Chapter 52: The Tomb of Li You (3)

My knowledge of history was quite scarce, and as soon as I graduated from textbooks, I basically returned them to my teachers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info This Sanchuan County Governor Li Yu, I can't even remember if he's a man or a woman.

Fortunately, the third master did not continue to test me, but took out a small notebook from his bag, as if it was a note he made, opened it and read it, and explained (for the convenience of the text, I will sort out the original words a little, as follows):

It is recorded in the "Records of the First Emperor of Qin" that "in 249 BC, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the princes conspired against Qin, and Qin made the Xiangguo LΓΌ Buwei punish him, and entered his country, so that Meng Fu invaded Han, Han Xiancheng Gao, Gong, Qin boundary to Daliang, and initially placed Sanchuan County...... At the age of thirteen, King Zhuangxiang died, and the political dynasty was established as the king of Qin. At that time, Qin had merged Ba, Shu, and Hanzhong, and the more Wan Youying, was placed in Nanjun; To the east of Shangjun in the north, there are Hedong, Taiyuan, and Shangdang counties; East to Xingyang, extinguished for two weeks, placed in Sanchuan County. To put it simply, Sanchuan County is an administrative region of the Qin Dynasty, named after the Yellow River, Luohe River, and Yihe River, and is governed in Luoyang. After Qin unified the six countries, the country was divided into 36 counties, Sanchuan County inherited the historical status of the national capital of Xia, Shang and Zhou for hundreds of years, and was the gateway of Xianyang City, which was particularly prominent and could be called the first of all counties.

Emperor Qin Yingzheng was suspicious by nature, thinking that it was not safe to send anyone to guard such an important place, but it was not a matter of dragging it out like this, and when he was hesitating and eating uneasy, the general Meng Tian recommended a person to him - the eldest son of Prime Minister Li Si, Li You. With Meng Tian's recommendation, coupled with his father Li Sizheng's design of the imperial mausoleum for Ying Zheng, he was quite trusted by Ying Zheng, and Ying Zheng appointed Li You as the county guard of Sanchuan County and sent him to Luoyang Station.

Li You is a military man, who has been fighting horses all his life and has a bold temperament, which is very different from his conspiracy father who plays with power. At the end of Qin, the rebel army rose suddenly, the smoke of gunpowder continued throughout the country, and the Taiping army led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guangtong conquered Liancheng, won many battles, and stationed troops in Sanchuan, approaching Xianyang, and was very arrogant! Ying Zheng couldn't sit still in Xianyang City, and sent several urgent documents in a row, asking Li You to force the rebellious army to retreat and hold Sanchuan, Sanchuan is there, Xianyang is there, Sanchuan is lost, Xianyang is dead.

At that time, the Taiping army led by Wu Guang had besieged Xingyang City for three days and two nights, blocking all supplies of grain, grass, drinking water and other supplies in the city, hoping to take Xingyang without spending a single soldier. At this time, in the city of Xingyang, it was already a piece of scorched earth, and the mourning was all over the field, Li You had seen the people in the city being destroyed by the war for several days, and he was already tired of this endless war, but as the commander of the three armies, he had to live and die with the city.

That night, the night watchman came to report that he had caught the "ear" of a rebellious army, that is, a person who was responsible for spying on the enemy. It turned out that the Taiping Army was also running out of ammunition and grain at this time, and the grain and grass that had been supplied after it had not come over halfway, and it would take half a month to arrive at the earliest. The Taiping Army is a peasant army, does not understand the art of war, and has little patience, poor organization and discipline, many people joined the army because they couldn't eat enough at home, but when they got here, they still couldn't eat enough! As soon as I am hungry, discipline collapses, and I want to pick a son and stop doing it! Seeing that the perseverance of the past few days was about to be destroyed, Wu Guang, a leopard, couldn't sit still, so he sent people to Xingyang City at night to spy on the enemy.

Li You is different from these Taiping soldiers who can only wield hoes, he was born in a famous family, and under the influence of Meng Tian since he was a child, he loves military books, and "The Art of War" and "Sun Bin The Art of War" have long been familiar with it. When one hears this, even when one thinks of the counter-plot mentioned in the last chapter of "The Art of War", "The Use of Intersections", using the enemy's own "ears" to convey false information to the enemy army that is diametrically opposed to the actual situation, this information will become even more credible.

Li You took the "ear" to the city prison that night, and along the way through the main road, there was a tragic situation of broken walls and ruins, corpses all over the field, and the two soldiers in charge of escorting were both yellow and thin, listless, and most of the armor on their bodies were rotten, and they had no intention of making up for it, and they had the attitude of coping with the errand completely.

The two complained constantly along the way, and one of them said: "Brother is hungry for three meals and hasn't eaten, is this battle still fought?" ”

Another said, "What are three meals?" I haven't eaten a bite of grain for two days, ******! The good things were taken away by that bastard! ”

"You said General Lee?"

"Yes! I heard that this rabbit cub is still cutting dead flesh everywhere to eat, even his own mother will not let go! Two days ago, someone saw him write a letter of surrender with their own eyes! As he spoke, the man shook his head, "I can't stand it anymore...... Xingyang City is about to die! ”

"The ...... Didn't the last pass say that you were going to send us reinforcements? ”

"Reinforcements? Hmph, don't be delusional! If there were reinforcements, would you or I be hungry? Who is we? He didn't need reinforcements to appease General Li's heart, and General Li could hold out until this time? If I were a general, I would have surrendered to the! ”

"Hey...... That's right. It's only been these two days, I don't know what the Taiping army will do to us when they enter the city......"

At this time, the "ear" immediately said: "Don't worry, two big brothers, our kings have always treated prisoners of war preferentially, why don't the two heroes abandon the darkness and turn to the light with my brothers tonight, and report the situation here to our kings, and the kings will definitely be rewarded!" When the time comes, one more person will be left in the city to do the internal response, and we will definitely be able to take Xingyang City in one fell swoop! ”

The two soldiers feigned hesitation for a while, and suddenly made up their minds that there was a good dispute over who should stay behind to do the internal response, and neither of them wanted to let go of this great opportunity to make contributions to the new master.

The "ear" himself is a villain who is stealing and playing tricks, and the first rat is at both ends, and he takes it for granted that the two people who are earning red ears in front of him are also such people, so he is not suspicious, but he is not suspicious of it, but he is recommended in front of Wu Guang, saying that he is a soldier who keeps vigil and changes his guard, and has admired the king of heaven for a long time. didn't mention that he was arrested and confessed.

The "ear" is Wu Guang's own person, and he is naturally a close credant when he is the boss, and the appearance of the person who surrenders to Cheng is the best proof of the military situation reported by the "ear".

That night, the Taiping army, which was determined to win, launched an attack on Xingyang City, and sure enough, just in front of the city gate, before knocking on the door, the crack in the door quietly opened, and a thief's eyebrows and rat eyes and sallow face poked out from inside, and first kowtowed to Wu Guangma, who was headed by a tall horse: "The villain is here, and he has been waiting for the king for a long time!" ”

Wu **** was overjoyed, and verbally sealed him a "chief" on the spot, and the person was a thousand thanks, so he opened the city gate and led everyone into the city.

The Daping army marched to the main city road, and sure enough, as the "ear" said, the broken walls were ruined, the corpses were all over the field, and there was no one, so everyone took it completely lightly, talking and laughing, the team did not form a team, the army did not form an army, and even some people jumped off the horse directly, and searched for fat and scraping cream on the corpse, as if they had won the battle.

At this moment, on the surrounding city walls and the windows on the second floor, suddenly ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and the shouts shook the sky. Hurriedly draw a knife and get on the horse, but where is the time?