The best liars and conspirators will of course deceive even unimportant members of their own family into their schemes——
As long as you make sure it doesn't lead to any other adverse consequences, such as low morale, unstable military morale, etc., then there will be no problem.
No, this time Shen Shuren played a trick on Yin Zuo Liangyu, and even the ordinary people in Xiaogan City were deceived. Even Jin Shenghuan, who had just come from afar for reinforcements two days later, was also deceived.
Jin Shenghuan led his troops to Xiaogan on the third day of May. When he arrived, he saw a gloomy and gloomy look. He also heard the noise of the wind and cranes along the way, and he couldn't help but feel worried.
As soon as they met, he raised his concerns: "Shen Bingbei, General Shen Bingbei, on the order of Fang Futai, led a battalion of his own troops to come to the rescue and wait for Bingbei's dispatch. I don't know how Bingbei will deploy our army?"
With all due respect, General Mo, on my way to the future, I passed by Wuchang Mansion yesterday and heard a lot of unfavorable news for our army. Everyone there said that Erhe was invincible, and there was also some news about the relationship between the army and General Zuo. I'm afraid those dirty words about grievances between us will be detrimental to the situation of the war."
Chen Shuren smiled slightly and patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay. Fools among the people don't know the truth about war. They can't know that Liu Guoneng has sent reinforcements to surround Wei and save Zhao from He Yilong's lair.
This news has been kept strictly confidential by our army. The squire of Xiaogan said that our army has no help, but I have not refuted the rumor and let it spread. The fear is to alert the enemy, so that Erhe can continue to delay until the last moment."
Seeing Chen Shuren's commanding attitude, Jin Shenghuan put down his worries and then went to greet other Ming army generals. His words and attitude were respectful.
Although Jin Shenghuan sent reinforcements on behalf of Fang Kongzheng, his own military position was only a garrison, leading a guard camp of 2,000 people.
There are many high-ranking and low-ranking generals here in Shen Shuren. Zuo Zixiong is already a guerrilla, Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue are also captains. If the official position is not higher than that of Jin Shenghuan, he can only choose to keep a low profile.
In just a short time, Jin Shenghuan became familiar with his fellow generals. In the process, seeing Zuo Zixiong and others admire Shen Shuren so much and obeying his advice, he was also secretly frightened, thinking that Shen Bingbei There must be something special about it.
He had been serving in the army for ten years, and he had never seen a military general admire his civilian superiors from the bottom of his heart so much.
Even for himself and other high-ranking officials like Kong Zhen, he was forced to obey orders due to his high position and authority, but he could not talk about his admiration for Kong Zhen's character or charisma.
He couldn't help but secretly ask with tactful hints, wanting to know why Zuo Zixiong and others admired Shen Shuren so much.
The answer he got was also very unquestionable, and all the generals looked at him as if they were an idiot:
"You will know from now on that Shen is a soldier who loves his people as his own son. He has no airs. He does everything himself whether he is advising farmers or running the army. Even craftsmen, farmers, and soldiers, as long as they have skills, can be used by him."
"Shen Bingbei Liangban was born as a Jinshi, and has a reputation as a righteous person in the world, but he never looks down on us military ministers, nor does he look down on craftsmen. We are all equals -
Jin Shoubei, you are belatedly thinking about this. Think about it, Liu Guoneng was born in Zhao'an, a traitor, and he was so generous and righteous when he saw Shen Bingbei's request for help. He was impressed by Shen Bingbei's righteous speech back then.
I remember that you have a boss, Mr. Qian, who escorted Shen Fu to Liu Guoneng to deliver a letter asking for help. Didn’t he tell you how grateful Liu Guoneng was to Shen Bingbei?"
The generals were talking so loudly and so righteously that Jin Shenghuan felt a little ashamed. But after carefully listening to the many deeds recounted by the generals, Jin Shenghuan himself couldn't help but be shaken. I kind of want to hang out with Shen Shuren forever.
Although he was later demoted to the Qing Dynasty in history, he was demoted together with his boss Zuo Mengeng (Zuo Liangyu's son) after all, so he was somewhat involuntarily.
Later, it turned out that participating in the anti-Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty did not necessarily mean that they were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but that military commanders born in Zhao'an, such as the thieves, more or less liked a "martial" political environment and liked to give civilian officials the opportunity to suppress military commanders. The court is doing things——
On this point, some generals who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty in the late Southern Song Dynasty followed a similar logic when they took refuge with Kublai Khan.
Kublai Khan asked how the salary and treatment provided by the Song Dynasty were not bad. Why did he surrender after being favored by the emperor for decades? Instead, civil servants such as Jia Sidao and Wen Tianxiang persisted in resisting, and in the end so many jumped into the sea.
Veteran Song Dynasty generals like Xia Gui said: The Song Dynasty valued literature over military affairs! Jia Sidao has always been wary of us and disrespected us.
In the end, Kublai Khan just smiled and said: No wonder Jia Sidao doesn't respect you! You are not even as good as Jia Sidao!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan, who first surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and then rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, also had this idea. They felt that the Ming Dynasty despised military generals too much and were not as good at martial arts as the barbarians, so they would rather sacrifice their social status, class, etc. for their own abilities and endowments. First, give up national justice and find a regime that allows military generals to ride on the heads of civilian officials to be loyal to.
It is a pity that after the pacification of Jiangxi and Guangxi in history, the Qing Dynasty also showed signs of "ruling the country with culture". A governor could step on Li Chengdong and Jin Shengheng and humiliate them. What he said in and out was "It's not enough after the war is over." Respect your ass! You are just rubbish warriors!" Then these people got angry and rebelled again.
Li Chengdong had too many misdeeds in history, and Shen Shuren would definitely not be able to win him over, but Jin Shenghuan could still be saved.
The most important thing was that he soon discovered that Shen Shuren was different from all the other civil servants he had seen today. Shen Shuren truly believed that civil servants and military officials were equal, which gave him a sense of knowing him.
This kind of idea of equality between civil and military affairs that comes from modern people's ideas in words and deeds when talking to military generals cannot be faked by any Ming Dynasty civil servant.
Those who have read the Four Books and Five Classics all their lives and taken the imperial examination have long been brainwashed to the bone by advocating literature and suppressing martial arts. The peaceful mentality that only a time traveler like Shen Shuren has has become his way to win over the angry generals. A "spiritual plug-in".
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Jin Shenghuan and his colleagues were brainwashing each other, and they were gradually being assimilated. According to Shen Shuren's plan, he came from afar and had to rest for a day to recover before going into battle.
On the other side, coincidentally that evening, another piece of good news came from the direction of the bandit camp.
After Chen Shuren listened briefly, he was very excited and immediately summoned all the generals to discuss it.
As soon as the generals entered the big tent, they saw Master Bingbei's face beaming with joy, and they couldn't help but look forward to it.
Chen Shuren did not let them guess the riddles, and announced proudly: "Just now, Yang Dusi's scouts were on duty and captured another group of bandit soldiers who came to surrender. There were actually two to three thousand people!
These are said to be He Jin's direct descendants. I have already interrogated them. They said that early yesterday morning, He Yilong announced the death of He Jin in the army! He also framed it on us, saying that he was killed by Yan that day. After being injured by a landmine, the magistrate finally died!
However, many of He Jin's personal guards were missing. There were rumors in the camp that He Yilong was plotting to murder his colleagues and annex his tribesmen! Some of He Jin's confidants were in danger, so they had no choice but to lead their troops to surrender! The internal strife among the bandits has begun. This is what God has blessed me with, and the Ming Dynasty has broken it!"
"What? He Jin died before we even took action!"
"God bless the Ming Dynasty! The bandit army is in such internal strife, but our army still has reinforcements and a pincer attack. Although there are many bandits, there is nothing to worry about!"
The generals were inexplicably surprised for a moment, and their morale became increasingly high.
After the initial ecstasy, everyone quickly calculated the strength of the enemy and ourselves.
Because there were two to three thousand soldiers who had fled from internal strife and surrendered, the inside story of He Yilong's military situation was now completely transparent to the officers and soldiers, even more transparent than with a X-ray device.
Shen Shuren could quickly sort out how many people He Yilong had, how many wounded he had, and the logistics and material situation.
The generals immediately split up and stepped up their questioning, and soon they learned:
The army rations for the bandits can last at least a few months, but because they have to retreat, they cannot take all the supplies away, so they will no longer plunder in Suizhou recently, because they can't take it away anyway.
Under normal circumstances, if the bandits marched slowly in batches for ten or eight days, it would be possible for them to escort most of the supplies through the Tongbai Mountains like they did when they came.
But now we have to rush for time, so we can only bring a few less things.
And according to the latest news about the bandits, Liu Guoneng seemed to be unable to attack Xinyang Mansion, so he did not choose to directly besiege Xinyang County.
Instead, after a tentative attack, they turned around and chose to block the entrance. There was already a tendency to seize Tongbaiguan at the north entrance of Xinyang Road——
I must mention geography here. Tongbaiguan is a gap on the Xinyang-Suizhou passage, located at the northernmost end of the Jinshui River Valley. It is entered from Anlu County and Suizhou County all the way north along the Jinshui River Valley and over Tongbai Mountain. The only way to pass through Henan.
Historically, all the roundabout attacks from Xinyang, Henan to Suizhou, Hubei have taken this road. On this mountain road, a battle that is the main material of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" also broke out:
Two thousand years ago, when Sun Wu led the Wu army to attack Chu, they first took the Huaihe River from Wu to Xinyang (the navigation technology was poor at that time, and the Huaihe River was easier to navigate than the Yangtze River), and then from Xinyang through Tongbai Pass to Jianshui River, and then to Suiguo. In his hometown, he fought the "Battle of Baiju" with the Chu army.
Sun Wu was very good at writing about the art of war in his life, but there were only a few actual battles. It can be said that the Battle of Baiju provided most of the actual combat materials for "Sun Tzu's Art of War".
Including Sun Tzu's writing about the difficulty of raising food and grass, "If you eat one bell of the enemy, you will treat me twenty bells; if you guard one stone, you will treat me twenty stone." These data, in fact, have been verified by later generations and are all based on the Battle of Baiju. Calculated based on logistical losses.
Because we have to cross the Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountain to transport grain, the losses are so great. One minute on the front line is equivalent to twenty minutes on the rear. If we change to other battlefields, it is impossible to have such huge losses.
Such a dangerous road that gave birth to "Sun Tzu's Art of War", but now the north entrance is in danger of being ambushed and blocked by Liu Guoneng. How can He Yilong not be anxious? Now is the time when the brave meets the narrow road and wins.
If you win, you will be able to leap from sea to sea, and annex He Jin's troops to plunder randomly on the plains of Henan.
If he loses, he will be blocked by Liu Guo in the front, pursued by Chen Shuren in the back, and he will be blocked in this Tongbai Mountain Road.
The winner takes all, the loser gets nothing!
After Chen Shuren combined the intelligence and analyzed the situation clearly, the generals' will to fight became more and more intense. Jin Shenghuan, who had just arrived, was also worried that he would not have a chance to perform, so he took the initiative to ask for a fight:
"Sir, Master of Military Preparation! Tomorrow I will be the vanguard! I will pursue He Yilong first!"