Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 19 Good? who knows? Who believes it?

A solo duel is the most effective way to improve the morale of one party, and it is also the easiest to break the backbone of one party, and to declare the bravery of one party in the most intuitive way.

Soldiers at the bottom are often herd-like and blind, especially in this era of extremely inefficient information transmission.

For example, Lingling General Xing Daorong is not the strongest general in Lingling and is deeply respected and admired by Lingling soldiers.

Therefore, when the two armies confront each other, the Lingling soldiers will naturally have the idea that the enemy general may have a greater reputation, but his own is also the strongest general in Lingling, and his true strength may not be inferior to the opponent's.

In this case, a solo duel between the two leaders will clearly expose the differences between the two sides.

Once one's own general is defeated, it will naturally make one's soldiers blindly feel a sense of fear and powerlessness that the opposite general can't stop him.

Now, Deng Mao's death in battle can be said to have taken away the last morale of the remaining Yellow Turban thieves.

Without the secret instigation of the Yellow Turban thieves, the Yellow Turban crowd quickly calmed down under Liu Bei's powerful and powerful actions.

However, Liu Bei still felt a huge pressure when he looked at the more than 50,000 Yellow Turbans crowding in and occupying most of the river beach.

After all, Liu Bei only has about 1,500 soldiers left under his command. It is not an easy task to manage the more than 50,000 Yellow Turbans.

In addition, there are many Yellow Turban thieves hiding among the more than 50,000 Yellow Turbans, which makes these Yellow Turbans in a sense like time bombs, which will explode at any time and smash Liu Bei's side to pieces.

"By the way, Mr. Zikun planned the situation at hand, and he must have a good plan to appease the Yellow Turbans."

Liu Bei woke up suddenly and quickly spoke to Guan Yu beside him. "Yun Chang, please hurry up and invite Mr. Zikun to come here. Remember not to lose your etiquette."

"Yes."

Just as Guan Yu responded with his hands and was about to leave, a calm voice sounded behind Liu Bei.

"Brother Xuande, there's no need to bother, I'm already here."

When Liu Bei heard this, he turned around and looked behind him. It was Li Ji who was protected by ten soldiers in the middle.

Although they met again only for a moment, having the record of planning the Yellow Turban Army with them made Liu Bei and Guan Yu look at Li Ji very differently.

Previously, even though Liu Bei believed that Li Ji was a man of great talent, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated by 2,000 and 60,000 under Li Ji's plan, which undoubtedly completely made Liu Bei regard Li Ji as a heavenly being.

Immediately, Liu Bei rushed towards Li Ji and said with concern.

"The battlefield has not yet been decided, and there may be dangers. Why don't Zikun wait for Yun Chang to escort you down."

As Liu Bei spoke, he did not forget to look around, as if he was afraid that there might be some danger and hurt his big baby.

And Guan Yu, who was more or less arrogant in front of Li Ji before, this time followed Liu Bei, but he also consciously raised his hands in salute.

This made Li Ji feel all this keenly. Although he wanted to continue to maintain this kind of indifference and calmness, the corners of his mouth still couldn't help but curl up slightly.

Especially the one who was impressed by it was an arrogant person like Mr. Guan, which gave Li Ji an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.

However, Li Ji did not have any sense of complacency. From then on, he thought that his intelligence was like the bright moon in the sky.

Although the record of defeating 60,000 by 2,000 was extremely brilliant, not to mention the opponent was the Yellow Turban Army, which was full of flaws and lacked real wise men. More importantly, in order to confirm this victory, Li Ji actually went through a lot of battles. A "strategic simulator" deduction.

First, the time when the Yellow Turban Army arrived around Zhuoxian County was determined through the deduction of the "strategy simulator", and then the general march route of the Yellow Turban Army was deduced. This allowed Zhang Fei to lead the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun to find the Yellow Turban Army in advance, and along the way Harassment laid the foundation for Zhang Fei's subsequent provocation and luring of enemies.

Subsequently, Li Ji tried to use the Zhuoxian city as bait to sneak attack on the Yellow Turban headquarters, and based on this, he accurately determined that there were a large number of Yellow Turban craftsmanship hidden in Zhuoxian County, and that under the leadership of Liu, Guan, and Zhang, The contrast between the strength and weakness of the rebel army and the Yellow Turban Thief headquarters.

These two points are extremely important.

The former allowed Li Ji to specially arrange for Liu Bei to go out of the city with great fanfare to relax the vigilance of the Yellow Turban thieves; the latter became the core key to the next plan.

It was also based on the above factors deduced through the "strategy simulator" that Li Jicai decided on the plan of Daxing Mountain.

Therefore, Li Ji feels that his intelligence is still lacking. Even with the special ability of "strategy simulator", he still needs to be careful in everything.

Li Ji didn't want to get a negative title similar to "General Lingling", such as: Zhuojun Great Talent.

Faced with Liu Bei and Guan Yu's polite treatment, Li Ji naturally would not be so arrogant as to look at people with his nose, and quickly returned the favor with his hands in hand.

"The danger of the base is not as great as that of Brother Xuande and Yun Chang who are rushing forward."

Liu Bei shook his head and said excitedly. "How can this be compared? Zikun set up such a shocking strategy and already had great power. Bei and his second brother just used some courage."

Li Ji said modestly.

"The victory of this battle is all due to brother Xuande's perseverance, Yun Chang and Yide are brave and unstoppable, and all the soldiers are determined to defend their hometown. Ji is just talking."

It has to be said that there is nothing more pleasurable for both parties than mutual bragging in business, especially when both parties feel that the other party is really powerful, the bragging becomes more sincere and contagious.

Therefore, let alone the two parties involved, Liu Bei and Li Ji, Guan Yu, the second master who was brought up to praise him from time to time, his squinted red phoenix eyes unknowingly seemed to be like a crescent moon, and he looked at him seemingly arrogantly and indifferently. In fact, when it comes to worldly affairs, I secretly prick up my ears and listen to every word, which makes me feel secretly happy.

After all, Guan Yu disdains the praise and boasting of others, so it also depends on who is the target of the boasting and boasting?
  What if the sages in the Spring and Autumn Annals pushed the coffin board angrily and boasted about Guan Yu in their dreams?
  And what if the person who praises Guan Yu is the elder brother who admires him in his heart? Or maybe Mr. Li Ji and Li Zikun have an incomparable talent in Guan Yu's heart at this moment.

Guan Yu stroked his long beard back and forth naturally, listening to the conversation between Liu Bei and Li Ji as if tasting wine, nodding from time to time, and slowly uttering a word.

"wonderful!"

However, Liu Bei quickly suppressed the excitement in his heart, his face straightened slightly, he changed the topic and said.

"Zi Kun, there are currently less than 1,500 soldiers under Bei's command, and the Yellow Turbans guarding more than 50,000 people are like a child pushing a cart. If you are not careful, you will be crushed to pieces by the cart. I wonder if Zikun can teach me? "

When Li Ji heard this, he looked past Liu Bei and looked at the yellow scarf crowd sitting in groups on the river beach. Most of them were old, weak, women and children, many were children who were nervously being hugged by their families, and some were even babbling. Infants and toddlers held in arms.

And under the cautious gaze of those pairs of eyes from afar, Li Ji could feel the hesitation, fear, worry, and uneasiness in the hearts of these Yellow Turbans...

'Perhaps in that deduction, the little girl in the Yellow Turban who was willing to give him a bite was also one of them. '

Li Ji thought silently, and at the same time he felt compassion in his heart, otherwise he would not have trapped them in this river beach in this way to the maximum extent possible.

But the problem that needs to be faced now is not only how to stabilize these Yellow Turbans as Liu Bei said, but more importantly, how to arrange these Yellow Turbans in the future.

"Brother Xuande, if you want to temporarily appease these Yellow Turbans, that's easy." Li Ji thought for a while and said.

"Brother Xuande can send a hundred people to assist Yide and make porridge immediately on the other side of the Juma River. Now these more than 50,000 Yellow Turbans must be hungry and have hope of being full. Not to mention the Yellow Turban thieves secretly inciting them. There will be no riots even if the earth falls apart."

When Liu Bei heard this, his face was overjoyed, and he immediately mobilized a hundred people to assist Zhang Fei.

Now that Zhang Fei has completely seized the entire Yellow Turban Army's baggage, it is obviously not an exaggeration to claim that it is enough to feed Liu Bei's two thousand men for three to five years.

After all, it is now approaching the spring plowing time, and every household in Youzhou has some surplus food.

Although the Yellow Turban Army came from Jizhou with plenty of food and grass, they obviously did not harm the lives of the wealthy families and common people wherever they passed. Instead, they involved all the people and property in the Yellow Turban Army.

Therefore, the baggage captured by Zhang Fei not only contained sufficient food and grass, but also contained two large carts of gold and silver treasures.

As Zhang Fei quickly arranged for people to cook in pots, the rising smoke quickly diverted the attention of almost all the Yellow Turbans, who stared at the smoke on the other side of the river with longing eyes.

The smoke with the aroma of rice made the Yellow Turbans' stomachs growl one after another.

Seeing this scene, Liu Bei couldn't help but said with joy.

"I didn't expect that the way to appease these Yellow Turbans is really so simple and practical. Zikun is a great talent."

However, Li Ji's expression was not as relaxed as Liu Bei's. Instead, he spoke with a slightly heavy tone.

"Brother Xuande, this method can only appease the Yellow Turbans in the short term. No matter how much baggage Yide seizes, it is impossible to support the Yellow Turbans like this indefinitely."

"No problem."

Liu Bei, who was all worried, waved his hand and said easily.

"Later, I asked Yunchang to rush back to Zhuoxian County to report to the county governor that the yellow turbans were broken. He handed these yellow turbans to the county guard, and then the county guard sent these yellow turbans back to their respective hometowns, even in time to resume spring farming."

However, Li Ji suddenly poured cold water on Liu Bei and said. "In this case, these more than 50,000 Yellow Turbans will undoubtedly die."

"What?!" Liu Bei looked at Li Ji in shock and confusion.

Li Ji said quietly. "Brother Xuande, in your opinion, which one deserves more credit is defeating five thousand Yellow Turban thieves, or wiping out all 60,000 Yellow Turban troops."

Kill good people and take credit? !

This word instantly popped up in the minds of Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

In an instant, not only Liu Bei's eyes widened, but also Guan Yu shouted angrily.

"Killing good people and taking credit, how dare Liu Yan do this?!"

However, Li Ji sighed, pointed at the yellow scarf crowd in front of him, and said.

"Liang? Who knows? Who believes?"

"Zikun, take a look. Most of these are old, weak, women and children. They must have been coerced into joining the Yellow Turbans." Liu Bei was also a little anxious at this moment and said.

Li Ji shook his head and said.

"Regardless of the fact that there must be yellow scarf thieves lurking inside, does Brother Xuande dare to ensure that everyone is coerced? In the den of bandits and bandits, there are also old and weak women and children, and they also enjoy the things plundered by bandits and bandits. If they are animals, are they innocent to those travelers who died at the hands of bandits and bandits? In the eyes of the government, are the old, weak, women and children raised by bandits and bandits innocent?"

Liu Bei's face was ashen, but he didn't know how to refute.

From Liu Bei's point of view, he is willing to believe that most of the Yellow Turbans were forced, but for those who died at the hands of the Yellow Turbans, are the Yellow Turbans necessarily innocent?

Even thinking about it more deeply, in the eyes of the imperial court, regardless of coercion or not, these are rebellious people who can be killed to intimidate the world.

In this way, even if Liu Yan really kills all the surrendered Yellow Turbans, the court will not punish him in any way. Instead, it will only praise Liu Yan for maintaining the majesty of the court. How can it be regarded as killing good people and taking merit? ?
  Li Ji also paid attention to the changes in Liu Bei's expression from beginning to end and spoke slowly.

"Therefore, if Brother Xuande hands these more than 50,000 Yellow Turbans to the governor Liu Yan, not only will these Yellow Turbans die, but they will even give up such great achievements."

"Now, Brother Xuande has an official status. If he can achieve the feat of annihilating the 60,000 Yellow Turban Army again, this will undoubtedly be a very exciting thing when the Han Dynasty is in crisis, and he may be directly promoted by the imperial court to become an official. Maybe the governor of a state."

However, the Han Dynasty was only as big as thirteen states, and the temptation of the governor of one state could not make Liu Bei, who was just selling straw sandals for a living not long ago, hesitate even for a moment. He waved his hand and said resolutely.

"If Bei's success and fame are built on the bones of thousands of his fathers and fellow villagers, Bei would rather die than receive this meritorious service."

After a pause, Liu Bei turned to look at Li Ji, his firm and gentle eyes seemed to see through Li Ji's heart, and said.

"Bei also knows that Zikun must have a place for the common people in his heart, otherwise he would never have reminded me like this. Therefore, I also ask Zikun to teach me. Bei, I can't thank you enough! The people of Zhuojun will also remember Zikun Kun is so kind and virtuous!”

At this moment, Li Ji finally couldn't help but smile.

It is true that Li Ji cannot eat steamed buns with naked human blood, but in this era there are too many princes who can eat steamed buns with human blood. Even in the eyes of many princes, dried human meat is not considered as military rations.

Therefore, Li Ji's reminder may not be because he wants to know Liu Bei's deeper character.

Li Ji is right. Even if all these Yellow Turbans are slaughtered, according to the mainstream concept of this era, it is far from killing good people and taking credit for their merits.

Therefore, Li Ji pushed a perfect excuse to comfort himself in front of Liu Bei, and then pointed out the promising position of governor in the future as a temptation to judge Liu Bei's thoughts.
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  PS: Let me mention here, if you look at Liu Bei and his people crossing the river purely based on the content of the novel, it seems that Liu Bei's stupidity and hypocrisy are highlighted in every aspect.

But what if before this, Cao Cao had actually carried out five massacres of cities, namely: Xuzhou, Yongqiu, Pengcheng, Yecheng, and Liucheng.

Especially Cao Cao's two massacres in Xuzhou and Pengcheng, which are adjacent to Jingzhou. Even if the information transmission in ancient times was not developed, the fact that it happened in the surrounding areas and the publicity of the people who fled from Xuzhou would not frighten the people in Jingzhou.

Under such circumstances, it becomes normal for a large number of people to be willing to flee with Liu Bei.

As for the idea that Liu Bei used the common people as a barrier to block Cao Cao, that is even more outrageous. In the ancient era without satellite positioning, Liu Bei really wanted to run away and took more than a dozen people to go deep into the mountains and wild forests. Even the gods could not be found. arrive.

Instead, he led the people to escape and was dragged down by the old, weak, women and children. Only then did Liu Bei's side be overtaken by Cao Cao, and even Liu Bei's family was put in danger.

Of course, this is not to belittle Boss Cao. It’s just that Boss Cao is a real tycoon and he really doesn’t care much about the lives of the people at the bottom.

(End of this chapter)