Chapter 368

Everyone had been stunned by the two's attack and defense, ghosts and gods unpredictable, before. Especially now that it is a confrontation between the north and south banks, the troops and horses are entangled and fighting, the situation is complex, even Kong Kong Zhangyu, who is responsible for presiding, has no power to grasp the overall situation, and can only follow the two step by step, calculating where they fight, and calculating where they go.

Plus, the two's military orders became faster and denser later, others' thoughts couldn't keep up, let alone speak. So even if the situation has changed greatly now, no one intervened to discuss. The hall was silent, only the voices of Wang and Li remained.

Wang Yang was arranging his sleeves, saying calmly:

"Break the south bank army."

Kong Kong Zhangyu took away one of Li Jingxuan's chopsticks:

"South bank army broken!"

"Lu Kang garrison returns to station at Lu Kang, the other two routes, combine forces to pursue the enemy." After Wang Yang finished speaking, he beckoned to the maid:

"Change to new tea."

Li Jingxuan loosened his collar, seemingly somewhat hot:

"Pass Bailu Rock, walk Genshan."

Wang Yang blew on the tea cup slowly:

"Pursue closely."

Li Jingxuan looked at the cups and plates on the table, his whole body tense, his palms tightly gripping the edge of the table:

"Pass the lonely grave, towards Nuguanshan!"

Wang Yang sipped the tea:

"Pursue relentlessly."

At this time, Li Jingxuan suddenly raised his head, the solemn expression on his face just now dissipated instantly:

"I'm not leaving."

Wang Yang put down the tea cup:

"Surrendered?"

Li Jingxuan stared at Wang Yang, revealing a shallow, mysterious smile:

"You can force me to this point, it's already quite extraordinary. But it's a pity—"

Li Jingxuan's smile spread from his lips into his eyes, the mysterious smile just now had turned into a burning excitement! That was the intense pleasure of watching the arrogant genius young master being stepped under his feet! It was the refreshing feeling of finally blooming with brilliance after enduring humiliation and hiding!

"You lost! North and south banks, both lost!"

Li Jingxuan's voice was like gold and stone hitting each other, every word like iron hitting a tripod!

Everyone had been shocked and unable to speak, now hearing Li Jingxuan suddenly announce that Wang Yang had lost, they were even more stunned on the spot, not even having the mind to sort out the battle situation.

Li Jingxuan saw Wang Yang frowning and silent, and smiled:

"Don't believe it? Fine, then I will briefly explain it to you, you can read the military strategy I wrote for the details. I have long buried three routes of winning soldiers for today's north-south decisive battle, to set the world! One of them is in the south, and the other two are in the north. Let's talk about the one in the south first.

As soon as I passed Liutou Beach, I secretly sent an army across the south bank, climbed the mountain to Hanguan, then from Hanguan south across Shenxue to Genshan, then east up the Yi River to the south of Nuguanshan, and stationed troops here. You don't have to look for this road on the map, this is an ancient road walked by the Yi people, it's not on the map.

As for the two routes in the north, do you think I only took Zigui at the beginning to clear the retreat? Hehe. No. North of Zigui, there is a mountain road that can turn to Xincheng, turn southeast to Zhangju, and there are east and west roads to reach Yiling. The east road crosses the Ju River at Chi'an, and the west road exits Jianxikou. Why do you think I wanted to stalemate with Wang Yang? Why did I delay and not advance, showing weakness and hiding sharpness? Do you think I was really afraid of him? Heh, no! I was waiting for my three routes of detour troops to complete the encirclement! So as to eat up all his north and south bank troops in one breath!"

No way, the map layer field of view with high precision is small, I changed three and none of them worked, I can only use this ordinary one, everyone just look at the general meaning. Above Zigui is

(Explanation of the picture above: Above Zigui is Xingshan, going north from Xingshan you can see a mountain road to Fangxian, which is the Xincheng mentioned by Li Jingxuan. This is an ancient road, not something that only exists in modern times. I will enlarge the details of this road, intercept a part and put it in Figure 2. Let's have a 3D one, put Figure 3. People who are not familiar with historical geography (not history + geography, but the historical evolution of geography) often have an imagination of vicissitudes, high mountains and valleys, feeling that time has changed and the mountains and rivers have long changed, but in fact, in units of two thousand years, the changes in mountains and rivers are far from as big as said in idioms, so even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the textual research of Qin and Han geography can be done very finely.

Even if it is a newly built road in modern times, it is mostly due to the old tracks of the terrain, and there are very few completely new ones, "creating something out of nothing." Students interested in this issue can refer to the CHGIS platform jointly developed by Fudan and Harvard. Thanks to technological progress, the moon of Qin and the pass of Han, the latitude and longitude of today can be seen in the palm of the hand, even the route of Xuanzang's westward journey can be clearly restored, and even the ancient tree he once passed can determine the latitude and longitude. This is the luck of academia, but the work of learning is still outside the technique.)

Figure 2, look at that winding light yellow line, all the way north to Fangxian, east out of the mountainous area, north to Xiangyang, south to Zhangju

Figure 3, the coordinate I marked in blue is the starting point of the north road, the south road is easy to understand, so I won't mark it

Li Jingxuan shook his sleeves, raised his hands, with a look of disdain:

"Mr. Kong, the time has come, three routes of troops appear!"

Kong Kong Zhangyu stared at Li Jingxuan with a complex expression, paused, took out three chopsticks, and placed them on the three cups in turn:

"Jianxikou, troops appear!

Ju River crossing, troops appear!

South of Nuguanshan, troops appear!"

The hall was silent.

Everyone was shocked!

No one knew there were these three roads, no one thought that Li Jingxuan had this intention when he fought Zigui, and no one thought that he had such a far-reaching plan from the beginning of the war!

"This... was this planned long ago..." Xue Shao was full of shock, muttering to himself.

Guo Wenyuan sighed:

"The wise see a thousand miles, the foolish are confused by one corner. I usually pride myself on my talent and intelligence, often feeling that my planning does not fall behind others. Now looking at this situation, I know that my boasting in the past was just a frog in the well. In terms of military strategy and planning, I am far inferior to Li Gongyu!"

Chen Qiming looked at Li Jingxuan, full of envy. If it weren't for today's discussion on military affairs, he would have always thought that although he couldn't compare with Li Jingxuan, the difference wasn't much. But now he knows that he can't even be considered to know military affairs.

The Prince of Badong slapped the table, pointed at Li Jingxuan, and said excitedly:

"Great talent, great talent! I knew you could win!"

Then he remembered something, his expression was slightly awkward:

"Uh, this, I had some misunderstandings before, but—"

The Prince of Badong quickly became righteous:

"But if I really made up my mind to interfere with your order, could you still succeed?! Just a sentence of 'when a general is abroad' can't stop me! It's just that I felt you, Li Gongyu, should have your own set! And I was also using reverse psychology! As the saying goes, jade is not polished, it does not become a vessel; people are not forced, they do not become talents! Li Gongyu, you say it yourself, did you win Wang Yang, is there any credit for my forcing?!"

Li Jingxuan certainly thought that winning Wang Yang relied entirely on his own true talent, but he also had to admit that there was indeed pressure from the Prince of Badong, which allowed his potential to be fully exerted, and he fought Wang Yang to a draw! Although this game on the south bank finally fell into a disadvantage, fortunately, his planning was far-reaching and he left a winning hand, which allowed him to finish perfectly.

Li Jingxuan straightened his clothes and bowed to the Prince of Badong:

"Jingxuan, thank you, Your Highness, for your cultivation!"

The Prince of Badong was full of joy and laughed:

"With Li Gongyu, I can be worry-free!"

Only Tao Rui had doubts in his heart, looking at the map and flipping through the geography, but he couldn't grasp the point, and whispered:

"Zigui is in the river gorge, can the land route reach the outside? Can the south bank of Liutou Beach climb the mountain to the Yi River? Can you go from the Yi River across Genshan to Nuguanshan? And you said it was an ancient road of the Yi people, are these two roads really there?"

Li Jingxuan had a look of self-pride and did not answer. Wang Yang opened his mouth:

"There really is. The south route is the ancient Yi River road of the ancient Ba-Shu people."

Li Jingxuan was about to nod, then was stunned:

"How do you know?!"

Everyone stopped and looked at Wang Yang.

Wang Yang said:

"The ancient Ba-Shu people, in order to avoid the danger of the Three Gorges, took the land route into Jiannan River, climbed the Qiyue Mountain to the source of the Yi River, and then followed the Yi River down, which can reach Jing-Chu. That is the second half of the south route Li Jingxuan's soldiers walked. Sheng Hongzhi's "Jingzhou Records" says: 'In the past, the Lin King floated the Yi River and shot the Salt God on Yangshi.' Although this is a vulgar legend of strange things, the saying of floating the Yi River is not false."

Li Jingxuan was full of shock:

"You, how do you know?!"

Tao Rui was also stunned. He originally suspected that Li Jingxuan had collected some idle rumors from nowhere, vague, true and false, not necessarily existing, and even if they existed, they might not be walkable, but he didn't expect they really existed! He immediately asked:

"Then that north route of Zigui..."

Wang Yang hmm-ed:

"There is one too. It's just hard to walk. "Records of the Three Kingdoms" says that when the Wei state destroyed Shu, the Wu master wanted to save it, "discussing where the soldiers should go, General Ding Feng and Sun Yi went to Mianzhong." At that time, Mianzhong belonged to Wei territory, and Wu's move was a strategy of surrounding Wei to save Zhao. But the book didn't write how to get to Mianzhong. Actually, it was going north across the mountain from this road in Zigui."

Everyone looked at each other in astonishment. Everyone present had read "Records of the Three Kingdoms" more or less, but no one had noticed this sentence. Even if they noticed it, it was impossible to connect it to the problem of the road going north!

Li Jingxuan looked at Wang Yang in disbelief:

"It's not written in the book, how do you know?"

Wang Yang smiled:

"Books are divided into two types. One is books with words, the other is books without words.

Reading books with words requires the use of no words, so one can be unconstrained.

Reading books without words requires the realization of words, so one can penetrate.

There are two ways to read books without words, one is to read people, the other is to read things.

There are also two ways to read books with words, one is to read inside the words, the other is to read outside the words.

But regardless of whether there are words or not, reading to the superior level, the principle is connected to one, which is "knowledge," having sight, and also having knowledge.

If you don't have knowledge, words are a prison, the world becomes a maze, and reading a thousand books is just a rotten scholar.

If you have knowledge, one pass is a hundred passes, one use is a hundred uses, and half a volume can break ten thousand situations.

Where is there any distinction between what is written in the book or not?"

When Li Jingxuan heard the last two sentences, his face changed greatly! He pointed at Wang Yang and said in horror:

"You, you are..."

Wang Yang: Hmm?

Li Jingxuan looked at Wang Yang's expression and quickly calmed down.

No, no, it's not that person, the voice is different, but that was five years ago, will the voice...

Impossible, impossible, if it were that person, how could he come to Jingzhou to be a county student, and come to join the Prince of Badong? No, no, absolutely impossible. Although the way of speaking is similar, the specific words are still very different. Perhaps it was a coincidence, and the views are the same?

Li Jingxuan suppressed his shock and asked casually:

"May I ask Young Master Wang, where does this discussion come from—"

"Me."

Li Jingxuan saw that Wang Yang spoke without hesitation, and felt a little relieved in his heart. It seems it was indeed a coincidence, but this person could actually coincide with that person, which is really remarkable! Langya Wang clan, the foundation is really thick...

While Li Jingxuan was pondering, the Prince of Badong stared at Wang Yang unbelievably:

"So you had these three routes prepared long ago???"

Li Jingxuan's heart skipped a beat, his train of thought just went astray, and he almost forgot the big thing! He hurriedly looked at Wang Yang nervously!

Wang Yang smiled, picked up a chopstick, and casually picked off the first chopstick Kong Kong Zhangyu had placed on the cup before. Kong Kong Zhangyu said:

"Jianxikou, army broken!"

Everyone was surprised!

The blood color on Li Jingxuan's face faded by two points!

Wang Yang turned his wrist, like a game, and lightly picked off another chopstick.

Kong Kong Zhangyu spoke again:

"Ju River crossing, army broken!"

This time everyone didn't even have a voice! All eyes gathered, staring at the white chopstick in Wang Yang's hand!

Li Jingxuan's blood color faded again! His eyes were dizzy!

When Wang Yang's white chopstick moved to the third cup, Li Jingxuan's heart beat like a drum, and sweat dripped from his forehead!

However, Wang Yang just drew a virtual line next to the black chopstick on the third cup.

Everyone finally let out a breath!

Fortunately, fortunately, it's not that scary!

Li Jingxuan was also relieved!

Fortunately, fortunately, it's not that everything was calculated, heaven didn't cut me off, the strange soldiers south of Nuguanshan are still there, and the south bank still has a chance to fight!

Just as he was rejoicing, he saw Wang Yang arrange the chopsticks on the table and order:

"Yidao army exits, raid the rear of Nuguanshan south. Pursuing troops advance to suppress, front and rear combine to break the enemy army!"

Everyone was stunned!

Li Jingxuan was also shocked:

"You put troops in Yidao?!"

Wang Yang said: "Yes."

Li Jingxuan couldn't believe it and said:

"You, since you guessed my south route, why didn't you put the ambush directly in Nuguanshan? Instead, you put it in Yidao???"

Wang Yang's expression was slightly strange, and he said frankly:

"Actually, I didn't think your south bank could be defeated so quickly before, I thought you could fight to Yidao..."

Li Jingxuan shook all over! The pale face that didn't have much blood left, at this moment, was like being poured with boiling water, and it instantly flushed red...

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Note: These chapters on discussing military affairs can be read together with the second half of Chapter 250, "The Game (Middle)."