In the spring and January of the twelfth year of Zhao Hou Wuxian (477 B.C.), in a palace in Luoyang, Chengzhou, delicious delicacies were served in cups and plates, placed on the table, under the hall, a group of female musicians were playing the music of Qindi, in the hall, a prince and a prince were appreciating and eating at the same time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After not listening to the local sound for many years, the prince of Qin Guo was a little distracted, as if he dreamed back to the Yongdu Dazheng Palace twelve years ago. At this moment, Zhao Hou Wuxian, who was sitting at the top, suddenly asked: "Zi Thorn, after so many years, how do you treat you alone?" ”

Gongzi stabbed a spirit, hurriedly lowered his head, and said emotionally: "The prince treats the boy like a parent, and the boy also regards the prince as a father......"

Having said that, in Gongzi's stabbing mind, there was a sick and dying Qin Bopan, who was his biological father, and Zhao Hou didn't really regard him as a son, just a small dog that was picked up.

Childe Thorn is twenty years old this year, and he has been a hostage in Yecheng for twelve years, and he has not been allowed to go back even after his mother's death. However, the Zhao family did not treat him too harshly, gave him the treatment of the princes of Zhao State, built a good palace for him, and after he was sixteen years old, Zhao Hou also asked people to choose several young and beautiful Zhao women to serve, and at the same time gave him the right to walk freely in Yecheng.

Childe seems to be in peace, indulging in Zhao Di's rich material life and beauty pillow all day long. But in fact, he never forgot that he was a Qin person, and it was the Zhao family who forcibly took him away from his mother's arms. During his time as a hostage, he was careful to hide his true nature, and he also learned to deceive himself......

Especially Zhao Jia, the only one who made him have a good impression many years ago, went to Daibei for some reason, and Gongzi Thorn had more resentment towards Zhao Hou, and this resentment reached its peak when the Qin envoy secretly contacted him.

Pu, the eldest son of the Qin State, complained bitterly that Zhao Guo was harshly oppressing the Qin State, and the son burst into tears. So Gongzi Thorn was not only a hostage, but also a spy of Qin, looking for an opportunity to convey the government and people of Zhao to Qin, and collected some agricultural books and military books to send back.

Zhao Wuxian's northern expedition to Korea was fake, and the "true" information that he went south to destroy Zheng Chu was learned through various channels. Sure enough, in the autumn and winter of last year, the Marquis of Zhao suddenly returned from the north, and the army of Zhao was also transferred to the south, and after destroying Zheng, he further began to invade the cities of Chu and occupied Chen, Manshi, Xibutang and other places.

And Zhao Hou himself also went south to Luoyang from Yecheng in early spring, preparing to use this place as the base camp for the southern expedition.

With the intention of showing off his might, he specially took Gongzi Thorn with him, and Gongzi Thorn could not refuse, so he could only accompany him, thinking that he could report the various movements of the Zhao army's southern expedition to Qin State in time, so that Qin State could complete the operation of destroying Yiqu.

Since the year before last, Zhao Wuxian took Zhou Jing Wang Bang, in the name of running to mourn into Luo, Cheng Zhou has existed in name only, most of its cities have been divided into two, given to the Eastern Zhou Jun Liu and the Western Zhou Jun Shan, Cheng Zhou, Wangcheng two Yi are controlled by the Zhao family, the dignified son of heaven can only succumb to the palace, the vermilion high wall is tight, even a bird can not fly out, once known as "the whole world is not the king's land", now has become a puppet that can move no more than a thousand steps.

But the prince of Qin, who was also in Luoyang, didn't care about having half pity for the Son of Heaven, because now, even he couldn't protect himself and became a prisoner detained by Zhao Wuxian.

After arriving in Luoyang, he was locked up in the hall for more than half a month, and there was no way to know the news outside, he could only hear the sealed windows, there were soldiers moving around, the sound of cars and horses, and he was anxious, but when Zhao Hou met him today, he still had to pretend to be as usual, but he was worried in his heart, whether he was secretly helping Qin. He only hoped to use the "love of father and son" between the two to confuse Zhao Hou.

However, Zhao Wuxian didn't buy it, and continued to laugh and said: "Zijiao, I also heard that when you were in Yecheng, you went around looking for your grandson's art of war with a lot of money? ”

As soon as these words came out, he was so frightened that Gongzi almost threw away the chopsticks in his hand, and his heart jumped suddenly.

Yes, he was indeed secretly helping Qin Guo find Zhao's agricultural books, work books, and even military books, but these things were all secrets, especially Sun Tzu's art of war, which was only circulated among Zhao Guo's office and senior generals, and Zi Jian only had a few glimpses on Zhao Wuxian's desk, and had no chance to contact them.

Now that Zhao Wuxian took the initiative to mention it, has his intentions been discovered?

"Since you know that the widow treats you like a son, just a military book, if you want it, just say it, why make such a decision?"

Zhao Wuxian smiled and said to Ning Jian next to him: "After you go down, print another copy of the art of war that Sun Tzu dedicated to the widow and send it to Gongzi!" ”

"Thank you, Marquis!" Gongzi hurriedly bowed down to thank him, but he became more and more frightened in his heart, not knowing what Zhao Wuxian's intentions were.

"Why should you be so polite." Zhao Wuxian raised his hand to let him get up, and said, "Since you are interested in the art of war, then the widow will discuss the war with you today." ”

Stretching out three fingers, Zhao Wuxian said: "Sun Tzu told me that throughout the ages, people who are good at using soldiers can be roughly divided into three types. Soldier Yin and Yang Family, Soldier Skill Artist, and Soldier Situation Family......"

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"The so-called soldier yin and yang family is a superstitious ghost and god of the ancients, who often weaken the other party and strengthen themselves before the battle through divination, astrology, cloud qi, dream reading, sacrifice, prayer, and disgust with victory. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor and Chi You kept playing with yin and yang before the war. In modern times, wise men have known that these things are useless, but based on tradition, they often act before battles, asking for good signs to reassure people's hearts. ”

Seeing that Zhao Wuxian was very interested in talking, Zi Jian also had to deal with it with his spirit, and said with a smile: "Yes, I heard that when the Qin State is at war with people, it often sends people to the ancestral hall near Yongdi first, praying for good luck from Wu Xian and cursing the enemy country. After all, the country is ignorant and backward, and has learned a lot of Rongdi's customs, which cannot be compared with the Central Plains. ”

Gongzi deliberately said that the Qin army was ignorant and backward, but Zhao Wuxian disagreed: "On the battlefield, it is not uncommon for the backward side to defeat the advanced side. Speaking of this, the widow has to talk about another school of soldiers, military technicians. ”

"Soldier technicians believe that every soldier should have the ability and skill to kill the enemy in battle, so it is necessary to work hard to wrestle, hand-to-hand combat, shooting, the way of swords and halberds, and the rules of battle formation, otherwise it is to let the soldiers go to death. Secondly, military technicians are also very concerned about armor weapons, believing that this is the factor that determines success or failure, so they pay attention to sharp armor soldiers and equipment. In fact, the widow was armored, and the same was true when Shuai Zhao Wushu fought with Fan and Zhongxing in Hanoi. ”

He paused for a moment and continued: "That's why after that, the world thought that the strength of Zhao Bing was strong in armor skills and siege equipment. So Wei took the lead in following suit, established the so-called Wei Wushu, and after the fall of Wei, some Wei remnants also flowed into Qin, for Qin's use, the widow heard that Qin's chief formed a standing army in Lantian, called Qin Ruishi? ”

This matter is confidential, but Zhao Wuxian knows it well, Gongzi is shocked in his heart, but he tries to keep his composure on his face: "The kid has been in Zhao all the year round, so I don't know, even if I want to come to the Qin State to follow the military system of the Zhao State, it is also to defend against Rong Di and guard the west for the prince, so I dare not have other thoughts......"

"The mind of the eldest man, the widow is still not clear?"

Zhao Wuxian smiled dumbly: "Sun Tzu said again, the husband fights, the temple is the first, but in a big battle, you must know yourself and know the enemy, and expect the enemy to win, this is the best technique of using the art of war." It is the extreme of the form, as for the formless; If it is invisible, it cannot be peeped into the depths, and the wise cannot seek ...... In short, it is necessary to make the enemy country unable to understand our true intentions, so as to disrupt the enemy's troop deployment and national policy, in which case the enemy country will turn from real to virtual, from prepared to unprepared, and even civil strife......"

In later generations, the so-called "striking at the east and attacking the west", "secretly crossing Chen Cang", and "throwing bricks to attract jade" all belonged to the category of "forming soldiers", all of them were clever tricks to deceive the enemy and mislead the enemy, and they were all good tricks of military situationists.

Seeing that Zhao Hou had something to say, Gongzi Thorn could only force his composure and complimented: "This time, the prince and the marquis invaded North Korea, but in fact, he wants to go south to destroy Zheng Chu, it is the strategy of the military situation, it is really amazing, no wonder it can be so smooth." ”

"This is all a strategy that Sun Tzu has drawn for me, how dare a widow take credit?"

Zhao Wuxian waved his hand and said, "But if you think that this is all there is, then you are underestimating your grandson's ability......"

Gongzi chuckled in his heart and asked, "The boy is stupid and can't comprehend the clever plan, and he still hopes that the prince will make it clear." ”

"Sun Tzu's strategic troops, one after another, through the continuous creation of mysteries, the use of the trick of showing the form to lure the enemy to the extreme, our strategy, but the enemy country can not see a trace of the form. In this way, even if the enemy country has hidden spies, it will not be able to find out the truth of our side, and even if there are clever generals, they will not be able to think of a way to deal with us. ”

When "spy" was mentioned, Childe was already on pins and needles, sweating profusely.

"Zi Thorn's face is not very good-looking, he must have been in the house for a long time."

Zhao Wuxian smiled and pointed out the window and said, "Why are you closing the door in broad daylight?" The second and third sons, open the window to let the son breathe. ”

The waiter received the order and opened the window that had been sealed by Zhao Wuxian's order, and a cool breeze suddenly blew in, mixed with a burst of smoke and dust.

"Help Gongzi go to the window to catch his breath!"

I couldn't help but say, the Yulin guards set up the child's thorn and brought him to the window.

Luoyang is located in the middle of the world, and this palace building is located near the east, west, north and south avenues of Luoyang.

Gongzi saw that a steady stream of wagons, soldiers and horses were passing by the road outside the pavilion, raising bursts of dust. This is not surprising, Zhao gathered a large army in the south to prepare to attack Chu State, and naturally there was a lot of mobilization of troops and food, but ......

But the strange thing is that these heavy soldiers and horses in front of him are all going to the west gate of Luoyang!

Like falling into an ice cave, Gongzi was stunned in place, and suddenly understood the meaning of Zhao Hou's words......

"Princely ......"

He turned his head: "The state of Chu is in the south, why are the soldiers traveling west?" ”

"Naturally, it's for the crusade against the Qin State."

Zhao Wuxian said so as a matter of course......

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"Since the beginning of the previous year, the widow has listened to Sun Tzu's suggestion, and on the grounds of crusading against Korea, he has vigorously mobilized the southern soldiers and horses to the north, in order to deceive the Chu State and make Bai Gong boldly change the law, so as to cause chaos, and at that time, the widow can wave his army south again and force the Chu State......"

"It's just that outsiders don't know that the huge land and water army of Zhao in Huaibei and Guangling adds up to only 30,000 people. And the main force of Zhao State, which was approaching the city of Chu State by Zheng State and Song State, also only had 350,000 troops, and now after occupying the cities abandoned by Chu State and helping Chen State recover the lost territory, it died down, and the real goal of the widow was not Chu State. ”

"At the beginning of the year, Gongzi went south to Luoyang with the widow, so he naturally didn't know that the real main force of Zhao State assembled in Xinjiang as early as early spring, and then drove west. At this moment, the seven counties of Daijun, Shangjun, Fengyi, Hedong, Taiyuan, Sanchuan, Shangdang, plus the elite of Yecheng, a total of 100,000 troops, have crossed the Taihua Mountains under the banner of widowhood, and the troops are approaching the eastern border of the Qin State......"

It turned out that the enemy country was not talking about the Chu State, but the Qin State, and Gongzi Assassin himself was the stupid spy who passed false information to the mother country and kept it in the dark, secretly proud!

"Junhou ......" Gongzi sat paralyzed in front of the window, his heart was full of despair, and after half a ring, he turned back to Zhao Wuxian and asked, "What is the crime of the Qin State?" ”

Zhao Wuxian's face sank like water, and said: "In the letter of state to the chief of the Qin State, it is written like this, Zhao Guogang annexed Zheng State as a county, but the destruction of the country is endless, and the ancient rites are also. For Uncle Zheng, the widow wants to keep him a little incense and find a city to settle in, and the best place is naturally Xizheng, the first fief of Zheng State hundreds of years ago......"

The ancestor of Zheng Guo was Zheng Huangong, the son of King Xuan of Zhou, who was originally sealed in Zheng Land near Huashan and belonged to the princes of Jinai of the Zhou Dynasty, which gave him the name of Zheng Guo. Before and after the Lishan disaster, Zheng Guo migrated to Xinzheng in the east, so Zheng in the Weishui Valley was called Xizheng, which was occupied by Qunrong and later recovered by Qin......

Nowadays, Xizheng is located in the Weinan of Qin, the left chokes Huashan, the right is according to Weishui, is the gateway to prevent the westward advance of Zhao, once Xizheng is lost, Weinan will have no danger to defend, and the Zhao army can drive straight into Feng and Pickaxe.

Begging for Xi Zheng is no different from asking for the life of Qin State, Gongzi stabbed and smiled bitterly: "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse, Zheng Guo is like this, and so is my Qin State, think about it, even if Qin State is willing to cede Xi Zheng, and even the entire Weinan, the prince will not let Qin go." ”

"That's nature."

Zhao Wuxian got up, filled the bronze jue with wine, handed it to Gongzi Thorn, sighed, and said to him: "Zi Thorn, after all, the widow is also your adoptive father, today, I will teach you the last lesson." There is no righteous war in the world, and the so-called righteousness is just an excuse for attacking the country. The true purpose of the widow's heart, I might as well tell you here. ”

His eyes were blazing, and he looked directly at the west: "Qin and Zhao are both surnamed Ying, and after Boyi and Feilian, they are like brothers of the same mother." Four hundred years ago, Qin Zhao was forced to divide into two families and became the slave of Ji Zhou. Now that Ji Zhou is exhausted, the new Son of Heaven will come out, Qin and Zhao, it's time to reunite as a family! ”