Chapter 637: Light It Up

[To put it in current terms, the first tower can be placed, the second tower can be placed, the small dragon can be placed, and the big dragon can be placed. The high ground is given, the ancient dragon is given away, and finally even the home is given up.

It is always operating, always being beaten, always making a profit, and always failing.

In the Song Dynasty, there were officials who came forward to revise the "Seven Books of Martial Arts" and pioneered military theory. It can be said that the scholar-bureaucrats in the Northern Song Dynasty read the most military books, but they were the most naive when it came to the operational level.

Zhao Er's mental retardation certainly contributed to this, but the mentality of the scholar-bureaucrats who were too ambitious and too weak was equally indispensable.

In a trance, they all felt that they were protected by the Second Formation of Zhao, and had the accumulation of familiarity with the "Seven Books of Martial Arts". Everyone felt that Han Xin was reincarnated, and everyone was like Zhuge Liang's reincarnation, destroying the enemy only by talking and laughing.

But in fact, when it comes to fighting, do you think you are the only one who is smart?

One of our founding marshals once said that his reputation as a victorious general did not depend on any special talent, but only did one thing right:

Never screw up your chance to win a battle, never let this opportunity pass because once it is lost, it will never come back.

This simplest and intuitive understanding of war is precisely what the scholar-officials of the two Song Dynasties lacked.

As for what the same marshal said, "The most important tactic among all tactics is to fight to the death. If you can't do it, you can do it. If you are finished, you are finished." I am afraid it is not something that the scholar-bureaucrats can understand.

Looking back at the admirable famous generals of the two Song dynasties, they are precisely the ones who know this way of using troops best.

Han Shizhong stormed the Hutuo River with fifty cavalry against two thousand cavalry, killing the Jin army to a rout. After escaping, he was still dissatisfied and chased the Jin army for dozens of miles with a small number.

Among Yue Fei's generals, Yue Yun defeated Yingchang with nearly 20,000 pairs of Jin Wushu and 50,000 elite soldiers. They rushed back and forth dozens of times. The people were bloody men and the horses were bloody horses. They killed the Jin army from morning till night and finally defeated them. Achieve victory.

Yang Zaixing led three hundred elite cavalry to meet 20,000 Jin soldiers. After sending someone to report the news, he led the troops into the battle without hesitation. All three hundred were killed and two thousand of the enemy were killed, because Yang Zaixing knew that he could not outrun the Jin army, so he only fought and died.

There are similar examples from Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Shimin, Li Jing, to Yue Fei, Cao Youwen, and Xu Da of the Ming Dynasty, Chang Yuchun, Qi Jiguang, etc.

There is no unbreakable tactic, only an unbreakable will.

From the founding of the Song Dynasty to the fall of the two Song Dynasties, border frictions almost never stopped. Therefore, military commanders who grew up in battles on the front line are the ones who can best understand what we now call "every inch of mountains and rivers, every inch of blood."

But the scholar-bureaucrats and emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty... well said, I choose peace! Promise! Call me uncle!

The classical art of war in the feudal era was first framed by great masters such as Jiang Shang, Tian Ranju, Sun Wu, Wu Qi, Sun Bin, and Wei Liao. Later, it was revised by generations of military strategists such as Han Xin, Li Jing, and Liu Bowen. The content has long since been perfected. At that time, all the problems that could be encountered on the battlefield could basically be answered in books, which was also the confidence of the scholar-bureaucrats in leading the troops.

But Sun Wu said at the beginning that generals are wise, trustworthy, benevolent, courageous and strict, and among them, the courage that can "regardless of anger and death, and fight against bile, liver and gallbladder" can never be learned from books.

At this point, East and West are connected.

During the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I, Ottoman Colonel Kemal Kemal declared to his soldiers:

I am not ordering you to attack, I am ordering you to die.

In the end, he led a thousand men to withstand the attack of 20,000 British-Australian forces under the cover of battleship bombing at the cost of nearly annihilating the entire army. He persisted until reinforcements arrived, allowing the aging Ottoman empire to save itself before his death. dignity. 】

Although he said that he would wait until Na Luo Guanzhong and Liu Sanwu arrived before confronting him to test the authenticity.

But from what Empress Ma saw at this time, her husband's body was quite honest.

At this moment, he was busy praising the leader's words.

"We like to hear this. Once the fighter planes are gone, they will no longer exist. Just like Xin Qiji said, ideas should be made together, but it is best to make orders arbitrarily. A group of people were indecisive and before the idea was taken, the Chinese army was attacked by surprise. "

Empress Ma sat quietly on the bed, leaning on the small table that had been brought up before, writing and drawing. She tried to write down some of the completely novel sayings made by the young man as concisely as possible, and then squinted at her husband. He was jumping up and down close to the screen, as if he wanted to get in and pull out the military books and maps.

Tomorrow seemed to feel this gaze, so he quickly calmed down and turned to care about the queen:

"What did the girl remember? Let us check and fill in the gaps."

"Hmm... Since we talked about big and small dragons, it seems that there really are dragons! But what about one pagoda and two pagodas... Did you still believe in Buddhism at that time?"

After rolling her eyes at her husband, Empress Ma pushed Tomorrow away:

"If you like it, read more. Maybe this thing will go out the next moment and never be seen again."

"But..." Seeing her husband retreating obediently, Empress Ma also asked curiously:

"Then what the marshal said about lighting up the light does not seem to be like what the leading general said. Doesn't it mean that the general is most afraid of being impetuous?"

Speaking of military matters, Tomorrow Zi became very proud, shook his head and said:

"Wei Liaozi said that if you can kill half of them with troops, you will be able to conquer the whole country. How can it be so easy to just kill them all?"

"Just like the Marquis of Huaiyin can defeat the enemy in a desperate battle, others who resort to forced tactics are seeking their own death. Blindly believing in this principle will lead to death."

"If the commander can say this, it is because he has completed his military training and preparations for war. Once the war begins, he will fight to the death if he encounters a fighter opportunity."

"Just like Cao Youwen, his brother lured the enemy, and his men marched in the rain. The attack was ready. If the war lasted for a long time, Mongolia would be defeated. Who would have thought that Wang Shixian wandered here and became a reinforcement?"

However, these words were a bit complicated after all. Zhu Yuanzhang, who suddenly looked up and saw the names of Liu Bowen and Chang Yuchun, suddenly lost interest and said hastily:

"The most important thing in using troops is to train troops. To make a decisive decision on the spot is nothing more than to maintain integrity and surprise. The scholar-bureaucrats of the two Song Dynasties couldn't train troops, let alone other things."

Fortunately, the changes in the content on the light screen also directly grabbed Queen Ma's attention.

A thing with a tip that was much larger than an arm was stuffed into a chamber. With a shout, the thing quickly pushed along the corridor and flew up, drawing a thrilling arc in the sky. , this thing landed in a mountain col and had an earth-shattering explosion, scattering earth like rain.

As the smoke and dust floated into the sky, a scene that was unimaginable in dreams came into the eyes of the couple in Kunning Palace.

Floating on the sea dyed red by the fire were huge iron ships that were still roaring. Pointy objects like those seen before were continuously launched into the sky, crashed onto the land and exploded.

On the coastline are strange-looking troops heading inland, and inside, a group of scattered soldiers can be seen with a look of death on their faces.

The artillery fire ignited the ocean, black smoke filled the sky, and the debris and debris from the explosion were scattered endlessly, including vaguely broken limbs.

The Emperor of Heaven frowned and said in a harsh voice:

"This...is also a battlefield?"