Zhuge Liang's eight-array map is divided into living areas and combat areas, and there are rice stoves in the living area; There are weapons depots in the combat zone. When there is no war, it is a city, and when there is a war, it is a military camp.
The Eight Formations are recognized as excellent formations and have been highly valued for thousands of years. Zhuge Liang's eight-array diagram is found in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Shu, and Zhuge Liang's Biography": "Brightness is longer than ingenuity, deducing the art of war, and making eight-array diagram." Lu Xun burned the camp for seven hundred miles, Kong Mingqiao laid out eight arrays, piled up stones into stone arrays, and then divided into eight gates according to the armor of life, injury, hugh, du, jing, death, shock, and opening, absorbing the bagua arrangement, compatible with astronomical geography, and its power could resist 100,000 elite soldiers.
The eight arrays are laid down according to the eight gates of the Dragon Armor, and combine the astrological calendar, astronomical geography, yin and yang five elements, etc., the most important feature is that every moment, it is changing, and the characteristics of this change make people walk in and get lost in it. And this change does not require the help of any external force of man, the stone itself can be completed, so as to achieve the purpose of destroying the enemy.
The eight arrays are divided into living areas and combat areas, and there are rice stoves in the living area; There are weapons depots in the combat zone. When there is no war, it is a city, and when there is a war, it is a military camp. The eight-array map is composed of four types of troops: infantry, crossbow, horse, and car. This formation was made to reverse the inferiority of shu Han in cavalry. At that time, the Wei army had the world's elite cavalry. For example, in the Battle of Dangyang, Cao Cao led 5,000 light cavalry to march three hundred miles a day and night, and still quickly defeated Liu Bei's 100,000 people.
The eight-array tubu array should follow one principle, that is, inclusiveness and symmetry. That is to say, the large array is composed of the middle array, the middle array is composed of a small array, the large array contains the middle array, and the central array contains a small array. From the perspective of the whole array, there are arrays between the arrays, and one array is divided into eight formations. The eight formations are divided into peripheral and central forces in terms of configuration. Its main forces are allocated on the periphery, and the central forces are small and refined, forming the characteristics of external reality and virtuality.
For some time after the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, there were still many people who knew its tactical essentials, but its complexity and difficulty were not known to everyone, and Sima Zhao had ordered Chen Xun (xié), a person who was only a tall eight bucket, to learn the eight arrays, and the results were all failures, not to mention the difficulty of ordinary people learning.
Due to the secret collection of the bing family, very few people knew about the Eight Arrays, and it was finally lost in the Tang Dynasty. Shi Zai: The Eight Arrays flowed overseas, and the Tang Dynasty scholar JiBei Zhenbei taught the Eight Arrays in Japan. So there was such an anomaly, the earliest monopoly of the secret of the eight arrays, but strange; What was not possessed at first made it take root.
At present, there are three military training relics of the Eight Arrays, one in Fengjie, Chongqing, one in Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and one in Xindu, Sichuan.