Text: Black Pupil (Reading History Special Writer)
Music is often associated with harmony, beauty and peace, and it is not at all related to war. However, in the history of Chinese and foreign wars, there are really cases of using music to attack the city and repulse the enemy.
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The story of the ten-sided ambush is well known to everyone, and it can be said that it is also a typical example of a musical war.
At the end of the Chu-Han War, Liu Bang united with various princes to encircle the troops of Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu. In the middle of the night, the Han army suddenly sang the song of the Chu state, and even King Xiang was frightened into a cold sweat, saying: "Did the Han army completely occupy the Chu land?" Why are there Chu Ge everywhere? ”
The musical tactics on Liu Bang's side not only caused Xiang Yu to misjudge, but more seriously, it destroyed the morale of the Chu army. Most of Xiang Yu's soldiers were Chudi people, and hearing Chu Ge inevitably evoked homesickness, thinking of his wife and children at home, and then seeing himself trapped in a siege and uncertain of life and death, a large number of soldiers and soldiers were shaken in their hearts and defected.
When Xiang Yu was chased by the Han army to the edge of the Wu River, only 28 horses were left. Although he could still cross the river by boat and plot to make a comeback, Xiang Yu thought of the scene when he went out with eight thousand disciples and soldiers, and now he returned with a remnant of the army, ashamed and embarrassed, and finally ended his life in a song "Song under the Song".
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The well-known Zhuge Liang staged the Empty City Plan, although it is wonderful, but after all, it is interpreted in Luo Guanzhong's novels, but the art often comes from life, and the prototype of Zhuge Liang's Empty City Plan is Zhang Shougui, a Shubian general during the Tang Xuanzong period.
Zhang Shougui fought against the Turkic, Khitan and Tubo invaders many times, performed battle merits, and was praised as "Meritorious Border City, Shihu Chen".
In the fifteenth year of the new century (727 AD), the Tubo attacked Guazhou (古州, in present-day southwest of Anxi, Gansu), and the defender Wang Junhuan was killed in battle, and Zhang Shougui was sent to serve as the assassin of Guazhou. As soon as he arrived, he immediately organized his soldiers and civilians to build walls to resist the enemy's attack.
But the city wall had not yet been repaired, and the Tubo people suddenly attacked again. The crowd panicked, but Zhang Shougui was very calm, and said in a hurry: "The enemy is outnumbered, we cannot resist with sharp arrows and stones, and we must use tactics to retreat." So he went up to the tower, drank wine and music, found musicians to play and sing, and feasted on the soldiers.
When the Tubo people saw that there was an ambush in the city, they retreated without a fight, and Zhang Shougui immediately pursued the tubo people and defeated the Tubo people.
It can be seen that the historical prototype of the empty city plan is more exciting than the interpretation, using music to retreat from the army, not to mention, but also dare to pursue the army and make a miracle.
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During the Western Jin Dynasty, the Xiongnu army surrounded Jinyang City, and the jinyang city was a major general, and the defending city general and the governor of the prefecture stabbed Shi Liu Kun, who was even more daring, and also used an "empty city plan + embattled song".
Liu Kun ordered people to put on the banquet while ordering musicians to play and play. The Xiongnu army suspected that there was an ambush and did not dare to act rashly. In the evening, Liu Kun personally blew up the bamboo pipe, and the sound of the whistle was sad, and the Xiongnu soldiers who besieged the city were moved. Then Liu Kun and the soldiers blew up the beard again.
Hu Di was originally a national instrument of the Xiongnu, and the familiar music, like a rural sound, evoked the homesickness of the Xiongnu soldiers far away from home.
Bamboo and Hu Di broke the fighting spirit of the Xiongnu soldiers and scattered their military morale. The next day, before dawn, the Xiongnu soldiers abandoned the city and left, and Liu Kun took advantage of the situation to command the soldiers to wave the flag and shout, bluffing, so that the Xiongnu soldiers collapsed without a fight.
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In 1941, 40 divisions of the German Army surrounded Leningrad, turning Leningrad, a population of 3 million, into an isolated island.
One day, the commander-in-chief of the front line, Govrov, casually hummed the tune of the Leningrad Symphony. The work made Govrov's blood boil, and he decided to organize a public performance to inspire the morale of the military and the people. Because many of the band members either starved to death or went to the front line to fight, it took a lot of effort to assemble the band, and on August 9, 1942, the band was finally formed and could play this majestic piece.
In order to create a quiet playing environment, the front-line troops fired about thousands of shells at enemy positions. The Leningrad Symphony finally sounded, and the music spread through the radio to the whole city and even to the trenches of the front line, resounding over Leningrad and in the countryside. The whole city listened to the hero's music with great enthusiasm.
The moving music expressed the strong will and indomitable spirit of the soldiers and people guarding the city, inspired the hearts of the army, stabilized the people's hearts, and the whole city of the military and people worked together and swore to die.
Although 1.5 million people in Leningrad were starved to death, after the tenacious resistance of the entire city and the military, it finally defeated the German army and won the final victory in the defense of the city. And the success of this victory, the Leningrad Symphony can be described as indispensable.
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On the contrary, Hitler was also a music lover, and also used music warfare to successfully occupy the enemy country.
On April 9, 1940, German troops invaded Norway, and the Norwegian army retreated into the mountains in defeat. German troops successfully entered Oslo (the capital of Norway).
But the most advanced city is a band of 1500 people. The band blows and plays folk and pop songs that Norwegians love. The arrival of the band created a scene of rising and falling. Citizens forgot about the war and took to the streets to watch the liveliness, and some citizens danced to the beat.
As the citizens danced with the wolves, 20,000 German troops quickly occupied the city to the sound of music. The Germans revealed their true colors, and the citizens had no chance to resist.
It was in this way that the Germans paralyzed the enemy with the special weapon of music and occupied their cities "gently".