Chapter 80 9. Intelligence warfare and information warfare

Liu Bang's three intelligence wars and information wars all took place in 204 BC. From the perspective of time series, the first intelligence war should be an accidental event.It happened at the beginning of the Anyi War. Liu Bang ordered Li Shiqi, a lobbyist, to go to the West Wei State to lobby Wei Wangbao, and wanted Wei State to stand in his camp.Wei Wangbao clearly rejected Li Shiqi, but he had no awareness of precautions, and asked Li Shiqi to collect detailed information on Wei's army, and returned with a full load.Then, Liu Bang and Han Xin formulated a clearly targeted strike plan in response to the deployment of Wei's army, and as a result, Wei was destroyed in the first battle.

Obviously, the successful elimination of Wei State made Liu Bang realize the importance of intelligence at once.It is certain that after this incident, he thought of the pawns lying in ambush beside Xiang Yu, and officially launched an intelligence war against Xiang Yu. The information Xiang Bo sent back for Liu Bang was about the discord between Jiujiang Wang Yingbu and Xiang Yu. This information gave Liu Bang hope, and he decided to implement the exposure plan, so that Yingbo, who thought he was smart, would send Yingbo on the wall without knowing it. There is no way to go, but he can only be an enemy of Xiang Yu with all his heart.This operation is the second information war launched by Liu Bang.

Therefore, when the Han envoy arrived in Jiujiang with He He and was received, the plan was already a third of success.And when Yingbo received the Han envoy at any time, two-thirds of the plan had been successful. Although the last step of the plan only accounts for one-third of the process, it plays a decisive role in the overall plan.This step is to wait until the envoy of Chu arrives, and he rushes in for a showdown, announcing the incident of Yingbo stepping on two boats, leaving Yingbo with nowhere to go. The exposure plan was implemented smoothly, and finally Yingbo broke with Xiang Yu and jumped to Liu Bang's camp.But this successful battle must have inspired Liu Bang, Zhang Liang and others to analyze the case in detail.

There is only one question to be analyzed: What are the decisive variables in the exposure campaign against Yingbo? If you get this key variable right, then you have mastered the fundamentals of information warfare, allowing you to use the tactic flexibly. From intelligence warfare to information warfare, there is only one key variable: the transmission of information! The reason why the Han army was able to win the victory in Anyi was because they had first grasped the opponent's military intelligence and accurate information. From this we can derive the first law of information warfare.

Law 1: Information is the premise of decision-making. Next, Liu Bang and Zhang Liang launched the exposure plan against Yingbo. The smooth success of the plan made them quickly summarize the second law of information warfare: Law 2: By controlling information, you can control the life and death of the other party. The most important point in the exposure plan is that Liu Bang has absolute control over the information.He was able to obtain information about Xiang Yu in a timely and accurate manner, and at the same time, he was able to deliver the information he wanted to Xiang Yu's ears, prompting Xiang Yu to act as he expected.

During the whole incident, Xiang Yu was like a lifeless puppet, completely played by Liu Bang.If Liu Bang wanted to know his situation, he could get it accurately through agent Xiang Bo.And Liu Bang hoped that Xiang Yu would hear something, and he would be able to pass on the information smoothly, thus controlling Xiang Yu's choice. What is certain is that Liu Bang and Zhang Liang finally discovered the third law of information warfare by manipulating Yingbu. Law 3: Information is transmitted through channels, channels cannot be controlled, but information can be controlled. This law means that Xiang Yu's emissary faithfully reported to Xiang Yu the situation he saw - but this situation was false, which led to Xiang Yu's misjudgment.

When Liu Bang discovered the third law, he also discovered that he could manipulate the fate of anyone on Xiang Yu's side at will.Therefore, regardless of the fact that Xingyang City was besieged by the Chu army, and his own life was in danger, he still launched the third information war against Yafu Fan Zeng. In the attack against his sub-father Fan Zeng, Liu Bang has firmly controlled two information channels, one is Xiang Bo who is lurking the deepest beside Xiang Yu, and the other is the spy network operated by the handsome man Chen Ping.These two information chains, one in the government and the other in the opposition, one is around Xiang Yu, and the other is public opinion, which has formed an extremely unfavorable environment for Fan Zeng.You can be sure that Xiang Yu at this time will often hear "reports from the masses" and rumors about Fan Zeng's secret communication with the Han army.But this information is hidden and cannot be disclosed. What Liu Bang has to do is to control Xiang Yu's information channel and pass the distorted information to Xiang Yu's ears.

Xiang Yu's information channel is the emissary sent by himself.In Jiujiang, Liu Bang has successfully used this channel to deliver the information he wanted to Xiang Yu's ears.This time, Liu Bang still wants to repeat the same trick. From the perspective of the third law of information warfare, Xiang Yu's information channel is faithful to Xiang Yu himself, but the information it feeds back can be controlled.Liu Bang has already played Yingbo with this method, and now he wants to play Fan Zeng again. So when the envoy of Chu arrived, Chen Ping pretended to admit the wrong person according to Liu Bang's instruction, and deliberately sent delicious food and wine. When the envoy of Chu was in full bloom, he suddenly removed the food.This strong stimulus intensified Chu envoy's resentment and dissatisfaction with Fan Zeng.He faithfully passed on this information, but Xiang Yu had no reason to doubt the authenticity of this information.

Through the above analysis, we can find out.What the Han envoy Sui He said to the Chu envoy in Jiujiang was the same as what Chen Ping, a handsome man, teased the Chu envoy in Xingyang in terms of mechanism and principle.It was Liu Bang who used Xiang Yu's information channel to create false information first, and passed it through this channel, thereby controlling Xiang Yu's choice. What needs to be explained is that when Liu Bang was immersed in the research of information warfare with great interest, he controlled Xiang Yu's behavior and killed Fan Zeng alive. He was besieged by the Chu army in Xingyang City. It was made under the circumstances of less work.

What does this mean? It can only show that Liu Bang is too playful, and when he is about to die, he still thinks about cheating and harming others every day. There is really nothing to do with him.