📚 Jianghu Baiju Mipu — one hundred selected street (jianghu) positions, Qing dynasty
This position defies instinct: Red has far more pieces — an advisor, an elephant, a knight, a chariot and two cannons — against Black's chariot, cannon and three pawns. Red moves first, yet Giang Hồ Bách Cục Bí Phổ (game 32) concludes only: draw. The reason sits in the name itself: 'At Ease, Awaiting the Exhausted Enemy'. Black's three pawns are deep in Red's half, each Black piece posted ready; the more impatient Red's big army grows, the more it exposes itself. The name recalls the stratagem's classic exemplar: old general Wang Jian marched 600,000 men to the Chu border, then… dug in, ate well and slept for a year, waiting for the Chu army to exhaust itself. That story, and its lesson in patience, is told below. On the board: holding the bigger army, can you breach Black's 'fortress' — or will impatience cost you the draw?
六十万の軍勢が国境へ進み――一年間、食べて飲んで石投げ競走をした
六十万の軍勢が敵の国境まで進み、土塁を築き、戦わずの札を掲げた――そして肉を食べ酒を飲み、石投げと跳躍の競走をして、ほぼ一年を過ごした。これが老将・王翦が楚を滅ぼした方法であり、「逸を以て労を待つ」の模範譚である。 それに先立つ紀元前224年、若い将軍・李信は二十万で楚を滅ぼせると豪語し、名将・項燕の伏兵に遭って敗走した。始皇帝は自ら出向いて引退した王翦を説き戻さねばならなかった。王翦の条件はきっかり六十万。一人でも欠ければ戦わない、と。 楚の国境で、彼は戦わなかった。楚軍は毎日陣前に出て罵声を浴びせた。陣中では秦の兵が休み、よく食べ飲み、訓練し、遊んだ。王翦は毎日一つのことだけを尋ねた。「兵…
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