According to the expedition of the Han army and the terrain at that time, Zhao's counselor put forward a plan to cut off the enemy's grain route with Jones.
This is the right plan. However, Chen Yu thinks he is familiar with the art of war and insists on the principle of "encircling it ten times and beating it twice"; He also thinks that Zhao is in a favorable terrain and is a teacher of justice, so he disdains the "circuitous and scheming" and is determined to face Han Xin aboveboard.
Han Xin was overjoyed to learn that Chen Yu didn't listen to Li Zuoche's advice and immediately deployed operational countermeasures.
First of all, Han Xin selected two thousand cavalry, each with a red flag of the Han army, and copied the path to Zhao's flank in the middle of the night, ready to attack Zhao's camp. Secondly, Han Xin sent 10,000 soldiers as pioneers, lined up on the east bank of Mianchang Water as a backwater array.
Everything is ready. At dawn the next day, Han Xin led the Han army to Jingxingkou to lure Zhao to attack it. As soon as the two armies met, Han Xin immediately ordered the Han army to feign defeat and retreat to the backwater array. Zhao thought that the Han army was vulnerable, so he and the Han army formed a pool of stagnant water on the Mianman waterfront.
The Han army with its back water array had no retreat, so it had to fight to the end. Zhao has been invincible for a long time, and was about to return to camp to fight again tomorrow, but when he saw the red flag of the Manchu army hanging in his own camp, there was chaos immediately.
Han Xin then took the opportunity to order the Han army to attack from both sides, adowa Zhao in one fell swoop, kill Zhao Wangxie and capture him alive. This is the famous Jingxing War in history.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Virtual and Real" said: "The image of a husband and a soldier is water, and the shape of water avoids heights and tends downward; The shape of a soldier, avoiding reality is empty. Water flows because of the ground, and soldiers win because of the enemy. Therefore, the soldiers have no constant potential and the water is impermanent; Being able to win because of the enemy's change is called God. "
Du Mu noticed: "The potential of soldiers was seen by the enemy; The potential is not in me, so it is impermanent. Such as the shape of water, born of the ground; Shape is not in water, so it is impermanent. Underground water can float stones; Soldiers can change like gods because of the reaction of the enemy. "
Sun Wu vividly compared the use of troops to running water, and stressed that we should decide the winning policy and strategy according to the enemy's situation, and we should not stick to the rules and mechanically copy certain tactics.
Some people say that Chen Yu was defeated by the art of war in the battle of Jingxing. This seems reasonable, but it doesn't see the internal key of Chen Yu's failure.
As the saying goes, dead reading is better than no books. In the Jingxing War, Chen Yumo stuck to the rules, mechanically copied the tactical principles of Sun Tzu's Art of War, and made dogmatic mistakes. How can he blame the failure on Sun Tzu's Art of War?
Han Xin, on the other hand, set an unconventional water array and attacked the enemy camp with Indiana Jones. He not only did not stick to the ancient art of war, but also boldly innovated and used troops flexibly. Finally, Zhao Jun was defeated in one fell swoop, creating a war miracle of winning more with less.
Soldiers are unpredictable, and water is unpredictable, not only in ancient wars, but also in modern life.