In the turn of the day, Li Xuanba and Mingyu went to train the children together, and saw that the children were well-trained, forbidden, physically strong, and had grown a lot taller, Li Xuanba also nodded in approval, and selected five styles from the eight strokes of the Li family's knife technique, which were relatively simple and had slightly fewer changes, and taught the children to practice.

There are not so many horizontal knives suitable for children in the village, so bamboo knives have to be used instead. Watching the children practice swinging their knives one by one, Li Xuanba turned his head to Mingyu and said, "Your method of forging and training is indeed effective, where did you get it?" ”

Li Mingyu dared to tell the truth, so he had to make it up, "I figured it out myself, one day I saw Xiao Hei get up, his two paws were propped up, the muscles of his forelimbs burst out, and his huge body got up, so he drew a gourd and imitated it." Later, I saw that the frog jumped and jumped, and the thigh muscles were stretched and strong, and he also learned to imitate the frog jump. I don't know what the effect was at that time, but I just tested it with the children, and after half a year, it really worked well. When they get older, I think about letting them practice climbing and jumping, and stealth disguise. ”

Li Xuanba said strangely, "It's just training, why do you want to learn this?" It is not commonly used in battle formations. ”

Li Mingyu said in his heart, this is a compulsory subject of special tactics after more than a thousand years, and he will not be able to climb and leap to sneak up on how to carry out the decapitation plan and sneak attack. However, I couldn't explain it clearly to the master, so I had to continue to make up nonsense, saying, "When I watched Xiao Hei hunting, he was always lurking and approaching, and when he was close to a certain distance, he suddenly jumped out and locked his throat with one blow. And then there is the poisonous snake, which lurks in disguise like a dead branch and leaves, and does not move for several days, until the prey approaches and does not realize it, it activates in an instant, poisoning the prey. I think that beasts and poisonous snakes are like this, so when training soldiers, if you can train your soldiers to be like them, wouldn't it be invincible? ”

When Li Xuanba heard this, he said with a smile, "Having said so much, it turns out that you are going to cultivate killer craftsmen." ”

After listening to this, Li Mingyu shook his head and said, "What the master said is too simple, my idea is to train them to be on the horse to raise the lance, and the horse can be used to open the bow, and the horse and foot battles can be used as a ten warriors, when the opponent is fighting, or the armor will charge with me, directly take the enemy commander, and implement the decapitation tactic." Or interspersed and wound to cut off its grain channel. Or infiltrate the enemy camp and assassinate the enemy's lieutenant and other middle-level officers, so that they cannot communicate with their orders. No matter how bad it is, it can penetrate deep into the enemy's hinterland, wreak havoc, burn and set fires, spread rumors, and cause its own chaos. This set of tactics is what I collectively call special tactics. ”

Li Xuanba listened to his explanation, shook his head and disagreed, "The lone army is deep behind enemy lines? How can it be so simple, what if the enemy sends a large army to encircle and suppress it? What about the supply of grain and grass? ”

Li Mingyu smiled and said, "Supplies?" Follow the Huo Hussar of the Han Dynasty and eat the enemy. There is only so much food, if you can grab it, you will grab it, and if you can't grab it, you will burn it, and when there is no food, you will incite and force the enemy people to rebel and add to the chaos. ”

When Li Xuanba heard this, he gasped and said, "Burning up the grain and forcing the people to rebel is such a vicious strategy!" Don't dare to talk nonsense! Let people know that you're going to be punctured in the back. ”

Li Mingyu disagreed, and said, "The two armies are naturally doing everything they can, and under your life and death, how can there be so many principles of benevolence and righteousness." Besides, my method is aimed at foreign races, and I naturally can't make it to the Han people in the Central Plains. ”

When Li Xuanba heard that he would not use this vicious strategy against the Han people in the Central Plains, he relieved himself a little and asked, "Then what if the enemy sends troops to encircle and suppress it?"

And don't take advantage of it, when the time comes, you will be surrounded by all sides, and you will not be able to escape. ”

Li Mingyu was confident and replied, "If the enemy army sends troops to chase after them, and there are fewer people, I will eat them." When there are too many people, I run. Anyway, it can be summed up in 16 words, the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase. ”

Li Xuanba was taken aback when he heard this sixteen-character mantra, and said, "This short sixteen-character mantra is very incisive, and the truth of using soldiers is exhausted. ”

Li Mingyu said in his heart, this is the essence of guerrilla tactics derived from the chairman's old man's campaign strategy for half his life, summing up the campaign strategy of his predecessors, and of course it is exquisite. Seeing that the master was suspicious, he had to make up a reason to explain, "Although I don't read military books, Master always says that books are dead, but truth is alive." It is better to believe in a book than to have no book at all. Taking history as a mirror and following the example of the ancients, although we do not read military books, we can understand the truth. ”

Li Xuanba was surprised and said, "Follow the ancients? In addition to Huo Qu's disease, which other ancients are there? ”

Li Mingyu said in his heart, fortunately, I was prepared, otherwise I would have leaked, and replied, "That decapitation tactic was learned from Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu." The master talked about the "Historical Records", which recorded that Xiang Yu's uncle Xiang Liang taught him to read when he was a child, but he stopped learning not long after, and Xiang Liang taught him to learn swords, and he didn't learn it for a long time, so Xiang Liang was very angry. Xiang Yu said: "Reading and literacy can only remember a person's name, learning a sword can only be against one person, and if you want to learn, you can learn from ten thousand enemies." Xiang Liang then taught Xiang Yu to learn the art of war, Xiang Yu was very happy, but only learned a rough idea, and refused to study it deeply. Although Xiang Yu was unwilling to study the art of war in depth, he was able to learn and apply it to the fullest, and gave full play to his own advantages. He was born with unparalleled divine power, his strength can carry the tripod, no one in the world is his enemy, with personal bravery, the eight thousand Jiangdong children under his command swear to the death, rushing back and forth, no one in the world can stop. Han Gaozu Liu Bang's subordinates were like clouds, fierce generals were like rain, soldiers were full of food, the battle of Pengcheng, 500,000 Han troops were still beaten by Xiang Yu 30,000 people to lose their armor and abandon their armor, and Liu Bang had to abandon his wife and children and flee by car. Xiang Yu only had one tactic in every battle, recognized the enemy commander, and he acted as a sharp knife to open the way, and the Chu army followed to expand the results of the battle and went straight to the enemy's leader. No matter how ever-changing your military formation is, as long as you can't find a way to resist the attack of the overlord of Chu, he will behead the enemy's main general, or rush back and forth to kill and tear the military formation, and the army will definitely be defeated under the chaos of the army. ”

After saying it in one breath, Li Mingyu paused, and said, "As for this guerrilla tactic, it is also to imitate the ancients, Peng Yue, one of the three famous generals in the early Han Dynasty." Peng Yue frequently cut off Xiang Yu's grain and grass in Liangdi back then, so that Xiang Yu could not annihilate Liu Bang's remnants wholeheartedly, and he always had to be distracted and beware of him. The guerrilla tactics he adopted made the Chu overlord invincible but had nowhere to go, and the enemy could not catch anyone at all when he advanced and retreated, making the Chu army tired of coping. Under the two-sided battle, coupled with Liu Bang's frontal defense, Han Xin's thousands of miles of outflanking, and Peng Yue's sneak attack and harassment, the three parties worked together to have the later ambush on all sides, embattled on all sides. ”

After Li Xuanba heard what he said, he laughed loudly and said in a loud voice, "Okay!" Good! Good! Apprentice, you can read so far in a book, and realize this truth from the book! What you said is right, take history as a mirror and history as a teacher. Finally, Master, I didn't work in vain! After that, Li Xuanba changed his words and said: "Although the so-called "special tactics", "decapitation tactics" and "guerrilla tactics" theories you put forward this time sound historical and reasonable, but how to use them still needs to be based on the actual situation and respond to the enemy. ”

Li Mingyu knew that Master's entrustment was a good intention, and replied, "Master, don't worry, what I think about it will be known later." However, I know what the master means, just like learning martial arts, you can't force the moves and routines, and how to apply them is the essence. ”

"Hmm. It's good that you understand this truth" Li Xuanba nodded, and said, "Your idea, I also think it's good, it seems that you can open up a new method of warfare." However, soldiers are a matter of life and death, and they must not be careless. Fortunately, you are young, and your theory still needs to be polished and gradually perfected. The next time I see your second uncle, I will discuss it with him in detail, your second uncle is a soldier, and he will definitely have unique opinions. ”

"Yes, Master, practice brings true knowledge, and I believe that I will be able to convince the second uncle by then." Li Mingyu was full of self-confidence in this and joked that although the modes of war in ancient times and later generations were different, tactical theory is tactical theory, and there is no chronological difference. Moreover, in ancient times, compared with modern warfare, special tactics could have a better effect on harassing, exhausting, confusing and chaotic the enemy. After all, the psychological quality of professional soldiers in modern warfare is not comparable to that of these big-headed soldiers in ancient times, and fighting in ancient times was the most important morale, if it can make the enemy's army confused, and the soldiers have no intention of fighting, this battle can be won without fighting.

Li Xuanba thought of something again, and said to Mingyu, "In this way, your body forging technique is obtained from the observation of animals by learning from nature?" ”

Li Mingyu was not very embarrassed in his heart, but he couldn't tell the real situation, otherwise how could he explain that he had crossed over? I had to bite the bullet and say, "Yes, just like Hua Tuo observed animals and realized the five birds that maintain health and fitness, the apprentice has always believed that all things in nature are the best teachers." ”

After listening to this, Li Xuanba was silent, and he was shocked in his heart, how old is this kid? Teaching the method of nature, observing the subtleties, can understand the principle of refining the body from the behavior of animals.

Martial arts is the way of fighting, and the earliest is also countless sages, in order to survive and fight with beasts, fight with people, by observing animals to imitate, such as monkey boxing, tiger boxing, eagle claw, snake boxing, etc. But those are all without exception a generation of grandmasters who have been immersed in it for decades.

And it's just a martial arts genius, this kid can learn by himself without a teacher, just by reading "Historical Records", he can understand the essence of the art of war from it, and summarize such an incisive military wisdom. Li Xuanba has mixed feelings in his heart, thinking that he has learned from his family since he was a child, and he is also familiar with military books and strategies, knows the annals of history, is proficient in martial arts, and has a very high conceit, but compared with this apprentice, whether it is martial arts talent or military art talent, it is a difference between cloud and mud.

In fact, he didn't know that what Li Mingyu said could be said by any modern person in later generations, this is the benefit of transcending thousands of years of knowledge, and he thought that this apprentice was a genius, but Li Mingyu casually made up nonsense in order not to make him suspicious.

Xuanba wondered in his heart, what kind of demon did I pick up! Isn't it a thousand-year-old demon who has cultivated to adulthood? There is a Taoist master in the village, do you want him to take a look?