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The Classic Art
of War
An
Empty Town (2)
空城计
19 October 2008
An Empty Town (1)
When Sima Yi, the warmonger from Wei,
arrived near Pavilion Street Town, he received a
report from his vanguards that Zhuge Liang had
already deployed his armies guarding the pass to the
city. The warmonger signed, "His grandma's bear!
This guy's always got one step ahead of me." And
he was going to pull back his force.
"I think we can win this war and
will," his son, Sima Junior, presented his daddy
a map prepared by his central intelligent agents, which showed Shu's defence
force had pitched their camps on a nearby hilltop
instead of by the pass. The daddy couldn't believe
his eyes, and inquired, "Who's their chief
commander?" "It's Lieutenant General Ma
Su," replied a cia. "Aha," the daddy
beamed brilliantly, "I know the guy, a
writer-turned-general. This idiot may be able to
write something like Grand Strategies for a Great
Kingdom, but he doesn't seem to be able to come
up with sensible tactics for a small battle."
Next morning, Sima Yi laid a tight
besiege of the hill and began a vehement onset to
storm Shu compound.
There were 20,000 Shu troops on the
hill, but since they were General Ma Su's men, they
were not ordinary warriors. It seemed most of them
had read, or heard others read The Grand Stragegy
for a Great Kindgom, and learned from their
commander that a soldier has a heaven-given right to
pick side in a war or to determine if he wants to be
part of a war at all. So when they found they were
out numbered and disavantagedly positioned, they
decided they'd prefer to swich side, therefore after
nightfall, a large number of soldiers deserted their
camps.
With the help of the defecting Shu
soldiers, Sima Yi began to burn the hill, which
forced General Ma Su to venture a thrust through the
formidable blockage. When he was eventually rescued
by his assistant Wang and other follow-up units, he
only got several hundred men left with him.
And worst still, they lost Pavilion
Street Town and another strategic frontier post city.
An Empty Town
(3)
Original drawings
were done by Chinese artists 钱笑呆,徐余兴..
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