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Chapter 77 Those who learn from me live, those who resemble me die

What everyone sees and discusses on the surface is not the key.There are two key points, one is the premise, condition, and situation at that time, and the other is the accumulation of skills in the past ten years or decades.People who learn from others often don't have the second thing, and don't know the first thing, so it's useless if it's so lively. Therefore, the extreme form of soldiers is invisible; if invisible, you can't peek into the depths, and the wise can't plan.It is better to be wrong because of the shape than the crowd, and the crowd cannot know.Everyone knows the form of my victory, but Mo knows the form of my victory, so his victory will never be repeated, but his form should be infinite.

Therefore, the extreme form of soldiers is invisible. The "shape" of "Xingbing" is to show the shape and pretend to move. The pretended movement may become a real movement at any time. It is not necessarily a deliberate illusion.Try every means to lead the opponent to misjudgment, lead the opponent to make mistakes, so "extreme form of soldiers", the ultimate display of form, endless changes, reaching the realm of intangibility, the enemy cannot judge, or accept the "judgment" we designed for him. If it is invisible, you cannot peek into the depths, and the wise cannot seek.

Du Mu's commentary said: "The way of employing soldiers in this statement, as far as the ultimate, is nothing more than invisible. Intangible, even if there is a space to peep at me deeply, you can't know my reality. Strength and weakness are not revealed to the outside. Even if there are wise men, You can't even seek me out." Even if there are spies who have penetrated deeply into our side, because I don't reveal the truth, I can't peep in the depths.Because I am strong and weak, even a wise man can't think of a way to deal with me. It is better to be wrong because of the shape than the crowd, and the crowd cannot know.

"Shapes" means showing the shape to mislead the enemy; "Invisibility" is the realm of my military use; "Because of the shape" means adapting measures to local conditions; Strategize to win. "Wrong", Li Quan commented that "wrong, set also". "Mistakes outweigh all the crowd." The victory is in front of everyone, but they still don't understand how to win. In the previous section of Sima Yi's conquest of Liaodong, until the final defeat of Gongsun Yuan, Sima Yi's subordinates did not understand what was going on, so Chen Gui asked him and asked him to give a lecture.

Everyone knows the form of my victory, but Mo knows the form of my victory, so his victory will never be repeated, but his form should be infinite. Everyone has seen how I used my troops and what kind of military form I used to win.But how I win based on the opponent's pawn shape, everyone doesn't know.The next time the enemy's situation is different, my method of winning because of the situation is not the same as this time.So the method I use will not be repeated, and it will vary endlessly depending on the shape. The so-called "learn from me live, like me die".You see how people win, learn to do exactly what they do, and end up losing miserably.Why, because he didn't know why, he did it according to the conditions at the time.By the time you do, all conditions and circumstances have changed.Moreover, the actions you have seen are not isolated, and there are other preconditions to cooperate. If you don’t have any, you just copy the cat and pretend to be a tiger, thinking that if others can do it, I can do it too, and then you will suffer.

For example, Han Xin fought his last battle, put it to death and survived.Deploy 10,000 people at the water's edge, and if they have no way out, they will fight to the death, and they will be able to defeat 200,000 people. Is that true? If you fight for a while longer, 10,000 people will be wiped out.Or if the other party yells to hand in their guns and not to kill, someone will surrender.Han Xin and two thousand soldiers rushed into Zhao's barracks, pulled out his banner, and planted the Han army's flag.When Zhao Jun saw that his old nest was gone, he ran away in panic, so he could take advantage of the situation to cover up the killing.

So these two thousand rare soldiers are the key.You have all learned the idiom "fight against the water", next time you set up a battle, do you dare to set up a battle with your back?Han Xin only announced this time, and he changed again next time. Those who learn from me live, those who resemble me die.What everyone sees and discusses on the surface is not the key.There are two key points, one is the premise, condition, and situation at that time, and the other is the accumulation of skills in the past ten years or decades.People who learn from others often don't have the second thing, and don't know the first thing, so it's useless if it's so lively.

Another point is that the art of war has to be learned backwards.Think more about the bad, and don't think too much about the good.First of all, it is not to learn how to calculate others, but to learn not to be calculated by others.Don't always think that I am invisible, I form it, mistake it, and then win it because of his form.In this way, the more you learn, the more beautiful you will be, and it will be over when you go to the battlefield.To do the opposite, every time you read a sentence, imagine yourself as the person who is "shaped", don't be misled, don't act rashly, first protect yourself, and then think about others, that is the way of war.

Reading is to observe oneself, and it is a natural habit of human beings to always take for granted the role and emotions of the winning side.Pay attention to the reverse, assume yourself as the loser, and think more about how to avoid failure, so that you can learn more.
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