What is the ancient poem expressing the process of golden cicada shelling?

An ancient poem expressing the shelling process of golden cicada: Lian Zhu rushes to the moon, and shelling politics is like the wind.

Original text:

Zhang Boyu's "Singing to the Moon and Answering the Works of Iron Cliff"

The pearl of society flies to the moon,

Politics outside the shell is as clean as the wind cicada,

Fishing nets dare not look out,

Wash away the sand and light.

Cicada hulling: refers to the transformation of cicada hulling. Metaphor is to create or use the illusion to get away, so that the other party can't find it in time (as one of the "36 plans"), or metaphor is to fundamentally change things. From Yuan Guan Hanqing's Xie Tianxiang.

The original intention of the story of cicada shelling is that when cicada slough changes, the body leaves the skin shell, leaving only cicada slough hanging on the branches. This plan is used in the national war, which refers to the strategy of getting rid of the enemy, retreating or transferring through camouflage to achieve our strategic goals. Stabilizing the other side, retreating or transferring is by no means a panic or passive escape, but a way to keep the form, take away the content, stabilize the other side, get yourself out of danger and achieve strategic goals. We can often attack another part of the enemy through clever division and transfer. There is no need to fight hard in the national war. When you feel your strength is weak, transferring or retreating in time is the best way to preserve your effective strength. This kind of retreat also emphasizes skills and methods, otherwise it will become a rout and it will be difficult to clean up. To retreat steadily, Taoist priests should retreat first, change their skills while retreating, and retreat among strangers. Gao Jia doesn't have to attack, just stay behind the house and organize defense or counterattack when he retreats to favorable environment and terrain.

During the jubilee of the Song Dynasty, Jin Bing committed crimes in the Central Plains many times. Song Bi won several battles when he was at war with the 8 Jin Army. Nomads from the army and mobilized tens of thousands of elite cavalry to fight Song Jun. At this time, there are only a few thousand troops in Song Jun. If we fight 8 jin j, we will lose. Bi Zaiyu is going to retreat temporarily in order to save his strength. 8 jin j has Enemy at the Gates, if you know Song Jun retreat, will certainly kill. In that case, Song Jun will suffer heavy losses. Bi Zaiyu thought hard about how to fool the nomads from the army and dispatch troops. That's right. Just listen to the hooves outside the account. Bi Zaiyu was inspired and had a plan.

He secretly prepared to retreat and deploy. At midnight that day, he ordered the soldiers to beat the drums. When Jin Jun heard the drums, he thought that Song Jun had robbed the camp at night and quickly assembled troops to prepare for the battle. I don't know, I only heard the drums rumbling in Song Ying, but I didn't see a Song Bing leaving the city. Song Jun kept beating drums, which made the nomads from sleeping all night. The leader of the Jin army seems to have realized that the Song military used the strategy of consuming soldiers to inspire us with war drums. Ok, you can play the drums, and I will never be cheated by you again. Song Ying's drums rang for two days and two nights in a row, and the nomads from the army simply ignored them. On the third day, nomads from Song Ying found that the drums were getting weaker and weaker. The leader of 8 jin j concluded that Song Jun was tired, so he sent troops to separate roads and approached Song Ying carefully, but Song Ying didn't respond. 8 jin j leader commanded, nomads from rushing, rushed into the Song Ying, only to find that Song Jun has all evacuated safely.

It turns out that Bi Zaiyu played the trick of "golden cicada". He ordered soldiers to tie dozens of sheep's hind legs to trees, let the upside-down sheep's front legs kick hard, and put dozens of drums under the sheep's legs. The leg of lamb was kicked hard and the drums kept beating. This is the story of the golden cicada shedding its shell. Bi Zaiyu used the tactic of "hanging sheep and beating drums" to confuse the enemy, and it took him two days to move safely.

As an escape way, the story of the golden cicada shedding its shell can be found everywhere in historical and literary works. Bi Zaiyu, Sun Jian and others all used this tactic to escape the enemy's control or pursuit. The classic example in "Empty City Plan" is that when Gongziyuan retreated from the State of Zheng, in order to prevent pursuit, he slipped out of the territory of the State of Zheng unnoticed at night without tearing down the camp and moving the flag, which is also a quite wonderful story.