In 234 AD, after three years of persuasion and martial arts, Zhuge Liang decided to send troops to the Northern Expedition again, and in order to avoid the shortage of military food, Zhuge Liang began to produce grain in tun tian between the residents of Wei and Bin after wuzhangyuan anza on the south bank of The Weishui River. Although Sun Quan, who had assisted the Northern Expedition of the Shu Han Dynasty at this time, had been defeated by Cao Rui and had not been able to contain Cao Wei's main army, since Sima Yi had been defeated by the Shu army led by Zhuge Liang in the Fourth Northern Expedition, Sima Yi decided to defend Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition and not engage the main force of the Shu army. As the days progressed, Zhuge Liang felt that his body was worse than a day, so he specially sent people to Sima Yi's camp to provoke, and even sent sima Yi women's clothes to provoke Sima Yi, so that Sima Yi could fight with him. Unfortunately, Sima Yi was not angry because of this, but continued to sink his heart to confront Zhuge Liang, and in the end Zhuge Liang died of illness and failed to defeat Sima Yi, and Sima Yi successfully resisted Zhuge Liang.
It is reasonable to say that Sima Yi did not dare to fight with Zhuge Liang in the course of the Fifth Northern Expedition, which seems to be somewhat weak and timid, but from the end point of view, Sima Yi successfully defended and led the Guanlong region from the erosion of the Shu army during Zhuge Liang's last Northern Expedition, nor did he consume the living strength of the Wei state in Guanzhong, so from the perspective of the ending, Sima Yi successfully resisted Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, so if this is the case, then Sima Yi is more powerful than Zhuge Liang?
In fact, Sima Yi occupied a variety of decisive advantages such as troop strength, cavalry, geographical advantages, northerners versus Shu people, and talents, but he was not Zhuge Liang's opponent at all, and in the confrontation with Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi lost wheat in Shangyi, the great defeat and retreat of Halo City, the wooden gate was folded, Weinan was pushed flat, and Wugong Shui was shot away, and he had to hold out after repeated defeats. After that, the relics of his wife, the thousands of miles to fight, and the death of Zhuge Zhongda are even more ridiculous, and judging from these achievements, Sima Yi is inferior to Zhuge Liang. Although Sima Yi had led an army to pacify Liaodong and was deeply trusted by Cao Rui, at least in terms of military achievements, Sima Yi was much inferior to Zhuge Liang.
However, things are not absolute, if from the aspect of hidden forbearance and fierceness, Sima Yi is definitely stronger than Zhuge Liang, after all, in the process of the Fifth Northern Expedition, Sima Yi would never win the victory against Zhuge Liang in the end if he had not been forbearant again and again. Not only that, after Sima Yi became the chancellor of The Orphan, in order to seize Cao Wei's power, he did not hesitate to take action against Cao Shuang and others, thus destroying the three tribes of Cao Shuang, and finally taking all the power of Cao Wei's regime into his own hands.
The author believes that if only in terms of military ability, Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang are more powerful and superior, but if they are judged from the perspective of forbearance and fierceness, Zhuge Liang is indeed inferior to Sima Yi.