"A Song of Ice and Fire" is a fantasy historical novel written by American author George Martin, which was made into a blockbuster by HBO. Although the play does not correspond to the historical time and space coordinates, Martin is familiar with European history and integrates the history of the European Cold Weapon Age into the seven kingdoms he wrote. Therefore, readers can guess the relationship between the plot of the characters and the trend of European history in the book. A famous battle in the book "The Battle of the Five Kings" is also an insinuation of the War of the Roses in Europe. Reading the Battle of the Five Kings again, as an ordinary fan of books, I am still deeply attracted by the life and death on the battlefield, as well as the cleverness and mistakes of strategy. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is to define and describe the principles and framework of military theory. Looking at the politics of bloodshed in the West with the achievements of Eastern civilization, readers can better understand the inevitability of winning and losing.
The cause of "The Battle of the Five Kings" is that the prince born by Queen Cersei and her younger brother James incest was discovered by the Prime Minister that he was not the king's bloodline. Two younger brothers, Stannis and Renly, are kings, respectively, and the wealthiest Highgarden family in the west supports Renly with marriage as a bargaining chip. And the Stark family in the north marched south because their leader Eddard Stark was beheaded by the queen.
The Iron Islands took advantage of the fire to rob the Stark family's territory and cooperated with the Lannister family. In the Battle of the Five Kings, the Lannister family, the initiators, were attacked from back and forth. In the face of the provocation of Stannis, Lanley and Stark, the Lannisters, the actual control family of the Iron Throne, were the top five in the beginning. The elements are not reliable. Every day, the Lannister family is the chaebol friend of the Iron Throne. However, they did not expect the outbreak of war. They originally wanted the prince to directly ascend to the throne. Discarded by the National Justice League. Land - land, battle for land. King's Landing is deeply surrounded by three major armies. The city's best warlords have been sent to intercept Stark's army, while Stannis' regular army and witches, and the richest family, Tilly, controlled by Renly Er is leading his army to conquer King's Landing. House Dow-Lannister took the stage as usurpers from the start. General - The Lannister family lost the first general of the Seven Kingdoms, Jaime, leaving only his father Tywin and his younger brother Tyrion. Although both of them are resourceful, they are not in harmony, and the Lannister family is even more difficult to sell teammates. Little, the actions of the cruel queen Cersei and the little king Joffrey have lost people's hearts. French: This is the most hidden part of the Lannister family. In the end, they saw through the nature of the slaughter of the interested parties behind the war, and lured the swaying family to their own side, and the Lannister family can be said to be the worst in the play. Those who are afraid of making insidious tricks, in order to win, disregard dignity, and do not give their opponents any chance to escape.
Yet even though the Lannisters' odds of winning in the early days of the war were low, they were still looking forward to the next few major battles.
After Tyrion was arrested by Catelyn, Duke Tywin gathered two armies in Casterly Rock, 20,000 men led by himself and 15,000 men led by Ser Jaime. At the same time, he dispatched a small force under the command of Gregor Clegane, disguised as bandits, to raid the Riverlands ruled by the Tullys. Robb Stark immediately summoned his father's vassals at Winterfell, and led 12,000 men south to Carim Bay. At the same time, Tywin began to send troops to the riverlands, and the war was about to break out. Stark's Alliance Tully was on the verge of collapse, harassing Lannister's supply lines in the rear.
Robb Stark gathered some of his vassals' troops, with a total strength of 18,000 men, giving the Lannister army no chance to cross the neck. After crossing the neck, the Lannister family stepped into the gate of the north. However, the cunning Duke Tywin had no intention of going north. Instead, he uprooted the castles of the Riverlands one by one, making Riverrun an isolated city and trapped in a siege. Robb had no choice but to travel south to support his grandfather and uncle. In order to go south, Robb reached an agreement with Walder Frey, the owner of the Luancheng River, in exchange for alliances. At this price, he attacked the Lannister army by surprise, and lured the Lannister general James and a small army into Robb's hands. The flickering shot here fully shows Robb's art of avoiding the real and making the fictitious. He captures the thief first and captures the king. Although the enemy is high and deep, he has managed to avoid the empty position where the army is attacking them. At the same time, Robb led the remaining troops and Riverrun's defender Tytos Blackwood to attack and attack the West Camp. Fowler Prester of Nanying saw that the situation was not good, so he had to lead his troops 4, 000 retreated to the Golden Teeth. The North, led by a young dark horse like Robb, pulled out the minions of the old lion Tywin, and imprisoned his golden, rich and handsome son Jaime, which was a great shame for Lannister. But Tywin is not a vegetarian. He proposed to exchange James for the two Stark girls imprisoned in King's Landing. At this moment, James is the biggest profit in the Stark barracks. After letting James go, Robb was naturally furious when he found out. Winning the war in the overall situation is the most important thing to appease people's hearts. There is discord in the army, and rifts have appeared in the north. In the end, it was the failure of the marriage that destroyed the Northern Territory. Hero Robb was saddened by Beauty Pass, made a private life agreement with a nurse in the army, and tore up the agreement with the Frey family. Tywin took advantage of the Freys' wrath and staged the most brutal and suffocating blood wedding of ice and fire. Frey pretended to agree to replace the bridegroom sent by the North to the candidate of Mrs. Stark's family, hide a knife in a smile, and shut the door and brutally slaughtered the king of the North, Robb and all his generals. Tywin's people's heart strategy is advanced layer by layer, there are needles hidden in the cotton, the storm hidden in the calm, the king of the north, Robb, who could have ruled the world with benevolent governance and love for the people, all turned to ashes in the bloody wedding, and he finally lost in the honor of refusing to marry the Frey family. , married the daughter of a humble aristocrat who had nothing to do with his career. Frey hated the North and despised him the most, which inspired their hatred and strengthened their mentality to seek an alliance with Tywin. Although the Scarlet Wedding trampling on the rights of guests is an act of common anger, Robb reaps the consequences to a certain extent. In addition, the biggest mistake of Robb's military career was that he gave Tywin a chance to breathe. When the Lannister's old lair Casterly Rock was harassed by Robb's subordinates, he did not consult with his subordinates, so the Tywin army still defended Harrenhal, and King's Landing was close to Harrenhal, so King's Landing could not be destroyed by others.
War is a deceitful technique. Therefore, if you can fight, you show weakness; if you want to fight, pretend to retreat; if you want to attack near, pretend to attack far; if you want to attack far, pretend to attack close; if the enemy is greedy for profit, he will be lured by small profits; the enemy will be confused. When the enemy is strong, he must be on guard; when the enemy is strong, he must avoid its front; when the enemy is aggressive, try to disturb him; when the enemy is humble, he must be arrogant; when the enemy is comfortable, he must be tired; Harmony, it is necessary to divide them. Robb did everything in front of him, but he was alienated by the enemy. He didn't know that Foyle had left his old feelings and formed an alliance with the enemy after being betrayed. Justice is turned to ashes in the flame of power, and blood flows under the blade of goodness. Righteous and kind people are struggling in the game of power, still stubbornly resisting their dreams, and power will return their homes and ruins. It is a tragedy for a military genius like Robb to be dragged down by emotional intelligence and feelings. It also shows that war serves politics. "A war is not necessarily a battle, and it is won without a fight". However, he died tragically at the wedding banquet. This shows that he was a brave and bloody general. The temple decides the outcome. He underestimated the unfathomable nature of the human heart. It is not the battlefield that is the winning point, but also a decision in the camp. There are thousands of troops, but unfortunately Robb believes that the charm and prestige of the commander are all forged on the horse, so he bruised the military's heart and rashly married a wife became the biggest failure of his life.
And Tywin just took a breath on the battlefield in the north, waiting for him is a more critical moment of survival. King's Landing has no natural danger to defend, Stannis killed his younger brother with witch magic, and rushed to King's Landing with his army. Stannis is the legitimate first in line to the Iron Throne. After all, the so-called Prince Joffrey is the illegitimate son of Queen Cersei and Jaime the Lion Cub (according to the king's family hair color according to the aristocratic genealogy). Stannis was an excellent general, a heroic commander, and a loyal supporter of the Deer family's regime. On Dragonstone, Stannis had many relatives from his wife's Florent family as his advisors, and he began to concentrate all his strengths. . After killing his brother Renly, he occupied another kingdom, Storm's End. Stannis then launched an amphibious attack on King's Landing. Just as victory is in sight, reinforcements from Lannister and Tyrell arrive suddenly, and appear to be led by the ghost of Renly, (actually Garland Tyrell dons Renly's armor), In the end, Stannis lost the battle, which had a wonderful story twist. Stannis is also a general in the early stage of victory. He is more decisive and calm than Robb. His strength and armament are excellent. It is only a matter of time to capture King's Landing. Sun Tzu said: To start an army, you need to prepare a thousand light vehicles, a thousand heavy vehicles, 100,000 fully-armed soldiers, and deliver food thousands of miles away. Then the expenses for the front and rear of the military, the expenses for entertaining envoys and strategists, the expenses for materials such as glue and paint used for weapon maintenance, the expenses for maintaining chariots and armors, etc., consume thousands of gold every day. So what Stannis wants is a quick fix, or to be stationed outside King's Landing
Although King's Landing is in a passive defensive position, the queen still came up with a secret attack method: spread the green oil barrels left by the previous dynasty on the moat, and shoot a rocket arrowhead. Stannis's forward troops suffered heavy casualties. , but this did not prevent Stannis from having enough troops behind him. It's just that the soldiers are all confused about Jun's Landing. I don't know how many conspiracies and tricks there are in this dark high city. Stannis didn't care about the safety of the soldiers at all, and just called the elite troops to rush forward. He himself climbed up the city wall first, and then there was a tragic stone battle. The army was shocked and fought desperately to climb up. In fact, morale has been slowly declining. , a lot of people want to escape. The general who was much worse than Stannis was King Joffrey of King's Landing. He wore bright armor and went to the city wall to fool the guards. He had to go to the palace to hide. At this time, the morale of King's Landing also fell to the bottom. When Stannis smashed through the city gate with a wooden stake, the dwarf little devil, the prime minister who had never been respected by the powerful, stood in front of the city gate and said to the city guards who wanted to escape: "The glory and wealth after the victory of the war has nothing to do with you. Fuck the honor, fuck the responsibility, you really get nothing, but the enemy rushed in and burned down your house, slaughtered your parents, and raped your wives and daughters. It's a group of villains, let's go and annihilate them together." The little devil knows that the most basic thing in war is people's hearts. He knew that soldiers had had enough of the hypocritical promises of politicians, only to tell them that they were not defending a regime but themselves. Those words really made the timid soldiers heroically slash the incoming enemy.
Tywin also arrived at the right time and cut off Stannis' hind wings. The High Ting family knew that they had complicit with Renly in the past, and that they were already rebels. Now they have rejoined the Lannister side, hoping to share the fruits of victory together in the future. Lannister wins on the big picture of the iron-fisted general Tywin and his dwarf son's strategy of stabilizing his heart when the city is in chaos. Sun Tzu's Art of War provides a military philosophy. Military is a derivative of politics, so he narrates it from a political point of view. The series of negotiations in the book by Tywin and the little devil also fully shows that they are not in chaos because of temporary victory and defeat. Fang-inch people, treacherous teammates like Foyle, and families who see the wind like High Court, they still use them. They use war as a means of resolving conflicts between communities of interest. The specific tactics are the commander's business, and Tywin has many The method is consistent with Sun Tzu's Art of War, that is, the role of how to harm people is far greater than how to use tactics to defeat the enemy in war. At that time, when I was watching the drama, I just thought that "successful people are so ruthless and ruthless in calculating others." Now, after watching Sun Tzu's Art of War, it seems that I have a new understanding of Tai Wen's cruelty.
A few thousand words can't describe the magnificent political struggle behind this battle. War is bloody politics, and what's even more fascinating in the book is the wits of the many characters. Using the wisdom of Eastern warfare to interpret Western battles, it can be seen that the way of management and the way of using troops is indeed broad and profound in Sun Tzu's Art of War.
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