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Chapter 278 For the Peace of the Great Wei Border

Chapter 278 For the peace of the Wei border

Usually, the biggest difficulty in using this tactic comes from the soldiers. People worry that the troops sent to lure the enemy deep will definitely be annihilated.

Therefore, if you want to use this strategy, you need to convince the soldiers first, unify their thinking, and tell them that this idea is not correct.

If all the troops sent to lure the enemy deep are killed by the enemy, how can the enemy be lured into the preset ambush circle?

Troops that lure the enemy deep into the water are like bait used when fishing. They should not only make the "fish" feel that they have a chance to swallow the bait, but also prevent all the bait from being eaten into the fish's mouth. To achieve this effect, lure the enemy deep into the enemy's mouth.

The troops need to achieve several things: first, high mobility, fighting and retreating; second, excellent acting skills, the formation flags are chaotic but not exploded when retreating, neither letting the enemy realize that they have been tricked, nor really pretending to be defeated.

It became a real failure.

Frankly speaking, luring the enemy deep is a superb art of war, which extremely tests the quality of generals and soldiers. The generals responsible for luring the enemy deep are like fishermen sitting firmly on the shore. They experience it personally but are aloof. They need extraordinary courage.

and patience beyond ordinary people. In the process of luring the enemy deeper, the troops will indeed suffer casualties, but they will not be completely wiped out. Only on this basis, coupled with the rewards of high-ranking officials and generous salaries, soldiers will naturally be willing to act as "

"Bait".

This tactic of luring the enemy deep into the enemy usually has the best effect only when the strength of the two warring parties is similar. Or when the attacking party has a numerical advantage, it is initiated by the weaker party, that is, the defensive party.

The essence of the tactic of luring the enemy deep is to lure the superior enemy into a pre-arranged ambush circle, and the defending party uses its own favorable conditions to concentrate its superior forces and annihilate the enemy.

It can be seen from this that luring the enemy deep is an excellent tactic for defeating the strong with the weak.

If we want to talk about the classic battle example in history that lured the enemy deep into the enemy, it has to be the Battle of Maling.

In the early Warring States period, the State of Wei was very powerful. Although the Wei army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Guiling, the State of Wei quickly reversed the unfavorable situation by relying on the foundation laid by years of reforms. With its strength restored, the State of Wei decided to retaliate.

In 344 BC, the State of Wei convened twelve vassal states for an alliance in Fengze, hoping to use this alliance to increase its reputation and make King Wei Hui the leader of the alliance.

In 341 BC, King Wei Hui sent general Xiang Chan to lead an army to attack South Korea on the grounds that the Korean monarch did not participate in the alliance. Although South Korea resisted desperately, it was still no match for the powerful Wei army, and South Korea was forced to attack Korea, which also did not participate in the alliance.

The Qi State asked for help.

King Wei of Qi saw that Han and Wei were fighting for a long time, and wanted to get some advantages from it (Qi did not want Wei to become bigger), so he immediately appointed Tian Pan as the general, Tian Ying, Tian Ji as deputy generals, and Sun Bin as the military advisor, and led the Qi army to support South Korea.

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At that time, Sun Bin believed that if he rashly supported South Korea, the Qi army might not be able to defeat the powerful Wei army with Wei soldiers. Therefore, after discussion with Tian Pan and Sun Bin, they decided not to let the Qi army go to South Korea to confront the Wei army head-on, but to allow the Qi army to take a detour and attack Wei directly.

The capital of the country was built into a beam, and the method of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao was carried out.

After the Wei army learned about the fire in the backyard, they hurried back to rescue Daliang. King Wei Hui saw that Qi was against him again. He immediately became angry and ordered Prince Shen and Pang Juan to lead the Wei army who had returned to rescue Daliang to attack the Qi army.

At the beginning of the war, the Wei army had the advantage {it had just defeated the Korean army and had high morale}, while the Qi army was in the unfavorable situation of fighting on the road and unfamiliar with the place. Faced with a situation that was not conducive to his own side, Sun Bin once again proposed a new strategy to Tian Pan: reduce the enemy's forces.

Use the stove to lure the enemy, set up an ambush and annihilate the enemy.

Pang Juan, who had won consecutive battles, fell into the trap as expected. He ordered the Wei army infantry and baggage battalions to follow, and personally led the Wei soldiers on light cavalry to pursue the Qi army day and night.

When the Wei army arrived at Maling, Pang Juan did not know that he had entered the ambush circle planned by Sun Bin. He only knew that he had fallen into the trap after seeing the humiliating text left by Sun Bin on the big tree by the road. However, it was too late and the ambush was already underway.

More than ten thousand Qi archers outside the circle began to shoot the Wei soldiers. Seeing that the Wei army was about to be defeated, Pang Juan drew his sword and killed himself.

The Battle of Maling is a classic example in history of luring the enemy deep into the enemy's territory. Sun Bin turned passivity into initiative, created an illusion to make Pang Juan underestimate the enemy's advance, made wrong judgments, and ultimately defeated the strong with the weak.

Maybe many people have a question. Pang Juan is also a top-notch general (otherwise Wei Jun would not have defeated all the invincible opponents in the world). Sun Bin used the method of reducing the stove to lure the enemy. Couldn't Pang Juan see it?

The real answer is: Pang Juan can't see it.

Because while luring the enemy deeper, Sun Bin also sent a partial army to attack the important town of Peidu near Daliang (the city where Pang Juan's family was located). The general order given to this partial army was that they could only lose but not win. It was this defeat that

The partial troops made Sun Bin's method of reducing stoves seem reasonable (the soldiers were sent elsewhere). It was only then that Pang Juan failed to see through Sun Bin's plan of reducing stoves to lure the enemy into an ambush, and was defeated and committed suicide in the end.

In order to achieve the ultimate goal of luring the enemy deep, Sun Bin used a total of three strategies in this series of wars: surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao, dividing his troops to lure the enemy, and luring the enemy deep.

Encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao shattered Wei's strategy of annexing South Korea, making it exhausted and unable to gain anything, laying the foundation for failure - the general would raise troops out of anger; dividing his troops to confuse the enemy showed his weakness to the Wei army, creating a basis for the next plan to reduce the enemy.

condition.

In short, luring the enemy deep is a strategy based on letting the current situation take its course.

Just talking about the current situation between Wei and Xianbei today, from the perspective of being in a position of superiority, this is called momentum. After losing more than 30,000 cavalry, Kirby Neng's momentum turned from prosperity to decline.

From an easy-to-understand perspective, Kirby was able to suffer heavy losses in this battle, and even though he won, he was still defeated. This is in line with the basic conditions for luring the enemy in-depth - that is, the Xianbei army is very weak now, and as long as the Wei army comes to attack, the winning rate will be

will be very high.

The strategy Ma Di presented to Kirby was to divide the more than 30,000 Xianbei cavalry currently in Luo Chuan's mouth into two groups, with thousands of them acting as suspects to outflank the Wei army's rear route and pretend to attack Taiyuan, promising defeat but not victory.

.The other 30,000 cavalrymen took a detour and set up an ambush in Stone City in Monan.

Shicheng is located in a depression and is surrounded by mountains. Once it is besieged, it will be difficult to fly.

Finally, Kirby was able to lead the 10,000 men stationed at Luochuankou to fight with the Wei army. They fought and retreated, luring the Wei army to Shicheng, the ambush site, and then waited for work, gathering together and annihilating them.

The whole plan was closely linked and perfectly borrowed from Sun Bin's strategy. In order to prevent Wei generals Bi Gui and Qin Lang from seeing the clues, Ma Di deliberately concealed the method of reducing the stove.

After hearing this plan, Kirby's eyes widened immediately and he was speechless for a long time.

Although he had learned some Chinese culture and was proficient in Chinese, he had not yet learned the part about "surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao". Therefore, he thought that Ma Su had come up with this strategy himself, and was therefore extremely shocked.

While adopting this strategy, Kirby could secretly swear that if Ma Di was still alive, the Xianbei people would never be enemies with him, nor would they be enemies with Shu Han.

Ma Di had already seen the outcome of a war before it even started, and even planned the outcome with his own hands.

Such a calculating person is undoubtedly terrifying.

If you think about it with your buttocks, you will know the consequences of being an enemy.

Kirby was able to immediately use the eagle communication method to arrange this plan to lure the enemy. Then, he held a banquet in the camp to solemnly thank Ma Su for his wonderful plan.

Although this strategy has not yet been revealed, it is still unclear whether it will work or not, but Kirby can inexplicably believe that this strategy will definitely work!

However, ever since that day, Ke Bineng was deeply impressed by Ma Su's ruthless methods hidden under his harmless face. From then on, he no longer dared to look down upon this Shu Han general who was always smiling all day long.

Already.

In the past, Kirby always felt that Ma Di had exaggerated. The latter's illustrious achievements in Longyou and Liangzhou were exaggerated and lucky, and must have been due to the powerful Zhuge Liang's frontal restraint, which created Ma Di's success.

Opportunities for sneak attacks and surprise victories.

But now, Kirby can no longer think that way.

This Ma Su is not only steady, but also ruthless in his attacks.

He is a person who does great things.

the other side.

The Cavalry General Qin Lang led an army of 50,000 people northward, straight into Luochuankou, and approached Kebineng's army.

After a brief battle between the two sides, Kirby was able to retreat, give up the camp outside Luochuankou, and retreat fifty miles to camp at the border of Yunzhong.

By the time Bi Gui led the remaining troops to join forces with Qin Lang, the total number of Wei troops had reached 65,000, including 20,000 cavalry.

According to the scouts' investigation, Corbinen's troops currently only have 10,000 cavalry, and the other 30,000 cavalry are missing.

Based on the above information, Qin Lang carefully thought after analysis: Don't pursue the poor criminals, just force Kirby back to the grassland.

Bi Gui, the governor of Bingzhou, did not agree with this view. He stood up fiercely and believed that at this time, Kirby should be killed while he was still weak, so as to permanently eliminate the border troubles.

The two had different opinions and had a difficult dispute.

He almost went up to the cow in the big tent.

In anger, Bi Gui blurted out: "You are a descendant of the clan, and you have never commanded an army before. I don't know whether Kirby's army is true or false. This is really understandable. Based on today's plan, Kirby will be the one to chase!"

Although Qin Lang relied on his identity as the adopted son of Cao Cao to ascend to the high position of General Qiaoqi, he was actually a general with real abilities. However, due to various reasons, Cao Pi was never appointed to an official position during the Cao Pi era until the first year of Taihe.

, after Cao Rui came to the throne, he was just activated and took up the post of General Xiaoqi.

After that, Qin Lang repeatedly requested to take charge of the northern expedition to the grasslands and stabilize the frontier fortress. The memorials listed above were all sincere and pointed to the point. He never challenged Cao Rui's authority, nor did he compete with Cao Shuang, Sima Yi and others for power. But even so.

, but he has always held a false position and has not been reused.

There are two reasons for this situation. First, there are too many good generals like him in the Wei Dynasty, and it is not his turn; second, Cao Rui deliberately prevents the clan members from taking charge of the army.

Now Bi Gui's words directly hit his sore spot, leaving him speechless to refute.

Because everything Bigui said is true.

Moreover, Bi Gui has been stationed in the north all year round and knows the details of Kirby Neng. Previously, he severely damaged Kirby Neng with only 20,000 cavalry (not including Bu Dugen's 30,000 cavalry). Therefore, Bi Gui

It is of great reference value.

Qin Lang had to take back his views and reconsider Bi Gui's proposal.

"Okay. According to the envoy's plan, what should our army do? Those 30,000 Xianbei cavalry have to be guarded..." Qin Lang is not a stubborn person. He knows that it is a taboo for military strategists to disagree between the generals of the two armies.

It would be bad for everyone if we really had a falling out with Bi Gui.

Then he waved his hand, sat back down and looked at Bi Gui.

"Since Luochuankou was cut off, the 30,000 Xianbei cavalry have disappeared and have not yet joined up with Kirby. In my opinion, these 30,000 cavalry are still in Taiyuan. Kirby can retreat today because he wants to

Lure my army to go north, so that the 30,000 cavalry can take advantage of the situation and capture Taiyuan, cutting off my return path."

"In this way, our army only needs to keep five thousand troops and horses in Taiyuan, and we will be safe."

"Now we are chasing north. We will first kill Kobineng, destroy all his troops, and his tribe, and then turn around and take care of the 30,000 Xianbei cavalry."

Listening to Bi Gui's clear analysis, Qin Lang noticed the confident light shining in the former's eyes, and at the same time he was also very interested in the fact that he hated Kirby so much.

"I wonder why you hate Kirby so much?" Qin Lang asked curiously.

It stands to reason that in the previous battle, Kirby was defeated even though he won, and Bigui seemed to be victorious even though he was defeated, so he did not suffer a loss, so he would not hate Kirby so much.

Bi Gui nodded and said word by word: "In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once said: Anyone who offends our great Han Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away he is; today I must reaffirm this word, and whoever offends our country will be punished no matter how far away he is!"

Qin Lang was shocked and hurriedly looked at Bi Gui again. He suddenly remembered that a few years ago, Bi Gui had a very bad reputation among the officials of the Wei Dynasty.

At that time, everyone said that Bi Gui's words and deeds were exaggerated, and because Bi Gui had a good relationship with Cao Shuang and his son was the princess's consort, he became increasingly proud and indulgent, had no talent, and had a false reputation. He offended many people in the capital. As a last resort, Cao Shuang

With his recommendation, Cao Rui arranged for Bi Gui to serve as governor of Bingzhou to improve his reputation, gain military exploits, and improve his reputation.

Originally, after learning that Bi Gui had seriously injured Kirby, Qin Lang thought that Bi Gui had become much more mature and prudent. He didn't want to see Bi Gui today. He was more arrogant than when he was young.

Qin Lang was a little confused, how could Bi Gui rely on 20,000 cavalry to severely damage Kirby's 80,000 cavalry?

Could it be that Kirby is really too weak?

In the battle report sent to the court, Bi Gui did not clearly state how big a role Bu Dugen played in this battle. He only said that he first led his troops to defect from Wei and return to Xianbei, and then planned to defect from Xianbei and return to Han, so he and Kirby could fight each other.

After that, Bi Gui took the opportunity to lead his army out and severely damaged Kirby.

Chewing this information silently, Qin Lang suddenly realized something.

Bi Gui is still the same Bi Gui, he is very happy with his achievements and his arrogant and arrogant temper has not changed.

As for whether military capabilities have improved, this remains to be seen.

Thinking of this, Qin Lang nodded, and at the same time, as if he was looking for someone to take the blame for his actions, he solemnly stated: "For the peace of the Wei border, I will follow the envoy's plan!"

"For the peace of the Wei border!"

In August of the sixth year of Wei Taihe, a series of wars broke out again on the northern border of Wei State, where the war was raging. Two Wei armies, led by General Qin Lang and Bingzhou governor Bi Gui, went deep into the grassland to pursue Kebineng, who was retreating steadily.


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