The best liars and conspirators, of course, will even deceive their own people who don't matter when they are doing the game-

As long as you make sure that it doesn't lead to any other bad consequences, such as low morale and unstable morale, then that's fine.

No, this time, Shen Shuren did the game, hugged the grass and beat the rabbit Yin Zuo Liangyu, and even the ordinary people in Xiaogan City were all deceived, and even Jin Shenghuan, who had just come from afar to reinforce two days later, was also deceived into it.

Jin Shenghuan arrived in Xiaogan with troops on the third day of the fifth month, and when he arrived, he saw a gloomy and miserable appearance, and he listened to the rumors along the way, and couldn't help but be very worried.

As soon as they met, he raised his worries: "Shen troops, the last general was ordered by Fang Futai to lead a battalion of people from the headquarters to come to help, and wait for the deployment of troops." I don't know how to deploy our army?

With all due respect, on the way to the end, I passed by Wuchang Mansion yesterday and heard a lot of news that was unfavorable to our army, and everyone there said that Erhe was a big enemy, and there were some filthy words about the grievances between the military and General Zuo, I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to the war situation. ”

Shen Shuren smiled slightly and patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay, the folk fools know what the art of war is, and it is impossible for them to know that Liu Guoneng has sent reinforcements to surround Wei to save Zhao and He Yilong's lair."

This news has been kept strictly secret by our army, and the Xiaogan squire has a legend that our army has no help, and I have never refuted the rumors and allowed them to spread. What I'm afraid of is to startle the snake, so that Erhe can keep delaying until the last moment. ”

Seeing Shen Shuren's commanding appearance, Jin Shenghuan let go of his worries, and then went to greet the other Ming army generals, and his words and attitudes were respectful.

Although Jin Shenghuan was a reinforcement sent on behalf of Fang Kongzhi, his own military position was only a garrison, leading a guard battalion of 2,000 people.

There are many high-ranking and low-ranking generals here in Shen Shuren, Zuo Zixiong is already a guerrilla, Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue are also dusi, which official position is not bigger than Jin Shenghuan, he can only choose to be a low-key person.

However, after half a day's effort, Jin Shenghuan was roughly familiar with his colleague generals, and in this process, seeing that Zuo Zixiong and others admired Shen Shuren so much and absolutely obeyed his words, he was also secretly frightened, secretly thinking that this Shen soldier must have something extraordinary.

He has been in the army for ten years, and he has never seen a military general admire his civilian boss so from the bottom of his heart.

Even if it is himself, a high-ranking official like Kong Zhi on the other side is only forced to obey orders due to the high position and power of the other party, but he can't talk about the character or personality charm worship of Kong Jiong.

He couldn't help but secretly hint at it and asked, wondering why Zuo Zixiong and the others admired Shen Shuren so much.

The answer he got was also very unquestionable, and all the generals looked at him with an idiot-like look:

"In the future, you will know that Shen Bingbei loves the people like a son, there is no shelf, no matter how he persuades the peasants to govern the army, he does it himself, even craftsmen, farmers, and soldiers, as long as they have a skill, they can be used by him."

"Shen Bingbei was born as a Jinshi in the two lists, and has the name of Geng Jie, who is criticized by the world, but he never looks down on our military ministers, nor does he look down on craftsmen, they are all equal friends-

Jin Shoubei, you are an afterthought, think about it, Liu Guoneng is just a thief Zhao'an, and when he saw Shen Bingbei's request for help, he can be so righteous and righteous, and he feels that Shen Bingbei was righteous back then.

I remember that you have a Qian general manager under you, and he escorted Shenfu to Liu Guoneng to send a letter of help, but he didn't tell you how Liu Guoneng felt about Shen Bingbei? ”

The generals talked about it, and it was called a righteous and awe-inspiring person, which made Jin Shenghuan a little ashamed. But after listening carefully to the many deeds that the audience will relay, Jin Shenghuan couldn't help but waver, and he wanted to follow Shen Shuren all the time.

Although he was later demoted to the Qing Dynasty in history, after all, he descended with his boss Zuo Mengeng (Zuo Liangyu's son), and he was a little involuntarily.

Later, anyway, participating in the anti-Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty is not necessarily how loyal he is to the Ming Dynasty, but this kind of military general who was born in Zhao'an, more or less likes a "martial" political environment, and likes to do things for a court where civil officials can't suppress military generals-

At this point, some military generals in the late Southern Song Dynasty who descended to the Yuan Dynasty told the same logic when they took refuge in Kublai Khan.

Kublai Khan asked the Song Dynasty that the treatment given by Yulu was not bad, how could he vote for decades after receiving Jun's grace, but Jia Rudao Wen Tianxiang and other civil officials could insist on resisting, and in the end there were so many jumps into the sea.

Xia Gui and other veterans of the Song Dynasty said: The Song Dynasty emphasized literature and light martial arts! Jia Yidao has always been wary of us and disrespectful to us.

In the end, Kublai Khan just laughed and said: No wonder Jia Rudao doesn't respect you! You guys aren't even as good as Jia Nidao!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan, who first descended to the Qing Dynasty and then opposed the Qing Dynasty, more or less had such thoughts. I just feel that the Ming Dynasty despises military generals too much, and it is better to be barbarian and martial, so they would rather give up national righteousness for the sake of their own ability endowment of social status and class order, and must find a regime that can allow military generals to ride on the heads of civilian officials.

It's a pity that in history, when Jiangxi and Liangguang were pacified, the Qing Dynasty also showed signs of "governing the country with literature", and a governor could step on the heads of Li Chengdong and Jin Shengheng to humiliate them. You're a piece of trash! Then the men got angry and turned back.

Li Chengdong has too many bad deeds in history, and it is definitely impossible for Shen Shuren to win him over, but Jin Shenghuan can be saved.

The most important thing is that he soon discovered that Shen Shuren is different from all the other civil officials he has seen today, and Shen Shuren really feels that civil and military are equal, which makes him feel like he knows each other.

This kind of idea of equality between civil and military personnel that comes from modern people when talking to military generals and deeds revealed in their words and deeds cannot be pretended by any civil official of the Ming Dynasty.

People who have read the Four Books and Five Classics all their lives and taken the road of imperial examinations have long been brainwashed to the bone marrow by Chongwen and martial arts. The peaceful mentality of Shen Shuren, a traverser, has become a "spiritual plug-in" for him to win over the indignant generals.

……

Jin Shenghuan and his colleagues brainwashed each other and gradually had a tendency to be assimilated. According to the plan of the Shen Shuren, he came from afar, and he had to rest for a day, recover his state, and then go into battle.

On the other side, it happened that in the evening of the same day, there was another piece of good news in the direction of the thief camp.

After listening to it roughly, Shen Shuren was also quite excited, and immediately convened all the generals to discuss.

As soon as the generals entered the big tent, they saw the face of the soldier with joy, and they couldn't help but look forward to it.

Shen Shuren didn't let them guess the dumb riddle, and proudly announced: "Just now, Yang Dusi's scouts were on duty at night, and they captured a group of rogue soldiers who came to vote, and there were actually two or three thousand people!"

These are said to be He Jin's descendants, and the official has already interrogated them, and they said that early yesterday morning, He Yilong announced He Jin's death in the army! He also planted the blame on us, saying that he was injured by a mine in Yanzhi County that day, and finally died!

But many of He Jin's guards were missing, and there were rumors in the camp that He Yilong was plotting to kill his colleagues and annex his subordinates! Some of He Jin's henchmen were in danger, so they had to lead their troops to descend! The thieves have been fighting so far, this is God bless me to break it! ”

"What? Before we could do it, He Jin was actually dead! ”

"God bless Daming! The thief army is so infighting, but our army still has reinforcements, and there are still flanking attacks, although there are many thieves, there is no need to worry! ”

The generals were surprised for a while, and their morale became more and more invigorated.

After the initial ecstasy, everyone quickly summed up the strength of the enemy and the enemy.

Because of the two or three thousand soldiers who fled from infighting to vote, now the inside story of the military situation on He Yilong's side is equivalent to being completely transparent to the officers and soldiers, and it is more transparent than opening the perspective hanging.

How many people, how many wounded, and logistics and materials He Yilong still has, Shen Shuren can quickly sort it out.

The generals immediately divided up and intensified the torture, and after a while, they learned:

The military rations of the thieves can at least last a month, but because they have to retreat, they can't take all the supplies away, and they won't loot in Suizhou anymore recently, and they can't take it anyway.

Under normal circumstances, if the thieves marched slowly in batches for ten days and eight days, it was possible to escort most of the supplies through the mountainous area of Tongbai Mountain as they did when they came.

But now I don't have to be in a hurry, so I can only bring a little less stuff.

And according to the latest news of the thieves, on the side of Xinyang Mansion, Liu Guoneng seemed to be unable to attack the fortifications, so he did not choose to directly besiege Xinyang County.

But after a tentative attack, he turned around and chose to plug the mouth, and there is already a tendency to seize the Tongbai Pass at the north entrance of Xinyang Road-

It is important to mention geography here, Tongbai Pass is a gap in the Xinyang-Suizhou passage, located at the northernmost point of the Zhuanshui River Valley. It is the only way to march along the Zhuanshui River Valley from Anlu County and Suizhou County to the north, and to cross Tongbai Mountain into Henan.

Historically, the roundabout attack on Suizhou in Hubei from Xinyang, Henan Province was all taken this road, and on this mountain road, there was also a battle of the main materials of "The Art of War":

Two thousand years ago, when Sun Wu led the Wu army to attack Chu, he first took the Huai River from Wu to Xinyang (at that time, the navigation technology was relatively poor, and the Huai River was easier to walk than the Yangtze River), and then from Xinyang to Tongbai Pass into Zhuanshui, and then to Suiguo's hometown, and fought the "Battle of Baiju" with the Chu army.

Sun Wu wrote the art of war very well in his life, but there were only a few actual battles, and it can be said that the battle of Baiju provided most of the actual combat materials for "Sun Tzu's Art of War".

Including Sun Tzu's writing about the difficulty of raising grain and grass, "Eat the enemy for one minute, and be my twenty bells; Avoid one stone, when I am twenty stones", these data, in fact, have been verified by later generations, and they are also calculated according to the logistical loss of the Battle of Baiju.

Because it is necessary to cross the Dabie Mountain and Tongbai Mountain to transport grain, the loss is so large, and one minute on the front line is equal to 20 minutes on the rear, and if it is changed to a separate battlefield, it is impossible to lose so much.

Such a dangerous road that can give birth to "The Art of War", but now the mouth on the north side is in danger of being ambushed and blocked by Liu Guoneng, how can He Yilong not be in a hurry? Now is the time for the brave to win.

If you win, you can leap with the fish, and the people who annexed He Jin will go to the Henan Plain to grab them at will.

lost, that is, Liu Guoneng intercepted in front of him, and Shen Shuren pursued him later, and he was blocked in this Tongbai Mountain Road.

"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"

Winner takes all, loses and loses!

After Shen Shuren combined intelligence and analyzed the situation, the generals' will to fight became more and more explosive, and Jin Shenghuan, who had just arrived, was also worried that there would be no chance to perform, so he took the initiative to ask for battle:

"Lord Soldier! Tomorrow, please be the vanguard of the front! Pursue He Yilong first! ”