Did the empty city plan force Sima Yi back, or did Sima Yi deliberately let Zhuge Liang go?

The empty city plan forced Sima Yi back, because Sima Yi was a very suspicious person, and he didn't know what was going on in the city at that time.

It was Sima Yi who deliberately let Zhuge Liang go, because the flaws in this empty city plan were too obvious, and only a small force of troops was needed to find out the truth and the truth, Sima Yi wanted to keep Zhuge Liang so that Cao Cao could continue to reuse Sima Yi

Personally, I think that Sima Yi deliberately let Zhuge Liang go, because if Zhuge Liang was killed, Sima Yi would lose his effect in Cao Wei and would probably be killed.

Sima deliberately let it go, and the Sima family had already overshadowed the Cao family. If Kong Ming is killed, the Cao clan will definitely kill Sima.

The empty city plan is a fiction, and there is no such thing in history. At that time, Sima Yi's army attacked Zhuge Liang and blocked Zhuge Liang in an empty city, making Zhuge Liang in a dilemma. Zhuge Liang had no choice but to order the city gate to be opened, and he took a piano to the city tower, pretending to be casual and stroking the piano on the city tower.

At that time, Sima Yi had an army of 150,000, and Zhuge Liang's men were less than 1,000, Sima Yi knew that Zhuge Liang was very careful and cautious in his life, and when he saw this strange scene and thought about it in his heart, he actually ordered the army to retreat.

The reason why Sima Yi was not killed by his master was because his master still had Zhuge Liang, a big trouble in his heart, after all, he had to rely on Sima Yi to deal with Zhuge Liang. If Zhuge Liang died. It's hard to say his fate, Sima Yi was thinking about this matter when he faced the empty city, Zhuge Liang couldn't die, in fact, Zhuge Liang also understood this, he knew that Sima Yi would not kill him, otherwise he would not sit on the city tower with confidence, Sima Yi spared his life, that is, saved his life, wouldn't everyone be happy to do so.

I come to this question, what is a bosom friend? Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are called bosom friends, of course, they are not bosom friends like Boya and Ziqi, but opponents who cherish each other on the battlefield.

In the entire Cao camp, I am afraid that only Zhongda is the only one who can match Zhuge Liang, and the rest of the people are basically not opponents, on the contrary, for Sima Yi, because of Zhuge Liang's existence, he can show his value, so that he can get the heavy middle under the emperors of Cao Pi and Cao Fang, and enter the center of power step by step.

"Taiping was originally a general, and the general was not allowed to see Taiping" is what it means

We can take a look at the situation at that time according to "Romance", because "Three Kingdoms" does not have the statement that Zhuge Liang sang "Empty City Plan".

Therefore, we can only talk about this issue according to the romance.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is a wonderful description of Zhuge Liang's "empty city plan" of playing the piano and retreating from the Wei soldiers. It is said that Zhuge Kongming went out of Qishan six times, and he didn't want the pioneer officer Ma Tan to miss the street pavilion by mistake, causing the front-line army to be trapped one after another. In desperation, Kong Ming decided to retreat to Hanzhong.

The army was gone, and only 5,000 soldiers and horses were left around Kong Ming to garrison Xicheng County.

One day, he suddenly received a report from Ma Fei, saying that Sima Yi, the general of Wei, was leading an army of 150,000 to Xicheng. At this time, Kong Ming had no other generals around him, only a group of civil officials, and half of the 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the city had been divided to transport grain. All the officials lost their color when they heard this, but Kong Ming was calm and calm, and immediately ordered the banner to be hidden, the city gates were opened in all directions, and each gate was assigned to twenty military academies to pretend to be ordinary people and sweep the streets.

The rest of the soldiers were not allowed to come out in vain, and they were not allowed to shout without permission. Everything was ready, Kong Ming led the second child to take the piano to the tall building, sit by the railing, burn incense and play the piano. It's so relaxing!

But he said that Sima Yi led the troops to come, and looked at the city from afar, Kong Ming sat on the city tower, smiling, and if there was no one around, he was puzzled. The whole city was silent, as if nothing had happened. Looking at this scene, if you change people, you can have nothing to worry about, and lead the troops into the city with great scruples, maybe Zhuge Kongming will already be captured.

But it was Sima Yi, who was suspicious by nature, and ordered to withdraw without saying anything. Kong Ming looked at Wei Jun from afar, stroked his palms and smiled. The officials were shocked and asked the reason, and Kong Ming explained the reason

This person expects that I will be cautious in my life, and I will not take risks, but now I see this scale, and I suspect that there is an ambush, so I retreat. So the western city of Shu was preserved without a single soldier.

This is the famous "empty city plan". "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is only a few hundred words, and it portrays Zhuge Kongming's enemies like gods and Sima Yizhi's lack of wisdom vividly, which is amazing.

So some people say that in fact, Sima Yi has seen through Zhuge Liang's "empty city plan", and the reason why he doesn't want to use the risk is actually a kind of protection for himself, and there is some truth in this statement.

Because Sima Yi has a very high talent, although he had already seen through Zhuge Liang's plan at that time, if he really caught Zhuge Liang, the emperor of Wei would definitely be very jealous of him, afraid that his high merit would make him unable to survive in Wei. Considering his own situation, Sima Yi withdrew his troops.

Mainly because Sima Yi didn't react at the time, when he understood that this was an empty city plan, it was over, and Zhuge Liang had already evacuated.

Because Sima Yi still had doubts, he was unwilling to take this risk, after all, there was no need for him to risk his life at all.

Because Zhuge Liang must live, otherwise he will lose his effect and be killed by the emperor of Wei.

Because he knew that if he killed Zhuge Liang and destroyed the Shu Kingdom, the monarch of their country would attack him.

The empty city plan is a wonderful section of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Zhuge Liang's wisdom is the highest expression here.

Sima Yi led the army and met Ma Yan, who was talking on paper.

Originally, Zhuge Liang told Ma Jian "a thousand instructions" that the army must be stationed at the cross of the street pavilion to block Sima Yi's army.

However, Ma Tan was familiar with the art of war, and believed that if the army was entrenched in the mountains, it could be condescending, descend from the sky, and defeat the Wei army in one fell swoop.

Empty city plan. Unexpectedly, Ma Jian was a nerd, Sima Yi did not contact him at all, surrounded Ma Jian and cut off the water source, Ma Jian was disrupted, and he was defeated without a fight.

Sima Yi's army pressed the border, and Zhuge Liang was left with only an empty city. Helpless, Zhuge Liang resorted to the "empty city plan", opened the city gate, sent a few veterans to clean up, and walked to the city tower by himself, with two boys standing behind him, and he cleaned the core and stroked the piano alone.

Sima Yi was shocked, thinking that Zhuge Liang must have set up an ambush, so he hurriedly retreated, and ran all the way, panicking.

Anyone who has read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" thinks that Sima Yi is not only cowardly but also stupid, why is it such an empty city? Even if there is an ambush, send a small number of men and horses into the city to test and reconnoitre, or use a large army to surround the city, can't you stop it?

In fact, this is exactly where Sima Yi excels.

Cao Cao always believed that Sima Yi had "anti-intentions" and would usurp Cao's country sooner or later. But there was no one to use, only Sima Yi could fight against Zhuge Liang, so it was really helpless to release Sima Yi from prison and lead the troops.

Sima Yi also knows this. The reason why he is still alive and able to answer Yan Di and lead his troops to fight is because he needs to fight against Zhuge Liang. If Zhuge Liang is killed by himself, then he himself is just around the corner from death, as long as Zhuge Liang is killed, Sima Yi will "depreciate instantly"!