Zhang Jun was also furious after being scolded by this, but he finally suppressed his anger and returned to the main topic: "Yan Xiu, do you really not know that Liu Xi is the leader of the Western Army. At the beginning, he was unwilling to fight when he saw that the situation was not good. He didn't know that the emperor was brave and brave, but thought that he could be bullied. So he deliberately said that his own army was weak?"
"How weak can it be?"
"I was confused too. If you didn't know, how could you calmly attack your shield with your own spear?" Zhang Jun regained his clarity and continued to fight. "Yan Xiu, now that things have come to this, I will not argue with you about three to one. Even if you and Liu Xi are both right, the troops of the three western routes are weak and can only fight three to one, but the weakest three to one is also three to one at the strongest? The imperial camp troops can't do two to one? Can't these soldiers brought by the emperor personally do one to one? One hundred thousand is enough! What's more, Qu Duan and Wu Lin are both organizing their troops. Maybe they can bring in another 10,000 or 20,000 from Jingyuan and Huanqing, and even replace Wu Jie! The troops are really sufficient!"
"So what?" Liu Ziyu continued to sneer.
"Then we can go to war! And we should go to war!" Zhang Jun said anxiously. "The emperor has entrusted us with the task of taking care of our son, so we must win this battle. With the opportunity ahead, how can we miss it? As his subjects, we must share the worries of the emperor and the world!"
Seeing his old friend's frankness, Liu Ziyu calmed down a lot, but he sighed and shook his head again: "Deyuan, let's not talk about Liu Xi's thoughts as a military leader. I know that you have another account in your mind, but do you know how I calculate the account in my mind?"
"How did you calculate it?" Zhang Jun also calmed down.
"That day, the Western Army of 200,000 was defeated by Loushi's 10,000 troops..." Liu Ziyu spoke without hesitation.
"If you say so, we might as well surrender!" Zhang Jun's face changed immediately after hearing only half of the sentence, and his breath became unstable, which directly startled the mule outside, causing the driver to quickly pull and shout. "Why don't you talk about the Jingkang Incident? If the emperor was in power that day, do you believe in the Jingkang Incident? The Jin people will not be able to cross the border!"
"That's not what I meant." Liu Ziyu was helpless. "What I meant was that having more soldiers and horses in a decisive battle is not necessarily a good thing... Because a big battle is different from a small battle. If you win a small battle, you win, and if you lose, you lose. But in a big battle, you must not make any mistakes or leaks, and the strange and the regular must intersect. The armies are fighting, spreading over dozens of miles, fighting non-stop. If there is a leak in one place, then there will be leaks everywhere. And this is the helplessness of weak troops attacking strong troops. If you want to defeat the strong with the weak, you have to use more to defeat the few. However, when you use more to attack the few, the more soldiers and horses you have, the more loopholes you will inevitably have. Once the weak troops are caught by the strong, the overall situation will be overturned..."
Zhang Jun thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "You have your own military calculations, and they make sense. I shouldn't have settled military scores with you from the beginning, but I have another calculation. Do you want to listen?"
Liu Ziyu's heart moved slightly, and he just raised his hand to signal.
"I don't understand military affairs, but I know that since the Mingdao Palace, the government and we have done a lot of things in the past three years, right?" Zhang Jun said calmly, but his eyes were fixed on the other party. "Can't we calculate this account from here?"
Liu Ziyu became solemn in an instant and gave up the intention of arguing with the other party, because he understood what the other party meant in an instant and understood from the bottom of his heart the way the other party settled accounts.
"In the past three years, whether it is military or political affairs, from the emperor down, we have always been working hard, right? We have always been lazy and idle, and have harmed the country and the people, right?" Zhang Jun did not stop because of the other party's solemnity. Not only that, as he continued to speak, his emotions gradually became excited. "Yan Xiu, I just want to ask you, whether it is the emperor or us, there are still many people, dead or alive, stupid or wise, demoted or retained, civil or military, are there still some people who have done something? And if what we have done is roughly right, then three years of hard work, three years of tolerance for the country, why can't the Song Dynasty regain its foothold?! Why should we let these barbarians force us, the emperor, and the Song Dynasty to this point?! Tell me the truth from the bottom of your heart, shouldn't we win this Guanxi battle?! Can't we settle the account this way?!"
Liu Ziyu was forced into a corner. He had no way to refute, nor did he want to refute. Instead, he suddenly asked a completely unrelated question: "Does Deyuan like archery?"
Zhang Jun forced himself to suppress his emotions: "I don't know how to do that at all."
"I like it, and the emperor likes it too." Liu Ziyu said seriously. "Archery is not only used to cultivate qi and practice martial arts, but the saints listed it as one of the six arts for a reason... First, it cultivates self-discipline, second, it determines the reception and release, and third, it seeks to choose... I am the chief secretary of the Privy Council and the military advisor for the emperor. I think about the war situation from Qingtang to Donghai all day long. It is a serious matter, and I always feel that I can't bear it. After coming to Chang'an, I am even more anxious. At this time, I will go to the military camp in the city to shoot arrows, and think about how to deal with it while shooting arrows. These days, I spend more and more time there. Sometimes I don't want to let go even when my arms ache."
"Yan Xiu has worked hard." Zhang Jun was obviously thinking of something. "But the emperor has also worked hard, and since you know that the emperor has worked hard..."
"That's not what I meant." Liu Ziyu shook his head. "I mean, although the emperor has worked hard, I'm afraid he has his own account in mind when he shoots arrows, and it is an account that only the emperor has, an account that we can't think of!"
Zhang Jun was suddenly stunned.
"You and I both think that Liu Xi, the military leader, has a terrible account. You also think that my account is not good enough, but it is possible that your account of doing your best and leaving fate to fate is not good enough for the government..." Liu Ziyu said earnestly. "So Deyuan, we each do our job, each keep our own account, and each hold our own opinions according to the situation. The government will make the decision!"
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