At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was divided into three parts, and in the chaotic world, the heroes of the world eventually belonged to the camp of the Three Kingdoms of Wei Shu and Wu, Eastern Wu Sun Quan divided Jiangdong to inherit the ancestral inheritance, the Shu state Liu Bei got the belly of the Central Plains, Jingzhou, and Sichuan Shu took the revival of the Han Dynasty as its mission, and the Wei state Cao Cao was even more blackmailed by the Son of Heaven to make the princes, and the tiger xu Changxiong regarded the world. Throughout the history of the Three Kingdoms, it is like a big drama. What pushed this drama to the peak was not Cao Cao Liu Bei Sun Quan, but sima Yi and Zhuge Liang's battle of wits and courage.
Zhuge Liang character Kong Ming, born in 181 AD, was originally a native of Linlang Yangdu, in the early years with his uncle went to Jingzhou, and after the death of his uncle Zhuge Xuan, Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion in the Longzhong area, while cultivating while studying, In the twelfth year of Jian'an (207), Liu Beisan invited Zhuge Liang under Gu Maolu.
After Zhuge Liang descended the mountain and joined forces with Eastern Wu Sun Quan to defeat Cao Cao's million-strong army at the Battle of Chibi, this protracted battle finally formed a three-legged momentum, followed by the capture of Jingzhou, Jian'an sixteen years (211) followed by the capture of Yizhou, in 221 AD, Liu Bei established the Shu Han regime in Chengdu. Zhuge Liang, as the greatest hero, was made the chancellor of the Shu Han Dynasty.
However, after Liu Bei ascended the throne, he became more and more arrogant, did not listen to Zhuge Liang's persuasion, and insisted on raising an army in Eastern Wu to avenge his second brother Guan Yu. In the end, he was defeated at Yiling in 222 AD, and he himself died in the White Emperor City, entrusting Zhuge Liang with the shu han who was seriously injured and the last wish to revive the Han dynasty.
In the fourth year of Shu Jianxing (226), Zhuge Liang was keenly aware of the lack of experience in ruling the newly succeeded Cao Rui, so he decided to go to the Northern Expedition. Cao Zhen and Cao Ren of the State of Wei were naturally not Zhuge Liang's opponents, and Cao Rui had no choice but to use Sima Yi, who was reluctant to use them, to fight against Zhuge Liang.
After Ma Mo lost the street pavilion, Sima Yi led his troops to take advantage of the victory and directly attacked the Western City, but at this time Zhuge Liang had no troops to meet the enemy. Seeing sima Yi's hundreds of thousands of troops pressing down on the territory, Zhuge Liang was in a hurry and thought of a very risky way, he ordered his men to open the city gate, and then sent several people to sweep the floor in front of the city gate, and he took a piano and played it above the city gate.
Even the generals who accompanied Sima Yi knew that it would be over to send a group of men and horses to investigate the truth, but Sima Yi ordered his men to retreat immediately, saying that there was an ambush in the city. Did Sima Yi really not know that Zhuge Liang was already at the end of the crossbow in bluff? The answer was naturally no, so why did Sima Yi order the retreat?
If Sima Yi had not ordered the withdrawal of troops at that time, he was afraid that soon after Zhuge Liang was killed by the rebel army, Sima Yi himself would not have lived long. The reason is very simple that Sima Yi was able to stand here and besiege the main Zhuge Liang precisely because no one in the State of Wei except Sima Yi was Zhuge Liang's opponent, and once Zhuge Liang died, Sima Yi, who was deeply suspected by the Wei royal family, naturally did not last long.
How could Zhuge Liang not see Sima Yi's ambitions? Therefore, this empty city plan was deliberately arranged, in fact, not to deceive Sima Yi, but to give Sima Yi a step down, so that he could avoid Cao Rui's punishment on the grounds of "middle plan". And since Zhuge Liang was not dead, Cao Rui naturally did not dare to move Sima Yi.
It is no wonder that after Sima Yi withdrew, Zhuge Liang stood at the head of the city and sighed: "Sima Yi is my confidant", but it is a pity that Zhuge Liang died of illness after his sixth departure from Qishan in 234 AD. And the hundred-year-old disputes in the Three Kingdoms eventually belonged to the Sima family.