Sun Bin (c. 378-310 BC) was a war leader. A native of Acheng, Qi (now northeast of Yanggu, Shandong). Descendants of Sun Wu. Because he was murdered by his classmate Pang Juan, he was sentenced to death (cut off his kneecaps), Ren Qi was appointed as a military advisor, created a siege of Wei to save Zhao tactics, defeated the Wei army in Guiling (now southwest of Changyuan, Henan) and Maling (now southeast of Daming, Hebei), and captured Pang Juan. There is "Sun Bin's Art of War", which has been lost for a long time. In 1972, bamboo slips were unearthed from the Han Tomb of Yinque Mountain in Linyi, Shandong, with 440 pieces of "Sun Bin Art of War" and 11,000 words.
Sun Bin was a great military strategist after Sun Wu. His most famous military example is "Siege Wei to save Zhao". * I appreciate the tactic of "encircling Wei to save Zhao". On November 4, 1929, at a meeting in Bailu Village, Ninggang, Jiangxi Province, countermeasures were put forward in the face of the emergency situation of more than 30,000 enemy troops tightening the encirclement of Jinggang Mountain. He advised: "Leave some people to defend the mountain, and the other part to attack." A sortie can attract the enemy who is besieging Jinggangshan. This plan is called to besiege Wei and save Zhao". He said that Qi did not send troops to Handan, but in turn besieged Daliang, the capital of Wei, and as a result, the Wei soldiers had to return to China to rescue, and the capital of Zhao was thus relieved. ** countermeasures have been approved by everyone. When summarizing the practical experience of China's revolutionary war, he mentioned the example of "encircling Wei to save Zhao" many times. In May 1938, he said in "Strategic Problems of Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Warfare": "In the operational plan of the anti-siege, our main force is generally located on the inner line. However, under conditions of abundance, it is necessary to use secondary forces (e.g., guerrillas in counties and districts, or even a part from the main force) on the outer lines, where they can disrupt the enemy's communications and pin down the enemy's reinforcements. If the enemy remains in the base area for a long time, I can use the above method upside down, that is, to besiege the enemy with one part of the base area, and then use the main force to attack the area where the enemy has come from, and to carry out activities there in a big way, causing the enemy who has been standing for a long time to withdraw and attack our main force, and this is the method of 'encircling Wei and saving Zhao'. ”
Love me, love my dog. **Of course, I also appreciate Sun Bin, the founder of the "encircling Wei to save Zhao" tactic. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong's "Wisdom Tank, Soldiers' Wisdom Department, Victory" on the page of the story of "encircling Wei and saving Zhao", ** made the following comments: "Attacking Wei to save Zhao, because of the defeat of Wei soldiers, a master through the ages." This "master of the ages" is Sun Bin. On the page of the book that narrates the story of "Tian Ji Horse Racing", ** praised Sun Bin for his surprisingly successful tactics in operations research, and wrote a comment: "The so-called weak is to use a small number of troops to feint and attack the enemy's army. The so-called "strong to be weak" means to concentrate absolutely superior forces.
Five or six times the enemy's strength along the way, surrounded on all sides, gathered and annihilated. ”