In China's "Thirty-Six Plans," there is an "empty city plan" that is basically known to everyone, and the art of war emphasizes the virtual and the real, the real is the virtual, and the virtual is real, which makes people suspicious. The so-called "empty city plan" refers to a clever strategy of deliberately concealing and camouflaging oneself in the critical situation of empty strength on one's own side, so that the enemy army mistakenly believes that they are very strong, deceive them, and make them confused and retreat.
In the history of our country, there are many examples of enemy troops besieging the city and their own troops being empty, but the generals who defend the city have confused the enemy generals with tricks and held on to the city. Coincidentally, when there was one war after another in ancient China, there were people in the far West who used this tactic, and she was also a "female general", who was the former hostess of Carcassonne Castle, known as Madame Barak.
Located on the edge of the highlands on the east bank of the Oder River in France, the Château de Carcassonne is a typical medieval European castle. Like the european ancient castles we remember, it also has a cylindrical roof and a conical tower. Nowadays, Carcassonne Castle attracts many tourists, and the gender of tourists is mostly women, because the historical stories handed down by Carcassonne Castle are mostly related to women.
For example, we are going to talk about "Lady Barak's Guard" today. Lady Barak's husband was the ruler of the castle, King Satoson, and after 725 AD, the Arabs occupied this strategic place, and during the reign of King Sartoson, king Charlemagne wanted to retake the castle, so he sent a large army to besiege the city, and when King Sartoson broke through, he was captured and killed because he did not surrender.
In this case, Mrs. Barak endured the grief and stood up to lead the soldiers and civilians to continue to guard the castle. Charlemagne's army surrounded the castle tightly, and the grain and weapons in the castle were decreasing day by day, and Lady Barak had to find a new way to resist the enemy. The odd woman came up with several strategies that caused Charlemagne's army to have a huge misunderstanding of the situation in the castle.
As soldiers continued to die in the battle to defend the castle, Madame Barak instructed the remaining soldiers to keep their hats, and every time you patrol, remember to change the color of the hats, one moment blue, the other red. Sure enough, the Charlemagne soldiers outside the castle were dazzled, because they could not see people clearly, and they could only judge the defenders based on the color of their hats.
Mrs. Barack asked the soldiers to change their hats and patrol the city, and the Charlemagne soldiers thought that the number of defenders in the city was still large, and they began to seriously consider whether they had the strength to defeat so many people. But some people jumped out and said, we have been surrounding the castle for 3 years, and the food in the castle is definitely not enough to eat, even if there are many people. Sooner or later they will starve to death, and we will win.
Lady Barak also thought of this, at that time there was a real shortage of food in the castle, how to convince the enemy troops outside that they were strong enough to abandon the siege and withdraw? She ordered a pig to be brought in, fed it the only half-sack of wheat left in the castle, and then ordered the soldiers to take the pig up to the city, "accidentally" causing the pig to fall from the castle and fall in front of Charlemagne's soldiers.
When the soldiers looked, the pigs sent by bai could just improve their diet. They killed the pig and found that the pig's stomach was stuffed with wheat. From this, the generals of Charlemagne's army made a judgment: even pigs can eat wheat at will, which shows that the strength of the castle is still not to be underestimated, not only many people, but also more food. In the end, Charlemagne's army chose to withdraw, and Mrs. Barack's plan succeeded.