354. The Art of War 15 | Know yourself and know yourself. Do you blame Sun Wu for putting forward five factors?
We can't help asking, what does "winning every battle" need to "know"? Sun Tzu put forward five principles of "knowing how to win". Please see below!
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In the last article, Sun Tzu first listed three situations in which the monarch might harm the army because of his "ignorance".
This section puts forward five principles of "knowing victory".
Finally, a basic law of war guidance is summed up-know yourself and know yourself, and win every battle.
After reading the Plot of War, the sea was particularly impressed by the three pairs of dialectical relations.
The more you know, the more thoroughly you analyze, and the greater your chances of winning.
Know nothing, be completely blind, and have no chance of winning.
From the initial explanation, the essence of the five principles of "knowing victory" mainly includes:
One is to know the timing of advance and retreat. Be able to act with a camera, attack like a tiger going down the mountain, defend like Mount Tai, move like a rabbit, be as quiet as a virgin, and "save yourself and destroy the enemy" to the maximum extent.
The second is to know the strategy of using troops. Can be flexible and changeable, "the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbed, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase", fight if you win, and run if you don't win.
The third is to know the morale of soldiers. To achieve the unity of the monarch and the minister, the integration of the military and the people, the whole heart, the unity as iron, the cohesion as steel, and the common enemy.
The fourth is to know the preparation before the war. It is necessary to make full preparations for troops, sufficient material reserves, adequate supplies of grain and grass, and perfect equipment, so as to be ready for battle, take it by surprise, and win by surprise.
The fifth is to know that decentralization is responsible. Can fully trust subordinates, be tolerant of "your life will not be affected outside", and know that victory is the common ultimate goal, and everything is for victory.
Sun Tzu believes that "knowing ourselves and ourselves" is the premise of correctly guiding the war. Only by fully understanding each other's feelings can we be in an invincible position, otherwise it will have extremely dangerous consequences.
What I am talking about here is the dialectical relationship between "knowledge" and "war". It has profound internal logic to "know" thoroughly first and then "fight".
Modern warfare is still the same. When two soldiers confront each other, they scout first, and the test is the amount of "knowledge" and the depth of concealment.
If you don't "know", no matter how advanced the weapon is, no matter how terrible the "trump card" is, it will become worse than poker because it has no goal.
If you don't know, the battlefield will become like a minefield. Imagine how the deaf and the blind survive. Let alone win the battle.
The deeper, more thorough and comprehensive "knowledge" is, the more active the battlefield will be. If we fight again at this time, we will have won the initiative.
Know yourself and know yourself, and it has become a famous saying that every battle is invincible.
This sentence is one of the main essences in Sun Tzu's Art of War, which emphatically points out the central link and basic content of solving the victory or defeat of war.
Carefully consider Sun Tzu's Art of War, say "bosom friend" first, and then talk about "bosom friend". It's not just a matter of sorting, there are many articles.
One is the logical relationship. In the language habits of daily speech, it is natural for us to say "mutual benefit", but it is somewhat awkward to say "mutual benefit".
Second, the actual needs of the battlefield. To plan a battle against the enemy, we must first obtain the enemy's situation, then compare it with our own situation and weigh the advantages and disadvantages, so as to draw up a reasonable battle plan.
Third, the difficulty of acquisition is different. Our own situation is relatively easy to obtain, and we usually accumulate information, especially in wartime. The enemy is heavily guarded and the situation is complex, so it needs to spend more energy and take more risks. So we have to chew the hard bone first.
Based on the above knowledge, there is nothing wrong with "knowing each other" first and then "confiding".
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