Capture the King to Capture the Thieves

Capture the Ringleader to Capture the Gang Destroy the enemy’s main force and capture its leader, and its overall strength will be fundamentally dismantled. It is like a dragon leaving the deep sea to fight on the open plain: once its advantages are exhausted, it is bound to be driven into a dead end. Allusion:In 23 AD, at the Battle of Kunyang, Wang Mang’s army of 420,000 besieged Kunyang, whose defenders numbered only a few thousand. Liu Xiu led three thousand dare-to-die troops and, ignoring the enemy on both flanks, repeatedly charged straight at the central command headquarters of Wang Mang’s army, killing its commander Wang Xun in battle. Deprived of unified command, the hundreds of thousands of Mang troops immediately trampled one another and collapsed into rout. The crux of this stratagem lies not in the number of enemies killed, but in destroying the opponent’s command center, so that the vast whole loses coordination and collapses of itself. Modern Application:Precisely identify the most critical and irreplaceable core node in the opponent’s system—a core......