Kong Mingzhen was a tragic hero, and for various reasons, he did not consume Sima Yi. Source: Screenshot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in 1994
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In the eighth year of Huangwu of Eastern Wu (229 AD), Sun Quan was proclaimed emperor and changed his name to The First Year of Huanglong.
Sun Quan sent people into Shu and expressed his desire to ally with Western Shu and jointly plan the Central Plains. Later Lord Liu Chan asked Zhuge Liang how he should deal with it. Zhuge Liang suggested: Send someone to congratulate Sun Quan and implore him to raise an army in Eastern Wu and raise an army in Shu himself to fight Wei together. Liu Chan followed.
Sun Quan received the Shu Han emissaries and asked Lu Xun for advice. Lu Xun suggested that all the soldiers and horses pretend to be soldiers, but in fact they did not move, waiting for Zhuge Liang to send troops first. If it gains an advantage, it will act again and march into the Central Plains.
Zhuge Liang wanted to conquer the Central Plains again, but he was only afraid that Hao Zhao of Chen Cangcheng was good at defense and could not win. Overhearing Hao Zhao's serious illness, he was overjoyed. Therefore, he immediately sent troops to lead the two generals Guan Xing and Zhang Bao to take Chen Cang directly. When Hao Zhao heard that the Shu army was approaching the city, he was worried and fearful, and he fell seriously ill and died.
The Shu army captured Chen Cangcheng, and Zhuge Liang immediately deployed Wei Yan and Jiang Wei to attack Shanguan, and must take Sanguan before the arrival of Wei reinforcements. The two men rushed to Sanguan without stopping, and sure enough, the Wei defenders had fled. The two men took Shanguan, and before they could unload their armor, the Wei general Zhang Guo had already led his army to arrive, but the scattered pass had been lost. Zhang Gao withdrew, but was subsequently pursued and killed by Wei Yan, losing a lot of people and horses.
When the war report reached Luoyang, Cao Rui was horrified. At this moment, there was news again: Eastern Wu Luxun trained people and horses in Wuchang and came to attack the Central Plains, only in recent days. Cao Rui was even more worried.
The great general Cao Zhen was ill at this moment. Therefore, Cao Rui made Sima Yi the governor of dadu, and he took charge of the Longxi Zhulu army and horses to resist Zhuge Liang.
Sima took the seal. Source: Screenshot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in 1994
Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, the two old rivals, fought again, or Zhuge Liang was more skilled, clashed several times, and always killed Sima Yi. However, in a battle, the general Zhang Bao lost his foot on horseback and fell into a mountain stream, and he died of his wounds.
When Zhuge Liang heard the news of Zhang Bao's death, he was greatly saddened, and since then he has been ill and mentally ill. I had to return the army to Hanzhong and return to Chengdu to recuperate, and not to make a good plan.
In the eighth year of Jianxing of the Shu Han Dynasty (230 AD), the Wei lord Cao Rui worshiped Cao Zhen as the Grand Sima and The Governor of Dadu, Sima Yi as the Great General and Deputy Governor, and Liu Ye as the Military Division, leading an army of 400,000 to attack Hanzhong in Shu Han.
The Wei army had reached Chen Cangcheng, but Zhuge Liang was not in a hurry, and only sent two generals Zhang Ling and Wang Ping, each leading a thousand troops to guard the Chen Cang Ancient Road. It turned out that he was watching the sky at night and speculated that there would be heavy rain next month, and the Wei army could not march.
Sima Yi also speculated that it was going to rain heavily, so after entering Chen Cangcheng, he did not dare to continue his march, and only stayed in the city. Sure enough, in less than half a month, it began to rain heavily, and it fell for thirty days in a row, and the "flat ground was three feet deep" outside the city, and the soldiers did not even have a dry place to sleep, "restless day and night"; the horses starved to death because they could not keep up with the hay. In desperation, Sima Yi had no choice but to go to Cao Rui to explain the situation, and Cao Rui issued an edict to retire.
Wei Bing retreated, and Zhuge Liang led his army to pursue. Sima Yi expected that the Shu army would come to catch up, and with preparations in advance, he led his army to defend the valley mouth of Qishan Mountain, and Cao Zhen led his army to the west of Qishan.
The Shu generals Wei Yan and Chen Shi did not believe Zhuge Liang's inference, and did not believe that Sima Yi would deploy ambush troops on both sides of Mount Qi. Chen Shi sent an army to Jigu to pursue the Wei army, and was ambushed by Sima Yi, losing more than 4,000 soldiers. Thanks to Wei Yan's rescue, he escaped with his life.
Zhuge Liang questioned Yu Shi and beheaded him.
At the mouth of the Xiegu Valley on the west side of Qi Mountain, Zhuge Liang lured Cao Zhen to attack. Cao Zhen ordered the deputy general Qin Liang to attack the Shu army, zhuge Liang led it into an ambush circle, and Qin Liang could not break out of the encirclement and was beheaded under his horse.
Zhuge Liang ordered his generals to change into Wei Jun's clothes, disguise themselves as Wei Jun, sneak back to Cao Zhen's camp, and attack Cao Zhen's village with his other two men and horses. Cao Zhen was defeated, but thanks to Sima Yi's rescue, he escaped with his life.
Zhuge Liang wrote a letter to ridicule Cao Zhen, and Cao Zhen died in shame and anger.
Cao Zhen was defeated, ridiculed by Zhuge Liang in writing a book, filled with anger, and died in the army. Source: Screenshot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in 1994
Cao Zhen was dead, leaving Sima Yi alone to confront Zhuge Liang. The two fought a battle, competing in the formation, and Sima Yi was defeated by Zhuge Liang, so he had to close the village.
Zhuge Liang could not be defeated on the battlefield, but Sima Yi skillfully used a counter-plot to make the Shu army descend to Spread rumors in Chengdu that Zhuge Liang wanted to rebel. Liu Chan was deceived and recalled Zhuge Liang. As a result, the confrontation between the two ended like this, which was a draw.
In the ninth year of the Shu Han Dynasty (231 AD), Zhuge Liang again went out to cut Wei, out of Chen Cang, through the Sword Pavilion, and came from The Valley of Shanguan Wang. Sima Yi led an army to defend against the Shu army, with Zhang Gao as the vanguard.
It was the turn of spring and summer, when the wheat in Longxi was ripening. The Shu army was short of grain, and Zhuge Liang wanted to cut longxi wheat for military food, but Sima Yi of course wanted to stop him, and the two sides fought over the harvest of wheat.
Zhuge Liang ordered Jiang Wei, Ma Dai, and Wei Yan to dress up as themselves and sit on a four-wheeled vehicle. He also took a four-wheeled vehicle, and each car arranged twenty-four elite sergeants, "dressed in soap clothes and with their hair and feet", dressed as cart messengers. When Sima Yi came to block the cutting of wheat, four groups of convoys took turns to appear, pretending to be gods and ghosts, supplemented by soldiers and horses, and engaging the Wei army. Wei Jun did not know whether it was a person or a ghost, and was very frightened, so he retreated to Shangyi City and closed the city for three days. However, the Shu army took advantage of these three days to cut off all the wheat in Longxi.
Zhuge Makeup God cut all the wheat in Longxi back. Source: Screenshot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in 1994
Zhuge Liang was fighting wheat in The City of Halo, and Sima Yi and the deputy governor Guo Huai led an army to sneak attack at night, but they were defeated by an ambush that Zhuge Liang had ambushed in advance.
Guo Huai invited 200,000 Yong and Liang soldiers and horses to assist in the battle, zhuge Liang boosted the morale of the troops, taking advantage of the fact that the Yongliang army was tired and unstable, and rushed to kill, and the Yong and Liang soldiers and horses were killed and wounded countless times.
Just as victory was about to be won, Li Yan, who was stationed in yong'an in the rear, wrote a letter saying that Eastern Wu was about to raise an army to cut down Shu. Zhuge Liang was unable to do so, so he had to return to Hanzhong to prevent Eastern Wu.
Zhuge Liang retreated, and the Wei general Zhang Guo led his army to pursue, caught up with Zhuge Liang's strategy of enticing troops, fell into the encirclement of the Shu army, and was killed by random arrows at the wooden doorway.
When Zhuge Liang returned to Hanzhong, he learned that it was Li Yan who was ineffective in organizing military food, and he was afraid that Zhuge Liang would reduce his guilt, so he said that "Eastern Wu was about to enter the Kou" and deceived Zhuge Liang back. In this way, Zhuge Liang once again lost at the hands of his own people.
Li Yan lied about the military situation and missed the major events of the Northern Expedition. Source: Screenshot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in 1994
In the twelfth year of Jianxing of the Shu Han Dynasty (234 AD), after three years of recuperation, Zhuge Liang once again raised an army to fight Wei. This was his sixth time to cut wei, this time leading an army of 340,000.
On Cao Wei's side, Sima Yi was still in command, leading Xiahou Yuan's four sons Xiahou Ba, Xiahou Wei, Xiahou Hui, and Xiahou He, and his two sons Sima Zhao and Sima Shi to meet the enemy together.
Sima Yi led an army of 400,000 men to camp on the banks of the Weishui River, and ordered Xiahou Ba and Xiahou Wei to cross the Weishui river and set up camp. Zhuge Liang led the army, and the first battle between the two sides was fought along the Weishui river.
Zhuge Liang carefully deployed and divided several men and horses to attack Sima Yi's Weishui camp and Xiahou Ba's and Xiahou Wei's camps, but they were defused by Sima Yi one by one, but instead zhuge Liang was defeated and more than 10,000 soldiers were lost. This was a rare battle in which Sima Yi defeated Zhuge Liang.
Sima Yi ordered the general Zheng Wen to surrender to Zhuge Liang, planning to join forces with the Shu army and defeat the Shu army. Zhuge Liang made a plan, ambushed the troops in advance, and lured Sima Yi to come. Sima Yi, led by Qin Lang, came to rob the camp, was killed by the Shu army, Qin Lang was killed in battle, and Sima Yi escaped.
When Sima Yi saw that zhuge liang was fighting, he closed the village and could not come out, and no matter how insulted the Shu army was, he did not go to war. Zhuge Liang used all kinds of tricks, spent nearly a month before and after, lost several times in a row, and finally lured Sima Yi to make a wrong judgment. Sima Yi felt that it was a feasible idea to order the generals to attack the Qishan Dazhai of the Shu army and lead his own army to rob the grain depot above the Shu army and burn its grain and grass.
Sima Yi's move was right in the middle of Zhuge Liang's heart, and Zhuge Liang had already laid an ambush in the upper valley beforehand, just to attract Sima Yi to come, and this was not the place where the Shu army was stockpiled. Sima Yi and his two sons entered the ambush circle of the Shu army in the upper valley, and the Shu army ignited the fire mines buried in the ground in advance, and threw lit firewood and grass on the slopes on both sides, blocking the valley mouth. The fire was raging in the sky, and the Shu army was slaughtering all over the mountains, and Sima Yi looked up at the sky and sighed: "Today, all three of my father and son died here!" ”。
The fire burns the valley above. Source: Screenshot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in 1994
At this time, heavy rain fell from the sky, extinguishing the fire in the valley, and Sima Yi took advantage of the situation to lead his army out of the siege and escape with his life.
After this defeat, Sima Yi completely closed the village and was determined to fight a war of attrition with Zhuge Liang. And it turned out that his move was indeed effective, and finally exhausted Zhuge Liang and achieved the final victory.
Resources:
Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Yuelu Book Club, 2004