The talent pool of Khitan Taizu (III) | A parallel universe of Zizhi Tongjian
——Lu Wenjin's review
Hello everyone, I am Lu Wenjin from the parallel universe, and I am very happy to have the opportunity to come here to share with my classmates the talent concept in the early days of the founding of the Khitan Dynasty.
First of all, I have to briefly introduce the international situation when I joined the Khitan start-up team.
At that time, it was the third year of Later Liang Zhenming and the second year of the Khitan Divine Book, that is, 917 AD.
Although the brightest star on the active international stage at this time was Li Cunxun, the King of Jin, Hou Liang was the independent variable with the largest weight at that time.
However, Hou Liang has been going downhill since Zhu Wen's death—strictly speaking, since Zhu Wen's health deteriorated—and when Li Cunxun entered the active period of his life, Hou Liang's life was even more embarrassing.
On the one hand, Hou Liang had to compete with the Jin state for the right to speak for the five generations, which was the most important state affair before Zhu Youzhen; on the other hand, they also had to bear all the responsibilities, obligations, and obligations that the overlord had to bear. Well, the cost, including but not limited to the military and diplomatic offensive of the military towns of Qi, Yang Wu, Chengde, and Yiwu.
But what does that old saying say? That's right, hundred-footed worms, dead and not stiff! After all, Hou Liang's family was a big business, and although he was attacked everywhere, although he slid faster and faster on the downhill road, none of the enemies, including Li Cunxun, had the strength to knock him down with one blow.
For Li Cunxun at that time, the defeated general Liu Huan had now become his big trouble--the old Liu could not hold out in Liyang, resulting in the Jin army's cavalry movement warfare across the world without use.
Li Cunxun, who had no curse, had to transfer troops from the rear.
Li Cunxun, Li Cunxun's younger brother, who was now serving as a defensive envoy for the Weisai Army in New State, was selected by Li Cunxun to recruit elite troops at the garrison and support the front.
Li Cunju and I are not outsiders—this boy married my daughter as a concubine, and according to the theory of the six degrees of separation, I was related to Li Cunxun—so he was pulled by him and rushed to Liyang with the hard-earned elite horse.
Speaking of which, li Cunju's second ancestral aura on this boy is too strong, not the embryo of a leader.
In NSW, he had soldiers in his hands and men on top of him, and he acted arrogantly and domineeringly—if only so, it was not a fatal shortcoming for the lord of a city in the era of the Great Schism; Li Cunji's biggest problem was that he completely ignored government affairs.
However, whether you do it or not, the government affairs are there, not much, not much.
Therefore, Li Cunji's domestic slaves took the knife into battle and handled government affairs for their masters.
As his father-in-law, I have made suggestions euphemistically, but what is a stupid boy? If you can hear suggestions that don't match your own opinions, you're not a fool! Therefore, after a few persuasions, I will no longer be annoying- after all, the more he delegates power like this, the more power I have as his concubine, the greater the power in my hands!
Receiving Li Cunxun's order, Li Cunxun did not slack off in the slightest, and immediately and strictly ordered the recruitment of troops and horses.
The soldiers came from the strong soldiers who fell in the north of the mountain and the defeated army of the old Yan - these people have been in the battle for a long time, and most of them have cultivated the value of "milk is a mother", in fact, there are some hidden dangers; only because they have been in the sand city for a long time, they are all excellent immediate combat strength, and we have endured those shortcomings.
More difficult than man was the war horse —because of the devastation of war, the shortage of horses by the people, and the tight deadline, the people had to exchange ten cows for a horse, and for a time, the situation in NSW was full of complaints.
In any case, in less than ten days, Li Cunji had raised five hundred elite horses.
In order to show his attention to this mission and to be able to ask Li Cunxun for credit at the first time, Li Cunji decided to personally escort him.
Since handling government affairs has never been within the scope of Li Cunji's consideration, as a Shouzhou assassin and a concubine father, I was appointed by him as a general and asked me to deal with the specific affairs of this trip.
The soldiers recruited from the north of the mountain had already established a family in Xinzhou, and everyone was very reluctant to run to Liyang and fight and die with the first powerful country; and along the way, Li Cunju II's style of doing things was committed again, and he did not know how to sympathize with the army, which completely ignited the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the soldiers.
On February 15, when the team arrived at Qigou Pass, the little colonel Gong Yanzhang, who really couldn't stand it, gave an incendiary speech to the soldiers: "Everyone knows very well that the front line is extremely anxious, as the main force, the cavalry on our side has suffered heavy casualties, otherwise it would not have been an emergency conscription!"
"No one dares to make a guarantee, saying that the advantage is in me and our army will win."
"What are our brothers rushing to the battlefield for?" That's not a feat! But when you look at Li Cunji, the second generation of officials, in his words and deeds, he always reveals: 'You ball bullies are about to die for our Li family, why are you still here to pick and choose my command?' Hurry to the battlefield, die early and live early! ’”
These words poked at the sore spots of the people, and the soldiers said in unison: "Kill Li Cunju, help General Lu, and fight back to Xinzhou City." ”
NSW is the hometown of these people, once it is taken, it is bound to be able to call on more people to join their camp, and then the city will defend itself, who dares to say that it must not be able to play some tricks?
The small flame spread into a fire.
Well, a thousand years ago, a similar scene was staged in Osawa Township!
Now that the will of the people is available! The soldiers who had reached an agreement picked up their weapons and rushed to Li Cunju's tent with a shout, and the next morning, Li Cunju, who was still asleep, slept forever.
After all, it is my son-in-law, so let me spend some space to review Li Cunji.
According to the management of the main universe, mainstream theory promotes appropriate decentralization — whether it is empowerment or makers, whether amoeba or middle office, and its purpose is to help the leaders of large corporations delegate their rights to the right hands.
These practices have proved to be correct and effective.
So why did Li Cunju mutiny lead to the decentralization?
Any theory has its scope of application, and as far as decentralization is concerned, its target is obviously large enterprises and large organizations--such as Li Cunxun fully decentralized power, so that his subordinates, whether Li Sizhao, Zhou Dewei, or Li Siyuan, can send troops to fight at a critical juncture without waiting for Li Cunxun's orders, which has achieved the fate of Jinguo, a start-up company.
As Li Cunxun's brother, Li Cunxun naturally learned from him, and also tried to learn from his eldest brother and strive to delegate power; but his biggest mistake was that leading a small team of 500 people was not the same thing as leading a country! Small organizations do not need to delegate power, after all, small organizations and then decentralize, basically equivalent to no power.
From the perspective of Zhuge Liang, if Li Cunju's elder brother is not the current king of Hebei, he can't wait for the recruitment of troops to happen, but regardless of government affairs, it is enough for Li Cunju's domestic slaves to press him to the ground and rub him.
In addition to this fundamental mistake, not understanding team building is another lesson of Li Cunji's failure.
Realistically speaking, it may indeed be a little difficult for Li Cunjie to let the untrained disciples and second-generation officials have empathy for the low-level soldiers.
But since he was on par with Li Cunxun, he should see how his eldest brother exploded in a mighty air and rose like a comet—not just learning from his appearance and not investigating it.
Finally, this boy has no sense of safety at all, and he actually did not form a pro-army for himself.
Yes, in the fifth generation, the pro-army that was originally the chief's last insurance would often be blackened into a butcher's knife stabbed at him -- Zhang Hao and Xu Wen praised it -- but even so, everyone still cultivated pro-army at any cost, so why?
Let's use an inappropriate analogy of raising pigs - without pro-army, you can't insist on pro-army blackening, and you will be made into suckling pigs; and forming a pro-army can at least let you survive the childish period, raise a fat pig, and then you may be slaughtered.
Back to the point.
As li Cunju's father-in-law and a high position in the history of a state assassin, I don't want to rebel at all; but at this moment, daring to say no to the rioters means that I have to follow in Li Cunju's footsteps! All I could do for Li Cunji was to beat my chest and express my dissatisfaction with Shi Shi 1, "You bastards killed Lang Jun, and I will never have the face to see the King of Jin again!" ”
And then what? Nature was meant to be in tune with the environment – I returned to NSW with my team under the coercion of the crowd.
Although everyone thought about it very well, the matter of fighting a war was difficult and risky, especially at the peak of the Jin army at this time, which was simply not something that a small group of rebels could shake.
In the face of the besieging rebels, the new state defender Yang Quanzhang simply closed the city gate and left the five hundred cavalry without siege equipment helpless.
In fact, the dilemma I am facing today is basically a major technical problem that the entire Jin army cannot overcome - in the face of every war in the back beam, the Jin army can gain an advantage, but because of the siege problem, it cannot turn the advantage into a victory.
In the agricultural era, such a regime as Hou Liang, which was founded by a peasant war, could be described by the number of sand in the Ganges River in its hands - this is one of the important reasons why the momentum of Liang and Jin's hegemony after Zhu Wen's death has been developing in the direction of favoring the Jin state, but Hou Liang has always stood firm!
Xinzhou could not be defeated, so we had to turn to Wuzhou, and we were defeated by Li Siqiu by the defensive soldiers and horses north of Yanmen; Zhou Dewei, who received the news, also sent troops to participate in the pursuit.
If you are such a rogue again, it is really a dead end! After thinking about it, everyone gritted their teeth and stomped their feet and decided to turn to the Khitans.
Both I and Han Yanhui were originally talents cultivated by the Central Plains regime, and they all had hopes for their own country, and they never wanted to run to the barbaric land of Khitan.
It is most appropriate to sum up us in the words of The Fourth Master Chang in the teahouse - I love Daqing, but who loves me?
Han Yanhui was first taken as an outcast by Liu Shouguang, and he ran to the Jin state but was ostracized by the office politics; I was already a foreign relative of Li Cunxun, and I hoped that the Jin state would be strong from the outside world, but Li Cunxun gave his brother a job that he was not capable of, which caused me to be wrapped up in the rebels and unable to help myself.
Of course, the students can scold us like Li Cunxun for being talented and immoral, and are typical villains; but from the perspective of Apaoji, we can be completely glorified into Junjie, who knows the times.
Whether it is Junjie or a villain, whether we are virtuous or not, the title of talent cannot be run away in any way - and talent is an indispensable resource for achieving a great cause, Li Cunxun can choose not to use it, but he cannot stop Abaoji from reusing it.
To put it more, when this matter was finally reported to the high-level, and it was found that his brother had been killed and the elite soldiers had defected, Li Cunxun was naturally so angry that he ordered the execution of Li Cunji's domestic slaves and staff members as a warning... Well, as well as venting anger.
Now that I think about it, if I still stay in the Jin Dynasty, most of the time I would have to fall into this situation.
If Han Yanhui brought the Culture of the Central Plains to the Khitan and laid the institutional foundation for its later rise, then my joining directly showed the military information of the Jin Army to Abaoji.
At the beginning, when Liu Shouguang was still the emperor of the Yan state, although the Khitan harassed the border from time to time, from a strategic height, the Yan state was the dominant side.
It's counterintuitive, but it's true.
As the forefront of the defense against the Khitan since the Middle Tang Dynasty, Youyan had already precipitated a complete set of effective tactics, and although Liu Shouguang was strange, he grew up in the military camp after all, and under the influence of his ears, there was still no lack of military common sense to defend the Khitan - perhaps it was precisely because he was able to win victories in front of the brave Khitan troops from time to time, and gradually gave rise to the absurd idea that Li Cunxun was just so absurd... Right?
Among them, a fruitful point was the setting up of eight defensive armies at Yuguan, seven hundred miles north of Youzhou.
There is a yushui that flows all the way to the sea under Yuguan, and there is only one road from Yuguan along the Yushui to the northeast, and both sides are full of high mountains and rocks, the terrain is precipitous, and the narrow place is only a few feet, which is difficult to cross.
The State of Yan had been painstakingly operating this tactical fortress - recruiting mercenaries to garrison, in order to ensure its supply of grain and grass, stipulating that the field rent here was directly supplied to the garrison without transiting through Jixian County; as for military uniforms, it was solved by the cloth and cotton transported by Youzhou every year.
Every autumn, the crops are harvested early, and then the walls are cleared so that the Khitans will not take grain from the enemy; if the Khitan army really comes, it will not be able to hold out, use the terrain to fight a war of attrition, and when the Khitan army that has no success withdraws, then select brave and good soldiers to snipe at the key pass.
Defensive counterattacks are mediocre, but they are very effective for the Khitan with poor logistics, poor siege and away combat.
With abundant supplies, victorious battles, and generous rewards, the soldiers of the Eighth Defense Army gradually did not care about their mercenary status, but regarded the garrison as a homeland, and in the long run, the positive feedback gradually made the Eighth Defense Army an invincible fortress, so that the Khitan people were reluctant to fight here.
However, times have changed! After the Jin Dynasty destroyed Yan, Zhou Dewei became the leader of Youzhou, and according to his understanding of the war, he changed the defensive counterattack tactics that had been passed down for a hundred years.
The Jin army, born out of the Turkic Shatuo department, in terms of geological logic, their understanding of war is actually very similar to that of the Khitan - heavy cavalry and light infantry, heavy movement warfare and light siege warfare; as for Zhou Dewei, he himself benefited from this set of fighting generals, and naturally believed in it.
This closed loop of cognition naturally made Zhou Dewei have a path dependence, and he thought from the bottom of his heart that the defense of Jiancheng was just a helpless move of the general's incompetence and cowardice.
Therefore, the fortifications of Yuguan were gradually abandoned, so that the Khitans in the north gradually extended their tentacles to Yuguan, which was losing protection, and even further, even Yingzhou and Pingzhou, which were originally easy to set foot, became Khitan pastures because of the loss of Yuguan protection.
And just when the opponent was pushing forward, Zhou Dewei, because he was jealous of Old Yan's generals, successively found various excuses to eliminate them - this is the legendary self-destruction of the Great Wall.
The northern frontier of the Jin Dynasty, under Zhou Dewei's erroneous strategy, completely formed a passive situation in which the enemy advanced and we retreated, and the irony was that Zhou Dewei himself was unaware of this.
In fact, when this situation first appeared, the Khitans as competitors did not recognize the situation, and as before, Apaoji's first reaction was to order the soldiers and horses to come and get a big vote.
So there was a situation where I brought a large army to attack New State again.
I am still me, and Xinzhou is even stronger than not long ago—An Jinquan, who once performed a great feat in the Defense of Jinyang, is the current assassin history, indicating the importance that Li Cunxun attaches to Xinzhou—and then with khitan as a backer, the development of the war situation is very different from the last time: AnJin's entire army was defeated and abandoned the city; and I can finally enter Xinzhou with great courage and prestige, and appoint Liu Yin as the assassin history--which is the original intention of the original rebellion.
Li Cunxun, who had received the news, did not dare to be idle, and sent Zhou Dewei to gather soldiers and horses from Hedong and Zhen and Dingerzhou to plan to retake Xinzhou—this fight was more than ten days, and under the fierce attack of the Jin army, Xinzhou still stood firm.
Seeing the elite combat effectiveness of the Jin army, ah baoji, who was originally only in the spirit of having a date without a date to hit three poles, underwent a one hundred and eighty degree change in attitude.
First, I listened carefully to my opinions in order to decide the intensity and goal of the subsequent military operations based on my understanding of the Jin army; then discussed with Han Yanhui, who was good at the overall situation, Abaoji finally formulated an ambitious big plan - to lay a bridgehead in Hebei and seek a strategic fulcrum for the future southward movement.
Therefore, the Khitan poured out the strength of the country and gathered 300,000 troops to come to the rescue of Xinzhou - the two sides had a huge disparity in strength, Zhou Dewei was outnumbered, fled after the defeat, and the Khitan army followed and entered Youzhou!
Abaoji claimed to have millions of troops, which in Zhou Dewei's eyes was basically equivalent to the truth - standing at the head of Youzhou City, the mountains outside the city were full of Felt Tents of the Khitans.
If there were only many people, it would not cause Zhou Dewei's fear, after all, the Khitans were as good at mobile warfare as the Jin army, but they were in a hurry in the face of siege warfare.
However, not long ago, the experience of attacking Ulju, the effect that occurred at this time - the Khitans once again played tunnel warfare - attacked day and night!
Correspondingly, Zhou Dewei tried his best to destroy the tunnels, even throwing flammable anointing oil into the tunnels and launching fires to block the Khitan offensive; at the same time, he piled up tushan around the city walls to obtain condescending geographical advantages; and melted copper water in the city and sprinkled these large killing weapons on the siege soldiers under the city.
With this set of combined punches, the Jin army could easily harvest thousands of Khitans every day.
Generally speaking, the Apaoji who established the country by robbing the country will choose to give up again in the face of such a situation, after all, killing so many people will not only shake the hearts of the army, but also make it impossible to mobilize enough troops for future robbery; but this time, the Apaoji, which has formulated a plan before sending troops, gritted its teeth and persevered, and continued the offensive with heavy casualties at any cost.
In this way, the numerical disadvantage reached the side of Zhou Dewei--Lao Zhou had to pull down his son and send people to break through and ask Li Cunxun for an emergency.
At that time, Li Cunxun's life was not very good, otherwise he would not have asked Li Cunxun to recruit troops to reinforce the front.
Therefore, he rarely did not make a quick decision, but held a military conference, and made it clear that without dividing troops, Youzhou, the northern city, was in danger; the division of troops might not be able to resist the counterattack of the Liang army.
Ass decides head! Of course, the generals know the importance of Youzhou, but everyone is now fighting with Hou Liang, Liu Huan's recent achievements are indeed unable to take a shot, but his past performance is full of real gold, who dares to guarantee that he will not stage a Jedi reversal? If there was such a day, he would have to face the dilemma of Zhou Dewei now.
Therefore, the vast majority of people at the meeting did not agree to the division of troops, of course, the reason was not that the division of troops might expose them to risks, but said: 1. Later Liang was far stronger than the Khitan and needed more troops to deal with; 2. Li Cunxun was on the front line of the Liang-Jin dispute and must be heavily protected.
In fact, Li Cunxun's heart was hoping to divide the troops to rescue Youzhou, but the reasons put forward by the generals were indeed particularly reasonable, and if they could not persuade the generals, even if they divided the troops, it would be difficult to achieve the expected results, so he hoped that at the meeting, someone could put forward suggestions for him to divide the troops.
Li Cunxun wanted to sleep, and someone handed him a pillow — not one, but three!
Li Siyuan, Li Cunzhen, and Yan Bao were not moved by the opinions of the people, and vigorously advocated the division of troops! Please note that if you look at it from The perspective of God, Li Siyuan later seized Li Cunxun's position and became the later Tang Mingzong -- if there were no such strategic vision of the overall situation and the determination to exclude public opinion, how could he have achieved later achievements; Yan Baogang jumped from Houliang, and he could not mingle with the senior generals of the Jin Army, nor could he gain Li Cunxun's trust, and if he did not make great achievements, his future fate would not be the same as That of He Delun! So despite the different starting points, it's no surprise that these two people are invariably anti-mainstream!
Li Cunxun was waiting for this moment! After the three of them had finished expressing their opinions, they immediately expressed their position: "Originally, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin was able to capture the Turkic Khan alive with one Li Jing, and now that I have three generals, can the little Khitan still turn the heavens upside down?" ”
Now that you have a goal, the next step is to make a battle plan.
The three people who had just agreed were embarrassed to find that the opinions at this time were at odds:
Li Cunzhen thought that the Khitans had always been fed to the enemy, and they certainly did not carry enough weight and could not fight on the road for a long time, and suggested that when the enemy plundered everything that could be eaten near Youzhou, he would naturally withdraw his troops, and then his own side would follow them and wait for the opportunity to move, and it was bound to achieve a big victory.
Li Siyuan was worried that Zhou De had been trapped in the isolated city for nearly two hundred days, and his clothes, food, guns, and arrows would soon be exhausted... Once there is a change, the loss is by no means something we can afford at the moment; no one knows which of the city breaks and the reinforcements come first, and the huge psychological pressure is likely to make you make unpredictable choices - in my opinion, let's not take any chances, and pin our hopes on the uncertain event of the Withdrawal of Khitan Grain, it is better to let me be the vanguard to rescue Youzhou.
When this was said in Li Cunxun's heart, he immediately made a decision: Just follow Li Siyuan's plan!
On the same day, Li Siyuan integrated his troops; in April, he led his army to set out, and ordered Yan Bao to lead the soldiers of Zhen and Dingerzhou to follow.
After the army was mobilized, Li Cunxun was worried that there were not enough troops to repel the Khitan army, and on the 28th of that month, he arranged for Li Cunxun to lead the army to meet with it.
At this point, the reinforcements totaled about 70,000 people, and after making a final rest in Yizhou, they were ready to go straight into Youzhou, and for the sake of prudence, Li Siyuan held a pre-war conference.
Li Cunzhen once again raised his concerns--the Khitans were numerous and mainly cavalry; our army was able to gain the upper hand in the past when fighting against Hou liang, and did not rely on these two things! Now that both of these are inferior to the Khitans, but we have to engage them in the plains of the Pingchuan River, I am afraid that the other side may tear our peak apart after concentrating superior forces, and at that time, it will not be easy to find a person to collect their bodies!
Li Siyuan agreed with Li Cun's judgment that the enemy was strong and we were weak, so he did not intend to take the usual path, "The Khitans are invaders, and the logistical supply comes entirely from the people in the occupied areas; but when we fight on our own land, we must not harass the people, we must carry a large amount of weight, and once we meet in the plains, we will become the enemy's grain delivery team."
"In that case, even if the war is not lost, the war is doomed to be unwinnable- so I suggest: if we take the mountain road, even if we encounter the obstruction of the Khitan army on the road, we can rely on danger to defend, which is enough to offset the advantage of the opponent's cavalry."
Therefore, the reinforcements set out from Yizhou on the seventeenth to march north, and on the twenty-third day, they crossed the Dafang Ridge and turned east.
Just as the flag was originally established, Li Siyuan personally led three thousand elite horses as a forward with his adopted son Li Congke.
When the party marched sixty miles from Youzhou, it finally encountered khitan troops.
At this time, one side was on the mountain, the other side was at the bottom of the mountain, and the Khitan soldiers who could not stop the Jin army had to quickly move closer to the direction of Youzhou in order to intercept the Jin army's attack route; seeing this scene, the Jin army quickly used its strength to compete with the other side in marching speed.
It's a lot like one convoy rushing on the main elevated road and another chasing after the side road, and whenever the interchange meets at the level crossing, both sides stop and fight until one side gets out.
Li Siyuan's father and son fought desperately and always maintained the general trend of advancing toward Youzhou, but when the two convoys drove into a large mountain pass, the Khitans, who had been able to follow behind and eat soil, finally sent a team of 10,000 people to successfully block the jin army's march.
The ratio of enemy and enemy strength was as high as 3:1, and then more enemy troops followed, and the Jin army was terrified.
At the critical moment, Li Siyuan threw away his armor and launched the traditional skill of the Jin army - psychological offensive, as a northerner who had been dealing with the Khitan for many years, Li Siyuan could speak fluent Khitan dialect, he shouted loudly, "Er and so on for no reason to invade my great Jin border, the King of Jin ordered me to lead a million troops to the West Tower to destroy your entire Khitan clan!" ”
Subsequently, Li Siyuan launched the second traditional skill of the Jin generals, the death charge, and he rushed to the opponent with more than a hundred of his elite cavalry guards.
The Khitan people who had just heard the shouting were neglecting to take precautions due to their suspicion of gods and ghosts, and were swept away by Li Siyuan.
Li Siyuan continued to work hard and repeatedly charged the formation, completely disrupting the Khitan formation.
What kind of team is combative? Like this Jin army today, the commander leads the charge and shouts at the team with me that is the most effective! With such a fateful commander, this carefully selected Jin army finally let go of all its baggage and rushed up with it.
In the face of such an opponent, the Khitans, who had always been brave and good at war, could not resist, and even a chieftain died in the chaotic battle.
Thinking that there were still hundreds of thousands of troops under Youzhou City to support themselves, they could completely fight the Jin army there, and there was no need to lose their lives now--the Khitans finally gave up the blockade and let Li Siyuan kill Youzhou.
At the same time that Li Siyuan was playing shirtlessly, Li Cunzhen was not idle, and he ordered his soldiers to cut down trees and make recommended antlers, and the whole army had one, and once our army encountered the enemy, we immediately formed a camp with it.
This kind of simple fortification was of little use to the Central Plains army, which had perfect siege equipment and tactics; but against the Khitan who had focused almost all of its skill points on the cavalry charge, this was a cost-effective fortification.
Sure enough, when encountering the Khitan horse, the simple camp resisted the first wave of charge, just when the Khitan people rode their horses around in a circle to find the fighter, the Jin army hiding in the camp fired thousands of arrows in unison, and under the rain of arrows that covered the sky, the Khitan people and horses suffered heavy casualties, and even blocked the way for the Jin army to travel to Youzhou.
Eventually, the battlefield moved to Youzhou City.
A thousand years ago, under the city of Beijing, the Khitans lined up.
Li Cun kidney gathered the troops, strictly ordered the troops not to attack without authorization, but arranged for the old, weak, sick and disabled to collect branches in the distance to carry out a major cleaning -- artificially creating dust that covered the sky and the sun, which in the eyes of the Unknown Khitan people, but there were really millions of troops assembling and preparing for the momentum, and li Siyuan's previous bluff achieved perfect cross-verification.
With these foreshadowings, the Khitan people were originally led to a large number of people who were not enough to hold! As Li Cunzhen launched a death-defying charge, the psychological shadow of the Khitan people who had previously been defeated by Li Siyuan quickly expanded, and the momentum took a sharp turn, and they were defeated in a few rounds, and retreated to the north mountain, leaving only the felt houses, heavy weights, and nearly 10,000 prisoners all over the mountains, which became the spoils of the Jin army.
By the twenty-fourth day, the task of the Jin army had completely changed to enter Youzhou at the top to comfort Zhou Dewei, who was about to become a frightened bird, and the soldiers stayed outside the city to clean up the battlefield and distribute the spoils.
Around youzhou, a strategic stronghold, four or five hundred thousand people fought a war of national fortune with all their might, and the total time from contact, temptation, and fighting to the end did not exceed one day, and this high-outbreak, low-protracted war was the main feature of the nomadic civilized cavalry war of that era - the reason is that both sides actually do not have enough foundation to support a protracted tug-of-war, and before the war can be won or lost, the country's economy has been dragged down.
When Zhou Dewei, who was finally rescued, welcomed the reinforcements in Youzhou City, Apaoji, who had suffered a defeat and failed to achieve his strategic purpose, was not idle, and he appointed me to stay in Youzhou—it didn't take long to turn to Jiedushi—as for the task, it was very simple, that is, to create as much trouble as possible for the northern border of the Jin army.
This is where Apaoji excels: a big defeat has not changed his original intention - to seize the frontier fortress into Hebei! If the frontal rigidity does not achieve the goal, then it is replaced by harassment of the economy - anyway, the strategic line will not be shaken by the one-time victory or defeat!
In this regard, the Khitan planted a nail in the northern part of the Jin Kingdom, ironically, the supplier of this nail (that is, me) is still the Jin State itself, and even the parts of the hammer that nailed the nail (of course, It is Han Yanhui) also have the shadow of the Jin supplier!
Since then, my office has been basically fixed in Pingzhou, and every year I have to lead the Xiren cavalry to the border between the two countries on a regular and irregular basis to engage in sightseeing and tourism, and by the way, I will arrest some people from the northern part of the Jin Dynasty and bring them back as local specialties - this is commonly known as the Grass Valley.
In order to cope with these harassments, the Jin army was forced to transport logistical supplies from Waqiao to Jicheng.
The heavy soldiers who delivered supplies did not have the ability to protect themselves, and in order to avoid becoming my convoy, the Jin army had to send heavy troops to protect them.
But "what is bought is not sold", the Jin army supply team has to be vigilant throughout the whole process, and it is inevitable that there will be times of negligence; and I only need to find the right time, one hit and go, no matter whether it is won or lost, there is no need to pay too much cost - therefore, every year, I can receive a big gift package sponsored by the Jin army friendship.
In the long run, the economy of Lulongjun Town, which was deeply affected by it, was gradually withering away and no longer prosperous as before.
Don't challenge other people's professions with amateurs! Liu Shouguang was indeed extremely strange, but the Yuguan defense line run by his father and son was really effective -- through defensive counterattack tactics, the Yan state achieved the effect of "The Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses -- this was really realized, and the soldiers did not dare to bend their bows and complain -- this was checked off".
On the other hand, Zhou Dewei, in accordance with the inertial thinking of mobile warfare, recklessly negated the tradition of the Yan army and took the initiative to abandon the original mature and effective defensive strategy of Yuguan, which is the fundamental reason for the situation in which the enemy is now advancing and retreating.
The lessons of history are there, but there are always latecomers who think they are different, that similar mistakes will not happen to them, which is why Hegel thinks that "the only lesson that man has learned from history is that man cannot learn anything from history."
Even if the momentum of our front wave thunderstorm is already deafening, there is always a back wave that has stepped on our rut without hesitation.
Luo Yonghao is a typical case of wealth creation in the Internet era.
With his outstanding talk show performance, solid English teaching ability and grassroots counterattack, Luo Yonghao quickly gained a foothold in New Oriental and became an Internet celebrity teacher.
Subsequently, he continued to work hard and started an independent business, and successively founded the Niubo Network and the English Training School.
At this stage, his achievements are not so dazzling - after all, the small goal of the richest man in the family is one hundred million - but Luo Yonghao still succeeded in building himself into a top traffic entrance.
So when Luo Yonghao founded Hammer Technology in 2012, the initial angel investment valuation was 50 million yuan - even the industry was not optimistic about this completely inexperienced entrant; at the end of the first round of formal financing a year later, the capital market valuation was 470 million yuan - as if it had become a new upstart in the mobile phone industry.
Now, we all know what things look like later.
Although the nut mobile phone produced by Hammer Technology has received such flowers, applause and word of mouth, as a complex supply, it is not enough to rely only on novel design and excellent marketing.
This is also why at the beginning of Xiaomi's business, Lei Jun would rather risk the Fukushima nuclear accident than personally go to Japan to conduct business talks with the company, in order to manufacture the core competitiveness of mobile phones - supply chain management.
However, the outsider Lao Luo actively ignored the traditional consensus that the industry attaches great importance to, and still poured his energy into marketing and design according to his past successful experience.
The result? Poor supply chain management leads to insufficient production capacity, output can not keep up with sales volume does not meet expectations, sales downturn caused shortage of funds, tight funds make production unsaturated - this is stuck in a dead cycle, investors' money is not blown by the wind, and stopping capital injection has exacerbated this downward rolling cycle.
Of course, the quality control problems that occurred during the period are also an accelerator that cannot be ignored.
Even if Jobs is reborn, it is difficult to help the building fall.
In the end, Luo Yonghao, who "owes six hundred million", bowed to reality and sold Hammer Technology to Season Beat; then returned to his old business - talk show!
According to Luo Yonghao's own words, as of September 2020, he has repaid nearly 400 million yuan through live streaming; and predicts: If there is no accident, the next year should be almost finished.
Regardless of whether these data are true or not, it is certain that luo Yonghao has a much better life than in the hammer technology period by giving up the areas he is not good at and regaining his traditional advantages!
The story about the concept of talent at the beginning of the founding of the Khitan has come to an end, and the next time, Zhang Chengye will share Li Cunxun's attitude towards talent.
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Ouyang Xiu【History of the New Five Dynasties】
Xue Juzheng [History of the Old Five Dynasties]
Detachment and other [Liao History]
Ye Longli 【Khitan Chronicle】
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