Chapter 184: Luo Guanzhong Enters the Curtain
When Deng Yu learned that Robben once lived in the south of the Yangtze River, worshipped Zhao Baofeng, a famous scholar in Cixi, as his teacher, knew how to write, knew opera, and was called "Huhai Sanren", he basically determined that Robben was Luo Guanzhong, a super cow in the ancient novel world. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Readers who have read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" know that Luo Guan is the best at writing about wars, and the hundreds of wars in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are written with their own characteristics, and none of them are repeated. The Battle of Chibi is especially wonderfully written.
The first feature of the Battle of Chibi was the war between the two countries, with the participation of three parties, both a large number of military activities and a large number of diplomatic activities, and the introduction of the main advisers and generals of the Three Kingdoms period into these activities.
The second feature is that the method of advancing and resolving contradictions is based on fighting wits and strategy, rather than confrontation, and a large number of descriptions and narratives in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are civil warfare rather than military warfare.
The third feature is the characteristics of the times, the Battle of Chibi was preceded by a period of melee between many warlords, and the fire of the Battle of Chibi burned out the history of the Three Kingdoms for half a century.
The fourth feature is the geographical features, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, in the middle of the Yangtze River, this Yangtze River hangs high in the sky, the bottom is connected to the thick ground, or the fog is misty, or the waves crash on the shore. As a result, both sides of the war made a big fuss about this big river. The changes in the clouds and sunny days of this great river affect the strategies and tactics of both sides of the war at all times.
The fifth feature is that multiple contradictions intersect with each other, including contradictions between enemies and friends, such as Cao Cao's desire to destroy Sun Quan, and contradictions within the allies, such as Zhou Yu's desire to kill Zhuge Liang; There are open guns, hidden arrows, collusion, betrayal, justice upheld, and conspiracy shattered.
The sixth characteristic is: the result of the contradictory struggle is unexpected: the strongest loses, and the weakest wins; Those with the most soldiers will suffer the worst defeat, and those with the fewest will benefit the most.
It stands to reason that Luo Guanzhong in history can write such a wonderful historical military work as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", then his military literacy should be very high, but why didn't he shine in the military and political fields like Liu Bowen?
Is it because Luo Guanzhong does not have a stage to display his talents? If this is the reason, Deng Yue is willing to set up this stage for him.
At that moment, Deng Yu said to Luo Ben with a smile on his face: "Luo Guanzhong, this king has appointed you to join the army, are you willing to follow this king to conquer thieves and counsellor the military?" ”
When Luo Ben heard the seal, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down and thanked: "My subordinates have thanked King Wu for their appreciation, and I will do my best in the future to live up to King Wu's high expectations!" ”
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Deng Yu personally led a large army to the Jingtu Mountains to suppress the news of bandits, has spread throughout the Jingtu Mountains, Deng Yue learned from Robben's mouth that there are more than a dozen waves of bandits in the Jingtu Mountains, the number is almost about one or two thousand, among which the self-proclaimed Jingtu Righteous Army in the center of the Jingtu Mountains is the most powerful, with more than 8,000 people.
And Robben had a slight friendship with the three waves of bandits on the next mountain, so he recommended himself and was willing to persuade the three waves of bandits to surrender voluntarily.
To end the war as soon as possible and reduce casualties as much as possible, surrender is undoubtedly the fastest way, Deng Yue saw that Robben was confident, so he intended to give it a try.
After Robben left, Deng Yu and Lu Zhen seized the time to train the soldiers and horses in order to run in the 1,800 new forces as soon as possible.
A day later, Robben returned to the camp with three waves of bandits, Deng Yue was overjoyed, and immediately according to the old practice, the three waves of bandits were absorbed, except for more than 1,000 bandits who wanted to go down the mountain for farming, Deng Yu collected more than 2,000 new troops.
So far, in addition to the 3,000 Wu troops left behind in Huaiyuan County, Deng Yu's strength in the Jingtu Mountains alone has reached 12,000.
Seeing that Deng Yu had been in less than ten days, the other thieves in the Jingtu Mountains exterminated and subdued the five waves of bandits, and Qi Qi was shocked and contacted one after another to discuss how to deal with Deng Yu, the official army of Wu State.
And after tasting the taste of soldiers without blood and surrendering without a fight, Deng Yu waved the banner of surrender and sent a letter to the remaining cottages.
There were several cottage leaders who intended to surrender, but before they could lead their troops to Deng Yue's camp to surrender, there was a rebellion in the cottage of these leaders, and after the leaders who intended to surrender were killed, the other bandits in the village joined the Jingtu Rebellion.
For a time, the strength of the Jingtu Righteous Army increased dramatically, reaching more than 15,000 people, and at the same time, the leader of the Jingtu Righteous Army, Iron Wolf, warned the remaining few thief leaders, saying that whoever dared to surrender to Deng Yu was the enemy of the Jingtu Righteous Army, and the Jingtu Righteous Army would send troops to destroy them at any cost.
As soon as the warning of the iron wolf came out, the remaining bandit leaders were all in danger, the Jingtu Righteous Army was the leader in the Jingtu Mountains, and its prestige was extremely high, and the leader of the Jingtu Righteous Army, Iron Wolf, was even more ruthless.
Several leaders secretly communicated, feeling that a single cottage would definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Wu army, so they abandoned the cottage to join the Jingtu Righteous Army, and here, the total strength of the Jingtu Righteous Army reached more than 25,000 people, which was twice the strength of the Wu army.
In the face of the unfavorable changes that occurred, Deng Yu did not panic at all, and led the army to kill in front of the Tucheng of the Jingtu Righteous Army, preparing for a decisive battle with the Jingtu Righteous Army.
In the earthen city of the Jingtu Righteous Army, the crowd was surging at this time, originally this earthen city was only enough to accommodate 8,000 people, but now there are more than 25,000 people, and more than a dozen people are crowded in each earthen house.
Outside the earth city, Deng Yu and Lu Zhen took more than 100 horses to step on a high slope, looking at the scene in the earth city from a distance, only to see that this earth city is far larger than the earth city encountered before, more than 800 meters long, more than 500 meters wide, the height of the earth city wall is also 10 meters high, thousands of thieves at the head of the city patrol back and forth, the garrison is quite strict.
Deng Yue looked at it carefully for a while, and then looked at the surrounding terrain with a solemn face, and after a while, Deng Yue said to Lu Zhen: "National treasure, you see, this earthen city is built to occupy the best geographical advantage, although the 25,000 thieves are a rabble, but the number is twice that of our army, and although our army has more than 12,000 people, the combat power is also uneven. Moreover, our side is attacking, the enemy is defending, this fight, our side must be at a disadvantage, and this situation, it is difficult to use a plan, and the battle with the thief seems to be a hard battle! ”
Lu Zhen nodded in agreement, and muttered: "After this battle, I don't know how many of the 12,000 soldiers of our army will be left?" ”
Deng Yue watched it for a while, then turned his horse's head and returned to his own army camp, along the way, Deng Yue rarely spoke, and the unbearable look on his original face gradually faded, because he understood that in this troubled era, dead people are commonplace, if he does not have a decisive and tenacious heart, he will not be able to fight Chen Youliang, Zhu Yuanzhang and other heroes.
The Wu army rested for the night in the improvised camp, and the night seemed to go on for a long time, with some tossing and turning, unable to sleep, knowing that tomorrow they would probably lose their lives.