Chapter 135 Playing with Fire (Continued)
Liaokou City, the conference hall, and Liaodong Road marching chief Yuwen Weihan was discussing matters with the generals. Everyone pointed at a sand table. One-third of the blue flags representing the enemy's army had been inserted into an additional white flag.
The white flag does not mean surrender, but rather represents an outbreak of a plague.
The enemy army affected by the plague has more and more soldiers died of illness, and their combat effectiveness is increasing every day. For the Zhou army, what measures should be taken to restrain these troops so that the other party can't escape, but cannot escape, is a priority.
In the military camp where the plague broke out, morale plummeted. If the epidemic cannot be controlled, under normal circumstances, the main person will lead his troops to retreat, and there is a high probability that the wounded soldiers will survive by themselves. This is the so-called tail-breaking pursuit.
This situation is not what Yuwen Weihan wants to see. He wants to delay as much as possible, so that the enemy troops hesitate, spend more time and kill more people.
There is no problem with this idea. The problem is how to implement it. Yuwen Weihan has thought it through clearly. The enemy is not as sharp as he imagined and will not be as stupid as a pig. Therefore, if he wants the other party to "stay", he must have an excuse.
What is the reason? Of course, it is to persuade surrender.
The troops on Goguryeo are unlikely to surrender voluntarily unless they are at a loss. Therefore, Yuwen Weihan's target of surrender is the various tribes of the Marine tribes. These tribes are dependent on Goguryeo and act as vassals on weekdays, and their will is not very firm.
There have been some plagues (smallopsis) in some Marine tribes. They cannot be cured. But they want to withdraw but they dare not withdraw due to the attitude of Goguryeo. However, if too many people die of illness, the other leader will probably leave without hesitation.
Yuwen Weihan understood such a tangled situation, so he sent envoys to contact the leaders of various ministries, gave benefits (mainly food), and persuaded the other party to surrender to the dynasty.
The benefits he asked the envoy to bring were not much or too much, which made the other party tempted, and his appetite was swelled up, and he was reluctant to withdraw his troops, but he was unable to make up his mind to break the enemy with Goguryeo and stand on the side of the dynasty.
So I was struggling and struggling, and before I knew it, more than ten days passed.
There are a little more people who are sick.
That's right, Yuwen Weihan's idea was to persuade surrender on the surface, but in fact hesitated to delay time, so that the leaders of various divisions of Marine could miss the best "stop loss" opportunity.
His idea is good, but it is difficult to implement it. The problem is that he grasps the "temporary" and using such a strategy, a young man like him may not be able to grasp the right measure.
If the Marshe tribe is really coming to join us, what should we do?
If you don't accept it, others will know that Zhou Jun is untrustworthy and will not easily believe Zhou's promises in the future. This is very unfavorable for the dynasty to govern Liaodong in the future.
Or maybe the leader of a certain Marine tribe is extremely cunning and constantly seeking benefits. If you don’t give it, you will say that you can’t hold on and leave. At that time, you will be fooled by continuing to give benefits, but if you don’t give it, you will be wasted the food you sent out before.
It is reality to plot against people, but it is possible to be plotted against people.
So the strategy that Yuwen Weihan racked his brains to come up with was actually playing with fire. The "little fox" did not do enough and it was difficult to take on a big responsibility.
But the "old fox" He Ruobi is different, and he can easily implement such tricks.
As the chief marching chief, He Ruobi was actually responsible for the main military affairs and helped the prince Yuwen Weihan, who led his troops independently to fight for the first time, win the battle and make military achievements. Yuwen Weihan proposed a plan, and He Ruobi improved it on the basis of it.
While sending envoys to win over the leaders of various tribes, they also deliberately let the leaders of other tribes hear some news. Then these leaders will be suspicious of each other, always worried that in order to surrender to Zhou State, some people will launch sneak attacks while they retreat, using this as a "meeting gift".
The leaders of various tribes were suspicious of others and were suspicious of the gods and ghosts, so they naturally did not dare to use tricks to deceive Zhou State.
This is not enough. It also means that Goguryeo can hear some rumors but cannot obtain evidence. So everyone suspects each other and restrains each other.
It is precisely because of mutual restraint that the leader of the Marine tribe was not good enough to really join Zhou State. He could only wait and wait for the opportunity, and wait, and there were many more people who were sick.
The perfect strategy He Ruobi has implemented is still effective now. The Martial tribes that were in a dilemma due to the plague are now in a very embarrassing situation: the coalition forces of Goguryeo and Martial have not launched a decent attack on the Liaokou area for nearly half a month.
The other side is wasting time, but the one side cannot do this. With the arrival of a new batch of reinforcements, the next stage of combat operations is about to begin.
Commander Yuwen Weihan was energetic at this time planning combat deployment. Although there were many epidemics in the enemy troops, he was not afraid.
Yuwen Weihan and his younger brothers and sisters both have acne and are immune to smallpox. Therefore, even though this tactic is now at risk of playing with fire and burning himself, it is actually not dangerous.
Yuwen Weihan had played with Fire, but he still played with his father. He had a lot of fun and was very safe because they had taken sufficient precautions in advance.
So, now that all the soldiers of the army have acne, so what if they play with fire?
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"Aye, has my illness cured?"
"It's fine, it's cool, it's cool, it's cool soon."
"Then can I see smallpox?"
"all right."
In the bedroom, Yuwen Wen spoke with his daughter Yuwen Guiying. The little princess had a low fever before, but now she has subsided her fever and some red rashes on her body have disappeared, which means that the acne is successful and she has immunity to smallpox.
Seeing that her daughter was safe and sound, Zhang Lihua, who was standing by, breathed a sigh of relief. Yuwen Guiying was the only child she and Yuwen Wen gave birth to. She was over five years old and was still young, so she didn't want something to happen.
Since her daughter vaccinated her acne, she has been worried that she is playing with fire, and if she is not careful, it will cause the fire to burn her body.
But the prince and princess have already grown acne, and Yuwen Wen and his concubines (including Zhang Lihua herself) have also grown acne, so even if she is worried, she can only lean in front of the Buddha to burn incense and pray to the Buddha to bless her daughter with peace.
The maid who was ready came forward and changed her clothes for the little princess. Yuwen Wen held his daughter's hand and walked out of the bedroom with Zhang Lihua.
Yuwen Wen inspected the Yangtze River and has now arrived in Guangling, Yangzhou. In order to save expenses, he did not ask someone to build a palace in Guangling in advance. The place where he acted as a palace is the inn in Yangzhou.
It was already night, and there was no moon in the sky, so you could see the stars in the sky. The ground outside the palace (inn) was pulled up on the ground, and there were a few torches, and the fire was flashing and dark.
There were laughter and joy coming from the depths of the barrier, as if it was very lively. Yuwen Wen led Yuwen Guiying, who was afraid of darkness, walked into the barrier, looked up at the night sky, looked at the stars in the sky, and remembered the word "cerebral".
Smallpox is a kind of evil disease. In this era, it was called acne, which is a disease with a high mortality rate, but it is also very simple to prevent it. Yuwen Wen quickly developed the technique of using vowel acne to prevent smallpox according to the popular routine.
After years of hard work, the acne vaccination technology has finally matured, and there are many skilled acne vaccination doctors. Yuwen Wen then promoted this technology and began to benefit the people of the world.
Of course, the first thing he and his family benefited was that as more and more acne vaccination doctors were trained, in the next ten years, the Central Plains will popularize acne on a large scale to prevent smallpox.
If you persist like this, perhaps in another twenty or thirty years, the incidence of smallpox (acne) in the Central Plains will be so low that it is negligible.
There are no things that benefit the people, but the "smallpox" that Yuwen Wen wants to show his daughter today is another scenery.
After walking a few turns in the corridor made of steps, Yuwen Wen brought his daughter to a large tent, where the Empress Yuchi Chifan, other concubines, princesses, and princesses were already in place, eating snacks while talking about homework.
Yuwen Wen took the main seat and talked to his family for a while. The clock went to eight o'clock (twenty o'clock).
Everything was ready, the guards wiped out some torches and removed some obstacles, and the surroundings became darker and darker.
Yuwen Wen made Yuwen Guiying, who was shaking slightly, lean on him, and then clapped his hands. After a moment, a large number of light spots suddenly rose around the tent, dancing to the night wind.
It was a large number of fireflies flying out of the wooden box, surging vastly and bursting out with brilliant light.
In an instant, Yuwen Wen and his family seemed to be in a sea of light, looking dazzled, as if the starry man (the Milky Way) fell into the world, and everyone turned into fallen leaves, wrapped in light and flowed forward.
When Yuchi Chifan saw such a beautiful scene, he was extremely excited. He couldn't help but raise his hand to cover his mouth. Seeing the sky full of light, the other beauties were also like this. He was so shocked by the beautiful scene in front of him.
Prince Yuwen Weicheng and several older brothers and sisters were in the sea of light. Although they were excited, they did not lose their composure. The young prince and princess cheered and chased light spots (fireflies), extremely excited.
Yuwen Wen was also very excited when he saw his family happy. This was the "smallpox" he prepared for his family, and it was completely different from the smallpox that killed people.
He tried his best to prepare a surprise, not for showing off, but for family affection.
The whole family should be together and spend a good time together.
As for the enemy...
Chapter completed!