The three magistrates looked at each other, but they didn't expect Sima Hongyan to give such an example. actually used the street hooligans to bully the girl to explain Jiang Taigong's "Taigong Liutao" Art of War, and the girl who was talking about it for example was actually talking about herself.

Several adults were a little embarrassed by her words, but Sima Hongyan was not ashamed, and he spoke eloquently, and there was actually a little smug in his expression.

If you analyze her explanation, it is indeed the meaning of the book, but this example is really a bit difficult to get into the elegant hall, let alone in this kind of very serious competition.

The magistrate who asked the question wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said very embarrassedly: "Even if Miss Sima answers this question correctly!" ”

The magistrate wanted to ask another question, but he was afraid that the girl would give random examples. So he glanced at the two magistrates behind him, meaning that you should ask the next question!

The two magistrates pretended not to see it.

In desperation, the magistrate picked up another book of the Art of War from the table and flipped through several articles in succession. But at this time, his mind was wandering, his thoughts were wandering, and he couldn't find the question he wanted to ask for a long time in his confused mind. simply slammed the book on the table, and said urgently: "Okay, okay, you don't have to take the test, pass the test!" Let's go to the next tent! ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly took a winning card from the table, stuffed it into Sima Hongyan's hand, turned around and returned to his seat, bowed his head to drink water, and no longer glanced at Sima Hongyan. The other two even looked up at the sky, pretending to be nothing, but their eyes peeked at Sima Hongyan from time to time.

"That's it?" Sima Hongyan was a little surprised, and thought to himself: "Just ask a question, this first level is very simple!" He happily walked inside.

When I entered the second tent, I found that it was much bigger than the first. There are three military attachés and two civil officials sitting on the side inside, and there is a huge military sand table on the ground of the entire tent, which is marked with mountains and roads, which seems to be a mountainous terrain.

After Sima Hongyan signed up, the five people got up and stood on the other side of the sand table.

A military attache in the middle, holding a slender bamboo pole, pointed to the sand table and said, "Miss Sima, since you have passed the first level and proved that you are familiar with the art of war, then we will test your actual ability to lead troops at this moment." As he spoke, he dialed a few villain chess pieces representing soldiers and horse chess pieces representing cavalry to Sima Hongyan on the sand table. He continued: "Now I will give you 50,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry, and 10,000 archers, for a total of 80,000 soldiers and horses. ”

Then, the military attache also dialed a number of chess pieces in front of him, and said: "Now I have 40,000 infantry, 40,000 cavalry, and 20,000 archers, a total of 100,000 horses, and you are fighting against you in this mountainous area, and you are the attacker, how do you want to defeat me?" ”

80,000 against 100,000, and Sima Hongyan is attacking. It's not easy to win this kind of battle!

Sima Hongyan thought for a moment and said: "20,000 infantry with shields in front, 10,000 archers followed, 10,000 cavalry followed, and the remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses were on standby. The vanguard of 40,000 troops attacked from the right side. ”

Sima Hongyan arranged to attack from the right because there was a cliff on the left side, so he first occupied the favorable terrain and carried out a tentative attack, after all, he had to adjust it according to the changes of the enemy.

The officer on the opposite side laughed and arranged: "20,000 cavalry in front, 10,000 archers in the rear, and 20,000 infantry followers in archers, a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses to meet your vanguard troops." The other 50,000 soldiers will be on standby. ”

Sima Hongyan said again: "30,000 infantry attacked from the middle lane. The remaining 10,000 cavalrymen will be on standby. ”

Seeing that Sima Hongyan was attacking in two ways, the officer thought for a moment and said: "10,000 archers are in front, 20,000 cavalry are behind, and 10,000 infantry are following, a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses will meet the middle road, and the remaining 10,000 soldiers will be on standby." ”

At this moment, Sima Hongyan has sent 70,000 soldiers and horses, and the officer has also sent 90,000 soldiers and horses, and the two of them are talking while moving their chess pieces on the sand table.

When he saw that the first attacking army was about to make contact with the enemy, Sima Hongyan suddenly changed his strategy and said: "The 40,000 horses on the right side will not engage in battle after encountering the enemy, and retreat to this canyon." As he spoke, he threw his pawns into a ravine along the way of the army.

At this time, Sima Hongyan's four chess pieces were very close to the canyon, and retreating into it was not a taboo. But the officer on the other side thought for a long time, he didn't know what Sima Hongyan meant by suddenly retreating. But his battle pieces have already been far out of the camp, and it is inevitable that he will violate the taboo of the art of war if he retreats, and if he is pursued, he will definitely lose his men and horses. But if you don't retreat, the army will advance, but Sima Hongyan's army has already occupied the valley, and it is not a good way to attack rashly, but it can't be stopped in the middle as improper.

After thinking about it for a while, the officer still wanted to be on the safe side, and the former army became the rear army, and retired and returned to the camp. However, Sima Hongyan did not pursue. Several people watching the battle on the side saw that Sima Hongyan did not send troops to chase after them, and they were all disappointed.

Sima Hongyan is using a bamboo pole to put the chess pieces in the four canyons into a defensive formation, because the sand table is extremely simulated, and the canyon is located in the middle of the sand table, and the rocks used are extraordinarily strong, and the bamboo pole is accidentally stuck in the stone cracks. But Sima Hongyan's strength was used on the bamboo pole, and as soon as it broke, Sima Hongyan groaned, and his body fell forward.

The five people on the other side were all taken aback, and hurriedly shouted: "Be careful! Fortunately, the sand table is huge, and there is sand inside, Sima Hongyan supported it with his hands and did not fall into the sand table, but it was really embarrassing. Pouting your ass and holding your hands in the sand table, you can look as ugly as you want.

The five officials were also embarrassed to stare at the eldest girl there, and it was inappropriate to go up to help, so they had to pretend to cough and look around. Sima Hongyan slowly got up, patted his hands full of sand, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry for my lords, the courtiers didn't pay attention. I didn't expect this bamboo pole to be so unstrong! ”

The officer in the middle hurriedly said that it was okay, and Sima Hongyan replaced a bamboo pole from the bamboo tube next to him.

The two continued to line up. Sima Hongyan scattered the soldiers in his hands into a fan shape, attacked on the left and shook on the right, but did not launch a substantive attack. And the officer's chess pieces were also back and forth to defend, but he did not attack rashly.

After a long time, a civil official looked impatient and said, "Miss Sima, how can you win with this kind of tug-of-war?" We've been on the defensive, so are you going to spend a day like this? I don't think you can pass this level. ”

Sima Hongyan stood beside him with the bamboo pole, pointed to the sand table and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, please see what it is?" ”

The five people looked carefully in the sand table, but they didn't find anything unusual, and asked strangely, "What?" ”

Sima Hongyan smiled and said, "Please take a step forward and take a look." ”

The five of them were even more puzzled, and took a step forward together, their feet directly on the edge of the sand table and then looked inside. Suddenly, one of them exclaimed, "What is this?" ”

I saw a chess piece representing the cavalry, which was falling on the border of the sand table, because the border was slightly higher, blocking this chess piece, so Sima Hongyan let them take a step forward.

The officer in the middle hurriedly searched for it in the sand table, and sure enough, in the chaotic formation of Sima Hongyan's swing, there was a missing chess piece representing 10,000 cavalry.

The men asked curiously, "What do you mean by that?" When did you put the pieces here? ”

Sima Hongyan smiled and said, "Just when I broke that bamboo pole just now, the 10,000 cavalry arrived at your rear. ”

"You broke the bamboo pole on purpose?" A civil servant woke up.

Another military attache said: "You are breaking the rules, how can you throw the chess pieces over under the pretense of falling down and deceiving our sympathy?" It's just nonsense. ”

The military attache in the middle also said: "Even if you have 10,000 cavalry to sneak attack from behind, it won't change the overall situation?" ”

Sima Hongyan waited for them to finish speaking, and then said, "Who said that my cavalry went to sneak attack?" What if I cut off your bread? ”