Li Mu, a famous general of the Warring States, was sent to guard the town of Daidi, Yanmen County, to guard against the Xiongnu. The soldiers thought that Li Mu's appearance would have a response and cheers. I didn't think that Li Mu's first military order was: "When the Xiongnu come, they will hide, and they have the courage to capture the enemy and behead them!" ”
Li Mu's military order made everyone stunned, the normal process is not to see the Xiongnu soldiers coming, so they led the army to attack, why did Li Mu do the opposite? Although everyone has many doubts, Li Mu is the one who has the right to speak and decide, and can only obey orders and listen to commands.
Li Mu quickly did a series of unexpected things. He had the right to set up officials according to the needs of the local situation, and the taxes collected in the defensive areas would be sent to Li Mu's shogunate as a cost to defend the city and raise troops.
After Li Mu took office, he was particularly generous to the soldiers guarding the city, slaughtering several cows every day to reward the soldiers, and teaching the soldiers to practice archery and horseback riding.
Every time the Xiongnu invaded, after the alarm sounded from the beacon tower, Li Mu immediately gathered his men and horses and retreated to the camp to hold on, never leaving the city to meet the enemy. This lasted for several years, and the Xiongnu soldiers returned to Eat Closed Door Soup here in Li Mu, and their hearts were really angry, and they returned without success, and there was no loot at all.
The Xiongnu soldiers began to look down on Li Mu, a cowardly general who was as timid as a rat, and as soon as he heard that they had raised troops to attack, he shrank in the city and did not come out. Not only that, Li Mu's men also privately had a lot of criticism of Li Mu, a general who did not have the slightest courage, so that they could not make a meritorious achievement, which was really a little annoying, but after all, they served under Li Mu, and they could only dare to be angry and dare not speak.
Compared with those defenders who were extremely depressed in their hearts, King Zhao was even more of a head and two. He sent Li Mu to defend the town in order to allow him to lead the army against the Xiongnu. Li Mu, on the other hand, could not hold out, spending a lot of military expenses in the past few years, but he had achieved no results at all. King Zhao thought that Li Mu was not concerned about his own work, so he sent someone to replace Li Mu.
The new general who replaced Li Mu was very conscientious as soon as he took office, and once the Xiongnu attacked, he led his army to attack, but he repeatedly fought, repeatedly lost, and suffered many injuries, and the border could not continue to cultivate the land, graze, and the border people were miserable.
At this time, the King of Zhao was even more distressed, this Li Mu stubbornly defended the camp, but left the Xiongnu helpless, this new general led the army to meet the battle again and again, but repeatedly defeated, Zhao Guo was too damaged. Comparing the two, King Zhao felt that it was better to continue to let Li Mu go to the town to defend in order to minimize the loss.
But Li Mu was also a temperamental man, and he was not willing to be appointed by King Zhao at will, so he lied that he was ill and insisted on not going out behind closed doors. In order to stop the border from being invaded by the Xiongnu, King Zhao took a tough attitude and let Li Mu continue to come out to lead the army.
When Li Mu saw that King Zhao had a serious attitude and could not resign, he made a request to King Zhao: "He can go back and continue to lead the troops to defend the town, but there is a prerequisite, he will still stick to the camp as before, and will not engage the Xiongnu soldiers head-on." ”
When King Zhao saw the situation, he helplessly responded, after all, Li Mu led the troops to defend the town, in addition to not winning a little loot, the Xiongnu soldiers also gained nothing. After Li Mu returned to the camp, he repeated the same technique and continued to hold out.
After the Xiongnu soldiers learned that Li Mu had returned, they were also angry, but they also had nothing to do, but they were extremely upset in their hearts, and when Li Mu came, they couldn't grab anything.
However, the soldiers who defended the city voted against Li Mu's plan to continue to hold on, believing that Li Mu treated them preferentially every day and disciplined them strictly, but they could not engage the Xiongnu soldiers head-on for a long time, which really made them useless. They gave Li Mu a stand and were willing to fight a war with the Xiongnu.
When Li Mu saw that the morale of the soldiers was high, he nodded his head in agreement, and immediately began to deploy his troops to meet the Xiongnu. Only to see that Li Mu first gave the Xiongnu a false shot. He sent people to herds of livestock everywhere to attract the attention of the Hun soldiers. On the one hand, he stepped up the arrangement of the soldiers' training, and at the same time prepared 1,300 selected chariots, 13,000 selected warhorses, 50,000 soldiers who dared to charge into the battle, and 100,000 soldiers who were good at riding and shooting, all of whom were well-trained and prepared to face the Xiongnu.
The Xiongnu soldiers did not doubt that he had him, and when they saw the crowds and livestock grazing everywhere, they fired the army to grab them. Li Mu let the soldiers pretend not to be able to beat them, and even deliberately let thousands of people be taken prisoner.
Shan Yu of the Xiongnu heard that Li Mu did not continue to hold the camp, and thought that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he led his army to come. Li Mu sent many soldiers to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and after receiving first-hand information, he began to really line up troops.
Li Mubu ordered many strange soldiers, and when the Xiongnu soldiers raised troops to attack, they opened their left and right wings to encircle and counterattack the enemy army, defeated the Xiongnu, killed more than 100,000 Xiongnu horses, destroyed the ragged, defeated Dong Hu, surrendered Lin Hu, and fled. For more than a decade after that, the Xiongnu did not dare to approach the border towns of the Zhao state.
Li Mu unexpectedly confronted the Xiongnu, causing the Xiongnu to be defeated, which is enough to show that Li Mu's leading strategy is really superior. For several years, the Huns considered to be as timid as rats, and they did not care at all, insisted on their own opinions, strictly trained soldiers, and did a lot of paving work for the future battle against the Xiongnu.
Li Mu chose not to be able to hold out, seemingly without any results, but in fact, invisibly added a lot of pressure to the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu raised troops again and again, and returned without success, all of which increased the internal friction of the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu soldiers looked down on Li Mu and had no guard against him, which enabled Li Mu to accumulate strength and finally give the Xiongnu a net, ensuring the stability of the Zhao border for more than ten years.