Taming the Nightmare
草木皆兵, (cǎo mù jiē bīng)
"Every grass and tree looks like an enemy."
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As the story goes...
After having captured the 济南 Jinan city of 壽陽 Shouyang, 苻坚 Fu Jian looked down from the city wall to see the enemy army as being so vast that its battalions covered the mountainside. In reality, what he was seeing was grass and trees that he mistook for enemy soldiers. His panic soon became his soldiers' panic and many were trampled to death in their frantic retreat.
Taming the Nightmare
草木皆兵, (cǎo mù jiē bīng)
"Every grass and tree looks like an enemy."
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As the story goes...
After having captured the 济南 Jinan city of 壽陽 Shouyang, 苻坚 Fu Jian looked down from the city wall to see the enemy army as being so vast that its battalions covered the mountainside. In reality, what he was seeing was grass and trees that he mistook for enemy soldiers. His panic soon became his soldiers' panic and many were trampled to death in their frantic retreat.