Sima Yi clearly saw through the empty city, so why did he insist on withdrawing his troops? Expert: Do not withdraw and completely destroy the army
Many readers of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are familiar with the backwards, and there are also many resourceful strategists in the Three Kingdoms. Among them, Xiaobian believes that the best ones are Zhuge Liang and his nemesis Sima Yi. In the novel, the two of them have clashed many times, but most of them have won zhuge Liang.
Xiao Bian felt that in the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang seemed to be an overly "mythical" figure, not only Zhou Yu was not his opponent, but even the scheming Sima Yi was also played by Zhuge Liang, among which Sima Yi always considered to be a great shame and humiliation was the empty city plan.
In the eyes of many readers, Zhuge Liang's conquest of the gods in the First World War was an empty city plan. In this battle, Zhuge Liang took full advantage of the suspicion and uncertainty in Sima Yi's personality, and pretended to deceive Sima Yi. Even the great literary hero Lu Xun commented on Zhuge Liang in the novel: "His wisdom is almost a demon."
At the scene of the empty city plan, Zhuge Liang had mobilized the team in advance, but it was not long before Sima Yi unexpectedly led the army. Facing the 500,000-strong army behind Sima Yi, even Zhuge Liang had no choice.
If the number of troops under the battle is insufficient, not even ten thousand people are enough, and many of them are wounded. If escape did not work, the people of the city would all be captured and killed. However, Zhuge Liang was Zhuge Liang, and he did not panic when he was embarrassed, and after calm thinking, a plan was born.
Zhuge Liang sat at the city gate drinking tea and playing the violin, while the city gate opened and waited for Sima Yi. In order to perform that idle and calm, Zhuge Liang even arranged two boys around him. Xiaobian admires these two boys whenever he sees here, they are also the level of the film emperor!
As soon as Sima Yi saw this battle, he was immediately frightened. He knew that Zhuge Liang's life plan was the most secure, and he would definitely not make such a mistake by acting dangerously. Therefore, in the face of the impatient Sima Zhao, he loudly rebuked: Retreat.
However, many years later, when Sima Yi was about to die, he told Sima Zhao this truth. The reason why the Sima family was reused by the imperial court was because of the existence of Zhuge Liang. If I had annihilated him in one fell swoop, would the imperial court still need our Sima family? Maybe his army will be slaughtered and the whole army will be destroyed!
As we all know, Cao Cao said to Cao Pi on his deathbed: Sima Yi left it for yourself to see, and if you can use it, you can kill it if you can't use it. From beginning to end, several generations of monarchs of the Cao family were also deeply defensive and secretly restrained against Sima Yi, and did not fully trust Sima Yi.
Many experts and scholars in later generations also made an analysis of this campaign, believing that Sima Yi had actually seen through the empty city plan at that time, but his withdrawal was not so much to spare Zhuge Liang as to leave a retreat for himself.
Xiao Bian believes that no matter how resourceful the strategists in the Three Kingdoms are, they will eventually return to the Sima family. Sima Yi lurked around Cao Shi for decades, and finally won the world in one fell swoop, and Xiaobian felt that the smartest person in the Three Kingdoms was Sima Yi. Readers, what do you think?