When I was drunk, I lit up the lamp and read the sword. I dreamed of the trumpet blowing company camp. Eight hundred miles away, my subordinates were burning, the sound of fifty strings turning over the wall, and the autumn order of troops on the battlefield.
The horse is so fast, the bow is like a thunderbolt. It has solved the affairs of the king and won the fame in life and death. What a pity it happened in vain!
——"Po Zhenzi: Compose a heroic poem for Chen Tongfu" by Xin Qiji [Song Dynasty]
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On this day, Wang Zhongsi broke down the key points of marching, the methods of setting up camps, and the command of hanging battles one by one, and taught them to Bai Fu.
Wang Zhongsi said: "Training, marching, and camping are part of the battle, and they can even determine victory or defeat more than fighting.
Marching is war. Fighting relies not only on bows, crossbows, spears and shields, but also on the legs of soldiers. There are narrow roads in the mountains and dog gates. If one man guards it, a thousand people can't do it. The general who leads the army can only move with a map of the entire war zone in his head.
A roundabout plan will bring divine soldiers from heaven. Those who do not know the terrain of mountains, forests, dangers and swamps cannot march.
'The mountains are close to the valleys, and life is at a high place. There is no fighting, and the army is in the mountains.' This is the key to marching in the mountains. When marching through the mountains, you must be close to the valleys. The valleys are close to water and grass, which is convenient. There are water sources and grass.
Can be used for grazing.
Mountains are surrounded by valleys, so be close to the valley, but do not camp at the bottom of the valley. Camp at a high place facing the sun. A high place has a wide field of vision, making it easy to defend. Camping at the bottom of a valley is easy to be surrounded and attacked from a high position.
The sunny side is dry and warm, so soldiers are less likely to get sick if they set up camp here. The camp is damp, dirty, and diseases are rampant, which will have a greater impact on morale than a bitter battle.
Of course, many military skills must be learned and applied flexibly, and cannot be copied by rote.
During the Later Han Dynasty, the Qiang people rebelled, and General Fubo Ma Yuan went to conquer them. The Qiang people held fast on the mountain, and Ma Yuan occupied the valley, seizing its water and grass, and held on without fighting. The Qiang people had their water sources cut off, their food and grass were exhausted, and they were starving and hungry, so they surrendered without a fight.
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"For a fort, you must first divide your troops to guard the pass, raise livestock, collect firewood, and then settle down." When camping, you must divide your troops to guard in a dangerous place, and then you can herd sheep and horses, collect firewood, and cook food.
Setting up a camp is like forming a formation, "when it stops, it is a camp, and when it moves, it is a formation." Within the large formation, there must be small formations. Within the large camp, there are also small camps. The surrounding armies are surrounded by star chains of each camp. The commander's tent
, located in the middle, surrounded by various camps, zigzagging and facing each other, like the stars in the Milky Way.
The distance between each camp is a hundred paces, and the road is connected. The open space in the middle is wide enough for the formation. The barriers are facing each other, which is enough to save each other with bows and crossbows.
At the intersection in the camp, set up a small sentry fort, put up firewood and dig a secret tunnel. If the enemy robs the camp at night, you can let the enemy into the camp. The sentry will attack the enemy, and all the camps will respond, and the bonfires will be lit, bright as day. The archers and crossbowmen will ascend high.
When he looked at it, he saw that his own soldiers were standing in formation, and the soldiers running around were all enemy soldiers. The crossbows and arrows were fired in unison, destroying all the powerful enemies.
Prime Minister Zhuge's military camp plan is like a dragnet, which is exactly the lost map of Fenghou's Eight Formations of War Art. After the Shu army retreated, Sima Yi looked at his camp and couldn't help but sigh: "Prime Minister Zhuge, he is a genius in the world!"
From now on I will never dare to compete with Zhuge Wuhou in a direct decisive battle."
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After talking about marching and camping, Bai Fu still wanted to ask General Zhongsi to explain how to command the army. The example of Fu Jian's army lacking a command system that led to a tragic defeat left a deep impression on Bai Fu. When it came time for the master to answer questions, Bai Fu
This is the first question.
General Wang Zhongsi was obviously very satisfied with Bai Fu's question. Asking this question showed that Bai Fu gradually understood the essence of commanding the army. General Zhongsi responded: "
The book "Military Government" says: 'If you don't hear each other's words, they are golden drums; if you look at them but you don't see each other, they are banners.'
The army was so large that they couldn't hear each other, so they set up gongs and drums for command. The drums were beaten to attack, the gold was sounded to withdraw the troops, and the trumpets and horns were also used to convey different orders.
The armies cannot see each other, so they set up flags for command. The flags have different colors and patterns, and are matched with semaphores to convey different enemy situations and instructions.
"The golden drums and flags are the eyes and ears of one person. Since people are single-minded, the brave cannot advance alone, and the timid cannot retreat alone. This is the method of using the crowd."
With the golden drum banner, the soldiers can act in unison and train the three armies like an arm and a finger. The brave soldiers cannot move forward alone without hearing the order to advance; the timid ones cannot retreat without authorization without the order to retreat. When advancing,
Those who refuse to advance or retreat will be beheaded."
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After General Zhongsi taught him the essentials of marching and camping, in order to strengthen his impression, Bai Fu followed General Zhongsi again and entered the secret realm of the military domain to practice.
What we were watching this time was the battle that made Han Xin famous - the Last Stand.
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After returning from watching the battle, General Wang Zhongsi struck while the iron was hot and used Han Xin's battle of Jingxing to start his lecture on military strength.
"Every fighter relies on perfect combination and wins with surprises. Therefore, those who are good at creating surprises are as endless as heaven and earth, and as endless as rivers. The end and the beginning are like the sun and the moon. The death and resurrection are like the four seasons."
After explaining this art of war, seeing Bai Fu react sharply and thoughtfully, General Zhongsi had a thought in his mind and said: "The art of war and martial arts have many similarities:
Perfect and wonderful, infinite like heaven and earth, inexhaustible like rivers, ending and beginning again, like the sun and moon; dying and resurrecting, like the four seasons. It goes on and on, without beginning or end, endlessly.
In a fight, the transition between breathing is the most dangerous moment. At this time, the old strength has been exhausted and the new energy has not been released. Once attacked by the opponent, the breathing rhythm will be unbalanced and the opponent will be defeated without attacking.
If breathing is a perfect complement to each other, exhaling is inhaling, and inhaling is exhaling, and it will end and start again, and it will be reborn after death, and there will be no loopholes. In the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty, the "immortal seal" of the demon sect leader who dominated the world was based on this.
It was created. It is a pity that it was lost and later generations could not get a glimpse of its full picture."
A flash of light flashed in Bai Fu's eyes, and he was quite touched. It felt like there was a layer of window paper that could be broken with a poke. If he understood this principle, he could also create the Immortal Seal.
Wang Zhongsi nodded secretly, without interrupting Bai Fu's thinking, and continued to inspire:
"The sound is no more than the five notes of Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu, but it can play all kinds of music. The color is no more than green, yellow, red, white and black, but it can create endless colors. The taste is no more than sour, sweet, bitter,
It has five flavors: spicy and salty, but it can cook endless delicious food.
Swordsmanship consists of just a few variations of stabbing, cutting, slashing, slashing, splitting, and spinning. When combined, there are countless moves.
There are only a few attacking parts of the body such as fingers, palms, fists, elbows, knees, legs and feet, but they can be integrated into various Kung Fu.
The changes of the strange and the right are inexhaustible and endless. The strange and the right arise from each other, transform into each other, cycle without cause, and are ever-changing, without beginning or end."
These few words of military strategy hit the bullseye of Bai Fu.
Since his debut, Bai Fu has learned a lot of things. In addition to his own kung fu, he has been taught by sword masters and sword demons, which has gradually improved Bai Fu's sword skills. And the fist and kick kung fu of Shaolin's unique skills make Bai Fu unable to put it down and can't bear to waste them.
As the saying goes, if you bite off more than you can chew, when faced with an enemy, you will tie your hands and feet and focus on one thing and not the other.
If swords and fists and feet combine with each other in perfect harmony, and win with strange things, and the strange and right are mutually reinforcing each other, and the cycle is endless, wouldn't it mean that one person transforms into two people, with endless changes?
Bai Fu seemed to see another world of martial arts. He was ecstatic and eager to try it.