"So powerful!?"

Tang Qianwen was shocked from the bottom of her heart.

"That's just talking on paper," Chen Anran looked disdainful: "If it is really a real battle, Nalan Wenjing will not have the slightest chance of winning against the Heavenly Master Elder of Dragon and Tiger Mountain......

Nalan is fifteen years old? That was four years ago.

This incident once caused a sensation in the entire Xuanmen, and Longhu Mountain lost face because of this.

At that time, among the Xuanmen, there were many people talking about this.

But without exception, when everyone talked about this matter, they selectively despised Nalan Wenjing and disdained her to win on paper.

Imagine that at that time, if it was a real fight, Nalan Wenjing would not have the slightest chance of winning......

For this reason, many people cite scriptures and classics and mention the historical story of "Talking on Paper".

It is reported that during the Warring States Period, Zhao Kuo, the son of the famous Warring States general Zhao Hao, read military books and could talk about the way of using soldiers.

Even his father, Zhao Hao, who is a famous general, is difficult to defeat him in the art of war, and since then he has considered himself invincible in the world.

But Zhao Hao always thinks that he is talking on paper and does not know how to be flexible. Later, Zhao Hao died, Zhao Kuo replaced Lian Po and led the troops, Lin Xiangru and others strongly opposed, and finally could not stand the insistence of King Zhao.

Zhao Kuo was killed by an arrow in the Battle of Changping, losing 400,000 soldiers.

Since then, the idiom of talking about war on paper has spread, which means talking about war on paper. Metaphors talk about theories and cannot solve practical problems. It is also a metaphor that empty talk cannot become reality.

Zhao Kuo was teased by later generations and satirized for thousands of years.

But few people mention it......

"Zhao Kuo is a genius in the field of the art of war, at least in theory." I have even seen an unknown side of Zhao Kuo in an ancient scroll, which is indeed surprising: "He once won the most difficult battle of the Warring States Period with ingenuity, and captured the strong city of Qi - Maiqiu with very few losses. The profundity of military theories and the ingenuity of ideas displayed in the Battle of Maiqiu are beyond the reach of his father Zhao Hao."

"Isn't it!?" Chen Anran was stunned: "Zhao Kuo on paper, that waste has a record in addition to the Battle of Changping?"

"Yes," I elaborated on right now, when King Huiwen of Zhao decided to take the city of Maiqiu in Qi and sent an army of 100,000 to attack it.

In the eyes of King Zhao Huiwen, Maiqiu had become an isolated city at that time. Now that it is pressed by the Zhao army, surrounded on all sides, and the people in the city have nowhere to escape, they should naturally be captured.

But King Zhao Huiwen didn't know the art of war, he didn't know that the fortified city in this situation had become a "dead place" with no way out, but it was the most difficult to take, and the so-called "put it to death and then live" is exactly this truth.

Because the people in the city had no way to retreat and were unwilling to surrender, they had to fight to the death, and the Zhao army besieging the city would naturally suffer heavy casualties and be difficult to capture.

The art of war pays attention to the "siege of three and one", that is, to leave a back road for the besieged enemy, and when they find that there is a way to retreat, they will not fight to the end, but lose their fighting spirit and rush to flee to the only way of retreat.

Just like a hunter hunting roe deer in the mountains, they form a half-moon shape and leave a special escape route, so that the roe deer can flee to the reserved route in a swarm, so that the hunters can return with a full load.

In ancient sieges, the same is true, unless the besieging side is really sure that they can directly conquer the fortified city.

In fact, the defenders in Maiqiu City had already learned the news that the Zhao army was coming to attack, and they had already strengthened the city wall and were ready to defend the city. And the king of Qi also sent reinforcements and grain and grass to Maiqiu, and wanted to hold Maiqiu at any cost.

What's even more troublesome is that many Mo disciples who are good at defending the city are also in the Qi State, helping the defenders improve the power of bows and arrows and improve the fortifications.

The Mo family, which rose in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the beginning of the Warring States Period, was famous for being good at producing agency news. The disciples of the Mohists advocated peace and opposed war. They had always opposed the unjust wars of annexing territory between princes, so they designed fortifications very well.

As a result, even the state of Zhao, which had undergone military reform, had a large number of troops and was brave and good at fighting, but when attacking Maiqiu, it fell like wheat in the face of the sharp bows and crossbows of the defenders and the strong fortifications of the city walls, and the attack was fruitless for a long time, and suffered heavy casualties. However, Maiqiu City is still strong and free, firmly in the hands of the Qi State.

In the end, it also ushered in a temporary change, and Zhao Kuo offered a plan......