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The "Art of War of Sun Tzu" says this to generals in the use of soldiers: "Victory in a hundred battles, the good who is not good is also; the soldier who yields without fighting, the good one who is good is also good."
In Sun Tzu's view, the highest state of a general is not to win a hundred battles, but to subdue a soldier without a fight. To be able to defeat the enemy without fighting is actually talking about strategy. It also shows that the most important thing for a general is not heroism, but strategy.
Wei Xiaokuan was a general who made good use of strategy, and like the later Northern Song Dynasty general ZhongshiDao, he could always invisibly weaken the strength of the other side and achieve his own military goals. Wei Xiaokuan's strategy was even better than that of the Seed Master Dao.
At that time, Eastern Wei and Western Wei attacked each other, and Western Wei was always at a disadvantage. Eastern Wei's Yangzhou assassin Shi Niu Daoheng attacked Yiyang, and Yuwen Tai sent Wei Xiaokuan to resist.
Niu Daoheng thought of a bad move, he came to the border of Western Wei, summoned and encouraged the local people to treason, let the people migrate to the border of Eastern Wei, Eastern Wei and Western Wei were originally one family, for the people, wherever life is the same, so many people fled. This could make Wei Xiaokuan sad.
Wei Xiaokuan sent spies to Eastern Wei to inquire about Niu Daoheng's network and buy Niu Daoheng's letters from them. Wei Xiaokuan took the letter and carefully studied Niu Daoheng's penmanship, and then copied out a surrender letter. And the letter was marked with some marks of Mars burning, as if it had been written under a lamp.
The spy took the letter to the eastern Wei military camp, deliberately found by the soldiers, and then pretended to run away and lost the letter, which was picked up by the soldiers of the Eastern Wei. The soldier took the letter and handed it to Niu Daoheng's commander Duan Chen. Duan Chen was horrified to see Niu Daoheng's treason, so he suppressed Niu Daoheng everywhere and did not let him do anything. Niu Daoheng also held a grudge against Duan Chen, and the two were jealous of each other, and the hearts of the army were scattered.
Wei Xiaokuan felt that the time had come, and he launched a surprise attack, and the Eastern Wei army was scattered and had no intention of fighting, and soon they all became Wei Xiaokuan's prisoners. Until he was caught, Niu Daoheng did not expect all this to be because of Wei Xiaokuan's divisive plan.
Although Yiyang is a small city, it is located on the border of the two countries, and its geographical location is very important. A few years later, Eastern Wei became Northern Qi, and Western Wei became Northern Zhou. Northern Qi's chancellor Hu Lu Mingyue sent an army to Yiyang to retake the city.
Wei Xiaokuan knew that the emperor of Northern Qi was just a decoration, eating, drinking and having fun would not fall, governing the country would not be the same, and all the power was in the hands of Xiang Hu Lu Mingyue. Wei Xiaokuan realized an opportunity, and the relationship between Emperor Xuan and the powerful courtiers would never be good.
But this time, instead of playing the game of writing letters, he ordered people to spread rumors, and his rumors were written like this: a hundred liters flew into the sky, and the bright moon shone on Chang'an. (A hundred liters is a hur.) ）
He also felt that it was not enough, and wrote another sentence: the mountain does not collapse and collapses, and the quercus tree does not support itself.
Rumors spread quickly, although the emperor of Northern Qi was a dimwitted monarch, but he was not a fool, as soon as he heard that Huo Lu Mingyue was going to rebel, he immediately took action and killed Huo Lu Mingyue.
The emperor of Northern Qi was finally at ease, but Wei Xiaokuan smiled.
Northern Qi had the right to submit to Hu Lu Mingyue, and Northern Zhou also had the right to subject Yang Jian. After the death of Emperor Xuan of Zhou, Yang Jian assisted the government, which made many powerful big men very dissatisfied, and the most powerful person was The Governor of Xiangzhou, Wei Chiyi. In order to prevent Wei Chiyi from plotting rebellion, Yang Jian ordered Wei Xiaokuan to go and take over Wei Chiyi's post.
This was not a good errand, Wei Xiaokuan's political sensitivity was very high, he knew that Wei Chiyuan would soon rebel, and if he went, he would definitely be sacrificed by Wei Chiyuan. So he walked very slowly, walking for two days and three days off, just waiting for the news of Wei Chi's rebellion to come, so he could pack it up and go back.
However, there had been no news coming, although it was very slow, but at this time it was almost reaching Wei Chiyi's territory. Wei Xiaokuan felt that he could no longer go, so he stopped at Chaoge and pretended to be ill. Then he ordered his servants to go to the city under the pretext of buying medicine and inquire about the news.
As soon as the servant inquired, just as Wei Xiaokuan guessed, Wei Chiyuan waited for Wei Xiaokuan's human head to sacrifice the flag. The servant returned and immediately reported it to Wei Xiaokuan. Wei Xiaokuan immediately rolled up and left.
Wei Chiyuan wondered why Wei Xiaokuan had not arrived after so long, and he was still waiting for a rebellion, so he sent someone to meet Wei Xiaokuan, saying that it was a welcome, but in fact it was a pursuit.
Wei Xiaokuan was not running blindly, he took all the horses in the caravanserai along the way when he ran, and ordered each station to slaughter pigs and sheep, and put good wine and good meat on the table, waiting for someone to eat.
The staff of the station did not understand Wei Xiaokuan's meaning, but they could only do so. When Wei Chiyuan's pursuing soldiers came and thought of changing horses at the station, he found that the horses were gone. At this time, they were sleepy and tired, and when they saw good wine and good meat on the table, they could only reluctantly make up for something to eat first, and then go after Wei Xiaokuan.
Just like this a few times, Wei Xiaokuan had already returned to the imperial court.
Failure to capture Wei Xiaokuan also did not affect Wei Chiyuan's rebellion, and Wei Chiyuan then sent troops to attack Heyang. It was Wei Xiaokuan who guarded Heyang. At that time, there were only 800 defenders in Heyang, and they were all Xianbei people, who were originally prisoners and had no loyalty to Northern Zhou at all.
Wei Chiyi also knew this, so he bribed these Xianbei people with heavy money, and when he planned to attack, he should cooperate with the outside world, take Heyang and get rid of Wei Xiaokuan in one fell swoop.
Wei Xiaokuan knew through gossip that the Xianbei people were about to rebel, so he falsely preached the holy will, saying that the emperor had a reward and let them go to the Luoyang warehouse to receive the reward. However, it is necessary to divide into several squads and go to get different things. When the Xianbei soldiers heard that there was a reward, they had no doubts at all, so they divided the team of 800 people into several teams and went to the Luoyang warehouse to collect things.
It is conceivable that Wei Xiaokuan had already ambushed the ambush soldiers in the Luoyang warehouse, and as soon as the Xianbei soldiers arrived, they immediately became ghosts under the sword. In silence, the 800-man procession was quickly quelled. Wei Chi's plan also failed.
Wei Xiaokuan used more wisdom in his troops, such as the above carving insect small skills Wei Xiaokuan often used, often with less to win more. Wei Xiaokuan was not only a military expert, but also a strategist, and his strategic vision was embodied in the three strategies for giving Emperor Wu of Zhou a sparse approach.
He advised Emperor Wu of Zhou to stabilize the Turks in the north, unite with the Chen Dynasty in the south, intimidate Later Liang in the southeast, and concentrate forces to attack Northern Qi until it perished. Emperor Wu of Zhou adopted them one by one.
Wei Xiaokuan's most representative battle was the Battle of Yubi. The Northern Qi Emperor Gao Huan led an army of 150,000 to attack Guanzhong, but was intercepted by Wei Xiaokuan at the place of Yubi. Originally, Yubi was not a big place, and Gao Huan did not expect that Yubi would be the last battle in his life.
The Battle of Yubi was fought for more than 60 days, and the process was more exciting, Gao Huan first built a hill and prepared to attack Yubi condescendingly. Wei Xiaokuan had people attached to the city wall with a wooden fence, so that the city wall became much higher, hiding behind the fence to attack the enemy.
After that, Gao Huan asked people to dig tunnels, and Wei Xiaokuan asked people to dig trenches, and when the enemy dug his head, he was killed by the people in the trenches, and then set fire to the tunnels and set them smoke, burning them to death and smoking them in the tunnels.
Gao Huan had people hit the city wall with a large siege vehicle, and Wei Xiaokuan used a curtain to block the front of the siege vehicle to reduce the strength of the siege vehicle. Gao Huan ordered people to use bamboo poles to pick up torches to burn the curtain, and Wei Xiaokuan had people use bamboo poles tied with iron hooks to pick out torches.
In this battle, Gao Huan used almost all the methods that could be used, but every move was cracked by Wei Xiaokuan. After 60 days, Gao Huan's 150,000 troops lost more than 70,000 troops and could only order the withdrawal. Gao Huan also vomited blood in anger and died soon after.
Wei Xiaokuan can be called the god of war of this era, as recorded in the "Zhou Shu Wei Xiaokuan Biography":
All the scriptures, at the beginning of the arrangement, people can not understand, see its success, Fang is shocked.
References Book of Zhou