Chapter 3 Before winning, first thinking about defeat
Another morning, Li Li was fishing next to Hanshan Weir. Because he used fake bait, he could catch a lot of fish, so he attracted many soldiers to watch.
Of course, Li Li is not fishing, but is using the old routine to "fish" people.
The water splashed, and Li Li raised his rod hard and pulled out a "sharp mouth" from the water.
"Sharp-mouthed" is also known as "white strip", which is called minnows in later generations. It is widely distributed and is a common carnivorous fish, so it can be fished with bait fishing.
Next to him, a young man was interested when he saw Li Li catch a "sharp mouth" that was quite difficult to catch: "Li Jianzhu, can this skill be taught?"
This person was "fished" by Li Li, and the two of them are now familiar with each other.
Li Li put the fish in the fish basket, took off the bait, which is the 'iron fish', put it in the palm of his hand, and said to the other party: "Simple, I will tell you carefully, and you will understand it."
"This kind of fishing method can only catch fish with fierce personality, so it is difficult to catch grass carp and carp."
"Have you ever seen cats and mice catching? Sometimes, cats and mice are not because of hunger, but because of nature and boredom, so they catch mice and do not rush to eat, but keep playing with them."
The two met yesterday. The young man's surname was Yang and Fengzhang. Li Li called him "Brother Yang" and the other party called him "Li Jianzuo".
"Those fish with fierce personalities are beasts in the water that can prey because of hunger, or bite their prey because of being angry, so..."
"So this bait fishing method is to use fake fish to swim arrogantly in the water, and make as much noise as possible to get the ferocious fish to notice."
"They may be hungry or angry, so they pounce on them and bite them. Then, letting the bait swim like a real fish is the key."
After explaining the principle, Li Li asked the sheep to try to use bait fishing method. Of course, this requires operating the fishing wheel, so the usage of the fishing wheel must also be taught.
After teaching for a while, the sheep and fucked, and tried fishing. But after all, they didn't know whether it was luck or talent, so they really caught a "sharp mouth".
“This skill is good, good!”
The sheep was quite happy and took off the fish and put it in the fish basket: "I didn't expect that there was such a technique for fishing."
"Actually it's the same as fighting." Li Li put away the fishing rod and started chatting with the other party. Seeing this, the onlookers dispersed and walked towards the barracks not far away.
"When war, there are often people who lure the enemy, right? Tell the enemy over, lead it into the ambush, and then surround it on all sides, and the enemy will be finished."
"Since you want to put the bait, the bait must be as decent as this fake fish..."
Li Li held the iron-sliced fish and made swimming moves: "It made the other party unable to hold back and pounced on him and bit him regardless of the matter..."
The sheep nodded: "That's right, there are also fishing and fighting..."
Before she finished speaking, Yang Feng saw Li Li standing at the right moment and looked behind him with a respectful look, feeling a chill on his back.
Turning his head, he saw a middle-aged man wearing armor and gray hair, staring at him with a stern face.
"Aye!" The sheep squid quickly saluted.
The middle-aged man asked: "If you don't go to rectify military affairs, what are you doing here?"
"Boy, the child is understanding the principle of fighting."
The middle-aged man twisted his beard: "Oh, can you understand the principles of fighting even when fishing?"
The sheep coughed several times, and repeated what Li Li said just now.
After hearing this, the middle-aged man nodded: "This is right, but it's not an excuse for you to sneak out to fish."
"The child knows his mistake and go back immediately!" After she said that she was about to leave, she was caught by the middle-aged man: "You said you were fishing, where are the fish?"
"Here, here." Li Li quickly handed the fish basket to the sheep. The middle-aged man looked at Li Li, then the fishing rod, and then Li Li's clothes.
"I wonder whose subordinate Xiaolang is?"
Li Li knew that this person was not very good, so he quickly replied: "I am a low-ranking Li Li in Poyang, and the supervisor of the Shaofu Temple Shangfang Office."
"Li Li, Poyang?" The middle-aged man looked at Li Li again after hearing this: "You are, that thing... that troublesome Li Li?"
These words were interesting, which made the left and right look at the taller one in front of him. Li Li felt that the last sentence sounded a little familiar, but hesitated: "The humble position is Li Li of Poyang."
"Your Majesty mentioned you, haha, it's really rare."
The middle-aged man smiled and looked at Li Li's eyes, which was meaningful: "The murder case of the Poyang Prince's Mansion has caused many troubles to several Your Highnesses."
"Uh..." Li Li didn't know what to say, but he remembered that when he first met Xu Jian, the other party mentioned that His Majesty once said, "That troublesome Li Li."
So Li Li felt helpless: You have been in trouble every day and have been the emperor for decades. You are so old that you have never seen any storms. How can you remember me, a little person?
"Boy, why did you come here?" asked the middle-aged man, and Li Li replied: "I came to Hanshan Camp for business, and by the way... I have a long experience."
"Get knowledge? What knowledge do you want?"
"I want to see what the war is like."
"Look at the war? Are you afraid of losing your life?" After the middle-aged man said, he looked at the almost endless military camp in front of him.
Li Li was able to guess the other party's identity, weighed the pros and cons, and replied: "Camping here during the festival is the safest place. Even if something happens, he will definitely escape unscathed. The boy is here to shelter him and not be afraid."
"Oh?" The middle-aged man turned to look at Li Li, and after a long time, he smiled: "You are really not afraid of death!"
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In the afternoon, in the military camp beside the dam, Li Li was grilling fish by a bonfire, and the lambs were also grilling fish. The two of them were grilling and chatting. Because there were no idle people around, the topics they talked about were a bit taboo.
"Zhenyang Hou can't fight. I think something will happen sooner or later. Aye saw this, so he moved to the camp here just in case."
"The army is defeated like a mountain and flees in the wilderness. Sooner or later, they will be caught up by the cavalry. However, the terrain here is good, as long as you are ready to retreat slowly, the pursuers dare not approach it easily."
"Alas, when the dam was built and the return water poured into Pengcheng, Aye strongly advocated attacking Pengcheng and broke the city before the enemy reinforcements arrived. As a result, Zhenyang Hou did not say anything."
"Later, enemy reinforcements arrived, and Aye advocated taking advantage of his unstable foothold and attacking fiercely. Zhenyang Hou still didn't say anything. He was asked so much that he could not ignore it. He said that His Majesty had his own arrangements and we could not make any decisions."
"Bah! I think he is timid and afraid of the enemy! He can't fight, he can only drink alcohol all day long and use His Majesty's words as an excuse!"
"Aye said that if this continues, we will lose sooner or later. We can't control others and can only protect ourselves."
While listening to the complaints of Yang Feng, Li Li listened to the movement brought by the north wind: the noise in the north was getting louder and louder.
This movement has been around since the morning and is getting bigger and bigger. It seems that there is a battle ahead, but it is a distance from Liang's main camp.
I don’t know whether it’s a fight or a siege.
Li Li felt that the prospects of the Liang army were worrying, and the soldiers and horses of various units performed poorly, so he planned to go back.
I accidentally discovered that the famous "General Yang" camped next to this Hanshan Imperial, with strict guards and strict military disciplines, which contrasted with the camps of other Liang army generals, which impressed him deeply.
Li Li felt that as the final exam approached, everyone else in the boys' dormitory was playing with computers and mobile phones, and only this Yang student ran to the classroom to read books and review his homework.
So he felt that the safety factor here was high, so he decided to take the risk to stay and gain knowledge, so he used fishing routines to try to enter the military camp.
More than four years ago, Li Li and Liang Sen experienced a war and a defeat, but he and Liang Sen were only concerned about escaping, and were unable to understand the situation and failed to gain insight.
This time, he had to take a closer look at how he should deal with the defeat in the army.
That is, learn how to win a defeat.
There is a saying in the military strategy: If a general wants to win, he will first consider defeat, so he can never be defeated in a hundred battles.
A rookie in war must be aware of a rookie in war. Li Li believes that since General Yang is determined to be defeated first, there is a certain chance of breaking out in the face of defeat, and he just happened to see it.
Even if it's a life-threatening thing.
General Yang, of course, is Aye, the "Brother Yang" in front of him, the Shizhong and the champion general Yang Kan, and the father and son are from the Taishan Goat family.
Yang Kan went to the expedition with the army this time, and the Hanshan Weir was supervised and repeatedly proposed to take the initiative. As a result, the commander Xiao Yuanming refused to comment, so Yang Kan stationed next to the dam just in case.
The reason why Li Li was so confident in this General Yang was because he did his homework before coming and had a rough understanding of the main generals of the Northern Expedition Army.
So he was sure that Yang Kan was a general who was good at fighting, not a fool.
Yang Kan's grandfather was said to be a subordinate of Emperor Wu of Song, Liu Yu, which means that Yang Kan's ancestors were from the Southern Dynasty.
Later, the political situation of Liu Song was turbulent. The governor of Xuzhou of Song State rebelled and surrendered to Wei State with his territory and army. Yang Kan's grandfather was an official in Xuzhou at the time and was trapped in Wei State.
The Yang family is a general. Yang Kan has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his elders have taught military tactics and are the generals and tigers.
He led troops to quell the rebellion many times and accumulated a lot of experience in fighting. Even when he suppressed the rebellion under the rule of Wei, he shot the rebel commander to death with one arrow.
Because his father often talked about returning to the Southern Dynasty in front of his sons, and with various factors, Yang Kan gave up his great future in Wei State. About 20 years ago, he and his brothers took their families and subordinates to the south.
The Taishan Goat brothers who returned to the Southern Dynasty were highly valued and became a backbone force in the Liang Kingdom’s “military circle”. This is also the shortcomings of the Southern Dynasty:
Most of the military generals who can fight are from Northerners.
Or, it is the northern refugees and powerful groups gathered in the Huai River and Han River Basin (the front line of north-south confrontation), among which the generals stood out.
This trend becomes more and more obvious as it goes.
When Zi started his business today, most of the martial honors were from the Huai River and the Han River, which were powerful (including the northern aristocratic tribes who went south). More than 40 years later, Yuan Cong Wuxun died one after another, and his descendants gradually transformed into cultural aristocrats.
Although these families also have descendants as generals, and even Chen Qingzhi, a white-robed general who came from the cold clan, generally speaking, most of the "branches of the military" of Liang State are military generals and their descendants in the past 20 or 30 years.
Among them are the children of the Taishan Goat family represented by Yang Kan.
Yang Kan has rich practical experience and is also very famous for his personal bravery. Li Li heard Xu Yu mention that Shaofu Temple specially made a two-edged spear that was two-foot-long, four-foot-long, for this General Yang.
The spear is eight feet long, which means a spear. The length of an ordinary horse spear is about two feet long, and the longer the horse spear, the more difficult it is to use. This general of Sheep shocked the audience when he was performing martial arts in front of the emperor. You can imagine how powerful the force is.
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Li Li decided to find an opportunity to "stay in" General Yang's military camp and experience for himself how a qualified general would lead his troops to escape unscathed when he was defeated.
In this era, there was no military academies, and the generals would not teach outsiders the knowledge of leading troops to war, so Li Li could only find a way to learn about war in war.
The price is to fight with one's life, which is also the only way for countless young soldiers to move towards famous generals in today's era.
However, it was not easy to eat and drink in General Yang's military camp, so Li Li used the old routine and used bait to fish, and successfully tricked General Yang's young son.
Looking at the "Brother Yang" who was successfully tricked by him, Li Li asked: "The war is coming, and I can also follow my subordinates. If you want to help, I wonder if Brother Yang can give me some armor and bows and arrows?"
Chapter completed!