There is an old Chinese saying: "The victor is the prince, and the loser is the thief." ”

Throughout history, military strategy and politics are often better than strategy; Defeat is often defeated by strategy.

As a result, a special social class of "strategists" was born: knowledgeable and disdainful of reciting poetry and writing, resourceful and disdainful of trickery, and achieving great things without disdainful of greedy for small profits.

They are good at planning military affairs, keen to achieve a great cause of stability and stability, and most of them are also good at planning their own posthumous affairs, and can achieve success and retirement, and start and finish well.

Each prince had people under his command who advised him, and in a broad sense, these people could be called strategists, and the main figures who excelled and advised could be called masterminds.

To put it simply, there can be many advisors under the command of a prince, and the advisor can be regarded as the chief advisor, which is much more precious in terms of quantity and quality.

Since ancient times, if you can have a good strategist on the road to hegemony, you can often have a good start, and even add a little luck, you can achieve a new world.

There are often countless such examples in history, such as the Spring and Autumn Period, when the particularly famous Guan Zhong, Zhang Yi and Su Qin were all particularly talented people, and their every word could lead to the destruction of the country.

Looking at the Eastern Han Dynasty again, Fu Zhu and Tian Feng are the two most important advisors under Yuan Shao, but the one who can be called Yuan Shao's chief strategist and mastermind is undoubtedly Fu Zhu: both of them were originally strategists under Jizhou Mu Han Fu, although they were outstanding, they were not really reused, and they were not reused by Yuan Shao until Yuan Shao became the master of Jizhou.

Relatively speaking, Yuan Shao reused the frustration more: first of all, the frustration proposed the strategy of pacifying Hebei from a high position, which is equivalent to Zhuge Liang's Longzhong and Lu Su's couch policy, and Yuan Shao's future pacification of Hebei was basically carried out step by step according to the strategy proposed by the frustration; secondly, the first one who proposed to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes was also frustrated; In the end, Yuan Shao was awarded the title of supervising the army, General Fenwei was in charge of the internal and external affairs, and Tian Feng was not as good as the commander, and from the perspective of status, Tian Feng was not as good as the frustration.

In history, Lu Bu attacked Yanzhou and Xuzhou, and the mastermind under his command was undoubtedly Chen Gong, Chen Gong was originally one of Cao Cao's main heroes in Yanzhou, but when Cao Cao went east to conquer Xuzhou Tao Qian, he led Lu Bu into Yanzhou and copied Cao Cao's lair; Cao Cao suffered a lot of losses under Chen Gong, but unfortunately although Lu Bu was brave, he was not the master, Chen Gong was born at the wrong time, and Chen Gong was unwilling to surrender Cao Cao voluntarily to die after Lu Bu's defeat in Xuzhou.

Dong Zhuo's chief strategist is Li Ru, there is no doubt that this person is ruthless and not under Jia Xu, and Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing to quickly control the situation of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the short term is due to Li Ru's strategy.

Although Liu Bei had a lot of strategists in his life, only Pang Tong and Fa Zheng were really masterminds: Liu Bei's early Lu Zhu, Sun Qian, Jian Yong and others could only be regarded as strategists, Xu Shu was considered a mastermind if he didn't leave Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang was more responsible for internal affairs, logistics, diplomacy and other aspects during Liu Bei's lifetime, and he was not a mastermind.

After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei's mastermind in capturing Xichuan was Pang Tong, and the mastermind in capturing Hanzhong was Fa Zheng, but unfortunately these two people died a little early, causing immeasurable losses to Liu Bei's great cause: if Pang Tong was there, Zhuge Liang would stay in Jingzhou to ensure that Jingzhou was not lost; If Fa Zheng was here, Liu Bei might not have suffered such a big defeat in the Battle of Yiling.

Sun Quan's mastermind was Lu Su: among the four major governors of Eastern Wu, only Lu Su was more inclined to give advice, and Lu Su was not as good as Zhou Yu, Lu Meng and Lu Xun in leading troops to fight, and Lu Su's couch strategy was earlier than Zhuge Liang's Longzhong to become famous, and after Zhou Yu's death, Lu Su strongly advocated that Sun Quan lend Nanjun to Liu Bei.

Judging from the complicated situation at that time, Lu Su's move was more in line with Jiangdong's interests than Zhou Yu's toughness, and Sun Quan not only got Xiakou, but also transferred some of the pressure from Cao Cao to Liu Bei, so that Eastern Wu did not have to fight Cao Cao alone from multiple directions.

As for Cao Cao's most famous five strategists, Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and Jia Xu, but Xun Yu is biased towards internal affairs, Cheng Yu's role in the official history is more like a general, Jia Xu joined the gang late and was wise to protect himself, so the most counselors around Cao Cao were Xun You and Guo Jia.

For being able to win over Xun You, Gao Zhi is still a little proud so far.

After all, even Cao Cao in history once said unabashedly: "The military advisor Xun You, since the beginning of the minister, has no levy or obedience, and defeats the enemy before and after, all of which are strategic." ”

The way to govern the army is first and foremost in the generals.

"A thousand troops are easy to get, but one will be hard to find."

The army is like the human body, the general is the head, and the soldier is the siblings. The generals are wise and resolute, and the weak army can defeat the army of tigers and wolves; The commander is cowardly and incompetent, and even a strong army can hardly shake the weak enemy.

In the same way, an excellent strategist can play a far better role on the battlefield than a general.

Counselors!

It can be said that an excellent strategist is better than 100,000 soldiers!

The importance of strategists is self-evident, and it is no wonder that the heroes of that time were eager for a qualified strategist.

So being able to get Sima Lang this time can be regarded as a big gain, Gao Zhi is already very satisfied, not to mention, there are hundreds of white horse righteous servants given to him by Gongsun Zhan!

When he returns to Bingzhou, Gao Zhi plans to personally form a white horse Yizi who belongs to him!

Sima Lang led hundreds of his subordinates and private soldiers to follow closely, and at the same time began to think in his heart about the entry of the defector.

Learning literary and martial arts, selling to the emperor's family, this is the common value of people at that time, the strategists are full of statecraft, and now they finally have the opportunity to show what they have learned in their chests, which is what he Sima Lang has been looking forward to for a long time, how can he let it go.

The minds of the two have coincidentally been far away from the state of Merge.

The army marched and continued its march.

In the forest, the breath floats, and the shadows of people and horses around are dense, stretching out in the forest and field.

The birdsong sounded from the forest, and then flew up in shock, the sound of horses' hooves roared in the field, the brilliant sky became cloudy, and more than 3,000 cavalry figures, riding on horseback, galloping on the dry soil, galloped away into the distance.

Because they were all cavalry troops, and the counties along the way "provided" grain and grass, which alleviated the burden of baggage, Gao Zhi and their march was unusually fast, crossing mountains and mountains along the way, passing through cities and counties, without stopping.

Soon, the brigade followed the official road and entered the Sizhou boundary to which the original eastern capital Luoyang belonged.

Sizhou, also known as Sili School Captain's Department; Seven counties, one hundred and six counties; The political status was as important as the capital municipality of China in later generations; This place is irrigated by the Yellow River and Luoshui, the land is fertile, the population is dense, merchants from all over the world gather here, the economy is extremely developed, and it is the essence of the entire Eastern Han Empire.

It was originally occupied by Cao Cao, but now it belongs to Lu Bu.

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