In the history of ancient warfare, Liu Qi, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, created a classic example of a shocking battle: he accidentally saw the groom feeding the horses, was inspired by it, and came up with a clever trick of throwing beans to control the enemy, and even defeated the Jin army, which was several times larger than himself.
It was in 1140 AD, when the Jin commander Wu Shu (whose real name was Yan Zongbi) led more than 100,000 troops to invade Shunchang (present-day Fuyang, Anhui Province).
At this time, the famous Southern Song General Liu Qigang led the "Eight-Character Army" to Shunchang, and he had less than 20,000 troops in his hands, which was obviously far inferior to the Jin Army.
The bigger problem was that Jin Wuzhu relied on his well-trained iron horse, and his offensive was extremely fierce, showing an overwhelming advantage in all the confrontations with the Song army.
In the face of the Jin army, whose strength and combat effectiveness were stronger than his own, Liu Qi, the commander of the Song Army, could not find a good strategy for a long time, and was worried and depressed.
On this night, the moon shadow was shaky, and Liu Qi, who was at a loss, simply walked out of the Chinese military tent and walked around with his hands behind his back to see, trying to ease the worries in his heart.
When he walked to the stable, he saw his beloved oolong colt lying under the trough, so he rubbed his hand on the mane, thinking.
At this moment, a groom walked toward the stables with a basket, and when he saw Liu Qi, he couldn't help but be frightened, and then saluted and said: "Marshal, how did you come?" ”
Liu Qi waved his hand and said, "I'll just walk around, you're busy with yours!" ”
Groom said, "I'll feed the Oolong Foal." ”
The oolong colt smelled the scent of hay, sprayed its nose, stood up, and screamed.
Groom poured the hay into the trough, stirred while saying: "These days, the oolong colt is not good at raw food, I added some fried beans, handsome you see, this time it is delicious!" ”
The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart. Liu Qi suddenly thought of a strange trick, and a scene appeared in his mind: fried beans were sprinkled on the ground, war horses were greedily eating, stopping, and the Song army took advantage of the victory to kill...
He hurried back to the Chinese tent and immediately summoned the generals to a military meeting and made arrangements.
The next day, the Song military camp area was busy. Soldiers came and went, carrying bamboo poles on their shoulders, and some sawed bamboo poles in groups of two.
The soldiers took the bamboo poles that were sawn down and jokingly said, "I don't know what new weapons Liu Dashuai wants to try to make." ”
On the third day, bags of beans were piled up in the camp, including soybeans, black beans, red beans and other beans, and almost all the beans that could be found in the surrounding area of Shunchang were purchased or transferred.
For a time, the smoke in the Song camp was burning, and the fried beans emitted a seductive fragrance and were packed into bamboo tubes.
One of the soldiers joked: "With so many beans, shouldn't the marshal feed us as horses?" ”
Liu Qi happened to be passing by here, and said with a smile: "Use these beans to feed Jin Wuzhuo, should you oppose it?" ”
When everything was ready, Liu Qi ordered a full-scale attack, and the soldiers jumped out of the camp and gushed out of the Jin army position like a tide.
The Jin army had already been waiting in a strict position, and seeing that the Song army was pressing on the whole line, Jin Wuzhuo immediately ordered the infantry to resist head-on, and the cavalry flanks were encircled.
Under the short soldiers, the Song army seemed to have no intention of fighting, and retreated while fighting.
Seeing this, Jin Wushu commanded the iron horse to pursue and rushed into the Song army position.
Liu Qi saw that the time had come, and at the sound of an order, the Song army discarded all the beans in the bamboo tubes on the position, and the fragrant beans and rolling bamboo tubes were scattered all over the ground.
The hungry Jin army war horse had already smelled the smell of beans, ran non-stop, and after breaking into the Song army camp, saw the beans on the ground, lowered its head and ate them, let the rider pull hard, and the war horse just did not move.
As soon as Liu Qi's flag was waved, the Song army in rows danced with weapons and roared loudly to take the opportunity to cover up and kill.
The golden army's war horses were shocked by this sudden impact and fled in all directions.
Many of the horses, because their hooves accidentally stepped on the round bamboo tube, stood unsteadily and fell heavily to the ground.
The golden army cavalry on the horse fell down one after another, and for a moment, the people shouted and hissed, and the golden army cavalry fell into a state of extreme chaos.
The Song army was willing to miss this good opportunity to kill the enemy, and one by one rushed up like a fierce tiger, slashing and slashing with a knife and axe, killing countless Jin troops, and the rest knelt down to beg for forgiveness.
Liu Qi accidentally saw the groom feeding the horses, but he came up with the strange trick of scattering beans to defeat the enemy, creating a classic example of surprising victory and victory with less in the history of ancient Chinese warfare.