King Zhao was very moved by Lin Zhen's filial piety, agreed to Lin Zhen's resignation and returned home, and gave Lin Zhen many rewards.

Lin Xiangru lived in Zhu Xiang's house to recuperate, and Lin Zhen naturally moved in, playing with Ying Xiaozheng every day, so as not to sneak to the sleeping uncle's stomach every day to tap dance.

Lin Zhen saw Zhao Kuo come in and waved his feather duster, and Ying Xiaozheng immediately hugged the feather duster into his arms.

Lin Zhen smiled and let go of his hand, let Ying Xiaozheng "snatch" the feather duster, and staggered to Zhao Kuo with the wine jar: "Ouch? Isn't this a well-known horse in the whole Zhao Kingdom? What are you doing in this small place of Zhuxiang? You don't want to argue with Zhu Xiang, do you? Go to Zhu Xiang with your identity and status, you also look up to Zhu Xiang too much. ”

Lin Xiangru and Zhao Hao have a good relationship, and Lin Zhen and Zhao Kuo have known each other since childhood.

Lin Zhen is a well-known prodigal son among scholars, he doesn't like to be an official, he only leads idle jobs, and he also befriends commoners like Zhu Xiang, which is simply a shame among the children of nobles.

Zhao Kuo has been reading military books since he was a child, and he is very motivated, striving to be more powerful than his father Zhao Hao, and his words and deeds are a model for the children of nobles.

Lin Xiangru always liked to use "learn Zhao Kuo, you must always be the same when you study and practice martial arts" to teach Lin Zhen a lesson; Zhao Hao loves Lin Zhen very much, saying that talents like Lin Zhen have great wisdom.

The two have been on the same page since childhood. When I grew up, my temperament matured a little and became a stranger. But as soon as they met, Lin Zhen still habitually sarcastically mocked Zhao Kuo.

As soon as Zhao Kuo saw the drunken Lin Zhen, it was like seeing a bedbug, and his arrogant face was wrinkled.

He covered his nose with his sleeve and made an inaudible expression. If he hadn't remembered that Lin Xiangru was also here, he would have insulted Lin Xiangru.

For people like Lin Zhen, yin and yang are useless, and they can only be bluntly insulted.

Zhu Xiang and Lin Zhen are close friends, so they naturally know that Lin Zhen and Zhao Kuo are not in harmony. He immediately played a round: "I remember that the two of you are best friends and playmates who have played together since childhood, do you need me to leave you room to catch up?" Zheng'er, come here. ”

Ying Xiaozheng held the feather duster, jumped up and down to Zhu Xiang, and gave the feather duster to Zhu Xiang.

As soon as Zhu Xiang's words came out, Lin Zhen and Zhao Kuo both showed disgusted looks.

Lin Zhen's wine was woken up with nausea.

Zhu Xiang looked at the extremely ugly faces of the two, and said happily: "You talk slowly, Zheng'er, let's go to the side." ”

Ying Xiaozheng grabbed his uncle's cuffs, looked up at Lin Zhen and Zhao Kuo, and nodded with a pursed mouth.

He could see that his uncle was bullying people again.

"No, I don't have a relationship with him." Zhao Kuo said indifferently.

"Who has a relationship with you?" Lin Zhen approached Zhao Kuo and sprayed Zhao Kuo's face with wine.

Zhao Kuo flashed back, pressed his hand on the long sword at his waist, and squinted at Lin Yi.

Lin Zhen held the wine jar and wanted to use the wine jar as a weapon to fight Zhao Kuo.

Zhu Xiang, who was watching the excitement on the side, immediately picked up Ying Xiaozheng with one hand, and quickly stepped forward to pull Lin Yi away.

Although his best friend is more powerful than him, no matter how bad Zhao Kuo's reputation is in later generations, he is also a general who can lead troops to fight, and a few Lin Zhen are not enough for Zhao Kuo.

"Help me bring a good Zheng'er, Ma Fuzi is here to find me, not to you, don't trouble me." Zhu Xiang snatched Lin Zhen's wine jar and stuffed Ying Xiaozheng into Lin Zhen's arms.

Ying Xiaozheng, who was skillfully hugged by Lin Zhen, immediately pushed Lin Zhen's face away in disgust.

Stinking!

"Ignore him, let's go inside." Zhu Xiang said to Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo snorted coldly, did not pull out his sword, and followed Zhu Xiang with his chin raised. When leaving, he could go straight and pass by Lin Zhen, but he deliberately made a big circle to show his dislike for Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen also snorted coldly, and then didn't bother to pay attention to Zhao Kuo, and deliberately opened his mouth to snort at Ying Xiaozheng.

Ying Xiaozheng was smoked so much that he was full of tender fists at Lin Zhen, which made Lin Zhen laugh.

Zhu Xiang glanced back at the playful Lin Zhen and Ying Xiaozheng, and his face couldn't help showing a hint of pampering.

Zhao Kuo saw Zhu Xiang's expression and felt that his eyes were hurt, not only did his eyes hurt, but his stomach also began to churn.

"If you want to be successful in the future, don't associate with people like Lin Zhen." Zhao Kuo's urn sounded the urn airway.

Zhu Xiang said: "I suffered when I was young, and I was able to survive until now thanks to the help of Duke Lin." If I don't associate with Lin Li, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve success in the future. ”

Listening to Zhu Xiangmian's words, Zhao Kuo pondered for a while, the arrogant look on his face lightened, and said, "Although I hate Lin Zhen, you are right. ”

Zhu Xiang saw that Zhao Kuo was so straightforward, but he was a little embarrassed by his previous contempt.

He knew that Zhao Kuo had recently become famous in Handan, and his own reputation before was no longer mentioned, and even the neighbors were talking about how good Ma Fuzi was.

Lin Gong sulked there again. When dealing with the merchants, the merchants said that Ma Fuzi had recently bought a lot of farm houses. Zhu Xiang guessed that King Zhao had already worshiped Zhao Kuo as a general.

Zhu Xiang had thought about doing something, but he knew he couldn't. Zhao Kuo's parents' words are useless, Lin Gong's words are useless, Zhao Wang is determined to use Zhao Kuo, what can he do?

Today, Zhao Kuo came to him to argue, and Zhu Xiang had some hope.

In later generations, Zhao Kuo, together with Emperor Yang of Sui, Li Jiancheng and others, was worshiped by netizens as one of the great philosophers of the Internet Temple. At that time, the words were that Zhao Kuo was actually very powerful, even more powerful than Bai Qi, but King Zhao was dragging his feet.

In the past few years, it has become better, and although Zhao Kuo is not as good as Bai Qi, he can fight with Bai Qi for a few months, which is already very powerful, if he does not die, he will definitely be a famous general.

As for the evidence that supports the argument, no. Isn't he dead? He's not dead, and that's sure to prove what I said.

A colleague from the Department of Archaeology, who went on a business trip with Zhu Xiang, once scolded the online marketing accounts that caused these crooked trends many times.

Zhao Kuo's father said that Zhao Kuo was not good, Zhao Kuo and his mother said that Zhao Kuo was not good, and the famous minister Lin Xiangru said that Zhao Kuo was not good, and the old King Qin and his courtiers thought that Zhao Kuo must lead the troops after careful consideration. So many powerful people at the same time as Zhao Kuo said that Zhao Kuo was not good.

Thousands of years later, people have gone through several archaeological excavations to determine where the ancient battlefield of the Battle of Changping is, and how many people Bai Qiqi killed is still a historical mystery, but they think that they can understand Zhao Kuo better than the people at that time, and Zhao Kuo is very good.

In history, Zhao Kuo replaced Lian Po in July, and was cut off from the grain road in August. In order to reduce the losses of the Qin army as much as possible, Bai Qi deliberately surrounded Zhao Kuo for forty-six days, and killed the Zhao army in September.

In fact, Zhao Jun had already been defeated when he was cut off from the grain route in August.

It took almost a month for Bai Qi to build fortifications, transfer troops, and design Zhao Kuo to enter the encirclement, so as to cut off the grain route of the Zhao army. It can be seen that after knowing that Zhao Kuo was coming, Bai Qi began to prepare, and after making preparations, Zhao Kuo was defeated. The speed of Zhao Kuo's defeat really can't be said to have "resisted Bai Qi for a few months".

Zhao Jun was cut off for 46 days, which means that he was cut off from grain for 46 days; It was not that the Zhao army did not disperse after running out of food, but that the Qin army surrounded them and waited for them to die.

It's like King Zhao Wuling, is he besieged in the Dune Palace because he doesn't want to come out and is willing to starve to death? It was the outsiders who forbade him to come out. This has nothing to do with Zhao Jun's own wishes, Bai Qi was ready to fight a war of annihilation from the beginning.

Zhao Kuo didn't see the situation right, and broke through bravely.

He should have decisively cut off his tail to survive when he was cut off from the grain road, and led the Zhao army, which still had grain and grass at that time, to break through. But he cowered in the siege and waited for Zhao State to send people to rescue, not counting that Zhao State was no longer able to send reinforcements. It wasn't until the Zhao army's food and grass ran out and the soldiers began to kill each other and eat the meat of their comrades that he realized that he couldn't wait anymore and broke through with the Zhao army, which was about to starve to death.

How could the Zhao army at that time still have the combat power to break through?!

From the details of this matter, one thing can also be seen, when ordinary soldiers have begun to kill each other and eat human flesh, Zhao Kuo and the warriors around him can still organize a cavalry. This shows that not only Zhao Kuo and the warriors around him have not been affected by the lack of food, but even their horses still have food and grass.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang collected the Qing army that occupied Yangzhou, why did he know that the Qing army deliberately killed the people of Yangzhou, instead of being forced to eat human flesh after running out of food? It's because the Green Army still has horses.

After Zhu Yuanzhang found out about this, he personally cut off the generals of the Qingjun Army to pay tribute to the people of Yangzhou.

Also a general of the Zhao State, Li Mu killed horses and cattle every few days to boost the morale of his soldiers. Whether it was fighting the Xiongnu or the Qin State, the morale of the army led by Li Musuo could always crush the other party.

Zhao Kuo did not think about breaking through when the grain road was cut off, but waited until forty-six days later to die and struggle; Ordinary soldiers eat human flesh among themselves, and he and the warriors around him can still have war horses to ride. From these two points, most people in modern times can say, "I think I'm a little better than him."

But if you are a modern person, in the face of Bai Qi, you must be "just hold it, I brain pumped before I went to fight with Bai Qi in the field." What? Didn't you lead the troops in vain? Bai Qi is not dead, whether he is remotely controlled or secretly running, isn't it a matter of minutes! ”。

Normal people will not assume that Bai Qi is dead just because Bai Qi did not appear on the front line.

Although it's not like Song Gaozong, it's okay to leash a dog. But modern people with normal IQs can indeed boast about this, "I may not be so miserable in this matter".

Zhu Xiang did not know the details of the Battle of Changping in history. But he is a person of this era, and what he hears is the reputation of Zhao Kuo in this era, so he found out very early that Zhao Kuo really can't lead troops.

He hadn't argued with Zhao Kuo, and he didn't know how superb Zhao Kuo's military attainments were. Zhao Hao, Zhao Mu, Lin Xiangru and others thought that Zhao Kuo could not lead the troops, and it was not aimed at Zhao Kuo's military attainments.

It is different from what later generations thought that Zhao Kuo's "talking on paper" meant that he read dead books and could not adjust the combat situation according to the actual situation. The words of Zhao Hao and Zhao Mu are very clear that Zhao Kuo's weakness lies in "contempt for the harshness of war" and "contempt for the generals and ordinary soldiers under his command".

Zhao Hao said that war is related to the lives of countless soldiers, but Zhao Kuo does not know how heavy the war is.

Zhao's mother said that when her husband was fighting, he distributed all the rewards to his subordinates and ordinary soldiers to improve his morale, and from the day he became a general, he devoted himself to public service and did not ask about family affairs; After Zhao Kuo became a general, he looked at people with his chin, received the reward in the treasury, and thought about where to buy the family property every day.

What does such a general's failure have to do with the military book, the bravery, and the right time and place?

As Zhao's mother said, Zhao Kuo couldn't lead the troops because "father and son have different aspirations, and I hope the king will not send them".

Zhu Xiang heard from Lin Zhen's mouth Zhao Kuo's parents' evaluation of him, and also heard from Lin Zhen's mouth how Zhao Kuo looked down on ordinary soldiers, although he was a general, he never went to the barracks, and when he got a reward, he went to buy a farm house in a high-profile manner, and he looked like he was a hero before he went to war.

His impression of Zhao Kuo couldn't be good.

When I saw it today, Zhao Kuo obviously hated Lin Zhen and looked down on Zhu Xiang as a civilian, but he could still speak well, and Zhu Xiang felt a little better about Zhao Kuo, thinking that he could move Zhao Kuo.

In history, Zhu Xiang didn't know if there was enough grain and grass in Zhao State, at least in this era when he had been an agricultural officer for a short time, Zhao Jun's grain and grass would definitely be stronger than the Qin army, which had been fighting for nearly three years. As long as Zhao Kuo does not underestimate the enemy, even if it is white, the Qin army will have to retreat.

In other words, Zhu Xiang doesn't understand, even if it is not for nothing, but continues to let Wang Di lead the troops, Wang Yu is a veteran general with many achievements, Zhao Kuo shouldn't be so contemptuous, right?

Zhu Xiang held expectations and argued with Zhao Kuo.

He was dumbfounded.

He finally knew why Zhao Hao couldn't talk about Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo, what kind of soldier is this, that is the guidance of strategic gamers such as civilization and stars. His level is the same as that of the very few netizens who really believe that Qin Shi Huang can occupy the world by giving Qin Shi Huang a world map.

Where do you make up for the dead in battle? It doesn't matter, I'm assuming there are plenty of troops.

Where can we make up for the food, grass and weapons that are consumed in war? It doesn't matter, I'm assuming all the logistics are fine.

If there is a river behind me, then I will fight against the water; Behind the enemy is the river, which will surely break the morale and kneel and beg for mercy.

During the siege of the city, our morale was like a rainbow, and the enemy's city wall was smashed out of our side, and the ladder was not needed to enter the city; When defending the city, the enemy could not attack it for a long time, and the ladder was burned by the warriors of our army out of the city.

Zhu Xiang said in the end, his elbows propped up on the table, holding his forehead and unable to speak.

Zhao Kuo was proud: "I won." ”

Zhu Xiang sighed and said, "Zhao Junzi, do you really think you have won?" ”

Zhao Kuo said solemnly: "Do you still want to continue the debate?" ”

Zhu Xiang was really confused: "Zhao Junzi, do you really think that you can lead the troops like this, or do you know that what you are saying now is only theoretically feasible?" ”

Zhao Kuo said: "What I'm talking about are examples that have already been seen in the military book, if you think it's impossible, I can turn out the military book and show you." ”

Zhu Xiang put down his hand and said, "Let's continue the debate." ”

Zhao Kuo was full of confidence and continued with Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Xiang: "My 10,000 troops attacked your 200,000 troops, and a meteorite fell from the sky into your barracks, and your morale collapsed and was defeated by our army." ”

Zhao Kuo: "? ”

Zhu Xiang: "There is a fierce general on our side, who rushed into your army with a knife and beheaded your army commander with a knife. Your army's morale spreads and is defeated by our army. ”

Zhao Kuo: "? ”

Lin Zhen led Ying Xiaozheng, one big and one small eavesdropping on the door frame.

Zhu Xiang: "We have a divine archer, he hides on the high ground, and every arrow can take away your people who operate siege equipment." Your army has no one who can manipulate siege equipment, so you can only retreat. ”

Zhao Kuo: "? "He's starting to get angry!

Zhu Xiang: "Although your army has horses and chariots, but our people are aspiring, not to mention that ordinary soldiers are not afraid of death, holding your horses' hooves and chariot wheels, and are willing to die with your army, even the old and weak, women and children have spontaneously gone to the front line and drowned you with crowd tactics!" ”