36 Strategies Vernacular Full Translation

Chapter 21
Where there is a small gap, you must take advantage of it; if you have a small profit, you must gain it.Shaoyin, Shaoyang.

We must also take advantage of the small gaps that appear in the translation enemy; we must also strive to obtain small benefits when we find them.We must be good at taking advantage of the enemy's slight negligence and mistakes to serve our small victories.

As the name suggests, it means taking the opportunity to take away the property that originally belonged to others.Later generations vividly compared it to taking advantage of the small gaps exposed by the enemy, developing towards its weak points, creating and capturing fighter opportunities, gradually reducing the opponent's strength, and enhancing and strengthening one's own strength.This enhancement and growth comes precisely from one's own enemies, not elsewhere.

In a general sense, this strategy implies that in the process of completing the task, it means to identify the opponent's loopholes, attack decisively, and take advantage of the situation to "catch".And this loophole was suddenly exposed during the confrontation between the two sides, and it was not expected in advance.That is to say, the "leading" of taking the sheep by hand is not specifically to fetch or ask for, and the original purpose is not to lead the "sheep", and I don't even know that there are "sheep" to lead, but while doing the main thing, I accidentally discovered This is the desirable benefit of "sheep".As for whether the "micro-gap" can be used and whether it will win, it must be considered from the overall situation, and the small should not lose the big.

Although this strategy is about seizing and exploiting the opponent's tiny loopholes, it is actually telling us another truth. We need to focus on the small things when doing things. Often the big victories start from small victories, and accumulate small ones into big ones.The capture of opportunities is often obtained from careful observation and analysis.It seems to be a chance encounter, or a chance or luck.actually not.

People should pay attention to the following points when using the strategy of "leading the sheep by hand".

First, understand the connotation of the plan. "Shun" refers to unintentional piggyback, rather than intentional.If you want to be able to lead the "sheep" smoothly, you can only rely on your own observation, analysis, search, capture, and grasp the opponent's weaknesses, and you may have a winning result. This is the most important thing.

Second, the key to making good use of this strategy lies in subjective efforts.You can use it when you win a battle, and you can use it when you lose a battle.In ancient and modern times, there are many wars that survived from adversity, that is, the winning side can calm down to observe the situation at the time of the initial defeat, and find and use the opponent's possible mistakes. win.Therefore, it is extremely valuable not to be discouraged by defeat.And in business wars, people have to cultivate and strengthen their own psychological qualities. Even though they are defeated, they have to fight repeatedly.

Third, we must make full use of the strategy of "taking the sheep by the hand", and we must be actively prepared to create opportunities by ourselves and take advantage of all opportunities.

Fourth, don't "handle" when the following two situations occur.One is that when it affects the realization of the main purpose, we cannot choose sesame seeds and lose watermelon.The second is not to forcibly take profits when things are not going well, but to focus on the overall situation, get it conveniently, and take advantage of the trend.

And when others do this to us, we must take certain effective measures to deal with it.First, avoid loopholes as much as possible, so that the enemy has nothing to take advantage of.Careful planning in advance and strict organization in the event are effective means to prevent gaps from appearing.Secondly, after a sheep is lost, it must be repaired in time.Timely discovery, timely feedback, and timely compensation.Act decisively and take no chances to avoid losing more sheep.Finally, we must be vigilant and take strict precautions.Before the enemy leads the sheep, it is inevitable that they will look flustered and restless.We must be good at distinguishing. Once we find that people who have conflicts of interest with us are close to the flock, we must never ignore them and let them go.We must stand ready at any time to protect our own interests from damage.

Examples of Wisdom
Misleading the "Rattlesnake"

The proposition of "leading the sheep by hand": when encountering a "sheep" that can be led in the process of doing things, one must have a sense of the overall situation, assess the situation, and calmly analyze whether this "sheep" will affect the success of the entire operation, and must not be like the following story Like the protagonist in the movie, he acted recklessly and lost the big because of the small.

In 1967, General Onegin, then director of the Science and Technology Bureau of the KGB Headquarters, received reliable information that the 74th Fighter Squadron at the Celle Air Force Base in the Federal Republic of Germany would be the first to use the F-4E multipurpose fighter.The reason why this piece of information attracted the attention of the Soviet military is that the F-4E has a strong combat effectiveness: the transition range is more than 3 kilometers, and the combat radius can exceed 100 kilometers, which greatly shortens the distance from the Federal German base to the western part of the Soviet Union. The flying time is extremely beneficial for quickly entering the battle.General Onegin quickly instructed the KGB spy team stationed in the Federal Republic of Germany: hide and stand by, and steal one from the Celle base as soon as the F-1E plane arrives.

The appointed team has three members.The team leader, Manfred Laminger, is a German architect in his 30s.Trained as a professional spy in Moscow, he joined the KGB in 1963.Member Josef Linowski, Polish, is an experienced locksmith.Member Wolf Knopp, who was a pilot of the 74th Fighter Squadron of the Federal German Air Force, knows the weapons and equipment of the Federal German Air Force very well.

While the preparations for stealing the F-4E fighter jets were underway, Knopp's former unit introduced a batch of new equipment, one of which was the "Sidewinder" air-to-air missile produced by the United States.Knopp was very interested in this, so he negotiated a detailed action plan with Laminger, intending to "take the sheep" and bring the "Rattlesnake" back to the Soviet Union without hindering the theft of the F-4E fighter jet.

Before the start of the operation, Knop was the first to conduct a careful reconnaissance of the base's missile depot, and recorded the detailed characteristics of each door lock in the depot.The three carefully studied the security measures of the base and other related situations, and decided to do it on October 10.The reason why the operation was chosen on this day was that the rats in the Celle Air Force Base were once so rampant that the commander of the base ordered all units in the base to uniformly bait the rats on the night of October 7th.At this time, all the dogs in the base will be locked up, and if the dogs don't come out and bark, it eliminates a major obstacle to stealing missiles.What a godsend!
On the day of the operation, Linowski took the pass that Knopp had prepared for him in advance and sneaked into the base smoothly.After dark, Knopp first went to a pre-selected place beside the circular fence of the base to transport the missiles, cut a hole in the barbed wire, and then made some cover so that no one else could see any flaws.At midnight, Linowski and Nope quietly came to the missile depot.Linowski opened several door locks in succession without much effort.After the two entered the warehouse, they easily unloaded a "Sidewinder" missile from the placement rack, put it on a two-wheeled trolley, pushed it out of the warehouse, locked several doors as they were, and then released the missile from the pre-cut gap. Lifted out of the barbed wire.

At this time, in a nearby alley, Lanminger was sitting in Knopp's sports car waiting for the return of the two.Since the missile was too long to be carried in the car, they had to break the rear window of the sports car to let the warhead protrude out of the car, and wrapped the warhead with a broken carpet to avoid being discovered.In this way, they drove more than 300 kilometers across half of the Federal Republic of Germany and came to an apartment in Krefeld.The three tried their best to divide the missile into two parts and packed them in two wooden boxes labeled "commercial samples".Subsequently, Knopp rushed back to Celle base overnight.Meanwhile, Laminger drove to Dusseldorf airport and sent two wooden crates containing the missiles to Moscow.After the "Sidewinder" had been successfully shipped to the Soviet Union, the Germans had not yet discovered that the missile had been stolen.

For this action, the Laminger team was awarded $3.Therefore, the three of them were full of ambition, thinking that stealing back the F-4E fighter jet would be easy to catch.However, what they never expected was that the fighter plane operation not only failed, but it was this careless accident that led to its failure and wiped out the entire Laminger spy team.

One day, a surgeon at the Celle base was ordered by his wife to go out to pick wild celery.He walked along the fence around the base, and unexpectedly found the cut hole in the barbed wire.He quickly reported to the security department of the base, and after an urgent investigation, the security department finally discovered that the missile had been stolen.All kinds of clues pointed to Knop, and the German army pulled Linowski and Laminger out of Knop, and the three were finally arrested for espionage.

The KGB had mixed joys and sorrows about the operation: the worry was that not only lost a fully obtainable fighter jet, but also several capable generals; the joy was that it easily stole back an advanced "Sidewinder" missile. In August 1971, in a massive spy exchange, the KGB named Laminger, who planned the stealing of the missiles, back.

It's a pity that the Laminger spy team "took the sheep" but led to disaster!It is not difficult to see that in order to use this strategy well, we must consider the overall situation.If you act recklessly and accidentally leave future troubles, you will definitely lose the big because of the small, and cause immeasurable consequences.

"Boeing" was a blessing in disguise

All far-sighted entrepreneurs and managers at home and abroad are good at seizing the opportunity of product promotion in time, and using this as a breakthrough, quickly convey their corporate and product images to consumers, so as to reap immediate and good results.

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