Chapter 248: Zhuge Ke grabs the task

After listening to the herald's report, Lu Xun's face also changed, but he quickly recovered, revealing a face without waves again. There is no way, he is the governor of the capital, he is the backbone of everyone, anyone can panic, but he can't show a trace of panic, otherwise it will greatly affect morale.

Lu Xun, who had calmed down, pretended to be disdainful and said: "Hmph! It's just a clown jumping beam, so why care. ”

Seeing Lu Xun's calm appearance, the generals gradually calmed down, and slowly knelt down in front of their respective desks. Seeing that the scene had calmed down, Lu Xun said: "Guan Suo's troops don't have firearms, and they still rely on swords, guns, swords, and halberds to fight, so why should we be afraid of him." Order the defenders of Chibi to be sure to hold him back, and we will send another 20,000 men from the naval division to reinforce him, and when the time comes, we will be able to defeat the defenders in front and back. ”

Before the super battleships of Shu came out, the combat methods of the sailors of this era were basically hand-to-hand combat, so the sailors of Soochow could be used as armies ashore. They are a bit like the Marines of later generations, the ships are just vehicles, and after the two sides come into contact, they board the ships or go ashore to fight.

"Ladies and gentlemen, is there anyone who would like to go to this for a while?" Lu Xun did not directly point to the general, but asked.

"The last will go." Xu Sheng was the first to stand up and grab the task.

"Eh, Uncle Xu, that Guan Suo is just a dime a boy, why bother Uncle Xu to go out. Why don't you let the little nephew meet him? "The person who spoke was in his early twenties, dressed as a Confucian scholar, with red lips and white teeth, handsome and extraordinary, and at first glance, he was not an ordinary person. This person's surname is Zhuge Mingke, the character Yuanxun, is the eldest son of Zhuge Jin, that is, Zhuge Liang's nephew.

Xu Sheng glared at him and said, "Yuan Xun, you also want to rob your Uncle Xu of the credit?" "Xu Sheng is three years younger than Zhuge Jin, the two are ministers in the same hall, and they usually have a good relationship, so he and Zhuge Ke call each other uncles and nephews.

"Uncle Xu, it's not that Ke wants to rob his uncle of his credit, Ke is really thinking about his uncle by doing this. Uncle, think about it, who is Guan Suo? He is just the wild son of Guan Yunchang, and his uncle and Guan Yunchang are the same generation, aren't you surrendering your identity when you go to fight him? And this battle, win or lose it will not benefit you. If you win, others will say that you are bullying the small, and if you lose, it will be even worse, and they will say that you are not even as good as a junior.

Therefore, for the sake of my uncle, please don't go to fight with Guan Suo, this kind of junior, let's leave it to the little nephew. The little nephew is his contemporary, it doesn't matter if he wins or loses, of course, the little nephew will not lose to such a hairy boy who only has the courage of a horseman. Zhuge Ke's last sentence was for Xu Sheng, and it was also for Lu Xun.

"Humph! As far as you have a lot of eyes, if you want to grab the task, just say it, but you want to say a bunch of beautiful things. After Xu Sheng finished speaking, he sat back down, but there were also words that didn't mention grabbing the task, obviously Zhuge Ke's words had already worked, and he had already acquiesced to giving up the task.

"Hehe, please forgive my uncle, forgive me." Zhuge Ke laughed, bowed to Xu Sheng, and said.

Lu Xun saw that no one came out to ask for help, so he said: "In this case, then let Yuan Xun go." Yuan Xun, you take this governor's arrow to the camp to allocate 20,000 horses, set off on the same day, and gallop to the aid of Chibi in the starry night. Although Guan Suo is young, his martial arts are strong, and it is said that he has obtained a few true legends. You have to take it seriously and don't take it lightly. ”

Zhuge has many talents, Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin of the previous generation are both dragons and phoenixes among people, Zhuge Ke is also known as a prodigy since he was a child, and he has a high reputation among the younger generation of Eastern Wu. He was appreciated by Sun Quan at a young age, and when he was weak, Sun Quan named him the captain of the cavalry, and ordered him to assist the crown prince Sun Deng, who was the leader of the staff of the East Palace.

He followed Lu Xun on the expedition this time on the order of the crown prince to come out to gild. After all, he was a man of letters, had no influence in the army, and was in dire need of his military exploits to increase his prestige in the army. In the army, every qiē is measured by military merit, you have no military merits, no matter how famous those big-headed soldiers may not obey you, you have great military achievements, even if you are a flat-headed people, they will support you and support you.

As the crown prince, Sun Deng needs to have a certain influence in the army, so that he can sit firmly on the crown prince's throne, so he sent his chief of staff Zhuge Ke to follow Lu Xun on the expedition, hoping that he can make some credit in this war and increase the power of Donggong in the army.

The battle for the heir of Dongwu is very fierce, Lu Xun is actually pro-prince, and he will more or less give Zhuge Ke some care, plus he also knows that Zhuge Ke has been very talented since he was a child, and he is a junior that he looks up to, so he readily agreed to let him go out to fight for military exploits.

"Obey the teachings of the Grand Governor." Zhuge Ke clasped his hands into fists and saluted, then strode out of the tent and went to the barracks to select the men and horses to go to the battle.

The literati of this era are not those powerless and useless scholars after the Tang Dynasty, most of the scholars of this era can be literate and martial, they can command thousands of troops and horses to pacify the world, and they can promote the rule of writing and govern the country and the country.

The most representative figures are Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Lu Xun and others, these three people are all literati and prime ministers, but they can also lead the army to fight as marshals.

Zhuge Ke is no exception, because he has an upper-class family, he has received a good education since he was a child, and he is proficient in all the "six arts of a gentleman". Confucianism advocates that as a "gentleman", one should learn at least six skills, namely: "etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics". In the "Six Arts" education, the teaching of etiquette, music, calligraphy, and mathematics is literature, and archery is martial arts, so the education of the six arts is a typical education with both literature and martial arts.

It is a pity that in the imperial dynasty after the Tang Dynasty, Confucianism entered a misunderstanding, misinterpreted the doctrine of Confucius and his old man, and gradually abandoned the martial arts aspect of the "six arts of the gentleman", and the Confucian disciples gradually became powerless scholars, and the overall character of the Chinese nation gradually became timid and cowardly, losing the enterprising and pioneering heart, and then quickly narrowed the distance and surpassed by Western civilization, and did not begin to rise again until modern times.

Zhuge Ke is a typical scholar of both civil and military affairs in this era. Because there is no more chariot warfare in the war of this era, so the imperial art is changed to horsemanship, he can ride a horse, and the riding skills are good, and the archery skills are also okay, although it can't be done in a hundred steps, but it is not worse than the average archer. He has been reading military books since he was a child, and he is not stage frightened at all for leading soldiers to battle.

Xiakou was more than 300 miles away from Chibi, and Zhuge Ke led his troops to rush day and night, and it only took three or four days to rush to the outside of Chibi City. Chibi is just a small town near the river, with only low city walls, but because it is a military town, there are 5,000 Soochow soldiers stationed here.

Chibi was originally an obscure place, and people are known for it because of the Chibi War. However, the battlefield of the Battle of Chibi was not actually in Chibi, but in Honghu Wulin in Jiangbei.

Because Cao Cao was stationed in Jiangbei, the Cao army camp was burned, which naturally happened in Wulin, where Cao's army was stationed, and Chibi, which was in the south of the Yangtze River, was just a place for Zhou Yu to garrison military horses, collect war materials, plan for war and Zhuge Liang's so-called "sacrifice to the east wind", not a battlefield.

Therefore, the Battle of Chibi should actually be called the Battle of Wulin, I don't know how later generations made a mistake and put this battle under an unrelated name. Some archaeologists say: The ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms is in Wulin, because the war reflects the stone wall of the river, so it is called "Red Cliff", but this is just a family statement, and it is impossible to study how the real history is.