Chapter 41 The Sacrificial Wine Accompanied the Army
Although Cao Pi's reading volume is good, he has never dabbled in the art of war. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 During these days of marching, in addition to observing the encampment and marching process of the army, what he was most interested in was discussing the art of war with Cao Ren.
Cao Ren is Cao Cao's younger brother, and his father Cao Chi is not an idle person, and the official is the captain of Changshui. This Captain Changshui is no ordinary captain. It is the Hu cavalry in charge of the two battalions of Changshui and Xuanqu near the imperial capital, most of these cavalry are from the Wuhuan people who surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and they are proficient in the art of riding and archery, and they are a decisive force in defending the imperial capital.
Captain Changshui is a member of 2,000 stones, and his status is relatively prominent. More importantly, this is a martial profession, so Cao Ren has been inclined to learn the way of governing the army and marching since he was a child, is familiar with military books, and is quite good at the way of using soldiers.
Along the way, Cao Ren and Cao Pi talked about "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Sun Bin's Art of War", "Wu Zi's Art of War", "Liutao", "Sima Law", "Wei Xuanzi" and other well-known military books in the world.
In the year when Cao Ang died in battle, Cao Pi returned to Xudu with the army, and it was Cao Ren who sent him back to his home, and Cao Pi remembered that Cao Ren led the horse at the head of his horse, this obvious gesture of goodwill Cao Pi saw in his eyes, although he never met Cao Ren later, but at the beginning of the march, Cao Pi took the initiative to ask Cao Ren about the march, and also let Cao Ren understand Cao Pi's goodwill.
For Cao Ren, Cao Pi will not be as painstaking as Liu Ye, once Cao Ren's qualifications, such status, in the battle between Cao Cao's sons, will inevitably not choose a side, but will become the object of the two parties' best efforts, now Cao Ren can't foresee how thrilling the competition between Cao Pi and Cao Zhi will be in the future, so he shows favor to Cao Pi, but this is only a show of goodwill. As far as Cao Pi is concerned, he just needs to maintain a good relationship with him, he thinks that he does not have enough interests for Cao Ren to stand on his side, as Cao Zhi's talent becomes more and more apparent, the fight between Cao Pi and Cao Zhi becomes more and more inevitable, at that time, Cao Ren may not be as hot as today, but considering the friendly relationship between Cao Pi and him, he will naturally not risk standing on Cao Zhi's side.
Being able to do this, Cao Pi is already very satisfied.
On this day, Cao Ren and Cao Pi talked a lot about the content of the military book "Sima Law": "There is a cloud in "Sima Law": 'In all battles, if you do lightly, you will be dangerous, if you do heavy and heavy, you will be useless, if you do lightly, you will be defeated, and if you do heavy and light, you will fight. Therefore, the war is important. The words "light and heavy" in the middle of this refer to the number of people, and it is dangerous to attack the enemy's outnumbered enemy with our outnumberedness, and there is no certainty of complete victory. and if we strike at the enemy with our multitude, it will be futile. I think that when we are outnumbered, we will not only fight, but also fight quickly, and defeat them with the momentum of destruction and decay, leaving no trouble. ”
Cao Pi nodded after listening to the teaching, but Le Jin on the side smiled: "What General Zixiao is referring to should be in a place where there are many cities and are not conducive to cavalry warfare." If this is in Mobei, the Western Regions and other places, the terrain is open, although the enemy army is outnumbered, but familiar with the terrain and good at cavalry shooting, although our army is numerous, but there are many infantry and few cavalry. The enemy army is divided and attacked, and the success is far away, coupled with the strong bow of the strong horse, it is afraid that it will not be cheap to attack the outnumbered. ”
Along the way, Lejin will join in the conversation between the two from time to time, Lejin does not read much military books, but he is well-informed and has rich practical experience, so every time he is to the point. In addition, the time he followed Cao Cao was not short, and he had a lot of military exploits, and he had a lot of time fighting side by side with Cao Ren, so he didn't have so many scruples.
The last time he took Cao Pi out of the encirclement, he really had a good impression of Cao Pi, firstly, because he thought that Cao Pi was more calm after the great changes, which made him admire, and secondly, because Cao Pi had been a year old, he was actually a lot stronger, and he must be diligent in drills.
"General Wen Qian is right, after all, the book "Sima Fa" was written many years ago, and there are many fewer changes than the current battle between the two armies. Cao Ren didn't think it was angry, but agreed with Lejin's opinion.
"Listening to the words of the two generals in the past few days can be worth me reading the military book for ten years." Cao Pi smiled and complimented, the two were quite useful, and said with a smile that they didn't dare.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a small group of tigers and leopards galloped towards them, and one of them left the team, and the knight said on his horse: "Two generals, there is an order: camp in Xi'e County in front of you today, and attack Wancheng tomorrow." ”
Cao Ren and Le Jin replied in unison: "Order!" Then the knight rode away and caught up with the group ahead.
The team of Cao's army, plus nearly 100,000 people, walked on the gallop road, and discharged no less than 20 kilometers, and generally informed the generals of each destination of the march and battle in advance, so that they could directly arrive at the destination and set up camp. According to the original plan, Cao Jun should camp ten miles away from Wancheng today, but Cao Cao has now changed his mind and wants to camp in Xi'e County, which is still twenty miles away from Wancheng.
Cao Pi's position was still at the front of the army, so the tiger and leopard had to run back after the order was sent to inform the army behind.
"Why did you suddenly change your camp to Xi'e County? In fact, our army has a large number of generals this time, and is changing the army to press the border, approaching Wancheng, so that Zhang Xiu's heart is frightened, and the next day he will send troops to attack Wancheng will be able to take it. Cao Ren frowned and said.
“.......... Didn't General Zixiao realize that there was a man with the army on this expedition? But whenever this person accompanied the army, the route of the march and the place where the camp was encamped were often changed. Le Jin smiled slightly.
Cao Ren suddenly realized: "Wen Qian is talking about Guo sacrifice wine!" In the past, I never paid attention to this matter, but when I mention it today, it is true. Wen Qian is really careful. ”
Cao Pi heard the two answers, and suddenly had a score in his heart: the military advisor sacrificed wine, Guo Jia, Guo Fengxiao. Listening to Le Jin's statement, Guo Jia should be the person in Cao Jun's who can influence Cao Cao's decision the most. It's a pity that this person died too early, otherwise there would definitely be a place in the Cao Wei Group in the future. Cao Pi didn't know that Guo Jia was with the army earlier, and this kind of thing can only be known in detail by the leading generals.
Changing behavior, what did Guo Jia perceive? Or do you want to do something?
The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, hearing Guo Jia's name, Cao Pi felt that things were not simple.