In storytelling, we often see such a plot: two armies confront each other, one side locks the camp gate and hangs the war-free card; On the other side, there is a valiant soldier riding a horse with a horizontal gun at the door of the enemy's camp, showing off and challenging.
In ancient times, it was generally emphasized that teachers of justice should be promoted, and teachers should make excellent students. Before the war, the gauntlet is usually issued. China has a history of thousands of years of war, and countless wars have been fought in history, and the gauntlet is overwhelming. Today, I will share with you the four most famous gauntlets in history:
The most modest but stressful:
Letter to Sun Quan: The one who is near gives up the crime of cutting, and Liu Cong gives up. Today, there are 800 water conservancy troops, and Fang and the general will hunt in Wu.
In Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao with his arms around him, brought down Liu Cong's prestige, and led hundreds of thousands of troops south to crusade against Sun Quan. This short 35-word gauntlet, obviously hundreds of thousands of troops, just said "I want to hunt with the general in Wu" lightly, which can be said to be extremely modest and full of heroism.
However, modesty belongs to modesty, but the military pressure behind it is real. No wonder the civil servants headed by Zhang Zhao suddenly lost confidence in resistance and urged them to surrender to Cao Cao.
Consequence: Without the resistance of Lu Su and Zhou Yu, there would be no so-called tripartite confrontation.
Cao Cao led 800,000 troops south to attack Wu.
The most optimistic but also the most overreaching:
1900 On June 24th, the Manchu court declared war on eleven countries including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Japan. Declaring war on eleven countries is an unprecedented rise of history of qing dynasty. In the imperial edict of declaring war, the Qing court called for domineering: "Hundreds of thousands of volunteers from Feng Jingen and Shandong provinces unexpectedly assembled on the same day. Only five feet old, you can fight to defend the country. "
Consequences: The Qing Dynasty was corrupt, Eight-Nation Alliance quickly invaded Beijing, and Cixi and Guangxu fled hastily. Only a few months later, Empress Dowager Cixi spoke such brazen words as "measuring China's material resources and pleasing the country", which were seen through by the whole country. It is not the tiger that is angry, but the sick cat.
The meanest but most literary:
In the fifth year of Jian 'an, in 200 AD, Yuan Shao was about to fight Cao Cao. Before the war, Chen Lin, the great secret of Yuan Shao, wrote an article denouncing Cao Cao, which not only cursed Cao Cao, but also spared his ancestors for three generations: "Cao Cao's grandfather is so rich and prosperous, always a middle servant and always a left servant?" ⑿? ⑨？ Evil, gluttony, abuse. Father Song, a beggar, took him in because he bought a place, used gold treasures, lost the right to transport goods, stole Ding Si and overturned heavy equipment. Fuck fat and ugly, there is no virtue in it. G cunning front man, have fun. "
It is said that when the conversation reached Cao Cao, Cao Cao was suffering from head wind disease, lying watching Chen Lin's conversation and sweating all over. After reading it, he jumped up and shouted, "This will make me sick!" "
Chen Lin, one of the seven sons of Jian 'an.
Consequence: Although the prose was wonderful, it failed to change the result of the battle of Guandu. After Yuan Shao's defeat, Cao Cao captured Chen Lin and asked him, "It doesn't matter if you write an essay to Yuan Shao and scold me alone. Why did you scold my father and grandfather? " Chen Lin was very embarrassed and had to say, "The arrow is on the line, I have to send it." Fortunately, Cao Cao didn't kill Chen Lin because he knew his talent, but kept it for his own use.
Shortest but most ferocious:
Genghis Khan's gauntlet to Huatuo Mozi: If you want to fight, fight!
12 15, the Mongolian caravan was killed by the frontier troops of hualamozi and its property was confiscated. The news came that Genghis Khan decided to launch an expedition. At first, he asked the secretary to write an article to Mozi, the king of China. The document was written in thousands of words, full of "Can you stop me from thundering?" Something like that.
As a result, I took the document to Genghis Khan and changed it to one sentence: Fight if you want!
Genghis Khan's westward expedition to China
Consequence: The Mongols' Western Expedition completely destroyed the prosperous Central Asian countries, and countless cities were slaughtered. Where the army passed by, there were only mountains of bodies and ruins that could never be restored.
It can be seen that the gauntlet belongs to the gauntlet, no matter how beautiful or ugly it is, it is still necessary to really fight on the battlefield in the end.