During the Three Kingdoms period, countless famous generals and strategists emerged, and the classic battles of all sizes were countless, the most classic was the Battle of Chibi and the Empty City Plan, these two battles were successfully repelled by Zhuge Liang's planning, today we will talk about the most famous Empty City Plan, Zhuge Liang three out of qishan, in the West City there are only 800 hundred old weak and disabled soldiers, to scare off Sima Yi, this plan is often mentioned by people to this day. So why was the empty city plan successfully implemented in the face of the scheming Sima Yi? Why was Sima Yi so jealous of Zhuge Liang? I think it's the following battles.
One: Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi lost several games, in the depths of their hearts they were ashamed that they were not as good as Zhuge Kongming, as we all know, Zhuge Liang knows astronomy and geography, in Zhuge Liang's career, invented a car called buffalo flowing horse, with which it is very convenient to transport grain, especially in the rugged mountain road, a soldier can promote the transport of grain. When Zhuge Liang's army was short of grain and grass, Zhuge Liang ordered his soldiers to pretend to be attacked by the enemy and abandon the buffalo flowing horse grain truck, and after Sima Yi captured the buffalo flowing carriage, he was very happy, and lamented that Zhuge Liang was really a god and a man, and could design such a ingenious treasure, and then ordered the soldiers to transport military grain with a water buffalo flowing carriage in the future, but Sima Yi did not know that he had already made a plan. When Sima Yi's army was transporting grain, Zhuge Liang ordered his generals to disguise themselves as Wei troops, set up checkpoints at the intersection, pretend to go up to inspect when the grain troops arrived, and in the process of inspection, deliberately touched the buffalo flow carriage organ so that it could not walk, and then sent a small force to pretend to ambush the soldiers from the side, and the grain convoy was about to flee when it saw the situation, but found that the buffalo flow carriage could not be pushed, and could only abandon the car and flee, in this way, Zhuge Liang obtained a large amount of military food without spending a single soldier. Afterwards, Sima Yi found out that he had been deceived.
Second: In the Northern Expedition of the Shu Army, Zhuge Liang knew very well that the Northern Expedition war should not be delayed for too long, and at this time Sima Yi happened to see this, so he always avoided fighting and did not take the initiative to attack, you know, Sima Yi may not be the material for attacking, but he is definitely an expert in defense, so he always can't stick to it, which makes Zhuge Liang very uncomfortable, so he thought of using himself as bait, so that he can lead sima Yi.
So after capturing Wuping County, Zhuge Liang personally went to Wuping County to appease the people, after Sima Yi received the news, he also thought that Zhuge Liang was using himself as bait to arrange an ambush on the way to Wuping County, and at first he did not intend to sneak up on Zhuge Liang, but suddenly thought that since Zhuge Liang had set up an ambush on the road in Wuping County, then Zhuge Liang's camp was empty, and then ordered an attack on Zhuge Liang's camp, but Clever was mistaken by Clever, Sima Yi could not have imagined that Zhuge Liang was setting up the ambush in the base camp. After Sima Yi attacked the camp, he found that he had been ambushed, and suddenly rockets were fired from all directions, the camp was full of oil, the Wei army had been burned to death, Sima Yi saw that he was at the end of his rope and was ready to kill himself, the sky suddenly rained, and sure enough, his life should not be extinguished, this is Zhuge Liang also looked up to the sky and sighed, God helped Cao not to help me, and then vomited a mouthful of blood, and knew that this time could not kill Sima Yi, the Northern Expedition failed, and immediately ordered the banshi to return to the dynasty.
With these two battles, Sima Yi had a fear of Zhuge Liang, and he was always careful, afraid of being ambushed by Zhuge Liang again, which showed that Sima Yi was good at defending and not good at attacking. Therefore, in the case that Zhuge Liang only had 800 old, weak and disabled soldiers who were close to emptying the city, he did not dare to attack the city, and Zhuge Liang himself personally played the piano at the head of the city, and the city gate was wide open, which further aroused Sima Yi's suspicion, fearing that he would be ambushed again, coupled with the failure of two battles, laying the foundation for the successful implementation of the empty city plan.
In fact, I personally believe that Sima Yi could first send a small army to attack the city, to find out, if there is an ambush, it will not lose too badly, if it succeeds, the Shu state will lose almost half of the country. So if Sima Yi really invaded the city and killed Zhuge Liang, what would be the direction of the Three Kingdoms? Will the Wei Congress achieve reunification? What do you think?