Chapter 24 The Tenth Tactic

Believe and be safe, and use yin to map it; prepare and then act, and don't make changes.Hard in the middle and soft in the outside. Let the enemy believe in our "friendship and sincerity" and become paralyzed, while I take the opportunity to plan secretly, actively prepare, wait for action, and don't let it change. This is the strategy of hiding murderous intentions and showing reconciliation. The Art of War says: "The enemy's words are modest, but they are actually stepping up their war preparations; those who come to negotiate peace without a treaty must have malicious intentions." Therefore, all the enemy's rhetoric is a manifestation of conspiracy.

Hidden sword in a smile originally refers to the kind of double-dealer who is kind on the surface but sinister in the heart. The ancients have many generalizations about it, such as: two-faced and three-sword, honey-mouthed sword, prosthetics and evils, etc. In terms of military strategy, it generally refers to deception and paralysis through political and diplomatic camouflage means. The other side, to cover up military actions, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, this strategy is very common in the struggle between the two sides, people who use this strategy, "laugh" in a variety of ways, some allusive to seek peace, some A Yu Fengcheng, some old uncles are weak...but the ultimate goal is to "hide the knife".Of course, in the same camp, there are also people who use this method to achieve personal goals. It is difficult to generalize which is the merit and which is the fault. In the end, it is often lifting a rock to shoot yourself in the foot.

Li Linfu, the prime minister of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, in front of his "boss", never left his praises, never left his smile, made greedy remarks, rejected others, avoided talents, and eliminated political enemies. For this reason, later generations specially created an idiom called "mouth honey belly sword" for him. It ended up "splitting the coffin and shocking the corpse". In political struggles, the early use of this tactic may have been in the Warring States period. In order to dethrone the licentious and tyrannical king Jin Linggong and save the life of his loyal minister Yue Dun, Yue Chuan successfully used this tactic. First, he was heartbroken, and asked Jin Linggong to punish their family and himself for their crimes, and gained Jin Linggong's trust, and then turned to his lust and asked him to get rid of the treacherous villain Tu Anjia who often gave him bad ideas. , to choose a beautiful woman for him: Finally, he flatteringly proposed to Jin Linggong and said: "The guards around the lord are not strong in martial arts. How can this protect the safety of the lord? Why don't I choose a group of strong men for the lord?" The powerful guards are at your side, so that the lord will not have to worry about someone's plot to go out and have fun." Duke Ling of Jin didn't know what it was, and he praised him again and again. I held it in my own hands, crossed over and immediately selected 200 soldiers who were loyal to me. After some mobilization and deployment, I asked Jin Linggong to review. Jin Linggong was in high spirits. , I saw Yue Chuan made a gesture, and 200 soldiers shouted at the same time, and they came to kill together with swords, guns, swords and halberds. The hidden murderous tyrant was killed.

At 12:44 noon on July 20, 1944, an earth-shattering bang came from the meeting room of Hitler’s Headquarters in Berlin. In an instant, a hundred and ten pieces of glass in the meeting room were all shattered, and thick yellow smoke covered the meeting room. In the sky above, Hitler, the fascist leader of Germany who was presiding over a military meeting in the conference room, and 24 senior military officers attending the meeting were all overturned to the ground by the blast of the bomb. This was the most thrilling murder of Hitler in the late World War II. It was none other than a 37-year-old decorated officer who actively "served" for Hitler, Stauffenberg, Chief of Staff of Hitler's Berlin War Department Office, who planned and carried out the murder.

In the summer of 1944, with the victory of the Allied forces at the Battle of Norddy, Hitler’s defeat was set. The German army was war-weary and anti-war sentiment spread rapidly. Even Marshal Rommel, the “Desert Fox” who had made great contributions to Hitler, also advocated an early end. At this time, Stauffenberg, who lost an eye and an arm in the war, used his position to contact a group of officers who were eager to end the war as soon as possible. Murder Hitler and prepare to take over power in Germany. Hitler was treacherous and suspicious by nature. The Führer's Villa where he lived was usually heavily guarded and there were many sentries, so he couldn't make an assassin at all. How to get close to Hitler and get the chance to kill was the key to the murder. Stauffenberg imagined many methods, but he couldn't succeed. In the end, he Decided to do what he likes, try to get close to Hitler, gain trust, and then plot an assassination.

The opportunity finally came. Millions of foreign laborers in the concentration camps staged a big riot. Hitler was helpless and very troubled. Stauffenberg felt that this was an excellent opportunity to get close to Hitler. He formulated a plan overnight to suppress foreign laborers. The outline of the huge plan, code-named "Valkyrie", was immediately reported to Hitler.He believed that Hitler would summon him for this important project. As expected, on June 7, the Head of State Villa called and asked him to come in for an interview immediately. "Long live the Führer!" Stauffenberg saluted Hitler with his only arm as soon as he entered the door. "Sit down, please." Hitler's blue-gray eyes flicked at the medal on his chest and the empty sleeve, and then he said, "My brave man, what do you think about suppressing those ant-like Jewish bastards?"

"Your Excellency, the outline of the entire plan is here. I believe that if I follow my plan, those foreign pigs will become more honest than sheep," Stauffenberg hurriedly handed over his "masterpiece". "Ah, very good, very good!" Hitler couldn't help but get excited while looking at it with a magnifying glass. Seeing this opportunity, Stauffenberg immediately picked up the topic and said: "Your Excellency, this plan is not perfect yet. Please allow me to make further revisions before reporting to you. I haven't fully figured out how to punish those who participated in the riots." , if they are all shot, there will be too many people, which may affect our military production, and..."

"Very well, you revise it as soon as possible, and you must come up with a detailed plan within a month." Hitler looked at this young officer who had given an eye and an arm to his war, and now shared his worries, and couldn't help but feel a little nervous I like it, and before leaving, I asked him about his original unit and his injuries. The attack went well, and Stauffenberg stepped up his murder plan. A month later, he reported to Hitler again. This time, in his briefcase, in addition to the detailed plan of the "Valkyrie" plan, there was also a powerful British-made time bomb.Hitler received him very warmly, and once again affirmed that his plan was "excellent."He pretended to be flattered, and humbly "asked the head of state to correct me" and "revised again."Just as he was about to detonate the bomb, an accidental factor made him give up the action. It turned out that Hitler's two buddies, Goering and Himmler, were full-fledged warmongers. The "hardcore" cheered him up, and the three of them often planned war conspiracies together.Stauffenberg had always wanted to blow up the three of them at the same time in order to completely eradicate Hitler's main combat faction from the top, but unfortunately the other two were not present, so Stauffenberg did not detonate the bomb this time, leaving it to Hitler. A chance to survive.

Half a month later, another opportunity came. This time, Hitler summoned all the designers of the "Valkyrie" project. Unfortunately, for some reason, the meeting time was too short, and he had no chance to open the fuse before and after only half an hour.The meeting is over. The "Valkyrie" plan has been formulated, and there is no chance to meet Hitler with this.However, because of Hitler's trust in making this plan, Stauffenberg had another chance to get close to Hitler. On July 20, he was notified to participate in the military meeting hosted by Hitler in the headquarters of the head of state. This time he made full preparations. He first went to the toilet to retrieve the briefcase containing the bomb from his adjutant who was waiting there in advance, and then said to an adjutant: "My shirt is dirty. You know that His Excellency the Führer does not want to see his subordinates." The appearance is not neat, please take me to find a place to change my shirt." The adjutant led him to a comfortable bedroom, he calmly opened the bomb fuze, and then walked into the meeting room side by side with a colonel, and the guard at the door Instead of checking his briefcase, he saluted the one-armed, one-eyed officer.

As soon as he entered the meeting room, Hitler was listening to an officer's report. Seeing him coming in, he glanced at him and politely answered his greeting. He immediately sat next to the officer who reported the situation to Hitler. At the same time, Naturally, he put the briefcase under the table, and pushed it towards Hitler. The bomb was at most 2 meters away from Hitler, and there were still 5 minutes before the explosion. Seeing that he was done, Stauffenberg suppressed his inner desire Nervous and excited, Hitler quietly left the conference room when he was concentrating on listening to the report and did not pay attention to him, and smoothly withdrew from the base camp according to the original route.

Five minutes later, there was a loud noise, and the bomb exploded on time. Unfortunately, Hitler was not killed, but his legs were injured because the officer who reported the situation moved the briefcase to the other side of the table. Hitler narrowly escaped death again. Stauffenberg used the strategy of following what he likes, taking his trust, and luring the enemy into the bait, and got the chance to assassinate Hitler time and time again. The success of the strategy.After Hitler was bombed, he still did not believe that the bomb was set by Stauffenberg, who was "loyal" and "served" for him, but believed that it was done by foreign labor, which shows the power of this strategy. In the history of political struggles within the party, Lin Biao, the "deputy commander-in-chief" at that time, was probably the one who used "a knife hidden in a smile" to repel others, mutilate Zhongliang, and plot to usurp the throne. Lin Biao made great military achievements before the founding of the People's Republic of China. In 1956, at the age of 44, Lin Biao was personally awarded the rank of Marshal by the Chairman of the Republic of China, Mao Zedong, and became the youngest Marshal, member of the Party Central Committee, and Vice Premier of the State Council.But these were far from satisfying his desire for power. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, facing the situation of peaceful construction in the country, Lin Biao felt that in the future, he should not eat wars, but politics instead. Bet, you can get everything you think of.You can get the highest power you dream of.For this reason, he excused his illness from going to North Korea to direct the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and instead focused his energy on playing tricks. Although he did not make many outstanding achievements after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was basically in a state of recuperation, but in just eight years In a short period of time, he was a member of the Central Committee and became a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo. He became the vice chairman of the party and jumped to the second place in the party. Then he became Mao Zedong's "closest comrade-in-arms".At the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he was written into the party constitution as a "successor". At that time, a large number of leading comrades in the party who had similar status to him or even higher status than him, some were left far behind by him, and some were left behind by him. He was brutally persecuted and even died unjustly, but he was able to rise to the top. What is the reason? Of course, due to the influence of the "Left" guiding ideology, from the late 1950s to the end of the 1970s, our country's political life was in an abnormal state. The ten years of the Cultural Revolution was a tragedy for the entire nation. Lin Biao's personal success must not be completely Blame it on history, this is the result of a series of conspiracies and tricks that he was good at playing. Among Lin Biao's whole set of tactics, he is most proud of and the most effective trick, I am afraid that "smile hides a knife". On July 13, 1959, in Lushan, Mao Zedong presided over the central work conference. Peng Dehuai submitted a "submission" on the "Great Leap Forward" and sat on the "defendant" table. After Mao Zedong, "He is planned, organized, and purposeful..." topic, he fired at Peng Dehuai hoarsely. : "You have always been disloyal to Chairman Mao and have two minds... The Great Leap Forward, the People's Commune and the General Line formulated by Chairman Mao himself are great pioneering works that have never been done since human beings... Open your eyes and see where in the world In a country, can the output of iron and steel double in one year, and the output of grain increase in one year?" He looked at Mao Zedong with flattering eyes, and then said: "No, this kind of miracle has never existed in ancient and modern China and abroad. , can only appear under the leadership of Chairman Mao... You Peng Dehuai know a fart, do you know what Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought are?... The Chinese people, not the people all over the world recognize that our Mao Zedong is the greatest Marxism of our time Those who..." In this speech, Lin Biao used Mao Zedong to be angry with Peng Dehuai.To add fuel to the flames and criticize Peng De for not daring to be the leader, while at the same time disregarding reality, exalting and praising Mao Zedong, killing two birds with one stone, and having both fish and bear's paw. After the Lushan Conference, Peng Dehuai was dismissed from office, Mao Zedong personally proposed that Lin Biao became the Minister of National Defense. Afterwards, Lin Biao found the "secret" of climbing up—"following closely every step of the way", and he was desperate to praise and myth Mao Zedong. At an enlarged meeting of the Military Commission, he announced to everyone with an infinitely pious tone: "The current Marxism-Leninism is our Mao Zedong Thought. It stands at the highest peak in the world today. Standing at the peak of the times, Mao Zedong Thought is the contemporary The highest and most living Marxism-Leninism." At this meeting, he put out the "four firsts" that he had thought hard, namely: the human factor first.Political work comes first.Ideological work comes first, and living thoughts come first. Afterwards, Chairman Mao publicly praised Lin Biao at a meeting. The flattered Lin Biao then made a new formulation: "Doing military work well with Mao Zedong Thought as a guideline is to be thoroughly political." In 1962, the central government held the "Seven Thousand People Conference".Summarizing the mistakes made by the central government since the "Great Leap Forward", Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, etc. all made self-criticisms. It is caused by our failure to follow Chairman Mao's instructions in many things, if we follow Chairman Mao's instructions and listen to Chairman Mao, then the difficulties will be much smaller and the detours will be smaller." He said Seeing Mao Zedong smiling, he went on to say: "Chairman Mao has many advantages. From my personal experience over the past few decades, his outstanding advantage is reality, which is always inseparable from reality. He is always around reality, surrounded by Reality, not divorced from reality." Obviously Mao Zedong launched the "Great Leap Forward" out of reality, resulting in mistakes in work, he said that Mao Zedong's "highlighting advantages are reality."Finally, the "conclusion" was drawn: "When the work was done well in the past, it was the time when Chairman Mao's thinking was not disturbed. Whenever Chairman Mao's thinking was not respected or interfered, something went wrong. Decades of history, that is, this history".Afterwards, he took "Selected Works of Mao" out of context and compiled it into quotations from Chairman Mao, which were publicly published in the People's Liberation Army Daily, proposing that people should "use what they have learned", "immediate results", and "recite aphorisms". Since then, Mao Zedong praised him twice, saying that his "four firsts, three-eighth style" has a great development compared with the past, is an invention, a discovery. Lin Biao was naturally happy to get the affirmation of Mao Zedong frequently, and further accelerated the myth of Mao Zedong. In public, he never forgot to take the "Quotations Book" and put his finger in it every time, giving people the impression that he was learning at any time, but Observant foreign journalists found that his fingers were inserted into a page number each time. He had to arrive one minute earlier than Mao Zedong when he went to the Tiananmen Gate. If you arrive late, it’s not that “closely following” loses your status as a “close comrade-in-arms”. The position on the tower is also very particular. It’s not good to be far away from Mao Zedong. There is a suspicion that the guest usurped the host, and for this reason, his staff had to make painstaking calculations and arrangements. In this way, Lin Biao completely gained Mao Zedong's trust through his deification of Mao Zedong, and in the sprint to the peak of the highest power, he obtained Shang Fang's sword.Everyone in the whole country knows that Lin Biao is Mao Zedong's "closest comrade-in-arms".He is not satisfied even with the title of legal "successor" written in the party constitution. He is not willing to be in the position of "below one person and above ten thousand people". What he wants to get is the highest power. While "respecting each other with smiling faces", desperately flattering, and desperately trying to myth, his hidden "knife" was unsheathed. The issuance of "Circular No. 1" shows power. One day in October 1969, when people were still immersed in the joy after the National Day, Lin Biao suddenly drove to an airport in the western suburbs of a certain air force department, and personally instructed the guards on duty to issue a combat alert. The battle alert was issued, and the next day, Lin Biao ordered the staff to issue the "No. 1 Notice" to the entire army. In an instant, the entire army entered a state of emergency combat readiness, and the whole country began to evacuate and transfer population, as if a world war was coming. It is intriguing that so Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Military Commission, did not know about the large-scale military action. It turned out that this was a rehearsal of Lin Biao's imitation of the "Chenqiao Mutiny" to show his power. The prince appeared on the stage and formed the "United Fleet".Lin Biao placed his son Lin Liguo in the Air Force. Under Wu Faxian's arrangement, "one year as a soldier, two years as a party member, and three years as a deputy minister." Soon he became a "vanguard" in seizing power and usurping the throne. In October 1970, the "United Fleet" was officially established. At the same time, a secret armed force of about 100 people was prepared in Shanghai to prepare to kill Mao Zedong. Before the "United Fleet" started its activities, Lin Biao had engaged in a "literary struggle" before and after the Lushan Conference (in August 1970, the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth Central Committee discussed the revision of the Constitution), in an attempt to fight without bloodshed. In the name of the state president, he seized the highest power, but Mao Zedong not only saw through this plan, but also arrested his "hardcore" Chen Boda, who was known as a "genius theorist", as an anti-Party element. His "Four Diamonds" Huang, Wu Lin Biao felt that there was no hope for relying on "Wen Dou" and the conspiracy had been exposed, so he did not start. I don't know who will be a prisoner first. "The decisive battle at Mount Lu is the general rehearsal of future struggles. Exercises and training." So the "United Fleet" began to carry out the assassination plan; , District Party, government and military leaders talked, saying that "the matter in Lushan is not over..." Lin Liguo issued a "first-level combat readiness order" to the "United Fleet", preparing to use flamethrowers or Mao Zedong when Mao Zedong passed by Shanghai. Assassinated the chairman when he met the local leaders, but because Mao Zedong cleverly set up a ecstasy and disrupted the deployment, it was unsuccessful. Then, he planned to use a helicopter to crash into Tiananmen Square and kill Chairman Mao on the National Day. The possibility of success was too small, so it was not implemented, and the two assassinations failed. According to the ""571 Project" Minutes", Lin Biao planned to flee south to Guangzhou.Separate the central government. On the morning of September 12, 1971, while Zhou Yuchi and others packed their things in a hurry, they said to Chen Mou, the management director of the Air Force Command of the Guangzhou Military Region, who was in charge of the mission in Beijing: "We decided to go to Guangzhou in one or two days together. The chief, the director, and the deputy minister , ministers, deputy chiefs, and some people from the Air Force all went to Guangzhou, and some people from Shanghai were also pulled to Guangzhou to announce the establishment of a new central government..." At this time, Lin Biao did not expect a fire in the backyard, and his daughter Lin Liheng noticed it. Lin Biao wanted to escape and reported to the relevant personnel.After hearing the news, Zhou Enlai began to track down Lin Biao's plane. Seeing that the conspiracy had been completely exposed, Lin Biao hastily ordered the plane to take off forcibly, and finally ended up being smashed.