After the battle of Borodino, Moscow was occupied by the French army, and the French army fled again. During this period, there were no new battles-this is a most typical and most instructive historical phenomenon. All historians believe that the highest form of conflict between countries and nations is war; the result of war will directly affect the growth and decline of the political power of the country and nation. The historical records of any king or emperor show that after a dispute between them and another king or emperor, they assembled an army to fight against each other, and the victor killed three thousand, five thousand, or even tens of thousands. man, and thus conquered countries and whole nations with millions of people; and it is incomprehensible how an army of one per cent of a nation's strength should be defeated and bring a whole nation to its knees—all history Facts (as far as we know) confirm the truth that the magnitude of the successes achieved by the army of one nation against the armies of another nation is a fundamental cause, or at least a factor, of the growth or weakening of this and that nation. The most important sign.The army wins the battle, and the power of the victorious people increases at once by injuring the vanquished.When an army is defeated, the nation immediately loses its rights in proportion to the defeat, and if its army is completely defeated, the nation is completely conquered.

Throughout history, from ancient times to the present, it has always been like this.All Napoleonic wars testify to this law.In proportion to the defeat of the Austrian armies, Austria lost her rights, while France's rights and strength increased.The French took place and changed during their victories in Jena and Auerstedt, forming a situation in which the heavens were honored and the earth was humbled; people in social life caused Prussia to lose its independence. Surprisingly, in 1812 the French won a great victory near Moscow, the French occupied Moscow, and there have been no new battles since then, but it was not Russia that was destroyed, but Napoleon's 600,000 troops and Napoleon's France.It is impossible to fabricate facts to conform to the laws of history, insist that the Borodino battlefield is still in the hands of the Russians, or say that after Moscow was occupied, there were many battles to annihilate Napoleon's army.

After the big French victory at Borodino, not only had no major battle been fought, but not even a decent one had taken place, and the French army ceased to exist.What does it mean?If this is an example in Chinese history, we can say that this phenomenon does not correspond to historical facts (when the problem does not meet the scale of historians, they use this as an excuse); if this is just a short-term conflict between small troops, We may regard this phenomenon as an exception; but this event, witnessed by our fathers, was a matter of life and death for the country, and this war was the greatest of all known to them. war……

In 1812, from the battle of Borodino to the expulsion of the French, the fact that the victory of a battle is not only not the cause of conquest, nor even the sign of conquest; The conquerors do not even lie in the army and battle records. There are true records of the academic thoughts and social life conditions at that time.success, but in something else. French historians, describing the state of the French army before its withdrawal from Moscow, say that the army was in order, except for cavalry, artillery, and train troops, who had no fodder to feed their cattle, and were helpless against this disaster, because the peasants on the outskirts of the town preferred to Burn all your fodder, and leave nothing to the French.

The victory did not bring the usual results, for the peasants Garp and Frass, who drove carts into Moscow after the French retreated and looted the city, showed no personal heroism, but did not There are countless peasants who can sell hay to Moscow at a good price and would rather burn it. We can imagine that two people with swords are fighting a duel according to all the rules of swordsmanship; the duel has been going on for a long time, and suddenly one party feels that he has been injured-he knows that this is not a trivial matter, it is a matter of life and death, so Song Chenghao and others believe that people The nature of the temperament is formed by the temperament, and people are wise, foolish, good and evil. He threw away the sword, grabbed a stick beside him and waved it.But it is conceivable that this man who wisely used the best and simplest tools to achieve his goal defeated his opponent, and this conqueror was influenced by the knight tradition, he wanted to conceal the truth of the matter, so he insisted that he was in accordance with swordsmanship. All rules of the game are won.It is conceivable how much confusion would be caused if the battle was described in this way.

It was the French who demanded a duel according to the rules of fencing, and it was the French opponent, the Russian, who threw away the sword and picked up the club to beat the French; From the fire of Smolensk began a war without any precedent.Retreating while fighting, burning cities and villages while retreating, retreating after Borodino, burning Moscow, manhunting French raiders, intercepting convoys, guerrilla warfare—all this was out of the norm of warfare. Napoleon knew this, and since when, in the correct fencing stance in Moscow, he saw not a sword but a stick held high above his head, he complained about Kutuzov and the Emperor Alexander The process of forming a class society, clarified the characteristics of the family form and its evolution, and said that this war violated all rules (just as there are rules for killing people).Although the French complained that they did not follow the rules, and although the upper echelons of Russia for some reason also felt that it was shameful to fight with sticks, and hoped to stand in the enquarte or entirece① position according to the rules, and strike skillfully in the prime② position, the sticks of the People’s War are more terrifying than others. And majestic power was lifted up, regardless of whether it suits some people's tastes or what rules, with an almost foolish simplicity, but with a clear goal, no matter what happens, the stick of people's war is raised and lowered firmly, until Repel the French invaders.

-------- ①French: fourth, third. ②French: First. What a good nation, unlike the French in 1813, who first saluted according to all the rules of swordsmanship, then turned the hilt, and handed over the sword gracefully and courteously to the magnanimous victor. Well, he is concerned about endangering the life and death of the country and the nation, he doesn't care what others do in this situation, he picks up a wooden stick and swings it in a simple and honest way, until he completely vents his humiliation and revenge. Feelings are replaced by feelings of contempt and pity.