Chapter 251 Military Deduction
This leads to different people having different understandings in learning ancient Chinese culture, just like a thousand Hamlets with a thousand readers. This is said to be profound in Chinese culture, but in fact, many of them are not profound in ancient people, but you just experience it yourself. Different people have different experiences, but they think it was taught by their ancestors.
As a person who studies liberal arts, Li Yuanba is actually very clear that the ancients were not geniuses, and he may not know what you, as a descendant, would have experienced. In fact, the ancients only gave you an inspiration, the main thing was your own experience, not the teachings of the ancients. The ancients might not have meant what you mean, but you mistakenly thought it was what the ancients told you, and thus came up with a profound idea. In ancient times, people were human beings, even Sun Wu was human beings, and they were not gods, and they could not know the changes in the development of the times. However, because of these various reasons, the classics of ancient people were too ambiguity. Many times they had to rely on their own experiences. As a result, different people had different experiences. In fact, they felt it themselves, and it was entirely their own contributions, but they were used to attributeing them to the ancients.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War is profound, but only smart people can understand the meaning. However, for those who are less talented, who are superstitious about Sun Tzu's Art of War, they must be beyond their reach. I think not only should there be books on strategy in this world, but books on combat are also indispensable. This book on combat is for those who are less talented. Strategy is certainly excellent, but strategy must also be based on strength. If you do not prove your strength through war, then any strategy will not be implemented in the end. Decision-making and execution are indispensable."
Although the argument for war is not as profound as so-called, in fact, it tells you how to fight in the army almost step by step. It can be said that the argument for war advocates using the left brain, that is, the half-brain responsible for academics, to fight. Sun Tzu's Art of War advocates using the right brain, that is, the artistic brain, to fight. People who learn Sun Tzu's Art of War are more emotional, while people who learn war arguments are more rational. Various human feelings and various military thinking in China are often biased towards sentiment. For example, what is sharing joys and sorrows with soldiers, and what is sucking pus for soldiers, these are actually all using sentiment to lead troops. This emotional method of leading troops has too high requirements for the personal quality of generals, and it completely places the victory or defeat on the ability of a general. In this case, it is easy to cause a big victory or a big defeat, which is often either a big victory or a big defeat.
"If you are a monarch or a prime minister, then emotionality is a good thing, because they are responsible for managing generals, and it is not appropriate to be too rational. But if you are an officer at the executive level, excessive emotionality is not necessarily a good thing! Often, it is either a big victory or a big defeat, which is very unstable."
Then, Li Yuanba explained to them about the qualities that middle and lower-level officers should have, and said: "As middle and lower-level officers, you should analyze rationally, rather than expecting to defeat the enemy through a strategy. This is unrealistic. Even if some generals are more calm and rational, this is just a calm and rational general, not all officers are also calm and rational. We place all hope on the main general, and then the ability of the main general often has an absolute impact on the outcome of the war. In fact, as an army, I think no matter who commands the army, I dare not say that the big victory is, at least I will not fail first. Therefore, before each battle, I should conduct a calm deduction so that there will be no situation where either a big victory or a big defeat is present."
"Deduction? Can the battle still be deduced? Aren't it all predicted by the leader?" Li Jing asked.
"Crown Prince, can the battle be deduced?" Li Jing asked.
Li Jing really couldn't imagine the battle process, and it was simply unimaginable. If the battle could be deduced, then would it be a battle? To find out why ancient people said that veterans were the ones who took the lead? In fact, because the veterans experienced a lot of battles, they could have a lot of combat experience. So they could have enough battlefield judgment and enough experience to judge various situations and then solve them. This is actually a factor rooted in the human relationships of Chinese civilization. It is advocated in China.
They use people without doubt and are used to managing with human feelings. In this model, they attach importance to communication between people, people, and things. Therefore, they are more willing to believe in a person's judgment. Under this model, it is easy to cause a non-human entrusted, and it will easily lead to a collapse of the country in the end! China's idea of using people without doubting people without doubting people depends too much on a certain person's ability and moral qualities. Even in war, the over-reliance of the main general in war will lead to the situation of liking veterans.
However, the West is good at data reasoning and then uses scientific methods to explain war. Over-utilizing rational data to analyze war is not conducive to their strategic planning and their ability to command in sensory aspects. So in the end, the East and the West learn from each other's strategic ideas in the Art of War. China also learns the ideas of the construction of Western staff, analyzes and deduces the situation through various data, and makes up for the shortcomings in the execution level. However, this is also based on the later exchanges between the East and the West to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses.
But at this time, there was no idea of using data to analyze war in the Tang Dynasty.
"General Li, you might as well deduce it for you! Go and get a map!" Li Yuanba said to the palace servant next to him.
After arriving at the map, this is obviously a map in Chang'an.
Chapter completed!