Sun Tzu's Art of War: Military Battles:

Sun Tzu said: All the methods of using military will be ordered by the king, and it will be difficult to fight for the army by gathering the crowd and making peace. Those who are in difficulty in military struggle should take detours as straight, and take adversity as benefits.

Therefore, it is a detour, and the temptation is profitable, and the descendants will send it, and the ancestors will come, and those who know the right plan are also. Military contention is for profit, and military contention is dangerous. It is not enough to raise the army and compete for profit, and if the army is commissioned and strive for profit, it will be a heavy donation. Therefore, the roll of the armor and the trend, day and night are not everywhere, double the road, a hundred miles and fight for profit, then capture the three generals, the strong first, the tired later, its law eleven and come; Fifty miles and fight for profit, then the general will be on the top, and his law will be half to; Thirty miles and for profit, two-thirds to.

It is the old army that will die if it has no baggage, die if it has no food, and die if it has no accumulation. Therefore, those who do not know the conspiracy of the princes cannot make friends; Those who do not know the shape of mountains and forests, dangers, and frustration cannot march; If you don't use a village guide, you can't get the location. Therefore, the soldiers are established by deception, moved by profit, and changed by dividing and making peace. Therefore, it is as fast as the wind, as slow as a forest, as invading as fire, as immobile as a mountain, as difficult as a cloud, and as moving as a thunderstorm. Plundering the countryside and dividing the people, dividing the land and profits, and suspending power. The prophet's roundabout plan wins, and the law of this military struggle is also.

"Military Politics" said: "Words do not hear each other, so they are golden drums; I don't see each other, so I raise the flag for it. "The man who drums and carries the flag, so the eyes and ears of one person are also. If people are single-minded, the brave must not advance alone, and the cowardly must not retreat alone. Therefore, there are many golden drums in the night battle, and there are many flags in the day battle, so the eyes and ears of the people have become people.

The three armies can win the spirit, and the generals can win the heart. It is so vigorous and sharp, lazy during the day, and return at dusk. Those who make good use of soldiers, avoid their sharp energy, and hit their laziness, and those who control their qi are also. To treat chaos, to wait for the uproar, this to cure the heart. Treat the near and far, wait for the labor, wait for the hungry, and treat the hungry with the power. There is no invitation to the banner of righteousness, there is no battle of the dignified array, and this is also a changemaker.

Therefore, the method of using soldiers, do not go to Gaoling, do not reverse the back hills, do not follow the north, do not attack the sharp pawns, do not eat the bait, do not stop the division, besiege the division, and do not force the poor, this method of using soldiers.

Ten kilometers south of Xingyang, in Wanshan, Haihu sits quietly in front of a high mountain and closes his eyes and meditates. It has been more than a month since he came to Qin Ziying. At this time, the cold winter has passed, Xingyang has just passed the New Year, and the Central Plains is in the moment of the spring breeze.

The breeze caresses the hills.

The sea tiger sat here for five days, and during his time in Qin Ziying, he was excited like a tiger in the mountains and forests, full of knowledge that could be learned, and he also experienced two battles to defend the city. The **** fought with Qin Qiong, because Qin Qiong was just trying to use all his strength, and under the sea tiger's full strength, the two of them did not win or lose, but the sea tiger knew that he was losing a chip, because he was under Qin Qiong's whirlpool-like attack, his heart was like numbness, and Qin Qiong did not use all his strength under the pressure of that momentum.

For this, Haihu knew that he had no mental method, and he was really helpless.

Qin Qiong admired the sea tiger very much, and organized him into his own guard battalion, Qin Qiong's guard battalion has a total of more than 500 people, each of whom has martial arts, and all of them are cavalry, and the sea tiger is the commander of this guard battalion.

In the barracks, Haihu learned not only a variety of battle formations, but also a variety of arms and battle formations with the cooperation of the phalanx, as for his unfamiliar riding skills, Haihu also studied seriously with the veteran oil in the cavalry, although it has not yet reached the realm of the unity of men and horses, but it has made a substantial leap compared to his own horseback riding practice, after all, he is now a cavalry, and he is not good at riding.

Because Haihu is very studious, Qin Qiong also attaches great importance to him, personally passing on his art of war, and the two often take the map to deduce virtual battles together, which makes Haihu have a clear understanding of the art of war.

But after learning the art of war, he had a new understanding, and he felt that the way of his mind was in the art of war, so he came to the mountains to meditate and practice.

"It is as fast as the wind, as slow as a forest, as invading as fire, as immobile as a mountain, as difficult as a cloud, and as moving as a thunderstorm."

Haihu silently recited these words, and said to himself: "It is as fast as the wind: the army moves as fast as the wind." Its Xu Rulin: When the army moves slowly, it is like a strict forest, solemn and quiet. Plunder like fire: When attacking the enemy, it is like a fire, and it is fierce. Immovable as a mountain: When the troops are stationed, they are like mountains, unshakable. Difficult to know as cloudy: when hidden, it is like a cloudy cloud covering the sky and not seeing the sun, moon and stars. Move like thunder: Action, like a thunderbolt, brave and swift, so that the enemy has no way to retreat. ”

For these words and the meaning of the use of soldiers, Haihu appreciates the sentence that does not move like a mountain, and the reason is the same as his induction of the second picture of the longevity formula, he feels that his state of mind is that he is not moving like a mountain.

Didn't Jin Lao's Jiuyang Gong say?

It's strong by it, I'm blowing the hill from the breeze!!

Another example is the Buddhist family's wind-blown prayer flag, who moves?

A monk said, "The wind moves;

A monk said, "Move."

The two argued.

Master Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, stood up and said, it is your heart that is moving!

The sea tiger faces the wall of the high mountain, and his mind is gradually immersed in this heaven and earth, and various scenes continue to evolve in his mind, a high mountain, the wind intrudes on it, the rain wets it, the thunder ravages it, the fire burns it, the single mountain is the mountain, it is unmoved, and it always stands between the heaven and the earth.

Immovable as a mountain??

The heart is like a mountain, why not be afraid of shaking, because the mountain is not moving, so it does not move at all. No matter how windy and rainy, no matter how you lightning, thunder, and mountain fires, my heart is as strong as a mountain, and I am not moving like a mountain.

Constantly thinking, suddenly a thought flashed in Haihu's mind, opened his eyes and looked at the mountains in front of him, as if looking at himself, and muttered: "You are also me, I am also you, my heart is like you, and I am not moving." ”

At this time, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came, and it was actually a Qin Ziying's personal guard who rode quickly on horseback, and when he saw the sea tiger, he quickly stopped his horse and jumped down and knelt down on one knee and said: "Lan Wu Chang, the general told you to go back, the Wagang army is coming to attack the city." ”

"Got it."

Haihu's eyes lit up, and he got up and rode back with the flying snow.

Outside Xingyang City, there is a sea of people.

There is a handsome flag on the head of the city, but the other party hangs the Zhai flag and the Li flag.

Qin Qiong and Haihu stood on top of the city, Qin Qiong looked at the phalanx in front of him and said, "Ah Hai, what do you think." ”

Haihu's heart was shocked, and he almost said: General, I think there is something strange about this matter, because their conversation is quite a bit of Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang's sense of déjà vu.

Looking at the phalanx of the Wagang army below, the cavalry swept the formation on both flanks, in the middle were rows of arrow blocking vehicles, and behind were the infantry carrying ladders and pushing siege rams, and from a distance, there were 20,000 people in the black press.

He could see that there were only a thousand cavalry on either side of the phalanx, five hundred on the left and right. Originally, the Wagang infantry had the largest number of infantry, and the 1,000 cavalry was still pieced together, not for the purpose of fighting, but to deter Zhang Xutuo's elite cavalry. Therefore, after Li Mi seized the power of Wagang, on the one hand, he was plotting Luoyang, and on the other hand, he was planning the idea of Pegasus Ranch, isn't it just a lack of horses?

In this era, siege is undoubtedly the best for infantry, but it is the best place for cavalry to run thousands of miles to fight in the open field.

"It seems that this is all Wagang's belongings."

Haihu said: "In the previous siege, only the infantry rushed up, and they fled under the rain of arrows that broke through us, but this time they even took out the siege equipment, it seems that Zhai Rang and Li Mi are planning to attack and fight with us to the end." ”

"Not bad."

Qin Qiong nodded and said, "The marshal is waiting for this battle, I'm afraid that after today's battle, the Wagang army will no longer have the strength to attack the city." ”

As the wheels of those bulky arrow blocking carts crushed over the wilderness, making a squeaking sound, and when they were pushed down within the range of the bow and arrows, Qin Qiong gave an order, and the thousands of archers on the city wall immediately let go of the bows that were already full in their hands, and thousands of sharp arrows immediately poured down from the city wall!

Although most of the arrows were blocked by the rows of arrow-blocking carts, there were still a small number of arrows that hit the soldiers carrying the ladder from a position where the shield could not cover them. Countless soldiers fell to the ground amid screams, some were pierced by arrows and died, some were shot in vital parts, and fell to the ground without dying for a while, and then rolled and wailed in the wilderness.

All of a sudden, the whole wilderness was filled with wailings!!

The first round of arrow rain was soon followed by a second round.

The Wagang Army was originally composed of a group of people who had no way to live, otherwise they would not have joined the Righteous Army. At this moment, none of them were afraid to slow down or run back, they were so brave to push the arrow cart and try to get close to the city wall, although the companions around them kept being shot by arrows and fell to the ground, they threw a sad look at the most, and then immediately turned around and gritted their teeth and shot at the Great Sui soldiers at the head of the city with a fierce and angry gaze, pushing the arrow cart with all their strength and trying to move forward.

"General, let them attack the city, there are arrow blocking vehicles in front of them, it's too wasteful of arrows."

Haihu said: "Our Xingyang garrison is fully stocked, what can we do if we attack them." ”

Qin Qiong nodded, and the other party saw that there was no movement on the city wall, and the Wagang army accelerated the pace of attack even more.

With the earth-shattering sound of drums, the bulky archery cart was finally pushed close to the city wall, and at this point the archery was no longer functional, because the archers on the city wall could already see the siege soldiers hiding behind the archery almost vertically.

Qin Qiong gave an order, and the city immediately poured down dense bows and arrows again, and countless bows and arrows made a "whoosh" sound of breaking through the air, pressing down like dense rain, and at the same time, one by one the lit oil jars were also thrown down from the city wall.

In the face of the rain of arrows, some of the Wagang soldiers hid behind the arrow blocking carts, and some immediately raised thick cowhide shields to barely support them, but those fire jars smashed on the shields and immediately shattered, stirring up sparks and splashing everywhere, and the companions around them were suddenly affected by the fish pond.

At this time, the team carrying the ladder behind quickly rushed forward, and the sergeant defending the city immediately spotted the huge threat, and almost all the bows and arrows were fired at the team carrying the ladder. Under the dense rain of arrows, people kept screaming and falling, the ground in front of the city wall was dyed into patches of seeping crimson, the oil jar smashed on the ground and the flames were everywhere, igniting the ladder, the corpses of countless Wagang soldiers were lying on the ground, and many people were not dead for a while, desperately trying to climb forward.

Among the Wagang army besieging the city, the team carrying the ladder was the most seriously injured, under the threat of the rain of arrows, nearly half of them had been killed and wounded, and many of the remaining people were wounded, but as long as a soldier carrying the ladder fell, there were other soldiers next to him who immediately rushed up to fill his position, and some even used their bodies to rush up to block the companion who carried the ladder, one person fell down with an arrow, and immediately two more pounced!

Qin Qiong gritted his teeth when he saw it, he really couldn't think of why these thieves had such frightening bravery and toughness. Finally, ten huge ladders were finally erected on the city wall.

The Sui army defending the city immediately tried their best to push the ladder down under the city wall, and some Wagang soldiers bit the steel knife in their mouths, and they had climbed halfway there, and as the ladder was pushed down by the other party, they fell from mid-air with a scream and fell heavily to the ground. There were a number of stones falling down from the top of the city, and many of the Wagang soldiers had climbed halfway up the ladder, and they were immediately hit by the stones that fell head-on, and then fell down screaming.