The dragon fights in the wild, and its way is poor. What does poverty mean here?

Poverty here means exhaustion and despair.

Source 1: Yijing Kungua.

The Book of Changes, which is known as the source of all the classics, is the general program of China traditional culture, which contains simple and profound natural laws and harmonious dialectical thoughts, and is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years.

The dragon fights in the wild, and its way is poor.

Interpretation: Even if it is a strong dragon fight on the field, it is also in a desperate situation. Metaphor is the power of the strategy of catching the thief and getting the king first in battle.

Source 2: "Thirty-six strategies to catch thieves and capture the king". I only know that it was created in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the author is unknown.

Original sentence: destroy its power, seize its name and solve its body.

The dragon fights in the wild, and its way is poor.

Interpretation: Destroying the enemy's main force and catching its leader can disintegrate its overall strength. Just like a dragon going out to sea and fighting on land, facing despair.

Extended data:

Allusions in Catch the Thief King

During the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, An Lushan was arrogant and won a great victory. An Qingxu, son of An Lushan, sent Yin to attack Suiyang with hundreds of thousands of people.

In the suggestion, Cheng was stationed in Suiyang. Seeing that the enemy was menacing, he decided to stick to the city. The enemy attacked the city more than twenty times and were all repelled. Seeing that the soldiers were exhausted, Yin had to sound the golden bell and retreat. In the evening, the enemy soldiers were just about to rest when they heard the drums rumbling in the city head and the shouts were loud. Yin urged the army to prepare for a fierce battle with Tang Jun who was out of the city.

Zhang Xun, on the other hand, "only thunders and doesn't rain", beats drums from time to time, as if to fight our way out of the city, but never hits with the city gate closed. Yin's troops were tossed around all night without rest. The soldiers were too tired to open their eyes. They fell asleep on the ground. At this moment, there was a gunshot in the city. Suddenly, Zhang Xun led the defenders to rush out. The enemy soldiers woke up from their dreams, panicked and confused.

Zhang Xun made great efforts to kill more than 50 enemy generals and more than 5,000 soldiers, and the enemy was in chaos. Zhang Xun urgently ordered the troops to capture the enemy leader Yin alive, and the troops ran under the command of the enemy handsome. Zhang Xun has never met Yin. He doesn't know him at all. Now he is mixed in the disorderly army, which is even more difficult to identify.

Zhang Xun has a plan to let the soldiers sharpen the straw as an arrow and shoot at the enemy. Many people in the enemy army were killed by arrows. They thought it was over and there was no life. But when he found himself shot by a grass arrow, he was overjoyed and thought that there was no arrow in Zhang Xun's army. They rushed to report the good news to Yin.

When Zhang Xun saw it, he immediately recognized Yin as the leader of the enemy, so he ordered the archers and the Ministry to shoot arrows at Yin from Nanji Cloud. Right in Yin Yuqi's left eye, this time it's a real arrow. I saw bleeding profusely and scurrying about. The enemy fell into chaos and fled in defeat.