Chapter 333: The oil will run out, and the lamp will wither

Regarding Zhou Yafu's final conclusion, Liu Sheng's feelings can be described as extremely complicated.

In a way, Liu Sheng has long been mentally prepared for Zhou Yafu's conclusion.

- Cheng Buzhi, Zhidu;

These two people, one is a talent in the Han military today, but they are also recognized as representative figures of "one generation is not as good as the next" and "the dwarf is the one who pulls out the sinner".

Think about what kind of monsters were the Han military a hundred years ago?

Soldier Immortal Han Xin!

Peng Yue, the ancestor of guerrilla warfare!

Hand-to-hand combat grandmaster Yingbu!

Defensive battle expert Zhou Zao!

Even if these four people are put aside, the Han family can be used, and even the commander-level talents who can control a medium and large-scale battle on their own are too many to count on two hands.

What Zhou Bo, Fan Xu, Xiahou Ying;

What Xi Juan, Li Shang, Jin She, Wang Ling;

What is Guan Baby, Fu Kuan, Chai Wu, Xue Ou, Zhou Chang, Ding Fu, and Worm Da······

Just this series of names, any single one of them is put out and put up to now, they are all characters who take Zhou Yafu as a little follower.

As a result, by now, Zhou Yafu has become a 'master of high merit', and he can no longer take charge of the army;

Cheng Buzhi is a young general who has no special skills and is known for being a 'low limit' and 'no mistakes', and has become the only young talent in the military who can do it;

As for Zhidu, it was even more from the government and the opposition to change careers, although the talent was slightly better than Cheng Buzhi, but because of many years of government and the opposition, he missed the age of consolidating basic skills.

Up to now, Zhou Yafu has no choice but to drop a sentence: these two people are tied together, and they can only fight a small and medium-sized battle with no more than 50,000 soldiers.

But what Zhou Yafu didn't say, and what Liu Sheng didn't emphasize anymore was: This is already the limit of the Han family today;

These two people who are tied together, can barely lead 50,000 people out to fight, and guarantee that they will not suffer too much defeat, are already the last cards that the Han family can take now······

"Whew~"

"It's hard to ······"

"It's a pity that I didn't learn history well, and I didn't remember Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, who was the ······ of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty."

"There are more than a dozen of our brothers, none of them are named Liu Che, I think they are great-grandsons?"

"Alas~"

"Doesn't this mean that 'that' two people will not come out until my son becomes emperor······

For the history of the Han family, or for the history of China, Liu Sheng in his previous life didn't know much about it.

- After all, he is just a hard-working worker, and he is already thankful that he can not spit out all the ink in the school.

For Liu Han, Liu Sheng's memory is also limited to 'Qin II died, Liu Bang fought with Xiang Yu, and finally won';

After Liu Bang, he was an Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, which impressed Liu Sheng deeply - this is all because of the test center called 'Wenjing Zhizhi', which forced Liu Sheng to memorize by rote.

Before coming to this era and becoming the grandson of Emperor Wen of Han, Liu Sheng didn't even know that Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Taizong of Han were the same person, and the name of Emperor Wen of Han was Liu Heng.

If it weren't for the fact that the test center was called 'Wenjing Zhizhi', Liu Sheng wouldn't even know that his father Tianzi Qi was the historical Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.

As for Emperor Wu's northern expedition against the Xiongnu after the rule of Wenjing, how long was the interval between the two, and Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was the grandson of the first emperor Liu Heng and the grandson of today's Ziqi, Liu Sheng knew nothing.

"Hi ······"

"When I have a son in the future, I should be able to know."

"Name your eldest son Liu Che?"

"I don't know where the ancestors of 'that' two people are now, what they are doing······

After a moment of aimless brainstorming, Liu Sheng sighed bitterly and nodded to Zhou Yafu.

Of course, Liu Sheng understood the meaning of Zhou Yafu's words.

- Cheng Buzhi and Zhidu are already the limit of the Han family today, and it is impossible for Zhou Yafu not to understand this truth that even Liu Sheng understands.

After all, these two people are the two candidates that Zhou Yafu carefully selected by himself and deliberately 'left a way back'.

Therefore, Zhou Yafu persuaded Liu Sheng to find another candidate to be the coach of the Han-Hun decisive battle in the future, in fact, he was telling Liu Sheng euphemistically: The Han-Hun decisive battle may be delayed because of the coach's problem.

In this regard, Liu Sheng is not in a hurry to have a headache for the time being.

- Even if the problem of the coach is solved, the current Han family is far from ready for a decisive battle.

According to Liu Sheng's estimates, it will take at least another ten years for the Han family to basically complete the logistics and material reserves for the decisive battle, reaching the point where 'fighting for a year and a half, but it will not affect the lives of the people at all, and the treasury can barely afford the expenses of this war, and still have a certain reserve after the war'.

As for the army, not to mention, the cavalry units went from the full number of horses to the finalization of the composition of the cavalry, to the drills, training, and running-in······

It is no exaggeration to say: Unless you eat the elixir, otherwise, with the body and bones of the Son of Heaven now, you will never want to see the day of the decisive battle between Han and Hungary.

Even at least before the grass on the grave of the Son of Heaven grows to waist-high, the decisive battle between Han and Hungary, which will inevitably occur in the future visible to the naked eye, will be deliberately postponed by the Han family.

This is not so sensational - the war between the Han and the Huns has always been the Han family swallowing their anger and allowing the Huns to provoke, and they have forcibly suppressed the anger of the whole army;

When you are fully prepared, and you can no longer suppress the anger accumulated in the past few decades, the decisive battle between Han and Hungary is really what the Han family says will fight, and you can fight immediately.

- The Huns, that's also a powder keg, just a little bit;

No matter who it is, as long as the word 'fight' is mentioned, the Huns will have absolutely no reason not to fight.

"What's the exam question for today?"

Putting aside the mixed thoughts and forcing himself to draw his attention back to the eyes, Liu Sheng asked a question as if chatting;

Hearing this, Zhou Yafu didn't think twice and said: "Today's exam question is the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, if 'I' is Ma Fuzi Zhao Kuo, what should I do?" ”

"The goal is: at least a tie, and try to preserve the 400,000 young and strong Zhao army, and try to preserve the strength of the Zhao State as much as possible."

originally asked casually, but as soon as he heard Zhou Yafu talk about the exam questions, Liu Sheng immediately became interested;

Walking forward quickly, he secretly glanced behind Cheng Buzhi and Zhidu, and Liu Sheng, who had just been interested, straightened up again and shook his head in disappointment.

I don't know if I felt Liu Sheng's disappointment, or was completely stumped by the exam questions in front of me, Cheng Buzhi and Zhi Du only scratched their heads violently, and the pen hanging in their hands couldn't fall on the bamboo slip in front of them.

For every general and warrior who is interested in achieving something at the 'strategic' level, the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping can be described as a hurdle that can never be bypassed.

- If you are Zhao Kuo and get the order of King Zhao to replace Lian Po and become the commander of the Zhao army, how do you deal with the 600,000 Qin tigers and wolves under the command of the killing god Bai Qi!

This proposition may be simpler for the idlers, lazy rangers, and the gossip party with broken mouths.

Even for a long period of time, the phrase 'If I were a horse suit' was once a drunken braggadocio for a man.

But bragging is bragging, if you really want to compare and contrast on the sand table, then it's really not 'I can do it too'.

"Qin Zhao Changping fought a battle, and the family should also know about it?"

Hearing Zhou Yafu's question, Liu Shengzi also nodded slowly, but did not speak again, disturbing Cheng Buzhi and Zhidu, who were 'exam'.

But although he didn't say it, in his heart, Liu Sheng couldn't help but recall that memory.

The First Battle of Qin and Zhao Changping can be described as the most tragic national war in the entire Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period for more than 400 years, and there is no one!

With a population of more than 200 and less than 3 million, Qin sent an army of 600,000 people, and almost everyone who could wield a sword was sent to the battlefield in military robes;

Not only that, but even those old Qin people who were not sent to the battlefield, regardless of men, women, old and young, provided food and grass for the front-line army.

In those years, the whole country of Ying Qin was united, and more than two million old Qin people were united, and the only goal was to win the battle of Changping.

Qin is like this, and Zhao is not much different.

- The state of Zhao, with a population of 1.5 million, sent an army of 400,000;

Although the strength of the army is not as good as the 600,000 army of the Qin State, if calculated according to the proportion of the population, the 400,000 army of the Zhao State is more worthy of the sentence 'the power of the country' than the 600,000 army of the Qin State.

That is to say, in terms of military strength, the Qin State has a considerable advantage;

Coupled with the quality of the soldiers of the 'Tiger and Wolf Qin', the combat effectiveness of the Qin State is also far above that of the Zhao State.

In addition, in terms of logistics supply, the Qin State, which has mastered the granary of Bashu, is also much better than the Zhao State, which is located in a land with many mountains and few fields.

Combined with this kind of aspect, it is no exaggeration to say: Qin and Zhao Changping's first battle, for Zhao State, as long as he can hold the defense line and not be forced to retreat step by step by the Qin army, it can already be regarded as a victory;

For Qin, this battle, if you don't defeat the Zhao capital Handan, it is equivalent to defeat.

Obviously, both sides have a clear understanding of this.

Therefore, the Qin State sent the most outstanding strategists at that time, and ordered the entire Qin State in parallel: dare to leak Wu Anjun Bai Qi as the handsome, Yi three clans!

Zhao Guo also sent out what he could get his hands on from among the veterans-Lian Po, who was still able to eat.

At the beginning of the campaign, knowing well that the strategic situation of the Qin State 'not taking Handan is equivalent to defeat', Lian Po did not hesitate to put out the eight formations of the king.

- You come and fight.

- I will stand in your way;

- If you attack, I will defend, and if you retreat, I will watch, and I will not chase half a step.

was stopped in front of Lian Po's Wang Bazhen, even if it was a killing god, he had no idea for a while.

In the end, relying on the discord plan, he sent people to spread rumors in Handan City, which aroused doubts in King Zhao's heart, and finally replaced the experienced Lian Po.

After that, people habitually thought: Zhao Kuo, who was talking on paper, replaced the veteran Lian Po, pushed down all the correct measures of Lian Po, and led the army to attack without his own strength, and fought a decisive battle with the killing god Bai;

But what people don't know is that Lian Po's Wang Ba Array was a strategic choice taken purely from the perspective of 'only by doing this to avoid defeating the battle', while Zhao Kuo took the initiative to attack and seek a decisive battle, but from the perspective of 'if you don't do this, Zhao will perish', from the perspective of the country, from the perspective of Zongmiao and Sheji, and finally made a choice that he had no choice but to make.

- The Battle of Qin, Zhao and Changping, which lasted for three years;

——By the time Zhao Guo changed his commander and replaced Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, even the city of Handan, the capital of Zhao, was almost out of food······

The Qin State relied on the Bashu granary, and there were more than 2 million old and weak women and children transporting grain, but they couldn't hold on, not to mention the Zhao State, which had always had poor grain production and had to import grain from the Qin State every three or five times?

Therefore, the first battle of Qin and Zhao Changping seemed to be Zhao Kuo's talk on paper, which shattered Lian Po's plan for three years before and after in one fell swoop, but in fact, Lian Po couldn't shrink for three years, forcing the entire Zhao country to the point of having to fight a decisive battle.

If you don't hurry up and get a result, and don't end this damn battle of Changping, let alone the people of Zhao State, even the nobles of Zhao State in Handan City will be dragged to death by this war······

So, Zhao Kuo made a desperate gamble and fought a decisive battle with the 600,000 Qin army under Bai Qi's command;

How could his skills be inferior to others, and he had the upper hand in all aspects such as military morale, morale, troops, and combat power, and finally lost in the hands of Bai Qi, the god of killing, and became the last stepping stone that was stepped on in Bai Qi's devastated life and undefeated military career.

Knowing that this battle could not be won, Zhao Kuo also ordered the 400,000 troops to surrender out of order to preserve the vitality and 'leave the green mountains behind'.

But in the end, in front of the killing god Bai Qi's heart, which was even colder than the cold winter capital, Ma Fuzi led the army to surrender to the enemy, but only left a sentence of '400,000 people are disarmed, but none of them are men', and the 400,000 Zhao soldiers who were killed by the killing god Bai Qi.

Then, Zhao Guo, who lost an entire generation, was lonely;

Especially after losing an entire generation of strong labor, that is, combat power, the Zhao State was in a slump until decades later, when it was overthrown by the First Emperor Yingzheng in one fell swoop.

And for the problem of 'if you are a horse under Changping', even Liu Sheng really feels a little ······

"This exam question~"

"Tiaohou, I'm afraid that some expectations are too high, right?"

A little fluke asked, but Zhou Yafu shook his head helplessly.

"I didn't expect these two to really give a perfect answer."

"It's just that from the answers of these two people, the minister really can't see the decisiveness that 'handsome' should have."

"—At this moment, the two of them are still hanging their pens in the air, but they are slow to put them down."

"This kind of 'answer sheet' is much worse than writing without hesitation, but writing a bunch of bullshit that isn't ······"

Listening to Zhou Yafu's words, Liu Sheng finally let go of all luck and completely understood Zhou Yafu's intentions.

"It seems that we really have to find someone else to be the coach of the decisive battle in the future, as the Marquis said······"

said this, and looked deeply at the backs of Cheng Buzhi and Zhidu, Liu Sheng shook his head and sighed and turned around;

Just as he was about to return to the dormitory, he heard that Xia Que stepped forward in small steps, bringing the news that he had been sent to the palace countless times in the past few months.

"Your Highness······"

"Around noon, His Majesty seemed to fall asleep again, and he still did not wake up at this moment;"

"The Queen Mother sent a eunuch to come and summon Her Royal Highness to the Xuan Room as soon as possible······"

Don't be impatient...

(End of chapter)