Part 2: Go and the Art of War

Chi Yuan looked at the "Detailed Explanation of the Formation Diagram" held by Zhang Sen, and suddenly spoke: "I haven't talked to you for a few days, come, let me see your current level." ”

Zhang Sen was stunned for a moment, saw that Chi Yuan had already taken out the chessboard and put it away, and put down the book in his hand with a smile. "Uncle Chi wants to be merciful. ”

didn't guess first, Zhang Sen took the lead in black. The first hand fell on the Tian Yuan position.

Chi Yuan twisted the white piece in his hand and gently landed on the chessboard. "There are some things that I wanted to hide from you. It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes. ”

Zhang Sen looked at the black and white pieces on the chessboard, thought about it, and made another move, silent. I know that Chi Yuan still has something to say.

While the white son fell, Chi Yuan said: "Half a year ago, South Korea was defeated. The war has begun. However, the monarch sealed the news, and only a few big families knew about it. ”

"Since everyone has come to the door, we will naturally fight back! Originally, I thought that whether it was to lobby the Qin State or to levy grain and grass. It's all going to take a few days. If this battle is to be fought, at least until next year. ”

But he didn't want to, the monarch tried his best to eliminate the controversy, and chose a seventeen-year-old boy to envoy to the Qin State, and what was even more unexpected was that the young man named Qu Yuan actually persuaded Qin Jun to help the two within ten days. ”

"The news just came from the imperial capital, and the first part of the grain and grass is almost complete. That is, conscription is about to begin. ”

Zhang Sen frowned, and while testing the white chess with the black chess, he asked suspiciously, "Conscription?"

"In my study, the most you read are books like Fu Cultivation Formation, and it's normal to not know. According to the law of Chu, wartime. Ten households out of one ding, male beggars over the age of ten must also enlist unconditionally. Looking at Zhang Sen, who was stunned. Chi Yuan nodded. "Whenever I have the laws of the Chu State, as long as I have a little bit to do with the war, everyone must maintain absolute obedience! Of course, this also includes me!"

"In other words, as long as our Chu State declares war on Korea, I will immediately go to the battlefield?" Zhang Sen poked into the hand of the chess box, a little calm.

"That's right, it's non-negotiable. Chi Yuan looked at Zhang Sen, who was frowning, as if he knew what he was thinking, and sneered slightly. "Any monk, in front of the army, must bow his head! If the army is allowed to form a military formation, the great monk of the 'One' realm will definitely die!"

"Then how long will it take before I enlist in the army?" Zhang Sen shuddered a little as he imagined seeing the bloody scenes on the battlefield on TV. You must hurry up and read some military books to learn about the current classes of troops and increase your chances of surviving on the battlefield!

"Less than a month. Chi Yuan picked up a few sunspots from the chessboard and put them in the chess box. He glanced at Zhang Sen and asked, "Do you remember why I taught you to play chess in the first place?"

Watching white capture another black piece. Zhang Sen narrowed his eyes slightly. While replying: "Uncle Chi said that the calculation of Go is the most suitable for tempering and exercising divine sense. "While starting to do the math with all his might. In an instant, black and white seeds began to appear in the blank space on the chessboard, and Zhang Sen's eyes suddenly widened! How could it be! Originally, it was only a slight phantom in his eyes. Now, the chess pieces actually fall on the chessboard!

When did the ability of mental arithmetic become so strong!? and so on, Zhang Sen suddenly remembered another human soul in his sea of knowledge!

Zhang Sen trembled a little and put the sunspot in his hand in the most appropriate place in several calculations.

Chi Yuan looked at the position where the sunspot had fallen, glanced up at Zhang Sen, and nodded with satisfaction. "There's something interesting about this man. Do you remember what I said when I taught you Go?" Rush continued. "Go pays attention to occupying the corner first, then fighting the side, and waiting for the opportunity to occupy the middle belly. Let's look at it this way. The corners of Go are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and are easy to survive with eyes, corresponding to mountains, and the center of Go is difficult to defend and easy to attack, and not easy to survive with eyes, corresponding to the plains. The edge of Go, between the middle and the corner, corresponds to the lake. Go is like a battlefield, always trying to survive first, and then seek other things. ”

Took a sip of tea. "Go, the emphasis is on fighting wits and courage! The attack and defense, the potential and the ground, the advance and retreat, the abandonment and taking, the mystery lies in the 'degree', the so-called too much, only by mastering this degree, can the heart have not fallen, and the chess has been decided!"

Zhang Sen raised his head, this is no longer a simple chess game explanation. Attack and defend, momentum, advance and retreat, abandonment. Slowly figured out the joints. Zhang Sen's eyes froze, this is clearly the art of war!

Chi Yuan tapped the chessboard lightly with a white chess piece, signaling that the somewhat shocked Zhang Sen Luozi Chi Yuan started teaching Go at the time of the summer solstice, and it was also around that time, was it a coincidence? Or was it something else?

Zhang Sen held the sunspot in his hand, and some thoughts fell to the side of the white son indiscriminately. Chi Yuan frowned when he saw it, shook his head and said, "Pick it up, go down again!"

Zhang Sen took the sunspot back in his hand with some trembling, took a deep breath, suppressed many distracting thoughts in his heart, and squinted his eyes and stared at the chessboard carefully. A moment later, Zhang Sen fell again, but the position was a little offset. It looks like it's completely out of the battlefield of black and white.

Chi Yuan nodded with satisfaction, thought about it, and the white words fell. "Fighting a war is never as simple as two armies hedging against each other, and then the winner wins and loses. Look at this chess game, can you understand something?"

Zhang Sen put the sunspot in his hand back into the chess box and carefully looked at the chess game. Obviously, black has a disadvantage. White is singing all the way and striding forward. Thinking back to the order of himself and Chi Yuan Luozi.

As far as Zhang Sen's perspective could see, horizontal and vertical dotted lines began to extend. The chess pieces began to appear according to their own distribution. Suddenly, Zhang Sen seemed to see an open grassland. On the grassland, soldiers in black and white armor are facing each other. As the number of pieces slowly increased, the soldier began to move. However, on the grassland, the black-armored sergeants were divided into several square formations, and they rushed towards the white-armored sergeants face to face! The white-armored sergeants retreated, their flanks expanded, and they actually evolved into a glaive formation, slowly but surely surrounding several square arrays!

"Layout?" Zhang Sen hesitated.

"That's good!" Chi Yuan looked teachable, but looking at the chess game, his face suddenly turned blank, and he was a little angry. "In this study, what you see the most is the formation, although it is for future cultivation, but why don't you know how to integrate it!? This military formation is originally a combined attack technique derived from Fu Xiu's set! How did it get to the chessboard, it was a mess! Such a decent array, I am afraid that people will not be able to kill you!?"

Zhang Sen looked ashamed, but his eyes were a little bright. Seemingly, something interesting was found.

"Get up!"

Zhang Sen was stunned for a moment, and looked at Chi Yuan who walked in front of him inexplicably, and then he woke up. Hurriedly stood up and reached the position of Chi Yuan.

Chi Yuan took the sunspot and gently rubbed it in his hand, and after a while, it fell with a "snap".

Zhang Sen hurriedly took a breath and watched, calculated for a while, and gently fell down with the white zi.

After more than 20 moves in a row, black was still at a disadvantage. White still has the upper hand.

From time to time, the two pick up each other's pieces on the board and refill them with their own pieces. On the chessboard, there are more than 300 star positions, and they almost filled the two of them!

After the next is naturally settled. Zhang Sen's eyes wandered, silently counting the black and white pieces on the chessboard. The more he counted, the more weird his face became, and when he finished counting at the end, Zhang Sen was even more surprised. Knowing that the son is in the lead, how come in the end, the number is the same!?

"There are many similarities between the way of Go and the art of war, and many wonderful points are indescribable. I wanted you to understand it slowly in the future, but now it is also in a hurry. ”

"I said that if you listen, you can comprehend a few points, and it depends on your understanding and creation. ”

"The way of gambling is rigorous. You must be careful with your feet, as if you were in a valley. Leading troops to fight, there is no need to say much, just know that a piece of military order kills a thousand lives. ”

"Regardless of Go or the art of war, remember that 'the good and the loser are not chaotic', the so-called Go, naturally there are winners and losers, as long as there is a tiger in the heart, sniff the rose. As for the military formation, there are no victorious generals in the world, let alone dreams of winning a hundred battles!"

"Then there are 'those who are good at fighting are not defeated' and 'those who are good at fighting are not fighting', and 'those who are good at winning are not fighting'. You can understand it yourself!"

Zhang Sen silently kept these words in his heart. He asked with some confusion: "Uncle Chi, how do you teach me these things?"