What is the reason why Zhuge Liang used the empty city plan

Updated on history 2024-07-24
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    According to the description in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but in order to cover the retreat of the whole army, Zhuge Liang directly risked his life!Personally playing the piano and burning incense on the tower of Xicheng and waiting for Sima Yi to come, now call this story "empty city plan", according to the information of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" part, Sima Yi led 100,000 soldiers and horses to Xicheng, but he saw Zhuge Liang sitting alone on the city tower, playing "Wolong Yin" alone, and there were two scholars by his side. But the most important thing is that Zhuge Liang opened the city gates.

    Sima Yi saw such a scene at that time, and did not directly order troops to attack the city. "Because he knows very well that Zhuge Liang has been cautious in his use of soldiers all his life, and he will never be so careless" Later, Zhuge Liang played the piano on the city tower!Speaking of this, there may be a question, in such an economic situation, why does Zhuge Liang still have to play the piano?

    In fact, the answer to this question can be found through the relevant description of the empty city plan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The answer is actually very simple, at that time, Zhuge Liang faced a strong enemy that he could not overcome, so he could only use stratagems to retreat from the enemy (at that time, Zhuge Liang's soldiers and horses were 2,000 people, and the rest of the men and horses were also escorting the people of these three counties!).Zhuge Liang also learned that Sima Yi is a very talented person, and he is also each other's confidants, of course, Zhuge Liang is also very clear that Sima Yi does not want to take risks, if he fails, Sima Yi will also become a victim directly, knowing that Sima Yi These points Zhuge Liang is also bold to put out an empty city plan, at that time, in order to be able to play this strategy more like, he also sat on the city tower and played the piano, and at the same time opened the city gate.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-12

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

    1, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.

    It's been an old rival 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 Zhuge Liang's large-scale attack on Wei.

    border, but Wei had no generals to compete with Zhuge Liang, and the imperial court had no choice but to use Sima Yi, who had been dismissed before. Therefore, Sima Yi understands the relationship between Zhuge Liang's existence and his own existence: Cao Wei.

    One side can balance Zhuge Liang's figures, but Sima Yi is alone, and there is no Shu Han.

    Zhuge Liang will not have the "unique" value of Cao Wei's Sima Yi!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.

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