Speaking of the empty city plan of the "Thirty-Six Plans", the true and false duel between Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi
The "Thirty-Six Plans" is a thirty-six military tactics handed down from ancient China, originating from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and written in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is a military book summed up based on ancient Chinese military thought and rich experience in struggle, and is one of the long-standing intangible cultural heritages of the Chinese nation. However, for a historical heritage that is so important to our country, there are still many people who cannot clearly say which thirty-six counts are specifically included, in fact, there is a song that comprehensively summarizes these thirty-six plans, that is: the next strategy of gold and jade borrowing, referring to the robbery and thief; the grass fish and the sea laugh, the sheep peach hit; the tree is dark and foolish, the empty and bitter guests; the house beams are even human corpses, and the Wei Yu country is destroyed. This good deed writer wrote well, removing the words "next strategy" and "national annihilation" at the beginning and end, and the remaining thirty-six words are one word and one count, and everyone can check the thirty-six counts to see if they are.
Among them, the emptiness in "Empty Bitter Far Away" refers to the empty city plan.
Speaking of the empty city plan, what the public knows is Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, which scared off Sima Yi's 150,000 troops, to tell the truth, Sima Yi is a generation of strategists with the same strength as Zhuge Liang, how could this be easy to get on Zhuge Liang's pawn? Moreover, Sima Yi's 150,000-strong army and Zhuge Liang's 5,000-man Marco were quite different, and it was enough for the Shu army to drink a pot without attacking for a long time. In fact, Sima Yi did not take the opportunity to attack the city, except for Zhuge Liang, an old rival who had his own careful thoughts.
During the Three Kingdoms period, no matter who was loyal to anyone, there was no guarantee of what the future would be like, although Sima Yi was loyal to the State of Wei, and his ability was also recognized, but the reason why it was valuable was because of the existence of Zhuge Liang, and the countries needed Sima Yi to balance Zhuge Liang, once Zhuge Liang died, Sima Yi was pushed into the position where Zhuge Liang had been, becoming the target of everyone, once Zhuge Liang died, the next thing to be destroyed was sima Yi, so Sima Yi did not want Zhuge Liang to die at that time. Therefore, regardless of whether Zhuge Liang's empty city plan was true or not, Sima Yi would not attack the city.
However, if Sima Yi wanted to convince the rest of the people that he had to play a good play, so in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms we saw that Sima Yi, under the questioning of his son, not only enjoyed listening to Zhuge Liang play the piano, but also made an analysis that Zhuge Liang could play the piano so calmly and calmly in the face of 150,000 troops, indicating that he was not afraid at all, and then ordered without haste: after the mutiny, the former soldiers were ready to retreat.
However, Zhuge Liang did not accompany Sima Yi to perform this play well, but instead broke off when Sima Yi was exaggerating, which was Sima Yi's immediate change of face and order: Quickly withdraw!
Sima Yi's great change in mood was a signal that the strings of the world were broken in the eyes of the generals of this army, and in Sima Yi's view, Zhuge Liang could not maintain his composure, and did not leave at this time, waiting for others to see that it was catty, but he could not go, and Sima Yi's life was also worried. Therefore, when Zhuge Liang's strings broke, Sima Yi was frightened and quickly asked the army to retreat.
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