🔥 Story 4 : Hua Xiong and Li Su Burn Sun Jian

🔥 Story 4 : Hua Xiong and Li Su Burn Sun Jian

Hua Xiong's deputy, Hu Zhen, led 5,000 soldiers out of the pass to meet the enemy. Cheng Pu, riding a horse and wielding a spear, charged directly at Hu Zhen. After a short exchange, Cheng Pu pierced Hu Zhen's throat with his spear, killing him instantly. Sun Jian seized the opportunity and led his troops all the way to the city gate, but arrows and stones rained down from the walls, forcing Sun Jian to retreat to Liangdong to encamp. He sent messengers to Yuan Shao to report the victory and also urged Yuan Shu to provide supplies.

Someone said to Yuan Shu, "Sun Jian is the tiger of Jiangdong! If he takes Luoyang and kills Dong Zhuo, you've driven away a wolf but raised a tiger. If you don't give him supplies now, his army will naturally disintegrate." Upon hearing this, Yuan Shu stopped providing supplies. Sun Jian's army ran out of food and began to fall into disarray. Spies reported this to Hua Xiong. Li Su advised Hua Xiong, "Tonight I'll lead a detachment along a side path to raid Sun Jian's rear camp. You can then attack from the front and capture Sun Jian."

Hua Xiong (a subordinate of Dong Zhuo) followed this advice, ordering his soldiers to eat their fill and then march out of the pass under cover of night. That night, the moon was bright and the wind was clear. When Hua Xiong's army arrived at Sun Jian's camp, it was already midnight. They sounded the war drums, and the sound was deafening as they advanced.

1. Why did Sun Jian suffer a defeat and find himself at a disadvantage?

2. If Sun Jian could go back to the previous day, what else could he do?

[Like in the movie: Frontier of Tomorrow. Tom Cruise, after being tainted by the blue monster's blood,

could go back to the previous day even after death and start over.]

3. What kind of advice did Sun Jian's army need?

(A) Troops must put on their armor before resting.

(B) Troops must prepare their horses before resting.

(C) High-quality bows must be prepared.

(D) Troops must have night patrols.

1. Sun Jian suffered a defeat and was at a disadvantage. Why?

Because Sun Jian panicked, the bows were of poor quality, and later they broke.

Sun Jian was careless; he did not anticipate the possibility of a counterattack and was unprepared.

Because he didn't have enough troops, and his defenses were inadequate.

He was ambushed by Hua Xiong in the middle of the night. He hadn't arranged sentry posts outside the camp, nor assigned scouts to monitor the enemy's camp.

Li Xiao set fire to the camp too suddenly; Sun Jian's army had no sentries on duty. When they encountered the fire, they scattered in panic.

2. If Sun Jian could go back to the previous day, what else could he do?

[Like the movie: Tomorrow's Frontier] Tom Cruise, after getting his hands on the blue monster's blood,

could go back to the previous day even after dying, and start over.

He has intelligence.

Strategist: Planning; Combatist: Combat; Hermit: Leaving the chaotic world.

 Strategist: Defend the base, retreat the troops to the stronghold first, retreat to the base first, reorganize at a nearby stronghold, retrieve my equipment from the cave (original version, Meng Huo's version), organize military supplies.

 Combatist: Sentinels, send out sentries, prepare more sentries, multiple sentries, leave troops for night patrols, have people guard outside. Be more vigilant.

Make better bows and arrows, improve their quality, and keep the troops calm. Prepare archers, when the enemy comes: fire arrows. Send more men.

There needs to be reinforcements and a personal guard. Organize the guard, assign tasks first: prepare supplies, withdraw troops a short distance, rehearse layered resistance strategies for generals, deputy generals, and personal guards, arrange sentry posts outside the camp, monitor scouts in the enemy camp, design your own camp base for zoned management, and conversely, divide your own camp base into real and fake sections, set traps to surround the enemy.

 Reclusive Faction: Leave first, resign, disband the army, change names, go to sea to hide, go overseas to live in seclusion, go deep into the mountains and become a Taoist priest or monk.

3. What kind of advice does Sun Jian's army need?

[Short-term is acceptable, long-term is not; one or two days is acceptable, more than ten days is not]

(A) Before the troops rest, they should put on their armor—so that they can react immediately if suddenly attacked.

(B) Before the troops rest, the horses should be prepared—the stables should be manned in shifts; there should be horses at all times.

[This isn't the key to victory, though it's a good idea.]

(C) High-quality bows must be prepared.

[Correct]

(D) The army should have night patrol units—in shifts, three to four shifts. Keep watch. When the enemy launches a night attack, quickly sound the horn.

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