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Chapter 106 Strategy Part 6
The raging "fire" ignites an opportunity

If the fire is fired and the army is quiet, wait and don't attack. The firepower is extremely powerful, so you can follow it, but you can't stop it.

When it comes to fire, what most people think of first is not the fire used for heating and cooking, but the catastrophic and destructive fire, and it may even be the anger that leads people to do many things that they regret.No matter which one is in people's mind, fire has already planted a signal of disaster in people's mind.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War? Fire Attack" emphasizes the role of fire.Using fire to assist the army's offensive is very effective. The core is: Although fire is only a form of auxiliary offensive, it has already caused troubles for the enemy. "Fire on Chibi" is the most typical example.With the help of Huo Gong, our side can sometimes even occupy a huge advantage without launching a large-scale attack.

In fact, the "fire" in the fire attack strategy is not always ignited by the opponent. In many cases, it is the "fire" that starts within the Xiaoqiang, which not only weakens one's own strength, but also gives the opponent the opportunity to "watch the fire from the other side". machine.

In 263 A.D., Cao Wei destroyed the Kingdom of Shu, broke the situation where Wei, Shu, and Wu stood at the same time, and began a situation in which Wei and Wu fought against each other.Two years later, General Sima Yan of the State of Wei abolished Wei and proclaimed himself emperor, changing the name of the state to Jin.Sima Yan continued to implement the strategy of unifying China. On the one hand, he ordered to build warships on the banks of the river in Shu and train the navy day and night to prepare for the decisive battle with Soochow in the future; In order to avoid a situation where both sides would be hurt, they gave up the head-to-head combat strategy and adopted a wait-and-see and wait strategy instead, hoping to wait until Soochow's national strength and armaments were weakened before attacking, so that they would not have to fight so hard. .

Although Soochow was rich at this time, the contradictions within Sun Quan's ruling group were intensifying, and the disputes were gradually intensifying.Sun Quan, who was troubled by the government, made another wrong decision: to abolish the prince Sun He and make Sun Liang the new prince. As a result, the resentment between different factions in the court deepened a lot.After Sun Quan's death, Sun Liang came to the throne, and Sun Xiu's faction launched a coup, abolished Sun Liang, and embraced Sun Xiu as emperor.After Sun Xiu's death, there was another fierce struggle, and Sun Hao came to the throne.Sun Hao is an extremely cruel and narrow-minded person. After he ascended the throne, he began to retaliate wantonly. He did not hesitate to use the cruel means of "skinning, gouging out his eyes, and destroying the three clans" to wipe out his past enemies one by one.At the same time, he also used a lot of manpower, financial resources, and material resources to move the capital to Wuchang, which caused a popular uprising in the south of the Yangtze River, and was finally forced to return to the original capital.

The long-term struggle within the imperial court, the monarch's labor and wealth, and the national uprising greatly weakened the national strength of Soochow, which was originally strong, and the morale of the people and the army fell to the lowest point.Sima Yan watched Soochow decline step by step, and finally waited for the best time to annex and destroy Soochow, so he ordered a large-scale attack on Soochow.More than three months later, Soochow Wu perished, and the Western Jin Dynasty unified the whole country.

Soochow's "fire" burned from the inside, and it burned the whole Soochow into a mess, and burned all the national power and military equipment.During this period, Sima Yan did not send out a single soldier, but just watched the fire from the shore with his arms folded.Things are just like the state of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period. The attitude towards defeat was like a raging fire, which ignited the relationship between the king of Wu and his subjects, and it was out of control until Wu Zixu died tragically, and the fire had burned to an irreparable level.When the people of Yue State were consuming themselves in Wu State, they not only watched the fire burn more and more prosperous from a distance, but also continued to strengthen their own strength. They picked a time when their country was the strongest and Wu State was the weakest, and they washed away the shame of the past in one fell swoop. .This is what Sun Tzu called "taking from chaos", that is, "taking advantage of the fire to rob".

For many people with dreams, "fire" is an available auxiliary tool.Although fire does not occupy a decisive position like strength, it can get twice the result with half the effort when used properly.

(End of this chapter)