Flowers bloom on trees
‖ original text‖
Take advantage of the situation and force small forces. Hong gradually became a land, and its feathers could be used as Yi ye.
‖ Translation ‖
With the help of the favorable position formed by the situation of others, although the strength of the troops is small, it is quite imposing. The wild goose flies high in the air, all with its plump wings to help the momentum.
‖count allusions‖
Flowering on the tree means that there is no flower on the tree, but it can be cut into flowers with colorful silk and glued to the tree, which is the same as the real flower, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false without careful looking. This calculation is used in the military, which means that one's own strength is relatively small, but one can use friendly forces or some factor to create an illusion to make one's camp appear strong, that is, in war, one should be good at using various factors to gain momentum for oneself.
Zhang Feizi Yide
Everyone knows that Zhang Fei is a fierce general, but he is a brave and strategic general. At the beginning of Liu Bei's army, he fought against Cao Cao and lost many times. After Liu Biao's death, Liu Bei was alone in Jingzhou. At this time, Cao Cao led his troops south to Wancheng. Liu Bei hurriedly led the Jingzhou army and civilians to retreat to Jiangling. Because there were too many ordinary people following the retreat, the speed of retreat was very slow. Cao Bing pursued to Dangyang and fought a battle with Liu Bei's troops. Liu Bei was defeated, and both his wife and son were scattered in the rebellion. Liu Bei had to retreat in a daze, and after Zhang Fei broke off, he intercepted the pursuing soldiers.
Zhang Fei only had twenty or thirty cavalrymen, how could he defeat Cao Cao's thousands of troops and horses? That zhang Fei was not afraid of danger, did not panic when he was in the front, and suddenly had a plan. He ordered all twenty or thirty of his cavalry to go into the woods, cut down branches, tie them to the backs of their horses, and gallop around the woods on horseback. Zhang Fei alone rode a black horse, crossed the spear of Zhang'er, and stood majestically on the bridge of Nagasaka Slope.
Zhang Fei drank and broke the Yang Bridge
The pursuing soldiers arrived, saw Zhang Fei standing alone on a horse with a spear in the bridge, and saw the dust flying in the woods on the east side of the bridge. The pursuing Cao soldiers stopped advancing, thinking that there must be an ambush in the woods. Zhang Fei only took twenty or thirty cavalrymen to stop the pursuing Cao soldiers, allowing Liu Bei and the Jingzhou soldiers to retreat smoothly, relying on this "blossom on the tree" strategy.
‖ Case ‖
Battle of Tian Dan Broken Swallow
Le Yi Vaqi
In the thirty-first year of King Hao of Zhou (284 BC), King Yan Zhao, using Le Yi again, ordered him to lead an army to attack the State of Qi, and within six months, he captured seventy cities in a row, leaving only the last two cities of Juzhou and Jimo. At that time, Le Yi believed that there were only two cities left in the State of Qi, and there would be no more major disturbances, so he wanted to take a peaceful approach, to end it with grace, and let them surrender themselves, so as not to use swords and soldiers again.
In this way, Jimo City was besieged for three years.
However, it was said that in Jimo City, the defender was dead, there was no master in the army, and everyone said that Tian Dan had the ability to lead the troops, so they supported him as a general, so Tian Dan led the whole city to defend day and night, without slackening off. Unexpectedly, at this time, the Yan state managed the power struggle at the top. The doctor rode robbery and Prince Yan Zi had a deep friendship, and the robber thought that he had courage and strategy, and wanted to seize Le Yi's military power, so he said to Prince Zi: The King of Qi is dead, and there are only two cities left in the State of Qi, but Le Yi does not attack it, this is Le Yi wants to marry the State of Qi with grace, and in the future it will be good to establish himself as the King of Qi! The crown prince listened to the instigation of the robbery and told it to King Zhao of Yan, who knew that king Zhao, far from listening, beat the prince twenty times and wanted to make Leyi the king of Qi. Le Yi resolutely refused to be sealed by king Qi, and King Yan Zhao, therefore, trusted Le Yi even more.
This matter was heard by Tian Dan, who was very disappointed and sighed: It seems that in order to restore the State of Qi, It is impossible for King Yan Zhao to live, and it is necessary to wait until after king Zhao's death to have hope. It is also coincidental that it was not long after this that King Zhao died of poisoning because of his superstitious belief in the gods and immortals; he took the elixir indiscriminately. At this time, Tian Dan sent people to the State of Yan to spread rumors that Le Yi was reluctant to accept the title of King of Qi because he wanted to be grateful for King Zhao's kindness, and the reason why he delayed attacking the two cities of Jimo and Juzhou was because he had to wait for the opportunity to establish himself as king, and now that King Zhao was dead and King Hui was on the throne, Le Yi would be called Wang Qi. King Hui of Yan had originally been suspicious of Le Yi, and now when he heard such rumors, it was consistent with what the horse robber had originally said, and he believed it to be true, so he ordered Le Yi to be recalled to the capital and replaced by the horse robber as the general. Le Yi was a very clever man, knowing that if he stayed in the Yan Kingdom any longer, he would be harmed by the king and the robbers, so he quietly left the Yan Kingdom and went to the Zhao Kingdom.
Moreover, it is said that this side of the robbery replaced Le Yi as a general, and at the beginning of his term of office, he changed le Yi's regulations, causing widespread dissatisfaction among the generals of the Yan Army. It had only been three days since he arrived at the barracks, and he ordered an attack on Jimo City, and the soldiers and civilians in Jimo City, under the leadership of Tian Dan, were strongly defended and could not be attacked by cavalry. One day, Tian Dan got up early in the morning and said to the whole city's soldiers and civilians: Last night I had a dream, and God said to me in the dream that the State of Qi can still be stronger and stronger, and the State of Yan will be defeated; in a few days, God will send a military division, and the Yan army will soon lose the battle. In fact, Tian Dan deliberately selected a clever little soldier in the army, told him to pretend to be a military master sent by God, dressed him in special clothes, and told him to sit facing south.
After that, every time Tian Dan gave an order, he had to first warn the "military master", so his orders were particularly respected by the military and the people. When the Yan soldiers outside the city heard that a military division sent by The Lord of Heaven had come from inside the city, they were also frightened and told each other: "The Lord of Heaven has helped the State of Qi, what else can we do?" At the same time, Tian Dan also sent a few henchmen outside the city to discuss: It is still the former Le Yi who is good, and the prisoners are well treated, so the people in the city are not afraid of the Yan army. If the Yan army cut off the noses of all the captured prisoners, could the Qi people not be afraid? He also said that the ancestral graves of the Qi people were buried outside the city, and if the Yan army had planed all the ancestral graves, what could be done! And all that.
Tian Dan Broken Swallow (Fire Bull Array)
Such a discussion spread ten times, ten times a hundred, and slowly reached the ears of the horse robbers. The stupid robber actually cut off the noses of all the captives he had captured, and cut off the graves outside the city. When the people of Jimo City saw that Yan Guo was so cruel, they gritted their teeth in hatred one by one, bent on revenge and hatred, and asked Tian Dan for battle. At this time, Tian Shan came up with another plan: to select five thousand pioneers, one thousand cattle for training, and prepare to set up a fire bull array. At the same time, he also collected a batch of gold, sent a few people dressed as rich men in Jimo City to send to the robbers, said to the robbers: The grain in the city has been eaten, and it will be surrendered in three days, asking the Yan army to save our family's small lives when they enter the city. He really thought that he could wait for Tian Dan to come and surrender, and there was no need to fight any more, so the big and small leaders relaxed their guard.
Moreover, those "rich men" who were sent out came back to report the situation to Tian Dan, and Tian Dan thought that the time had come and decided to use his fire bull array to fight. He draped a thousand cows in cloth painted with strange and colorful patterns, and each cow had two sharp knives on its horns and a hemp and reed soaked in oil on its tail. The faces of the five thousand stormtroopers were also painted with various colored patterns, and one by one they followed the cattle with large knives and broad axes. In the middle of the night, the city wall was opened to drive the cattle outside the city, and the tail of the ox was lit on fire, and a thousand cattle were burned and hurt, and they rushed to the Yan camp without a life, followed by five thousand death squads. At this time, the people in the city knocked hard with washbasins and copper pots, shouting for help. The Yan army woke up from the dream, caught off guard, only to see thousands of monster tails burning fire, with knives on their heads, followed by a group of "youkai". Some of them were timid, frightened, their legs were soft, and they only said that they were ghosts sent by God, one by one, only trying to escape for their lives, where else would they dare to resist? Not to mention how many people were injured by the knives tied to the heads of a thousand bulls, how many people were hacked to death by five thousand stormtroopers, that is, the Yan army trampled on each other in its own busyness, and there were many casualties. From then on, Tian Shan took advantage of the victory to counterattack and recovered the seventy lost cities.