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Chapter 10 The Battlefield Behind the Enemy (Part 1)

The hall of the Ministry of War was full of people. They were all senior generals and senior officers of the Song army. Li Jun named him to attend a training class called the lecture. Given the hot weather and the inconvenience of wearing military uniforms, Li Jun specially offered to them and allowed them to listen to the lecture in casual clothes. Therefore, most people did not wear heavy armor and were much lighter.

According to the notice, the emperor was the one who gave lectures, and they became the disciples of the emperor. It was a great honor. They all raised their spirits and showed the best spirit to listen to the lecture. I remembered that it was the emperor who gave lectures himself and was fortunate to listen to the Hadith, which was both nervous and eager.

"The emperor is here!" A sharp eunuch's voice sounded. Li Jun strode over Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, Chen Yizhong, Lu Xiufu, Zhao Qian, Gao Da, Zhao Liangchun and other court officials, with lecture notes under his left armpit. Today, Li Jun is not wearing a dragon robe, but a blue silk robe. It lacks the solemnity of the emperor, but a little more intimate, and a kind of teacher spirit, which makes people feel a sense of intimacy at first sight.

The generals stood up and were about to salute Li Jun. Li Jun waved his hand and said, "Forgive, please sit down, sit down, sit down."

The emperor had an order, who dared not to obey? All the generals sat down. One of them was a medium-sized man, with purple face, sword eyebrows on his temples, and his eyes were particularly bright. He was wearing military uniform and knelt down to Li Jun and said, "I am Liu Hezi, please see the emperor. Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Every move was in a proper manner and could not find any fault.

Li Jun supported each other with his palms and said, "I don't tell you the etiquette of the king and the minister today, so there is no need to ceremonials. Get up." Liu Hezi didn't dare to ask Li Jun to help each other, so he stood up with the flow and said, "I obey the order." He stood straight, as if he was drawn from a ruler, with his eyes looking at the nose, his nose looking at the heart, and a standard ritual. He didn't take his seat until Li Jun walked past him.

Wen Tianxiang and other ministers found their seats and sat down, spread out the paper and pen, and prepared to be a good student.

Li Jun was preparing to train officers and generals, but did not ask Wen Tianxiang and others to participate. Wen Tianxiang and others heard that Li Jun was going to teach a new war model called "guerrilla warfare". This was not mentioned in "Sunzi", "Wuzi", "Sima Fa", "Yi Liaozi", "Three Notes", "Six Strategies" did not explain, "Li Weigong Q&A" did not discuss, "Second and Answers" did not discuss, and searched through the "Seven Books of Martial Arts", read the ancient and modern military books and war strategies, and read the war history of the past dynasties, but it was not recorded. If you don't learn such a novel military strategy, it would be a pity to miss it, and Wen Tianxiang's ministers would arrive uninvited.

Wen Tianxiang and the others had heard Li Jun mention guerrilla wars for a long time, and they had long wanted to get a glimpse of the truth, even if they could not drive them away.

Li Jun stood on the podium and put down the lecture notes, as if he had returned to the campus in another time and space. A warm feeling arose in his heart, saying, "Everyone: Today I am not a lord, you are not a minister, I am a gentleman, you are a student, everyone speaks freely and discusses guerrilla warfare together. I will answer any questions you ask. The ancients had the White Tiger Hall preaching, which distinguishes the meaning of the scriptures and the eternal legends. I sincerely hope that you will speak freely and raise creative questions, and we will discuss them together. You can use intense words, and I will not blame you. For academic discussions, this should be the case. You cannot dare to ask questions because of my special identity. Even if you ask questions, it is just a gesture, and don't ask the most meaningful and difficult questions. This is wrong. If the question is well raised, I will remember the merits for you and promote you."

Li Jun is the best at studying. As a master of history, he has communicated with foreign scholars on behalf of our country many times. He has a very rich experience in this area. Every word and every sentence is so sincere, which makes the originally tense atmosphere much easier.

Li Jun hasn't felt like he was in the lecture hall for a long time. The feeling of being away for a long time seemed to be back, and said, "Dear students, please ask you a question. When you encounter an enemy who is stronger than you, what should you do to defeat him? You said."

"The soldiers come to block the enemy, and the water comes to flood the earth. I am a rough man. I don't know anything else. I know that if I fight him, I will fight him even if I can't fight. Even if I die, I will bite him a few times." A bearded man said loudly, almost saying "damn". Suddenly I remembered that this was talking to the emperor, so I changed my words in time and avoided making jokes.

The rough and generous soldier likes to fight hard the most. When he said that the generals who don’t like to use their brains and like to be tough, he nodded and said, “Yes, I’ve fought with him.”

Under Li Jun's name, a slightly thin white-faced general said, "Can you ask friends for help."

Li Jun pointed at another general without comment and said, "If there is no friend, what should you do?" The general thought for a while and said, "It's so hard that it's not good, just use soft ones to grind him to death."

"This powerful enemy is like the Mongols. They occupied the north of the Yangtze River and were proud of their strength and wanted to destroy our Song Dynasty. Hundreds of thousands of cavalry swept over, Jiankang, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Jiangyin, Wuxi, Suzhou and Jiaxing were all occupied. They were so arrogant that they could deal with the Mongols?" Li Jun said this, looking around at the generals and said, "Liu Hezi, say."

Liu Hezi stood up and bowed, saying, "I think the enemy is very powerful, and it is difficult to compete with the enemy by just frontal blocking. We must find another way."

Li Jun asked, "What's the solution?"

Liu Hezi pondered slightly and said, "If the Tartars were compared to one person, his target was Lin'an, which was like facing Lin'an, but his back was not defended. I thought I could go behind him and attack him from behind. After the Jingnan period, Gaozong crossed south, with Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Liu Qi, the frontal battlefield headed by generals such as generals, and the enemy's main forces were placed on the frontal battlefield, and they could not take into account the back. The people of the Central Plains resisted the Jurchens and fought endlessly. Rebel troops from all over the country surged up to provide strong support to the frontal battlefield. However, for many reasons, these volunteer troops were unable to be organized into a force and clenched into a powerful fist."

He mentioned that Song Gaozong was very taboo when he destroyed the rebel army against Jin. Even Wen Tianxiang frowned. Several censors who accompanied him had already stood up and were about to attack. Li Jun said at the right time: "Journal of learning, people must express their thoughts. Baihuguan preached a good story because the speaker is innocent. Liu Hezi, what do we do now?"

The emperor said so, and the censor knew that it would be useless if he said it again, so he had to sit down.

Liu Hezi knew that his words had touched a taboo and had already made plans to denounce them. Unexpectedly, Li Jun exonerated him. He was surprised and said, "Thank you, the situation today is similar to the beginning of the Southern Transit. In addition to fighting against the enemy head-on, the people should also be mobilized to organize rebels to restrain the enemy from behind so that the enemy cannot use all their troops in Lin'an."

Li Jun was not in a hurry to draw a conclusion and said, "What are your different opinions on what Liu Hezi said?"

Wen Tianxiang stood up and said, "I think what General Liu said is reasonable. Organizing the rebel army and restraining the enemy is actually a urgently needed method at present. Please accept it."

Li Jun smiled slightly and said, "Today, we will concentrate you here for a training. The purpose is to learn the war model of guerrilla warfare. The general policy of guerrilla warfare is to avoid fighting head-on with the enemy when the enemy is very strong and he is very weak. If you win, you will retreat if you cannot win. Use mountains, rivers, lakes, swamps, trees, forests, mountains, reeds, and grasses, such as favorable terrain, attack and attack the enemy, disrupt the enemy's supply line, so that the enemy cannot get any rest, destroy the enemy's supply line, and destroy the enemy's transportation line so that the enemy cannot march. Do not pursue the great results of the battle, but to be able to effectively attack the enemy for a long time, accumulate small victory into big victory, kill an enemy today, kill an enemy tomorrow, and kill another enemy the day after tomorrow, and kill more than 300 enemies in a year. This is a good result.

"The land in the south of the Yangtze River is a plain and has no mountains to support, but there are many lakes and rivers that can be used to dig tunnels and connect villages. The enemy attacks the east village and can transfer to the west village through the tunnels; the enemy attacks the south village and can transfer to the north village, which will never be found by the enemy and always be behind the enemy. If you have the chance, give the enemy a cruel thing.

"The army must break the whole into pieces, go deep into the grassroots, mobilize the people, and ask them to participate in the great cause of fighting the Mongolians. The people may not necessarily participate in the battle, but they can provide you with help, cover you, reconnaissance the enemy's situation, and inform the information, just like your eyes, like your ears. With the help of the people, you can harass the enemy's camps, destroy the enemy's traffic routes, and attack the enemy's transport teams. This is your mission.

"For specific tactical command, I will give you sixteen words: the enemy advances and I will retreat, the enemy stands and I will disturb me, the enemy is tired, I will fight, the enemy retreats and I will chase me."

Li Jun was very clear about the situation he was facing. The Mongolian army was very powerful and it was difficult to defeat on the front battlefield alone. It was very necessary to restrain the side. The pressure from the Huaixi Army and Li Tingzhi's Huaidong Army was very high. It was unrealistic to expect them to defeat A Shu and rush to Lin'an. It was very good that they could restrain A Shu's army in the land of Huaiyang, so that they could not go south to meet with Boyan.

In order to open up a second battlefield in Jiangnan and restrain Boyan from behind, Li Jun thought about it again and again and had to use the guerrilla war magic weapon of the great leader.

Guerrilla warfare has existed in history. The Huns and Turks are both masters of guerrilla warfare. They fight whenever they can win, and they will flash when they can't win. They will harass them when they have the chance. This has hurt the generals who fought with them. However, the Huns defeated Emperor Wu of Han and destroyed the Turks by Emperor Taizong of Tang, and their guerrilla warfare was eventually defeated.

To develop guerrilla warfare into a war model, create a complete set of theories, and achieve great victories, a great leader is still the one who can lead to great success.

The great leaders' guerrilla war theory is systematic, with one set of theories and countless ways of combat. Li Jun talks about it one by one, and they all listen to it intoxicatedly. They never thought that there was such a way of combat and so particular.
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