Chapter 111 The Ultimate in Deployment of Troops!
"The Overlord left a suicide note?" Ji Hao was stunned.

The story of King Xiang Yu of Chu committing suicide at Wujiang River and his wife Yu Ji accompanying him through life and death has been passed down through the ages. However, according to the legend, the King was "too ashamed to face the elders of Jiangdong" and there was no mention of any last words.

There was no suicide note.

In Ji Hao's opinion, such a peerless person, even if he was defeated and died, was still a carefree person.

Why leave a last word?

But I didn't expect that Sun Ce actually had his last words in his hands?

"It can't be said to be his suicide note. It's just like the Tao Te Ching left by Laozi, a posthumous work!" Sun Ce said: "When the Chu-Han contention, the Overlord was ambushed from all sides and was defeated. But in the end, he fought his way out with his personal bravery. He was not satisfied with this, so when he gave his warhorse to the boatman, he also wrote a posthumous work about the ambush from all sides and how to break it!"

After the King of Chu arrived at the Wujiang River, the head of the Wujiang Pavilion had already prepared a boat to take him across the river.

But the King of Chu did not go back because he was too ashamed to face the elders of Jiangdong.

Instead, he asked the head of Wujiang Pavilion to take his mount Wuzhui away - but no one knew that a scroll carved from stone was also taken away.

It depicts the "Ten-Sided Ambush Formation" and the method of breaking it.

The solution to the problem was only thought of after the Overlord was out of the game, but it was too late. However, for future generations, it is a peerless military book!

"You've put me in a difficult position!" Ji Hao said.

In ancient times, people paid attention to the matching of family backgrounds, and also paid attention to the matching of "bride price" and "dowry".

The betrothal gift is the bride price.

It must be of sufficient size, and the dowry is usually slightly more generous than the bride price. The two must match to be considered a proper match and a normal marriage.

Otherwise, whichever side is weaker will be looked down upon.

Even your status after marriage will be low.

But what can be compared with the military strategy of the King of Chu?

You know, although Xiang Yu was stubborn and self-willed, he was not brave but without strategy. On the contrary, his military strategy was quite superb. He even fought the famous battle of "breaking the pots and sinking the boats" and created an idiom.

In the end, the army was defeated, but that was because they were facing an army several times their size.

If the troops have the same strength, the combination of Han Xin and Zhang Liang may not be able to defeat him.

Han Xin fought with Xiang Yu so many times, but he only won the final battle. Apart from that, he lost every time!
"Well, I'll give you a copy of the 'Hundred Years of Great Harmony' plan as a betrothal gift!" Ji Hao finally said, "Many things in it are useful even to you Jiangdong, and are no worse than the Overlord's military book!"

Sun Ce was curious about this.

A century of Datong?

The only information he collected was about the "Qingzhou Thirty-Year Plan" and he knew nothing about the "Hundred Years of Great Harmony" plan.

But he felt that Ji Hao would not fool him about such a thing.

"Fine!"

After it was finalized, the engagement process was followed, and after various other steps, the marriage was completed.

The night of flowers and candles in the bridal chamber.

Sun Shangxiang was wearing her wedding gown, with a shy yet faintly expectant look on her face.

But soon, something happened that made her so angry that she was about to go crazy: during that night, Ji Hao did not write his own "Spring and Autumn Annals", but instead read the Overlord's suicide note by lamplight.

At first, she thought Ji Hao was just curious.

Didn't care either.

Ji Hao was indeed mostly curious.

But after opening it and seeing the diagram of the "Ten Sides Ambush", he gradually became attracted - there were ten major military formations in ancient times, from the "Long Snake" and "Two Dragons Emerging from Water", to the "Nine Bends of the Yellow River" and the final "Ten Sides Ambush".

Among them, Ji Hao knew all the first nine.

Although it may not be as easy to use as Guo Jia, Zhuge Liang and others, but relying on the bug-level memory ability, he is definitely proficient in it.

He had also learned the Ten-Sided Ambush. In the past, he only thought that the Tenth Formation was just for show and not very powerful, but it was only Han Xin who made it famous.

But after seeing this unique copy, the previous cognition was overturned: The Ten Sides Ambush itself is indeed an empty framework, but if one masters the other nine formations and integrates them into the changes of this formation, it can produce miraculous effects.

The focus is not on the formation itself, but on the "ten sides", sealing everything without any blind spots.

Maximize the advantages of military strength.

In other words, any other formation has the possibility of being defeated by a smaller force and has flaws, but the Ambush from All Sides does not have such flaws. It is a formation designed to crush the enemy with numbers.

This may seem like nothing, but in fact, during the Three Kingdoms period, any army with more than 300,000 soldiers basically suffered a great defeat.

Looking at history, a population of more than 300,000 people could not absolutely suppress a population of 100,000 or 200,000 people.

The ultimate cost-effectiveness is around RMB 100,000, and generally the best price is RMB 80,000.

Why?

The general cannot lead so many soldiers!

They were unable to cooperate perfectly with each other, and the number of people became a burden instead!

The Ambush from All Sides, on the contrary, takes advantage of numbers to the extreme. It is also the only one among the ten ancient military formations that has no upper limit on the number of people. It can be deployed with tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people!
Strictly speaking, the "millions of troops crossing the river" in later generations meant an ambush from all sides.

This formation almost perfectly fits the situation of Jiying. Once fully mobilized, it will form a combat effectiveness beyond the imagination of the world.

"However, such an unsolvable formation can't do anything to Xiang Yu!"

Compared with the formation, the way to break it also refreshed Ji Hao's cognition - since ancient times, marching and fighting have all emphasized "encirclement". In mathematical theory, the area of ​​the "encirclement" is large, and the area of ​​the "grouping" is small. Whether in terms of arrow shooting or mobility, the besieged are far inferior and will inevitably lose.

But just as burning the boats and breaking the cauldrons went against common sense, Xiang Yu also had a counterintuitive tactic against the "ambush from all sides".

It's called the "hedgehog formation".

After forming a group, they use the method of contraction and expansion to break the encirclement.

The key point is not to attack all enemies, but only those in front of you.

After beating, it will close, shrink to a certain density, and then quickly open.

Can break an ambush from all sides.

Of course, the difference in troop strength cannot exceed three times, otherwise it will form "absolute suppression" and the ambush will be invincible.

"Is there a way to break the impasse in this way? It's really eye-opening!" Ji Hao was studying the principle behind it, and before he knew it, it was already the next morning.

The cocks are crowed.

It was daybreak and there was no need for candlelight.

Sun Shangxiang's face was puffed up.

He said coldly: "Go find Xiang Yu and live with him!"

Ji Hao: “???”

But soon, he realized that he had gone too far and apologized, "I was so absorbed in the moment that I forgot about time. Madam, please don't be angry. Your elder brother and I have also performed the 'Time Stopping Technique'. Let's just pretend that today didn't exist. When we wake up tomorrow morning, twelve hours have disappeared. Well, time has disappeared by itself!"

Sun Shangxiang heard: "..."

So, you want to have your wedding night in broad daylight?
……

At the same time, on the other side, Sun Ce also passed a night without realizing it.

"I can't believe that the Ji family has such a deep understanding of this world. They have been standing in a different world from the beginning. No wonder everything Ji Hao did was extraordinary!" Sun Ce sighed.

Just as Ji Hao entered the bridal chamber, he also opened the betrothal gift "A Century of Great Harmony Plan".

As a result, on the first page, I saw a "world map" with only a tiny bit of "Han" marked on it, less than one-tenth of the land, and the land was less than half of the ocean.

But it says: Within a hundred years, we will occupy all land, sea and air forces and unify the world!
(End of this chapter)