Zhao Kuo was very depressed.

Of course, he has reason to be depressed, you must know that not long ago, he was still called for a long time, and he was regarded as the best candidate to replace the general Lian Po as the commander of the Zhao army.

However, just when Zhao Kuo was eager to try and felt that he was about to copy the great cause of his father Ma Fujun Zhao Luxury, a piece of news fell abruptly with Zhao Wangdan's summons.

The matter of changing the general, it is invalid!

This incident simply made Zhao Kuo instantly feel like he suddenly fell to the ground from the clouds above the nine heavens.

So Zhao Kuo changed from the original general candidate to a general...

This is like a Tsinghua doctoral student in the talent introduction plan, the day before yesterday, the organization said that he would be sent to be the deputy county magistrate, and two days later he was given the position of a village official...

What Zhao Kuo didn't expect was that after he returned home to tell his mother the news, his mother seemed very happy, and even said that Zhao Hao was blessed by the spirit of heaven, and the Zhao family was able to avoid the hardship of clan punishment.

··· What's going on!

The speechless Zhao Kuo said goodbye to his mother, and on the appointed day, he led a reinforcement army from Handan to the Changping battlefield and became a general under General Lian Po.

After a few days of decadence, Zhao Kuo suddenly felt that it was not a big deal to become a general, after all, it was not so easy to become a general, at least there were several captains under him, and he could independently command the commander of a 10,000-strong army.

So Zhao Kuo's careful thinking began to be active again, and he was determined to make contributions on this Changping battlefield and prove to everyone that he was really capable, instead of "just reading his father's biography and not knowing the mutation" as others accuse. ”

Then the problem came, Zhao Kuo wanted to prove himself, but he didn't have a chance.

Before the arrival of Zhao Kuo, the two sides on the Changping battlefield had lasted for half a year, because there was no change of generals, so after the arrival of the general Zhao Kuo, the Changping battlefield commanded by the general Lian Po was still a situation of confrontation between the two sides, and there was no war at all.

It's embarrassing.

Obviously, this is not the life that the enthusiastic and youthful Zhao Kuo wants.

It is obviously impossible to go to Lian Po to ask for a battle, and Zhao Kuo still has this self-knowledge.

So Zhao Kuo thought of Lecheng.

After all, Lecheng is also an old comrade-in-arms and old colleague of Zhao Kuo's father, Zhao Hao, and the relationship between the two has always been quite good, so Zhao Kuo feels that Lecheng should be willing to help with this.

Then Zhao Kuo went to find Lecheng.

Lecheng agreed.

Then Lecheng went to find Lian Po.

Then Zhao Kuo was transferred from the front to the rear by Lian Po and became a glorious grain transport officer, responsible for supervising the transportation of grain and grass from Handan to Changping Daying...

Zhao Kuo's heart was broken.

After collapsing for a night, Zhao Kuo packed his bags and led tens of thousands of people who had just been transferred to his command to go back to transport grain and grass.

Collapse is collapse, grain transportation still has to be transported, after all, if you don't transport grain, no one can stand military law.

So Zhao Kuo was forced to be a grain transportation officer.

Just when the listless and confused Zhao Kuo returned to Handan with a large group of people's men, Zhao Kuo's wife learned the news and sent someone to deliver a letter.

There were only a few words in the letter.

"Your father was born in poverty, and he once served as an official of the field department, and he never gave up on himself and worked hard, so he was given the title of Ma Fujun. Isn't my son's current general far superior to the Tabe officials? May my son learn his father and shine on my lintel. ”

This letter was like a slap in the face, and finally woke up Zhao Kuo.

That's right, Zhao Kuo's father Zhao Hao was just a small official who collected rent for the country, but with his own struggle, he finally became a horse service gentleman that countless people looked up to.

Today's Zhao Kuo, as a general, is almost the same as the county guard when converted into a local administrative level, and he doesn't know how strong he is compared to his father Zhao Hao, and he once talked and laughed with Zhao Dan, the monarch of Zhao Guoguo... There's no reason to feel sorry for yourself!

From this day on, Zhao Kuo woke up.

He not only practiced martial arts diligently every day, trained the soldiers under his command (as a grain supervisor, Zhao Kuo also had a grain protection team of about 1,000 people), and read military books hard at night, and did not slack off every day.

In the young Zhao Kuo's heart, he held back a lot of energy, and he felt that I Zhao Kuo was not good? But I want to prove to you that I am not inferior to my father's talent!

This is almost two months after that.

That night, Zhao Kuo led his own grain transportation team, escorting tens of thousands of people and thousands of trucks of grain, and arrived at the old pass.

According to the usual practice, Zhao Kuo and the grain transport team camped in Guguan for one night, and set off the next morning, and they could all arrive at Hyun City in the evening.

After experiencing these few months of military career, Zhao Kuo's entire complexion has become much darker, the full sharpness on his face has basically been smoothed, and there is a calm demeanor in his gestures.

If Zhao Kuo still had the appearance of a son-in-law when he met Zhao Dan before, then now Zhao Kuo looks like a real soldier, and even has the appearance of a general with troops.

The changes in Zhao Kuo's military life in the past two months or so are undoubtedly extremely obvious.

As usual, Zhao Kuo returned to his tent after completing his night patrol and read at night.

Because he has been on the march, of course Zhao Kuo is reading those bulky bamboo slips, in fact, Zhao Kuo is reading a silk book, a silk book sent with Zhao Kuo's mother's secret letter.

It is said that it is a silk book, but in fact, it is just three pieces of silk paper.

But if any of these three pieces of silk paper are taken out, it is absolutely a secret that cannot be passed on, and it makes the whole world crazy about it.

Because the surface of these three pieces of silk paper is impressively written in Zhao Guojin's script, "March", "Attack" and "Battle".

According to the messenger sent by Zhao Kuo's mother, these three articles on the art of war were written by Sun Wu, the representative of the famous Wu State soldiers, and were three of the thirteen articles in the "Art of War".

Zhao Kuo, who was not deeply involved in the world, easily believed this statement, but he didn't know that in fact, these three articles of the art of war came from the palace city of Zhao State, and the reason why there were only three articles was because his traverser king only remembered these three articles, and he had not memorized them completely...

The real "Art of War" in its entirety should still be in the hands of Sun Wu's descendants at this moment.

But even so, it is the art of war that these three articles add up to less than 1,500 words, which still opens a new door for Zhao Kuo.

In an age when illiteracy rates exceed 95 percent, knowledge is invaluable.

Moreover, in addition to Confucius, people in these years like to cherish themselves, and knowledge is usually only passed on to their descendants and a few relatives.

Take Zhao Kuo as an example, Zhao Kuo's so-called familiarity with military books is actually just memorizing the art of war and notes written by his father Zhao Hao throughout his life.

This is why Lin Xiangru criticized Zhao Kuo and said, "Kuo can read his father's book." ”

In fact, Zhao Kuo wanted to read other military books, but there were no military books for him to read.

Therefore, these three articles of Sun Tzu's Art of War are simply like a treasure for people like Zhao Kuo who are obsessed with the art of war, and they can't put it down.

I saw Zhao Kuo sitting alone in the tent, looking at the silk paper in front of him by the light of the oil lamp, while shaking his head and reading: "There are not many soldiers, but there is no martial arts, which is enough to combine forces, anticipate the enemy, and take people." But those who are careless and vulnerable, they will be captured. “

Zhao Kuo read this passage back and forth four or five times, and the more he read, the more his eyebrows fluttered, and finally he couldn't help but pat his thigh: "I see, seconds, seconds!" From this point of view, how wrong my previous thoughts are! ”

The more Zhao Kuo thought about it, the more excited he became, he simply stood up, kept walking around the tent, reciting as he walked, and his whole face was full of incomparable brilliance, and the more he read, the more excited he became.

The light of the oil lamp gradually dimmed, and Zhao Kuo was fascinated by reading it, so he simply added oil again and again, carefully pondering the three art of war in his hand, and realized that he had been reading it all night.

When Zhao Kuo, who was immersed in the art of war, suddenly woke up, the light had already begun to be projected through the cracks in the camp tent.

Light is about to come to this world, and it is a new day.

It was also at this time that a sharp cymbal sound accompanied by a piece of screams came into Zhao Kuo's ears.

"Enemy Attack !!"