Why did Zhuge Liang s empty city plan succeed?

The art of war is cloudy: know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Zhuge Liang knows his opponent Sima Yi very well, and he deeply knows that Sima Yi is not only suspicious by nature, but also a stubborn person, and he will definitely not listen to the opinions of others, so he dares to set up an empty plan at a critical moment.

Secondly, Sima Yi knew that Zhuge Liang was cautious and never fought uncertain battles, so he concluded that Zhuge Liang had a conspiracy waiting for him. Let's look at it from another angle, this is also a scene played by Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi together, the empty city plan can successfully make Sima Yi withdraw from the army, in the final analysis, it is a win-win situation, why do you say so? In fact, Sima Yi knew that in the Wei State, from Cao Cao to Cao Pi to Cao Rui, they were all suspicious of Sima Yi.

If Sima Yi wanted to gain a foothold in the Wei court, he had to be useful, and he had to.

Zhuge Liang was cautious all his life, and Sima Yi was suspicious by nature and knew each other well. Zhuge Liang responded to Sima Yi's suspicion with his own caution, and took a risky move at the crisis juncture when Sima Yi led an army of 150,000 to kill Xicheng, and it was impossible for him to fight or withdraw: "Empty City Strategy".

Sima Yi planned to retire, and his second son, Sima Zhao, suspected Zhuge Liang of fraud. Yi said: "Liang Pingsheng is cautious and has never taken risks.

Now the gates of the city are opened, and there will be an ambush. If our soldiers advance, they will also be in their plans. After Sima Yi withdrew from the army, Zhuge Liang's officials were puzzled.

Liang said: "This person expects me to be cautious in my life, and I will not take risks; Seeing this, he suspected that there was an ambush, so he retreated. I am not taking risks, I use them as a last resort. ”

Zhuge Liang was cautious in his life and knew how to use people well. However, in the first Northern Expedition, a serious mistake was made, and the street pavilion was lost as a result of the mistake of using Ma Tan to guard the street pavilion. After Sima Yide won, he didn't stop killing Xicheng.

When Zhuge Liang learned that the street pavilion was lost, he had no soldiers to defend the western city. Because Zhuge Liang transferred the main force to carry grain and grass. How is this good?

Zhuge Liang suddenly remembered the matter of the four grain thieves. Here's the thing: Zhuge Liang sent Ma Tan to guard the street pavilion and guard the grain and grass camp in Xicheng himself, and he knew the importance of grain and grass in the war.

However, there were four thieves in Xicheng who stole grain many times, and he was angry and removed the officials guarding the grain depot. He led his troops to search house to house in the city and didn't find food, but he happened to catch thieves in a ruined temple and interrogated them where the food was hidden? The thieves confessed hiding in the hotel across the street from the grain depot.

Zhuge Liang was surprised, I walked in front of the hotel yesterday and saw that the hotel was open in an orderly manner, and I was a shrewd and meticulous person, so I never thought that the hotel would be a den of grain. He knew that Sima Yi was a suspicious person, timid and cautious, and never took risks. Since the four thieves can deceive me, why don't I use the "empty city plan" to deceive Sima Yi?

So he arranged for the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers to open the city gates, sprinkle water and sweep the streets, and no one else was allowed to probe their brains. Sima Yibing came to the city, saw the city gate wide open, several veterans swept the door, and raised their heads to see Zhuge Liang sitting on the city and stroking the piano with both hands, calm and calm. Sima Yi suddenly became suspicious, "There is fraud in the city" Don't be Zhuge Liangdang, there must be an ambush in the city.

Sima Yi has dealt with Zhuge Liang for many years, and knows that he is a person who does everything very well, and has always been cautious in his use of troops and never takes risks. Thinking of sending a staff officer with no actual combat experience to guard the street pavilion is a lure to lure me deep into Xicheng to ambush me seriously ill and annihilate me. How could I be in Zhuge Liang's way, so I hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat.

The empty city plan is the unknown plan of Zhuge Liang after the loss of the street pavilion, Sima Yi's army came to the city, saw Zhuge Liang burning incense and caressing the qin, and stood behind him two boys, thinking that there were ambush soldiers, and Zhuge was only cautious This is well known, so Sima Yi ordered the soldiers to retreat thirty miles, which can be said to be a masterpiece.

Although Sima Yi's troops were approaching the city, seeing Zhuge Liang's formation, he was born as a strategist, and he usually had too many ideas, but this time his thinking was short-circuited, and he didn't expect to attack! And ordered the troops to retreat thirty kilometers. Zhuge Liang subjectively did not take the initiative to use the empty city plan, but gambled on luck, the only way, but left the classic "empty city plan" to future generations

Zhuge Liang knew that Cao Wei had always been suspicious of Sima Zhongda, even murderous! It's just that I can't find a handle, and to be exact, there is still a use value. Once Zhuge Liang died, it meant that the demise of Shu was just around the corner, and once this situation appeared, it would be the end of Sima Zhongda.

According to the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang has not used the empty city plan and other schemes, and the romance has written this empty city plan to be superb, from the old society to move to the stage of Peking Opera, by the Peking Opera master Ma Liliang, Yang Baosen and other Peking Opera masters Zhuge Liang lived, so the empty city plan can also be said to be a household name.

As the saying goes, "know yourself and know your opponent, and win all battles". Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are both masters of soldiers, so they naturally understand this truth. After several fights, the two have long been familiar with each other's psychology and routines, and even cherish each other. With an empty city plan, Zhuge Liang's intentions are really good.

Zhuge Liang has no choice but to use the empty city strategy, let go of a gamble, gamble on psychological warfare, from the perspective of romance, Zhuge Liang won, each has its own place!

The reason for the success of Zhuge Liang's empty city plan:

1, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi have been old rivals for many years, and they know each other too well. Sima Yi knew that Zhuge Liang was cautious in his life and never took risks. And Zhuge Liang also knew that Sima Yi was suspicious by nature.

It was precisely because Zhuge Liang knew that Sima Yi understood himself, so he used such a desperate plan, so Sima Yi thought that Zhuge Liang would not be so "stupid", so he fell for the scheme. If you say that you are someone else, you may not necessarily fall into the scheme. This is also the reason explained in **.

2. At that time, Sima Yi had just been reinstated by the official, and the reason for the reinstatement was that Zhuge Liang attacked the border of Wei on a large scale, but Wei had no generals to compete with Zhuge Liang. Therefore, Sima Yi understands the relationship between Zhuge Liang's existence and his own existence: Cao Wei's side can balance Zhuge Liang's characters, but Sima Yi is alone, and without Zhuge Liang of Shu Han, there is no "unique" value of Cao Wei's Sima Yi's existence.

If Zhuge Liang is captured or killed alive in Xicheng, the Shu army will collapse on all fronts, and the Shu Han will also perish immediately, and the fledgling Sima clan will inevitably have the doom of "the birds are all hidden, and the rabbits are dead and the dogs are cooked". This was a situation that Sima Yi did not want to see at that time, Sima Yi also needed to continue to "push the grind" for Cao Wei, as long as there was an endless "grinding", he would not suffer the tragedy of "unloading the mill and killing the donkey". The premise of continuing to "push and grind" is that Zhuge Liang must continue to exist, so as to gain time to cultivate power, wait for the opportunity, and display his grand ambitions.