Before Zhao Kuo could speak, Li Mu on the side hurriedly said: "When Zhao State was in the most critical situation, Ma Fuzi and I came to visit you to ask you for advice on how to defeat the enemy. You have been favored by Zhao State. At this time, why can't we let go of our personal grudges?" Facing Li Mu's questioning, Tian Dan's face became even more ugly, and he was not even willing to look at Zhao Kuo's face.
"Isn't it his father who caused all the crises now?" Tian Dan said displeasedly: "In the past, I talked to him about Zhao's military affairs. I persuaded him many times that the country has 30,000 elite soldiers. , Thousands of chariots are enough. If he ignores the household registration of the people and levies a large number of troops blindly, it will definitely weaken the State of Zhao. But he insists that without 300,000 soldiers, the State of Zhao cannot conquer the other states."
"In these years, the State of Zhao has been engaged in military warfare and has not paid much attention to farming. Until now, there are many soldiers, but they have no food to fill their stomachs, and there are no young people to work in the countryside. If you don't complain about Zhao She, why are you here to ask questions? And me?"
Tian Dan's words were very rude, which made Li Mu even more worried. He was afraid that Zhao Kuo couldn't help but have some dispute with Tian Dan. Unfortunately, Zhao Kuo was not angry. He could understand what Tian Dan meant. The relationship between the soldiers and the country's total population Proportions must be controlled. Tian Dan’s words are not unreasonable. He is not here to compete with Tian Dan for these things. Zhao Kuo said calmly:
"We are not here to pursue accountability. I heard that in the past, Prime Minister Tian was able to hold off the Yan people's attacks for several years with less than 10,000 troops, and regained the territory of Qi with more than 20,000 soldiers. I am here I came here this time to ask Tian Xiang for advice on how to defeat the Qin people. I also hope that you can put aside your grudges. The king of Zhao loves you, the scholars all admire you, and the common people are praising your name. Zhao has never I'm so sorry to you, shouldn't you do something in this critical moment?"
Tian Dan looked a little dazed and murmured in a low voice: "It doesn't matter what I did... They admired me even more. Your Majesty is afraid of me again... and then sell me like a commodity?" "
"Zhao people are not like Qi people." Zhao Kuo said slowly.
This sentence hurt Tian Dan. Tian Dan was extremely angry and shouted: "Then you go find Zhao Ren, I am Qi Ren!" Zhao Kuo looked at him helplessly, not knowing what to do. Tian Dan became more and more annoyed and said, "I heard that you are familiar with the art of war left by your father. Didn't your father leave you a way to defeat the Qin people?"
Zhao Kuo smiled, then raised his head and said arrogantly: "Of course he said, I came here originally because I wanted to see how the famous generals of Qi people compared with the famous generals of Zhao people. Now it seems that the famous generals of Qi people are better than those of Zhao people." Not worth mentioning."
Li Mu was stunned, but Tian Dan was so angry that he almost jumped up.
"How dare Shuzi insult me?"
Zhao Kuo said proudly: "The art of war left by my father said that if the Qin people launch an attack and the two sides confront each other in Changping, they can send cavalry to continuously attack his grain roads."
"Haha, Zhao She is only at this level. He doesn't even know the terrain of Changping. The place leading from Changping to Zhao is a plain, but the place leading to Shangdang is a ravine. The cavalry robs food? ? It is reasonable for the Qin people to do this, how can the Zhao people do it? Hehe, even a fool who doesn't know how to fight will never come up with such a ridiculous strategy!" Tian Dan said disdainfully, Li Mu's face turned red, and he slowly Lowered his head.
Zhao Kuo continued: "My father has many strategies. He also said that when the Qin people launch an attack, they can underestimate the enemy's intentions, pretend to be defeated and retreat, drop their baggage, and wait for the Qin people to snatch it, and then counterattack again!"
"Hahaha! Zhao She fought with Qin all his life, but has he even forgotten Qin Fa?" Tian Dan smiled arrogantly, and Li Mu lowered his head.
"Then borrow troops from the Hu people and launch an attack on Xianyang from the Hu people's territory to force the Qin people to return reinforcements!"
"Zhao She wants to use the barbarian cavalry to attack the city gate??"
"Then send people to Wei, Qi, and Chu to ask for reinforcements from them!"
"The last time Your Majesty sent an envoy to ask for help, one came back and three died."
Li Mu looked at Zhao Kuo in surprise. Zhao Kuo and Tian Dan fought continuously for more than half an hour. Zhao Kuo came up with the method to repel the Qin people. Tian Dan pointed out the absurdity and unworkability of it. He watched Tian Dan's eloquent discussion. Watching the war between Qin and Zhao, Li Mu looked at Zhao Kuo with growing admiration. Since Tian Dan came to Zhao, who has ever let Tian Dan say so many words???
Zhao Kuo gradually couldn't think of any strategy, but he still turned away unconvinced and said disdainfully: "So what? You just pointed out the shortcomings of the strategy. If it were me, it would be the same." Qi Ren is not that great at being able to explain your strategies. My father can still tell you a few strategies, but you can't even come up with a decent strategy. Your greatest achievement is just to defeat It's just Leyi, but my father defeated the powerful Qin army back then!"
"Are you worthy of telling off my plan? Ha!" Tian Dan stood up suddenly and said loudly: "Now the Zhao people are retreating repeatedly. The reason is that the Zhao people are not willing to fight, and the Qin people are eager to fight because of their military merits. And what about the Zhao people? Not to mention military achievements, Shangdang County was originally the territory of South Korea, and the Qin people did not invade Zhao. The Zhao people fought with the Qin people for the land of South Korea, how could they have the determination to fight?"
"So they treat the war passively. Even Lian Po can only retreat continuously."
"What I was able to defeat the Yan people back then was not a strategy, but the Qi people's unity, resentment towards the Yan people, and love for the Qi people. If I want the Zhao people to be able to defeat the Qin people, I must make the soldiers willing to fight. You can either promise titles, money and land after the war to inspire military morale, or you can increase the hatred of the soldiers by telling about the tyranny of the Qin people..." Tian Dan suddenly realized something was wrong and stopped.
"How to provoke generals?" Tian Dan asked, squinting his eyes.
Zhao Kuo suddenly laughed, "Xiang Tian really gave a good plan..." He slowly stood up, bowed his hands, and said: "I will tell Lian Po what you said. General, thank you for your advice."
Tian Dan's face suddenly turned ugly. He pointed at Zhao Kuo and shouted angrily: "You are a hundred times more cunning than your father!"
"Xiang Tian, I want to tell you three things. The first thing is that those strategies just now are just my personal opinions and were not proposed by my father. If my father was still here, I would not have said anything. I came to see you in such a humble manner. The second thing is that my father was debating with you about the number of soldiers. I think he was right. If Zhao Guo followed your idea and maintained an army of 30,000 people, it would only I'm afraid that if Zhao State can't hold on till now, it will be destroyed by the Qin people long ago."
"The third thing, I said, please don't be angry. The King of Qi was afraid of you and sent you to the State of Zhao, but the State of Zhao did not treat you badly. Your Majesty made you the king, which you have never done in the State of Qi.
The scholar-bureaucrats of Zhao State were treated with such respect when they saw you, and they did not ridicule you because you were not from Zhao. However, you were unwilling to come forward when Zhao State was in such danger. You used to admire you very much.
But today I just realized that you are not the hero in my mind, you are a villain."
"Farewell!" Zhao Kuo bowed to Tian Dan, turned around and walked out.
Li Mu hurriedly followed him and left together.
After the two left, Tian Dan's ugly face suddenly calmed down. He sat down, picked up the bamboo slips on the ground, smiled slightly, and opened the bamboo slips. On the bamboo slips, there was a map of Changping, with detailed records of Changping.
flat and surrounding terrain.
When Zhao Kuo walked out of Tian Dan's mansion, he felt very relaxed and took a long breath. Li Mu stood beside him and asked curiously: "How did you come up with the idea of using the method of stimulating generals to get Tian Xiang to give
Where’s the strategist?”
Zhao Kuo turned his head, and the sunlight shone on his face, which was very beautiful. He smiled and said:
"A young man once told me that there are no generals in the world who can win battles who cannot observe carefully and adapt to changes. When implementing strategies, naturally they have to make adjustments based on changes in the opponent. That's exactly what I did."
"Hahaha!"
In Handan City, in front of Tian Mansion, two young men laughed knowingly.
