Chapter 1001: Don’t listen to Zhuge’s advice in the extra chapter

Just when Tuoba Li was hesitant and was about to make a decision, the senior officials spared no effort to make up for the last little reason for the fire.

He just reminded Tuoba Liwei to pay attention to one fact, that is, Lu Bu's age!

Many people will ignore this issue. Lu Bu is actually older than Liu Bei and even Cao Cao. He appeared too early. He was already in his thirties when Hulao Pass was already in his thirties.

In "Romance of the Romance", Lu Bu was called Liu Bei's brother. This was not compiled, and he was indeed much older. In the "Three Kingdoms" game in later generations, Lu Bu's age when he died in 198 was also 47 years old, which is basically in line with historical facts.

Today, Lu Bu has lived for fourteen years more than the same period in history!

He is already an old man of sixty, two or three years old!

If Liu Bei had just destroyed Cao Cao and achieved the unification of the Central Plains ten years ago, he would immediately make a Northern Expedition, then Lu Bu could still make great achievements, and a 52-year-old famous general could do a lot of things.

But Liu Bei also loved the people and had to rest and recuperate, pay back the national debt first, so that a large number of people in ruined prefectures and counties could have a way out and resume production. Now that it is time for Liu Bei's own direct troops to consider the issue of "if they don't fight, they will get old", Lu Bu is of course completely old.

Moreover, from the perspective of objective and scientific laws, the situation facing Lu Bu is obviously more severe than that of the elderly generals during the Three Kingdoms period.

For example, many people will think that in history, Huang Zhong was in his early seventies, and he could fight bravely and kill Xiahou Yuan. Zhao Yun was also in his seventies and could still follow Zhuge Liang to the Qishan Mountains.

Can a famous general like Lu Bu be able to fight if he is only 62 or 3?

There is really a difference here: Jingzhou and Yizhou are all rich places, with a mild climate in the south and nourishing people. If you live in those places for a long time, people will age slowly.

And in the late Han Dynasty, what kind of place was the wind, sand and bitter cold outside the pass?

To put it bluntly, the environment is like a martial arts art film made by Wong Kar-wai Tsui Hark, and Longmen Inn is full of yellow sand.

If people live in such places for a long time, their aging level for 14 years is comparable to that of Jiangnan for more than 20 years.

So now Lu Bu is really older than the physical theory age. He is almost the same as Huang Zhongding Junshan and Zhao Yun when he went out of Qishan.

After Tuoba Liwei figured out all the pros and cons, he finally made up his mind:

"Okay! Let's use Lu Bu as an opponent, but we must first pretend to continue to harass the three counties of Chifeng, especially to destroy the local autumn harvest.

In this way, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun must have strong troops to defend the three counties of Chifeng. Even Guan Yu had to move eastward and share some of Zhang Fei's original defense zones.

When the gap between Guan Yu and Lu Bu was pulled large enough, our army took advantage of Lu Bu's arrogance and set up an opportunity to let Lu Bu see the hope of "sneak attacking the elderly, weak, women and children in the rear of our army while Guan, Zhang and Zhao were fighting with our main force."

He dared to attack Sheng Le fifteen years ago and took advantage of it. Now he will definitely fall into paralysis and be trapped! At that time, he will be besieged by the country with all his strength!"

Not to mention, Tuoba Liwei's guess is very consistent with game theory.

As Charlie Munger famously says: People hold a hammer in their hands and look like nails.

This is called path dependency.

People are prone to superstitious about their past successful experiences. Many great bosses who are awesome in entrepreneurship are prone to traps when they encounter situations like "Adults, times have changed" because of the saying "This is how I won back then."

Flegg's words were already lost 70%.

What's more, a passionate and reckless person like Lu Bu can withstand the opportunity to almost replicate it?

After Tuoba Liwei and the senior officials decided on the plan, they quickly began to implement it.

During the entire autumn harvest season, the Xianbei army had been increasing harassment and destruction in the three counties of the Donghu grassland in the early stages in order to attract more attention from the main Han army.

By the way, he also acted like he wanted to drag over this year's Golden Season of the Northern Expedition and strive to continue to prolong his life for the Xianbei tribe.

Even if he suffered a certain amount of casualties, Tuoba Liwei was willing to do anything. At worst, he would send some aging and weak burdens to take on such harassment tasks, leaving the elite young and strong behind to save money.

That state was like before Bai Deng's siege. In order to seduce Liu Bang to pursue it in depth, Maodun Shanyu made a thin horse and a weak horse to fight with the Han army, exactly the same as that.

...

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches August, another small-scale harassment and anti-harassment battle on the Donghu grasslands came to an end with the great victory of the Han army.

The battle lasted for seven or eight days, and gave up several counties and townships that had just been reclaimed this year, seducing the Hu people temporarily gained some sweetness. However, with the successful conspiracy of the Han army, the Xianbei people who had fallen into the trap were still annihilated by most of them.

Although the battle is not large in scale, because Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun are both militants, they are idle even when they are idle. So even if they are just a small battle to lead three or four thousand cavalry to encircle and suppress the invading enemy, they still insist on leading their troops to fight.

There is no way, the genes of fighting have been written into my bones and I can't sit still.

Zhang Fei was happy in his heart. On the day when he met Zhao Yun successfully, he couldn't help but drink two large skin distilled liquor to celebrate the achievements.

"This Tuoba Liwei really doesn't take the life of his troops as his life. This is the third wave after the autumn harvest begins, right? If this wave of thieves is wiped out, I guess they can have a safe and secure Mid-Autumn Festival. Zilong, have you calculated that after the autumn harvest begins, how many enemies have been wiped out? How much will we lose?"

Zhang Fei finished drinking immediately, wiped his mouth and laughed happily.

Zhao Yun, who was standing aside, was still very calm: "It is indeed the third wave. This time, more than 2,000 enemies were wiped out. From the autumn harvest, at least seven or eight thousand enemy troops have been eliminated. How could Tuoba Liwei be so ignorant of the army?

What he fears most now is to slowly consume with our army. His only chance of winning is to unite the entire army and concentrate on attacking our army's weak. After being the heroic lord of the grassland for so many years, he can be regarded as a person who will lead troops. It is impossible to make such a mistake.

I always feel that there is a fraud. I will take advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival to summarize all the battle reports and submit a message to Your Majesty. By the way, I can also send a private message to the construction site of Tianjin County, and ask Zhuge Lingjun to help us take a look. He is resourceful, and he will definitely see through what tricks the Xianbei people play."

When Zhang Fei heard this, he was very disdainful: "Zilong! This is what you are wrong. Although the eldest brother is far-sighted, the Prime Minister and A Liang are resourceful, they are too far from the front line after all.

We are also fighting old wars. Do you still don’t know the military? Don’t know the basic truth of “the general can do it but the king won’t win”? The general is not responsible for the orders outside the king. What you need is to adapt to the situation to avoid delaying the opportunity to fight! You, the general of the cavalry, really think that the older you are, the less courage you are!”

Zhao Yun frowned: "It's not that I'm timid, it's that Tuoba Liwei's abnormality is hard to explain."

Zhang Fei waved his hand and said, "What's hard to explain? It's very simple. A Liang's previous strategy of "planting rye and giant vegetables by reclaiming wasteland and farming" worked!

The Xianbei people originally evade and dodge us because they felt that the Han people could not farm on the nomadic grasslands and could not stand firm. Now we prove that we can stand firm forever, and the border troops on the grasslands can gradually get rid of the food and fodder transport from the Central Plains and be self-sufficient.

The Xianbei people can't waste their money, so they will spare no effort to destroy our military farms! Zilong, don't underestimate me. I have questioned the captured prisoners, and they have whipped them apart. They all say that the general orders their generals received were to burn, kill, plunder and destroy the military farms of the three counties outside the pass."

Zhang Fei can't do anything else, but after he caught the prisoner, he tortured and forced to confess, so he was simply too skillful. So he trusted the information obtained through this channel very much.

Even if he wanted to break his head, he would not have thought that Tuoba Liwei was cheating even the person who was performing the feint attack mission of luring the enemy when he ordered.

Zhao Yun was not as confident as Zhang Fei. After thinking about it, he shook his head: "I don't think it's that simple. Maybe these troops who came to Liucheng County, Chifeng County, were abandoned children, so Tuoba Li even cheated on his own people.

This is not my guess, because there are too many old and weak among the captured prisoners. This is not the strong cavalry I encountered last year, but rather the lives of worthless people. The Hu people can do such a thing as leading beasts to eat people."

Zhao Yun had no other evidence. The only clue that he thought something was wrong was the composition of the Xianbei cannon fodder harassing troops.

This intuition is almost the same as that of Lou Jing before the Liu Bang era and Bai Deng's siege.

Lou Jing didn't see any specific fraud at that time. But because he saw that the Huns were all thin, he felt that there must be fraud.

Zhang Fei didn't want to be troublesome, he just wanted to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival while he won the small victory, so he let Zhao Yun write the memorial himself.

Anyway, Zhang Fei didn’t need to win a battle and asked for me. Can the elder brother treat him badly?

To put it bluntly, in the last year's big victory, his and Zhao Yun's fiefs increased again. If you win some more battles this year, you will probably have fiefs in nine counties! You will be tied with your second brother Guan Yu!

Who made Guan Yu not get the opportunity to directly command a large-scale battle? Tuoba Li was so cowardly that he just wanted to focus on the east and down to the west, and he couldn't get the battle in the defense zone on the western front.

So much so that after the new round of conflicts in the autumn harvest stage began, Guan Yu was anxious and frantically submitted a request for adjustment of the defense zone so that he could be responsible for more war zones on the east side - he didn't care about glory and wealth, but he was a general after all, and he was really a general and was completely tied by his third brother and Zilong, so there was no place to put his face.

Everyone in the world knows Guan Yu's arrogance. He always wants to make him look different and stronger than other generals. The gap may not be big, but there must be one.

Liu Bei also gave instructors, knowing Guan Yu's mood, and allowed Guan Yu to be assigned the defense zone of Dai County to be responsible for, so that Guan Yu can further advance eastward.

Originally, Dai County belonged to Youzhou rather than Bingzhou, and was the county that relied on the west. It has been many years since the world was unified. It was agreed that Guan Yu was responsible for the border defense in the northern part of Bingzhou alone, while Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun worked together to be responsible for Youzhou.

Now that Guan Yu's defense zone is stretched into a county in Youzhou, Liu Bei has made a great excuse for giving. In other words, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are there, and Zhang Fei doesn't care about it.

...

Zhuge Liang's residence last year was in Yecheng, and he supervised the construction of the Hebei Canal as the Secretary of the Central Committee.

Now the Hebei Canal has been fully completed, but Bohai County still has some construction work that will be restored after the war, so his office has also been moved forward.

In addition, Zhuge Liang reported that he would draw a new boundary on the border of Bohai County and Yuyang County to set up Tianjin County, and set up Tianjin County on the shallow sea beaches of Bohai Bay, as a transfer port city for the outlet of the Yellow River and Haihe River.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang supervised more than 100,000 engineers and more than 80,000 grassland prisoners and slaves to temporarily build villages and station them at the mouth of Yishui River.

Tianjin, which later generations, has now become the logistics dispatching headquarters of the Youzhou Northern Expedition Front, and all transfers are based on this as a hub.

Zhao Yun's memorial was delivered three days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because it was not a very urgent matter and there was no need to use a 600-mile raft, it would take about ten days to send it to Luoyang from the front line of Liucheng, and it would take three or four days to send it to Tianjin.

When Zhao Yun's private message arrived, Zhuge Liang happened to celebrate the festival at the construction site.

Although the environment is poor, Zhuge Liang brought his family with him, had plenty of clothing and food, and lived a good life.

Zhuge Liang doesn’t drink much, but it’s rare for the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he spends a few drinks with his wife, concubines and children to enjoy the moon.

Zhuge Liang is thirty-two years old this year. His eldest son Zhuge Zhan is already twelve years old, and was born to Xiaoqiao. He also has a daughter Zhuge Guo, who was also born to Xiaoqiao, and was only seven or eight years old.

A wife, a concubine, a son and a daughter. The whole family of five was drinking. Zhao Yun sent a private message to ask for advice.

At first, Zhuge Liang thought that Zhao Yun had some unexpected logistical difficulties on the front line of Liucheng County and had shortage of supplies, so he quickly opened the letter and read it carefully.

After a few glances, I found that it was a daily statement of the results and asked to check for the missing items, so I didn't take it seriously.

On the contrary, Huang Yueying was afraid that his husband would miss the state affairs in order to accompany his wife and concubine more, so he took the initiative to persuade Zhuge Liang: "You don't have to care about accompanying your concubines, etc. General Zilong is a cautious person. If you don't have any major issues, you will definitely notice some clues."

Not to mention that Zhuge Liang in this life is indeed not as hardworking as he used to be in history, so he also carries his liver well. He is also more in his lingering wives and concubines and enjoying family life than in history.

But this is normal and there is nothing to blame. After all, the environment Zhuge Liang faces is more peaceful and the pressure is not that great. Why not relax and enjoy it properly?

On the other hand, Zhuge Liang's wives and concubines in this life are also more beautiful. With Xiaoqiao, he will of course be more greedy about women.

Moreover, Zhuge Liang originally had a son after he was over 45 years old, so when he was young, he didn't have the chance to enjoy family life. Now he is in his early thirties, and his time spent on family life has certainly increased.

He was a little disappointed by his wife's advice, but he still listened to the advice. He knew in his heart that his wife actually had her own selfish intentions.

During this Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhuge Liang spent most of his time talking to Xiaoqiao about the moon and writing poems under the moon, and writing essays. Huang Yueying definitely hoped that he would still do business, and he would not be upset if he saw it.

However, after carefully reading and pondering the clues in Zhao Yun's letter, Zhuge Liang was also slightly frightened. He repeatedly calculated and suddenly thought of a possibility.

"I almost missed the important matters of the military and national affairs. My wife is really the rare virtuous wife in the world." After Zhuge Liang figured it out, of course, he immediately apologized to Huang Yueying seriously.

Huang Yueying also asked with concern: "What's wrong? What's wrong with General Zhao?"

Zhuge Liang pointed to the letter and said, "There are some of Tuoba Liwei and Gao Gan's desire to overwhelm the truth. How similar is this to the Maodun Shanyu before the siege of Emperor Gaozu Bai Deng?

This year, our Han attacked several times and oppressed the Xianbei grasslands in the southern desert. However, they repeatedly guerrilla warfare near Liucheng County and Chifeng County, attracting our army to gather. It must be the story of the story of the four armies attacking the Huns during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, and the Huns ignored the rest of the troops and assembled the entire army to attack Li Guang.

I am afraid that the more violent the trouble in Liucheng, the more dangerous the other road will be. I still can't see who Li Guang is in the hearts of those Xianbei generals. But I should remind the general and General Lu, and even General Ma, to be wary of it, and not act rashly recently."

Zhuge Liang thought about it, and out of instinct and caution, he also wrote a memorial to Liu Bei in an urgent manner, and explained the possible strategic arrangements of the Xianbei people he had speculated.

Liu Bei also asked Generals such as Guan Yu and Lu Bu to not advance rashly. They must cooperate with the four routes to fight together. In the later stage, they should not act rashly just because they saw temporary fighter jets to prevent the Xianbei army from cheating.

In addition, Zhuge Liang was afraid that time would not be too late, so after writing the memorial form, he also sent a private message to Guan Yu, Lu Bu and others.

As for Ma Chao, it is not necessary to write because it is too far and it is not a good way. After the memorial is sent to Luoyang, Liu Bei felt it was necessary to give Ma Chao the imperial edict directly.
Chapter completed!