Since Huo Jun read the military book and fought the war, he remembered the most profound words in the military book, that is, soldiers, major events of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored.

Soldiers are so important, so how do the generals who command the battle exist?

If war is dominated by human beings, then war also has the weakness of human nature, whether it is true of both the enemy and the enemy.

Therefore, Sun Tzu emphasized in "Nine Changes" that the generals need to overcome their weaknesses. Brave and unscrupulous, easy to die at the hands of others; If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, you are easy to be caught; impatient temperament, dementia and easy defeat of the enemy; Love fame and prestige, shame and anger are easy to overthrow; He loves the people too much, and he worries about the people and cannot fight.

Of course, Sun Tzu not only teaches you to restrain your weaknesses, but also teaches you how to use them to win. It may seem absurd to take advantage of human weaknesses to fight, but that's part of war.

When Huo Jun was arranging the strategy, he was not only gambling on the reputation of the step trainer, but also on everything about him. When he is defeated, his reputation stinks; When he is victorious, all will praise him.

Just like the moon array under the Anhui water column, he fought against the water. If he is defeated, he will be the second Zhao Kuo, and Ma Jian needs to wait in line at the back; If he wins, he will be blown into the second Hanshin.

It's the same today, if you win, you're famous, and if you're defeated, you're ruined.

When Huo Jun convened the generals' meeting, Huo Du, who was far away in Shucheng, was already sharpening his knife there. The elder brother Huo Duming was sent to Shu County by Huo Jun on the surface, but in fact he was ordered to attack Cao Jun's water village and then seize the beacon tower.

Huo Jun's strategy of slacking off the enemy is not Zang Ba or Sun Yu. From the time he learned that Sun Yu had built a beacon tower, he considered crossing the river in white clothes. Due to the different background environment, Lu Meng's set of tricks could not be used on Sun Yu.

But it's not that he can't learn from it, Huo Jun is not a layman outside the war, nor is he a person like Ma Tan who reads hard. Qi Dashuai's Mandarin Duck Array and Emperor Liu Songwu's Moon Array, he has learned from them. Today, learning Lu Xun and Lu Meng's joint combination of crossing the river in white is also rewarding.

After that military meeting, before Zang Ba arrived, Huo Jun had already thought about the details of the strategy, that is, the core key was to restore the grain and grass assistance of Jianghuai and Jiangdong, and then seize Jianghuai's grain ships, pretending to be a grain ship team, and attack those beacon towers.

So how to restore the grain ship exchanges between Jianghuai and Jiangdong is also mysterious. The war was about to start, and Gao Xiang, the Anhui Naval Division and the garrison of the Tun Xukou, could cut off the water transportation connection between Jianghuai and Jiangdong, and Jianghuai did not dare to transport grain to Jiangdong.

In order to allow the two sides to resume water transportation and use grain ships to seize the beacon tower, Huo Jun painstakingly acted in this play. made stories such as sinking fish and geese, closing the moon and embarrassing flowers, and made up his own lustful name. and then made out that he was obsessed with women, which made everyone criticize.

and Zang Ba entered Chaohu Lake and attacked Misushu. Gao Xiang evacuated from the mouth of the mustache, and the battle line shrank to Shu County, which opened the prelude to the battle.

So how can Huo Jun ensure that Jianghuai will resume water transportation, so as to support Jiangdong's money and grain. The key point lies in Liu Bei and Guan Yu, who have led their troops deep into the second county of Wuhui. Jiangdong, which does not have much grain and herbs, is in urgent need of money and grain support from Jianghuai after the consumption of spring and winter.

Therefore, Huo Jun showed that he was obsessed with women, abandoned military affairs, just to shrink the battle line, and deliberately gave up Chaohu Lake and the waterways in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

As Huo Jun expected, after facing Huo Jun to shrink the front and give way to the waterway. At Sun Yu's request, Liu Fu transferred the grain and grass from Jianghuai to Hefei, preparing to load ships at Chaohu Lake and transport them to the battlefield of Wuhui.

When the enemy had already followed his own steps, Huo Jun acted decisively and let Huo Du set out from Shu County and plundered the Cao Jun Water Village in Changning Pavilion of Chaohu Lake. He covered his actions in the name of his provincial relatives, and went to the city of Jingkou as a large army.

That night, Huo Du led 2,000 people from Shu County, followed the Longshu River, entered Chaohu Lake by boat, and headed for Cao Jun's Changning Pavilion Water Village.

Longshu water, the river flow is quite large, 60% of the water volume of Chaohu Lake is injected by Longshu water.

When the night is dark, the lights of Cao Jun's water village flicker and flicker, like a bonfire in the night, which seems to attract moths. Dozens of small boats outside the water village were under the command of Huo Du, lying in the night, like poisonous snakes lurking in the night.

Suddenly, drums sounded in the silent night sky, which was the signal for Huo Du to launch an attack on the water village. Dozens of small boats burst out of the reeds in the dark night, and burst into the water village.

The water village seemed to be very surprised by Huo Du's surprise attack, and was easily killed into the water village by the Jingzhou soldiers. However, just when Shuizhai wanted to launch a rebellion, Huo Du only captured a dozen boats used to load grain, and captured a dozen sailors before withdrawing.

On these boats, the 'Cao' flag is erected high, the river wind blows, and the flag hunts and hunts.

The sergeants on the ship held torches to light the deck, and the Jingzhou sergeants carried bags of grain and grass from their own ships to the deck or in the cabin. In order not to expose the flaws, there were no hidden people in the cabin, but they were loading food and grass in a hurry.

Huo Du quickly changed the costume of the Cao captain, except for the sailors, the rest of the soldiers changed into Cao Jun's uniforms. At the same time, Huo Du learned from the captives that everything was normal, considering that the time was urgent, and the Jiangdong Army could not know the details of the attack on Shuizhai, so he ordered the soldiers to set off at night and rush to the Niuzhu Beacon Tower.

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Niuzhu, also known as Quarry Rock (now Ma'anshan City), west of Jinling, east of Weixukou. The terrain is dangerous, since ancient times, across the Yangtze River, quarrying rocks is very convenient.

Now it is not a confrontation between the north and the south, but a confrontation between the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and Sun Yu built a beacon tower on a high place to observe the ships coming out of Chaohu Lake or coming down from the upper reaches.

In the summer morning, the waters of Niuzhu Rock are misty, the smoke waves are vast, the river is rising, and the water is turbulent.

On more than a dozen boats, sailors shook their oars, swept the waves, the white sails moved against the wind, and the bottom of the boat broke the waves.

Captain Cao Xiahou Du stood on the deck, calmly holding his sword. There were scattered soldiers on the ships around.

On the beacon tower, Jiangdong Sergeant Li Er yawned and was chatting with others.

Holding the spear, Li Er said enviously: "I heard that Bu Ji has the appearance of Xi Shi, Huo Jun was so fascinated by her that he didn't want to fight. It's a pity that she doesn't know how she looks, she should be more beautiful than Zhao Ji, who sells wine in the village. ”

Zhao Da said with a smile: "What is Zhao Ji, you have never seen a noble girl." Their fingers do not touch water, their skin is like jade, their bodies are as white as jade, and they can sing and dance. Ordinary noblewomen are like this, not to mention the Bu Ji who is comparable to Xi Shi......"

Saying that, Zhao Da shook his head and said with emotion: "Comparable to the appearance of Xi Shi, if I were Huo Jun, I would be willing to welcome my relatives as a sailor, let her enjoy all the wealth and play." Of course, a certain is not like Huo Jun, who is obsessed with women and abandons the military. ”

Before Zhao Da's words fell, Li Er seemed to see more than a dozen boats in the distance, and shouted, "Tun Chief, a ship is coming." ”

Tun Commander Zhu Ba squinted and watched for a while, and shouted loudly: "Prepare the fire, the soldiers prepare for battle, if there is any abnormal movement, burn the smoke as a signal." ”

"No!"

Xiahou Du stared at the closer beacon tower and said: "Order all soldiers not to act rashly, and those who expose the military aircraft will be immediately killed." ”

"No!"

As the beacon approached, more than a dozen boats slowly lowered their sails and approached the quarry rock beacon tower.

Propped up on the wall, Zhu Ba saw the banners of 'Cao' and 'Han' clearly, slightly lowered his guard, and shouted loudly: "Why did you suddenly stop the boat here?" ”

"You know the flag up there." Xiahou Du scolded loudly and said: "Our army is ordered by Cao Sikong and Liu Yangzhou to send food to you. ”

Zhu Ba hesitated a little and said, "The beacon tower is heavy, don't stay." ”

"Bold!" Xiahou Du was furious and scolded loudly: "Sun Yu didn't dare to talk like this when he saw me. Who are you, get the hell out of here. Otherwise, when I go to Jingkou, I will definitely let you know how good I am. ”

Seeing this, Zhao Da pulled Zhu Ba's sleeve and said, "Jianghuai grain boat, the tun commander asked them to stay for a while." If we offend them, we will not look good. ”

"Good!"

Zhu Ba probed to look at the boat, and saw that the boat was full of grain and grass, so he relieved himself and shouted: "The general has just offended a lot!" The beacon fire is heavy, and the Anhui water division is guarded against. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the boat laughed loudly and said: "Huo Jun has long ignored the military, how can he still be here when he takes that step Ji back to his hometown and province today." ”

Everyone on the beacon also laughed and put down their weapons. When the sergeant with the torch saw that it was Cao Jun, he also extinguished the torch.

In the mooring room, Xiahou Du took a few sergeants to send a few jars of wine to the beacon tower and said some close words. Zhu Ba, the head of the tun, was already happy, nodded his head, and thanked Xiahou Du who wanted to speak for him.

Xiahou Du saw that the sergeant of the beacon tower was doing poorly, so he used the excuse of chatting with Zhu Ba to speculate, and then asked Zhu Ba to take people to the ship to carry grain and grass.

After a few glasses of wine, Zhu Ba had already forgotten about it, and he was greedy, so he beckoned and led more than 30 soldiers to prepare to move grain and grass.

At the same time, Xiahou Du waved his hand, and more than a dozen sergeants took the opportunity to rush into the beacon tower and capture the sergeants guarding on the platform. Those who wanted to start a fire were killed on the spot.

With the screams of the beacon tower, Zhu Ba, who was standing on the shore, came to his senses and shouted in a panic: "Why does the general treat so-and-so like this? ”

Xiahou Du raised his head and laughed, and said: "I am Huo Du, the general of Zhonglang, but I am not the general Xiahou in your mouth, and I am here on the orders of Huo Poyang." ”

"Ahh

Zhu Ba was shocked, and said in a lost voice: "You dressed up as Cao Jun to deceive us and others in order to seize the beacon tower." ”

"Haha!"

Huo Du scolded loudly and said, "Don't return quickly." ”

Zhu Ba saw that the soldiers on the ship were already aiming at them with bows and crossbows in their hands, so he had to put down his blades and surrender on his knees with Zhao Da, Li Er and others.

The Niuzhu beacon tower was captured, and the beacon tower was successfully deceived by Xiahou Du, who transported grain, and took all the beacon towers except Beigu Mountain in one day.

(End of chapter)