Thirty-six practical applications(5)
Six six thirty-six, the number in the technique, the number in the operation. "Soldiers are not tired of deception" is a prominent feature of military struggle, and China has always paid great attention to the strategy of military struggle, and since ancient times there have been various books on the art of war. Among them, the "Thirty-Six Plans" was written in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which belongs to the later one, so it is a collection of dacheng ones. The "Thirty-Six Plans" summed up the military thinking and experience of struggle in successive dynasties, and in the last issue we talked about the seemingly elegant "waiting for work with leisure", and in this issue we talked about the despicable "taking advantage of the fire and looting" that sounded very despicable.
Willingness to take advantage of the fire refers to the immoral behavior of taking advantage of the fire in other people's homes, in a chaotic and self-conscious opportunity to grab things, but it cannot be viewed in this way militarily. We should be clear that a boxing match is wonderful to be evenly matched, but war is not like this, because there are too many countries, nations, and people's responsibilities, and in order to be responsible for these, we should win at the lowest cost, even at the expense of killing chickens and knives. Therefore, the "robbery by taking advantage of the fire" in the Thirty-Six Schemes is purely a strategic idea and has nothing to do with morality and immorality.
Huns
At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu became strong and repeatedly invaded the Central Plains Dynasty, becoming a major problem for their confidants. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the famous generals Wei Qing and Huo Zhiyi defeated the Xiongnu, but the Xiongnu still controlled the northern desert, and later the Xiongnu were twice divided into two parts, the south and the north, and the southern Xiongnu were also attached to the Han court twice, and the enemy of the Han court, the Northern Xiongnu, began to decline. Later, the Northern Xiongnu suffered serious natural disasters for many years, the social economy was extremely shrinking, and their strength was greatly weakened, and they repeatedly sent envoys to the Eastern Han Dynasty to ask for peace. In 88 AD, Xianbei stormed the Northern Xiongnu from the east, killing Youliu Shan Yu and causing chaos in the Northern Xiongnu. At the same time, there was a locust plague in the north of the desert, and the lack of basic survival materials led to a sharper internal conflict between the Northern Xiongnu and a series of crises. The Eastern Han Dynasty took advantage of this opportunity to begin to take advantage of the fire and robbery, and in 89 AD, it joined forces with the Southern Xiongnu to attack the Northern Xiongnu, and the Battle of Jiluoshan broke out.
The famous Eastern Han general Dou Xian
The Han army was divided into three routes, Dou Xian and Geng Bing led 8,000 elite horsemen out of Jilu Sai (present-day Halong Ge Nai Gorge Mouth northwest of Inner Mongolia), the Liao general Deng Hong out of Chouyang (present-day baotou city, Inner Mongolia) Sai, and the southern Xiongnu out of Manyi Valley (present-day north of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia), a total of about 50,000 horses, north to Jiluo Mountain, and encountered the Northern Xiongnu Shan Yu. Such an unequal battle, the surviving Northern Xiongnu were certainly not opponents, 13,000 people below the famous king were beheaded, more than a million heads of cattle, sheep and livestock were obtained by the Han Dynasty, and 81 people before and after the Han Dynasty, a total of more than 200,000 people, the Northern Xiongnu were already dying. In 91 AD, under the strong recommendation of the Southern Xiongnu, the Han court sent the right lieutenants Geng Kui, Sima Renshang, Zhao Bo and others to lead troops out of Yansai to break the Northern Xiongnu at Jinwei Mountain, beheading more than 5,000 people, and Northern Danyu fled, not knowing where to go, and the Northern Xiongnu completely perished. Since then, as a force, the Xiongnu have withdrawn from the stage of history.
On the generals, Dou Xian and others could not be compared with Wei Qing and Huo Qi,but they were able to lead the Qiang Hubian Miscellaneous Division to destroy the Xiongnu entirely because of the good timing, and this was the strategic idea of "taking advantage of the fire and looting." From the perspective of the overall strategic situation, there are roughly two kinds of crises that cause the enemy: internal worries and external troubles. The so-called internal troubles or the economic difficulties caused by natural disasters, the lives of people are ruined; or because of the power of traitors, chaos in the dynasty; or because of mass riots, civil wars have sprung up. External troubles are simple, that is, foreign invasions. These internal and external troubles, the Northern Xiongnu have caught up, so Dou Xianneng can inscription the stone negative Ding, drinking the song of Mabi, it is really a gift from heaven.