Chapter 27 The Thirteenth Tactic

Doubt is based on knocking on the truth, and then act after observation; in the case of recovery, plotting is also based on conspiracy. If you have doubts, do reconnaissance and confirm the situation. Reconnaissance is the condition for discovering hidden enemies. "The enemy's strength is hidden and the conspiracy is deep. Don't advance lightly. You should explore its front." "On the way to march, you will encounter dangerous passes, swamps, reeds, dense forests and deep grass. You must act cautiously and search repeatedly, because these are the enemy. It is possible to set up an ambush." ​​The ancient strategists had many incisive theories about reconnaissance. Knowing the enemy and knowing the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. If you march rashly, it is easy to fall into the trap. All military, political, and diplomats abroad in ancient and modern times do not respect this. During the Warring States Period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Zheng in a surprise attack. Duke Mu of Qin did not listen to the persuasion of wise men, and without reconnaissance, rushed forward.

It comes from "Xiyang Miscellaneous Zu", which says that Wang Lu, the county magistrate of Dangtu in the Tang Dynasty, was greedy and loves money. One day, the common people became one of his subordinates who denounced him and accepted bribes.After reading the certificate, he was very horrified, and involuntarily wrote eight words next to it: "Even though weeding the grass, I have scared the snake."It means: Although you have reported on my subordinates, you have already frightened me. In terms of military strategy, it seems far-fetched to quote this phrase, but its essence is to grasp the enemy's intentions and understand the opponent's weaknesses through repeated reconnaissance.

The battle to defend Stalingrad was going on fiercely. The German army almost mobilized all the troops on the Eastern Front to besiege Stalingrad. At this time, the troops of the famous Red Army general Vadudin, who was 400 kilometers away from Stalingrad, won a temporary rest after stubbornly preventing the German attack on the periphery.The German army failed to break through Vatudin's line of defense, stationed in place, and began to repair the fortifications. They had no intention of continuing to attack. Compared with Stalingrad, the battle at this time was far less intense. This abnormal contrast, soon It attracted the attention of General Vatudin, and he realized that this might be a delaying tactic by the German army to hold back his troops and prevent them from supporting Stalingrad.

General Vatutin felt that the problem was very serious. If troops were dispatched to rescue Stalingrad, the German troops in front of them would inevitably pursue from behind, which would be equivalent to introducing the enemy into Stalingrad.But he stood still.If you only look at the enemy in front of you, then you have fallen into the trick of the German army. What should you do?Seeing the German troops moving to Stalingrad in batches, the city is at stake.General Vadudin decisively adopted the tactic of scaring the enemy, forcing the German army attacking Stalingrad to withdraw its troops.

He first sent planes to drop bombs on the German army every night, hover over the German army during the day, and harass the German army. At first, the German army did not respond much. After a few days, the German army was disturbed. They couldn't sleep well at night and dared not come out during the day Basking in the sun, huddling in the bunker all day and not daring to move, but the German army still did not mobilize large-scale troops. Seeing that the German army would not shed tears without seeing the coffin, Vatudin simply organized a real attack.He sent troops around to the back of the German army, and suddenly launched an attack on the German army one night.And occupied the rear position of the German army, the German army could not figure out the strategic intention of the Soviet army.Coupled with the continuous bombing by Red Army aircraft in the past few days.Thinking that the Red Army was going to carry out a general attack from their rear positions, they immediately reported to the front-line general headquarters and said: "The Red Army is going to launch a counterattack from the rear, please quickly deploy troops for reinforcements." The counter-offensive, so a large number of soldiers were hurriedly dispatched from Stalingrad to fight, and the troops guarding Stalingrad took the opportunity to launch a real counter-offensive, thus winning the battle of Stalingrad.

On the eve of liberation, Lu Han, the local powerful general in Yunnan Province.Established a secret contact with the underground organization of the Communist Party to discuss the peaceful liberation of Yunnan. The matter was learned by the military reunification agent and hurriedly reported to Chiang Kai-shek. "Mao Renfeng? Check it out, is there any evidence for Lu Hantong?" Chiang Kai-shek began to doubt, but there was no evidence, and he could not easily attack a local power. "Okay, I'll send someone to investigate right away, and I will definitely get the evidence." Mao Renfeng put down the phone and immediately arranged to start a secret investigation on Lu Han.

A few days later, Mao Renfeng reported: "Principal, no evidence has been found, but I always suspect that the local emperor has second thoughts about us." "There is no evidence to suspect anything, just strengthen surveillance in the future," Chiang Kai-shek said lightly to his subordinates, but in fact he was the most worried.He decided to test Luhan himself. One day, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Lu Han face to face. As soon as Lu Han sat down, he reprimanded loudly: "You Yunnan is almost becoming the Communist Party's world. Communist bandits are rampant, public opinion is chaotic, and people's hearts are unstable. Those students want democracy and freedom all day long. Ah, I think the Communist Party is instigating it, you must immediately suppress the Communist Party organization in Yunnan, and those democrats who insult the party-state must not be let go, how is it, is there any difficulty?"

"No, I will follow the president's wishes and wipe out the underground Communist Party and democrats in Yunnan as soon as possible! I will go back and make arrangements now." Lu Han didn't want to stay any longer and left immediately. On the way home after leaving Chiang Kai-shek, Lu Han thought, it seems that this time it will be impossible not to make some gestures. Lao Jiang has already begun to doubt me. However, for this operation, Lao Jiang personally paid attention to it, and the military command sent many people to spy on it secretly. They could not contact and protect the leftists. ?After careful consideration, he found a clever strategy to resolve the contradiction.

He decided to proceed in two steps, first with a big fanfare and the seizure of the provincial assembly, and then with a large-scale raid. He knew that the underground party would react to seeing him dissolve and seal the assembly. As expected, the dissolution and sealing of the parliament immediately alarmed the Communist Party and other leftists. They immediately carried out a secret transfer. What Lu Han adopted was the tactic of scaring the snake away. This tactic was used very cleverly. It not only dispelled Lao Jiang's suspicion of him, but also effectively protected the underground organization of the Communist Party.

During the general attack on Nianzhuang in the Battle of Canghai, our military first launched a 30-minute artillery attack on Nianzhuang, and tens of thousands of shells crushed Nianzhuang to the ground. "Didi Dada..." A charge horn sounded, and our commanders and fighters launched a final charge against the enemy. The soldiers rushed towards the enemy's position like a mountain and a sea, but they fell down before they rushed far, and the soldiers launched again. Charged and fell down again, the commander of the attacking force was in a hurry, "Is the artillery command post? What happened just now, the enemy's firepower point has not been knocked out! We will soon win across the board, and many of our soldiers have fallen again. Can't we just watch the soldiers sacrifice needlessly!" The infantry commander spoke loudly and could hear that he was really anxious.

"Please don't worry. We have also seen the situation ahead. It was the firepower of the enemy hiding in the bunker just now. Our artillery fire cannot destroy it. Now the head of the column is also urging us to find a way. Please don't charge for now and wait for our contact signal .” It turned out that when our artillery fire attacked the enemy's position, the enemy hid in the bunker and only destroyed the surface position, but did not destroy the enemy's hidden firepower. Faced with this sudden situation, my artillery commander decided to use the grass to alert the snake.The tactic of luring the enemy out of the southern position. "Boom, boom, boom!" After the first artillery attack, the enemy thought that our army was about to charge again, so they hurried out to occupy the position just like last time. Unexpectedly, our army stood still, and what greeted the enemy was another more violent shell , The enemy looked bad and wanted to retreat. How could shells run fast on two legs. In an instant, the enemy and their hidden firepower points were all reduced to ashes. Our army took down Nianzhuang in one go.