The book we are going to talk about today is a military work in the Song Dynasty. Its author is unknown, but its content is quite interesting.
This book is called "A Hundred Wars". What kind of book is this and what kind of story is behind it?
The northern song dynasty was weak in military affairs and faced a crushing defeat by the enemy forces in the north. But the people's enthusiasm for the military in the Northern Song Dynasty was not low. In the case that it is impossible to build a frontier like the Han and Tang Dynasties, people in the Song Dynasty turned their enthusiasm for the army to the study of military theory.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, there were many military theoretical works represented by General Theory of Wu Jing, and Strange Methods of Hundreds of Battles was a military work at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The author of The Amazing Method of Hundreds of Battles is unknown. Later, it was written in the Ming and Qing Dynasties under the guise of Liu Bowen in the early Ming Dynasty. This statement has no definite basis. Judging from the historical materials currently available, this book should be a work in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
On the basis of the military theory in the General Outline of the Art of War, The Amazing Method of Hundreds of Battles puts forward and discusses one hundred questions, thus forming a book similar to the encyclopedia of military theory.
This book inherits the military theory of the previous generation and is quite interesting to discuss with practical examples. It is a book that later military strategists pay more attention to.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, it went into decline. During Song Huizong's 20-odd years in power, the national situation in Song Dynasty was eroded more and more, and the armament became more and more lax, and peasant uprisings broke out in various places.
At this moment, the state of Jin in the north rose, and after the state of Jin destroyed Liao, it took advantage of the situation to go south. Soon, it attacked Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty. Song Huizong is afraid to fight for peace. Instead of trying to resist the enemy, he punished the main officials and believed in crooked ways, which eventually led to the conquest and destruction of the capital in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The amazing method of hundreds of battles should be completed around Song Huizong. Although this period was peaceful on the surface, the country was already at home and abroad, and people of insight were inevitably worried about national affairs. Therefore, I hope this art book can be helpful in times of crisis.
The amazing method of winning every battle, though cleverly conceived, could not stop the decadent road of the ruling class in the Northern Song Dynasty. Since father and son dare not be enemies of gold, the miraculous method of winning every battle can't save the world.
After the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the famous soldiers in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, represented by Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, bravely resisted the gold, and finally stopped the mighty nomads on the north bank of the Yangtze River, so that the Southern Song Dynasty was able to survive. In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, some people could see the shadow of the "amazing method of hundreds of battles" in the Song Dynasty. Only with people like Yue Fei and Han Shizhong can Raiders of the Hundred Battles play a role.
It's just that Song Gaozong is exactly like his father, even further. He not only withdrew the troops of the Northern Expedition, but also killed Yue Fei and demoted Han Shizhong. The hopes of ZTE in the Southern Song Dynasty were dashed, and the people in the north were humiliated by conquered people all the year round.
It was not until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty that the amazing method of winning every battle was rediscovered. However, by that time, the Mongols had risen, and the final demise of the Southern Song Dynasty had entered the countdown.