[After a God Enters the Human Realm and Catches the Eye of a Mad Emperor and His Ministers!]
Emperor Wu of Han clings to her, demanding eternal life: “Either share eternity with me, or we perish together!”
Huo Qubing pursues the goddess with burning passion: “Look at me! Look at me! Look only at me!”
A Yan: …
Excerpt from “Volume Two: Huo Qubing on the Art of War”
“Li Gan’s father, Li Guang, was a veteran general who served three reigns. In this battle against the Left Worthy Prince, his four thousand cavalry suddenly encountered forty thousand enemy troops. They held out until reinforcements arrived thanks to the Li family’s fierce, unyielding courage. But courage alone is far from enough to win a war.”
“The greatest taboo in warfare is to ‘attack the enemy’s strength with your own weakness.’ The Xiongnu traditionally favored the left, and the Left Worthy Prince commanded the elite of their main forces. Li Guang had only four thousand cavalry, yet he ran straight into forty thousand powerful troops. He committed precisely that taboo.”
“Don’t blame it on bad luck! On the battlefield, life and death can hinge on a single moment. A commander’s duty is to do everything possible to turn danger and disadvantage into opportunity!”
“And the key to turning things around is intelligence. A general must have eyes and ears everywhere, probing the enemy’s strengths and weaknesses and monitoring their movements.”
“Li Guang marches against the usual conventions and often acts on instinct, treating intelligence gathering as an afterthought. He also runs his troops in an extremely arbitrary manner. With few men, it may work, but with many, it descends into chaos. His sudden encounter with the Left Worthy Prince’s main force seemed like an accident, but it was inseparable from his intelligence failures and complete lack of foresight.”
“An army of forty thousand does not appear out of thin air. If he had discovered them earlier, he could have avoided their strongest forces or laid an ambush. How did he end up in such dire straits?”
“A victory is a victory, and a defeat is a defeat.” By now, Huo Qubing’s words left no room for debate. “What’s so noble about dying on the battlefield? If bravery can’t bring victory, it’s worthless.”
Breathtaking! This is the biggest feeling I have about this book after reading the latest chapter "Lu Hongzong's Theory"! The author's theoretical level, thorough understanding of life, and profound writing skills make this book very profound and make the people in this book, Huo Qubing and Lu Hong, come alive, and they are very, very amazing and brilliant! I have read many novels about Huo Qubing, but either he was reduced to a weak male protagonist in love, or he was reduced to a foil for male porn. None of them could describe Huo Qubing's true style. The talent of a young man has never been seen in five thousand years. To be honest, I disagree with many of Sima Qian's descriptions of him and have many doubts. Just say that they thought that he led the most elite soldiers and could achieve the great cause of sealing the wolf and living in Xu. They really took it for granted. In this book, the author describes Huo Qubing's military thoughts. I really like the chapter "Huo Qubing discusses the art of war". I have read it over and over again. That is Huo Qubing and the reason for his success! The author wrote about Huo Qubing in a big way without downplaying his problems. His arrogance and his disregard for the suffering of the people were clearly expressed. And Lu Hong, this character, his profound interpretation of Confucianism, Taoism and Law really makes me admire the author. Those written dialogues cannot be written without a certain theoretical accumulation, especially Lu Hong's explanation of etiquette and analysis of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which are very penetrating! There is also the portrayal of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Liu Che here is definitely a very powerful, very deep, very mean and unkind emperor, a real feudal and historical emperor, not a conventional fun-loving person. This really makes me like it. Finally, I want to say that I like your work very much, starting from the Zhao Zhao part. I hope that after you finish this one, you can also finish that one. Such a clear and powerful Zhao Zhao deserves an ending. And, a small suggestion, I think you should put the second volume in front, the second volume is so well written...[][][][][]
To say it looks good would be a bit superficial... The content is full of thoughts about life I am very happy to come across such a book. I marvel at the author's thoughts. I am particularly touched by one sentence in it. Let me talk about my own opinions: "Let the book become the cornerstone under your feet, and use it to enhance your horizons so that you can see farther. Instead of letting the words become a tangled rope, trapped in the trajectory of the predecessors." This is not only the wisdom of our reading, but also the key to the development of civilization. Books carrying wisdom and experience can be a ladder leading to a broad vision, or they can become a prison for thinking. The tragedy of Zhao Kuo's "paper talk" is the historical fact that the art of war has degenerated from a cornerstone into a rope. Those who are trapped by words, like the prisoners in Plato's cave, mistake the projection on the wall for the totality of reality. Huo Qubing's thinking from a practical perspective is the essence of critical thinking—wisdom of insight. We are not satisfied with knowing "how to do it", but also ask "why we do it" and "can we do it better". In those ancient times when business was regarded as a wrong path and Confucianism was regarded as the norm, it was a kind of transcendence to dare to tear apart the "orthodox" dogma, inquire deeply and ask questions continuously. Only in this way could he awaken the dormant fighting power in those books and achieve such a dazzling feat. Not only is it the best among the three armies, but it is also the best in the present and past! Reflecting on this made me think more. At the moment when AI is just beginning to emerge, padding is no longer a simple accumulation of knowledge, or "how many ways to write the word fennel for fennel beans", but a higher and faster cognitive reshaping and thinking expansion. The vitality of knowledge is not only passed down, but also transcended. In particular, when algorithm push continues to facilitate our knowledge acquisition, and when massive amounts of information are instantly judged and refined by AI, critical thinking will become the last resort to resist the ropes of thought. Only by untying the ropes of words and stepping on the footsteps of our predecessors, rather than crawling under their footsteps, can the torch of the human spirit continue to be passed on. I would like to take this as my exclamation for this book.