Zhuge Liang can be called a genius of the Three Kingdoms period, and in a series of novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he has also been shaped into an almost godlike image, as if there is nothing he cannot calculate and guess. Therefore, in the hearts of many people, Zhuge Liang's status is very high, and he has become a household name for thousands of years.
Zhuge Liang in the main history is actually extremely outstanding, as a Shu Han Chancellor in the Three Kingdoms period, the famous Eight Arrays chart is a kind of formation he created by deducing the art of war. Although the history of the Eight Arrays chart is long, and many celebrities have used it before, zhuge liang has innovated it again, and it has also reached its peak and has been respected by posterity.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms in the Twenty-Four Histories first records the creation of the Eight Arrays by Zhuge Liang, which mentions the following sentence: "Deducing the art of war, making the Eight Arrays, is salty to the clouds." "The role of the eight arrays in other history books is also extremely praised, because the eight arrays not only gather a variety of arrangements such as Ida and Taoist bagua, but also contain a series of knowledge such as astronomy and geography, which is difficult to decipher.
So how powerful is Zhuge Liang's eight-array diagram? Because the eight arrays are mainly composed of "Qiankun Xungong Four Lands, for the heavens and the earth, as the right soldiers." It is further divided into eight formations, namely, "heavenly array, ground carrying array, wind array, cloud vertical array, dragon flying array, tiger wing array, bird flying array, snake array." Because of this, Zhuge Liang's Bagua chart has always been difficult to crack, and it is said that even 100,000 elite soldiers cannot attack.
For thousands of years, only one person could see through it, and he was Sima Huanwen, the Great Sima of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At that time, he also led the army to encounter Zhuge Liang's eight arrays by chance, but he could only see through it, and he could not reach the realm of attack, because he did not fully grasp it, he could not use the method of breaking the array, he did not dare to take risks, and could only take the army around the long road. Therefore, for thousands of years, the eight arrays have been respected by many celebrities, and even the great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty once wrote poems praising the eight arrays.
However, since the Three Kingdoms, due to its long age, the Eight Arrays have experienced the change of years, the changes of dynasties, and the continuous wars, and Zhuge Liang's Eight Arrays have also been lost. The only trace that can be traced is a set of "Eight Arrays of War Diagrams after the Wind" found in Mixian County, Henan Province, but this is only partially similar to Zhuge Liang's Eight Arrays, and not all of them are exactly the same. Therefore, Zhuge Liang's eight arrays can be said to be completely extinct, and it is almost impossible to reappear in the world. Unless it is an emperor or celebrity who brings the contents of the Eight Formations to the mausoleum and then excavates them to reproduce the light of day, this possibility is very small.