What's the story of closing the door and beating the dog in the thirty-six plan?

Beat the dog behind closed doors: Beat the dog behind closed doors, which means to control the other side within one's own sphere of influence and then strike effectively.

Thirty-six plans don't have this, but it is similar to the following meaning.

The 22nd plan is to close the door and catch thieves.

Close the door and catch the thief who entered the house.

To catch thieves behind closed doors, literally, is a strategy to encircle the enemy, especially the small enemy. This instrument is usually used with other schemes. Quite a number of China military strategists have successfully locked the door to catch thieves, and the opening and closing are very timely and comfortable.

Closing the door to catch thieves is a long-standing folk saying, and its significance is self-evident. Similar to another folk saying, "close the door and beat the dog." Later, people used this little cleverness in daily life for war, which was of great significance. In military practice, it is roughly equivalent to the usual panic attack and pocket array that military strategists and military commanders often confuse. This plan is widely used in the history of Chinese and foreign wars. As far as the history of China's ancient wars is concerned, the famous examples of using this plan are the Battle of Maling Island in Pang Juan and Sun Bin (342 BC), the Battle of Changping in Qin and Zhao (262 BC), and the Battle of Chu and Han Gaixia in the early Han Dynasty (203 BC). Since then, more people have used this plan to destroy their opponents.

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