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Sun Tzu said: Any method of using troops must be under the command of the monarch, and the troops will gather for peace, so it is not difficult for the army to fight. Those who struggle in military struggle should take pedantry as a straight line and suffering as their interests. Therefore, make a detour and lure it to benefit, and future generations will do it, and ancestors will come. So is this man who knows the circuitous plan.
Therefore, the soldiers fight for profit and the soldiers fight for danger. It is better to raise the army for profit, and it is a great kindness to appoint a profit-making army. Therefore, following the trend is a rush, everywhere day and night. Walking all the way, striving for a hundred miles, catching three generals, the strong is the first, and the tired is the eleventh. If you strive for profit in fifty miles, you will be a general, and the law will be half done; Three miles is good, then two thirds is good. Therefore, the army will die without baggage, food and commission.
Therefore, those who don't know the plan of governors can't make friends; People who don't know the shape, obstacles and depressions of mountains can't March; You can't find a suitable place without a country guide. Therefore, stand by and cheat, move to benefit, change to divide and make peace. Therefore, its disease is like the wind, it is like fire, it does not move like a mountain, but it is difficult to know that it is like yin and moving like. Pay attention to the masses in rural areas, distribute land benefits, and move with power. The prophet's circuitous plan wins, and this method of military struggle is also.
"Military and Political Affairs" said: "Words don't match, so it is a golden drum; Meeting each other is a flag. " People with golden drums and flags are people's eyes and ears. Since people are single-minded, the brave cannot advance alone, and the fearful cannot retreat alone. This has been done by many people. Therefore, it is refreshing to have more drums in the night and more flags in the day.
Therefore, the three armies can seize the air and the generals can seize the heart. So the vitality is fierce, lazy during the day and returning at dusk. Therefore, those who are good at using soldiers should avoid their spirits and hit them on the ground, which is also to cure their qi. Treat the chaos by treating it, and wait for it to be treated. This is also the way to treat the heart. It is also a rule to be as kind as possible to the near, to be attentive to the tired and to be satisfied with the hungry. Don't invite the right flag, don't attack the open Chen, this will cure its change.
Therefore, the method of using troops, Gaoling, not rebelling, not pretending to the north, not attacking sharp soldiers, not eating bait soldiers, constantly returning to the division, encircling the division, and not forcing the poor bandits, is also the method of using troops.
Main idea
1. It is very important to take the initiative in the war. The straight line distance between two points is the shortest, but you can't just run along a straight line. Sometimes hundreds of thousands of enemy troops are waiting for you on both sides of this straight line, and you are hung up by the enemy before you run to the battlefield. Although the curve of running is a little far, at least I feel comfortable running without enemy harassment. This is the truth of "taking pedantry as a straight line"
Everything has advantages and disadvantages, so does military struggle. This paper also introduces in detail the matters needing attention in the process of military struggle, so that everyone can seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
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Sun Tzu taught us that there are usually the following steps to fight a war. After receiving orders from his superiors, the general will go out and shout slogans to rally troops, and may have to carry out ideological education, then camp, and then go out in droves to desperately find the enemy. In this process, nothing is more difficult than winning the conditions first. The so-called "military struggle" in our text is: the conditions for winning. Once the conditions are met, things will be easy in the future. It's like you are ugly, have no money, haven't studied for a few days, have less muscles and are sloppy in sexual ability. This means that you don't have the conditions to pick up girls, and there is no way to carry out your future work. The most difficult thing in the process of "military struggle" is how to reach the scheduled battlefield faster and turn the seemingly unfavorable situation into a favorable one when the enemy has not laid mines and surrounded them. In our time, the means of transportation are nothing more than people's legs, and even better, cows and horses. From here to there, you can only walk. If you want to be fast, you can only walk faster, and there can be no delay on the road. At the same time, people in our time don't talk about professional ethics as before. Gone are the days when the other side waited for you to have a good rest, eat enough and take a bath on the battlefield. They will set up roadblocks on the road, ambush on both sides of the road and wait for your troops to come, and then suddenly rush out to fight, so we can't take the short circuit that ordinary people take, but take the road that few people take, where the mountain road is eighteen bends. However, in case the enemy. His troops lay in ambush at the eighteenth bend of the mountain road. Didn't you die again? We need to find our own way. The usual practice is to send a small team to step on one of the roads and wave our flag while shouting slogans, so that the enemy will think that we will take this road and make them confused about the real situation. Our big army has flashed to the battlefield from another road. The person who can get to the battlefield one step ahead of the enemy in such a thoughtful way is the one who knows the circuitous plan that we should praise.
Everything has two sides: although wearing glasses can pretend to be gentle, walking in the rain is easy to hit a telephone pole; Although smoking can make girls like the faint smell of tobacco, it will endanger the health of people around them; Although being drunk can make people happy, you can tell the truth. The above is my personal experience. Military struggle has both advantages and disadvantages. Fighting for speed with all trucks carrying grain and grass weapons will affect the speed of troops. You are in a hurry, and the cows and horses are not in a hurry. If you lose trucks carrying grain and weapons, these trucks may be picked up and sold. Take off your heavy armor and run around day and night regardless of your interests. When you ran to the battlefield to fight the enemy, you found that you were the only one running, and no one behind you caught up with you. Is there a better way for a person to treat hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers and horses than to be a prisoner? Soldiers who can run must arrive at the battlefield before soldiers who are flat-footed. Only one tenth of the troops arrived at the battlefield on schedule. As soon as the enemy looks around, he will fight, even if he can run again, he can't run away. March 50 miles in a hurry for profit, only half of them can arrive on time, and the enemy will still be damaged when he sees that he is still surrounded; March 30 miles for profit, only two-thirds of the troops arrived on time. When the enemy saw it, they surrounded them and fought again ... On the way, the hay had been lost and the armor had been taken off, and the spare weapons had been sold to the scrap iron station by the old man who picked up garbage. What do you rely on to fight at this time?
There is no love for no reason in this world. The vassal States want to be nice to you only to get benefits from you, and what's more, they want to annex you. Don't form an alliance with vassal States if you don't understand their ideas; Don't March if you don't know whether the road is a mountain forest or a sea. There will be traffic jams on the road. Without guides and lecturers, it is impossible to master and use favorable terrain. Therefore, fighting depends on deception, we should swagger and cheat shamelessly, but we should do everything that is conducive to winning. According to the change of the battlefield situation, when the troops move quickly, they should fly like a tornado; When the action is leisurely, it should unfold slowly like a big forest; When you attack the city and plunder the land, you should be as fast as three real fires; When guarding the city, be as still as Mount Tai; When military intelligence is hidden, you can't see anything, just like a big dark cloud covering the sun; When the army comes out, it should be invincible like a tsunami. When seizing local property and robbing the other people, we should divide our forces and act quickly. When expanding territory and competing for benefits, we should divide our forces and hold the key first. These should be applied flexibly according to the actual situation, which is the principle of military struggle.
"Military Politics" said: "The troops are commanded by shouting on the battlefield, and everyone can't hear it, so they invented the golden drum to command; Using body language to command troops, everyone can't see it, and they are not mistaken. Who has time to stare at you when you are so busy fighting? So I invented the flag. " Whether it is a golden drum or a banner, it is used to unify the audio-visual enjoyment of soldiers and deliver orders at the same time. As long as there are no blind or deaf soldiers among you, you will obey the unified command according to these. In this way, brave soldiers will not rush to die first, and timid soldiers will not slip away quietly. This is the way our ancients commanded the army to fight. Although a little backward, it is very useful. The problem is that people can't see it at night, so we command the troops with torches at night. What I want to remind the generals here is that it happened that some generals found that they didn't bring matches to make a fire when they needed to withdraw their troops at a critical moment. When they succeed in drilling for fire, the troops will be finished, so comrades, it is important to remember to bring matches. Light more torches at night, play more drums and dance more flags during the day. All these can disturb the local audio-visual and command our army at the same time.
For enemy soldiers, we can spit with our middle finger and make faces to dampen their spirits and demoralize them. For enemy generals, we can kidnap their families, or seduce him with high officials and generous salaries, shake his determination and make him lose his fighting spirit. When the enemy first went to the battlefield, they were deeply moved when they saw a red sun rising into the sky. At this moment, their morale must be strong; Wait until noon, the sun is shining and hungry; In the afternoon, everyone wants to go home to wash and sleep, and their morale is the lowest. People who are good at fighting will always avoid the enemy's high morale and wait until they all doze off before launching a fierce attack. This is the principle of using morale correctly. Use our United and disciplined army to deal with enemies who are confused and homesick, and use our upright and dedicated army to deal with enemies who just want to take their children home after the war. This is the correct way to use the morale of the army. Use our well-fed and well-rested army to deal with the enemy's long-distance tired enemy, and use our calmness to face the enemy's haste. This is the way to trap the enemy's power with self-made power. When we see enemies with neat flags and high heads, we don't want to meet them We didn't want to attack when we saw an army with a strong lineup and just had enough to eat. This is a good general and comrade who knows how to improvise on the battlefield.
Therefore, the principle of using troops is: for the enemy who occupies the highland and has his back against the hill, don't attack from the front, you can climb to the top of the hill quietly and roll down the stone; For those enemies who pretend to run so handsome, we should let them run instead of chasing after them. For a handful of soldiers sent by the enemy as bait, we should not rush out to fight, even if they are unarmed, they still walk proudly in front of our camp while singing poems; We don't want to intercept the enemy troops retreating to our country, and it is easy to be attacked from both sides; For the besieged enemy, we should leave a gap, so as to unload their murderous look; We shouldn't be too hard on an enemy who is in trouble. He has no food or weapons and is chased and bitten by a pack of wolves. These are the basic principles of fighting.