Chapter 52 Chapter 3 One of the Correct Tactics: Paying Attention to the Enemy

If it is said that Wu Song's self-confidence, arrogance, and self-importance before, he always said "not afraid" and despised the enemy strategically; When a gust of wind suddenly appeared in front of him, what he showed was that he attached great importance to his opponent. Confucius once discussed with Zilu what true bravery is.Interestingly, Confucius used the behavior of a person when facing a tiger to illustrate.Once, Zilu reminded Confucius: "You old man, don't always praise a weak scholar like Yan Hui. If you go to the battlefield to fight, you have to rely on a brave person like Zilu."

Confucius said: "I don't want to be with a reckless person who beats a tiger with bare hands, crosses the river without a boat, and dies without regret. What I need is to know fear and be cautious when encountering difficulties, be good at planning and finally be able to get things done. people." In Confucius' view, being afraid in the face of a situation will not damage the image of a hero, but is precisely the behavior and psychology of a true brave man.The previous article repeatedly said that Wu Song is "afraid", not to say that Wu Song is timid, Wu Song is useless, and Wu Song is not brave enough, but it just means that this is the real hero, and a real hero.

A real hero often needs a real opponent. Facing a real powerful opponent, being in awe, being wary, and being careful is precisely the necessary quality of a hero. At this time, on Jingyang Ridge, when the sun was setting, Wu Song was facing a real and powerful opponent.An opponent who killed thirty or twenty big men. How will Wu Song treat it? First of all, as Confucius said, be afraid when things happen. When the tiger was both hungry and thirsty, it pressed its two paws on the ground slightly, looked up with its body, and swooped down from mid-air, Wu Song was so startled that he broke out in a cold sweat.

The cold sweat all over his body proved that Wu Song was really afraid, and he didn't underestimate his opponent or be careless at all. With this mentality of fear in the face of the situation, the next step is: easy to plan. Facing the hungry, thirsty and menacing tiger, Wu Song neither fled, was at a loss, nor did he attack rashly. His tactic is: stay away first. The first retreat: When the tiger rushed over, Wu Song dodged behind the tiger. The second retreat: When the tiger put its front paws on the ground, lifted its waist and hips, and lifted it up, Wu Song dodged again and hid aside.

The third retreat: When the tiger raised its iron-like tiger tail upside down and swept it suddenly, Wu Song stepped aside again. This is the first stage of Wu Song's fight against the tiger: dodging. When a tiger takes a person, it just pounces, kicks, and cuts.When the three methods failed to catch anyone, half of his temper disappeared. At this time, Wu Song knew that in the face of a powerful invading enemy, it is one of the important principles of the art of war to retreat first, wait until it is exhausted, find its flaws, and then attack. Facing the tiger's pounce, kick, and cut, Wu Song only used one trick: dodge.

But it is very effective, not only to defuse the fierce attack of the tiger, but also to consume the strength of the tiger, and more importantly, to grow one's own ambition, and to destroy the tiger's prestige. Now, it was Wu Song's turn to act. The tiger roared again, then turned around again, Wu Song swung his whistle stick with both hands, and with all his strength, he chopped down from mid-air. There was a sound - not the sound of hitting the tiger, but the sound of breaking branches and rustling leaves. It turned out that he was too panicked and hit the branch. Not only did he not hit the tiger, but he broke the whistle stick in two and only held half in his hand.

This whistle stick, Wu Song has always carried with him when he came out of Chaijinzhuang. The author mentioned it from time to time, and we thought that in the end we would rely on it to fight tigers.We thought the author was so serious and always reminded us of this prop, but this time it finally shined brightly and was a fatal blow. Unexpectedly, it was this ending, which greatly frustrated our expectations.This is also one of the literary techniques used by the author to create suspense and twists and turns. It's an accident, adding to the waves, and it's the novelist's business to deliberately scare the reader.

Moreover, we can see that Wu Song is still very nervous until now, and although his movements are brave, they are somewhat deformed. More importantly, after this setback, did Wu Song panic? It should be said that he dodged the previous three times because he was looking for an opportunity to strike. When the opportunity came, he tried his best to give the opponent a fatal blow, but he missed. It became the violent tiger criticized by Confucius—beating a tiger with bare hands. This is a serious psychological test.Such serious setbacks can deal a severe blow to a person's confidence. This is the second stage of Wu Song's fight against the tiger: beating with sticks.

The big worm roared, became sexually aroused, turned over and pounced again, pounced towards it. Wu Song jumped suddenly, but retreated ten steps. One jump is ten steps away. This is a sign of being frightened, and it is a sudden panic response after a shot and a miss. However, Wu Song quickly controlled his emotions. The tiger that rushed over happened to put its two front paws in front of Wu Song.Wu Song quickly threw the half of the stick aside, grabbed the tiger's top skin with both hands, and pressed it down.The big worm was about to struggle and had already lost its strength.Wu Song accepted it with all his strength, and he was willing to let it go a little bit.

Unable to free his hands, Wu Song had no choice but to use his feet. He looked at the tiger's face with his feet and kicked wildly in his eyes. This is the third stage of Wu Song's fight against the tiger: kicking. The big worm roared, picked up two piles of yellow mud under its body, and made a pit.This just helped Wu Song, Wu Song pushed the big worm's mouth straight into the yellow mud pit.The tiger was beaten to death by Wu Song. Wu Song tightly grasped the top flower skin with his left hand, stole his right hand, raised a fist the size of a hammer, and focused on hitting with all his strength.After fifty or seventy punches, blood gushed out from the tiger's eyes, mouth, nose and ears.

This is the fourth stage of Wu Song's fight against the tiger: punching. Wu Song let go, and went to the pine tree to look for the discounted prong, and held it in his hand, fearing that the big bug would not die, he beat it again with the prong. As we mentioned above, Wu Song never leaves his body with this whistle stick.But when we expected it to fight, it broke. At this time, when we had forgotten about it, the author just let it out again, so that it was finally useful. This is the fifth stage of Wu Song's fight against the tiger: beating to death. After dodging, sticking, kicking, punching, and finally, finally killing. We said earlier that Wu Song didn't want to fight a tiger, didn't dare to fight, and didn't know how to fight.Just because he was so face-saving, so conceited, and so brave, he forced himself to have no way out, so he had to fight. If you hit it, you will really kill it. To be a hero is to become a hero. Many things in the world are often like this. After Wu Song killed the tiger, he was promoted by the magistrate of Yanggu County and became the capital of Yanggu County.Shangguan sees love and is famous in the village.A fugitive, transformed into the captain of the county criminal police team.Wu Song was so unhappy that he temporarily forgot about going back to Qinghe County to visit his brother. However, there are unpredictable things in the sky, and people have blessings and misfortunes.Lao Tzu also said that blessings come and misfortunes come.Wu Song, who had just killed a tiger, was about to start killing again soon, but this time he killed a human.Killing the tiger turned him from a fugitive to a capital, and the next killing turned him from a capital to a prisoner. What's going on here?