Please ask Zhu Geliang 36 stratagems, are which 36 stratagems, preferably with a detailed explanation of the thank you.

The original book according to the name of the arrangement, *** divided into six sets, that is, the victory plan, the enemy war plan, attack war plan, mixed war plan, and war plan, defeat war plan. The first three sets are used for the advantage, and the last three sets are used for the disadvantage. Each set contains six plans, total ***36 plans.

The first set of stratagems of victory

The first stratagem is to hide the truth from the sky and cross the sea

This refers to crossing the sea without letting the sky know in broad daylight. It describes great deception and lies, and all kinds of deception are used.

Originally

Preparedness is not a matter of intention1; commonness is not a matter of suspicion. The yin is within the yang, but not opposite to the yang. The sun, the tai yin ③.

Commentary

①Preparation is thorough, but one's will is slackened, and one's strength is weakened.

②Yin within the Yang, not in the pair of Yang: Yin and Yang is the base of China's ancient traditional philosophical and cultural thought, and its ideas envelop the universe, the dust of the finest, and affect all areas of ideology. The doctrine of yin and yang is to view all things in the universe as a unity of opposites, showing a simple dialectical thought. The words yin and yang have appeared in oracle bones and gold texts as early as in the past, but the doctrine of yin and yang as yin and yang was first advocated by Laozi, a native of Chu, the originator of Taoism, and was not put forward in the I Ching. Yin as used in this scheme refers to secrecy and concealment; Yang, to openness and exposure. Yin is within yang, not in opposition to yang, which in the art of war means that secret plans are often hidden in what is open, not in opposition to what is open.

3) Sun, Tai Yin: Tai, extremely, great. This sentence refers to the fact that very secret schemes are often hidden in very public things.

Interpretation

It is easier to be paralyzed when one is well-prepared; and one often loses one's guard when one is used to something. Secrets often lurk in the open, not outside the open. When the openly exposed is taken to the extreme, it becomes the most secret of the hidden.

Shallow Explanation

The so-called concealment of secrets is to deliberately confuse and deceive the opponent again and again by means of camouflage, so as to make the opponent relax his guard, and then to act suddenly in order to achieve the purpose of winning.

Accordingly

Conspiracy as such cannot be carried out in a secret place at a back time. Theft in the middle of the night, murder in a remote alley, the behavior of fools and common people, is not the work of a strategist. First of all, Pi please edge of the river defense people, every account of the occasion, will be set in Liyang, a large list of flags, camp curtains cover the field. Chen people thought that the big army to, all the country's soldiers and horses, both know that the defense account. The crowd is scattered, and then thought that often, no more equipment, and Ruobil with a large army Jinjiang, Chen people Fo Zhi Jue also. Because of the attack on southern Xuzhou, pulled out.

Analysis

"Conceal the sky to cross the sea" strategy can never be "deception", "cover the ears" or such as theft at night, dragging people's clothes and fur, secluded place to murder and so on. It is also not something that a man of strategy should do. Although, both of these to some extent contain deception, but its motive, nature, purpose is not the same, since it can not be confused. The use of this art of war, often focusing on people in the observation of dealing with world affairs, due to the practice of certain things and consciously and unconsciously produce omissions and slack, so can take advantage of the false and show false and hidden truth, cover up some kind of military action, seize the opportunity to win by surprise.

The source

See Yongle Canon - Xue Rengui's Conquest of Liao (薛仁贵征辽事略). In the seventeenth year of Emperor Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, the Imperial Emperor led a 300,000-strong army to ning the eastern lands. One day, the vast army came in to the sea, the emperor saw in front of just white waves, the sea is boundless, that is, to all the chief asked about the plan to cross the sea, the four looked at each other. Suddenly passed a near the sea of the magnates request to see the driving force, and said three hundred thousand over the Navy food this home industry has been uniquely prepared. The emperor was very happy, so he led all the officials to come to the seashore with the magnate. Only to see ten thousand households are surrounded by a colorful curtain, very tight. The old man of the mansion stepped backwards to the east to guide the emperor into the room. Inside the room, the Emperor was surrounded by embroidered curtains and colorful brocade, and the floor was covered with mattresses. All the officials were drinking wine, and the banquet was very enjoyable. Soon, the sound of the wind, waves like thunder, cups and lanterns tilted, personal shaking, a long time more than. Taizong alarmed, busy close ministers to open the colorful curtain to see, do not look at it, a look shocked. Full of all a clear sea water across the boundless end, where is what in the house of the great people as guests, the army has even sailed on the sea! It turned out that the villagers were newly recruited Xue Rengui, who was the mastermind behind the plan to "cross the sea by stealth". "In the art of war, this is a tactic to show falsehood and concealment, and it is used to camouflage a battle in order to achieve the unexpected result of the battle.

The Story

In 589 A.D., the Sui Dynasty was about to attack the state of Chen. The state of Chen was founded in 557 A.D. by Chen Baxian, who claimed the title of Emperor and established the capital city of Jiankang, which is today's Nanjing. Before the war, He Ruobi, a general of the Sui Dynasty, was ordered to take charge of the river defense and often organized the transfer of troops along the river. Each time the defense ordered the troops to concentrate in Liyang (that is, today's Anhui Province and the county around the place). Also specially ordered the three armies to concentrate, must be listed on the flag, all over the support police tent, publicity, in order to confuse Chen Guo. Chen really hard to distinguish between reality and reality, initially thought that the army will come, all the soldiers and horses in the country, ready to meet the enemy face to face. However, it was soon realized that it was Sui's guards who were on defense, not attacking, so Chen withdrew the troops assembled to meet the battle. So, five times and three times, the Sui army defense frequently, the trace is not revealed, Chen is also used to it, the vigilance is lax. Until the Sui general He Ruobi's army came across the river, Chen actually did not realize. The Sui army was like a heavenly army, catching the Chen soldiers off guard, and then they captured Chen's Southern Xuzhou (today's Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province) in one fell swoop.

The Second Strategy: Siege Wei to Save Zhao

This refers to the siege of the capital city of Wei to save Zhao. Now it is borrowed to refer to the tactic of forcing the enemy to withdraw its troops by encircling its rear.

Original Canon

***The enemy is better than dividing the enemy1, and the enemy's sun is better than the enemy's yin②.

Notes

①***The enemy is better divided than divided: ****, centralized. 分，分散，使分散。 Sentence: It is better to attack a centralized enemy than to try to disperse it and fight later.

② Enemy Yang is better than enemy Yin: enemy, verb, attack. The meaning of the sentence is that it is better to strike the enemy who is strong first than to strike the enemy who is strong later.

Interpretation

It is better to attack a strong and concentrated enemy army than to attack a strong enemy army after it has been dispersed and weakened. It is better to attack the strong part of the enemy army than the weak part of the enemy army.

Simplification

The so-called "Surrounding Wei to Save Zhao" means that when the enemy is strong, we should avoid a head-on duel with the strong enemy, and adopt a roundabout tactic, forcing the enemy to spread out his strength, and then seizing the enemy's weak points to launch an attack and kill the enemy.

Press Release

The treatment of soldiers is like the treatment of water: the sharp one avoids the sharp one, such as guiding and sparing; the weak one plugs the weak one, such as building a weir. Therefore, when Qi saved Zhao, Sun Tzu said to Tian Ji: "The one who solves messy disputes does not control the fist; the one who saves a fight, does not wrestle; the one who criticizes hyperactivity, and the one who prohibits the shape of the situation, will be solved by himself."

Analysis

Fighting against the enemy is like treating water: if the enemy is strong, we should avoid the impact, such as diverting the flow by diversion. If the enemy is weak, we should seize the opportunity to destroy it, just like building a dike and a weir to prevent the water from flowing away. Therefore, when Qi saved Zhao, Sun Tzu said to Tian Ji, "If you want to straighten out the messy threads and knotted ropes, you can only use your fingers to untie them slowly, not to clench your fist to beat them; if you want to resolve a dispute, you can only use your mouth to persuade the enemy, not to participate in it with your hands. To the enemy, one should avoid the truth and attack its key points, so that the enemy will be frustrated and restrained, and the siege can be lifted by itself."

The Story

In 354 BC, the state of Zhao attacked the state of Wei, forcing it to submit to it. Wei had originally entered the court of Wei, but now it changed to be pro-Zhao, King Hui of Wei could not help but be very annoyed, so he decided to send Pang Juan to crush Zhao. In less than a year, Pang Juan attacked Handan, the capital of Zhao. Handan was in great danger. The king of Zhao, Zhao Chenghou, tried his best to defend the city and sent his men to Qi for help (at this time, Zhao was allied with Qi). King Wei of Qi appointed Tian Ji as the main general and Sun Bin as the military advisor to lead the army to save Zhao. Sun Bin came up with a plan to paralyze the Wei army by asking Qi Cheng and Gao Tang, the most inept warriors in the army, to feign an attack on Xiangling, Wei's military stronghold. Instead, the army went around to plunge straight into Daliang. Pang Juan got the order from King Hui of Wei only to fire back to his country for rescue. The Wei army was a tired army, how could it beat Qi's elite army, which was waiting for labor. So they were defeated.

The third stratagem: To kill a man with a borrowed knife

It is a metaphor for not showing up oneself, but pretending to do harm by someone else's hand.

Originally

The enemy is already known, the friend is not yet determined①, so he leads the friend to kill the enemy without making any effort himself, and uses the Loss② to deduce the situation.

Note

①Friends undecided: "Friends" refers to military allies, i.e., people, groups or countries that can be allied with each other for a short time to leverage their strengths in a third party other than the enemy and us. Friendship is not determined, that is to say, the allies of the two sides of the main war, still holding a wandering, wait-and-see attitude, the idea of the uncertainty of the situation.

② "loss": from the "I Ching - loss" hexagram: "loss: there is Fu, Yuan Ji, no blame, can be chaste, Li YouYouYouYou to." Fu, credit. Yuan, big. Chastity, positive. Meaning, take the road of suppressing and saving to act, as long as there is sincerity, there will be great fortune, no mistakes, and fit in the right way, so that you can act as you wish. There is also the "Elephant" Loss Gua: "Loss: Loss of the lower and benefit the upper, its way up." It means that the relationship between "loss" and "benefit" is transformed. Borrowing the power of an ally to fight the enemy will inevitably cause the ally to suffer loss, but the ally's loss can be exchanged for his own benefit.

Interpretation

The situation of the enemy is clear, the attitude of the friend is not yet determined. Utilizing the power of the friend to destroy the enemy, one does not need to exert any power oneself. This is a strategy deduced from the trigram "Loss".

Summary

The so-called "killing by borrowing a knife" means that when dealing with the enemy, one does not take action oneself but uses the power of a third party to attack the enemy, so as to save one's own strength; and furthermore, one skillfully utilizes the internal contradiction of the enemy, so as to make them kill each other, so as to achieve the purpose of killing the enemy.

According to the saying

When the enemy's image has been revealed, and another force is more open and will do something, one should take advantage of this force to destroy the enemy. For example: Zheng Huan Gong will want to attack Kuai, the first to Kuai's heroes, good ministers, discernment and wisdom, bold men, all the names, choose Kuai's good land to bribe, for the name of the official title and the book, because of the altar set up in the place of the Kuo Mun and buried, provoked by the chicken satin, as if the alliance. Kuai Jun thought that the internal difficulties, and all kill their good ministers. Duke Huan attacked Kuai, and then took it. Zhuge Liang's and Wu refused Wei, and Guan Yu around Fan, Shroud, Cao wants to migrate, Yi and Jiang Ji said Cao said: "Liu Bei, Sun Quan outside the pro-insider, Guan Yu ambition, the right heart does not want to also. Can send people behind, Xu cut Jiangnan to seal the right, then the Fan siege since the release." Cao followed, and Yu was captured.

Story

Liu Xiu borrowed a knife to kill Li Tie.

The fourth stratagem is to wait for fatigue with ease

This refers to not striking first in battle, and to nurse one's strength against a fatigued enemy who has come from a long distance.

Originally

To trap the enemy's momentum1 and not to fight; to lose strength and gain flexibility2.

Comments

①To confine the enemy: to force the enemy into a situation of siege.

②Loss of strength and flexibility: from the I Ching. Loss". "Just", "soft" is a phenomenon of two relative things, under certain conditions relative to the two sides can be transformed. "Loss", the name of the trigram. This hexagram is a different hexagrams overlap (Dui under Burgundy). The upper hexagram is Burgundy, Burgundy is the mountain, the lower hexagram is Dui, Dui is the zephyr. On the mountain under the ze, meaning that the big ze erosion of the mountain root of the image, that is to say that there is water infiltration of the mountain, suppression of damage to the mountain, so the trigram is called loss". "Loss of rigid and soft" is based on this trigram about "rigid and soft push each other, and the main change" of the universal truth and law. This plan is based on the "loss" hexagrams of the truth, to "just" a metaphor for the enemy, to "soft" a metaphor for the enemy, meaning that the enemy can be used to trap the active defense, and gradually consume the enemy's vital forces, so that it is strong to become weak, and I can take advantage of the situation to make it weaker, and I can also use the situation to help the enemy. And I can make myself passive to active, do not have to use the direct attack method, can also win.

Press

This is the way to get to the enemy. The book of war says: "Whoever is in the battlefield first and waits for the enemy to escape, and whoever is in the battlefield later and tends to fight, labors. Therefore, the good fighter, to the people and not to the people." The book of war on the enemy, this is on the situation, then its purpose is not to choose the place to wait for the enemy; face in the simple to harness the complexity, in order to not change should be changed, in order to small changes should be big changes, in order to not move should be moved in order to small movement should be big movement, in order to the pivot should be ring also. For example: Guanzhong put the military order in the internal affairs, real and ready; Sun Bin ambushed Pang Juan in Maling Road; Li Mu guarded Yanmen for a long time without fighting, but real and ready to fight, and the war and broke the Xiongnu.

The Story

When Wu killed Guan Yu in the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei was furious and personally led an army of 700,000 to attack Wu. The Shu army attacked downstream from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and was in a position to take advantage of the high ground. Lift the army to the east, more than ten successive victories, the vigor is flourishing, up to Yiling, Roaring Pavilion area, deep into the hinterland of Wu five or six hundred miles. Sun Quan ordered Lu Xun, a young general, to lead 50,000 men to meet the battle. Lu Xun was well versed in the art of war, and correctly analyzed the situation, thinking that Liu Bei's vigor was growing and he was standing on high ground, which made it difficult for the Wu army to attack. So he decided to retreat strategically to wait and see what would happen. The Wu army completely withdrew from the mountains, so that the Shu army in the five or six hundred miles of mountainous area is difficult to unfold, but in a passive position, wanting to fight can not be, the soldiers fatigue intention to block. After holding each other for half a year, Shu army's fighting spirit was slack. Lu Xun saw the Shu army battle line stretches for hundreds of miles, the head and tail difficult to take care of, in the mountains and forests, camping, committed the taboo of the military. When the time was ripe, Lu Xun ordered a full-scale counterattack, catching the Shu army off guard. Lu Xun - a fire, burned seven hundred miles of Shu army camp, Shu army chaos, heavy casualties, panic retreat. Lu Xun created a famous battle example in the history of war in which he won many battles with few and attacked later.

The fifth strategy is to rob people while they are on fire

This refers to robbing people while they are on fire. Now it is a metaphor for taking advantage of someone's danger to make a profit.

Originally

The enemy's harm is great1; to take advantage of the situation is to take advantage of the situation, and to take advantage of the situation is to take advantage of the situation.

Comments

1) The enemy's harm is great: harm refers to the difficulties encountered by the enemy, a critical situation.

2 just decided to be soft: the language of the I Ching. Central" hexagram. Central, the name of the trigram. The hexagrams are stacked for the different hexagrams (dry under the top of the Tui). Upper hexagrams for Dui, Dui for Ze; lower hexagrams for Qian, Qian for the sky. The lower part of the trigram is Qian, and Qian is the sky. This means that there is a flood rising up to the sky. The Tuan of "Yang Yang" says, "Yang, decides. The strong resolves the soft." The word "decisive" means to dash off, to break away, to remove. Since Qian Gua is the first hexagram of the 64 hexagrams, and Qian is heaven, a chaste divination of great fortune and auspiciousness, the original meaning of this hexagram is to strive for the top, to be rigid and unyielding. The so-called just decided to soft, that is, the lower Qian this masculine hexagram, in the decision on the Dui this feminine hexagram. This plan is to "just" a metaphor for their own, to "soft" a metaphor for the enemy, the word to take advantage of the enemy's danger, on the momentum and the meaning of victory.

Accordingly

The enemy's harm is inside, then the land is robbed; the enemy's harm is outside, then the people are robbed; inside and outside the harm, the country is robbed. For example, the king of Yue took advantage of the fact that Wu's domestic crab and rice did not leave any seeds and planned to attack it, and then he took advantage of the fact that Wu's north meeting with the lords at Huangchi made his country empty, so he pounded it and won a great victory.

Story

Dorgon took advantage of the chaos to enter the customs.

The sixth stratagem: Sounding out the east and striking the west

This refers to the fact that while claiming to attack the east on the surface, one is actually attacking the west. It is a tactic to create a wrong impression to the enemy militarily.

Original

The enemy's will is disorganized ①, not to worry ②, Kun down against the upper ③ of the elephant, to take advantage of its involuntary.

Notes

①Enemy's ambition to disorganize the Dui: quoting the "I Ching． Cui" hexagram in the "Elephant" rhetoric: "is chaotic is Cui, its will is chaotic also" meaning. Dui, pining, that is, emaciation. It means that the enemy is confused and emaciated.

②Bu Yu: not intended to be, not expected.

3 Kun down to the top: Dui Gua for the superimposed hexagrams (Kun down to the top). Upper hexagrams for Dui, Dui for the Ze; under and for the Kun, Kun for the earth. There is water and the earth, flooding the image of the cross-flow.

This plan is the use of "kun down to the upper" of the trigrams of the elephant theory, the metaphor of the "enemy confused Zhui" and caused the mistakes of mixed, crisis situation, I have to seize the enemy this can not be self-control of the chaotic situation, maneuvering flexible use of the time when the east and the west, like to fight! Like away, not attacking and show it to attack, want to attack and show not to attack and other tactics, and further cause the enemy's illusion, surprise and win in one fell swoop.

Press

Western Han Dynasty, seven countries against, Zhou Yafu wall without fighting. Wu soldiers ran to the southeast of the wall, Yafu will prepare for the northwest; and the king of Wu's elite troops attacked the northwest, and then not allowed to enter. This enemy will not be chaotic, can also go. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhu Jun surrounded the Yellow Turbans in Wan, Zhang Wei set up barricades and raised the earth mountain to the city, sounding the drums to attack its southwest, the Yellow Turbans went to all the people, Jun will be his own 5,000 elite troops to cover its northeast, and then took advantage of the weakness to enter the city. This enemy will disorganize the collection, not to worry. However, the policy of sound east to attack the west, depending on the enemy will be chaotic or not for the determination. If you are in chaos, you will win; if you are not in chaos, you will lose yourself, and it is a dangerous strategy.

The Story

Hansin crossed the Yellow River with a wooden poppy.

The second set of enemy battle stratagems

The stratagem of being in an evenly matched position. Or leaping over the abyss.

The Seventh Scheme

To create something out of nothing

This means to say that something is there when it is not there in the first place. Now it describes making something out of nothing.

Originally

Bamboozling is also, not bamboozling, but actually what one is bamboozled by1. Shaoyin, Taiyin, and Sun②.

Notes

1) Deceit is not deception, but the truth of what one deceives: Deceit, fraud, deception. The word "real" is used here as a verb of meaning. The meaning of the sentence is: to use false images to deceive the other party, but not all the way to the end, but to let the other party take the deceived false image as the real image.

2) Shao-Yin, Tai-Yin, and Sun: the "yin" refers to the false image, and the "yang" refers to the true image. The meaning of the sentence is: to cover up the true image with small and large falsehoods.

Press Release

Nothing is shown to be something, so is deception. Deceit cannot be realized for a long time, so nothing can not end up being nothing. Nothing from nothing, then by the lies and true, by the virtual and real carry on, nothing can not defeat the enemy, born there is defeat the enemy carry on, such as: Linghu tide siege of yongqiu, zhang patrol bound song for more than a thousand people, phi black night, night let down the city; tide soldiers scramble to shoot, get arrows hundreds of thousands. Subsequent to the night let down people, Chao soldiers laugh, not equipment, is to die 500 cut Chao camp, burning base curtains, chased more than ten miles.

Story

Zhang Yi swindled Chu to help the strong Qin.

The Eighth Strategy: Concealment

Later, it was often used as a metaphor for carrying out some kind of activities in secret (mostly referring to the fornication between men and women).

Originally

Showing a move ①, it is advantageous to be still and have a master, "Benefiting the move and Xun ②".

Comments

①Showing with movement: to show, to show to someone. This refers to military actions such as frontal feints and feints to confuse the enemy.

②Yi move and Xun: words from the "I Ching. Benefits" hexagram. Benefit, the name of the trigram. This hexagram is a different hexagrams overlap (Zhen under the Sundance). The upper hexagram for the Sundance, Sundance for the wind; the lower hexagram for the Zhen, Zhen for the thunder. This means that the wind and thunder are agitating, and their momentum is increasing, so the name of the hexagram is "Benefit". With the meaning of the loss of the trigrams, opposing each other, constituting a unified group of disputes. The Tuan of the "Benefit Gua" says: "Benefit moves and Xun, the sun advances without boundaries." This is to say that the lower Zhen of the Benefit Trigram is thunder as movement, and the upper Xun is wind as smoothness; then, to move and be reasonable is to be born into the earth and grow, and the benefits are infinite.

This plan is to take advantage of the enemy by my "show to move" means of confusion, and I that is to take advantage of the weakness, in order to achieve military surprise victory.

Accordingly

Qi is out of the right, without the right can not be out of the strange. If you don't repair the inn road, you can't cross the border secretly. In the past, Deng Ai was in the north of Baishui; Jiang Wei and Liao Hua were in the south of Baishui, and they were camped there. Ai said that the generals: "We will make the pawns return, my army is small, the law will come to the ferry, but not to make a bridge, this Wei so that the chemical hold me. Make not to return. Will attack from the east to take Tao Cheng carry on." Ai that night dive army, to Tao Cheng. Wei fruit to cross. And Ai arrived first, according to the city, to not break. This is Jiang Wei is not good use of the secret Chencang plan; and Deng Ai aware of its sound east to attack the west of the plan.

The story

Hansin's strange army took Sanqin.

The Ninth Plan

Watching the fire across the river

Watching the fire on the other side of the river. It is a metaphor for watching the fire from the other side of the river without helping others in distress.

Originally

Yang is in disorder, and yin is in rebellion. When the violent and wanton ③ are in a plight, they will die of their own accord. Shun is the cause of the movement of Yu, and Yu is the cause of the movement of Shun.

Notes

①Yang is in disorder: Yang means open. The order is not in harmony with the order of the enemy. This refers to the intensification of internal contradictions within the enemy, so that it openly manifests chaos and tilting of order on many fronts.

② Yin to wait for the reverse: Yin, dark. Against, rebellious. This refers to the darkness of the enemy, waiting for the enemy to further deteriorate the situation.

3 violent and wanton: hostile, violent, fierce. The first is that the enemy is not a man of the world, but a man of the world, and he is a man of the world.

4) Shun to move Yu, Yu Shun to move: the language of the I Ching. Yu" hexagram. Yu, the name of the trigram. This hexagram is a different hexagrams overlap (Kun under Zhen on). The lower part of the hexagram for Kun for the ground, the upper part of the hexagram for Zhen for the thunder. It is thunder born in the earth, thunder comes out from the ground, breaks through the ground, and flies freely in the air. The Tuan of the "Yu Gua" says "Yu, just responding and aspiring, moving in a smooth manner." This means that the meaning of the Tuan is to move with the times, and because the meaning of the Tuan is to move with the times, heaven and earth can follow its will, and things will be done in a natural way.

This plan is the use of this hexagram to move with the philosophy, said to sit and watch the enemy's internal changes, I am not in a hurry to take the means of attacking and forcing, to follow the changes, "sit and watch the tigers", and finally let the enemy self-inflicted injury to commit suicide, and the time - to the time and I that is to sit and reap its benefits, a success.

According to

Behavioral gas floating Zhang, forced to be hit, retreat is far away, then the chaos since the rise. In the past, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi ran to Liaodong, and there were still thousands of riders in the crowd. In the beginning, the Liaodong governor Gongsun Kang, bullying far from serving. And Cao Cao broke the Wuwan, or said Cao Sui expedition, Shang brothers can be captured. Cao Cao said: "I make the beheading send Shang, Xi head to, do not bother soldiers." In September, the drill led troops from Liucheng also, Kang immediately beheaded Shang, Xie, passed its head. The generals asked the reason, fuck day: "they are afraid of Shang and so on, I am anxious, then and force; slow, then the phase diagram, the situation is also." Or said: this book of war fire attack way also, according to the book of war, "fire attack chapter" in the first paragraph of the law of fire attack, after the paragraph of the reasoning of prudent movement, and the intention of watching the fire from across the river, but also coincides with.

The story

Guo Jia decided to plan the extermination of Yuan.

The 10th stratagem: "A knife hidden in a smile"

It is a metaphor for a man who is kind on the outside but sinister on the inside.

Originally

To be trustworthy is to be at ease, to be secretive is to be intentional, to be prepared and then to move, and not to allow changes to take place. The hardness of the center and the softness of the outside are also ③.

Comments

1) Faith and peace: Faith, make faith. This means not to be suspicious.

2) Yin to figure: Yin, secretly.

3) softness: softness on the surface, but toughness and sharpness in the substance.

According to

The book of war: "The rhetoric is humble but better prepared for the person, into also; ...... no appointment and please and the person, the strategy also." Therefore, all the enemy's clever words and colors, are killing opportunities outside the dew. Song Cao Wei Zhi Wei state, the order is clear and solemn, the Western Xia people afraid of it. One day, Wei Fang played chess with guests, there will be thousands of rebel qua, died to run to the Xia territory. Beacons ride (horseback scouts) reported to the generals look at each other in dismay, the public laugh as usual. Xu said riding day. "My life, you do not show words." Western Xia people heard, thought the attack on their own, all killed. This is also used to adapt to the situation. If the matter of the Hook Tramp Fu Chai. The intention is to make it a long and safe carry on.

The story

Sui-Wen-Di's wise destruction of Southern Chen.

The Eleventh Plan: Li Dai Peach Stalemate

Originally, it refers to the peach and the plum **** in trouble. It is a metaphor for brothers who love and help each other. Later, it was used to refer to contradicting each other or suffering on behalf of others.

Originally

The situation is bound to be detrimental, and the loss of yin is used to benefit yang1.

Comments

1) Loss of yin to benefit yang: yin: this refers to something subtle and localized. Yang: this refers to things with overall significance, things that are global in nature. This is to say that in military strategy, if temporarily to a certain loss, loss as the cost of the ultimate victory, the commander should be decisive, to make some local, or temporary sacrifices, to preserve or strive for the overall, overall victory. This is the use of China's ancient yin and yang doctrine of yin and yang, the reason for mutual transformation and the development of military strategy.

Press Release

We have our own strengths and weaknesses in our enemy's situation. In war, it is difficult to achieve total victory, and the secret of victory or defeat lies in the comparison of strength and weakness, and there is the secret of winning the long by the short. For example, if a team of horses can defeat a team of horses, if a team of horses can defeat a team of horses, if a team of horses can defeat a team of horses, and so on: this is a trick that is unique to the soldier, and it can be measured by no other reason than that it can be measured.

The Story

The Three Forks used a plan to protect the orphans.

The twelfth stratagem was to take the sheep off the hands

The sheep was taken off the hands. It is a metaphor for taking advantage of a situation without making any effort to get it. Now it mostly refers to the stealing behavior of taking people's things by chance.

Originally

Small gaps must be taken advantage of in all cases1; small profits must be gained in all cases. Shaoyin, Shaoyang②.

Notes

①Weak gaps in all must be multiplied: Weak gaps, tiny openings, referring to some loopholes or negligence of the enemy.

②Shao Yin, Shao Yang: Shao Yin, this refers to the enemy's small omissions, Shao Yang, refers to our small gains. This sentence means that we should be good at catching the moment, waiting for the gap to pound the false, and change the enemy's small omissions into our small gains.

According to the saying

There are many gaps in the movement of a large army, and it is not necessary to win to take advantage of them. It is not necessary to win to take advantage of the situation.

Story

Chasing the abolition of the emperor Zheng He to the West.

The third set of attack and battle stratagems

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The stratagem of being in an offensive posture. Flying Dragon.

The thirteenth stratagem Strike the grass and frighten the snake

Strike the grass and frighten the snake hiding in the grass. Later, it was used to refer to not doing things carefully and acting cautiously, thus making the other party aware of it.

Originally

Suspecting to knock at the truth1, detecting and then moving; the compound is also the medium of yin2.

Notes

①Questioning to knock at the truth: to knock, to ask, to investigate. This means that if you find a doubtful point, you should investigate it thoroughly.

2) the repeaters, the medium of Yin: repeaters, repeatedly to do, that is, repeatedly to knock the real and then move. Yin, this refers to some hidden, temporarily not yet obvious or not exposed things, situations. Medium, medium. The meaning of the sentence is that repeatedly knocking and investigating, and then taking action accordingly, is actually an important means of discovering hidden enemies.

According to

The enemy's strength is not exposed, and the conspiracy is deep and deep, so we should not go in lightly, and we should explore their front. The book of war says: "Next to the army, there are dangerous obstacles, decorative wells, reed, mountains and forests, cataracts and aloes, we must be careful to re-explore, this ambush of treachery is also hidden."

Story

The Wei army defeated the Wood Gate Road.

The Fourteenth Plan: Returning the Soul by Borrowing a Corpse

Superstitious people believed that a person's soul could be resurrected by attaching itself to someone else's corpse after death. It was later used as a metaphor to describe something that had died or fallen away, and then reappeared under another name or in another form.

Original

Those who are useful are not to be borrowed1; those who cannot be used are to be borrowed2. To borrow what cannot be used and use it, I beg Tong Meng, and Tong Meng begs me③.

Notes

1) Those who are useful cannot be borrowed; meaning that many things in the world which seem to be useful are often not easy to be harnessed for use.

2) those who can not be used, ask to borrow: this sentence is the opposite of the ① sentence. That is, some seem to have no use for things, often sometimes I can also use it for their own role. As if I want to "return the soul" must also resort to the seemingly useless "corpse" of the reason. This is the art of war, that is to say, the soldier should be good at seizing all opportunities, and even look to be useless things, and strive to take the initiative, to strengthen themselves, and instantly use and turn unfavorable into favorable, and even turn defeat into victory.

③Bandit I seek Tong Meng, Tong Meng seeks me: language out of the I Ching. Meng" hexagram. Meng, the name of the trigram. This dispute is the overlap of different hexagrams (the lower kan on the burgundy). The hexagram on the Burgundy for the mountain, the lower hexagram for the water for the risk. Under the mountain is dangerous, grass and trees, so "Meng". This is the image of Meng Gua. Here, "Meng" refers to the childish and ignorant children who are looking for a teacher to teach them. The meaning of this sentence is not that I seek help from the ignorant, but that the ignorant seeks help from me.

According to

At the time of the change of generation, the people after the death of the country, the solid borrowing of the corpse to return to the realm of the meaning of it. All the people who sent their military power to the people and attacked the country on their behalf were also used in this way.

The story

The story of Zhang Chu Chen Sheng as king.

The Fifteenth Strategy

To make a tiger leave the mountain

To make a tiger leave the mountain. It is a metaphor for trying to lure a person away from his original place in order to make things easier.

Originally

Waiting for heaven to trap it1, using people to lure it2, and going unfavorably to connect it3.

Comments

1) Waiting for Heaven to trap us: Heaven refers to various conditions or situations of nature. This sentence means that on the battlefield we wait for the natural conditions or circumstances to be unfavorable to the enemy, and then I go to besiege him.

2) use people to lure: use artificial falsehoods to seduce him (referring to the enemy), so that he will give in to me.

3 to Jianlian: the language of the I Ching. Jian" hexagram. Jian, the name of the trigram. This hexagram is a different hexagrams overlap (Burgundy on the can). Upper hexagram for water, lower hexagram for Burgundy for the mountain. There is water flow on the mountain, the rocks are dangerous, the water flow is twisted, saying that it is not easy to walk the road, this is the hexagram of the hexagram. Jian, difficulty; Lian, hardship. The meaning of this sentence is: it is difficult to go to and fro, and it is difficult to walk on the road.

This plan uses this principle to say that if you meet a strong enemy on the battlefield, you have to make good use of the strategy, make the enemy leave the station by false images, lure him to my model, lose his advantage, make him difficult everywhere, difficult to move, from active to passive, and I will be surprised and win.

According to

The book of war says: "The next political attack on the city". If you attack, you will take your own defeat. The enemy has gained the geographical advantage, then not to compete for its land. And the enemy has the Lord and the potential: there is the Lord, is not the profit does not come to tend; potential, is not the sky and the people together, can not win. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Qiang led a crowd of thousands to cover up Yu Deng in the Bangu Valley of Team Cang. The Qiangs stopped their army and declared that they would send a letter to ask for troops, and that they would send them out when they arrived. When the Qiang heard about this, they were divided and copied the neighboring counties. Xiang because of his soldiers scattered, day and night into the road, and traveling more than 100 miles, so that the soldiers made two stoves, doubling the day, Qiang do not dare to force, and then greatly broken. The soldiers were sent out to lure them; those who marched both day and night used the time of day to trap them; those who doubled their stoves confused them with the personnel.

The story

Paraffin wax designed to get rid of the tyrant.

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