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Wang Ji can be literate and martial, and has both moral integrity and ability. He served in the Han and Wei dynasties, assisted the five emperors of Cao Wei, and was deeply valued by Sima Yi, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao.
Wang Ji has a skill called "Jin Xiang", which looks good and awkward, what does this word mean?
From the marching chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War, "Those who resign from humility and benefit from preparation, enter also; those who resign strongly and advance, retreat also; ... Half-and-then half-retreater, temptation also"
The meaning of this sentence is,
If the enemy is humble, it means that they are stepping up their preparations for war and will attack soon.
On the contrary, the enemy's letters are strong, as if they are about to attack at once, and most of the enemy will retreat.
Let's look at a few other deeds in the Three Kingdoms, isn't that the case?
In 219, Lu Xun gave Guan Yu a letter of worship, with humble words, expressing infinite admiration and concern for Guan Yu.
General, you should be careful of the Wei army, they are very powerful. Hmm, this Eastern Wu is really a generation worse than a generation.
Coupled with the fact that Lü Meng had always said that he was ill, Guan Yu relaxed his vigilance and left Nan County to attack Fancheng, and as a result, Lü Meng led his troops to attack Nan County, and Guan Yu was unable to recover after retreating and lost Maicheng, which is the allusion of "crossing the river in white clothes".
Before the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao also gave Sun Quan a letter of war.
Quickly hand over Liu Bei to me, otherwise my 800,000 troops will directly step on your Eastern Wu.
This letter made many famous people in Eastern Wu at that time afraid to choose to surrender, of course, this was just a threatening letter, Cao Cao did not have 800,000 troops at all, and did not want to fight Eastern Wu at all, all he wanted at that time was to kill Liu Bei. Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang, on the other hand, saw their falsehood and resolutely joined forces to defeat Cao Cao. (Historians have now defined the Battle of Chibi as an encounter, because of its small size, there is no such thing as the Three Great Battles of the Three Kingdoms.) ）
So what happened to Wang Ji?
In 247, Sun Quan gathered a large army in Jianye and threatened to attack Yangzhou, and Zhuge Zhi consulted Wang Ji.
Now That Lu Xun had hung up, Sun Quan was old, his son was young, and the veteran was almost dead. If he led the army out on the expedition, he was afraid that there would be more internal contradictions, and I think he was just using this to rearrange the deployment, and he was relieved that he would not be able to fight.
Later, sure enough, Sun Quan did not send troops.
Wang Ji's life can be described as "strange systems" one after another, and really reading through these strange systems is equivalent to reading half of the soldier's books, due to the length of the article, we will talk about the lines of "sound east strikes west" and Shangchang Water City today.