In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the heroes of Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi have left a deep impression on the readers, and the two have fought several times in their lives, but they have never completely defeated each other, giving people a feeling of pity between heroes.
Since zhuge liang was invited by Liu Bei to be born, he bowed down to exhaustion, and after his death, he was resourceful and often surprised by various strategies, of which the empty city plan was the most famous.
The Empty City Plan tells that after zhuge liang's first northern expedition was defeated, because his troops were not evacuated in time, he was caught up by Sima Yi's 150,000 troops, and at that time Zhuge Liang only had about 2,000 officers and soldiers around him.
Zhuge Liang had a flash of inspiration and set up a famous empty city plan, and the suspicious Sima Yi felt that there was an ambush in the city, so he immediately withdrew his troops, and Zhuge Liang escaped the disaster. But was the reason for Sima Yi's retreat really deceived by Zhuge Liang?
Wolong came out of the mountain, and the edge was exposed
Liu Bei always had the wish of Kuang Fu Han, he first married Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in Taoyuan, but there was always a lack of counselors, and after he tried his best to recruit Xu Shu, he did not want Cao Cao to put Xu Shu's mother under house arrest, so as to order Xu Shu to be a counselor for him.
In the case of the dilemma of loyalty and filial piety, Xu Shu chose to do his best, and Liu Bei had to let him go to the enemy camp, but Xu Shu recommended Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei before leaving, asking Liu Bei to go to Longzhong to find Mr. Wolong and invite him out of the mountain.
"Wolong" is Zhuge Liang, and after Liu Beisan took care of Maolu, Zhuge Liang met Liu Bei, and he sat down with Liu Bei in the hut in the deep forest to talk, clearly described the situation today for Liu Bei, and put forward the idea of "three divisions of the world" when the situation of the three legs was not yet formed.
Listening to Zhuge Liang's remarks, Liu Bei felt more and more that this Mr. Wolong was an outstanding politician, and the doubts he had always had in his heart were instantly solved like a cloud seeing the sun, and listening to Zhuge Liang's words was like an empowerment.
Although Liu Bei visited three times to see Zhuge Liang, when Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, he loyally served the Lord and no longer had an arrogant look towards Liu Bei.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei saw that Zhuge Liang had not seen Liu Bei the first two times, and felt that Zhuge Liang had deliberately embarrassed him, so when Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, both of them were very unconvinced by him in their hearts, especially when Liu Bei handed over military power to Zhuge Liang, so that Zhuge Liang could command them at will, and the anger in their hearts was even more exuberant.
Zhuge Liang's first battle after leaving the mountains was faced with cao Cao's subordinate Xiahou Huan, a major general, liu Bei only occupied Xinye, a projectile land, and Xiahou Huan led an army of 100,000 to kill Xinye.
Zhuge Liang was calm, and he ordered Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to each lead an ambush and wait, ordering Zhao Yun to defeat Xiahou Huan and lead him to the encirclement of Bowangpo, at which time Guan Zhang and Zhang would come out and attack Xiahou Huan.
Zhuge Liang's surprise defeat of Xiahou Huan, he and the officers and soldiers were overwhelmed by the fire, and finally had to flee, this battle also made Guan Zhang and Zhang admire Zhuge Liang, and from then on the two of them respected him.
Ge Liang frequently used tactics in major battles, constantly repelling Cao Cao's army, and even defeated Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, almost killing Cao Cao, but Guan Yu let him go because of his old feelings.
In the following years, under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, there was really a three-legged situation in the world, and the Shu kingdom was from scratch, from weak to strong, and Zhuge Liang had worldly merits.
However, Liu Bei died too early, and after the defeat in the great battle with Eastern Wu, he was terminally ill, and he knew that his time was short, so he summoned Zhuge Liang to see the White Emperor City and entrusted his son Liu Chan to him there. Zhuge Liang cried loudly in front of Liu Bei's sickbed, and he vowed to emperor Xiandi to do his best for Han Zhongxing until his death.
Clever tricks to repel the male soldiers
After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Chan in carrying out the First Northern Expedition and sent Ma Mo to guard the street pavilion, but Ma Mo was very arrogant, did not listen to Zhuge Liang's arrangement, and finally abandoned the road to the mountain and returned in a big defeat.
Jieting's mistake disrupted Zhuge Liang's overall plan, and he had to announce the withdrawal of his troops, and after arranging for several generals to retreat, Zhuge Liang arranged the final matters in Xicheng, but Sima Yi led 150,000 troops to rush straight in.
At this time, Zhuge Liang only had a few thousand men and horses around him, and if he met the enemy, he would not be able to withstand the attack of Sima Yi's army. And Sima Yi was about to attack the city, Zhuge Liang wanted to run too late, he was already sick at this time, Sima Yi's iron horse would definitely catch up with himself.
Zhuge Liang was caught in a dilemma, and in the desperate situation, he thought of a plan. At that moment, the generals were instructed to conceal the flag, open the four gates widely, and order anyone who entered without permission and made loud noises to be executed immediately.
Then Zhuge Liang arranged for the old people and children in the city to sprinkle water outside the city gate to sweep the street, and he sat on the city gate, posing a guqin in front of him, and the incense burner next to the guqin was full of smoke, and two bookchildren stood on either side of him and fanned for him.
Zhuge Liang calmly played the piano, and the sound of the piano was lingering, waiting for Sima Yi's army to arrive. Sima Yi led his soldiers to stop in front of the city gate, and he saw Zhuge Liang playing the piano to himself, the city gate was wide open, there were only a few old people and children at the city gate, and the city was silent.
Sima Yi knew that Zhuge Liang was cautious in his daily life, and would not easily open the city gate to meet the enemy, and expected that there should be an ambush in it.
When he heard Zhuge Liang's piano, he suddenly felt that the sound of the piano was like a frightening wave lapping at the shore, as if there were millions of male soldiers at the fingertips, and only extremely confident people could play such an extremely stable piano tone, and he thought that there must be a large number of ambush soldiers in the city behind Zhuge Liang's body, in order to be so confident.
Sima Yi immediately ordered the rear of the army to change to the front and retreat to Beishan, and just when the officers around him hesitated, Zhuge Liang's guqin suddenly broke its strings and made a harsh sound. When Sima Yi heard this, he thought that this was Zhuge Liang's order to ambush the troops out of the city to meet the enemy, so he shouted to retreat again, and the army immediately retreated back.
Ambition died before he was paid
Sima Yi's withdrawal was too hasty, making people suspect that he was not jealous of Zhuge Liang's ambush, zhuge Liang's garrison of the city is very small, can not accommodate too many soldiers, even if Sima Yi led the army rampage, can also flatten the city.
Moreover, Sima Yi could have first led a small group of men and horses into the city to spy on the enemy, and when the squad found that there were no ambushes in the city, the large army could break into the city.
He could also send arrows at Zhuge Liang to test him, or surround Zhuge Liang without fighting, and after a few days, Zhuge Liang would surrender without a fight. However, Sima Yi did not hesitate to withdraw his troops, as if Zhuge Liang believed that Sima Yi was suspicious and did not dare to move forward, and Sima Yi was convinced that Zhuge Liang was not using a plan.
A sentence before Sima Yi's death broke through the mystery, and before Sima Yi died, he indicated: "In the years of Wei's affairs, the officials have conferred on the taifu, and the position of human subject is extremely high; everyone suspects that I have different aspirations, and I am afraid." ”
This means that Sima Yi actually saw through Zhuge Liang's plan at the first time, but he was in danger of being ordered, his power was unstable, if Zhuge Liang was eliminated immediately, Cao Wei would have no opponent, and would face the end of rabbit death and dog cooking, leaving Zhuge Liang alive, he could always be in charge of the army, until finally slowly plumping his wings and seizing power in one fell swoop.
Without a constant confrontation with Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi would not have been able to recuperate, and his desire to overthrow Cao Wei's Jiangshan would have been even more delusional.
In the ensuing confrontation, Zhuge Liang went on five consecutive Northern Expeditions, most of which ended in failure, and Sima Yi always adopted the tactic of delaying, waiting until Zhuge Liang died of illness due to overwork, and the second half of Zhuge Liang's life was as he swore to the emperor in the White Emperor City.