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"Therefore, the situation is unclear at the moment, and it is too early to say whether it will be successful or defeated, and it will be impossible to determine who will win or lose until the last minute. Plans can never catch up with changes, which requires us not to be constrained, look ahead, act when it is time to act, and change the original plan as the situation changes, so that is the best policy. So you don't have to worry too much, get rid of distractions and give it a go! Li Li's words were obviously aimed at Zhuge Liang.

Maybe Zhuge Liang himself didn't realize that he tried to do things perfectly, but whenever he encountered military operations, he always planned and then acted, if there was no more than sixty percent chance of winning, he would rather not move than take risks. Zhuge was only cautious in his life, which is the evaluation of him by later generations. It is impossible for him to know this kind of evaluation, but Li Li knows it well and has a deep understanding of it.

Speaking of which, Li Li and Zhuge Liang have known each other for seven years. In the past seven years, the two have spent more than half of their time working together, getting along day and night, getting to know each other, and knowing each other's temperament and preferences.

Li Li recognized Zhuge Liang's cautious use of troops, but he did not fully agree with it; He believes that while prudence is important, excessive prudence is timidity, which is no different from timidity. It is because he often encourages Zhuge Liang to use troops boldly, not to have any worries, to plan carefully before the war, and to do whatever he can when he is in battle. In the past, Zhuge Liang's first battle of Lu Longsai led the army was like this. Before the war, Li Li once said to him that if he won this battle, the virtuous brother should be the first to take credit; If the battle is defeated, all the blame will be borne on my shoulders. As a result, Kong Ming, who had not yet reached the crown, won the first battle, and since then he has been fighting with the army all year round, and led the army to the west to conquer the southern barbarians alone. He has not tasted defeat in seven years, and he is the only undefeated general of the three armies under Li Li.

Except for Zhuge Liang. The army of the Western Jin Dynasty came from top to bottom, from the commander Li Li to the military marquis. All of them have lost battles. Li Li, Guo Jia, and Zhou Yu defeated Yecheng, Zhao Yun defeated Kaifeng, Teng Xiao was careless, Xu Rong was negligent and lost Bohai, Bo Cai was trapped in Wancheng, and so on. These defeats are relatively large battles, and as for those local wars or small battles, there are countless of them, but Zhuge Liang is not in all the defeats. Even when Jizhou was defeated. Including Li Li were under siege, all the generals under his command were defeated, only Zhuge Liang not only had no fault but meritorious, he returned from Yizhou and led the army to Huguan, just in response to Li Li, who had died and fought out of the siege, into the pass.

Because of this, Zhuge Liang, who returned from the Western Expedition, enjoyed a very high prestige in the army, and the official worshiped the rear general, one of the generals of the four armies, and was more than the third duke.

This time, Li Xuan and Jia Xu stayed in Chang'an. He and Guo Jia followed Li Li on the expedition. According to the prior arrangement, after arriving in Luoyang, the three of their generals were divided into three routes, and each led a soldier and horse to fight. Guo Jia led the army in the north. defend against the Northern Wei army; Kong Ming led his troops south and confronted the Southern Han army led by Pang Tong; Li Li sat in Luoyang and was in charge of the Chinese army. Stay in the middle.

Li Li once again encouraged Zhuge Liang to use troops boldly at this time, precisely because Zhuge Liang would then lead the army south to fight. Fight against the Pangtong army. Although the dragon and phoenix chicks are equally famous, the dragon is in front and the phoenix is behind. The two are from the same school and know each other very well; But Li Li knew that Pang Tong was eclectic in his use of soldiers, and he was good at using strange soldiers, as long as he seized the slightest opportunity, he would dare to make a desperate bet and fight with all his might. The previous Jingzhou Liu Biao forced Jiangdong Sun clan to surrender is Pang Tong's plan, taking advantage of the assassination of Jiangdong Sun Ce to make a big fuss, and uprooting the Sun family's lineage in one fell swoop, resulting in the Sun clan withering, green and yellow, the young Sun Shao ascended the throne, and then infighting, the national strength declined, and was forced to rely on Liu Biao.

When the news of Jiangdong's submission to Liu Biao reached Li Li's ears, he was stunned for a long time and shocked. This also made Li Li realize that Pang Tong and his people were really good, and they forced Jiangdong to surrender without spending a single soldier, and this feat was really an eternal anecdote of the 400-year-old Han Dynasty, which can be called an immortal feat of the past and the present.

It was Pang Tong's feat that made Li Li quite jealous of him, and then Pang Tong infiltrated Chang'an to plot an alliance with Cao Pi, which made Li Li once again realize that Pang Tong was amazingly courageous, did not take the usual path, and was good at taking risks with strangeness, which was very different from Zhuge Liang's personal and cautious style of doing things. So this time Zhuge Liang led the army to the south to conquer, and he was bound to make good use of Pang Tong, who was good at using strange soldiers, which made Li Li really uneasy about him, so he specially encouraged him to use troops boldly and let go.

If it weren't for the emperor's identity that restricted Li Li from going to the front in person, he really wanted to compete with Pang Tong, because his method of using troops was quite similar to Pang Tong, and he was good at using tricks. Soldiers, treacherous ways; This is the essence of the art of war. This is the essence of Li's use of soldiers, and Pang Tong's use of soldiers is also a treacherous way of using soldiers, all of them are aimed at winning victory, acting in an eclectic manner, without the slightest sign of following the rules, and the use of soldiers is unpredictable and unpredictable, and there is no trace to be found.

In contrast, Zhuge Liang's use of troops is a dignified and upright division, steady and steady, step by step, the word cautious runs throughout, and the marching and arranging the formation clearly reflects his cautious temperament. It is precisely because he makes good use of the regular soldiers that Li Li will send him to lead the troops to fight against Pang Tong. Although Li Li was a little worried about Zhuge Liang's southern expedition, he didn't think that he would definitely lose, and the victory or defeat should be five or five, if Kong Ming could occasionally use a surprise army, maybe he would have the possibility of winning.

Compared with Kong Ming, Guo Jia's good use of strange soldiers is extremely similar to Pang Tong's way of using troops. If Guo Jia is allowed to fight against Pang Tong, the situation in Nanyang will become more and more unpredictable; There are only two possibilities for an odd outcome, a big win or a heavy defeat, and there is no third possibility.

It was based on this consideration that Li Li finally chose Kong Ming to go south to face the Jingzhou army, Guo Jia to the north to resist Cao's army, and he sat in Luoyang to respond in the center, and where the situation was unfavorable, he immediately led the army to reinforcements.

As night falls, the pavilion is lit with wind lamps and incense burners, and there are many mosquitoes on the lake at night, so incense can expel the mosquitoes.

Even so, Li Li was reluctant to stay here for long. Before leaving, he solemnly admonished Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang: "It is said that Zilong led the army to rob the camp this time and used fire thunder (black pimple), and the other battalions in the army did not have this kind of thing, except for the war cavalry battalion that followed Kong Ming to the west to conquer the southern barbarians, there were still some fire thunders left. Presumably, this is the case with the unparalleled iron cavalry under Zilong's tent. It was not used up when he conquered the Southern Barbarians in the west, but this time it was used on Cao Ren's army. Forget it this time, it's just that I didn't say it beforehand. But since then. The use of fire and thunder is not allowed in internal warfare, and it must not be used as a last resort! ”

"This ??????" Guo Jia and Kong Ming were stunned when they heard this, and looked up at Li Li's solemn expression, and couldn't help but be a little dazed. Immediately, Kong Ming said in a low voice: "Fire and thunder is a sharp weapon for attacking the city and pulling out the village, in the past, when Weichen led the army to the west, many Nanban villages were shocked by the fire and thunder, so that the soldiers surrendered without blood. I don't know if His Majesty can make it clear, why can't our army use fire and thunder this time? ”

Li Li seems to have known that Kong Ming and Guo Jia had asked this question. Then he said without thinking: "This kind of thing should not appear in the world, let alone be used on my Han people, it is not allowed to be used in future battles, and those who violate the order will be severely punished, if there is any leakage or loss of fire and thunder, the three clans will be punished!" ”

Speaking of this, Li Li paused, and sighed softly: "Actually, I created a fire thunder as early as ten years ago. Subsequently, he secretly set up a fire and thunder workshop, and personally selected 300 disabled armor soldiers and veterans to make fire and thunder. During the Eastern Expedition to Wuhuan and Xianbei, the Jinyi Guard Battalion brought 500 fire mines, but in the end they were not used. Five years ago. Kong Ming's western expedition to the Southern Barbarians, just in case of accidents, I secretly handed over 2,000 fire and thunder to you. This was the first time that this firearm was used in foreign warfare. At present, the production of fire and thunder is still very poor, except for the loud noise and flammable and explosive. It's not very powerful, but the danger of this thing is immeasurable.

Today. I'm still not sure if it was right or wrong to make this thing, and whether there should be such a killing weapon as zài in the world. You may not know that once the fire and thunder leak out, or flow into the hands of barbarian foreigners, the consequences will be unimaginable, and our Han people will be the biggest victims at that time. Because only I have the most Han people on this continent, and only my Han people are the most industrious and rich, and at the same time, they are also the most popular among foreign people, and they are always peeping at our Han territory.

Therefore, in order to eliminate future troubles, since this thing has already come out, it is necessary to continue to develop it, but it can be leaked or lost to others no matter what. If you want not to divulge secrets, the first thing to bear the brunt of is to use it frequently, and secondly, those who participate in the control of fire and thunder must strictly control it, and would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one; Last but not least, fire and thunder can only be used to expand territory and foreign conquests. At present, the first batch of more than 300 people who participated in the production of fire and thunder have all died, and the fire and thunder workshop has also been transferred, and no one will know about its existence after that. Remember, I will only say this once, and I will never mention it again in the future, and I hope that the three of you will keep it in mind and don't mislead others and yourself! After speaking, Li Li got up and left the pavilion and walked straight to Xingyuan.

In fact, the fire thunder that Li Li refers to is black powder made of a mixture of nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal. The black pimple used by Zhao Yunjun is the most crude and simple fire mine, which is flammable, explosive and loud, but not very lethal. Except for Li Li, no one knew that this black bump was made by him ten years ago, and it was considered an experimental product, and it was also the worst firearm product. After ten years of repeated trials, the firearm made now is five times more powerful than the black pimple, in addition to the process of making the zuò is relatively poor, the appearance is not beautiful, and its power is not inferior to the handmade zuò grenades in later generations.

But after making this kind of thing, Li Li often felt uneasy, and his heart was tormented, the firearm itself was not of much value, the only thing worthy of praise was the opening of the mountain and the rubble, and other than that, it appeared for the purpose of killing. Therefore, the memories of his military background in his previous life brought him not good memories, but endless distress, he could make simple grenades, and even develop more powerful weapons according to the imprint of memory, but after a hundred years, he would leave the world with endless killing.

This is by no means the scene he wants to see, and he does not want to be an executioner who has killed countless people alive and continues to kill after death. So he created the fire thunder with his own hands, and now he has sealed it with his own hands, or it is more appropriate to seal it.

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