#Find the guardian of ancient books #Sun Bing reduced the stove to kill Pang Juan
In the twenty-eighth year of King Xianwang of Zhou (341 BC), Pang Juan led the combined forces of Wei and Zhao to invade Korea, and Korea appealed to the State of Qi for help.
King Qi Wei summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures and said, "Should Korea be saved early or late?" Cheng Hou said, "It is better not to save." Tian Ji said, "Han is weak and Wei Qiang, it is better to go to the rescue sooner."
Sun Bin said: "The two countries have just been at war, and if our country rescues now, it is equivalent to us bearing the offensive pressure of the Wei state for South Korea." Moreover, it has not yet received the gratitude that South Korea deserves. The Wei state has ambitions to swallow korea and will certainly attack with all its might; South Korea is about to be destroyed, it is bound to come to the State of Qi to cry for help, we should wait for this time to send troops, not only to save South Korea from danger, but also to take advantage of the fatigue of the Wei army to pick up a big bargain. In this way, there are both double benefits and a good reputation. ”
King Qi Wei listened to it and praised it. So he privately promised the Korean emissaries to send troops, and then sent him back to China. With the promise made by the State of Qi to send troops, South Korea boldly attacked and engaged the Wei army. As a result, he lost five consecutive battles and had to go east to rely on the State of Qi.
The State of Qi seized the opportunity to send troops, sending Tian Ji and Tian Bao to lead the army, with Sun Bing as a military division, and attacking the capital of the State of Wei directly to rescue the crisis in Korea.
After Pang Juan heard about it, he hurried back to the division to help. The State of Wei also mobilized a national army and appointed Crown Prince Shen as a general to defend against Tian Ji's army.
Sun Bing said to Tian Ji: The armies of the three kingdoms of Han and Zhao and Wei have always been brave and fierce. Thinking that the Qi men were timid in battle, they looked down on the Qi army. Those who can fight should also have clouds in sun tzu's art of war because of the snobbery: "If you attack from a hundred miles away, you will lose the general: from fifty miles away, only half of the soldiers can reach." "
Therefore, after entering Weidi, Tian Ji ordered the soldiers to gradually reduce the stove, build 100,000 stoves on the first day, 50,000 stoves on the second day, and only 20,000 on the third day. He said: I knew that the Qi army was timid and had only entered the territory of our country for three days, and more than half of the soldiers had fled." Day and night to catch up with the Qi army.
Sun Bin calculated Pang Que's itinerary. It was almost evening near Maling, and the road to Maling was narrow. Moreover, the terrain on both sides is dangerous, which is convenient for ambush. So he asked the soldiers to cut down the bark of a large tree and write a line on the tree, "Pang Juan died under this tree."
Then send the people in the army who are good at archery. Take ten thousand crossbows and ambush them on both sides of the road, and give orders to go, and whenever they see the torches burning, they will shoot arrows at the fire.
That night, Pang Juan did arrive at Maling. When passing by that big tree, I vaguely saw that there were words on the tree, because it was dark and could not really see, so I lit a torch to take a picture, and before I could read the six words, the Qi army ambushed the surrounding qi troops with crossbows and arrows raining down, and when the Wei army was in chaos and rushed to escape, it collapsed at once.
Pang knew that there was no room for turning back. So he killed himself, and before he died, he said reluctantly: "I didn't expect to achieve the reputation of that boy!"
The Qi army took advantage of the victory and defeated the Wei army, and also captured the Wei prince Shen alive.
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