Zhuge Kongming's use of this strategy is in response to the "yin is in the yang, not the yang is in the pair". Sima Yi is also a person who is well versed in strategy, and Zhuge Liang took advantage of Sima Yi's characteristics and adopted a plan to reduce troops and increase the stove, leading Sima Yi to be fooled. When Sun Bin dealt with Pang Juan, he used the strategy of increasing troops and reducing the stove, which made Pang Juan mistakenly think that Sun Bin's soldiers were decreasing day by day, so he went deep alone and pursued Sun Bin. As a result, he was ambushed and died in the hands of Sun Bin.

Sima Yi saw Zhuge Liang slowly retreating, and wanted to chase but was afraid of the scheme, so he went to count the stoves in Zhuge Liang's barracks, but found that there were more stoves every day than the day before. Therefore, Sima Yi's troops did not pursue, so that the Shu soldiers did not lose a single soldier and retreated to Hanzhong. Zhuge Liang was able to hide from the world under Sima Yi's nose, not only did he use this strategy to the extreme, but he also knew Sima Yi's character shortcomings well.

Meng Yi thought to himself: "Although the leader of the Huns, Mandanyu, is also a strong man who dominates the grassland, but in terms of wisdom, I am afraid that he is not at all the opponent of me, a person with five thousand years of wisdom crystallization, so I am not afraid that the other party will not be successful!" ”

Sure enough, the Qin army first fought hard with the Hun cavalry, which frightened the Huns and made the Huns think that the Qin army was going to die together. But he didn't know that the Qin army just wanted to drive away the Huns' reconnaissance cavalry in the east.

Then, for a few days, the Qin army came out to fight during the day, and defended the camp after dark. By dawn the next day, thousands of cavalry reinforcements came from the east of the Qin army.

Moreover, the camp of the Qin army expanded a lot at once, and everyone shouted: "Reinforcements are coming!" Reinforcements are coming! ……”

The number of Qin troops did not increase, but there were several times more hay dummies. Meng Yi was afraid that the Huns would enter the camp, so he simply asked the thousands of old and weak remnants of the Linhu tribe to disguise themselves as Qin troops. In this way, the scene is more and more similar.

Thirty miles away from the camp of the Qin army, the Hun camp.

"Da Danyu, no, the reinforcements of the Qin people are here!" The centurion in charge of the Huns' reconnaissance hurriedly ran into the big tent of Shan Yu and hurriedly reported.

"What? How many people came? The leader of the Huns, Mandanyu, asked in surprise.

"There are not many people, only four or five thousand people came on the first day, but the Qin people increased their troops by four or five thousand on the second day." The centurion in charge of reconnaissance by the Xiongnu explained in detail, "The villain was not at ease, so he took advantage of the Qin army's mobile camp to check their military stove again, and found that it had indeed added tens of thousands of people. ”

The leader of the Xiongnu, Mandan, was not reconciled, and inquired in detail about the changes of the Qin army in the past few days, including how much the camp had expanded, whether the number of guards on duty had increased, and so on.

After thinking for a long time, the leader of the Huns, Mandanyu, sighed and said, "It seems that the Qin army has indeed come with reinforcements of tens of thousands of horses. ”

"Respected Da Dan Yu, if the Qin army only has 20,000 cavalry, even if it adds many crossbow arrows, there is nothing to fear. The terrible thing is that if the Qin army sends an army of infantry from Shangjun, those guys will have as many crossbows and arrows as locusts on the grassland, and we can't rush up to send them to death. The new leader of Lou Fu, Huyan Black Fox, also persuaded on the side.

"In this way, we can only let go of these hateful Qin people this time!" The leader of the Huns, Mandanyu, sighed.

Who is difficult to walk in the Yin Mountain. Wind and drizzle, blood and thousands of people. The pine tips are stained with eagle shackles, and the Luye Creek is deep without a saddle.

Rest by the trees, look at the forest. Yellow sheep feast on a golden plate. Xiao Xiao was frosty and windy overnight, but he hugged Mink Qiu and complained about the early cold.

Meng Yi and others, under the "escort" of the Xiongnu reconnaissance cavalry, came to the border city of Shangjun of the Qin State, and the Xiongnu army had already retreated to the grassland.

"Finally escaped! I'm really afraid that Tou Manshan will be hot-headed for a while, and he will be determined to destroy us. Meng Yi exhaled and said that he was not afraid that it would be a lie, but as a general, he must pretend to be confident, and he must become the "backbone" of the soldiers.

"You can rest assured, the leaders of the steppe are like foxes, they will not take such a big risk without great benefits. For you Central Plains people, these 20,000 horses must be very important. But don't forget, there is never a shortage of thousands of wild horses in the steppe, do you think the Huns will fight with you for such a few horses? Princess Lin Hu Hu chuckled, it seemed that she had expected this to be the end, and she didn't forget to tease Meng Yi.

"Okay, Princess Lin Hu, but your title of princess doesn't seem to be worthy of the name?" Meng Yi was also not polite, and went back directly.

"For you Central Plains people, a tribe of less than 10,000 people is indeed nothing, and you are not qualified to be called kings and princesses, but we grassland people have our own pride, whether you Central Plains people admit it or not!" Princess Lin Hu Hu seemed to be touched by some sad past, and yelled very stubbornly.

"Okay, okay...... You can call yourself however you like. It's just that the rules of the harem of the Qin State are strict, you must take care! Meng Yi didn't want to get entangled with a woman on this issue, and thought: Some people will greet you and teach you the rules of the Central Plains!

"What kind of place is King Qin's harem?" Princess Lin Hu Yue didn't know what kind of place the harem was, so she had to ask for advice in a low voice.

"The king's harem has long been occupied by women from all over the world, Qiulan and Dongju, each with its own merits, are trying their best to please the king. But the most terrible thing is the endless mutual calculation, you have to be careful! Meng Yi saw that Princess Lin Hu Hu had just died and broken her family, so she couldn't bear to refuse, so she could only explain it roughly.

"Under the Yin Mountain, the sky is like a dome, covering the four fields. The sky is vast and the wilderness is vast. The wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep low. Princess Lin Hu Hu glanced back at Yin Mountain gloomily, "Farewell, my beloved grassland!" ”

Half a month later, the main hall of Xianyang Palace.

"This time, the old minister failed to achieve a great victory, please send the king!" Coach Wang Qian, who had just returned to Xianyang, took the initiative to plead guilty.

"The old general doesn't need to blame himself, the Huns are a strong enemy rising on the grassland, and they give full play to the coming and going of the nomadic cavalry like the wind, and the leader of the Huns, Mandan, is as cunning as a fox, after all, we repel the Hun coalition army, even if I defeat the Huns this time." King Yingzheng of Qin naturally knew the truth that the morale and morale of the army "can be drummed up but not discharged". More than 100,000 Qin troops are waiting to receive the reward, and there is no merit and hard work. Of course, King Yingzheng of Qin will not chill the military of Qin.

"I heard that the old general has never found the Huns' grain and grass camp, what is the situation? Could it be that the Huns could go without eating or drinking for a month? "Qin Wang Yingzheng still has a lot of things he doesn't understand about the specific situation on the front line, and while everyone is there, he simply puts the problem on the table.

"Back to the king, the old minister has also had a lot of contact with the Huns before, so he knows a little about this matter." Coach Wang Jian then explained in detail.

After listening to the explanation of the coach Wang Qian, Meng Yi also began to truly understand how clever the logistics supply of the Huns was!

War is to fight security, and there is no exception in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. In ancient China, marching and fighting always paid attention to "soldiers and horses go first before moving grain and grass", and there is a saying that "the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers". Meaning, the emperor will not let the soldiers go into battle hungry. After all, only when the soldiers eat and sleep well can they have enough physical strength to put on heavy equipment and fight the enemy.

We know that ancient China was an agrarian society, with a low level of productivity, and could not support a large-scale professional army, so it generally did not take the initiative to wage war - Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty are very special examples. But why did the Xiongnu, who had a lower level of productivity, often invade the Central Plains? Regardless of anything else, how did they solve the problem of food and grass?

1. Blitzkrieg: The Xiongnu were nomads from the north. They live in the grasslands of the north and in the depths of the Gobi, living in pursuit of water and grass. The abundant aquatic grass has raised a large number of horses, that is, "the Hun grass and yellow horses are fat". The abundant supply of horses made it possible to conduct large-scale cavalry operations.

In fact, the Hun cavalry, with its good mobility and strong combat effectiveness, brought great trouble to the Qin and Han dynasties. The number of Hun cavalry was not large, ranging from hundreds to thousands. But they came and went without a trace, and ran away with a single shot, making the Central Plains army unguardable. Taking the Han Dynasty as an example, the Xiongnu invaded Shangjun and Yunzhong on a large scale three times, burning, killing and plundering; When the Han Dynasty army finally assembled and arrived, the Xiongnu had calmly retreated, leaving only a melancholy back for the Han Dynasty army......

In the case of blitzkrieg, the Hun cavalry did not need to carry a lot of grain and grass. To give you an example, when we used to travel and take the train, it would take us three to five days to reach our destination, so we always had a bunch of instant noodles in our bags. Now when you go out and take the high-speed rail, you will arrive in half a day, who will go out with instant noodles?

2. Convenience food: Speaking of convenience food, the Xiongnu may be the first nation in China to use convenience food. In addition to horses, the northern grasslands are also rich in cattle and sheep. When the people of the Central Plains wanted to use cattle as production tools and take care of the cultivated cattle, the Xiongnu used beef as a daily food. The military rations of the Hun cavalry were also air-dried beef. The specific method is to kill a cow, take out hundreds of kilograms of beef and dry it, turn it into more than 10 kilograms or 20 kilograms of beef jerky, stuff it into a cow's bladder, and carry it by a soldier. Beef is rich in protein, amino acids, rich and comprehensive nutrition, its composition is closer to the needs of the human body than pork, a small piece of beef can maintain the survival needs of human beings. A pack of beef jerky carried by a Hun cavalryman can be eaten for several months, and there is no need for additional logistics support personnel. The Hun cavalry relied on this high-calorie, nutritious beef jerky to repeatedly invade the Central Plains in the south.

3. Raising war with war: As mentioned earlier, after the Xiongnu invaded the Central Plains, they always inevitably burned, killed and looted. This practice, in the words of "The Art of War", is "to nourish war with war", that is, "those who make good use of soldiers, no longer serve in the army, and the grain is not used for three years, but is used for the country, because the food is for the enemy, so the army can have enough food." The Huns may not have studied the Art of War, but they were very familiar with the game of "feeding war with war". The Hun cavalry burned, killed and plundered in the Central Plains, which greatly weakened the strength of the Central Plains on the one hand, supplemented their logistics on the other hand, and achieved the purpose of "taking food from the country and relying on the enemy because of food", unlike the Central Plains army, which relied heavily on logistics support. For the tactics of the Hun cavalry, the people of the Central Plains had a headache, but they were helpless.

The Xiongnu are indeed the new overlords of the steppe people! It's not easy!