Fear in the wind(fēng shēng hè lì，cǎo mù jiē bīng)

Fear in the wind

唳: birdsong. Hearing the wind and the cry of cranes, they all suspected that they were pursuing soldiers. Both grass and trees are soldiers: the grass and trees are soldiers of the enemy. It is used to describe people who are suspicious when they are in extreme panic. According to the biography of Xie Xuan in the book of Jin, "when you hear the wind, you think that Master Wang has arrived." According to Fu Jian Zai Ji in the book of Jin, "when Jian and Fu Rong ascended the city and looked at Wang Shi, they could see that the troops were well organized and the officers and men were elite; when they looked to the north, the plants and trees on Bagong mountain were all like human figures."

Phonetic notation

In the face of the storm, the grass and the trees are in full swing. F ē ngsh ē NGH è L ì, C ǎ om ù Ji ē B ī ng

Examples

We won the battle, and the enemy was scared to death. He fled directly to his hometown.

Ancient and modern comparison

In November, Xie Xuan sent 5000 troops to quluojian. Less than ten li, Liang Chengzu stream, for the array to wait for it. Gaozhi went straight ahead to cross the water, beat it, smashed it, chopped it, and Wang Yong, the governor of Yiyang, separated his troops and cut off his return to Tianjin. Qin Buqi collapsed and fought to go to huaishui, killing 5000 soldiers. Wang Xian, the governor of Yangzhou in the Qin Dynasty, collected all his military equipment. So Xie Shi and other troops advanced by land and water. The king of Qin (Fu) Jian and the Duke of Yangping (Fu) Rongdeng Shouyang City, looking at them, they saw that the army of Jin was well organized, and looked at the vegetation on the Bagong mountain. They all thought that they were soldiers of Jin. Gu called Rong and said, "this also allows the enemy. What is weak?" Fear comes when you are sad. Qin soldiers forced Feishui into battle, but Jin soldiers could not cross it. Xie Xuan's emissary called Yangping Gongrong and said, "you are going deep into the army, but you are going to force the water. This is a long-term plan, not one who wants to fight quickly. Isn't it good to move the array a little, so that the Jin soldiers can cross over and decide the victory or defeat? " All the generals of Qin Dynasty said, "if we are many and few, it is better to stop them. If we can't go up, we can be perfect." Jian said: "but the soldiers are few, so that half of them cross. I will kill them with my cavalry. It's too much!" Rong thought so, so he ordered the soldiers to make them. Xie Xuan, Xie Yan and Huan Yi led the troops to fight against the water. The soldiers of the Qin Dynasty were defeated when they were killed by the soldiers of the Jin Dynasty. As for the Castle Peak. Qin's soldiers were defeated, and they were killed. The walkers were frightened by the wind and thought that the soldiers of Jin Dynasty were coming. They did not dare to rest day and night. They lived in the grass and were hungry and frozen. The dead were 17-8 years old. In November, Xie Xuan sent the Prime Minister of Guangling (the governor of Guangling), Liu Jianzhi, to lead 5000 elite troops to luojian. Before reaching ten li, Liang Cheng took the stream as a barrier to wait for him. Liu Jianzhi crossed the river and succeeded in attacking. He defeated Liang Cheng and Wang Yong, the prefect of Yiyang, and cut off the ferry they had to pass on their way back. The infantry of the former Qin Dynasty collapsed and rushed to huaishui. Fifteen thousand soldiers died, Wang Xian, the governor of Yangzhou of the former Qin Dynasty, were captured, and all the military equipment, food and grass were collected. So Xie Shi and other troops continued to advance by water. Fu Jian, the king of Qin, and Fu Rong, the Duke of Yangping, went up to Shouyang city to look at them. They found that the soldiers of Jin Dynasty were well arranged and saw the vegetation on Bagong mountain. They all thought they were soldiers of Jin Dynasty. Looking back at Fu Rong, they said, "this is also a strong enemy. How can we say it's weak?" Melancholy began to have a look of fear. The army of the former Qin Dynasty was close to Feishui (also known as "Feishui"), but the Jin army could not cross the river. Xie Xuan sent his envoys to Fulong, the Duke of Pingyang, and said, "you are alone and deep, and you are close to the water when you set up your formation. This is a plan to prepare for a long-term battle, not a way to fight quickly. Wouldn't it be good if the mobile formation retreated a little bit so that the Jin army could cross the river and decide the outcome? " All the generals of the state of Qin said, "we have many soldiers, but they have few. It's better to stop them so that they can't attack, but they are extremely safe." Fu Jian said: "we just led the army to retreat a little and let them cross half way. We forced them to kill them with elite cavalry. There was no failure to win." Fu Rong thought it could be so, so he ordered the army to retreat. The army of the former Qin Dynasty retreated and could not be stopped. Xie Xuan, Xie Yan, Huan Yi and others led the army across Feishui to attack the former Qin army. Fu Rong galloped around on horseback, trying to command and restrain the retreating soldiers. His horse fell down and was killed by the soldiers of Jin Dynasty, so the army of the former Qin Dynasty was defeated. Xie Xuan and others took advantage of the victory to reach Qinggang. Qin soldiers were defeated. They trampled each other to death, covering the fields and blocking the rivers. When the defeated soldiers heard the wind and the cry of cranes, they thought that the pursuers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were coming. They did not dare to rest during the day and night. They marched in the grass, slept in the dew, and suffered from hunger and cold. Seven out of ten people died.

allusion

In 316 ad, the Western Jin Dynasty perished. In 357 ad, Fu insisted that he was the king of Qin Dynasty, destroyed Qianyan, Qianliang and daiguo, and finally unified the north. In the south, Sima Rui, king of Langya, became emperor in Jiankang (now Nanjing) and established the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Eastern Jin Dynasty occupied most of the area south of the Han River and Huaihe River. In this way, the situation of confrontation between the north and the South was formed. In May of 383 ad, Fu Jian was determined to capture the Eastern Jin Dynasty, regardless of the opposition of his officials. In August, Fu Jian led more than 600000 infantry, 270000 cavalry, and 30000 "badminton troops" on horseback. He was thousands of miles away from each other, facing each other with drums and banners, and was close to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Fu Jian arrogantly said that with this, he could strengthen his army by one million yuan. "If you throw a whip, you can cut off the current." why worry that the Eastern Jin Dynasty will not be destroyed? Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty adopted the ideas of Xie an and Huan Chong, and resolutely resisted. He sent General Xie Shi, Xie Xuan and others to lead 80000 troops westward along the Huaihe River to reject the Qin army, and sent General Hu bin to lead 5000 water troops to reinforce Shouyang (now Shouxian County, Anhui Province). On the 10th and 18th of the same year, the front of the Qin army captured Shouyang. When Hu Bin's army got to the middle of the road, he learned that Shouyang had been lost and retreated to Xiashi (25 miles northwest of Shouxian county). In order to prevent the main force of the Jin army from moving westward, the Qin army sent 50000 troops to luojian (now Luoshui, south of Huaiyuan County in Anhui Province), and set up wooden bars at Luokou to block the traffic of the Huaihe River. Hu bin was in a very difficult situation because he was trapped in Xiashi and ran out of food. He wrote to Xie Shi for reinforcement. Unexpectedly, Hu Bin's letter was obtained by the Qin army. Fu Jian thought that the Jin army had few troops and food was very difficult, so he should seize the attack, so he left the main force in Xiangcheng (now Xiangcheng County in Henan Province) and took 8000 cavalry to Shouyang. Fu Jian first sent Shang Shu Zhu Xu to the Jin army to persuade him to surrender. Zhu Xu used to be a general who defended Xiangyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was captured when Xiangyang fell. When Zhu Xu arrived at the Jin army, he did not persuade him to surrender. Instead, he revealed the situation of the Qin army. He suggested that if all the Qin soldiers arrived, the Jin army would be hard to resist. He should take advantage of the fact that it had not yet arrived and attack its vanguard quickly, and the army would break up. Xie Shi and Xie Xuan, the generals of Jin army, listened to Zhu Xu's suggestion and sent Liu Jianzhi to attack luojian with 5000 troops in November. Liu Jianzhi sent his troops to the side of the Qin army, cut off the enemy's retreat, personally led his troops across luojian and attacked the Qin army camp at night. The Qin army could not resist. Liang Cheng, the chief general, was killed in the war. Fifty thousand Qin soldiers were defeated and rushed across the Huaihe River. More than 15000 people were drowned. The victory of luojian inspired the morale of the Jin army. Taking advantage of the victory, the Jin army pushed to the East Bank of Feishui and confronted the Qin soldiers across the river. When Fu Jian boarded Shouyang City, he was surprised to see that the army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was well organized. Seeing the vegetation shaking on the Bagong mountain to the east of Feishui, he thought that all the Jin soldiers were ambush. He could not help sighing: "this is also a strong enemy, and the stream is weak.". After the defeat of luojian, the Qin army set up an array along the West Bank of Feishui to prevent the Jin army from counterattacking. Xie Xuan, general of the Jin army, sent someone to Fu Rong, Fu Jian's younger brother, and said, "if you withdraw your army a little bit and make way for the Jin army to cross Feishui, the two armies will have a decisive victory."! All the generals of the Qin Army thought that they could not let the Jin army cross the river, but Fu Jian said that they could take a step back and attack suddenly when the Jin army's troops and horses were halfway across the river, and then attack with hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry, and they would surely win. So Fu Rong ordered the Qin army to retreat. The internal instability of the Qin army, this withdrawal, the Qin Army thought that the vanguard was defeated, suddenly chaos, a collapse of thousands of miles, can not be stopped. The Jin army launched a fierce attack by crossing Feishui with eight thousand elite soldiers. Fu Jian's arrow is flowing in the middle, and Fu Rong is killed in the battle. The Jin army took advantage of the situation to attack, the Qin army stepped on each other, and the dead were unable to win the battle. Other soldiers abandoned their armour and retreated day and night. When they heard the news, they thought it was the pursuers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. They lived on grass and in cold and hunger. Seven or eight out of ten soldiers died. When it comes to Luoyang, there are only over 100000 people left. (from the biography of Xie Xuan in the book of Jin)

Present meaning

Later generations use the idiom "grass, trees and soldiers" to describe people's appearance of being suspicious when they are in extreme panic, and use the idiom "wind and fear" to describe people's appearance of being in extreme panic and disturbing each other.

Chinese PinYin : fēng shēng hè lì，cǎo mù jiē bīng