Chapter 120 Section 2 rules over wins and losses

Wang Wenhua, a party member, led the Guizhou army into western Hunan to take the life of Ma Jizeng, a famous Beiyang general, on January 31, 1916. However, Wang Wenhua is just a scholar, why is he so sure? Wang Wenhua used a ruthless trick: fight without declaration! War is an extreme method of politics, and it happens under certain extreme circumstances. No more talking about reasoning.The opponent pokes you to death, and the result is the same.In short, war is not the goal, but a helpless choice as a last resort. Soldiers on the battlefield are the ones who understand this truth best. They all know that winning or losing is not important. The winner is not necessarily justified, and the loser is not necessarily unreasonable.Whether to win or lose, what is emphasized is military tactics, and has nothing to do with right and wrong.So what soldiers pursue is not to win. As I said, it may not be correct if you win. Is it necessary to win?

Since soldiers don't seek to win, what should they pursue?Is it still possible to pursue losing everything? It's not right to pursue losing. What soldiers pursue is a sense of honor and dignity.It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, God only knows which side the truth is on, and soldiers don't take responsibility for it.What the soldiers pursue is a standard and fair rule of war, which requires every soldier to be upright and aboveboard.The result is not important, but the rules in the process of advancing to the result are the most important. Open and fair rules of the game are a necessary condition for the healthy operation of a society.The more just the society, the lower the cost of living for people, because there are rules to follow and laws to follow, and life is enjoyable, like a fish in water.And a society that does not obey the rules is the most painful society, because everyone does not obey the rules, which means that this society has no rules.A society without rules is more terrifying than hell. It increases the cost of survival, makes people's happiness index plummet, and their pain index continues to rise.

Therefore, what the soldiers pursue is a social law that is conducive to the future and is open and just.Once this goal is lost, soldiers will become tools of violence that prey on the weak.Violent tools have no sense of dignity and honor. An army without a sense of honor is no longer a soldier. Their goal is to win, and the best way to win is to choose unarmed civilians as opponents. At this time, the entire society will fall, and In the beginning, it was just a change in the rules of war. All in all, if soldiers pursue an upright war, declaring war is essential.To fight without declaring war, and to be caught coldly by the opponent, is to aim at winning, not at just social rules.You may end up winning, but instead you win a terrifying world that scares even you.

Taking a step back, war also has an extreme situation, and that is sports competition.Whether the rules are important or whether winning or losing is important, this issue is most clearly reflected in sports competitions.If any athlete thinks that winning or losing is more important than the rules, and stabs his opponent with a knife as soon as he enters the court, he wins, but the whole sport is lost. It is precisely because sports competition does not emphasize winning or losing but rules, it has gained a strong vitality.By the same token, a society that values ​​rules must have strong vitality, while a society that only values ​​results will be unreliable in its development.

But this principle does not make sense to Wang Wenhua.He came here to take Ma Jizeng's life, you have to argue with him that winning or losing is not important, how could it be unimportant?If Ma Jizeng is not killed, the foundation of Yuan Shikai, Emperor Hongxian, will be deeply rooted and unshakable. Of course, we can continue to argue, saying that Yuan Shikai is not important whether he is the emperor or not, what matters is whether he followed the rules, whether... If you continue to talk about it, Lao Wang's muzzle will come to you.Even at this juncture, you are still chattering, don't you mean to seek a beating?

Shut up, on New Year's Eve, the Beiyang soldiers were immersed in the joy of celebrating the Spring Festival, and Wang Wenhua shot. The sudden gunshots once again told us the truth: easy to know, hard to do.