Chapter 30 The sixteenth plan to play hard to get

If you are forced, you will backhand your soldiers, if you move, you will lose your momentum, follow closely without forcing, exhaust your strength, weaken your fighting spirit, disperse and then capture, soldiers will not be bloody, need, have courage, and light. If the enemy has no way to go, it will counterattack; if it is forced to escape, the enemy's momentum will be weakened.When chasing, follow the enemy and don't force it too much, so as to consume its physical strength and disintegrate its fighting spirit. When the enemy's morale is depressed and defeated, and then capture it, you can avoid bleeding. Convince me with a complete psychological failure, and you win the bright end of the war.

The ancients said: "If you want to take it, you must give it firmly."Make it lose the determination to fight to the death.And the thought of escaping by luck and surviving without fighting will create a fighting opportunity that is beneficial to me. Playing hard to catch reflects the dialectical relationship between "take" and "give". Lao Tzu said: "If you want to close it, you must strengthen it; If you take it, you must give it firmly." The word "Gu" here can be understood as the word "Gu". At that time, Jin Xiangong wanted to attack Yu and sent him with a wall horse; , there is a truth here-things must be reversed when they are extreme, and if you want to be caught, "capture" is the goal, "vertical" is the means, and the means serve the purpose. On the one hand, in order to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall in a hurry and making a counterattack like a dying struggle, Sun Tzu has long warned: do not chase after the poor. In order to achieve the goal of conquering other ethnic minorities and gradually expanding the territory, Meng Huo finally convinced Meng Huo and vowed not to rebel.

During the Warring States Period, Chu State sent troops to attack Yong State in order to seek hegemony. Faced with foreign aggression, the army and people of Yong State fought against the enemy and finally drove away the Chu Army and captured the general of the Chu Army, Zi Yangchuang.However, due to the carelessness of the guards, Zi Yangchuang, who was imprisoned, escaped from prison and fled back to Chu State after being detained for three days. As soon as Zi Yangchuang returned to the country, he was immediately summoned by the king. "The general is suffering, let's talk about the situation in Yongguo." Chu Wu was eager to take revenge.

"Your Majesty, Rongzhi, I saw that the army of the Yong Kingdom is strong, and the barbarians are all concentrated in the city, as if they are ready to fight at any time. I am afraid that we will suffer losses if we attack now. Why don't we attack after we gather all the troops. With our strength, we can absorb the talents from last time, and we can take down Yongguo in one go." Zi Yangchuang replied. "I don't think so, we must attack Yongguo right now, and only defeat is allowed, not victory." Shishu, a Chu army general in the country, took Zi Yangchuang's words and put forward completely opposite opinions.

"General Division, now we have just lost a battle and our morale is low. We should have rested for a while before fighting again. If we continue to fight now, we should find a way to win in order to boost morale. Why do we deliberately defeat?" The general asked his uncle back. "What I said is that if we don't fight, we will win. If we fight, we will win." Many generals also echoed the territorial integrity. The uncle said: "The enemy has just won a battle, and their morale is high, but they are also prone to pride. If we attack now, the enemy will definitely take advantage of the victory and attack us. If we deliberately defeat us, the enemy will definitely think that our fighting power has weakened. Once again, the enemy will think that we are already vulnerable, the enemy is proud, and must be negligent in guarding against it, and we will surely win if we take the opportunity to launch a real attack."

"This plan is really clever, and it's up to you to implement it!" Hearing this, the king of Chu happily accepted his uncle's suggestion, and the others even said yes. Therefore, the Chu army took turns fighting the Yong army with several groups of troops, and each time they retreated after a short time. In this way, within three days, the Chu army fought seven battles with the Yong army. The defeat in the first battle was miserable, there were no soldiers and horses, the firearms were seized by the mediocre army, and a small number of "captives" of the Chu army were also captured.The Yong army felt that the Chu army was exhausted and vulnerable, so they no longer set up defenses, and the soldiers no longer concentrated, leaving only some sentry posts.

Seeing that the Yong army had become paralyzed, the Chu army immediately seized the opportunity and divided into two armies to attack the Yong country.When the Yong army saw the ferocity of the Chu army this time, they couldn't help but turn pale with fright. The barbarians who had been helping Yong in the battle first voluntarily surrendered to the Chu state.The Yong army was isolated and defenseless, and was quickly wiped out by the Chu army, who easily wiped out the Yong country. On the eve of World War I, the contradiction between Britain and Germany was very acute. In order to overcome the enemy's shortcomings in the coming war, Germany sent a large number of spies into Britain to collect various military and political information and engage in various espionage activities.

Serving as the famous leader of the Fifth Branch of British Military Intelligence was Vernon Keir.The intelligence agency he led has repeatedly cracked various espionage cases and enjoys a high reputation in the UK. Once, Kyle's subordinates reported that a barber shop was found to be a contact station for German spies, and they often kept in close contact with German spy agencies. Surprised!It turns out that the German spy network has spread all over the UK. This discovery really made Kyle panic for a while, what should we do?Many people advocate that all known spies should be captured immediately, and the German spy network should be destroyed first. Kyle is indeed a seasoned spy. He does not advocate arresting people by the people. He said to his subordinates: " Now we only have a part of the list of spies, and many of them are just contacts. If we are eager to arrest people now, we will definitely scare the snakes. , so we don’t lose the big because of the small? The current method should be to take a long time to catch the big fish, and continue to keep this spy station in “normal operation” until it is completely exposed before closing the net. This is what the Chinese often say’ If you want to get what you want, you must stick to it'" Then, Kyle made careful arrangements for the division of labor for his subordinates, and he instructed his subordinates to check all the letters sent to and from abroad sent by the barbershop. Letters, and then use these letters to do a lot of tricks. They opened each letter, read the content, and then fabricated a piece of false information according to their needs, and then restored it to the original state and sent it to the recipient. They also quietly monitor the entire spy network, and at the same time, they can also take advantage of false information to cause damage to the other party. Because they do it cleanly and never leave any loopholes for the other party's spies, many German spies have been working for the British. The intelligence agencies acted as voluntary false information carriers, but they were still deluded, thinking that their intelligence contact stations were safe, and none of their accomplices had been exposed, and all kinds of information were still being sent back and forth through the spy network.

Once, Kyle intercepted a letter from a German spy named Karl Miller, which was written in invisible ink. After Kyle read the letter, he sealed it and sent it as it was. At the same time, he secretly arrested Karl Miller. However, for a long time after this, the Germans continued to receive information from "Karl Miller" and did not realize that there was any fraud in it. In this way, Kyle adopted the strategy of spreading a lot of money and catching big fish, so that Germany's spy network in the UK was always under the surveillance of the British Intelligence Service 5 under his leadership until August 4, 1914, when the UK launched a campaign against Germany. On the day the war was declared, Kyle ordered the net to be shut down, and 21 German spies including the barber shop master were arrested in one fell swoop. This action almost wiped out the German intelligence work in the UK. During that period of time, the Germans failed to carry out any effective intelligence work in the UK, and it took almost the same amount of time to establish a new spy network. Kyle's tactic of playing hard to get was undoubtedly very successful.

As we all know, the Panama Canal is an inland waterway controlled by the United States. The United States earns a lot of money from the passenger ticket canal every year, and the strategic position of this river is very important. Former Panamanian President Noriega did not listen to the command of the United States. Offended the United States by saying that he would take back the sovereignty of the Panama Canal on time, and was arrested by the American "gendarme" to be tried in the United States.But the Panama Canal was not built by the United States in the first place. At the end of the 19th century, a French company signed a contract with Colombia, intending to build a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean in the Panama Province of Colombia (Note: Panama was not yet independent at the time). canal.

The chief engineer in charge of this project is the Frenchman Lesseps, who is famous all over the world for digging the Suez Canal.Based on past successful experience, he thought it would be easy to complete this task, but he ran into trouble as soon as the project started. It turned out that the environment in Panama is very different from that of Suez, the progress of the project is very slow, and the company's bonuses have also begun There was a shortage and the company was in trouble. President Roosevelt of the United States was very happy when he heard the news, and decided to buy the Canal Company, and the United States would dig the Panama Canal.Because the United States had already planned to dig this canal, but France started too early and signed a contract with Colombia first, which made the United States passive and regretful, and this opportunity came. France also knew that the United States had this intention long ago, so it started to grab this piece of fat first. However, the French Canal Company is currently facing difficulties and cannot operate. It's $100 million.France believed that the United States would be happy to buy it. Although the United States has long coveted the canal company, and was even more ecstatic to know that the French company was about to sell, it did not appear to be very enthusiastic on the surface. Roosevelt pretended to instruct the US Channel and Canal Commission to submit an investigation report to prove that in Nicaragua Open canals to save money.The report stated that: "The total cost of opening the canal in Nicaragua is less than 200 million U.S. dollars. Although the direct cost of opening the canal in Panama is only more than 100 million yuan, it is not cost-effective because it needs to pay an additional fee for the acquisition of a French company. In this way, the total cost of opening the Panama Canal will reach 250 million U.S. dollars." Naturally, this report should be "read over" by the agent of the French company, Mr. Brillo. Brillo was taken aback when he saw the report, and thought, if the United States didn't open the canal in Panama, wouldn't France not be able to get back a penny?So he immediately lobbied, showing that France was willing to sell the canal company at a reduced price, as long as 40 million was enough. When Roosevelt heard this, he immediately instructed to buy the canal company with 40 million. I thought I was lucky, and finally recovered 40 million, but I didn't know that I was fooled by Roosevelt. After buying the company, Roosevelt repeated the same thing to the Colombian government. He instructed Congress to pass a bill stipulating that if the United States can reach an agreement with the Colombian government within an appropriate time, the United States will consider digging the Panama Canal; otherwise, the United States will choose to dig the Panama Canal Nicaragua Canal. In this way, it was the turn of the Colombian government to sit still, and immediately ordered the ambassador to the United States to negotiate with the US Secretary of State, John Hay, and signed a US treaty, agreeing to lease to the United States a long-term road with a width of 3 kilometers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait for a price of 10 million US dollars. The United States pays Colombia an additional US$100,000 per year for the Canal Zone, but the benefits brought by this agreement to the United States are far from tens of millions. It is no wonder that Noriega was "sanctioned" by the United States after a slight rebellion. Roosevelt deserved to be cunning and scheming. He played hard to get caught, and retreated steadily. He not only gave the French and Colombians a "sweet spot" to eat, but also took advantage of the situation to rob, and made a lot of money.