which is a mathematical vocabulary, odd and even numbers, the ancients also called "yuqi", referring to the redundant part.

The original meaning of the art of war means that when fighting the enemy with regular soldiers, one of the extra troops must always be ambushed, which is the odd (jī) soldier.It is the key to victory that surprise soldiers can suddenly disrupt the enemy's deployment in battle.So the "odd" in this sentence is not a strange (qí) trick, but the basic law of "dividing the battle".

To put it simply, it is not possible to devote all the troops to the war, but to reserve a part of the troops, which can be understood as the reserve team referred to by later generations.

In fact, in ancient wars, they liked to keep a part of the reserve team.

All the troops will not be put into the battlefield, so whether it is offensive or defensive, there will be troops on hand.

At this time, their strength is less than half of the opponent's, and there are more than 1 infantry among them.

Cheng Yaojin was noncommittal, looked at the others, and said, "Do you have any other opinions?"

"General, my subordinates feel..."

"General, my subordinates think..."

Then several people expressed their opinions in succession. Cheng Yaojin seemed dissatisfied and didn't comment.

"Zi Chu, what do you think?" Cheng Yaojin looked at Lin Xuan and asked.

Lin Xuan got up and bowed, and said: "General, I feel that I can't retreat. According to the enemy situation detected by the scouts, the opponent is less than three days away from us. If the opponent speeds up, the time required will be even shorter. If we retreat, The other party naturally knows that we are short of troops, so we must pursue them, but we have infantry, so our speed is definitely not as fast as the opponent's."

After a pause, Lin Xuan continued: "Once there is a rout, it may even attack the general manager's central army."

Li Daozong's central army was only five or six days away from them. Once they retreated and were bitten by the opponent, they would probably overwhelm the catching up Chinese army formation in the end.

In ancient wars, a supervisory team would be set up, and anyone who did not obey orders and retreated privately would be shot and killed directly.

In addition to worrying that their behavior will affect the morale of the army, the more important reason is that they are afraid that they will overwhelm the formation of the army behind.

After Lin Xuan finished speaking, he cupped his hands and sat down. As for how to fight, he didn't understand at all, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense.

Cheng Yaojin nodded, looked at Xue Rengui and asked, "Rengui, what do you think?"

Seeing Cheng Yaojin questioning a school lieutenant, everyone showed a bit of astonishment.

Cheng Yaojin was always fair in leading the army, let alone the captain on such occasions, he was not even qualified to participate.

Didn't you see that Cheng Yaojin's son Cheng Chumo couldn't participate?

At first they saw Xue Rengui, a school lieutenant, coming to the meeting, and they were a little surprised. Now they saw Cheng Yaojin asking by name, and they all looked at Xue Rengui.

If you are an ordinary person, you will feel a little nervous when you are watched by so many people with higher positions than yourself, but Xue Rengui is not an ordinary person. After standing up and saluting to everyone with a flat face, he said, "Didn't the general already have a way to deal with it?"

"Oh?" Cheng Yaojin was taken aback for a moment, and said with a smile: "Is there any way to deal with this old man, you can talk about it."

Xue Rengui said: "The general divided the infantry and cavalry into two battalions, the north and the south. Once the enemy comes, he only needs to order the cavalry of the battalion to wait in line. The opponent will definitely attack the south camp. As long as the south camp holds the camp, the opponent will not be able to attack for a long time. At that time, the cavalry in the northern battalion took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and the opponent would be defeated."

"It's ridiculous. There are only more than 1 infantrymen. How can we defend 10 people?" A general said disdainfully.

If you want to defend the city, as long as you have enough equipment, it is not too difficult to defend [-] to [-] for a month.

But this is a plain. Although there are many equipment and traps to prevent cavalry outside the camp, it doesn't take much effort to break through the camp.

Once the camp was breached, the infantry was no different than lambs to the slaughter in front of the cavalry.

Xue Rengui didn't speak, but looked at Cheng Yaojin.

Cheng Yaojin smiled and nodded.

"Normally speaking, it is definitely impossible to defend. Even if it is defended, the casualties will be very heavy. The reason why I say this is because of the Zhuge Liannu." Xue Rengui said.

"Zhuge Lianbo?"

Except for Lin Xuan and Cheng Yaojin, the others were either surprised or puzzled.

Those who were surprised were because they had heard the name of Zhuge Liannu.

Those who are confused are because they don't know what Zhuge Liannu is.

Don't think it's impossible.

Most of the generals present were promoted step by step on the battlefield, and not many of them had studied the art of war.

However, Zhuge Liannu didn't exist for a long time in history, so it was lost, so not everyone knows it.

"The Zhuge Liannu can hold fifty arrows for continuous shooting. This time, the old man specially applied to the chief manager, and secretly brought all five thousand of them here. In addition, Zichu still has a thousand of them. Ten thousand cavalry, what are you afraid of?" Cheng Yaojin said proudly.

Six thousand continuous crossbows can shoot 60 crossbow arrows continuously.

Ancient archers generally carried fifty arrows.

It is not because of the lack of arrows, but that the strong bows in ancient times were at least about one stone. Since the measurement standards of each dynasty in ancient times were different, the stone here is equivalent to the current 30-60 kilograms.This kind of bow is not drawn by ordinary people, it is a very labor-intensive job.

If you shoot for a long time, your shoulders and arms will be very tired, and you will have no strength to shoot the arrow. Even if you shoot the arrow, the range will be very short, and it will not be able to hit the enemy.So under normal circumstances, the archer also carries about 50 arrows.

And [-] continuous crossbows are equal to [-] archers, and they are still the kind of archers who can shoot continuously without effort.

The archer will be exhausted after shooting about fifty arrows, but the crossbow will not, and it will be fine to continue loading after shooting.

These [-] tools were rushed out by the Ministry of Industry during this period.

This is because the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry have gradually become proficient, so they can make so many.

And the phone bill made Li Shimin, who is now rich and powerful, feel pain.

Although everyone has not personally seen the power of Zhuge Liannu, since Cheng Yaojin admires Zhuge Liannu so much, it must be very powerful.

"General, with such a sharp weapon, why are you afraid of a battle with the Turks!"

Not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, whether it was a soldier or a general, the fighting spirit in his bones did not disappear.

(End of this chapter)