17. The Tao is the way, the very way
"How many more rounds, boy? I feel in good physical condition, old man, and I can still play with you. ”
What an imageless old man!
This is Li Shu's only idea, and it seems that in order to confirm his idea, Tong Yuan once again poked the head of the lying "corpse" on the ground with the barrel of the spear in his hand, and every stroke could make the "corpse" lying on the ground obtain the effect of "HP Force-1". Of course, in Li Shushi's view, the really most terrible thing is that every time he is poked, a big bag about the thickness of the gun can be puffed up, which means that this time, the "corpse" has a tendency to develop towards the image of a certain Buddha boss, but compared to the evenly distributed image of the Buddha boss, this unlucky bastard...... Poof......
"Alright, drag it away."
After playing for a while, a certain bad old man's cunz finally lost his interest, which made Li Shushi's personal guards drag the "corpse" away, as for the blood stain that was dragged out, it seems to be crying something, let's not meddle in things.
It is estimated that even if the "corpse" has the same vitality as Xiaoqiang, if you want to recover, you will have to do it tomorrow.
However, among the people on the scene, except for the old man Tong who still looked bad, it is estimated that Li Shushi and Su Xiaololi look relatively normal, after all, one has long been in the sky, and the other doesn't care about this kind of thing at all.
The rest of the others, all of them seemed to be surprised, especially Zilong-chan, whose stunned appearance actually made people feel that a cute aura was constantly sprouting in this space - although Li Shushi always felt that he seemed to be about to cry.
"It turns out that Master, you have fully recovered. This, this really makes the apprentice feel extremely happy......"
Crying out, really crying, and it looks really from the bottom of her heart, the contagion is so strong that even Li Shushi feels that he seems to have been affected a little, and the two ladies of Zilong sauce cried together.
Well, I always think that if it continues to develop like this, Zilong sauce will also be made of water like Xuande Gong in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
"Haha, Zilong don't cry, don't cry. It's all that big people. How can you still be like a child. And although the teacher is in good condition now, it cannot be said that his body has been completely recovered, and according to the current recovery situation, I am afraid that it will take another month or two to recover. After all, it's an old man. There is no way to compare with you young people in this regard. ”
I'll it. Old man Tong's words really made Qi Qi in the room gasp.
"It's not scientific......!!!" It seems that except for the people in the field. Even the "corpse" who has been dragged outside also feels extremely wronged, after all, he has won three games in a row, and even the original rival has suffered a crisp defeat because his body has not fully recovered. If it weren't for the idea of helping the other party find a state of recovery, it wouldn't have dragged on for so long.
Originally, his loss to an old man who had just recovered from a serious injury was already a little embarrassing, and now the old man also said that he actually didn't fully reply, although this old man is also half of his master, but how can the pride in his heart make him accept such a result lightly? Therefore, this ghost cry is really earth-shattering, and it has the style of a ghost crying god.
It's just that when everyone wanted to ask Old Man Tong why he was able to beat Xiaoqiang, Old Man Tong directly said, "Your heat is not enough, and it is your biggest irresponsibility to tell you in advance" made everyone speechless and looked at the sky.
Although I don't know that Old Man Tong is so reasonable, I don't know why I just want to punch him at his face that is smiling mysteriously, especially when he comes in and becomes a ghostly howl, it seems that it has also increased by three octaves because of this explanation.
I always feel that even if the world is peaceful one day, Xiaoqiang is the one who is most unlikely to be unemployed among all people - he can be a musician.
Well, when the world is peaceful, generals are definitely not a popular profession, but those people's artists are the ones who can make a lot of money, even if their status is very low in this era, but think about those gifted "monks who have attained the Tao", "monks" and the bright moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges on the Qinhuai River, not to mention those clubs, the head of the club is the normal income of a regiment leader for a few months.
That's right, it's Zilong sauce, when the world is too peaceful, you can be a friend of middle-aged and elderly women, and you can do better than Chen Zhencong.
As for Old Man Tong, just looking at his hand, he can open a sunset red health lecture class, which is guaranteed to achieve fame and fortune.
When there is nothing to do, I hope that the troubled times will come, and I hope that I can find an opportunity to change my destiny through the arrival of the troubled times. However, after really experiencing this chaotic era, I began to look forward to the arrival of peace from the bottom of my heart, and the simple happiness of peace.
And in Li Shushi's constant cranky thinking, he suddenly found that Xiaoqiang, who didn't like to read, often held a variety of books or frowned, or lowered his head and groaned, and then simply looked up at the sky, leaving bright tears, full of embarrassment and helplessness.
It seems that although Old Man Tong didn't say exactly what kind of changes had happened to him, he still revealed something somewhat, and these guys who suddenly became diligent and studious came from these revealed information.
After the treatment was completed again, Li Shushi once asked the old man Tong curiously, what secrets and tricks he told them, but the old man Tong did not pretend to be profound in front of him, but the sentence "Some things need the precipitation of life to understand, some things need to be understood by yourself, and some changes can only be understood by yourself, and some changes can only really become the driving force to change when you understand what you think in your heart" No matter how you look at it, it feels more like an old god's persuasion of the lost lamb, rather than any martial arts guidance.
"In fact, martial arts is like life, as long as you are willing to use your brain, there will always be a time when you can see through a qiē, but for most people, they may never reach this Cheng dù, or they may reach this Cheng dù and their lives will come to an end. I'm lucky, I belong to the kind of few people who are lucky enough to continue to live well even if they reach that state. And thanks to you, too. ”
Is it really like what Old Man Tong said before? Because there is no such realm, even if I tell you, I can't understand it?
Well, at least this is a great piece of good news, an old man Tong who can make Xiaoqiang so depressed that he vomits blood makes Li Shushi's "fishing" action this time more successful, or there is no need to leave someone to take care of the old man Tong who was considered to be in poor physical condition before, this entry and exit can make Li Shushi feel at ease.
The scouts kept passing on the news, and the enemy vanguard seemed to have begun a tentative assault on the outer forts north of Heijo, and it seemed that they had not achieved very good results, although the bunkers were not very large. But it can also ensure that more than 1,000 people have a very good defensive effect in the face of the enemy army lacking siege equipment under the condition of sufficient supplies.
As a pioneer. It seems that it is probably the banner of five tribes, and the total strength should not exceed fifteen thousand, and the legendary "mysterious man" who commanded the troops does not seem to have appeared, and the operation is still the same as the usual methods of the Xianbei people in the past few years.
Received a message from the scouts. Li Shushi and Jia Xu both felt a little confused. I always feel that the enemy's appearance seems to be unexpectedly disappointing. I even began to wonder if the enemy had put the main direction of attack elsewhere.
However, within three days, his suspicion turned into deep helplessness and coldness.
Because, according to the return of the scouts who went to escape by luck. The enemy has already contributed three dock forts.
Although because of the distance, the scouts could not see the details of the battle clearly, because the scouts who were close were all intercepted and killed without exception, but judging from the relatively "normal" offensive rhythm of the previous days and the sudden change of the battle situation in the past few days, it must be full of "mysterious people", Li Shushi even maliciously believed that the reason why the previous attack was so slow and even difficult was probably that those "mysterious people" let go and let those Xianbei people attack in their own way in order to have a comparison.
With comparison, we can appreciate the importance of these "mysterious people", and only then can those grassland people completely worship them.
No, just when Li Shushi was confirming the authenticity of the news and whether there were more details, two more dock forts were breached.
This time, because of a little preparation, there were a little more people who escaped than the three dock forts that had been raided before, including a few scouts who were relatively close, and a hundred people stationed in the dock fort escaped with the help of a simple tunnel in the dock fort.
"We only saw a few black-faced men dressed in Hun costumes, no feathered arrows and stones could hurt them, no one could resist their attacks, they couldn't see humanity in their eyes, only killing, just being swept by that look made them feel cold."
"They all burned, they didn't leave those dock forts, they plundered the one inside and then set fire to the dock forts to burn them down."
"We took advantage of the terrain in the fort to resist, but they retreated after losing a lot of men, and by lighting a fire under the city, they tried to force us out of hiding with poisonous smoke, and many people died as a result."
"I remember that there was a Xianbei centurion who died under the wall of the dock fort, but when he attacked the next dock fort, he appeared on the battlefield again, in addition to his face became darker, his martial arts seemed to be much stronger, and he fought as if he was not a human being."
"Many Xianbei people have obviously pierced their bodies with weapons, but they do not dodge, and still raise the bladed war knives in their hands, as if they are going to die with us, but they seem to do so because they are not afraid of death."
"Those Xianbei people are crazy, they are all a group of crazy people, we are very brave, but we can't win a group of crazy people who can't be killed!"
From these intermittent descriptions, Li Shushi can more or less depict the specific image of the enemy:
The enemy's attack was mainly launched by the "mysterious man" generals who wore Xiongnu costumes and were supposed to be Xiongnu aristocratic costumes. Under the leadership of these "mysterious people" generals, not only are they strong, but also those Xianbei soldiers will become very fanatical, not afraid of death, even if they die, they seem to be able to see people who thought they were dead on the battlefield the next day.
But if there were no commanders of those "mysterious people", the Xianbei people would be like puppets without souls, and their attacks would be slow, and they would often just put a few arrows outside the dock fort and then turn around and leave, and this cowardly appearance was not as good as the Xianbei army in their impressions.
Of course. In the northern grasslands, which have been plowed over and over again by the Bingzhou army in recent years, as long as the Hu troops are not forced to live, they basically do not have the courage they had back then, and even the combat effectiveness of those tribes who often engaged in border trade with the Han people has declined even more, so they simply moved south into the protected area of the Han people to produce unique commodities on the grassland for the Han people.
In fact, among the dock forts in the north, the ones near the steppe were prepared for the naturalized herdsmen.
The enemy's furious onslaught had an effect, and the clans and tribes that had been stationed in the outer dock forts began to lose their confidence. After all, one of the functions of the dock fort outside the city was to expand the Han people's control over that area, so that the Han people would not be dragged down by the Hu people's super high mobility when facing the vast grassland, and at the same time, it could also disperse the opponent's forces or weaken the enemy's attack to the south when they attacked - it was not easy for the Hu people who lacked enough siege equipment to capture this kind of dock fort. It costs a lot and you don't get much. But I don't care about it, and I worry that they will sneak up from behind when they go south, or hit them when they return north.
It is precisely because of this advantage that one after another dock forts are used as pillars to form the sharp teeth of the state army to encroach on the north, and at the same time, it is also a blockhouse defense system to defend the north from the south. The northern region of the Lingshuo gradually became conducive to the survival of the Han people. Even the naturalized Hu people grew accustomed to driving their "wealth" back to the fort every winter to spend the winter with the help of forage.
But when the Dock could no longer protect them. Even if it is extremely reluctant, but giving up is the only choice.
And this situation seems to be exactly what the other side was expecting—when the Xianbei people breached the sixth dock fort at a great cost, they did not burn down the building that the children of the steppe hated so much. Instead, use it as a base for advancement.
Although the Xianbei people did not continue the attack, they even began a short break in the "forward base". In Li Shushi's view, it was not so much a recuperation as it was the raising of the sword of Damocles, and the terrifying killing intent and threat terrified everyone—the Xianbei people were silently forcing the rest of the soldiers and civilians in the dock fort to abandon their homes.
Such an approach would not only dismantle Li Shushi's dock fort system, but also bring unprecedented pressure from the huge and far unimaginable flow of people into Pingcheng County, both mentally and in terms of food and grass supplies.
The confusion, fear, and resentment caused by abandoning one's homeland will permeate Pingcheng, and this will be a powerful force, and if it is controlled, it will explode into a terrifying force in order to take home the garden, but if it is out of control, it will destroy the entire northern part of Yanmen.
"Xiaozhi, it looks like you need to help a bunch of Yuan Jian. I'm afraid that this little guy will become hesitant because he weighs too much, and the current situation is no different from the time of battle, what is needed is decisiveness, whether it is right or wrong. ”
Obviously, the enemy is not just driving people over to increase the pressure on Heicheng, such a method is too simple and too crude, so in just a few days, rumors have begun to spread in Pingcheng, and many foreign races and people in the interior of Pingcheng have also had many fights for living space, although it has not yet evolved into a large-scale gathering mass incident, but the unease and hatred have begun to spread.
Liao Hua's ability is indeed good, but it is still a little difficult to face this complicated situation, or let alone him, even if Xiaoqiang is actually an excellent general with enough judgment on the battlefield, he will be blind in the face of this situation.
The only way he can get along may be to kill and kill, but that will definitely lead to the fact that the enemy has not yet arrived, and the city is completely defenseless due to civil strife, so that the enemy can surrender without a fight.
Therefore, Li Shushi asked Fa Zheng to be Liao Hua's deputy to help solve this matter - in Li Shushi's opinion, only Fa Zheng is the most suitable, because Jia Xu's status is too high and his qualifications are too deep, and when he comes to Liao Hua, a small county magistrate, it is conceivable that he must obey Jia Xu's orders in every word and deed, and it can also be said that he deprived Liao Hua of the supreme right to govern this place in disguise, which not only dampened the enthusiasm of the other party, but also made Li Shushi's previous "promise" come to naught.
On the contrary, if Fa Zheng is dispatched, not only is he the same age as Liao Hua. And at most it is a Qincha who needs to be respected, although Liao Hua, who has proven that he is not good enough, needs to listen to many of his orders, but if Fa Zheng does not take the initiative to seize power, Liao Hua can still work hard with the idea of "he still has a chance". In addition, because Fa Zheng is still young and vigorous after all, some things will not be done so completely, and the means will not be strong, and there is also room for Liao Hua to intervene and speak, and he will not lose his enthusiasm for participation.
Anyway, there is also the great god Li Shushi, if the situation is really uncontrollable, show his and Lu Bu's names. Keep those guys who were still making trouble before, and also have to rein in their tempers. The shadow of the famous tree, so many years of Jiwei is really not a joke.
In fact, if there was no Fa Xiaozhi to help, Li Shushi would have felt that a certain little dead ant was also a very suitable candidate, because Sima Zhongda's idea was more "simple" from a certain Cheng dù. For the sake of this "simple" goal, he is also completely unfettered by anything. Whether it's interests, feelings, or whatever. He can constantly weigh and make trade-offs, and as long as it can help him achieve his goals, he can devote himself to planning.
From this point of view. Whether it is Fa Zheng, who is somewhat affected by emotional factors, or Zhuge Liang, who is bound by certain ideas, is weaker than Sima Yi in this regard, and perhaps only the Liuxiang Xun Ling in Xuchang City can compare with it.
Of course, Xun Yu is like a saint who can sacrifice his life for his own goal, while Sima Yi is the opposite, he does not think that he can complete his goal by sacrificing his life, so he must keep his life in order to complete his goal.
So compared with Jia Wenhe, who simply just wants to save his life, Sima Yi and Jia Wenhe have lived long enough, but their achievements are not the same.
As for the prodigal son Guo Fengxiao and the American wolf Zhou Gongjin, Li Shushi can only say that either these two are so tired that they vomit blood, or God is extremely unhappy with these two ginseng winners, so that they hurriedly ended their lives at the most brilliant moment.
Because of this, Su Xiaololi's transformation of a dead ant has a strong purpose and is very targeted, although Li Shushi doesn't know how Su Xiaololi washed the brain of that poor child for so many years, but at least it seems that Su Xiaololi seems to be very satisfied with her "work", but considering the acting skills of a dead ant, Li Shushi still has reservations about it.
But although he said that, this time, whether it was Lu Zijing or Sima Zhongda, they were all thrown by Li Shushi to become, as Xu Chu's staff officer, how to say that these two are also experts in leading troops in history, just staying by his side as a military advisor is not yielding, but there is also a suspicion of wasting talents, but it is better to let it out and take a look, can you have a little surprise.
In this way, after a few more days, although the situation in the city was still full of tense air, but the original violence was suppressed, with the execution of people who were called spies, and the evidence that seemed to be reasonable was put out, coupled with the guidance of public opinion by well-intentioned people, all the forces in the city became more aware of the news given by the Pingcheng County Government - the biggest enemy is the Xianbei invaders who invaded their living homeland, and the chaos can only make the enemy profit.
Some people may be dissatisfied with such a result, but in the context of this kind of public opinion, the role they can play has become very small, as long as the Pingcheng City Guards guard a few key parts, the Xianbei army's idea of attacking Pingcheng from the inside has no chance of success.
However, when the situation in Pingcheng County has gradually returned to calm, the enemy in the north is still motionless.
Do they have anything else to prepare? Or is their strategy against Heijo not over yet?
Most of the actions taken by the Xianbei people in the past can be easily guessed, or the Xianbei people didn't really care if others could guess their strategy of action, anyway, their strength was strong enough to deal with the resistance of any enemy, or their mobility was enough to compensate for the impact of their simple strategy.
But this time, Li Shushi felt that as those "mysterious people" grasped the power of command, the actions of the Xianbei people began to become very different from before.
What are they waiting for? (To be continued......)