Chapter 86: Marquis Wu Fuqin Retires Ten Thousand Armies (1)
Of course, there is no play in this world called "The Empty City Plan".
The empty city plan comes from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". On Earth, every Chinese is familiar with it. It tells the story of Zhuge Liang's northern expedition, which was smooth all the way. The Wei State had to use Sima Yi to lead a large army to aid. Sima Yi advanced rapidly and advanced rapidly. He defeated Ma Su and Wang Ping's defenders at Jieting, and was in the west city where Zhuge Liang was stationed.
At this time, Xicheng was just an empty city, with only the old, weak and disabled soldiers, and they were unable to defend the city at all. So Zhuge Liang, who had been cautious all his life, opened the city gates and let the old, weak and disabled soldiers clean the streets, drank and played the piano on the top of the city, and shocked Sima Yi with a suspicious plan.
Of course, this scene has never happened in the history of the earth. However, under the wonderful writing of the great master Luo Guanzhong, it has become a classic example of war that is familiar to Chinese people.
After Yan Li finished telling the whole story of this play to the Shang brothers, he only listened to the two of them. Although the Kongcheng strategy was not a wonderful martial arts play that Jianchuan City always admired, it was a rare intellectual battle drama, and it was a wonderful and immortal classic.
After hearing this, Shang Shaohong immediately began to worry: Should I play the general Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong who blocked Sima Yi at the last moment, or should I play the white-faced Sima Yi who led the army?
Zhao Zilong is righteous, majestic, handsome, and of course a good character. However, in this play, he is obviously not the protagonist, and he has no singing style, only two lines of recitation, which is a bit disgraceful. Moreover, Zhao Yun obviously wants to use martial arts, but Shang Shaohong's job is to be a beautiful face.
Sima Yi is Shang Shaohong's own family and has enough scenes, but this girl is obviously a treacherous...
Troubled, very entangled...
Shang Shaoqing's reaction was completely different.
After his initial excitement, he immediately thought of the meaning behind the play.
The generals led their troops outside, and there was only one empty city in the heartland - isn't this the current situation?
Sima Yi was also a heroic and wise man. Seeing that the four gates were wide open, he did not dare to enter the empty city. He led the army to a dilemma and advanced and retreated. Finally, he was blocked by Zhao Zilong. He was shocked and had to withdraw his troops.
However, if someone could tell Sima Yi clearly that there was indeed an empty city in front of him, with Zhuge Liang alone, with the old, weak and disabled soldiers, would Sima Yi, the dragon among the people, really not be able to advance and capture Zhuge Kongming alive?
The current situation of King Shangwu is also an empty city, with no strong generals inside and no reinforcements outside. It all depends on the prince's inheritance bait and Yu Qingyue's suspicious plan to make all forces look forward to the front and back.
Once the play is staged and your own strategy is exposed, what should we do?
"Brother, this..." Shang Shaoqing frowned, "This drama clearly reflects the current situation, which is equivalent to revealing the mystery. If..."
Shang Shaohong also reacted when he heard this, and he was gone with no excitement and stared at Yan Li with his eyes.
"Haha..." Yan Li smiled and said, "Brother, how many days can you last with one empty city plan?"
"Hmm?" Shang Shaoqing was stunned, "How can I predict this...?"
"Brother, why not think about it? From Senior Yu running around all sides to announce the start of the Prince's Mid-Autumn Festival, to the sudden entry of the evil cultivator in southern Xinjiang, Blood Sacrifice Mountain Village and I started a war with him. How many days did it take?" Yan Li asked.
Shang Shaoqiu thought, "The beginning of Senior Yu announced the beginning, which was the day when the Wang family was destroyed, on the ninth day of the seventh month. The evil cultivator committed a crime on the night of the Zhongyuan Festival, on July 14th...5th day!"
He couldn't help but be surprised when he told the answer - just five days, so fast!
Yan Li said, "It's indeed five days in time, but the reaction speed of the Taoist sect is much faster than what his brother thought."
"Oh?" The Shang brothers were surprised at the same time.
"The incident happened on July 14th, although it was five days, but there were still evil cultivators who had to wait for the time of the day of Zhongyuan Night and the preparation time for the pre-arrangement of the Netherworld Formation. They must have arrived in Jianchuan earlier. I guess it should be before and after the Fenghuo Forge." Yan Li said.
Shang Shaoqing nodded. Indeed, on the second day of the wind and fire, Yan Li issued a warning that someone might intervene in the southern Xinjiang. The reason at that time was that Bu Chen suddenly brought many Dongsha Gang members to Jianchuan City, and there was something unspeakable in the North Wharf stronghold representing the Dongsha Gang.
Yan Li continued, "I found that the Dongsha Gang was acting abnormally. It was July 13th, the second day after the wind and fire broke out. According to this, the evil cultivator arrived in Jianchuan City at the latest on July 11th, and it is very likely that they will arrive on the tenth day of the day. Senior Yu announced that the beginning was the night of July 9th. Don't you think they were coming too fast?"
"Indeed." Shang Shaoqing nodded, "The southern border is thousands of miles away from Jianchuan, and everyone is calling for evil cultivators to beat him again. It is impossible to fly away from him in a big swing. This is unusual!"
"The only answer is that these two evil cultivators were not originally in southern Xinjiang, but in the heart of the Central Plains." Yan Li analyzed, "Someone sent them the news of the prince's trial. They rushed to Jianchuan City without hesitation, and they trusted the source of the news very much, and did not even make further verification. After arriving in Jianchuan, they immediately started to target the ancient tomb and prepared the blood sacrifice array without hesitation."
Shang Shaoqing frowned and said, "The southern border is a wilderness, and the witch tribe has never been convinced by the king. Who is it that can have such prestige in the southern border?"
"Jade Emperor Temple." Yan Li said calmly, "There is no other possibility. Only they will attach so much importance to the prince's Mid-Autumn Festival trial, and can know the news and react at the first time, and can bring such a surprise weapon through thousands of mountains and rivers."
"Hiss..." Shang Shaoying took a deep breath and said in horror, "Doesn't this mean that the Jade Emperor's hand had already entered southern Xinjiang? In this way, the beacon that has lasted for decades in southern Xinjiang is a dispute between Buddhism and Taoism?"
Nanchu is a place where Buddhism flourished. The Jade Emperor Temple was a leader in southern Xinjiang, and its purpose was self-evident.
"Ha, my brother said it wrong." Yan Li chuckled, "It is not a dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, but a dispute between the three religions. Did the brother forget that Buddhism is self-disciplined and does not go to the court. In the Southern Chu court, many ministers were from Confucian schools."
It turned out that the beacons in southern Xinjiang could not be pacified for decades. It was not because of the incompetence of the Red Leather Army, but because of the masters of the Three Sects.
"Let the problem in southern Xinjiang be aside, let's talk about the current situation." Yan Li brought the conversation back to the main topic, "The witch ghost cultivator took action on July 14th, which was the prince's biggest omission. The ghost gate opened on July 14th. As one of the ghost kings of Fengdu, the prince must be in Fengdu and cannot withdraw, so the evil cultivator succeeded, resulting in such a dangerous situation. There is also a fortune in this. But it is not difficult for us to see from it that the Jade Emperor Temple is acting unscrupulously, and within the Fengdu Ghost City, it is obvious that the prince does not have an advantage."
The Shang brothers nodded at the same time.
"Then, it took five days from the beginning to the test last time. At present, when will the empty city plan come in this game?" Yan Li sneered, "Is it still my brother who thought that the unscrupulous Jade Emperor Temple would be fooled by the four gates of our side and withdraw the troops cleanly forty miles?"
"Cough cough..." Shang Shaohong coughed twice. He withdrew forty miles, which was Sima Yi's line in the play "Empty City Strategy". He had just previewed his singing style.
Shang Shaoqing didn't have the heart to joke and asked seriously: "What do you think, brother?"
Yan Li said leisurely, "The current situation is that the prince has put forward a higher level of inheritance, so that the three religions can enter the game at the same time. The Jade Emperor View must clarify the various relationships between the three religions, and will take the inheritance as the top priority, so it will not break the deadlock like last time, so as not to cancel the trial in anger.
"Their reaction will naturally be slower than the last time, but it will not be much slower. From last night, I think that in at most three days, the three religions will react at the same time, and various temptation methods will follow one after another. The only benefit is probably that the methods will be relatively mild. Fortunately, most of the descendants of the prince have already evacuated, and I have not had many flaws on the surface, but passive responses are still full of obstacles."
Shang Shaoqing nodded in agreement, and then asked in confusion: "What does the virtuous brother mean to arrange this play?"
"Haha... Brother hasn't figured it out yet?" Yan Li smiled, "If I told my brother now, the prince had already prepared 100,000 ghost soldiers and soldiers, and was ready to go to the Jade Emperor Temple. Do you believe it if you were to have a sigh of shame back then?"
Shang Shaoqing was still hesitating, and Shang Shaohong's eyes were already shining and excitedly said: "So that's it. Just wait for their elites to arrive, and we will be ambushing the enemy..."
"Cough..." Shang Shaoxue coughed, patted his brother's shoulder and said, "Don't talk nonsense..."
"Well, it turns out that my brother doesn't believe it." Yan Li said cheerfully, "Then, I'll tell you now that the sentence just now is indeed nonsense. The prince was actually doing a miserable life, only one of them, and his serious injuries were not healed back then. The Mid-Autumn Festival situation was just a slow-down strategy. If the Jade Emperor Temple seized the opportunity and gave a heavy blow, it would be able to eliminate future troubles forever. Do you believe it?"
"Uh..." Shang Shaoqing was also confused this time, not understanding what Yan Li meant. Even if the prince did not restore, it would be difficult to arrange it like this...
"Hahaha, brother, look, you are the prince's great-grandson, and I am the prince's chief planner now. You don't believe me when I say something. What should outsiders think?" Yan Li sneered.
"So that's it!" Shang Shaoqing suddenly realized.
The empty city strategy cannot scare the unscrupulous opponent. Even if the bluff is successful, it cannot stop the temptation at all costs. So how can we delay the other party's pace and make them suspicious and stumbling around?
Only when it is empty is real, and when it is real, it is empty.
It is clear that an empty city plan was created, but I exposed it myself. Can you still believe that this is an empty city plan?
In particular, this "Empty City Plan" written and performed by himself is a farewell performance by the merchant class, representing the descendants of King Shangwu, who openly ignored the Jade Emperor's legal judgment before the first Jiazi, and collectively sought a way out.
This is not only a suspicious plan, but also a slap in the face, slapping the old face of the Jade Emperor Temple. How should they deal with it?
If their actions are too big, don’t forget that Confucianism and Buddhism are waiting for the Mid-Autumn Festival trial! The Jade Emperor Temple will not easily turn over the table!
Shang Shaoqing wanted to clear the secrets, and no longer talk nonsense, he went directly to the details: "My dear, where is the right scene to be staged?"
"A hero holds a sword and drinks, and her husband is proud of his hero." Yan Li smiled and sang a couplet in Jianchuan. "Since it is a farewell performance, we must naturally be under the big sign of "repaying grievances with directness"!"
"Heroic Race!" Shang Shaoqing was also excited, "It's indeed a good place!"
Heroes are on the verge of goodbye to the performance.
Who should I "repay my grievances with righteousness" to?
Chapter completed!