Chapter XVII

Li Ren picked up the bamboo strip handed to him by the guard, pointed to the position of the Linjiang army and said: "The officers and soldiers are here, according to the current speed of their advance, I am afraid it will take more than ten days. And it only takes seven days for the Fushun and Jianchang armies to arrive here, and it will take only five days to arrive at the earliest. In return, Fushun and Jianchang will leave a total of 20,000 to 30,000 people, and we will face an attack of 60,000 to 50,000 on the side. Tell me, what do we do now? ”

Everyone began to think about themselves, and after a while, Chen Lin spoke first: "Lord, you haven't said two places just now. Li Ren nodded and handed him the bamboo strip, Chen Lin pointed to the direction of Nan'an below Jizhou and the direction of Chaling in the west and said, "There is the Nan'an army of the imperial court, and there is also the Chaling army here." These two places are also the most direct and most likely places to deploy troops to threaten where we are now. Rihito and the others all nodded.

Chen Lin continued: "The Chaling army in the west is the most effective force, but the Chaling army is separated from us by many mountains, and it will take at least twenty days to come here, and the Chaling army is also responsible for the defense of Jingchu Land, and it is impossible for the imperial court to send them for the time being. In the direction of the Chaling Army, we can send a small team to work in detail, and pass the book with flying pigeons, so that we can know the movements of the Chaling Army in advance. The combat strength of the Nan'an Army in our south is not strong, only about half of the Linjiang Army, and most of the Nan'an Army has been transferred to Chaozhou, but their remaining troops are still an obstacle to our retreat, so the Nan'an Army is the object of our key defense, and if possible, we will take him out in one fell swoop. After saying these words, Chen Lin turned his head to look at everyone's reactions.

Fang Ning stepped forward and bowed his hand to Chen Lin, who handed him the bamboo strip in his hand. Fang Ning pointed to Fang Cai's two directions and said: "Mr. Chen's analysis is good, according to our investigation, the Chaling Army has not moved, only most of the Nan'an Army has arrived in Chaozhou. However, we do not have many soldiers, so what is now in front of us is the troops that have been deployed by the imperial court, which is why we should focus on it. ”

At this time, Li Ren said: "The two gentlemen have analyzed well, and they are both very good. But the current situation, as Mr. Fang also said, is that our soldiers have no superfluity, so we can divide the troops. But if we want to fight this battle, I think we have only one way! Saying that, Li Ren took the bamboo strip in Fang Ning's hand, pointed to the Kanyu map, and said, "We can only concentrate our forces and take advantage of the weaknesses in the imperial army to fight guerrilla warfare with them. ”

After Li Ren finished saying the three words of guerrilla warfare, Fang Ning asked with a question mark in his head: "May I ask my lord, what is guerrilla warfare?" ”

Li Ren looked at everyone in the audience, and then realized that almost half of them did not know about guerrilla warfare, and he laughed and said: "It's all my negligence, so let's do it, Li Yong is the one who has used guerrilla warfare alone, let him talk about it." As he spoke, he pointed to Li Yong and beckoned him to Kanyutu.

After Li Ren hugged his fists and saluted Li Ren, he hugged his fists to everyone below and said, "A certain is ugly!" After speaking, he took the bamboo strip in Liren's hand, pointed to the map and said: "The so-called guerrilla warfare, as the name suggests, is to swim and attack, which is the best way to defeat the strong with the weak. Speaking of this, everyone's eyes didn't dare to blink, and they looked straight at Li Yong's demonstration.

Li Yong pointed to Jizhou and said: "If I am the guard of Jizhou, and there are enemies in the southeast, northwest, and north. As he spoke, he used bamboo strips to point in the four directions: southeast, northwest, and northwest. Then he said: "There are 100,000 enemies on each side, and our army has only 50,000. Now suppose my army of 50,000 can fight against the enemy's 150,000, but once the enemy is encircled, I will face 400,000 enemies. I'm going to do a campaign, looking for the weakest first. But I couldn't fight hard, and I still used the fastest speed in the movement to quickly defeat the weakest enemy force. Then it took time for the other three enemies to meet, and now I only have to face 300,000. But what if you still put twice as much as you can beat? I still took advantage of the opening we had opened to advance into the mountains, lured the enemy to follow, and used the terrain in the mountains to maneuver with the enemy to reach the enemy's light and darkness, forcing the enemy to divide his forces to find them, and then eat the enemy in small groups one by one. In order to preserve our strength and annihilate the enemy's living forces. Li Yong finished speaking in one breath, as if he had become a marshal commanding operations on the battlefield.

After listening carefully to what Li Yong said, everyone stretched out their thumbs and said, "High! It's really high! ”

At this time, Fang Ning's eyes lit up and asked, "Who taught this method?" Can you let me meet this master? ”

Li Yong looked at Li Ren with a smile, and saw that he was reminiscing about what he had just said, so he turned his head and arched his hand to Fang Ning: "Mr. Fang, the person who taught me this method is far away in the sky and close in front of me. ”

After listening to Fang Ning's aftertaste, he said: It's in front of you? This method can't be thought of without a certain foundation, could it be Chen Lin? Thinking of this, he suddenly raised his head and saluted Mr. Chen, "Mr. Chen is really a master!" ”

His actions suddenly made Chen Lin speechless, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Mr. Chen doesn't need to be like this, I don't know why a certain family is smart?" ”

"To be able to come up with this method, it is not an idle person, and the people in the audience, I am afraid that only Mr. Chen can come up with it." As soon as Fang Ning's words came out, half of the people in the audience who knew the inside story immediately laughed, but Li Ren was extremely depressed on the side, and Li Yong could only cover his mouth and dare not laugh.

Chen Lin hurriedly asked, "Could it be that Mr. Fang is talking about the method of guerrilla warfare?" ”

Fang Ning nodded at Chen Lin, and asked everyone again, "Why are you laughing?" Is there something wrong? ”

Li Yong walked over and whispered to Fang Ning: "Mr. Fang, you found the wrong person just now, this method was given to us by the main bus." ”

After Li Yong finished speaking, Fang Ning suddenly realized, and patted his head and sarcastically: "Look at me confused!" Hehe! Confused! After speaking, he bowed to Liren and said, "Please punish the lord." ”

Li Ren helped Fang Ning up: "Why do you want to punish him?" It's not a big deal, sir, it's not a big deal. The gentleman is too modest. ”

Fang Ning made a big red face and stood aside and couldn't say anything anymore, Li Ren said to everyone: "It's not strange that Mr. Fang doesn't know it, everyone should stop laughing." If you are in such a situation, I think you are still young? ”

When everyone saw that Liren's face was flat, they didn't dare to laugh out loud anymore. Suddenly there was silence below, and Li Ren said at this time: "Now that everyone has a certain understanding of guerrilla warfare, what I want to say now is that we happen to be weak against the officers and soldiers, so we must use the advantages of guerrilla warfare to attack the officers and troops." It is also necessary to make a big fuss about cannibalism in the officers and soldiers to take advantage of their shortcomings. After a pause and seeing that everyone was listening intently, not wanting to miss a single point, he was very happy and said: "These are only one aspect of guerrilla warfare, and you must also remember that the point of guerrilla warfare is the people!" Only let the people think of us, like us, and do anything for us willingly. In this way, the full advantages of guerrilla warfare can be brought into play. Therefore, we must remember that the people are our parents, and no matter whether we lose or win in the future, we must first think of the safety and interests of the people. ”

Fang Ning's eyes lit up after listening to everything Li Ren said, and he thought in his heart: Why didn't I think of so much before? It is still good as the ancients said, the people are water, and the officials and emperors are boats. Who can carry the boat or capsize the boat!