Ma Sui was not playing chess at all.

The black and white two sons on the chessboard are an offensive and defensive battle!

Bu Yunfei has studied some ancient historical books and has been exposed to the military books of the past dynasties, of course, he is not studying the ancient art of war, just like he studies Buddhist sects, all out of the need to research historical materials. Therefore, he is no stranger to the ancient war books, but he doesn't care about the actual combat significance of those war books.

The chess game set up by Ma Sui is completely inconsistent with the principles of Go, and the chess is even more absurd. Just now, Bu Yunfei thought that Ma Sui was a layman of Go, not even a layman, but only a foolish hand with vassal elegance!

However, when Ma then said, "The tiger dwells in the middle, and fights with its wings." The snake lives at both ends, and the enemy is pan! When he said this, Bu Yunfei suddenly woke up.

This sentence was originally from the Sutra of Grips. "Grip the Strange Sutra" is the earliest ancient Chinese military book, according to legend, the scriptures are written by the Yellow Emperor's ministers after the wind, so it is also called "the wind after the grip of the strange scripture". It is rumored that Jiang Shang extended the "Grip of Qi Sutra" and put forward the saying that the four formations of heaven and earth are positive, the four formations of dragons, tigers, birds and snakes are strange, and the four positive and four strange are always eight formations. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Gongsun Hong, once annotated the "Grip of Qi Sutra", and also attached the "Grip of Wonder Map".

Soldiers and generals of all generations regarded the "Grip of Wonder" as the ancestor of the military book and worshiped it. Later generations should write military books, and they should also be far-fetched to the "Grip of Qi Sutra" to enhance their own authority. However, in Bu Yunfei's view, the "Grip of the Strange Sutra" is just a small essay describing the Taoist doctrine, not so much a book of soldiers, but a book of war, in the name of the book of war, to promote the Taoist view of nature. The so-called Four Positives and Four Wonders are not talking about the art of war at all, but expounding the Taoist explanation of the laws of nature.

The Sutra of Grip has long been lost, and the Diagram of Grip only exists in legends. It's just that there are a few words left in some historical books, only more than 300 words, and the words are also beautiful, and Bu Yunfei can recite them backwards.

"The tiger lives in the middle, and fights with its wings. The snake lives at both ends, and the enemy is pan! Bu Yunfei has always regarded these two sentences as a metaphorical explanation of Taoism's yin and yang, but now, it has been placed on the chessboard by Ma Sui, and the sunspots on the chessboard are exactly "the tiger lives in the middle, and fights with its wings." But Baizi is "the snake at both ends, towards the enemy".

Bu Yunfei was greatly surprised, these two inconsistencies turned out to be the image description of the two battle formations! In his eyes, the Taoist remarks are really a book of war.

Bu Yunfei only remembered the words and sentences of "Grip the Book of Wonders", and he didn't expect that those words were related to war, and he didn't know much about the significance of those words in actual combat.

The horse then ignored Bu Yunfei and just lowered his head and fiddled with the chess pieces on the chessboard.

Bu Yunfei sighed in his heart, this future general Ma is really a genius, not only quick thinking, decisive action, but also proficient in the book of war, according to this view, this horse will be in the future and rank in the Lingyan Pavilion, but it is not surprising.

Bu Yunfei was also bored, seeing that Ma Sui only cared about his own deduction, he looked at the chessboard on the side, the black and white two sons on the chessboard were dense, and Bu Yunfei couldn't see what was going on, but other than that, there was nothing to do, so he had to watch it hard.

After a while, the horse sighed and wiped all the pieces off the board.

It seems that this black-and-white duel has already decided the winner.

"Who won?" Bu Yunfei asked.

Ma Sui glanced at Bu Yunfei: "What do you say?" ”

Bu Yunfei had to blush and shook his head: "Bu a certain scholar, where can you understand the formation." ”

"I can see that this is a formation, and it can be regarded as a bit of understanding!" Ma Sui snorted.

Although Ma Sui's words were full of sarcasm, they also had three points of appreciation. Ordinary people can't see that the black and white on the chessboard are against each other, and they can see that they have at least read some war books and war books, and they have to study it carefully, otherwise, what they see in their eyes can only be a mess.

Bu Yunfei hurriedly said: "Lord Xie Ma praises, may I ask ......"

Ma then waved his hand to stop Bu Yunfei's noise, and began to fiddle with the chess pieces from the beginning again.

Bu Yunfei was helpless, so he had to watch the horse fiddling silently.

This time, Ma Sui did not put on a posture of the tiger at both ends of the middle snake, but from the lower left corner of the black zi, the upper right corner of the white characters, the two armies faced each other, each surprise soldier, outflanking each other. Bu Yunfei watched for a long time, and finally saw the way, it turned out that Ma Sui simulated the two armies facing each other across the bank, fighting each other, black chess crossed the river first, and white chess crossed halfway. Bu Yunfei was looking at it vigorously, and the horse raised his hand again and erased the chess pieces.

"How did you erase it?" Bu Yunfei asked.

"The winner is decided." Ma Sui didn't look at Bu Yunfei and re-arranged.

"Winner scored?" Bu Yunfei was misty.

Ma Sui didn't say anything and continued to play chess. After seven or eight plates in a row, Bu Yunfei gradually saw the doorway.

Bu Yunfei is not only no stranger to the ancient military books, but is very familiar with them, many military books, and can even be memorized backwards, the reason is very simple, the authors of these ancient military books are all literary masters, such as "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Taigong's Art of War" These books are actually just a few hundred words. It is often concise and concise, the writing is beautiful, and it is a rare masterpiece in literature. More importantly, ancient military books often contain extremely important historical value, from which the political and military information of the author's era can be captured. Therefore, as a scholar of historical research, it is inevitable to read through the ancient military books.

And Bu Yunfei mainly studies Tang history, and he studies Tang history, and has a unique stunt that even his mentor Nie Hongqian didn't expect - "Wujing General Essentials".

The "General Essentials of the Wujing" was written by the Song people, but the book basically followed the military and political strategy of the Tang Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was established on the basis of the division of feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, and in fact, after the Anshi Rebellion in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the national strength was greatly weakened, and the military technology stagnated. Therefore, the armament of the Song people is more borrowed from the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", a large amount of information about the Tang Dynasty is recorded.

China's military strategists have always viewed war not from a purely military point of view, but have combined war and politics. The so-called "no war" is a political means. Therefore, in the ancient Chinese military books, a large amount of political and economic information of the same era was recorded.

The "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" is the first comprehensive account of military strategy in ancient Chinese history, with tens of thousands of words, comprehensively recording all links from war preparation to decisive victory in the face of the enemy, including military system, logistics supply, public pacification, war mobilization, diplomatic strategy, military technology, and almost all aspects of war. In this way, the "General Essentials of the Wujing" has become an extremely comprehensive historical material describing the political, cultural and economic affairs of the Tang Dynasty. Much of the research on Tang history can be found in this book.

Bu Yunfei was familiar with the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", and before, he only treated this book as a historical material, and did not pay attention to its practical significance.

However, Ma Sui repeatedly rehearsed the formation on the chessboard, and the words in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" gradually appeared in Bu Yunfei's mind, which corroborated each other with the posture posed by Ma Sui. Bu Yunfei gradually understood the practical meaning of those words.

That's not just a talk on paper, but an exhaustive description of the actual war.

For three days in a row, Ma Sui lined up on the chessboard, Bu Yunfei watched silently on the side, without saying a word, and sometimes, Ma Sui squinted at Bu Yunfei, just a sneer, full of disdain.

In the Tang Dynasty, the most popular was Li Jing's formation, and the formation deduced by Ma Sui had a reference to Li Jing's formation, but more of it was his own creation. Even trained soldiers find it difficult to understand the formation posed by Ma Sui, where can a poor scholar like Bu Yunfei understand the mystery! In Ma Sui's view, Bu Yunfei is just a layman watching the excitement.

On the fourth day, Ma Sui still set up the chessboard, fiddling with the chess pieces alone, talking to himself.

Bu Yunfei leaned on the kang and watched coldly.

After watching it for three days in a row, Bu Yunfei could already understand the layout of the formation, and of course he could also understand the wins and losses of the black and white sides.

On the chessboard, Ma then used black chess to form a wheel array. The so-called wheel array does not mean that the battle is fought by vehicles, but that when the army fights on the plains, there is no danger to defend, and the troops must fight and walk, like rolling wheels, the front army walks, the rear army defends, the left army goes, the right army defends, and every other distance, the front and rear and left and right guard are converted, and they rotate like wheels. The wheel formation is the basic formation, but few people dare to adopt it in actual combat, in most cases, for the general is in the case of no danger to defend, the wheel formation as the last straw, and in actual combat, the wheel formation is often more than 100 wins. One of the most important reasons is that the mobility of the ancient army was generally extremely poor, and without mobility as a guarantee, the wheels could not turn at all.

White, on the other hand, uses a goose-shaped formation, sharp in front and back in the back, concentrating the elite to attack one point and destroy the wheel conversion. It is indeed appropriate to break the wheels with geese. And in fact, if the military strength of the two armies of black and white is equal, the wheel formation is not the opponent of the goose marching formation at all.

However, Ma Sui changed the wheel formation and fought and followed the basic situation, and turned the transformation in the movement of the front and rear armies into a change in situ, so that the front army battle, the rear army rested, the rear army battle, and the front army rested became a gear that rotated on the spot, and the lethality suddenly multiplied, turning a bloated and clumsy wheel into a meat grinder. The sharp geese marching array, in front of this meat grinder, was worn out and turned into a pile of flesh and blood.

Ma Sui's modification of the wheel array in this way is indeed a major innovation.

With the momentum on the chessboard, White's goose march should be completely defeated.

Sure enough, the horse raised his hand and was about to erase the chess pieces.

"If the winner is not scored, why does Master Ma erase the chess pieces?" Bu Yunfei said coldly.

Ma Sui squinted at Bu Yunfei, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Mr. Bu, the tea is cold." "That means, go while chilling off.

"Wait for the attacker to be strong, and wait for the enemy to die!" Bu Yunfei said lightly.

Ma Sui's hand was fixed on the chessboard, and he could no longer fall.