Zhu Jun now understood Liu Sigu's good intentions to let him withdraw immediately, and after learning that Guo Song had captured Huaizhou and Liyang City, Zhu Jun locked himself in the king's tent and did not show up for a day. The generals were in a hurry and found the military advisor Liu Sigu one after another.

"Strategist, if you continue like this, your morale is getting lower and lower, go and persuade Your Majesty!" The crowd begged.

Liu Sigu reassured the generals and said: "Don't worry too much, it's not necessarily a bad thing to let Your Majesty calm down, I will persuade him, please rest assured." ”

"Strategist, is our situation grim now?" Another general also asked what everyone thought.

"Now the situation is indeed unfavorable to us, it can also be said to be more severe, but it will not reach the point of exhaustion, as long as we deal with it properly, we will still withdraw to Luoyang normally."

Liu Sigu's appeasement made everyone feel at ease, and everyone talked for a while, and then dispersed.

Liu Sigu really wants to see Zhu Jun, Zhu Jun can be appropriately snubbed and let him reflect, but he can't be too ignorant and lose his confidence.

Liu Sigu came to the king's tent, and when the guards saw that the military division was coming, they were all in good spirits, and Liu Sigu asked in a low voice, "How is he?" ”

The guards shook their heads, and one of the guards whispered, "I'm very depressed, I haven't eaten water and rice for a day." ”

"Alright! I went and persuaded him. ”

Liu Sigu opened the curtain and walked into the big tent, the big tent was covered with a thick carpet, and Zhu Zhu was alone and half-lying on a soft tiger skin chair, looking at the top of the tent in a daze.

Zhu Jun was obese and snored loudly as soon as he lay down, but today he couldn't sleep after lying down for a day, which shows the weight of his heart.

"I said, don't bother!" Zhu Jun was extremely dissatisfied.

"Your Majesty, it's me!"

"Ahh It's a military advisor, please take a seat. ”

Zhu Zhu struggled to get up, he was too obese, and it was very difficult to get up, at this time, two personal guards hiding in the corner appeared in time and helped Zhu Zhu up.

"Go ahead!"

Zhu Jun waved his hand to let the guards retreat, and the two personal guards hid in the corner.

"Strategist, I don't have the face to see you! I didn't listen to your advice, which led to such passivity today. ”

Liu Sigu said lightly: "From ancient times to the present, few monarchs can listen to the persuasion of strategists, in fact, Your Majesty is already good, only children will say and listen to anything, and Your Majesty does not have to blame himself too much." ”

Liu Sigu's comfort made Zhu Jun feel a little more comfortable, and he sighed again: "I don't understand, why in Hebei, our brothers can't compete with Guo Song, every battle will be defeated, my brother was driven to Liaodong, and I myself have no place to stand in Hebei, why is this?" ”

"Your Majesty can't compete for Guo Song in Hebei, because Guo Song has been planning for Hebei for a long time, planning for many years, and setting a lot of traps, such as he seized Zhaozhou, obviously he could sweep away Li Wujun in one go, but he left Li Wujun behind, used it as bait, and transferred Zhu Tao's army to the south, and when Zhu Tao swallowed the bait to the south, he led the army to take Zhu Tao's Youzhou lair, and after he implemented this plan for a year, Zhu Tao was fooled unconsciously.

In fact, Wei is the same, he did not attack Wei on a large scale last year, but also to let His Majesty go north and Tian Xu seize the throne, this is an opportunity for everyone, the reason why Guo Song has the advantage is nothing more than that he has the right time and place and the population.

"What is the right time, place and people?" Zhu Tao asked again.

"Your Majesty, the time of day is that Tian Xu killed his brother and became self-reliant, which led to the split in the Wei country, and His Majesty actually caught it in this time, and even caught it in a more timely manner than Guo Song, but our geographical advantage and people are not as good as Guo Song, so we have today's passivity."

"What is the location and the people?" Zhu Jun continued to ask.

"The geographical advantage can be said from two aspects, on the one hand, it means that Guo Song occupies the entire northern part of Hebei, and the Jin army can attack more and sweep from north to south, and on the other hand, Guo Song has made sufficient preparations, and Zhu Tao and Li Wujun have hoarded food and armor materials for many years, and he did not transport them to Chang'an, just to seize Wei."

"That's not right, right?"

Zhu Jun jumped up and said: "I can also attack Hebei more, Bozhou, Weizhou, Huaizhou, Weizhou, although there is the danger of the Yellow River, but after the Yellow River freezes in winter, there is no difference between the north and the south attacking Wei, besides, I have been preparing for many years, and I have accumulated a lot of grain in Liyang City, what is insufficient preparation?" ”

Liu Sigu smiled bitterly and said, "Then the problem lies with people!" ”

Seeing that Zhu Zhu was silent, Liu Sigu continued: "In fact, it can be seen from a small incident that His Majesty forcibly occupied Changle County as a military camp and drove the people out of the county, but Guo Song sent the people of Changle County to Yuancheng for resettlement.

His Majesty's army entered the Wei State, scaring millions of Wei people to flee north, but Guo Song established refugee camps in Qingzhang County and Qinghe County, so his army in Hebei is inexhaustible, and the people of Hebei are willing to work for him, he can easily recruit hundreds of thousands of troops, but we have no soldiers available in Hebei, which is not only the support of the people, but also the support of the scholars........"

"Enough!"

Zhu Jun listened unusually unexpectedly, and he interrupted Liu Sigu's words with great dissatisfaction, "What's the point of talking about this now, can you help me get out of trouble?" Strategist, let's talk about something practical! What do we do next? Will we order the Luoyang army to go north for reinforcements, or will we break through and go south? ”

Liu Sigu knew Zhu Zhu too well, he definitely couldn't hear his advice, he had to sigh secretly, and said to Zhu Jun: "Your Majesty, if we want to withdraw to Luoyang safely, we must have an army to respond, at least Guo Song will not chase and kill us, Your Majesty, I suggest that you can order an army of 100,000 troops to be stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River." ”

Zhu Jun got up and unfolded the map, and he asked, "Which location is better for the 100,000 army to gather?" ”

Liu Sigu pointed between Puyang and Baima and said: "This is more suitable, the opposite bank is Tanyuan Town, which can not only attack Liyang, force Liyang's Jin army not to dare to act rashly, but also accept the retreat of Weizhou." ”

Zhu Jun nodded, "This location is good, it is indeed a strategic location, and a military city can be built here in the future." ”

Zhu Zhu's spirits began to perench, and he swept away the malaise and decadence of the day, he took a few steps and asked, "Then how should we evacuate?" ”

Liu Sigu said unhurriedly: "This issue has been considered repeatedly, first of all, the arrangement of the time point, we still have fifteen days of food, you might as well tell the soldiers, the food is enough for thirty days, I believe that Guo Song will get this news, at least in the first twenty days, he didn't expect that we would suddenly evacuate." ”

"This is a good method, if you want to deceive the enemy, you must first deceive your own people."

Zhu Jun approvingly: "And then? ”

"Then we have to withdraw our troops against the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy's army, the Jin army must use cavalry to pursue us, this is their advantage, but the cavalry also has a weakness, that is, the forest and mountains are not conducive to cavalry."

Liu Sigu pointed to the map and said: "We are at least eighty miles away from the Yellow River, and there are large wheat fields in the south, which are very suitable for cavalry operations, so we must not go due south, but there are gentle hills on the southeast and southwest sides, and more importantly, there are endless forests, especially the forests in the southwest, although the east-west direction is not very long, but the north and south are very wide, stretching for forty or fifty miles, until the Yellow River, which is only more than thirty miles away from us, as long as we escape into the forest, the enemy cavalry will have no way to take us." ”

"But there is also a forest to the southeast!" Zhu Zhu pointed to the map.

"The humble duty knows, the humble duty means, we divide the troops into three routes, let the 20,000 old and weak troops retreat from the south, attract the enemy's pursuers, and then we will divide the main force into two, one part will withdraw from the southwest, and the other part will withdraw from the southeast, Your Majesty will go to the southwest direction, and gallop for thirty miles on horseback, and you will be able to get rid of the pursuit of the enemy army."

Zhu Jun nodded slowly, he pondered for a moment and said: "We still have fifteen days of food, then we will withdraw on the tenth day, and 100,000 reinforcements will also arrive on the south bank of the Yellow River, so it is better." ”

Liu Sigu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, we will withdraw our troops in three days!" ”

Zhu Jun was stunned for a moment, "But..... In three days, the 100,000-strong army had not yet had time to be deployed. ”

Liu Sigu smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, the art of war, the real is virtual, the virtual is real, I said that letting 100,000 reinforcements respond is actually for Guo Song to see, I know that Guo Song will never believe that we will withdraw after 20 days, and I also believe that his spies in Luoyang will definitely find out about the movement of our 100,000 troops, so that Guo Song thinks that we will not withdraw until the reinforcements are deployed."

But at the moment when he least expected it, we suddenly withdrew our troops, and as long as we were given an hour to withdraw our troops, we would be able to retreat safely. ”

Zhu Jun gave a thumbs up for a while, "The military advisor is smart!" ”