Every scholar knows the allusion of the Empty City Strategy.
After all, this is an allusion to Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang has been a role model for scholars all over the world since he was born, no matter from a humble family in Guizhou or from a wealthy family.
This allusion has been talked about many times for many years, and has always been regarded as one of the clear proofs of Zhuge Liang's intelligence, which can be compared with the incident of borrowing arrows from a straw boat.
But anyone who is truly rational knows that this case has little reference value.
Zhuge Liang can do things like the empty city plan, but if an ordinary Shu Han soldier goes to play the piano at the top of the city, then a hail of arrows will come over and start attacking the city.
How can ordinary people scare the enemy? They can only be people with great reputations like Zhuge Liang.
certainly……
Li Er and Zhuge Liang are not the same kind of people, but they still have enough prestige.
And considering the battles that Li Er fought and won, his reputation should be said to be much more powerful than that of Zhuge Liang... But then again.
Why does the Empty City Strategy need something like "prestige" to be effective? Because essentially it is a product of information asymmetry. Zhuge Liang is so powerful because he took advantage of this information asymmetry.
What's more.
Even Zhuge Liang used a series of extremely powerful psychological warfare methods to achieve the empty city strategy.
Even Zhuge Liang had to resort to a lot of tricks, let alone Li Er...
Li Er is a good fighter, but can he really play Zhuge Liang's tricks?
Besides, the eastern front of Northern Xinjiang is all plains, and there aren’t that many cities at all.
If you want to engage in an empty city strategy, you must have enough cities to defend - to defend, not to engage in head-on positional warfare.
Without the barrier of the city wall, how could it be so easy to fool Goguryeo's Xianbei army?
What Li Er did this time... was completely playing with fire.
However, Wang Jing and Pei Ji, these people are from the Five Surnames and Qi Wang, not the officials of Tiance Mansion.
This world is yours, Li Er's, not the world of scholar-bureaucrats like us. If you, Li Er, messed up, isn't this...
Isn’t this just an opportunity for our brothers???
Wang Jing realized this almost the moment he heard the butler's report.
After repeatedly confirming that the troops transferred by Li Er were actually building ships, Wang Jing's mind went blank.
After waving his hand to dismiss the butler, Wang Jing felt that his heartbeat was about to stop with excitement.
Damn...
Li Er, you are really seeking death this time.
"Everyone...the troops transferred by Li Er are really going to build ships. I'm afraid they won't be able to come back for a few months..."
Wang Jing's voice was trembling, and his speech was even slurred.
But Pei Ji, Cui Baihe and the others understood the unclear words, and like Wang Jing, they reacted immediately!
Cui Baihe took a deep breath.
"If you continue to break up, you will be harmed day and night. If we miss this opportunity, we will definitely..."
"good!"
Before Cui Baihe finished speaking, Mr. Zheng Taishan on the side suddenly spoke.
This opportunity is so rare!
When the Turks went south, they were overturned by Li Sheng. This incident naturally became the most regrettable thing in the long period of time for Wu Xing Qi Wang.
And after reviewing it, they felt...
This kind of comeback can happen, on the one hand, it is because the monster Li Sheng does have something...
On the other hand, it was also because the Turks did not go south every day. No matter which steppe barbarians came, they only went south once.
If it succeeds, he will be the emperor. If it fails, it will be over. In the final analysis, Turks may still lack some experience.
Moreover, they may not have enough understanding of the mountains, rivers, dangerous terrain, population, wealth and resources on the way south, and may not be able to take advantage of them.
Taking all factors into account, in short...
In short, it is definitely not because the Turks cannot defeat the monster Li Sheng!
And this self-persuasion came into play again at this moment.
According to the same logic, under the same framework and from the same perspective, the situation in Goguryeo...
It's different from the Turks.
Goguryeo really wants to establish a "dynasty" regime, which is different from the Turks.
When Goguryeo occupied a land, it could really make use of all kinds of food and resources on the ground.
This pattern directly destroyed the Turks.
Anyway, that’s what Wang Jing and the others have been thinking recently.
And now...
With such a good opportunity...
"...Then we just need to try to pass information to Goguryeo and ask General Yeon Gaesumun to lead the troops south..."
Lu Changgeng didn't know how serious it was, but these guys looked at each other and said something to each other, and Lu Changgeng also understood a little bit.
Saying this with a trembling voice...
Wang Jing suddenly nodded with a smile on his face.
"good!"
"exactly!"
"This time Li Er dares to play the empty city stratagem. What is this empty city stratagem? It's just fiction and reality. We just need to reveal this fictitious matter directly to General Yeon Gaisu Wen... Haha, what is Li Er's plan like?
Wouldn’t it be broken immediately?”
"At that time, it will be the time for us to kill the faint king and rectify the country of China!"
Wang Jing's words were as decisive as gold and stone!
Extremely firm.
This is also equivalent to directly speaking out the exciting thoughts in everyone's hearts in an organized and willful way.
And when he said this, he naturally got a lot of nods!
This strategy and discussion ends here.
If you don't take action when you encounter such a good opportunity, it is really not in line with the character of Wu Xing Qi Wang.
We are all the best among people, right? How can we not act when the opportunity arises? We must take action...
Of course, just reporting the news is not enough...
If Yeon Gaesomun really made a great contribution after the incident, then everyone will have to become a prince or something, and at least make more contributions.
But this was simple, and soon Wang Jing and others started discussing it.
What kind of materials should be transported, how to provide design drawings... Planning is not a simple matter!
However, during this process, Pei Ji still had some doubts in his heart... This Li Er really didn't seem like someone who knew how to play the empty city strategy.
Although the troops he transferred this time did go to Hangzhou, and they had already started building ships...
I was confused and confused for a while, but after all, since the shipbuilding had begun, the evidence was conclusive, and it was difficult to come up with any clues no matter how hard I tried, so the plan continued like this.
…
But on the other side...
Li Er transferred 50,000 of the 80,000 elite troops at the border. This decision was not only extremely bold, but it was also obviously a major project.
An army of tens of thousands would be considered a group army in modern times. Mobilizing this level would be a big deal even with modern means of transportation, let alone in ancient times.
However... although the army in Northern Xinjiang does not engage in actual combat, as an army shouldering heavy responsibilities, it is inevitable to practice everywhere at any time.
Even if we don't talk about drills, patrol cavalry are normally dispatched every day, so it doesn't seem strange.