Chapter 13: Unexpected Joy

In the afternoon of the second day, Liu Yi led his guards to practice martial arts in the house for half a day, and there were some elementary latent skills, and after arranging the training for the afternoon, he did not bring his entourage, and came to visit Pei Xingjian's house alone.

It may be that the concierge has been instructed by Pei Xingjian, and Liu Yi was allowed to enter the house without reporting.

Pei Xingjian returned victoriously this time, although the position was not improved, but his reputation rose sharply, there were still many people who came to visit Pei's mansion, and there were a lot of carriages parked outside the mansion, but most of the people did not get Pei Xingjian's reception, Liu Yi was respectfully welcomed into the mansion by the housekeeper of Pei's mansion in the eyes of some people's jealousy and envy.

The housekeeper of Pei's Mansion personally accompanied Liu Yi to Pei Xingjian's study and walked outside the door to report.

Pei Xingjian was writing something in the study, and after hearing the housekeeper's report outside the house, he immediately let Liu Yi in.

After Liu Yi entered the house, he saw that Pei Xingjian did not stop, he was still writing Feishu, and he also went over to salute, "General, the last general is taking the liberty to visit today, I hope I didn't disturb the general!" Liu Yi quickly glanced at the rice paper that Pei Xingjian put on the case, and from the words he saw, Liu Yi roughly guessed that Pei Xingjian was writing about the process of the Anbei war and the summary of the use of troops.

Pei Xingjian also seemed to see Liu Yi's peeking action, and pointed to the paper with pen and ink on the case in front of him and said: "Virtuous nephew, I am writing about the process of this expedition to Anbei to quell the Turkic rebellion, as well as the analysis of the military affairs, this is a re-transcription, and I am going to give it to you, and it will be finished soon, you wait..."

"Yes, General!" Liu Yi also sat down on the side as he said, his heart was full of joy, and he watched Pei Xingjian write hard there.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Pei Xingjian had already finished transcribing, roughly scanned the last few manuscripts, then sorted them out, put them on the desk, got up and walked to Liu Yi's side.

Liu Yi hurriedly stood up and said respectfully: "The Great General Guo personally transcribed a copy of his experience in using the army and gave it to the last general, such care, the last general is really grateful!" Although Liu Yi didn't know why Pei Xingjian passed him over, he also knew that it must be related to the use of soldiers, and now Pei Xingjian also copied another copy of his experience in using soldiers and gave him another copy, and he was also very grateful.

Pei Xingjian didn't sit down, but stood up, pointed to the stack of manuscripts he had just written, and said to Liu Yi: "Virtuous nephew, this time, in addition to this thing for you, there are other things to tell you!"

"I want to listen to the general!" Liu Yi saluted again.

Pei Xingjian went over, took down a few bookcases from the bookshelf, walked back to Liu Yi, and told Liu Yi to sit down.

Liu Yi also sat opposite Pei Xingjian as he said, his eyes staring at the bookcases that Pei Xingjian had just brought over, and he had already roughly guessed the purpose of Pei Xingjian's call for him today.

"Virtuous nephew, after this battle of Anbei, I have also seen your talent in military affairs, and your performance is really not ordinarily good," Pei Xingjian said with a smile, "I guess I have read all the military books that were given to you last time, right?" ”

"The last general has carefully read it several times, which makes people feel suddenly enlightened, in the military book written by Li Weigong, many of the principles of using soldiers are all things that the last general has not thought of before..."Liu Yi said with an admiring look.

Li Jing's art of war is really broad and profound, many ways to use troops is Liu Yi, although he has some interest in war and research, but does not have much practical experience in the use of soldiers, he is very surprised, Liu Yi after reading Pei Xingjian's gift to Li Jing of the "Six Army Mirror", he made a general summary of it, he feels that Li Jing's concept of combat is really similar to a later war madman Hitler, that is, to win with speed, to always or several armies to drive straight in, between attacking the enemy and unpreparedness, not letting the enemy have a time to fight back, Annihilate it. In many places, Li Jing emphasized the point of "speed" in heavy battles, and the number of soldiers was not large, and many times, generals took advantage of the advantage of speed with weak troops, and also made full use of the weather and terrain to achieve major victories in the face of a strong enemy.

This concept is also deeply recognized by Liu Yi, many wars in later generations are proven, many times, speed is really the most important, just like this campaign to Anbei, my Tang Dynasty army with the Turks did not expect the speed of attack, appeared outside their big tent, a few fires burned, tens of thousands of soldiers rushed, the war is basically over, and our price is very small.

In order for the generals to achieve such results in battle, it is the most proud thing, and this is how famous generals fight.

Li Jing's "Mirror of the Six Armies" mainly tells about the concept of war of using cavalry to quickly raid the enemy's army, and also uses many examples to prove the correct surname of this watcher, and there are also very detailed descriptions of how to use cavalry in different situations, how to cooperate with heavy cavalry and light cavalry, how to arrange formations when encountering the enemy's army, how to reasonably arrange their formations of various arms, etc., but the most important thing is to pay attention to attacking the enemy with light cavalry, and other positional battles and siege battles are only briefly described in this book, without too many detailed descriptions. Liu Yi also understood Pei Xingjian's purpose of giving this military book to himself.

Nowadays, the strong enemies of my Tang Dynasty are all the peoples on the grassland, all of them are cavalry who come and go quickly, and there is no strong city to defend, and siege warfare is not very useful, but positional warfare still often happens, Liu Yi guessed that Li Jing's other military books must have other tactics to tell.

"That's great!" Pei Xingjian nodded slightly, with praise on his face, "Your swift attack method in this battle, a certain is quite satisfied, dare to attack the camp of 100,000 Turks with 2,000 horsemen, such courage is also very commendable, "Six Army Mirror" is also mainly about the tactics and strategies of the cavalry during the battle, how to use it properly, it will definitely be able to achieve a surprising winning effect... According to a certain estimate, there will be no less conquest against the Turks in the future, whether it is Anbei or Anxi, there are still too many unstable factors, and the Tang cavalry must play the most important role in dealing with the Turks. However, for a general, not only the rapid attack tactics of the cavalry must be learned, but other ways of using troops must also be familiar and mastered, such as siege warfare, city defense warfare, positional warfare against large-scale cavalry charging and killing of northern tribes, etc. These tactics are described in detail in several other military books of Shi Zu Wei Gong..."

Pei Xingjian said, his expression became very serious, and patted the bookcases that he had just taken out, "All the military books of the ancestor are here, I will give them to you today, I hope you can study them well, these art of war have certain annotations, I will also tell you in detail when I have time, but the most important thing is that you have to study them carefully..."

Liu Yi stretched out his hand to take these books in front of him, then got up again, and gave Pei Xingjian a respectful salute again: "Thank you to the general for giving these art of war, the last general really doesn't know how to be grateful... The general's kindness to the last general is difficult to express in words, and the last general is willing to respect the general's 'teacher', enter the general's door, and listen to the teacher's teachings in everything!"

Seeing Liu Yi like this, Pei Xingjian was a little surprised, but a faint smile appeared on his face, and he was quite satisfied, "Yi'an, today I will give you all these military books, then you will enter my door, and in the future, we will be commensurate with master and apprentice..."

Liu Yi suddenly understood that Pei Xingjian was going to accept himself as a disciple today, and he was busy kneeling on his knees in front of Pei Xingjian, and respectfully bowed to Pei Xingjian: "The teacher is above, the apprentice Liu Yi has saluted you..."

Pei Xingjian accepted Liu Yi's gift peacefully, and then got up and picked Liu Yi up, "Yi'an, I hope you can give full play to the art of war and achieve something, and if you meet people with acceptable qualifications in the future, you can also teach them the art of war..."

"Yes, remember the teachings of the teacher!" Liu Yi replied with a salute.

"Come, meet your master and great-master!" Pei Xingjian pulled Liu Yi and walked to a side room on the edge of the study.

Liu Yi saw that the spiritual seats of Li Jing and Su Dingfang were enshrined inside, Pei Xingjian knelt down in front of the spiritual seat first, burned incense as a salute, and Liu Yi immediately followed Pei Xingjian and knelt on the ground.

"Master, master is above, Xingjian is now said to have a new apprentice, named Liu Yi, his talent and intelligence, is a person who can teach the art of war..."Pei Xingjian respectfully bowed three times, and murmured to Li Jing and Su Dingfang's spirit in the sky, after a long period of investigation, he felt that Liu Yi was the most talented among the several people he paid attention to, so he decided to teach Liu Yi all the art of war, and introduced Liu Yi as the successor of the mantle of the art of war.

Liu Yi also followed Pei Xingjian and bowed three times.

The things needed to be used as an apprentice to his grandfather in this side room were all prepared, and Liu Yi made a solemn apprenticeship to Pei Xingjian, as well as Li Jing and Su Dingfang's spiritual seats, so that he could officially enter Pei Xingjian's door.

Listening to Pei Xingjian's words in front of Li Jing and Su Dingfang's spiritual seat, a sense of pride arose in his heart, it turned out that Pei Xingjian's other people who passed on the art of war, Pei Xingjian only regarded them as registered disciples, and did not pass on all the art of war to them, he was the first person, and he was the successor of the mantle of the art of war of the Wei Gong system, this glory and sense of mission made Liu Yi feel very different, and he also felt for the first time that Li Jing and Su Dingfang, who were synonymous with famous generals and heroes in his mind, were so close to him that they had become his great-master and ancestor, Pei Xingjian, the most famous general in the Tang Dynasty now, has also become his master, looking at the world, there is such a glory, and he is the only one, which makes him feel a little fluttering, even when he was rewarded by Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, he did not feel this way.

Before Liu Yi came to Pei Xingjian's mansion, he never thought that Pei Xingjian would accept him as an apprentice and give him all the art of war.

(To be continued)