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Guo Jiadao: "After the fall of Kaifeng City, General Zilong led the army to retreat to Zhongmu. Unexpectedly, Wei general Cao Chun led the tiger and leopard cavalry to chase and kill all the way, almost following the unequaled iron cavalry and then attacking Zhongmu City, and once again fighting with the unequaled iron cavalry under Zhao Yun's tent. If it weren't for the courage of General Zilong, who led his troops to fight hard and repelled the Wei general Cao Chun, I am afraid that the Wushuang Iron Cavalry Battalion has been wiped out.

After the war, after Kaifeng City, Zhongmu County fell again, and General Zilong led the remnants to rush out of the city and arrived in Luoyang two hours ago. According to the news from the Luoyang battalion, after two days and two nights of fierce fighting, there were only more than 4,000 Wushuang iron cavalry who finally returned to Luoyang alive, and the ten pavilions were broken by nine pavilions, and the entire army was almost wiped out. In addition, General Zilong fell into a coma after returning to the city, and there were more than ten wounds all over his body, the longest wound was in the back, more than a foot long, and the bones were visible. After speaking, Guo Jia's heart was very heavy, not only worried about Zhao Yun's injury, but also deeply regretted the huge casualties of the Wushuang Iron Cavalry.

The Wushuang Iron Cavalry under Zhao Yun's tent is an iron-blooded force that has experienced countless wars, and it is also one of the war cavalry battalions started by Li Li, whose prototype is the warriors of the Tu tribes led by Dian Wufang. With the withdrawal of Dian Wuflaw from the army and the reorganization of the Wushuang Iron Cavalry, Zhao Yun was the first chief general to command, and he has led the army for ten years so far. This cavalry battalion fought from the Western Regions to Liaodong, and was able to preserve the establishment in the Jizhou fiasco, and then moved to Yizhou, following Zhuge Liang to the west to conquer the Southern Barbarians, which can be called a real division of a hundred battles.

Who would have thought that such an elite warhorse with a hundred battles has gone through countless hardships and obstacles, and has gone through ups and downs all the way to today. In the end, it was destroyed in the hands of Cao Jun's tiger and leopard riders. 30,000 war cavalry were all lost in one battle, which can be described as a nerve-wracking battle. The elite is lost, even if the replenishment of troops is reorganized. I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover the strong combat power before fù. It is because the unequaled iron rider has lost its former glory, and I am afraid that it will not be able to support the name of "unequaled".

Perhaps because of his heavy mood, Guo Jia was silent for a while, and then added: "However, the Cao army also paid a huge price for this, aside from the nearly 50,000 soldiers killed and wounded in the robbery camp, in the pursuit of the Wushuang Iron Cavalry, the Cao Army almost paid the same casualty price as the Wushuang Iron Cavalry. The 30,000 tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Chun suffered nearly half of the casualties, and the deputy general Cao Yu was beheaded by General Zilong, and even Cao Chun himself was wounded by General Zilong. And with two arrows in his body, I am afraid that he will not be able to fight again in the short term. In addition, more than half of the 20,000 soldiers and horses under Zhu Ling's tent who attacked Kaifeng City were also killed or wounded, and Zhu Ling and Zhenggu were both defeated in the battle, and they were also seriously wounded.

Therefore, the Wushuang Iron Cavalry inflicted heavy losses on Cao Ren's army at the cost of 30,000 casualties, causing Cao's army to lose twice as many troops as the Wushuang Iron Cavalry. At present, more than half of the more than 100,000 troops under Cao Ren's account have suffered casualties, and they are temporarily stationed in Zhongmu City to rest; If there were no follow-up reinforcements, Cao Ren categorically did not dare to lead the army south. We are now facing a dilemma. ”

After listening to the battle report relayed by Guo Jia, there was silence in the pavilion, except for the slightly heavy breathing of Li Ru and Zhuge Liang, there was no other sound.

Li Li looked up at the cemetery directly opposite the pavilion with an expressionless face. Slowly moving from the cemetery to the north to the general's mausoleum to the west, the eyes are fixed on the mausoleum under construction halfway up the mountain. For a long time, he muttered faintly: "A mausoleum is being built in the general's mausoleum in the west. In a few days, a few old brothers who followed me from Wuwei County to fight the world will live in. Rest here forever. Time flies, and more than ten years have passed inadvertently. I am in the year of my establishment, but I often feel nostalgic, nostalgic for the brothers who once lived and died together, nostalgic for the days when we used to drink and talk happily, and even more nostalgic for those old friends who have been lying in the mausoleum. ”

Zhuge Liang comforted softly: "Your Majesty, don't blame yourself, since ancient times, it has been a war to the death. People are inherently dead, and as long as they can do what they like when they are alive, they have no regrets even if they die. What's more, in this battle of Sili, His Majesty did not strictly order the generals to fight to the death and not retreat, but informed the generals in advance that if they could fight, they would fight, and if they could not do anything, they could return to Luoyang. It is because His Majesty has done his best to be benevolent and righteous, but the current situation is caused by our underestimation of the war in advance, and if we want to be held accountable, it is also the ministers who should take full responsibility, and it has nothing to do with Majesty. ”

Li Li shook his head slightly, and sighed in a low voice: "I don't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me." I am the supreme commander of the whole army, and I should be responsible for the war, and it is the death of more than a dozen generals such as Tie Yu, Huan Yi, and Xia Houlan that I cannot escape the blame. Speaking of this, Li Li's voice changed, and then his tone changed, and he said in a deep voice: "However, war always kills people. The crockpot will not be broken by the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle. The casualties of our generals in this battle of Sili were the highest in all previous campaigns, and this war is far from over, and now it has just begun. The Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty joined forces to attack our Western Jin Dynasty, and now they occupy a certain advantage, and our army has lost one after another, but this is only a temporary victory, and it is still unknown who will die next. ”

After a pause, Li Li looked at Li Ru and asked, "Has the news of the death of the two generals Tie Yu and Huan Yi been reported to the whole army?" ”

Li Ru didn't know why Li Li suddenly mentioned this matter, and immediately said softly with an embarrassed face: "Your Majesty, Weichen is worried that the two generals Huan Fei and Yinyu will delay the battle, because they haven't informed him yet, and the other generals in the army already know. ”

Li Li was not surprised at all when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "In a few days, the bodies of Tie Yu and the others will be transported back, and at that time, they will not be able to hide it no matter what." Therefore, there is no need to hide it from them, tell them the truth, or they will definitely put this account on your head and be cranky again. ”

"No, Weichen obeys." Li Ru replied respectfully.

Li Li bowed slightly, then put the matter aside, and said in a deep voice: "This time, we have set up a plan to lure the snake out of the hole, luring Liu Biao in Jingzhou and Cao Cao in Jizhou to take the lead, in order not to leave a flaw and avoid suspicion between the two countries, Fang has today's successive defeats, and has paid a huge price for this." Now that the snake is half of the success of luring the snake out of the hole, the next thing is the most important thing, but the fiasco like Deng County and Kaifeng City cannot happen again, otherwise we will not lead the snake out of the hole, but lift a stone to hit our own feet and set ourselves on fire. I wonder what the three of you will do about this? ”

Guo Jia replied in a voice: "Since the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, my Western Jin Dynasty has taken the lead, and the Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty have both fought together, and the strength of either of them alone cannot confront our Western Jin Dynasty head-on, but once they can't shrink out, even if I have millions of strong soldiers in the Western Jin Dynasty, I can't help them." If I compare my Western Jin Dynasty to an elephant, then Cao Cao of the Northern Wei Dynasty is a fierce tiger, and although Liu Biao of the Southern Han Dynasty has the strength of a tiger, he does not have the courage and courage of a tiger, so he can only be regarded as an elderly wolf king. If the tiger and the wolf can't shrink back, the elephant can't help them, so if we want to get rid of them, we must first lure them out, and this is the fundamental reason why we decided to lure the snake out of the hole.

However, once the tiger and wolf join forces to attack, the elephant will not be able to parry, and will be seriously injured or overturned at any time, and even endanger his life. Therefore, the plan for today is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and Cao Cao of the Northern Wei Dynasty must be dealt a heavy blow so that he does not dare to act rashly; After containing this tiger, we can free up our hands and kill the hungry wolf of Nanhan with all our might. Guo Jia broke through the mystery and pointed out that luring the snake out of the hole is only the first step, and the second step is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf.

The voice fell, and Zhuge Liang said respectfully: "At present, the plan to lure the snake out of the hole is only halfway through, if the two countries withdraw at this time, all the achievements we have done before will be wasted, and the success will be lost." At the same time, if the snake is not well controlled after luring the snake out of the hole, and let this tiger and wolf get together, my Western Jin Dynasty will also suffer a backlash, and it is very likely that they will be defeated together. Therefore, now is the critical moment to determine the outcome of the victory, and it is also the watershed of whether the plan to lure the snake out of the hole can be successful, which forces us to be cautious in every step, not light nor heavy, we must grasp the scale of proportion. If the counterattack is too light, it will inevitably boost the morale of the two countries, making them more and more unscrupulous, opening and closing widely, and it is very likely that they will complete the alliance and successfully join forces; Hitting them too hard and hurting them may cause the head of the snake they had just poked out to retract.

Therefore, we are now facing a very serious situation, not only to avoid their own losses too much, but also not to let them retreat, we must let them see the hope of success, so as to lure them step by step into the situation we have already prepared, drive the tiger and devour the wolf, change the situation in the world in one fell swoop, and lay the foundation for the next day to fight the world. These words revealed that Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia were the initiators of the strategy of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, they were the people who played chess, at this time the chess game had begun, the situation was unclear, and how the Western Jin Dynasty launched a counterattack was a key step to determine success or failure.

When Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang were talking, Li Li's face was very calm, so calm that there was no trace of emotion. If Guo Jia and Kong Ming are chess players, then he is the owner (behind-the-scenes boss) who opened the chess game, and he first proposed to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, which was specifically for the comprehensive layout of the Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty. As a perennial battlefield general and the supreme commander of the whole army, he has seen too much life and death, and has long been accustomed to the life of licking blood from the knife.

After pondering for a moment, Li Li said calmly: "Maybe the two of you are thinking too much, it is best to finish your work in one battle, but you can't deliberately pursue perfection in everything." There is no perfect thing in the world, and striving for perfection often means having too many scruples, looking ahead and looking backwards, suffering from gains and losses. At present, luring the snake out of the hole has been half successful, luring the Southern Han and Northern Wei to send nearly 300,000 troops, which is enough. If the 300,000 troops can be killed in one fell swoop, the plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf will be more than half successful, and then wave the army south to capture Jingxiang, which is the entire plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf. ”

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