文档介绍：英语成语故事：草木皆兵的故事
东晋时代，秦王苻坚掌握了北部中国。公元383年，苻坚率领步卒、骑兵90万，攻打江南的晋朝。晋军大将谢石、谢玄领兵8万前去反抗。苻坚得知晋军兵力缺乏，就想以多胜少，抓住时机，快速出击。
谁料，or generals of the jin army, led 80,000 troops to offer resistance. knowing that the jin army was short of men, fu jian wanted to seize this opportunity of being much more numerous in armed forces to stage a quick attack.
unexpectedly, the van of fu jian”s army of 250,000 troops was defeated in the shouchun area by an ingenious military move of the jin army and suffered heavy losses. the senior general of the van of fu jian”s army was killed, and there were heavy casualties of more than 10,000 soldiers. fu jian”s army was dispirited and its morale was shaken. many soldiers were in such a great panic that they waited for opportunities to run away. standing on the city wall of the shouchun city, fu jian and his brother fu rong saw that the ranks of the jin army were in good order and that the morale of the jin army was high. turning to his brother, fu jian said, “what a powerful enemy this is! why did people say that the jin army was short of men?“ he deeply regretted that he had taken the enemy too lightly.
overshadowed by the disastrous defeat, fu jian ordered his troops to be deployed in battle formation on the north side of the feishui river, in an attempt to regain the initi