Shi Le, the tyrant of the Wuhu Chaohua period, fought all the way in the chaotic world, successfully established Later Zhao, and almost unified the north. In the process of conquest, he also suffered many defeats, and when he first started, he was even beaten by the famous Western Jin General Gou Xi to become a light rod commander, and it was extremely difficult to start a business. However, in the contest of mutual annexation, Shi Le poured a large amount of ecstasy soup into his opponent, and actually succeeded again and again, easily leveling the two major forces of Wang Mi and Wang Jun, which really did not take any effort.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > (i) Mi</h1>
In the fifth year of Yongjia (311), the Xiongnu Han State launched a major attack on the Western Jin Dynasty, successively attacking Luoyang and Chang'an. Seeing that the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty was basically a foregone conclusion, the two han generals Shi Le and Wang Mi began to plot against each other. In September of that year, Shi Le attacked Mengcheng and captured Gou Xi, the last firefighter of the Western Jin Dynasty, and used him as Sima Zuo. Wang Mi could not sit still, and wrote to Shi Le, congratulating Shi Le on his great victory, capturing the famous generals of the Western Jin Dynasty and using them for his use, and expressing how Shi Le could use Gou Xi and himself as his right and left hands to calm the world.
Shi Le saw through Wang Mi's intentions at a glance, Wang Mi's status was not below his own, but his speech attitude was so despicable, he must have the intention of plotting. Not long ago, Wang Mi took the left commander Shi Cao Ling as the general of Zhendong, led 5,000 troops through Qingzhou, and then the generals Xu Mi and Gao Liang led thousands of people to follow Cao Ling, and Shi Le decided to take advantage of Wang Mi's lack of strength at this time and attack first.
At that time, Shi Le was entangled with Chen Wu, a beggar soldier, in the Pengguan area, and Wang Mi was in a position of inferiority in the confrontation with Liu Rui, the beggar army, and asked Shi Le for help. Shi Le seized this opportunity, ignored Chen Wu, and first led his troops to save Wang Mi, beheaded Liu Rui, and showed favor to Wang Mi. Wang Mi was overjoyed, believing that Shi Le was sincere in his efforts to promote himself and no longer had any doubts.
So Shi Le found an opportunity to feast on Wang Mi. Despite the dissuasion of his subordinates, Wang Mi gladly went to the banquet. Taking advantage of Wang Mi's drunkenness, Shi Le personally killed Wang Mi and effortlessly annexed his people, greatly increasing his power.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > (ii) Fan Wang Jun</h1>
Wang Jun, the Assassin of Youzhou, because of his father Wang Shenzi's words, thought that he should "be Tu Gao", and had long tried to claim the title of emperor. After the Yongjia Rebellion, Wang Jun assumed the title of crown prince, set up a platform, set up a hundred officials, and began to prepare for self-reliance. At this time, Wang Jun was arrogant and extravagant, and because of the harshness of the government, many of his subordinates fled, and the Xianbei and Wuhuan he relied on betrayed one after another, coupled with the plague of locust drought for many years, the military strength was seriously weakened. Shi Le wanted to take the opportunity to eliminate Wang Jun, so he sent people to offer heavy gifts and wrote letters of support, and his words were extremely humble.
Wang Jun liked it very much, and the emissary sent by Seal Shile was the Marquis of Liehou, and he sent someone back to give generous gifts. At that time, Sima Youtong, who was guarding Fanyang under Wang Jun, prepared to defect and sent people to surrender to Shi Le, who beheaded the emissaries sent by You Tong and gave them to Wang Jun, so Wang Jun believed it even more. When Wang Jun's emissaries arrived, Shi Le hid the elite soldiers and sophisticated weapons, and the people who appeared were some weak people, and the north knelt down to receive Wang Jun's letters. The most fleshy thing is that Shi Le also hung the tail of the elk given by Wang Jun on the wall, pretended not to dare to hold it with his hands, and knelt down morning and evening, saying that when he saw the tail of the deer, he saw the prince and licked it on his knees. Shi Le also made a table to Wang Jun, saying that he would personally go to Youzhou to ask Wang Jun for the honorific title, and at the same time bribe Wang Jun's son-in-law Zao Song to ask for the sake of The Governor of Hezhou and the Duke of Guangping, and the trick was completely complete.
After the preparations were completed, Shi Le began to act in the second year of Jianxing (314). Taking advantage of Liu Kun's happiness to see Wang Jun's extermination, Shi Le sent a hostage to Liu Kun to ask for peace, and lightly rode towards Youzhou, lighting a torch and marching through the night. When the troops arrived at Yishui, Wang Jun's overseer Sun Wei felt that something was wrong and sent someone to quickly report to Wang Jun, preparing to lead the troops to defend. Wang Jun's general Zuo Du requested that an army be sent to attack Shi Le. Wang Jun was furious, firmly believing that Shi Le had come to support him, claiming that those who attacked Shi Le again would be beheaded, and ordered a feast to be held.
Shi Le arrived at Jixian County, where Wang Jun was stationed, and ordered the city gate guards to open the door, because he was worried that there were ambush soldiers in the city, he first drove thousands of cattle and sheep into the city on the pretext of the above ceremony, and filled the streets and alleys, even if there were ambush soldiers. At this time, Wang Juncai was afraid and fidgeted. Shi Le entered the city, easily grabbed Wang Jun, sent someone to scold him, and sent him back to Xiangguo to be beheaded.
Wang Jun
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > (3) confused Liu Kun</h1>
Shi Le swallowed Wang Mi and attacked Wang Jun, and the Ecstasy Tang Strategy was tried and tested repeatedly, and it was incredibly easy. However, it is not how clever this strategy is, it is really that the opponent is too straw bale, so that Shi Lebai picked up two big bargains.
Shi Le and Wang Mi's struggle is actually the ecstasy soup sent by Wang Mi first, and Shi Le only uses the other way and also gives to the other body. In the contest between the two sides, Shi Le was obviously skilled, not only able to identify Wang Mi's Ecstasy Soup, but also to pay tribute without showing his face. After a few rounds of you coming and going, Shi Le was always sober-minded; while Wang Mi gradually lost his judgment, and finally he was in pain and happiness, without a moment's hesitation.
Earlier, Wang Mi attacked Luoyang, and sent Shi Le a lot of stolen beauties and treasures to confuse Shi Le. Shi Le accepted gifts, but his vigilance did not diminish, and he participated in the attack on Luoyang, but he attributed all the credit to Wang Mi and Liu Yao, and obviously deliberately lowered his posture to confuse his opponents. Seeing Wang Mi's ridiculously fake letters, he was even more alert. Wang Mi thought that he had a plan, thinking that Shi Le would not defend himself, and when he saw Shi Le helping him break the beggar army, he took it for granted that Shi Le was sincerely promoting himself. Under the circumstance that his subordinates reminded him to beware of the Hongmen banquet, Wang Mi insisted on going to the banquet unguarded and drunk, taking the initiative to send meat to the cutting board, and did not understand how to be so relieved. Wang Mi was originally very strategic, and he must prejudge success or failure before taking action, and was once known as a "flying leopard" in Qingzhou at the beginning of his career. After becoming a climate, somehow it became so short-witted.
Wang Jun was afraid that he had lost his mind because he wanted to be emperor, and he was overjoyed when he heard the supporting opinion, and he was angry when he heard the objection, and he was completely confused. The so-called dedication of nothing, either adultery or theft, Shi Le's set of contrivances, is obviously a very abnormal performance, a little calm can be detected. And Wang Jun was actually unguarded, and his mind was already unbelievably dizzy.
In fact, Shi Le's plan to plot Youzhou was no secret after it was put into action. In order to let Liu Kun of Hezhou be a wall watch, Shi Le gave Liu Kun a piece of ecstasy soup on the way to Youzhou, anyway, he did not want to spend money. Shi Le claimed that he had committed a deep sin and asked wang Jun to be punished. Liu Kun, because of pingsu's disagreement with Wang Jun, also wishfully believed that Shi Le would repay the Jin Dynasty, and sent a letter to tell the states and counties that he agreed to Shi Le's crusade against Wang Jun, in fact, he also announced Shi Le's plan to the public. However, Wang Jun did not know whether the intelligence network was useless, or whether he selectively filtered the information as always, and still indulged in the dream of Shi Le coming to support him, so that Shi Le could easily succeed.
Photo: Liu Kun
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > (4) confused Liu Yao and lost zudi</h1>
Speaking of which, although such a strategy has great results, it is relatively easy to identify, and the success rate is not high. Victories like Shi Le's, which came so easily, could not find many similar examples of battles, and Lü Meng's white clothes crossed the river to sneak across the river to sneak into Jingzhou during the Three Kingdoms period, which was relatively close.
However, this plan is not risky, even if it is not successful, there is no loss, and it does not need to be used in vain. After that, Shi Le seemed to want to repeat the same technique, the opponent was not deceived, and finally had to rely on strength to fight hard.
After Liu Cong's death, the Xiongnu Han kingdom was in chaos, and Liu Yao took the opportunity to claim the title of emperor. Shi Le, on the other hand, had the strength and ambition to temporarily submit to Liu Yao. The two were suspicious of each other and wary of each other, but both remained cautious and did not dare to turn their faces. Shi Le sent his left chief Shi Wang Xiu to Offer Victory to Liu Yao, and Liu Yao worshiped Shi Le as a Dazai, a leading general, and a knight of King Zhao, with a fief of twenty-seven counties, such as Cao Cao's story of Fu Han. Both sides respect each other and want each other to let their guard down. However, neither of them was deceived, and soon tore their faces and fought hard. In the end, after several years of bitter fighting, Shi Le eliminated Liu Yao.
Liu Yao
When Yuzhou was in conflict with Zu Ti, Shi Le also used this method, but it was even more invisible. Shi Le did not directly show his kindness to Zu Ti, but ordered his subordinates to repair the tombs of his ancestors and fathers in Youzhou, and arranged for people to guard the tombs. This matter was passed on to Zu Ti's ears by others, and Zu Ti was indeed pleased and sent an envoy to return the gift. The two sides subsequently exchanged envoys and maintained a state of peace. And because Zu Ti always maintained the ambition of the Northern Expedition and did not let down his vigilance, the effect of Shi Le's Ecstasy Soup Strategy ended here, and eventually developed into a situation similar to the friendly stalemate between the Wei state Yang Hu and the Wu state Lu Kang in Xiangyang during the Three Kingdoms period.
From this point of view, Shi Le's luck was really too good to be able to meet Wang Mi and Wang Jun, two easily deceived opponents in a row.
This article is written by the special author of "The Dream of a Hero of the Ages", "Hand Waving Five Strings", and it is forbidden to reprint it without the author's authorization