The Strategy of Coordinating Tactics
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During the Song Dynasty, Jin often attacked the border towns of Song. And the small Song border garrisons were not capable of defending themselves from the strong Jin army and were often badly mauled in battle. Bi Zai Yu knew that it was suicidal to fight the Jin army directly. So instead he used guerilla warfare. Whenever the Jin army advanced to attack him, he retreated and fled with his garrison. Whenever the Jin army took a break, he harassed and attacked them. Soon the Jin army was exhausted fighting a guerilla war with the small Song garrison.
Once, while the Jin army was taking a break, Bi Zai Yu launched an attack again. When the Jin army responded, the Song army fled. So the Jin army returned to their camp. But when the Jin army was just about to take a break, the Song army returned and beat their battle drums to fight again. The Jin camp had no time to feed their horses before they had to fight again. Bi Zai Yu anticipated that the horses must be starving by now. So he ordered his soldiers to prepare lots of beans and scattered them on the ground. When the Jin army arrived, their starving horses saw the beans and started feed on them in a frenzy, oblivious to the orders given by their riders. The Jin army fell into chaos, and the Song garrison annihilated the Jin army.
Strategy 35: The Strategy of Coordinating Tactics
When the enemy is too powerful to fight directly, use a combination of well-coordinated schemes and strategies to achieve victory. However, because the complicated battle plan needs near perfect coordination, if one thing falls apart, everything will far apart.
