Chapter 38 The twenty-fourth plan to attack Guo

Between the two, the enemy is intimidating, and I am using the power.Sleepy, do not believe what you say. The third party in the two hostile forces, the enemy forces it to submit by force, and our side expresses support for it in this situation, and it will gain its trust, but the third party in this predicament will not simply believe What the mouth says. The act of marching through the road cannot be deceived by relying on rhetoric.It must be that this third force is not threatened by one side alone, but is in the pincer attack of both sides.In this case, the enemy will inevitably use force to force it to submit, and we can guarantee that we will not infringe its interests, and use its luck to survive to quickly make it trust us.In this way, it is bound to be unable to support itself, and it can be wiped out without going through actual battles.

False way attacking Guo is one of the thirty-six melee tactics, which refers to destroying the opponent in the name of borrowing from the opponent. In the annexation wars of the warlords of the past, each proceeded from its own interests, and there was no real and lasting alliance, nor real support, so the use of this strategy was very common. Duke Xian of Jin used the pretext of conquering Guo to annex Yu, and thus annexed the two countries in one fell swoop. Duke Yu was deceived out of greed for profit, and was easily destroyed by the state of Jin.And the idea of ​​"Auxiliary cars are dependent on each other, lips are dead and teeth are cold" put forward by Doctor Yu has become an important strategic thought for later generations of weak countries to unite against strong countries.

In modern warfare, the strategy of using "false routes to defeat Guo" is mostly to make a fuss on the grounds of "false routes" in order to cover up the real military intentions. In the late 1960s, the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia and successfully used the "false route to attack the country". The owner of the world-famous American McDonald's fast food, Raymond Crow, used to be a salesman in a food machinery factory in his early years. He determined to reform the fast food service, but he didn't even have the funds to open a fast food restaurant. He practiced the technique of "falsely attacking Guoguo". On the one hand, he asked to be a clerk in the Downer fast food restaurant, and on the other hand, he also worked as a salesman in the food machinery factory, and gave 5% of the sales revenue to the fast food restaurant as a reform of the fast food service. With the capital, McDonald readily agreed to Crowe's request. In the past 6 years, I have had a lot of experience in Luo, and I have more and more new ideas. I finally bought the McDonald’s restaurant for 2.7 million US dollars in 1961, and in a short period of time, I got back the investment of 2.7 million US dollars. In the 1980s, it became the largest multinational food company in the world, with 17,000 fast-food restaurants in the United States and the world, and more than 120,000 employees.

685 BC (the nineteenth year of King Hui of Zhou and the fourteenth year of King Cheng of Chu). Xun Xi, a senior official of the Jin State, went out to the court one morning and said: "Please, Your Majesty, donate the good horses from our yield and the beautiful jade from the thorns to our neighboring country Yu, so that we can use their roads to attack Guo. country." Jin Xiangong was very unhappy, and said: "Good horses and beautiful jade are the treasures of our country. How can they be given to Yu State in such an ordinary way?" Xun Xi said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry. If we can borrow the way from Yu State to enter Guo State, these treasures will not be lost, just like the treasury we temporarily hide away."

Duke Xian of Jin understood Xun Xi's intentions, but said worriedly: "There is a loyal minister in Yu State, Gong Ziqi, I'm afraid he will see through our plot, and it will be a disaster if he stops it." Xun Xi thought for a while and said, "Of course Gong Ziqi will come out to stop him, but this person is timid and will not forcefully dissuade him. Even if he persuades him, Duke Yu will not listen once he makes up his mind." Duke Xian of Jin was overjoyed: "Very well, Doctor Xun, please set off tomorrow and go to Yu State to borrow the way. The soldiers of the three armies are ready to go out."

After Xun Xi arrived in Yu State, he visited Duke Yu of Yu State, and Duke Yu said, "Master Xun came to me this time, what's the matter?" Xun Xi said: "This time, I was ordered by Xian Gong not to your country, and I would like to express my congratulations to your country on behalf of the king." Yu Gong said in surprise: "Where does this congratulation start?" Xun Xi said very sincerely: "Not long ago, the country of Ji was rebellious and attacked your country. It first occupied Dianqing and then occupied the land of Yun. The army and people of Yu country rose up and defeated the enemy of Ji country. It all depends on your wisdom and virtue! For this reason, our Majesty sent me to Yu Country to congratulate him. He also asked me to bring you our country's treasures, please accept them."

Afterwards, Xun Xi held the good horse and the beautiful jade in his hands, and was reluctant to put them down for a long time. Taking this opportunity, Xun Xi said again: "When I came, Duke Jin had something to ask Duke Yu about." Duke Yu said bluntly: "Duke Xian of Jin has anything to say, just talk about it." Xun Xi said: "Now the Guo State is very ambitious, and it keeps sending troops to disturb the southern border of our country. In order to defend the country, our country is determined to fight against the Guo State. For this reason, King Jin asks you to lend us the road to attack Guo State."

After hearing this, Duke Yu laughed loudly, "Isn't it just to use me to attack Guo State? Not only will I lend you the way, but I will also send 100,000 elite soldiers to be the vanguard of Duke Xian of Jin." Xun Xi was overjoyed, "Then I will thank Duke Yu on behalf of King Jin." At this time, Gong Ziqi persuaded: "Your Majesty, don't rush to agree to the excuse. We will discuss it before telling King Jin." Yu Gong was unhappy: "Don't talk anymore, Doctor Gong. I have made up my mind. " In the summer of this year, the state of Jin went to conquer the state of Guo through the road of Yu. The Duke of Yu sent troops to lead the Jin army, and the Jin army soon occupied Xiayang of the state of Guo.

In 655 BC (the 22nd year of Duke Xian of Jin Dynasty), Duke Xian of Jin borrowed a way from Duke Yu to attack Guo State. Gongzi heard the news, and hurried into the palace to persuade Duke Yu: "Guo State is the outer barrier of Yu State, and if Guo State is destroyed, Yu State will inevitably suffer. Jin State must never agree to the excuse of Jin State! Last time It is very inappropriate to lend a way to the state of Jin, as the saying goes: "Auxiliary car consultation, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold"! Not only can we not lend the way to the state of Jin, but we should unite with Guo to fight against the state of Jin!"

After hearing this, Duke Yu said unhappily: "You are a literati, what do you know? Jin and our country belong to the same clan and ancestors. How can they bully us?" Yu Gong refused to listen to Gong Ziqi's dissuasion, and once again promised Jin to attack Guo. Gong Ziqi looked up to the sky and sighed: "The end of Yu State is coming soon! Yu State and Guo State will perish together!" Then he led his family and fled abroad. On August 17 of the same year, the Jin army took the opportunity to besiege Shangyang, the capital of the Guo State. On December 1, the Jin army wiped out the Guo State, and Guo Gong fled to Luoyang.

After the annihilation of Guo, the Jin army returned to the division and stationed in Yu State in the name of rest. One day, taking advantage of Duke Yu's unpreparedness, he launched a surprise attack and wiped out Yu State easily.Thus destroying Guo and Yu in one fell swoop. Since the Jin army occupied Guo and Yu, it controlled the throat of the Qin army's eastward advance, which also had an important impact on the subsequent hegemony between Jin and Qin. On August 20, 1968, Soviet troops launched a simultaneous air and ground surprise attack on Czechoslovakia. At 23:00 that night, on the navigation platform of Prague Airport, a red light alarm suddenly sounded, and the staff on duty quickly turned on the alarm communication device, and a very urgent cry for help came out: "I am a Soviet transport plane flying over Prague due to an order. In the sky, now the plane has a mechanical failure, I request permission to make an emergency landing!" After the request, the duty officer immediately replied: "Prague Airport allows your plane to land in accordance with international practice, please follow my navigation order to fly." Five minutes later, the An-12 transport aircraft of the Airborne Division of the Gongjun Landed on the runway not far from the airport navigation platform. Inside the transport plane, Major Wajir looked around at more than 100 armed paratroopers with live ammunition, and issued a combat order: "Everyone remember, when we participated in the military exercise code-named 'Bohemian Forest' in June this year, we were familiar with the terrain of Errag Airport. I don't need to repeat what everyone should be on the airport. , to act quickly, no mistakes are allowed, act immediately!" Mechanical maintenance vehicle at Prague airport with red lights on, parked on transport plane, transport cabin door open, as airport mechanics prepare to board.Suddenly I heard a deep voice of order: "Don't move, I will kill you!" Immediately afterwards, a pistol was pressed against the mechanic's waist. In the darkness, more than 100 Soviet soldiers jumped off the transport plane and quickly occupied every vital part of the airport. In the center of the airport navigation station, Major Wajir said to everyone with a smile: "Misters and ladies, our army is preparing to land at the airport. Please don't panic. Work as usual and receive other planes to land. I will be very grateful!" After a while, under the cover of fighter jets and bombers of the 24th Army stationed in southern East Germany, an airborne division stationed in Vshybsk, Belarus, under the leadership of Major General Nieva, landed at Prague Airport. Major Vajir raised his hand to salute Major General Nieva who got off the plane. After Major General Nieva returned the salute, he immediately ordered Comrade Major Vajir, "Comrade Colonel Hagrid, according to the planned battle plan, you must quickly advance to the city of Prague. , must arrive at the designated location as planned before dawn, and set off immediately!" The Soviet soldiers in tanks and off-road vehicles launched their horses and rushed towards the city of Prague. At this time, the whole of Prague was silent in the dark. Inside an armored tank in the center of the airport, Major General Nieva issued orders to the walkie-talkie from time to time. At dawn, Major General Nieva stepped out of the tank and paced up and down the runway. Suddenly, the voice of Colonel Heigl came from the walkie-talkie: "Reporting, Comrade Major General, according to your order, our army has advanced into the urban area of ​​Prague without any obstruction. Now we have controlled all traffic arteries and The bridge over the Vltava River, and surrounded the central building, occupied the Post Office, radio and television stations and other news agencies..." "I see, please proceed as planned," Major General Niewa replied. Afterwards, Major General Nieva ordered: "Connect to Moscow!" At the Supreme Command in Moscow, several Soviet leaders were reading the front battle report. They had gratified smiles on their faces. They clearly knew that since Dubcek was promoted, the trend of "liberalization" in Czechoslovakia had developed rapidly. The growing centrifugal tendency in Eastern Europe was extremely unfavorable to the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union failed to impose a series of political and economic pressure on Czechoslovakia, it decided to invade Czechoslovakia and wipe out all the anti-Soviet factions in the central leadership of the Czech Communist Party. Before the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia, in order to achieve success, the Soviet Army Field Marshal proposed the strategy of using "false roads to destroy Guo".From May to early August, during the period of about 100 days, a lot of preparatory work was done, and 13 exercises with the Czech invasion as the background were held on the Soviet mainland and several invasion directions.During the exercise, the Soviet army took the opportunity to gather troops and combat materials to the territory of the Czech Republic, and became familiar with the terrain of the theater.The main area of ​​this exercise is the area where the Soviet army invaded later, and the troops used in the exercise are the vanguard of the later invasion. While the 1st Airborne Division commanded by Nieva occupied the urban area of ​​Prague, the Soviet Supreme Command sent a detachment of transport planes and helicopters to the cities of Bujovice, Bratislava, and Brno in the Czech Republic. Airfields in other places serve as forward bases for airlifting troops, equipment and supplementary supplies. In the Kosice area of ​​the Czech Republic, the helicopter unit led by Lieutenant General Ivanovich of the Soviet Army occupied the entire hub and airport. At the same time that the Soviet army invaded the Czech Republic, all communication units and systems received a telegram order: "From August 20th to August 21st, use the strongest transmission frequency to send jamming radio waves to West Germany and Austria." The missile force commanded by Marshal Volker also used a large number of modern metal reflectors to West Germany and Austria at the same time, causing a white mist to appear on the radar screen of the West monitoring the sky over Prague. On August 22, in the Ministry of Defense of Moscow, the chief of the Soviet army’s general staff was reporting the situation of the invasion of the Czech Republic to the giants of the Supreme Command: “According to the order of the Supreme Command, the Soviet army invested 3 troops in this counterattack against Czechoslovakia. A group army, 23 divisions with about 200,000 men, 7,000 tanks, and 800 combat aircraft." He pointed at the map with his teaching rod.Continued: "The operation is headquartered in Regnica, Poland. While the airborne troops commanded by Major General Niewa occupied the main strategic area of ​​Prague, the 4 divisions of the 1st Tank Army of our army and 1 motorized infantry of East Germany Army Group A, composed of the division, marched southward from East Germany with the main force, and blocked the border between West Germany and Austria." Someone asked: "Did the other troops advance according to the predetermined combat plan?" The Chief of General Staff replied: "Yes, under the jurisdiction of the B Group composed of 5 divisions of the 20th Army, 1 tank division of our army in Poland and the 7th East German Armored Division, the main assault was carried out to Prague; Army C, composed of 7 divisions of the 3rd Army, 1 tank division of the Polish Army, 1 motorized infantry division, and 1 Hungarian motorized infantry division, carried out assaults from the wide front of the Czech north, east, and south borders to split and control the Czech Republic. half of the area." A leader of the secretariat asked: "How did it all work out!" "It's like this," the chief of staff pointed to the combat map: "In the whole process, our army took only 22 hours to occupy the entire territory of Czechoslovakia." At this moment, on a large transport plane flying from Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union, in the empty cabin, there will be very frustrated leaders of the Central Committee of the Czech Communist Party Dubcek, Svoboda, etc. They are being escorted to Moscow overnight. The success of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia is another important example of the "fake route" in the history of world wars. In the early morning, Mr. Bao Yugang stood by the window, watching the 10,000-ton ship full of crude oil in the port slowly leaving, with a smile on his face. He took out a notebook with a blue cover from the deep drawer. This notebook recorded his entrepreneurial history and his struggle history. He couldn't help but immerse himself in the memories of the past. If it wasn't for that false journey, how could he have achieved today's brilliant achievements?History really needs to be recollected slowly in order to learn a lot from it. Back then, Bao Yugang was single and weak, so he could only develop his business by operating an old coal pouring freighter. That's when he saw that there was a lot of money to be made in shipping.I just want to sell a big boat, but I have no money to buy a boat. Of course, I can borrow money from the bank, but without credit guarantee, the bank will not give you a loan. Bao Yugang thought hard for a few days, and finally came up with a good way, how to get a credit guarantee?The boatman can be rented out first, the tenant can issue a letter of credit, and the tenant's rent can be used as a guarantee. In this way, the tenant's guarantee can make the bank trust, and the bank's loan support can realize his promise to the tenant. One day, Bao Yufeng met with Mr. Sanders, the credit manager of HSBC Bank. Bao Yugang chose HSBC because it is the number one banknote printing and issuing bank in Hong Kong. "Mister Mulberry, what do you think Britain once ruled the world by?" After a moment of surprise, Sandas asked back: "Do you mean that the ship is strong?" "The ship's strength is the most important thing. However, the times are changing. Today, the ships from the East have overwhelmed the West, especially the ships made in Japan." "Oh, how did you see that?" "Japan's machinery, steel, and navigation equipment are comparable to European ships, but their prices are 1/3 cheaper, and the Japanese's 5 business methods are more reasonable. After the ship is built, it is delivered to the buyer. Only the price of the ship is charged, and the Europeans ask for money before the ship leaves the dock..." Sandas listened with interest, "The Japanese are amazing, but what does it matter to us?" "Yes! They can build ships, which is world-class. Our Hong Kong is a free port, and we can park ships. They build ships but don't want to own ships, but they must use ships." Sang Dagu smiled, and couldn't help showing respect for the resourcefulness of the Ningbo native, and at the same time seemed to understand the purpose of the meeting. "Mr. Bao, when you come to me this time, you must have some big plans. Tell me about it." "Mister Mulberry, I want to order a new ship from the Japanese shipyard. The plan is ready. The displacement is 7,500 tons. The ship price is 1 million US dollars. After the ship is completed, I have to pay in full. However, there is a Japanese shipping company that is willing to sign for the first year. The rent is 750,000 British pounds, and I would like to borrow from your bank, which is equivalent to the rent." Sandas thought for a moment, "I admire your talent, but it's just the rules of the bank. What kind of guarantee do you take?" "Letter of credit! The Japanese shipping company that charters the ship will issue a letter of credit with its bank." "So you haven't got the letter of credit yet?" "If you get a letter of credit, will you get a loan?" "Loan! As long as you have a letter of credit, I will lend you a loan immediately!" Sundas did not take Bao Yugang seriously. The reason is simple: before you buy your boat, you need someone to rent it and issue a letter of credit as a guarantee for the annual rent. Isn't this equal to paying in advance? ?He didn't expect that this was exactly Bao Yugang's unique way of doing business.When he operates shipping, he must first find a good long-term tenant before purchasing a new ship. This can not only ensure that the ship will not be vacant and lose interest, but also persuade the bank to take a large amount of loans, that is, the guarantee of the tenant can make the bank trust, and the support of the bank can be realized. His commitment to tenants. A few days later, Bao Yugang really brought a letter of credit of 750,000 pounds. Sandas was surprised and convinced. He was convinced that Bao Yugang was a man of great career, so he made the loan out of the loan. In this way, Bao Yugui bought the ship with a loan, and within a year, he became the owner of 7 cargo ships. In 1962, he cooperated with Sandas and established the "Bahamas World Shipping Co., Ltd." , of which HSBC shares accounted for 1/3.Since then, HSBC has become Bao Yugang's strong backing.