Seeing that Shi Hu asked about the strategy of this battle, Shi Zhan sat down and replied with a smile: "Back to Your Majesty, in fact, Erchen just used some small tricks, and Dugu Nanxin fell for it." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Oh? Stratagem? What kind of stratagem? "Shi Hu is interested.

"Dugu Nanxin is a Xianbei general, who has been in the north for decades, rarely encounters opponents, has always regarded himself very highly, and his subordinates have been on the battlefield for a long time, and their morale is like a rainbow, so when the minister leads his troops to go on the expedition, he avoids his edge first and does not confront him."

"And then? Go on. Shi Hu was in high spirits.

"The Xianbei people are on an expedition this time, and they have no plans to entangle with our army for a long time, so they attack the city all the way, in order to find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with our army. And I have ordered people to evacuate the people in the city in advance, and Dugu Nanxin only got a few empty cities, and he didn't even get any supplies, so Dugu Nanxin's temperament will definitely be more radical, so my first step can be regarded as a success. ”

Shi Zhan said, paused, took a sip of wine, and Shi Shi urged on the side: "Fifth brother, say it quickly, don't sell it." ”

Shi Zhan smiled and asked Shi Min on the side: "If you are the main general, what will you do in this second step?" ”

Shi Min was stunned, he didn't expect his father to test him in public, and then looked at Shi Hu, looking like he wanted to say something.

Shi Zun, who was sitting opposite, said with a smile: "Fifth brother, Shi Min is just a teenager, and he has never been on the battlefield, this question seems to be a bit difficult for him, right?" ”

Shi Hu smiled and said, "Min'er, it's okay for you to say it, it's not really for you to fight now, and I also want to know what you will do." ”

Shi Min straightened his waist, adjusted his sitting posture, and then replied: "If it were me, this second step would still not be a large-scale battle with the Xianbei people. ”

"Why is that?" Shi Shi asked.

"My father said just now that the commander of Xianbei, Dugu Nanxin, thinks very highly of himself, and the so-called arrogant soldiers will be defeated. However, the Xianbei people have always been brave, and the number of people is more than our army, and the morale is high, this first step is to paralyze the main general, and the second step is naturally to hit their morale. ”

"What's the blow?"

"Since the Xianbei people don't plan to fight a war of attrition with us, then we just want to consume him, I will send several thousand cavalry to constantly attack the Xianbei army, not about winning or killing the enemy, then Dugu Nanxin's army will definitely send people to pursue our cavalry, our cavalry is mostly matched with good horses in the Western Regions, horsepower, and the cavalry of the Xianbei people should not be able to catch up with us. After harassing the Xianbei people for a few months, the Xianbei army must be restless and unstable. At the same time, I will send another small force of cavalry to attack its grain routes and baggage, so that it will not be able to take care of the end of the head, so that the Xianbei army will fall into fatigue, and over time, its morale will be greatly weakened. ”

"Good strategy!" Shi Hu slapped his thigh, and then asked Shi Zhan, "Zhan'er, what do you think of what Min Er said?" ”

Shi Zhan looked at Shi Min with satisfaction, then turned his head and said to Shi Hu: "Avoidance, what Min Er said is exactly what the minister said this time, and almost all of it is true." ”

"Well done! Tiger father has no dog! It seems that Min Er is not only excellent in martial arts, but also knows how to strategize, and will be a good general in the future! Shi Hu was very satisfied with Shi Min's answer and clapped his hands again and again.

"And how did you wipe them all out?" Shi Shi asked.

"Yes, Zhan'er, you go on......" Shi Hu tore a piece of it and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing as he said.

"After dragging the Xianbei people by the nose for nearly ten months, I saw that Dugu Nanxin's army was demoralized, so I began to implement the final plan. First, I've gathered my team together, so that the Scouts sent out by the Xianbei will surely discover us within a few days. Then, Dugu Nanxin would definitely lead a large army to pursue us, so we retreated all the way, deliberately leaving some useless things along the way, making them feel that the Zhao army would not dare to fight a decisive battle with them. Then Dugu Nanxin, under the repeated harassment of our army before, must be very eager to fight, so his judgment will be wrong. Therefore, they were completely unaware of our retreat route, which actually led them into an ambush circle. ”

"Ambush circle? Brother Five Emperors, you only have 50,000 horses under your command? How to surround Dugu Nanxin's army of 60,000? The art of war is surrounded by ten rules, you can't even reach the number of people, how can you surround it? Shi Zun asked.

"You're right, the art of war does say that there are ten rules to encircle it, but Han Xin also said a sentence, soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, I wonder if King Qing has heard of it?"

Shi Zun's face was a little embarrassed, and then he quickly regained his composure, and said with a smile: "Isn't this asking the Fifth Emperor Brother?" You go on, go on. ”

Shi Zhan glanced at Shi Zun and continued: "Dugu Nanxin chased me for more than ten days, so I first sent Wang Shicheng to lead 10,000 horses to the Snow Wolf Valley to ambush, the remaining 40,000, 20,000 Chinese troops were directly commanded by me, and the other 10,000 were surrounded by Li Chang on the periphery, and my 20,000 Chinese troops introduced Dugu Nanxin's men and horses into a low-lying land, similar to a basin, so that the Xianbei cavalry could not give full play to its advantages, and could only fight with our army in close combat, so that the infantry phalanx I trained on weekdays played a role. ”

"Then how can Li Chang's 10,000 people surround the 80,000 people in the basin?"

"After Dugu Nanxin's men and horses entered the low-lying land, they must want to spread out the formation and fight with us, just after they entered the basin, Li Chang has led the men and horses to surround the entire basin, in order to confuse the Xianbei people, I ordered the soldiers to make seventy or eighty thousand straw men, inserted with wooden sticks, mixed in Li Chang's 10,000 horses, Li Chang's 10,000 people beat drums and shouted, creating momentum, so that the Xianbei people thought they were completely surrounded."

"Father, the child has something unknown, can't this Xianbei person tell the difference between real people and dummies?" Shi Min asked.

"When I led the Chinese army into the encirclement, it was already dusk, and when the two armies were fighting, they could still see the enemy and me within twenty paces, and they couldn't tell who was who at a hundred paces, how could they tell the real person and the dummy on the high slope?"

Shi Min nodded silently and said, "I see." ”

"When Dugu Nanxin saw this, he must have thought that he had been surrounded, and the terrain there was not conducive to cavalry battles, so he would definitely want to break through, so I ordered Li Chang to create a weak link to break through, and the direction of their breakthrough was Snow Wolf Valley."

"Snow Wolf Valley? What is that place? Shi Shi asked.

"Through the Snow Wolf Valley, you can lead to Liaodong, where is Dugu Nanxin's lair, he will definitely want to retreat from the Snow Wolf Valley under the circumstances at that time, if I lead the army to pursue, he will definitely occupy the favorable terrain of the Snow Wolf Valley to ambush me."

"Then presumably the 10,000 people led by my father's order General Wang Shicheng are already waiting for Dugu Nanxin in the Snow Wolf Valley." Shi Min said on the side.

"Exactly." Shi Zhan looked at Shi Min with approving eyes, nodded with a smile, and then continued: "Snow Wolf Valley is a valley, about ten miles long before and after, only one exit in the front and one on both sides is mountainous, condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack, very suitable for ambush, when Dugu Nanxin led the army to arrive there, Wang Shicheng's men and horses had already occupied the geographical advantage, waiting for them there. ”

"General Wang Shicheng must have already blocked the exit of Snow Wolf Valley to Liaodong, so that Snow Wolf Valley will become a pocket, and at that time, my father only needs to wait for all the Xianbei people to enter Snow Wolf Valley, and then block the entrance, and the rest is to catch turtles in the urn."

"Zhan'er, your strategy is very good, and Min'er is also very good, although he has never been on the battlefield, he actually knows how to arrange troops and how to plan on the battlefield, very good, very good!" Shi Hu wiped his hands, and then ordered the waiter: "Give wine to Xihuahou." ”

"Yes......" The attendant hurriedly ran out of the hall.

After a while, several chamberlains brought a wine jar from outside the hall and placed it in front of Shi Zhan. Shi Hu said: "This is a good wine in the palace, when Emperor Taizu entered the Central Plains, he got it from the palace of the Sima clan of the Jin Kingdom, and was later brought to Yecheng by me, and now there are only a dozen altars left in the palace, and today I am happy and give you an altar." ”

Shi Zhan hurriedly walked out of his seat, knelt on the ground, and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness, it's just that this wine, I plan to keep it and bring it back today, I don't know if Your Majesty can approve it?" ”

"Hehe, since I gave it to you, of course it's up to you what to do with it, but I want to know, why do you keep this jar of wine and bring it back?"

"This jar of wine wants to be reserved for the soldiers who are now camping outside the city."

"Haha, I knew you would plan to do so, don't worry, just now I have ordered someone to send wine and meat to these soldiers, you can eat and drink in the palace with peace of mind."

When Shi Zhan heard this, he was a little grateful, kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Shi Hu smiled and said, "Okay, get up!" ”

Shi Zhan got up silently and sat back in his place.