The period of the Three Kingdoms war, witnessed the emergence of powerful heroes, brilliant strategists and intrigues that changed the wheel of history. The following are the most prominent schemes handed down from time to time, like anecdotes that are unique in history.
Cao Cao defeated Vien Thieu, destroyed Kinh Chau, and brought 80,000 troops with Truong Giang to the east. The army stopped in Han Giang, Cao Cao pointed his whip at Jiang Dong, intending to unify the world. However, Cao’s generals were all from the north, not familiar with water and earth. When practicing on the river, the soldiers were caused by the wind and the wind to make them vomit, dizzy and dizzy. Bang Thong, who was a strategist in the land of Giang Dong, came to Cao Cao and proposed:
“If using steel ropes to tie large boats and small boats together, every 30 or 50 boats make one, on top, with wooden planks, the first generals and soldiers can walk on boats like on flat land, horses can also go On the other hand, the second is continuous, the volume of the warship is very large, which can reduce the suffering of swaying, the waves on the river are no longer scary.”
Bang Thong conspired to tie the boat for Cao Cao, making Cao happy because he had solved his biggest concern.
Cao Cao immediately obeyed. Pang Thong lied again that he had to return to Jiang Dong and advised Zhou Du of Dong Wu to surrender. Cao also nodded in agreement without any doubt.
Cao Cao, of course, did not know that in Dong Ngo, the great admiral Zhou Du had a meticulous plan early on. Zhou Du asked Pang Thong to arrange a series of boats, making Cao Cao’s warships locked together, to facilitate fire attack. Chu Du also collaborated with the old general Hoang Cai to use the humiliation scheme. Hoang Cai was beaten to the point of tearing his skin and flesh, and then sent Cao Cao a secret letter asking to be an insider to kill Chu Du.
Then, at the appointed time, Hoang Cai led 20 fireboats filled with reeds, dry firewood, covered with fire-conductors such as sulfur and pyrotechnics, towards the Cao camp. When Dong Ngo’s warship was still about two or three miles from Cao Cao’s naval base, Hoang Cai waved his hand, and the boats all set on fire. The fire met the strong wind, the wind blew, the fire burned, the boat was like an arrow, in an instant, the fire burned in the sky.
Hoang Cai surrendered, launched a fire right after Khong Minh prayed for the Southeast wind, burned Cao’s army.
20 battleships stormed into the water camp, the battleships were constantly in trouble, racing on fire, there was no way to get out. Immediately, on the river a firecracker exploded, the fire ships of the Dong Ngo army rushed from all sides. On the Tam Giang gate of Xich Bich, the fire burned, red in the sky. The Dong Ngo army shouted to the sky, arrows shot like rain. The Cao army was defeated.
Zhuge Liang and Bang Thong were both the top advisors of the Three Kingdoms period, known as the most “Long” , the most “Phoenix” . The great hermit Sima Huy once said : “If you have one of two people: Ngoa Long (ie Khong Minh) or Phuong So (ie Bang Thong), you can determine the world”. In this battle of Xich Bich, Chu Du of Dong Ngo was fully supported by this Long – Phuong couple, so he was able to destroy 830,000 Cao troops in just one night, it was like a fairy tale. So!
Hoang Trung (145 – 220) was a famous old general of the Three Kingdoms period. He began to follow Liu Bei when Liu Bei brought troops to capture Kinh Chau. Old generals Hoang Trung and Quan Vu used to fight with each other, their talents were equal, fighting could not be defeated. He is also one of the “Five Tiger Generals” of Shu Han.
Two old generals are showing off their skills in front of Master Khong Minh and Lord Luu Bei.
In the 70th episode of “Three Kingdoms, Yanyi”, Wei general Truong Ha, after his defeat against Truong Phi at Ngo Khau Ai, was given 5,000 troops by Cao Hong to attack the gate of Ha Manh. News about Chengdu, Zhuge Liang used the scheme to encourage the old general Hoang Trung. Hoang Trung asked another old general, Nghiem Nhan, to go to war. Liu Bei agreed, the generals all sneered.
Hoang Trung wanted to capture Thien Dang mountain, where the Cao army’s food was stored, so he devised a plan. Hoang Trung pretended to lose to the Cao army for several consecutive battles and retreated to the gate. Huyen Duc was worried and asked Khong Minh. Khong Minh said it was Hoang Trung’s trick to make the enemy proud. The generals did not believe. Liu Bei sent Luu Phong to respond.
In watch 2, Hoang Trung led 5,000 troops down from the gate. Cao’s army was defenseless, so they lost a lot and died innumerable. Hoang Trung chased until morning, robbed many camps, then urged his army to chase. Cao’s army retreated to Thien Dang mountain. Then Cao’s army returned to counterattack but failed. Han Hao and Xiahou Duc were killed. The Cao army left Thien Dang mountain and ran to Dinh Quan mountain.
Hoang Trung used the plan to kill Ha Hau Duc to get Thien Dang mountain, making great achievements.
This is called “one step back, three steps forward”. The old general Hoang Trung constantly faked defeat, lost many camps, had to flee to the gate, making the enemy have an arrogant mentality. Cao Cao felt that he was very good, and Hoang Trung was both old and weak and incompetent, from which he lost his vigilance and did not take precautions. This is the key point in the art of using troops, Hoang Trung suddenly and rapidly advanced all the way to Thien Dang mountain.
Cao’s army despised the enemy, thinking that Hoang Trung’s army was tired of fighting, so he went down the mountain to fight, but he did not expect to be beaten to no longer have strong armor, the general also died in battle. Nghiem Nhan attacked again to set fire to the camp, Cao’s army lost Thien Dang Mountain. Indeed, “the older the ginger, the spicier it is”.
In the twenty-third year of Kien An (218), in July, on a good day, Huyen Duc led his army to the gate of Ha Manh to camp, invited Hoang Trung and Nghiem Nhan back to the camp to reward him very well and said: “Everybody says The general is old and weak, only the strategist knows the general’s talent, and now he has indeed achieved strange merits.”
In the 9th year of Kien Hung, in the spring of February, Khong Minh again led 100,000 troops to fight Wei. It was the fifth Wei Thai Hoa year. Wei master Cao Tuan heard the news and sent Sima Yi to destroy the enemy.
Sima Yi obeyed orders and sent troops to oppose the Shu army.
Sima Yi told Truong Cap that: “Nowadays, Khong Minh is busy pulling troops to reap rice in Lung Tay, to make food. You should set up camp to guard Ky Son, me and Quach Hoai patrol the Thien Thuy district to defend the army. The enemy came to harvest rice”. Truong Cap obeyed, leading 40,000 troops to hold Ky Son. And Sima Yi pulled the army to Lung Tay.
Khong Minh brought troops to Ky Son, arranged his army somewhere, saw that there was a Wei army guarding on the Vi River, he told the generals: “Si Ma Y has been kept here. Currently, in our camp, there is a shortage of food. , two or three times sent someone to urge Ly Nghiem to arrive but did not see. I guess the rice in Lung Thuong was ripe, so he secretly led the army to reap.”
Then sent Vuong Binh, Truong Chest, Ngo Ban, Ngo Y four generals to stay and keep Ky Son. Khong Minh led Wei Yan, Khuong Duy and the generals to Lu Thanh, all over 30,000. The prefect of this district, who knew the Khong Minh language, quickly opened the door to shop. At this time, the scouts returned to the newspaper, and Sima Y led 100,000 troops to Lung Thuong.
Khong Minh then took out a map of this area to see, then asked Thai Thu about a location called “Ghost tree beach” , he learned that there were no ghosts there, but the air was still melancholy, the sound of the wind howling. sounds very scary, sounds like ghosts like ghosts. Seeing that, Khong Minh laughed and said: “God gave me success”.
After listening to Thai Thu’s description of the unusual terrain, Khong Minh laughed because he had thought of a magic trick to trick Trong Dat.
Immediately showered, changed clothes, and then sent out three four-wheeled carriages with identical jewelry, which were made in Thuc to take away. At that time, Khong Minh ordered Khuong Duy to lead one thousand troops to protect the chariot, five hundred to beat the drums, to be ready behind Thuong Nhai. Sai Ma Dai, Wei Dien, each led a thousand troops to protect the chariot, five hundred soldiers beat the drums, ready to face left and right. There is a cart on each side, employing 24 people, wearing dark clothes, barefoot, wearing loose hair, leaning against a sword, holding a black flag in hand, crowding around to push the cart. The three generals received orders and led the troops to push the cart away.
Khong Minh sent 30,000 soldiers with sickles and scythes ready, waiting to harvest rice, and sent 24 soldiers, all wearing dark clothes, barefoot with their hair down, holding a sword to push a four-wheeled cart, and sent Quan Hung to eat. Dressed in the role of Thien Bong, holding the top of the tree, drawing seven stars, walking in front of the car. Khong Minh sat in the car, aiming for the Wei camp to come. The Wei army saw the horror, didn’t know if it was a human or a ghost, and rushed back to report it to Sima Yi.
I went to the camp to look and saw Khong Minh wearing a flower brooch hat, a crane shirt, a feather fan in his hand, sitting on a four-wheeled vehicle. On the left, there are 24 people with loose hair and swords in their hands. In front of him was a man with a dark direction, like a god in the sky. He said: “This is Khong Minh playing the devil!”. Then he called two thousand horsemen to tell him: “You guys run quickly, let’s catch the end.”
Zhuge Liang pretended to be a ghost and danced in front of Sima Yi camp.
The Wei army obeyed and went out to chase. When Khong Minh saw the Wei army coming, he ordered the car to turn around and go back to the Shu camp. The Wei army turned their horses and tried to chase, only to see the cold wind thorns, dark clouds, chased the line but still could not make it. Wei’s army was surprised, stopped their horses and said to each other: “Strange! We chased for a while, up to thirty miles, but still looming in front of us, can’t keep up, don’t know why? “
Just like that, every time he pushed his army to chase more dozens of miles, he saw it forever but couldn’t catch up, didn’t understand what was going on. At this time, when Italy pulled troops to ask, the general told him the same thing. Then the wind howled again, the sound was terrifying, the smoke drifted into the sky, half in the dark, half clear, struggling to know whether to continue or go back when suddenly heard, on the left side of the battle drum resounding, a group of troops poured out. Italy promptly sent troops to resist, but in the Thuc army, there were 24 people, barefoot with their hair down, dark black shirts, huddled to push a carriage. In the car, Khong Minh, with a dark hat and silver shirt, sat sloppily, waving a feather fan in his hand.
He was shocked and said : “Just over there, there was Khong Minh sitting in a car, chasing fifty miles in time, why is there Khong Minh here? So strange! How strange!”.
I came to see it with my own eyes, but I don’t know what kind of “souls” are.
Before he finished speaking, on the right side, he saw drums beating loudly, a group of troops rushed over, in this group there was also Khong Minh on a four-wheeled vehicle, 24 people on the left and right went to guard, just like the previous group. He was very suspicious, turned back to the generals and said: “This must be the divine army”.
The Wei army at that time was already agitated, did not dare to fight, and found a way to escape. Suddenly seeing drums beating loudly, an army pulled out, also with Khong Minh sitting in the car, the same shape as the previous groups. The Wei army was terrified. Sima Yi did not know if it was a human or a ghost, and how many Shu troops were, afraid of his soul and soul, led his troops to run to Thuong Nhai, closed the city gate, and did not dare to go out anymore. Only then did Khong Minh send 30,000 troops to cut all the barley in Lung Thuong, transport it to Lo Thanh, and thresh the rice to dry.
Painfully, Italy felt extremely humiliated because Zhuge Liang cheated on such a pain. Both angry and respectful!
Sima Yi lived in Shang Ya city and did not dare to go out for three days. Later, seeing that the Thuc army had withdrawn, he dared to send troops to patrol. Military Tieu captured the Thuc army along the way and brought it back to Sima Yi, it told the story of the Italian who fell on his back and broke the table crying: “Kung Minh really has a talent for demonizing spirits”.
That is to see, the military use of the Prime Minister of the Thuc Dynasty really changed immeasurably, each different battle had a different plan to suit the situation, there were plans to use again and again that the enemy army could not use. There are still tricks, there are schemes that have never been heard before, just so real!