lure the enemy in deep(yòu dí shēn rù)

lure the enemy in deep

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ò UD í sh ē NR ù, which means that the enemy has brought it in and made it in a disadvantageous position of isolation and not easy to escape. From on protracted war.

The origin of Idioms

Mao Zedong's on protracted war: "we have always advocated 'luring the enemy in depth' because it is the most effective military policy for weak forces to fight against strong forces in strategic defense."

Idiom usage

It is used in military affairs.

Idiom story

In the face of a strong enemy's attack, the operational method of systematically abandoning some places in strategy and campaign and luring the enemy to enter the predetermined area for annihilation. This will increase the enemy's consumption, make him tired and depressed, disperse his forces, make mistakes, and fall into a disadvantageous situation; it will be convenient for him to make use of the favorable conditions, concentrate his superior forces, and annihilate the enemy individually. Sun Tzu's art of war, a famous military work in ancient China, discusses how to lure and annihilate the enemy. Such as "good at moving the enemy, the enemy will follow the shape; give it, the enemy will take it.". We should move it with benefit and treat it with death. In the battle of Chengpu in 632 B.C., the Jin army "retreated" to annihilate the Chu army; in the battle of Maling in the Qi and Wei dynasties in 342 B.C., Sun Bin "retreated" to reduce the stove "to kill Pang Juan. These are all famous examples of ancient Chinese war to lure and annihilate the enemy. When Napoleon I of France attacked Russia in 1812, μ. HM. Kutuzov led the Russian army to retreat and give up Moscow, which created favorable conditions for the Russian army's counterattack. C.p.g. von Clausewitz, a Prussian military theorist, used the term "luring the enemy in depth" in his chapter "retreat to the hinterland of his own country" in his on war. in the long revolutionary war, the PLA creatively used the method of luring the enemy in depth. In 1928, Mao Zedong and Zhu De put forward the principle of "sixteen character formula", which contained the content of luring the enemy to go deep. In October 1930, when the Central Red Army was fighting against "encirclement and suppression" for the first time, it clearly put forward the operational policy of luring the enemy into depth, and successfully applied it in the first, second, third and fourth times. During the period of the war of liberation, the PLA, in the implementation of the strategic policy of annihilating the enemy's living forces rather than the conservative areas, annihilated a large number of invading Kuomintang troops and laid the foundation for the victory of the war of liberation. The main characteristics of the PLA's luring the enemy to fight in depth are as follows: 1. Luring the enemy to fight in depth is not only a general combat method, but also an important part of the strategic thinking of active defense and a strategic decision to guide the war. ② Rely on the people's war to lure the enemy into depth. In the face of the strong enemy's attack, the main forces wait for an opportunity to retreat or move, while the local forces and militia take the initiative to launch guerrilla warfare in an all-round way, trapping the enemy in a disadvantageous situation, creating favorable conditions for the main forces to capture and annihilate the attacking enemy. ③ The purpose of luring the enemy into further operations is to fight a war of annihilation. Luring the enemy is the means, annihilating the enemy is the purpose, and all "going" is for fighting. The whole function and decisive key of the retreat stage lies in whether we can win when we turn to the counterattack and the counterattack stage. in future wars, luring the enemy in-depth and attacking them later can still be used as an important combat method for the weak army to fight against the strong army. However, under what conditions and how to lure the enemy into depth will depend on the needs of our national conditions, military conditions and strategic policies.

Chinese PinYin : yòu dí shēn rù