Ninety-seven The reasons for the defeat of the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Salhu

"What Aiqing said is wonderful, it's really a roundworm in my stomach, that's what I did back then, but my understanding of this Sun Tzu's Art of War is not as deep as Aiqing's, and it can be regarded as a mistake, hahaha." Huang Taiji smiled.

"Come on, go and invite Fan Wencheng to come, I want him to write down everything that Ingli said, one by one, can Aiqing talk about the battle of Salhu, this battle is a key battle that determines the fate of my Qing Dynasty, and for the Ming Dynasty, it is a defeat with a reversal of advantages." Huang Taiji said with great interest.

"This Salhu First World War Ming army violated the sixth chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War, that is, the virtual and real chapter. And I, in the Qing Dynasty, completely obeyed the essence of Sun Tzu's Art of War."

"The minister will explain first, the content of the virtual and real chapters."

1. Sun Tzu said: Those who are in the battlefield first and treat the enemy will be killed, and those who will be in the battlefield and will go to war later. Therefore, those who are good at fighting will cause others but not others. He who can make the enemy self-defeating, also benefit; Whoever can prevent the enemy from reaching will also do harm. Therefore, the enemy can work, be hungry, and be safe.

2. Go out of your way, go unexpectedly. Those who travel thousands of miles without working will also walk in a land where no one is man; Those who attack must take it, attack what they do not defend. Those who defend and must be fortified, defend what they must attack. Therefore, those who are good at attacking, the enemy does not know what they are defending; Those who defend well, the enemy does not know what they are attacking. Few, as far as invisible; God is divine, as for silence, so it can be the enemy's command.

3. And then the uncontrollable, rush to the void; Those who retreat and cannot be chased, and they are not able to reach quickly. Therefore I want to fight, although the enemy is high and deep, and he who has to fight with me will be saved by attacking him; I do not want to fight, although I draw the ground and defend it, the enemy cannot fight with me, and he will do what he wants.

4. Therefore, if I am invisible to a man, then I am an enemy. I am designed for one, and the enemy is divided into ten, and I attack one of them with ten. Then I have many enemies and outnumbered, and those who can defeat the outnumbered with many will make an appointment with the fighters. The place where we are fighting is unknown, and if we are unknowable, the enemy has many people, and if the enemy has many people, there are few people we have to fight. Therefore, the front is the back of the widow, the back of the preparation is the front of the widow, the left is the right of the widow, the right of the left is the left, everything is prepared, then everything is not widowed. The widow is also the one who prepares people; and the multitude, and the one who prepares himself.

5. Therefore, if you know the place of war, you can know the day of war, and you can fight for thousands of miles; If you don't know the place of war, you don't know the day of war, then the left can't save the right, the right can't save the left, the front can't save the back, the back can't save the front, and the far ones are dozens of miles, and the near ones are several miles! With my degree, although there are many soldiers of the Yue people, it is also beneficial to win! Therefore, it is said: victory can also be done. Although the enemy is numerous, there can be no fight.

6. Therefore, we know the gains and losses, the reason of movement and stillness, the form and the place of death and life, and the angle and the shortcomings. Therefore, the form of the soldier is extreme, as for the invisible. If it is invisible, it cannot be seen in the depths, and the wise cannot plan. Because the form is better than the many, and the man cannot know. Everyone knows the form of my victory, but I don't know the form of my victory. Therefore its victory is no longer over, but should be in infinity.

7. The image of the soldier is water, the shape of water, avoiding the high and tending to the bottom, the shape of the soldier, avoiding the real and hitting the false. The water is controlled by the land, and the soldiers are defeated by the enemy. Therefore, the army is impermanent, and the water is impermanent. Those who can win due to the change of the enemy are called gods. Therefore, the five elements are impermanent, the four times are impermanent, the days are short and long, and the months are dead and alive. ”

The content of this fictional passage is understood as follows: "

1. Sun Tzu said that those who arrive at the battlefield in advance to wait for the enemy army are energetic and comfortable, and those who arrive at the battlefield and rush into battle are passively tired. Therefore, the good fighter mobilizes the enemy and never is mobilized by the enemy. To be able to mobilize the enemy to come to the battlefield I envisioned is to lure him with benefits; The fact that the enemy cannot come to the battlefield before us is the result of setting up obstacles and obstructing them from all sides. Therefore, if the enemy is at ease, he can fatigue him; If the enemy has enough food, he can make him scarce; If the enemy is unmoved, he will be compelled to act.