Chapter 16: Weizhou has an extraordinary person

Restaurant? You can also open a restaurant. The food cooking method in the Northern Song Dynasty was really simple. Before the Song Dynasty, the food cooking was even simpler. Most of them were cooked, and all foods were cooked by cooking. If you want to make it simple, you can directly roast them with fire.

It was only in Song Dynasty that the germination of modern cooking methods had already appeared. It was no longer a simple cooking method, but a method of stir-frying has begun. However, it was just a basic germination, which was nothing compared to modern methods.

The famous Dongpo pork was an attempt to make food in the Song Dynasty. After success, it spread throughout the Song Dynasty. A dish could make a name for the entire country, which shows that the cooking method of food in this era was really monotonous.

In Water Margin, when eating, you are asked to cut a few kilograms of meat to add wine. The cut meat is just boiled in salt water, but it is an extremely good dish to add wine.

When Zheng Zhi thought of this, he even thought of opening a restaurant. He didn't have the intention to do it immediately, and he was not in a hurry to prepare the newly opened Wanda Mall first.

Zheng Zhi went to the next day to pay the price. He held a stack of paper with words and seals in his hand, and then he went straight to the back yamen.

Zheng Zhi of Houya was familiar with him. He went in a lot of times when he was delivering meat in the past. However, this time, he was not easy to enter Houya directly in wearing official clothes. Instead, he stopped a servant, whispered a few words, and gave the stack of notes to this servant, asking him to give it to Mrs. Zhong.

If you ask what this note is, it is not surprising that most people in later generations are familiar with it, that is, this shopping mall voucher.

After giving the voucher, Zheng Zhi did not return to his camp, but went to see Xiaozhong's husband. Of course, there was something wrong with him when he came to see this Xiaozhong's husband today, just because Shi entered his own position to serve in the army. Although this matter was not a big deal, he also had to say hello to Xiaozhong's husband.

When he met Master Zhong, Zheng Zhi talked about it, introduced Master Shi Jin, and then praised Shi Jin's extraordinary martial arts skills. My little husband Zhong agreed without saying much.

Zheng Zhi received the reply and was about to leave, but was stopped by Master Zhong.

"Zheng Zhi, someone asks you." Zhong Shidao had been lowering his head to deal with official documents, but even when he heard Zheng Zhi talk about it, he raised his head. Now he stood up from the front of the case and asked.

"Please tell me, please tell me." Zheng Zhi was also stunned. He didn't want to disturb Master Zhong's handling of business anymore, but he didn't expect that Master Zhong suddenly stood up.

"Do you have any insights into this battle formation?" After Zhong Shidao learned that Zheng Zhi had designed the military command before, he wanted to find an opportunity to take the exam again, but Zheng Zhi was busy with business and did not find a chance. At this time, Zheng Zhi came to him, and Zhong Shidao also put down his official duties and wanted to ask a few simple questions.

"I understand a little bit after replying to my husband's words." Zheng Zhi said this, not a bragging thing. He had been a soldier for more than ten years in his previous life, so he naturally understood some of the principles of war.

"Oh... I understand a little bit? Not bad. Someone knows that you are a modest person. Since you understand a little bit, you understand it, haha... Let's talk about the principle of the battle formation?" Mr. Zhong was also happy when he heard Zheng Zhi understand a little bit. There were not many people who really knew about military affairs in the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Zhi didn't know how to answer this question. What is the reason for the battle formation? If you ask about specific examples or specific things, it is easy to say, but if you ask about the principle of war, this question is too broad and the answer is too broad. If it is broad, it will be difficult to answer. Zheng Zhi thought about it for a while and slowly spoke.

"Reply to Xianggong's words, the way of fighting formation is one principle, which is the principle of defeating the weak with strong." Zheng Zhi said this, and he prepared many explanations, so he waited for Xiaozhong's husband to ask.

"By strong defeating the weak? It's also novel. Even if the weak are not able to win?" Zhong Shidao asked again. Although he asked this again, his mind was also turning sharply. Zhong Shidao has experienced a long battle formation and has his own understanding of war. He did not mean that Zheng Zhi was wrong, but to lead to Zheng Zhi's subsequent explanation.

"Strength is relative, and there is no absolute strength or weakness. The meaning of a humble position is to attack the enemy's shortcomings with one's own strength or the strength or weakness in each part. The number of people, morale, battlefield terrain, money, grain and equipment are all aspects of strength and weakness, and of course there are many aspects related to strength and weakness. The way of battle formation is also a process of turning weakness into strength." Zheng Zhi explained a little.

The character Zhong Shidao, who is a civil and military strategy, doesn’t understand what Zheng Zhi means. He also agreed in his heart, but asked again: “How can one thousand people win two thousand people when they encounter a battle in the wild?”

What Zhong Shidao asked before was a theoretical matter, and then he asked was a pragmatic aspect. It was a very simple question, how to defeat two thousand people with one thousand people.

"When I go back to my husband, there are many ways to defeat two thousand people. The humble official roughly divides these methods into two types. One is to let the enemy divide the troops, and then defeat them one by one, converting the weakness into local advantages. The easiest way is to retreat first and lure the enemy into deep. The enemy's pursuit must be to lengthen and disconnect, and then turn back and ambush the enemy's front to pursue the team. The second method is to occupy favorable terrain to defend, and also to harass the enemy, harass the enemy's food route, and harass the enemy's camps. If you can defend for a long time, whether the enemy retreats or is defeated, it will eventually be a victory." Zheng Zhi also thought about it casually, but did not think much, so it was a bit simpler.

If you really want to discuss the outcome in detail, there must be many conditions to say, whether the enemy is in the situation, what is the situation, the elite level of the soldiers on both sides, or the impact of the outcome of the war on the consequences of both sides, who is the enemy and us are the offensive and who is the defensive... etc., these can affect the outcome.

Let me give you a simple example. For example, if the enemy is defeated, everyone and the whole family will die. Then, if these thousand people want to win two thousand enemies, the difficulty will increase by many times. The enemy is on the defensive, which is even more difficult. The methods Zheng Zhi said are obviously not useful. If it is just a simple life-and-death life without any additional conditions, Zheng Zhi's methods can come in handy.

"Haha... Zheng Zhi, you know the military affairs, and there is an extraordinary person in Weizhou." After Xiao Zhong asked this question, he knew how to answer this question, or in which direction should be answered. Zheng Zhi's answer was obviously very consistent with Master Zhong.

"My husband is too rewarded, and he dare not take the position of humbleness." Zheng Zhi is still a habitual modesty, and he doesn't know how Zheng Zhi developed this modesty? I think it was also a habit developed in the army in his previous life.
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