The crystallization of wisdom handed down by the ancestors to this day still affects our lives. For example, the "Art of War of Sun Tzu" not only influenced the ancient military development of our country, but also played an important guiding role in the Eighth Route Army in repelling the Japanese army on the battlefield and strategizing during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In fact, Zhuge Liang's eight arrays were inspired by the Bagua array in Sun Tzu's Art of War.
Anyone who has seen the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" knows that Zhuge Liang not only created many novel inventions of his own, but he was also very good at platooning and arranging troops. For example, in the deed of "Capturing Meng In Seven", Zhuge Liang used superb military means to arrest Meng Yu seven times. And Zhuge Liang's most famous tactic is the Eight Array Chart. The description of the Eight Arrays in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is almost a god blocking the killing of the god Buddha, and even Sima Yi is not his opponent.
Although the record of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms uses artistic techniques to beautify history, the power of the Eight Arrays is indeed worthy of the name.
According to historical records, the Eight Arrays are a fusion of Taoist thought and astronomical geography and other intellectual essences, of which there are eight large arrays distributed around, and if you add the Chinese army, it is nine large arrays. And each large array has a different small array, and if you calculate it, there are a total of sixty-four small arrays. It is said to be able to withstand the attack of 100,000 troops.
It is said that the Eight Formations integrate the sixty-four gua concepts of zhou yi and have an important impact on combat tactics, and different troops are arranged in different positions, and they both perform their duties and cooperate with each other. Outsiders will be shocked when they see such a large-scale formation. Even if a brain rushed forward, it didn't know how to break the formation. Since the Eight Arrays chart is so powerful, why is it that in the historical records, almost only Zhuge Liang is using it?
It is precisely because this is Zhuge Liang's self-created formation, so only he is well versed in the way of use. In fact, not every battlefield can use the Eight Formations. After all, the most important thing in tactics is to pay attention to local conditions, and the use of the eight-array map is also constrained by the terrain. It is said that the remains of the Eight Arrays that Zhuge Liang once used still have some of the style in Sichuan. Some visitors to visit will be intimidated by its size. Then, is Zhuge Liang's eight arrays unsolvable?
In fact, for thousands of years, there was a person named Constant Temperature who had penetrated the principle of change of the Eight Arrays, but he did not dare to try it easily. According to him, the subtlety of the eight-array diagram is that it is constantly changing; although the snake array in the eight-array diagram seems to be three independent parts of the head, the middle and the tail, but they interact with each other, and if any part is attacked, the other part will rush to attack.
Since then, Zhuge Liang's eight arrays have become the object of everyone's detour when they see it. Unfortunately, the relics of the past are no longer the whole picture of the past, and we can only associate it with its former glory from the remaining parts.