As for the bad relationship between Sun Bin and Pang Juan, it is recorded in the history books that Pang Juanchu entered Wei as a general and sent someone to ask his old classmate Sun Bin to assist Wei, but he was jealous that Sun Bin could be taller than himself, so he tried his best to assassinate Sun Bin and "cut off his feet by legal punishment", which not only disabled his legs, but also tattooed his face. There are two things that confuse the author. To learn Sun Tzu's Art of War, Pang Juan should know Sun Bin's level. If he really knew that Sun Bin was better than himself, he would invite Sun Bin to Wei. Why, to compare yourself? If Pang Juan is afraid that Sun Bin will be used by other countries, which will be unfavorable to Wei in the future, and he is no match for him, then Pang Juan will think too much. In the Warring States period, job-hopping was so frequent that no one knew how long he would work in a country. If he gets rid of his old classmates, he won't get rid of his retreat in the future. First of all. And knowing that Sun Bin had a high level, he didn't kill him after framing him, which led to a high-level opponent who hated himself very much. It is really puzzling that Pang Juan carefully set up a game but left such a big flaw. Secondly. This old-brother-to-brother routine tells us that friends belong to friends, but don't be invited to do business together just because they are close. But when it comes to interests, not to mention friends, even father and son can meet.
With the help of Qi's emissary, Sun Bin escaped from Wei's capital and returned to his hometown, where he worshipped Qi's general Tian Ji as his teacher. The famous Tian Ji horse racing story, the secret trader is Sun Bin. Tian Ji and Qi's sons like to bet on horses together, and the stakes are quite high. Once Qi Weiwang also came to play, Sun Bin found that everyone's horses were almost the same, and they were all divided into upper, middle and lower grades, so he asked Tian Ji to bet heavily, and then arranged a race between Tian Ji's inferior horse and his opponent's superior horse, from the superior horse to his opponent's middle horse, and then from the inferior horse to his opponent's inferior horse, with two wins in three games and a sure win. When Qi Weiwang lost his daughter to Tian Ji, he would naturally ask Tian Ji how he did it. Tian Ji then introduced Sun Bin to Wang Wei, and Wang Wei took Sun Bin as the teacher and consulted the art of war.
Off-topic, the atmosphere of the Warring States is really open-minded. Tian Ji dares to marry the daughter of the King of Qi. I suddenly thought of an interview with a famous person in online celebrity who claimed to be a jewelry designer. It is revealed that all kinds of tennis players are sparring with her grandfather, and they can only lose but not win. Grandpa Hong won Zhang Depei, the best male player in Asia, 6-0 in the late 1980s and 1990s, hehe. Anyway, in the 21st year of Zhao Chenghou, he ordered the siege of Handan, and Zhao asked Qi for help. Qi didn't want Wei to take too much advantage, and he didn't want to save Zhao so quickly, leaving Zhao unscathed. He killed two birds with one stone and sent two armies to attack Wei Xiangling's mausoleum and save Zhao, trying to lose the national strength of Zhao and Wei at the same time. The team that saved Zhao was led by Tian Ji, and Sun Bin was the strategist. Sun Bin denied Tian Ji's direct rescue of Handan, but put forward the plan of "encircling Wei to save Zhao", allowing Tian Ji to directly attack the girder. When Wei Jun heard that Wei was attacked, he would definitely go back to Li to save himself, and the siege of Handan would be solved.
The main plan is agreed, and how to proceed next. 1972 Sun Bin's The Art of War is more detailed than the historical records. Sun Bin carried out this plan like this: let Tian Ji pretend to attack Ping Ling, a major town in Weidong with a large number of soldiers and a large population, in order to confuse Wei Jun, because he thought that Ping Ling was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and Wei Jun was still sure to concentrate its forces on besieging Handan; When Wei Jun tried his best to win Handan, Sun Bin went west without pomp, which forced Wei Jun to Huiyuan. At this time, after the battle of Handan, Wei Jun's combat effectiveness has declined; Sun Bin told Tian Ji to send a small team to fight Wei Jun, so his weakness made him underestimate his enemy. When Wei Jun, who was angry, tired and underestimating his enemy, abandoned the trench and rushed back for help, Sun Bin set an ambush in Guilin, where Wei Jun must pass, and the Qi army beat Wei Jun earlier and earlier for the battle of Guilin. The history books do not record whether the commander of Wei Jun in the Battle of Guiling was Pang Juan, but Sun Bin's The Art of War clearly records that the commander Pang Juan was captured. If it's really like Sun Bin's The Art of War, Pang Juan must have managed to escape back to Wei afterwards, otherwise there would be no later Battle of Maling. It is also speculated that Pang Juan was captured and redeemed by Wei in the Zhao-Wei alliance two years later. However, the author thinks that Sun Bin and Pang Juan have a blood feud. Even if Pang Juan can't be killed because of the diplomatic relations between the two countries, he can't go back to Wei Lingbing under his nose. How can Pang Juan be stupid enough to vent his hatred?
Although Wei was defeated in the Battle of Guiling, it didn't hurt anyone. Handan was still in Wei Jun's hands. Moreover, according to the chronological records of ancient bamboo slips found in Wang Wei's tomb in the Western Jin Dynasty, the allied forces of Korea and Wei defeated the allied forces of Qi, Song and Wei who attacked Xiangling (as mentioned earlier, when Qi initially promised to save Zhao, in addition to Tian Ji's army to support Zhao, Wei also had an army to attack Xiangling). Qi entrusted the king of Chu to mediate. It was not until two years after the Battle of Guiling that Zhao and Wei joined hands in the water and Wei returned to Handan. Thus, the fighting quality of the Qi army is actually inferior to that of Wei Wuzu, otherwise Sun Bin wouldn't have to rack his brains to win.
Thirteen years after Wei besieged Handan, a similar drama was staged again. This time Wei attacked South Korea, and after Shen Buhai's political reform, South Korea became powerful. How can Wei tolerate others working hard beside his sofa? South Korea, like Zhao in those days, turned to Qi for help. Qi still adopted the policy of saving Korea, which consumed the strength of Korea and Wei, and finally sent troops to save Korea after five failed struggles. Being able to resist the powerful Wei Wuzu five times, for South Korea, whose national strength is relatively weak, the effect of Shen Buhai's political reform is obvious to all, in addition to Qi's commitment to rescue South Korea (see the article "Warring States Political Reform" for Shen Buhai's political reform). Qi still regards Tian Ji as the general and Sun Bin as the strategist. This time, the Qi army followed the gourd painting gourd ladle, surrounded Wei to save Korea and took the lead.
As for who led the State of Qi and Wei this time, in fact, there are differences between the historical records and the records of the Warring States Policy: The Biography of Wu Qi, the grandson of Historical Records, said that the Qi army still took Tian Ji as its general, Sun Bin as its strategist, and Wei Jun was led by Pang Juan; Wei Ce, the Warring States Policy, said that Qi would be Tian D, but did not mention that Sun Bin was a strategist and Wei Jun was led by Prince Shen. As for who led the soldiers of Wei, there are also contradictory records in Historical Records and Biography of Wei Family, saying that "Pang Juan is the general and the prince is the general".
According to the author's personal opinion, whether Tian Ji, Tian Wei or Ertian are the main generals of Qi, whether Sun Bin is accompanied by a strategist or not, the operational policy of Qi is mainly Sun Bin's military strategy. After all, even Qi Weiwang consulted military strategy with Sun Bin as the teacher, and the battle of Guiling was won first. On the other hand, the author of Wei thinks that the statement in Historical Records of Wei Family is more reasonable, mainly based on the application of Prince Shen, supplemented by Pang Juan, because it is impossible for Wang Wei to let his heirs take risks alone without the assistance of famous soldiers; Prince in the army, Pang Juan can't have the final say, Ma Ling's fiasco has a logical explanation. Gui Ling learned from her previous experience. If Pang Juan leads alone and is not bound, he can't be stupid enough to make the same fatal mistake when he holds Wei Wuzu's trump card and Qi people use the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao again. If he was really that stupid, he couldn't have captured Handan at the beginning. Prince Shen has little experience. As soon as he heard that the Qi army was attacking the girder, he would naturally be "anxious" to help. Facing the weakness of the Qi army to lure the enemy, he will be easily fooled. Even if Pang Juan made a wish, he could not refute lord shen's decision, so both of them set foot on Maling Road.
Historical records vividly reproduce the Qi people's plan of luring the enemy with weakness: "The soldiers of Sanjin are brave and light, and the Qi people are afraid." Excellent soldiers guide them because of their potential ... so that the Qi army will enter Wei's 100,000 stoves, 50,000 stoves tomorrow and 30,000 stoves tomorrow. " When the Qi army entered the territory of Wei, it set up 100,000 stoves on the first day, reduced them to 50,000 stoves on the second day, and only set up 30,000 stoves on the third day, which caused the illusion that the number of Qi troops was gradually decreasing. Was it because they were afraid of fighting or because they marched in a hurry? Wei Jun exultation, unexpectedly abandoned his step army, only rate Qingqi sharp hardships to catch up with the qi army day and night, you know, Wei Wuzu was once a world-famous elite infantry, abandoned step army this is tantamount to breaking his arm, I don't believe that Pang Juan who captured Handan would be so stupid. The Qi army estimated Wei Jun's hiking trip and set an ambush on Maling Road, but Wei Jun once again made a bigger mistake, marching in the dark on Maling Road, where there were many obstacles and it was easy to ambush. Tai Shigong really spared no effort to write Pang Juan's works for nothing. Probably, he gave Sun Bin, who was also tortured into a disability, too much affection.
The narrative behind Historical Records is simply a brain hole. Sun Bin told people to peel off the bark of a big tree to reveal the white wood, wrote with a pen "Pang Juan died under this tree", and asked the good archers of the Qi army to use a crossbow, which is said to be "the fire started at dusk", that is, when someone raised their fire, they immediately fired an arrow. Pang Juan, written by Sima Qian, is as stupid as the captain of the devil in the anti-Japanese drama. In the evening, under the white wood, he held a candle and read the word. Before he finished reading it, he was hit by the arrows of the Qi army and the chaos in Wei Jun. Besides, Pang Juan is not dead, give him a bad reputation and commit suicide by losing the battle. Taishi Gong, do you subconsciously regard Pang Juan as body double who ordered the castration of your Emperor Wu? It can be seen that drama has existed since ancient times. According to normal logic, Pang Juan is not afraid of suicide. He should fight the trapped beast. He will defend Prince Shen to the death. No matter whether lord shen can break through, he can always save his last face and reputation. Yes, but Tai Shigong wants to write Pang Juan as a modern man, commit suicide regardless, and then let Prince Shen be captured. According to "The Heir of the Prince", poor Prince Shen Eighty percent died after being captured.
There are different opinions about the ending of Sun Bin. According to the Warring States policy, after the victory in Maling, Sun Bin advised Tian Ji not to surrender the relieving power, so as to avoid the fear of the King of Qi, and Tian Ji did not adopt it, which led him to lose in the political struggle with Zou Ji and then went to Chu. Whether Sun Bin accompanied the State of Chu is not recorded, but historians basically speculate that Sun Bin went to the State of Chu with Tian Ji. Mr. Qian Mu also speculated that Sun Bin's The Art of War was written by Sun Bin in Wudi, Jiangnan. Historical Records also records that after Qi Weiwang's death, Wang Xuan succeeded to the throne and Tian Ji was recalled to Chu. Are Sun Bin and Tian Ji back together? Some people say yes, others say no, according to historical records, Sun Bin is the descendant of Sun Wu more than one hundred years later. There is also a saying in the History of the Three Kingdoms that "Sun Jian is a literary platform, and Wu Jun is a Fuchun person, which also covers Sun Wu". It is speculated that Sun Bin stayed in Wu instead of returning to Qi, which was probably inspired by this.