Chapter 334: Xiang Yu's tactics, shocking changes in Wei
Seeing that his nephew showed no remorse, Xiang Liang became so angry that the fat on his face bulged.
[This boy is not like his elder brother! ]
"Okay, okay, since you've said you've read it, I won't make it difficult for you to recite it all back. You recite The Art of War to me!"
The Art of War was written by Sun Wu, the founder of military strategists, and every military strategist cannot escape it.
For those who study military tactics, memorizing "The Art of War" is a test that cannot be more basic. Xiang Liang's requirement is not only not excessive, but also too basic.
In ancient times, there were few people who read books and were wise, bamboo slips were not convenient to carry and write on, and there was no movable type printing. As a result, there were very few books during the Qin Dynasty. There were so few that Ying Chengjiao had read all the books available on the market before he was 20 years old.
No matter which school of thought you choose, since there are only a few books you can read and learn from, memorizing their own classics is the basic skill.
Generals like Li Mu, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian could all recite the entire "The Art of War" and "The Art of War by Wu Zi".
Both pupils dilated at the same time, and Xiang Yu seemed to be startled.
"Uncle, isn't this too much trouble for Yu? Yu can't do it."
"Then I'll recite Wu Zi's Art of War, okay?"
"No, Yu can't carry it on his back."
Xiang Liang never thought that his nephew could recite it. How could it be possible after reading almost all the military books in eight days?
"I can't memorize The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and I can't memorize The Art of War by Wu Zi either. Is this what you call having read them all?"
Sun Wu, the military sage.
Wu Qi is the second sage of military strategy.
If you can't even memorize the military tactics of these two people, let alone those of others, you can't build a tall building without a solid foundation.
Xiang Yu was very puzzled. The young man, who was born with supernatural powers, suspected that his uncle was deliberately making trouble.
"Yu only said that he had read it, but he didn't say that he could recite it again. Yu did read it all."
"...You only watched it once, and you dare to say you have seen it all?"
"Why doesn't Yu dare to say it? Yu has indeed read it all."
Xiang Liang was furious.
Read a book a hundred times and its meaning will become clear.
Xiang Liang thought that "reading" meant remembering and understanding, but his eldest nephew's "reading" meant simply "reading".
You can't learn any theory in this way, just flipping through it and saying you've read it and don't read it again. Good books not only need to be read repeatedly, but also need to be put into practice to understand their true meaning.
Xiang Liang had never seen another madman like Xiang Yu who said he wanted to learn military tactics, then casually flipped through all the military tactics and said he had learned everything and there was no point in learning more.
People who can afford to read may not like reading, but at least they know that those who can write books are talented people. No one dares to say that they will understand the true meaning of .
People who can't afford to read books can't even see the books, so naturally they can't say such nonsense.
The angry Xiang Liang decided to teach his eldest nephew a big lesson, to let him know that there are always people better than you, and that one should be humble!
He took off his belt and placed it on the table as a city, took out gold from his bosom as soldiers to defend the city, and took out three times the amount of gold as soldiers to attack the city.
After briefly explaining to his nephew what the belt, gold, and money represented, he asked coldly:
"You want to defend or attack."
“All right.”
Xiang Yu didn't care.
"How arrogant! I defend and you attack. I want to see how you learn the art of war."
Xiang Liang sat on the chair with a sullen face.
Although he felt that his nephew could not win by either attacking or defending, he chose to defend the city for the sake of safety.
"In the chapter "Attack" in "The Art of War" written by Sun Tzu, it is said: Therefore , the method of using troops is to surround them if they are ten times your number, to attack them if they are five times your number, to divide them if they are twice your number, to fight them if they are your enemy, to flee if they are fewer than you, and to avoid them if they are inferior to you. Therefore, the strength of a small enemy is the capture of a large enemy.
"The number of soldiers attacking the city is three times that of the soldiers defending the city. If you study carefully, you will know that the defenders will naturally win."
Xiang Yu ignored his uncle's teachings, picked his ears to flick away the earwax, picked up a coin and said:
"Uncle, please be ready. Your nephew is going to attack the city."
After saying that, he pushed the coin straight towards the belt that symbolized the city.
"A soldier? Shot by an archer."
Xiang Liang couldn't understand what his nephew was doing. What good would one soldier do?
"You can't shoot me to death."
Xiang Yu continued to advance Qian.
"Why can't I shoot him to death?"
Xiang Liang was so angry that he died. Can't I shoot you, a soldier, to death? This is a deduction, not a verbal attack!
“This money is for me.”
“…”
The strength given by Xiang Yu did not reduce Xiang Liang's anger at all, but made it even more intense.
In this era, there was no tradition of generals charging into the front of a battle. In fact, in China's feudal history, there were very few generals leading the charge.
Sitting in the central military tent, commanding the movement of troops with flags, calculating the weather, observing the terrain, and attacking the enemy when they are unprepared, this is what a qualified general does.
"Shoot and kill."
Xiang Liang gritted his teeth.
If one arrow can't kill you, then use a bunch of arrows.
"The horse is dead, so dismount and march forward."
Xiang Yu's speed in pushing the money slowed down by more than half, but he still continued to push forward.
[The only thing that can be shot with a gun is your horse? What are you talking about, you little brat! ]
Xiang Liang was furious and held his nephew's hand to prevent the coin from moving forward.
"You are dead."
"I'm not dead. Arrows can't kill me."
"Why can't an arrow kill you?"
"The arrow flies so slowly, how can it kill me?"
Xiang Yu was very serious and pushed away the hand that was pressed by his speechless uncle.
With one hand, he continued to push forward the money representing himself, while with the other hand, he pushed back all the money that was three times the amount of gold.
"Morale is boosted, the whole army is going to attack."
One coin, leading a group of coins, was pushed all the way to the belt under Xiang Liang's wooden gaze and stopped.
Xiang Liang thought that his nephew had finally realized that he was just fooling around, and his expression softened a little.
"Build a floating bridge across the moat."
The pause was because it would take some time to build the floating bridge.
Xiang Liang was numb.
Although he said that his nephew didn't know anything, he knew that there was a moat under the city, and the soldiers were blocked by the moat, and it took time to build a floating bridge to cross.
You know what kind of good person is, leading the charge and saying nonsense that arrows can't kill him? People with double pupils are also human beings, so how can they not be shot to death by arrows?
"Uncle, you're not going to shoot the arrows, are you going to stop me by throwing golden juice? If you keep watching like this, I'll take your city."
The gold juice here is not real gold juice, but boiling manure water.
The gold juice at 100 degrees will not only cause psychological discomfort to people, but also leave large areas of burns and scalds on the attackers, causing severe physical discomfort.
Xiang Yu looked at his silent uncle strangely, indicating that if he didn't move again, he would lose.
"The city is three feet high. Even if you come to the foot of the city, how can you get down from my city? Use a ladder?"
Xiang Liang said reluctantly.
"Yes."
Xiang Yu nodded.
Xiang Liang felt that his nephew was finally reliable.
"Shoot, pour gold juice, throw rolling stones."
"Raise your shield and climb the city wall."
"A shield that can protect against gold juice is heavy and solid. It's already difficult for an ordinary person to hold it with one hand and climb the city wall. How can it protect against rolling stones?"
"Yuju can move."
Xiang Liang was speechless again and remained silent for a moment.
"Push the ladder, chop the ladder."
"It's too late."
The first coin passed the belt, then rushed left and right in a pile of gold, scattering all the gold and clearing a large area behind the belt.
"While my uncle was calculating the military situation and cutting down the ladders, Yu had already climbed the city walls and was killing many people on the top of the city walls."
Xiang Yu grabbed the remaining money and scattered it behind his belt.
"The top of the city has been lost, and Yu's army has climbed up to the top of the city. With three times the number of troops, it will be very easy to take down the city."
Xiang Liang wanted to slap his nephew in the face. Do you think this is just a child's play? Would you fight like this in a real battlefield?
But when he thought of his elder brother who died on the battlefield and saw his nephew's double pupils, he couldn't raise his hand.
"…If you were asked to defend the city and encountered an attacker like you, how would you respond?"
Treat others as you would like to be treated.
Xiang Liang wanted to see if he could break Xiang Yu's unreasonable fighting style.
"Open the city gate and kill him!"
Xiang Yu did not hesitate.
"No one can beat Yu."
Covering his forehead, Xiang Liang stood up tremblingly, separating himself from Xiang Yu's supporting hand.
[Brother, this nephew, Liang really can't teach him anything! I don't want to get angry with this guy today! ]
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Zhao land, Wei land.
These are two areas adjacent to Guanzhong besides Han. The management of these two areas by Qin State is much better than that of Chu, Qi and Yan.
At least there wouldn't be a wanted sign with a bounty on it hanging on the city wall like in Kuaiji County, and Xiang Liang would live a carefree and prosperous life in Kuaiji County.
Being so close to Guanzhong, the nobles who were enfeoffed here by the First Emperor dared not disobey the Emperor and anger him. They all tried their best to suppress the local nobles and govern the place.
Therefore, the order from Xianyang was first implemented in Zhao and Wei after it left Guanzhong.
Zhao and Wei experienced several large-scale massacres.
The killing that had the greatest impact on Wei was the sequel to the system of unified writing.
The First Emperor demanded that anyone who spoke simplified characters be killed, anyone who taught others knowledge be killed, and anyone who wrote non-simplified characters be killed.
What is Wei? It is a place of great feng shui that produces talents who can govern the world.
Wu Qi, Sun Bin, Shang Yang, Zhang Yi, Yue Yi, Fan Sui, Xinling Jun Wei Wuji and so on and so forth, no matter which country these great talents served in the end, they all served the State of Wei at first.
Such an elite class in the Warring States Period that had produced countless great talents suddenly issued an order to stop studying.
The original Weiwen was not allowed to be written anymore, and simplified characters were used instead. Apart from books on agriculture and medicine that were useful for daily life, all the were not allowed to be read, and all were handed in and burned.
What are you doing?!
The Wei area was in an uproar.
The local noble families were not happy about this.
They united, resisted secretly, and pretended to obey but actually disobeyed.
The Qin nobles sent by the First Emperor were happy. They said, "Little guys, we let you take care of the country for a while before the country was unified. Now His Majesty has granted us this place as our territory. Do you still dare to stab us? I'll kill you!"
The Qin nobles, who were worried about having no good reason to eliminate the local nobles, became like chickens with blood pumped up, and tried their best to attack the local nobles in Wei.
The local nobles in Wei were not vegetarians either, and many of them held official positions. Before the First Emperor was sent abroad, the local nobles in Wei had always been officials.
After the Qin nobles came, although they were nominally the lords of the territory, it was difficult for a strong dragon to suppress a local snake. When these local nobles united, the feudal nobles barely gained the upper hand.
This advantage meant hundreds and thousands of lives were lost, and many local nobles lost their lives in this war.
However, compared with the local nobles, the illiterate and uncultured people of Wei were even more miserable, and more of them died.
In theory, the unified writing system would not have much impact on the common people, but in reality, this disturbance, which should have only affected the nobles in Wei, made the common people in Wei terrified when talking about writing.
The nobles of Wei dragged the people into this war.
They guide the people to express their grievances against simplified characters, for example, this is also called a character?
They taught children to read and write for free, read books from various schools of thought, and recognize Wei characters.
They either bribed the people with money or food, or forced them to hide banned books that should have been burned for them, but they did not keep any books in their own homes.
If the feudal nobles showed leniency to the people of Wei, they would take advantage of the situation and use the people as shields to fight against the tyranny of book burning.
If the feudal nobles massacred the people of Han, the people of Wei would become more hostile to them. The feudal nobles would further lose their popular support, and it would be more difficult to seize power from them.
The feudal nobles from the Qin State chose the second option, killing.
Legalism was deeply rooted in the Qin State, and its ideas were deeply engraved in the hearts of the Qin people.
Faced with this group of Wei people who had lost their country, the feudal nobles, who had never let the law go unpunished, would kill one if they saw one disobeying orders, kill a pair if they saw two disobeying orders, and kill a group of people who disobeyed orders collectively.
The killing was so severe that the executioner's blade was bent, the land outside the city was turned into new soil, and the people of Wei were so frightened that they dared not speak, and they turned pale at the mention of books and Qin.
The people are under the rule of the nobles. If the nobles are in trouble, how can the people be well off?
When a country prospers, the people suffer.
When a country dies, the people suffer.
The feudal nobles who were accustomed to strong suppression were very satisfied with the blow to the local nobles. They knew that many of the people in Han were misled and wronged.
But being misled by the local nobles and turning against them is a sin.
They knew that the people of Han hated them, but so what? As long as they got rid of all the local nobles, these Wei people would accept and get used to their rule.
When Shang Yang implemented the new law, many people died.
Later, paper was brought over from Han and quickly became popular in Wei. The number of deaths in Wei was not as high as that caused by the use of calligraphy, but it was still far too much.
This kind of paper is light, fast, easy to write on, and can perfectly replace bamboo slips. It is deeply loved by the Wei nobles. In order to be able to use it, they would even test it with the blood of the Wei people.
In between these two killings, there was a new policy that implemented the same laws as those in Guanzhong - the Qin laws.
This did not bring much impact to the State of Wei.
After studying the Qin laws, the disadvantaged local nobles felt that such harsh laws could reduce the intensity of the attacks from the feudal nobles.
Second, they felt that there was no need for their guidance, and the people of Wei would spontaneously become disgusted with Qin laws.
They are right.
The laws originally implemented in Wei were much more relaxed than the Qin laws.
After the laws were changed, the illiterate people in Wei repeatedly violated the Qin laws. They did not do it on purpose, they simply did not know the specific content of the Qin laws.
As a result, one after another, the people of Wei were killed by Qin law.
But because there were no nobles fanning the flames, the number of deaths was far less than that of the other two policies.
