Chapter 25: The Mysterious Man

The next time, the oriental fish belly is white, and Xu said that it will not rise.

When the soldiers and civilians in Xiakou City had not woken up from their dreams, Liu Feng had already gotten up from the bed. After washing, I opened the wooden door on the side of the bedroom and walked into the ink-scented attic.

The morning light squeezed through the cracks in the window into the pavilion, and when I looked around, there were wooden shelves more than one person high under each of the three walls, which were neatly filled with scrolls of books. On the sandalwood red table in the middle, a few volumes of books are displayed at random, and the pen and ink on the inkstone next to it have not yet dried.

This is Liu Qi's study.

At the beginning, Liu Qi gave the house to them, Liu Feng only knew that the room he lived in was his brother's study next door, and he hadn't paid much attention to it before, if it wasn't for Xu Shu's order last night, Liu Feng forgot that he had hidden a room of treasures next door to sleep.

In this troubled era, for ordinary people, a cart of books is not worth two taels of rice, but for people like Liu Feng who are not willing to be lonely, these things are treasures more important than gold.

Liu Feng was determined to seize the time to enrich his knowledge while practicing martial arts, so he planned to use all his spare time to read these books left by Liu Qi from today onwards.

Liu Feng first walked around the bookshelf, and after a cursory sweep, there are at least hundreds of books in the collection here, such as "Book of Changes", "University", "Spring and Autumn", "Han Fei", Confucianism, Taoism, and classic works of various sects, at first glance, Liu Qi is indeed a person who loves to learn.

Liu Feng casually flipped through the books on Confucian scholarship, these books were neatly arranged, but they were covered with an extra layer of ash, and then looked at the other books, most of them were like this.

Alas, it seems that my brother only loves to collect books, but not necessarily to read. ’

In today's troubled times, in order to take the art of war as the first thing to learn, Liu Feng took out a volume of "Sun Tzu" from the bookshelf after turning around.

Holding the heavy book, Liu Feng carefully laid it flat on the bookcase, wiped the dust on it with his sleeve, and gently unfolded the book, only to read the beginning with a little headache, and then patiently read the surname, it didn't take long for the head to dizzy.

Although Liu Feng's school language level is not bad, but the most headache is the ancient text, the volume of "Sun Tzu" in front of him, even if it is obscure, it is all dry and boring Dali Dao, for Liu Feng, a modern person, it is really difficult to read compared to calculus.

"Alas, if only there were vernacular languages." Liu Feng shook his head and sighed, his expression a little helpless.

Liu Feng read it again, and could only understand some of the words from the chewing text intermittently, but due to his poor level of ancient literature, most of the content could not understand the true meaning of the author. After being tortured for half an hour, Liu Feng felt that he was about to vomit if he continued to read, so he had to give up temporarily.

"No way, keep this book for now. It seems that I have to read some simple books first, and then read this grandson after I have improved my ancient literary level. ”

Liu Feng regretfully picked up the book slips and planned to put them back in place, but just as he put them down, he accidentally glanced at the book next to him, which caught his attention.

Dusting off the gray stains on the book, four vigorous and powerful words came into view—Sun Tzu's annotations.

With curiosity, Liu Feng returned to the table with this volume of "Sun Tzu's Commentary", which was several times heavier than "Sun Tzu", and when he opened it, he realized that this was actually a volume of reading notes on Sun Tzu's Art of War. The author of the note reinterprets each of Sun Tzu's Art of War in combination with some examples of war from ancient times to the present, and also attaches his own analysis and understanding of these examples.

The wording of the notes is not only far less difficult and obscure than Sun Tzu's Art of War, but also vividly attached to the examples of war, which is not only difficult to read, but also very vivid.

However, the suspicious thing is that the author of this notebook is not indicated, and there are traces of random alteration on the notebook, which does not seem to be an ancient collection, and the handwriting is not like Liu Qi's.

"With Zide's ability, it is estimated that he can't write this thing, who will this notebook be?" Liu Feng's heart was suspicious.

However, this mystery is not important to Liu Feng, and now he is worried about how to improve his military level as soon as possible, and this unexpected note is really a treasure for him. Liu Feng immediately held the grandson's annotation and studied it greedily.

It took Liu Feng three days to read this note roughly, and now he is sure that this note must have been made by a contemporary person, because in the note the author cites a large number of contemporary war examples, especially about Cao Ying, such as the battle of Guandu, the battle of Zhangxiu, the battle of Xuzhou, etc., have made a detailed analysis.

At the end, the owner of the note also made a six-character evaluation for Cao Ying: longer than art, shorter than slightly. According to Liu Feng's understanding, it is quite good in tactics, but it is deficient in strategy.

"Cao Ying won more and lost less in his life, swept away the heroes, and almost unified the world, this person actually criticized others for being short of strategy, I don't know which arrogant guy has such a big tone."

Liu Feng grinned sarcastically, but when he looked down again, his disdainful expression gradually converged.

The author of the note took the Battle of Guandu as an example, pointing out that before the war, Cao Ying was unusually anxious, and thought that he could not compete with Yuan Shao, and it was only after Xun Yu analyzed and pointed out that he had a reason for his victory. After the battle entered the stalemate stage, Cao Ying's confidence was shaken again, and he wrote to Xun Yu that he planned to withdraw from the army.

In the battle of Guandu, Xun Yu was the most strategically heroic, and Cao Ying's surprise attack on Wuchao was just the icing on the cake, which just gave full play to his advantages in tactics.

After this analysis, the owner of the note praised Cao Ying's merit in being good at being able to do anything, and it was this advantage that made up for his lack of strategy to some extent.

"Well, this person's evaluation of Cao Ying is reasonable, so it seems that Cao Ying is not invincible, no matter how strong a person is, he will also have his shortcomings. This person can see Cao Ying so thoroughly, who will he be? Why did Liu Qi have this person's notes in his hand? ”

Liu Feng became interested in the mysterious author of this Sun Tzu's annotation, and since Liu Qi could have his notes, it meant that this person knew Liu Qi, or was a subordinate of Liu Biao. However, Liu Feng counted the advisors and generals under Liu Biao, such as Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang, and Han Song, with his fingers, and still couldn't find a person who seemed to match.

When he was thinking about it, the soldiers outside came to report, saying that Liu Qi asked him to go and talk about it.

Liu Feng perked up: "Yes, if you want to know who this person is, just ask Liu Qi." ”

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