Hello everyone! This is Sou Mengmi, an amateur novelist whose age is about to change from the prefix 1 to the prefix 2!
Time flies so fast, another week has passed! It’s time to update this series again!
Before officially starting today's content, let's have a round of chatting and chatting according to international practice.
Today is June 7th, a rare day when the college entrance examination and the Dragon Boat Festival coincide.
In order to celebrate and commemorate this special day, I have posted four updates in a row today, with 10,000 words of updates, even though I said a few days ago that there would be no more updates in the short term...
By the way, have you looked at the essay questions for college entrance examinations across the country today?
The Jiangsu paper really lived up to my expectations this year! The essay title was simply incomprehensible!
Adding water to water is still water, adding salt to salt is still salt, wow x, you are not talking about human language at all!
I don’t know if any of my readers are from Jiangsu, I guess there are.
My writer background shows that, in addition to those whose location is "unknown", one-tenth of my readers are from Hebei Province and 6% are from Jiangsu Province, so there should also be readers of this book from Jiangsu Province.
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I just want to say to these brave men who have participated in the Jiangsu Provincial College Entrance Examination: Thank you for your hard work...
In this new week, I still have no recommendations.
Wow, since I received the most rubbish "Popular Category" recommendation on April 21 this year, I have never been recommended again.
I don’t know if my editor will see this. If she can, I really want to ask: Where is my recommendation for listing?
Normally, all books have at least two promotions, one for testing and one for shelf.
However, my book has only been on a test push, and there is no mention of it on the shelves...
It seems that it’s not just me, most of the books that were put on the shelves on May 10 were not put on the shelves...
So what is it...
Well, when it comes to this, it's really ironic.
When I have nothing to do, I will pay attention to the books of other colleagues. (Of course, I don’t know any of these colleagues)
Then I discovered that there were many books that had been continuously recommended and had various major promotions. They had thousands of collections before they were put on the shelves, and now they are all eunuchs.
It is not convenient for me here to list the titles of these books that the editors are very optimistic about and then become eunuchs.
Among the 4 chapters I published today, in one of them, I don’t remember which chapter it was, I mentioned in the “Author’s Note” that it was a book that I recommended at the same time, and it was recommended all the way.
It has never been interrupted at all. I went to the "Qidian Data Network" to look at the data of his books. The recommendations he received were blinding to my eyes. Since he started testing the water, his recommendations have been continuous.
After that, it was pushed until it was put on the shelves.
After it was pushed to the shelves, the editor also gave him a big push to be put on the shelves, such as "strong recommendation by category".
It already had 5,000+ collections before it was put on the shelves, which is completely different from me who only had 137 collections before it was put on the shelves.
It's a pity that its 5,000+ collections have never stopped being recommended. People who promote various apps are so popular that the sales volume is actually exceeded by me, who has only been recommended in one "popular category". Before it was put on the shelf, I had 137 collections and now I have 245 collections.
The man was hanged.
I had nothing to do yesterday and took a look at the bestseller list in the fantasy section.
There are a total of about 530 books on the best-seller list in the fantasy section. I ranked around 160, and this book ranked around 300 and almost 400. (My ranking should have dropped today because my subscriptions were not very high yesterday.
good)
Although I have said the above words in the "Author's Words" of one of the four chapters published today, I still want to say them again.
Because it feels really good to say this kind of thing!!
Wow, this kind of novel-like plot is just amazing.
The person who was favored by the editor and held a "contract victory sword" was actually beaten by me, a person who was not favored by the editor and ignored by the editor and held a "broken rusty knife".
The sales volume of a person with 5,000+ collections was beaten by a person who just exceeded 200 collections, which is only a fraction of his.
It’s really exciting! It’s so cool!
Because of this incident, I may be in a particularly good mood these days (laughs).
Then I read this book today and found that this book has a random ending, and the eunuch has been dropped. The reason is that the results are too poor.
How can I put it this way? The editor is really miserable. The book that has spent so many resources on it has such poor sales. It’s a shame.
I know that the editor can't see this, but if the editor can see it, it doesn't matter. It's better if the editor sees it, because if you ask for recommendations on QQ, the editor will ignore you.
Editor, why haven't you recommended it to me? At least you should recommend it to me, right?
With just a "Broken Rusty Knife", I suppressed many of my colleagues who wielded magical weapons, and achieved results that many of those holding the "Sword of Contract Victory" could not achieve.
Then why don't you give me a different weapon?
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Okay, this is the time to vent your frustrations. After all, encountering this kind of situation is really frustrating and unpleasant.
Let’s start the main movie!
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The prototype of the rescue battle in the Kingdom of Lund was actually a very famous battle in the history of our country.
This battle also gave birth to the idiom "Besiege Wei and save Zhao".
That's right! This battle is the famous Battle of Guiling that broke out between Qi and Wei during the Warring States Period.
The Battle of Guiling, to put it simply, was when Wei attacked Handan, the capital of Zhao, and then Zhao asked Qi for help.
Qi State appointed Tian Ji as its general and Sun Bin as its military advisor, and launched a large army to rescue Zhao State.
Tian Ji's initial idea was to go directly to Handan, the capital of Zhao State.
Military advisor Sun Bin asked Tian Ji to attack the capital of Wei directly, and then attract the Wei army from Handan to return for reinforcements, and then engage in a decisive battle with the Wei army in the wild.
Therefore, the idiom "surround Wei and rescue Zhao" was born.
Sun Bin's strategy, in a layman's terms, is to "attack the place where the enemy must not give up, and then attract the enemy to come to the rescue."
It was precisely based on Sun Bin's strategy that the Battle of Guiling ended with Qi's victory.
Doesn’t it look a lot like the rescue battle in the Kingdom of Lund (laughs)
In fact, when it comes to this, there is a lot of knowledge that is very versatile.
Some knowledge is feasible and very useful in ancient times, in modern times, on earth, and in other worlds.
For example, the strategy of "attacking the enemy must save it".
Even in the 21st century, this strategy can be used in modern warfare and is very easy to use.
And this strategy is definitely useful even in the worlds of "The Lord of the Rings" and "A Song of Ice and Fire".
This is why there are still people studying Sun Tzu's Art of War specifically, and even special subjects and courses have been set up.
Because "The Art of War" is a book that transcends the times, no matter how the times change, most of the ideas and strategies in "The Art of War" will never be outdated.
Even if it is thrown into a different world, the strategies and ideas of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" will never become outdated.
Okay, I’ve digressed a little bit, let’s get back to our main topic (laughs).
The rescue battle of the Kingdom of Lund was composed of two battles, one was the Battle of Irun Ferry, and the other was the Battle of Annihilation on the Wei River.
The Battle of Irun Ferry does not have any historical prototype, it is purely my original creation.
By the way, the main strategic ideas of these two battles are actually the same.
It's all about "building plank roads openly and building old warehouses secretly".
In both battles, they first carried out feint attacks on the front to confuse the enemy, and then quietly carried out surprise attacks and clever strategies.
The strategy of "Building plank roads in the open and hiding in Chencang" is the same as "rescuing the enemy when attacking". It is a strategy that transcends the times. No matter how the times change, even if interstellar wars begin in the future, this strategy will not be outdated. I can guarantee it.
Then, the Weihe Annihilation War had a historical prototype.
I remember that when I was serializing the Annihilation Battle of Weihe, I talked about the prototype of this battle in the "Author's Note" in one of the chapters.
The prototype of this battle is the Battle of Weishui fought by Han Xin, the prototype of Su Cheng's character!
Han Xin relied on this strategy of "charging water to intercept the enemy" to kill Xiang Yu's number one general, Long Qie, and defeated the 200,000 armies of Chu and Qi.
I have to say that Han Xin is really a god. The battles he fights can basically subvert everyone's common sense...
However, it is said that in history, before the battle began, Han Xin conducted many experiments on the Weishui River before he grasped the perfect amount of water and the perfect time to destroy the "dam".
I think this possibility is quite high.
Of course, it does not rule out that Han Xin did not conduct experiments at all, but like Su Cheng, relied on his powerful talent to calculate the optimal amount of water, the optimal time to build a "dam", and the optimal time to destroy it in his mind.
"Dam" time.
In fact, this is also possible. After all, Han Xin is a god. We cannot look at gods with ordinary people's eyes...
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Okay! That’s it for this issue of “The Story Behind the Work”! Thank you for watching!
In the next issue, I plan to talk to you about the writing style of this book.
A friend of mine told me that my book has a heavy Japanese light novel feel.
In the next issue, I will focus on this issue and talk to you about the writing style of this book!
See you next week!
Chapter completed!