When I was a child, I read the Chronicle of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and when I saw the story of Song Xianggong, I thought this brother was very funny.
How to say it? He was silly and a little cute.
The State of Song and the State of Chu fought in Hongshui, and the Song army had already formed a position on the shore, but the Chu army was still crossing the river.
Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that if the Song army attacks the Chu army halfway through at this time, the Chu army will be defeated.
However, Song Xianggong was partial, and his reason was: "The teacher of benevolence and righteousness of the widow, the grand array, is there any reason to strike with half a charity?" ”
So the Chu army swung across the river, but it was chaotic, and it was sorting out the queue and deploying the formation, at this time, if the Song army took advantage of the chaotic drumming to attack, there was still a chance to win.
However, Song Xianggong still did not do it, and his reason was: "The benevolence and righteousness of the widows are incomparable, and the halls are incomparable, is there any reason for them to drum up without being listed?" ”
Then Song Xianggong passed on the order: Dear soldiers, when the battle begins later, we cannot capture those elderly soldiers with white hair; and for those poor enemy soldiers who have already been wounded, we cannot hurt them again. Because we are a benevolent army, we are a group of benevolent gentlemen.
As a result, the Chu army formed a good position and launched a large-scale attack, the Song army was outnumbered, it was defeated miserably, the general Gongzi was killed in battle, and Song Xianggong himself was also shot in the ass, bleeding too much, and died of serious injuries after several months.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but laugh very unkindly.
If this is also benevolent righteousness, then I can only say that this is stupid pig-like benevolence, this is very silly and naïve benevolence!
Any contemporary Chinese would come to such a conclusion.
However, after growing up and reading more books, I found that Song Xianggong was not a stupid pig, on the contrary, he was a gentleman who insisted on the Spring and Autumn War Rituals, and at that time, Song Xianggong was affirmed by mainstream thought.
Because in the early Spring and Autumn Period, the military ideology of "soldiers not tired of deception" was not born. At that time, people paid attention to "taking war as a courtesy", that is, the two sides of the battle "settled the day and the ground, lived on one side, fought with drums, and did not deceive each other." Therefore, at that time, when fighting wars, they were all frontal battles in the horizontal front, the so-called grand array, the banner of righteousness, not talking about strange changes, and not knowing how to change strange things.
Therefore, the tragedy of Song Xianggong is a product of the times; the benevolence and righteousness of Song Xianggong are beyond reproach.
However, as the war of annexation and hegemony between the princes became more and more fierce in the Spring and Autumn Period, such an idea was obviously somewhat out of place, and the world needed an extraordinary military genius to invent the new era of war and be the first to eat crabs.
This person is the protagonist of this chapter, the ancestor of the Chinese art of war, the founder of the two-hundred-year hegemony of the Jin Dynasty, and the pioneer.
Note that it was Xianxun, not the sun wu who wrote "Sun Tzu's Art of War".
It was he who broke the convention of the Spring and Autumn War, and with his military ideas that transcended the entire era, helped the Chinese nation to repel the invasion of the southern barbarian foreign races, thus laying the foundation for the two hundred years of the Spring and Autumn Hegemony of the Jin Dynasty.
However, I don't know why, as the biggest promoter of the century-old hegemony of the Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, as the first military genius in Chinese history to let the idea of "soldiers not tired of deception" operate successfully in the war, Xianxun did not get the treatment he should have in history, the "History" did not list him separately, and the narrative of him in the "Zuo Biography" is also very few, and the historians of later generations seem to choose to automatically ignore him, and the final result is that many people now do not know that there was a person who had been preceded in history.
It's so unfair!
You know, as a super famous general with ahead of the military thinking of the entire era, Xianxun will win every battle in his life, invincible, and in The history of China, Xianxun is the first person to take war as a science and an art to study. We often say that the soldier's holy ancestor Sun Wu actually grew up under the influence of the ancestors; the classic "Sun Tzu's Art of War" that we often say is actually summarizing the art of war of the ancestors, and many of the military ideas can be found in several classic battles of the ancestors.
If the theoretical level of Xianxun is higher, and there is also a military book passed down, then the name of the Bing family saint ancestor may not be Sun Wu's turn.
However, such an unborn military wizard, his final end is so tragic and magnificent, which makes people feel good and sad.
Perhaps, Xiaosheng's bald pen can make everyone re-recognize this ancient hero who is bold and loyal and talented.