From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, the world was in chaos, and the situation of independent government gradually took shape. In order to gain more territory and population, wars are frequent. If you want to win in the war, not only do you have a good economic foundation, but you can't ignore the deployment of troops. Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army at that time, was defeated under Emperor Fusong's Heaven and Earth Three Talents Array; Cao Cao sent Cao Ren to test Liu Bei's strength in order to eliminate Liu Bei, and Cao Ren's eight-door locked array allowed Liu Bei to flee into the wilderness, but fortunately Zhao Yun escaped from the crisis with the help of Xu Shu.
Liu Bei saw the importance of the formation method from the failure, and it was too important to find a high-ranking person to be a staff officer. Speaking of the formation at that time, Zhuge Liang's Bagua Array was the most famous. At that time, no one could break this formation, and even Lu Xun, the governor of Eastern Wu, almost died in this formation. Time passed, and a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty said that he could break the Bagua Array, could he really crack the Bagua Array?
The Bagua Array was originally founded by Sun Zhen. Sun Zhen's old enemy Pang Juan attacked while the State of Qi was weakening. Sun Zhen was ordered to resist the enemy, and he knew that Pang Juan's purpose this time was to destroy the State of Qi, so he put up a gossip array and waited for Pang Juan to arrive. Pang Juan was eventually defeated in front of Sun Zhen, and this battle achieved the reputation of Sun Zhen's god of war. Originally, the Bagua Array seemed to have been lost, and Zhuge Liang at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was used in the art of war under the guidance of his father-in-law Huang Chengyan.
Zhuge Liang let the Bagua Array appear again, and it was through this formation that Liu Bei in the Battle of Wushu Yiling was able to escape. Lu Xun took advantage of the burning of Liu Bei to a mess and wanted to establish immortal feats, but was finally completely overturned by Zhuge Liang's Bagua Array. Lu Xun encountered the same situation as Pang Juan in that year, and without Huang Chengyan's assistance, Lu Xun would only become a victim of the Bagua Array.
Zhuge Liang once handed over the Twenty-Four Articles of the Art of War and the Bagua Array to Jiang Wei, who did not fully understand the essence of it, and the Bagua Array seemed unable to continue to be passed on to future generations. The Eastern Jin Dynasty Huan Temperate Forces attacked Bashu, and at this time he once again saw the old Bagua Array. Huan Wen, who was terrified in his heart, asked the team to take a detour into Shu, and the soldier next to him said: Isn't it just a pile of stones? Huan Wen knew that his subordinates did not know the reason, but just said something else.
Huan Wen told his subordinates: This is the Bagua Array laid down by Zhuge Liang in those years, and we can break it with strong soldiers and horses, but this will delay the time for us to enter Shu, so we have to give up. Can Huan Wen really break the line? At this moment, there was no such a high-ranking person as Huang Chengyan, if he entered this formation, he might have the same encounter as Lu Xun, and the result was that he had already seen it. As a powerful minister and a general, he was reluctant to take his life and future for this. A rhetoric became his "shield".