Sima Yi is such a clear person, why did Zhuge Liang stage an empty city plan?

From the clues of history, it can be seen that Zhuge Liang comprehensively crushed Sima Yi, and the empty city plan is just the most vivid lesson Zhuge Liang taught him!

As the saying goes, "tigers also have time to nap", in fact, Sima Yi is not a tiger in front of Zhuge Liang, and all his tricks will be easily seen through by Zhuge Liang's discernment. As long as you look at the battle between the two during Zhuge Liang's fourth Northern Expedition, it is not difficult to conclude that Zhuge Liang can comprehensively crush Sima Yi in terms of military strategy and wisdom and courage. <>

In the spring of 231 AD, the northwest was drought, and the Yongliang Wei army was short of grain, Zhuge Liang made wooden oxen and horses to transport grain, took the opportunity to go out of the Qishan Northern Expedition, and built the Shu army's base camp Lucheng in the northeast of Qishan Fort, forming a joint encirclement of the Wei army's Longxi camp Qishan Fort. After hearing the news, Sima Yi rejected Zhang He's suggestion to divide troops to garrison Yongcheng and Yicheng, and only gave 4,000 elite soldiers to be garrisoned by Fei Yao and Dai Ling, and personally led Zhang He, Guo Huai, Fei Yao and other generals to reinforce Qishan Fort. Sima Yi used troops in this way, and it sounded good because he attached importance to Zhuge Liang, thinking that he did not have to use all his strength to compete with Zhuge Liang; To say that it is unpleasant is timid, and he lacks confidence in front of Zhuge Liang.

After learning of Sima Yi's movements, Zhuge Liang adopted the strategy of attacking the east and the west, leaving Wang Ping to continue the attack on Qishan Fort, while he led the main force straight to Shangqi to harvest and destroy the green wheat there. In order to protect the wheat field, Sima Yi, who returned to the army day and night, once again chose to let the army hold out after arriving in Shangqi, and he mistakenly believed that Zhuge Liang would soon withdraw his troops due to the lack of food and grass, and he could win without a fight. Unexpectedly, because Zhuge Liang created wooden oxen and flowing horses, the grain and grass of the Shu army were far more abundant than the Wei army, and the stalemate continued, and the first to be the Wei army would be the one who had no food to mess up, and in desperation, Sima Yi had to choose to fight.

Sima Yi's troops were divided into two routes, one was led by Zhang He to attack Wang Ping's army; One route commanded by himself, attacked the north of Lucheng, and took a pincer offensive to flank Zhuge Liang's army in the north and south.

Sima Yi went to war, it can be said that Zhuge Liang was in the middle of the arms, he ordered Wang Ping to defend the southern camp against Zhang He, and on the other hand, the troops were divided into three ways by the generals Wei Yan, Gao Xiang and Wu Ban to meet Sima Yi's army. For the victory or defeat of this battle, the results of the historical records are different, among which the record of the "Three Kingdoms" is extremely brief, the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Han and Jin Dynasties" is Zhuge Liang's great victory, and the "Book of Jin" records the opposite, Sima Yi won a big victory.

However, due to the possibility of greatly whitewashing history and beautifying Sima Yi in the Book of Jin, combined with the fact that Sima Yi preferred to defend the city with a "turtle" after this battle and did not dare to fight with Zhuge Liang head-on, and Li Yan's supervision of grain and grass was not effective, resulting in the Shu army falling into a situation of insufficient grain and grass, and the Shu army that had the advantage had no choice but to withdraw its troops and failed to succeed, Siyu believes that the statement of Zhuge Liang's great victory recorded in the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Han Jin Dynasty" recognized by the historical community is more reliable, and it can be said that this battle is a beautiful anti-encirclement and annihilation battle, not only the first battle will beat Sima Yi down, Since then, he has not dared to fight, and at the same time, it shows Zhuge Liang's outstanding military command ability. <>

Therefore, the empty city plan is actually a strategy specially set up for Sima Yi according to Sima Yi's fear of war and his personality characteristics, and he taught Sima Yi a good lesson!

I think he understands Zhuge Liang's piano sound, the two of them are originally restraining each other, and he still understands the truth of rabbit dead dog cooking.

Because Sima Yi's role in Wei was used to restrict Zhuge Liang, if Sima Yi killed Zhuge Liang, he would naturally not be reused in Wei again, and he might be killed by Cao Cao.

Si Li Pei Sui Ma Yi just understands too well, so he will pretend to be in the scheme, otherwise once he kills Zhuge Liang, he will no longer be useful in the court of Zhongna Wei State, and his power will be withdrawn.

Because Sima Yi's character was cautious, he was afraid that Zhuge Liang would arrange an ambush, so he chose to retreat.

Because he didn't want to come forward himself, he borrowed Zhuge Liang's hand to perform a play.

This is because Sima Yi did not really grasp Cao Wei's military power at that time, and if Zhuge Liang was eliminated, he was likely to arouse the suspicion of Cao Wei's rulers, and he might even be killed in the end.

It was not discovered that Zhuge Liang's empty city plan made Sima Yi stop and retreat, because Sima Yi was worried that there was an ambush in the city.

Because if Zhuge Liang died, Sima Yi himself would lose his role to the monarch of Cao Wei.

Yes, the cunning Sima Yi had long seen through the empty city plan; But he didn't want to force Zhuge Liang to death, because he was worried that after Zhuge Liang's death, Cao Wei would think that he had no use value.