Empty Fort Strategy in Ancient Chinese Warfare

One of my favorite Chinese military tactics/strategies is the empty fortress strategy. It employs advanced deception and a big brain play on the conditions at hand. It’s a lesson for life: never appear like you are not strong enough against hundreds of thousands of problems, because all it takes is a strong mind and some clever tactics. #threekingdom #sanguo #Zhugeliang #strategy #growth #china #chinesehistory #ChinaInsider #TacticsTuesday #Chinesemilitary #Chinaambition #chinesestrategy #romanceofthethreekingdoms

[haraffael]

The dude literally sat atop the gate and played a flute so Sima Yi thought "No fking way"

[One_Andonly-Zulu.]

I remember this story, zhuge liang made sima yi question himself.

[timyrennaiker]

The winner of the war is the man who writes about it

[UW-pzgq]

Thank u soo much for posting this. I needed to hear this

[shurikentuna]

Sima Yi overthinks like Dwight when Jim returns his wallet.

[reaseancavana]

I like the that you used the dynasty worriers images. I would would like to hear more about our ultimate foe, LuBu!

[kacperlewandowski]

The art of war by Sun Tzu is a pretty good book

[markarca]

"The Art of War" and "Unrestricted Warfare"

[Valhalla]

I really didn’t expect this to come up in my recommendations after buying a bunch of these total war games in the summer sale lol

[thocknell]

wait so strats for war are strats for life? sounds like it can get really bad if you use them wrong

[Mark_nobody]

Sima Yi was so pissed off that he got tricked, he got sick and never left his quarters room for weeks because he was so angry, Imagine wasting so much resources rising a very strong army and all the money spent on the campaign which you can’t get back

[Seigfrized]

If I'm not wrong remembering empty fort is just fiction not historical fact, there is 3kingdom version of fiction literature and historical fact, don't know if it true just read it on some education talk oa something in the past

[GldnClaw]

If you're still reading comments, Talk about the one where the guy juggled 9 balls and that lead to victory.

[Pottatow]

It shows how much you love Chinese culture recanting this tale despite what CCP bots say about you not supporting the current regime.

[Charlisimo]

Is like the saying goes, the mind can be your greatest ally or your greatest foe.

[KDannXII]

Only attempt this strategy after you max your charisma.

[melvinjansen]

I dont understand the story... you saying they didnt even try to attack?

[SerajAlhorany]

Sima ye didn't want to kill Zhuge liang then.

[GreasyBeasty]

200, 000 seems exaggerated by a lot is standards. 50-150k at the very most.

[KarldorisLambley]

if you want a real military hero to admire i suggest Edward IV. he never lost a battle.