To be in the world, what we pay attention to is flexibility. If you have a flexible mind, you can seize any opportunity and you will succeed at any time. That's what success is. It is impossible to imagine that a simple-minded person who always misses the moment will create some earth-shattering miracles.

□ took the opportunity to enter, and Li Zicheng took Luoyang lightly

When there is an opportunity, it is necessary to take action.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the common people lived in dire straits, and they rose up one after another.

In July 1640, Zhang Xianzhong led the peasant rebel army into Sichuan, and the main army of the Ming Dynasty all entered Sichuan to encircle and suppress, and the defense of Henan became very fragile. Li Baicheng, the leader of the peasant rebels, took advantage of this opportunity to rapidly increase his strength, and successively won victories in conquering Yiyang, Yanshi, Xin'an and other cities.

Yiyang, Yanshi and Xin'an belong to the periphery of Luoyang, an important town in western Henan. Zhu Chang, the blessed king of the Ming Dynasty, lived in Luoyang. Zhu Changxun's mother is the love of Zhu Yijun of the Divine Sect, Zhu Yijun loves and Wu, and he is also very fond of Zhu Changxun, and rewards Zhu Chang with a large amount of gold and silver property. Zhu Changxun has countless gold and silver, but he is extremely stingy, not only the people of Luoyang City are resentful, but even the soldiers in his house are also dissatisfied from time to time. Most of the army's troops were transferred to the four sides to pacify Zhang Xianzhong, and there were not many soldiers in Luoyang City, so Luoyang City became an important town with "weak soldiers and rich cities" at this special moment.

Of course, Li Zicheng will not easily let go of the great opportunity to capture Luoyang City. In the first month of 1641, Li Zicheng led the rebel army to Luoyang City and opened the siege.

At the moment of life and death, Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, only cared about himself, mobilized his own soldiers to protect the treasury, and ignored the war in the city. The generals defending the city repeatedly asked Zhu Changxun to distribute silver to reward the soldiers defending the city, and Zhu Changxun was ruthless in allocating 3,000 taels of silver, but the only 3,000 taels of silver was swallowed up by the general soldier Wang Shaoyu and others. Zhu Changxun reluctantly allocated 1,000 taels, and the soldiers fought endlessly because of the uneven distribution, and finally developed into a change. The soldiers tied up the soldier Wang Yunchang, burned down the tower, and opened the door to welcome the rebels into the city. Seeing that the general trend had gone, the general soldier Wang Shaoyu jumped from the city in panic and fled, and King Fu also tried to escape from the city, but he didn't run far before he was captured by the rebels. The army opened the granary of King Fu to help the people in the city, and the city was jubilant, and Li Zicheng easily captured Luoyang City at a very small price.

Li Zicheng seized the opportunity, took active action, and easily took Luoyang, making good preparations for the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty.

□ create an opportunity for Xie An to retreat from the enemy

Opportunities are not always there. But opportunities can also be created.

In 370 AD, the Former Qin in the north destroyed the Qianyan, and then destroyed the Qianliang, and captured Xiangyang and other places in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Former Qin Fujian thought that the time had come to dominate the world, and recruited 900,000 men and horses from all over the country, advancing by land and water, and killing the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south.

Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Yao, hurriedly appointed Prime Minister Xie An as the governor of the Great Metropolis and led his troops to attack the Former Qin army. Xie An had the city government in his chest and was not afraid of danger, he appointed Xie Xuan as the forward governor, and selected Xie Shi to act as the governor of the capital to command the whole army to fight.

Fu Jian relied on his overwhelming strength to conquer Shouyang in one fell swoop, and then sent the general Zhu to the Jin camp to persuade him to surrender. Zhu Xu surrendered after the defeat of the former Qin army 4 years ago, and now he returned to the Jin camp, not only did not persuade him to surrender, but completely told the Jin army about the deployment of the former Qin's forces. According to the information provided by Zhu Xu, Xie Shi sent the fierce general Liu Jiaozhi to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to cross Luoshui and attack the former Qin army in Luojian, destroying 15,000 enemies, and the morale of the Jin army was greatly boosted. Xie Shi and Xie Xuan commanded the Jin army to advance to the east bank of the river and confront the former Qin army.

Fu Jian has a large number of men and horses, and there are difficulties in logistics and supply, so he wants to fight a quick battle; The Eastern Jin Dynasty was worried that the follow-up troops of the former Qin would join the former army, and the pressure would increase, and they also wanted to take advantage of the victory to attack the former Qin army. Therefore, the two sides agreed: the Qin army retreated a little, gave up a place, and let the Jin army cross the river and start a decisive battle.

Fu Jian's wishful thinking was: when the Jin army had an unstable foothold on the shore, he would rush with cavalry and annihilate the Jin army.

Before the decisive battle began, Fu Jian ordered the Former Qin army on the front line of Weishui to retreat slightly and let the army cross the river. At the beginning, the former Qin army still retreated in an orderly manner, but in a moment, everyone was afraid of falling behind, and the formation was immediately chaotic.

Zhu Xu, who had long been lurking in the rear army, took the opportunity to command his troops to shout in unison:

"The Qin army is defeated! The Qin army is defeated! "The former Qin army didn't know the truth and thought that it was really defeated, and the fake retreat suddenly turned into a real rout, and thousands of soldiers rushed back like a tide. Fu Jian's younger brother, the general of the cavalry, Fu Rong, killed several retreating soldiers in an attempt to stop the retreat of the Qin army, but not only did not stop the retreat of the Qin army, but even the men and horses were knocked down by the men and horses behind and died in the chaos.

Xie Shi and Xie Xuan saw it in their eyes, how could they miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and immediately commanded 80,000 cavalry to take the lead in the Qin army, and the Jin army behind rushed up and chased after them. The former Qin army was defeated like a mountain, and it could not be retracted.

Fu Jian fled north in panic, and along the way, the rumors were loud, and the 900,000 army was wiped out, and the former Qin was in a slump from then on, and it didn't take long for it to perish.

Shea An succeeded in creating an opportunity to defeat the enemy army.

□ broke the cauldron and sunk the boat, and the Chu army defeated Zhang Han

Courage is invincible.

In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, Qin II Huhai sent the general Zhang Hantong to lead a large army to defeat the rebel armies of Chen Sheng and Wu, and then crossed the Yellow River to the north, attacked the Zhao state, and surrounded Zhao Wangxi in Julu (southwest of present-day Pingxiang, Hebei). King Xie of Zhao hurriedly asked for help from the state of Chu, and the king of Chu Huai sent Song Yi as the general, Xiang Yu as the second general, and Fan Zeng as the last general to lead the army to rescue the state of Zhao.

Song Yi knew that Zhang Han was a brave and good veteran, and he did not dare to fight with Zhang Han. After the aid arrived in Anyang (now southwest of Anyang, Henan), Song Yi did not move his troops and stayed for 46 days. Xiang Yu said to Song Yi: "Saving soldiers is like fighting fires, if we don't send troops, Zhao Guo will be destroyed by Zhang!" Song Yi didn't take Xiang Yu in his eyes at all, and said to Xiang Yu: "Charging into battle, I'm not as good as you; Strategize, you're not as good as me. And he gave the order: "If anyone acts rashly and disobeys the order, he will be beheaded!" Xiang Yu couldn't bear it anymore, drew his sword and killed Song Yi, acted as the general himself, and ordered Generals Tu Bu and Pu to lead 20,000 horses across the Zhanghe River to aid Zhao State.

Dui Bu and General Pu successfully cut off the grain route of the Qin army, but they were unable to relieve the siege of Zhao Wang Xielu, and Zhao Wang Xie sent someone to Xiang Yu for help again. Xiang Yu personally led the whole army across Zhang, and after arriving at the north bank, Xiang Yu suddenly ordered: all the ferries should be scuttled, all the rice pots should be beaten, all the barracks should be burned, and everyone should only bring three days' dry food. The soldiers were afraid of Xiang Yu's majesty, and no one dared to ask more. Xiang Yu said to the soldiers: "We can only advance this time, not retreat, and retreating is a dead end!" The soldiers saw that there was no way to retreat, and everyone was determined to fight to the death with the Qin army. As a result, Xiang Yu led the Chu army to be ten, nine battles and nine victories, Zhang Han's general Su Yong was killed, Wang Li was captured, and Shijian self-immolated, Zhang Han fled in embarrassment, and the siege of Julu was resolved.

The Battle of Julu played the prestige of the Chu army. Since then, Xiang Yu has climbed to the peak of power step by step and has become the world-famous "Overlord of Western Chu".

Xiang Yu used superhuman courage to break the cauldron and defeat the Qin army of Zhang Han's department.