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The Empty Fort Strategy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/historymemes@lemmy.world

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[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 76 points 1 year ago (27 children)

Holy shit now that is a genius and brave move. Ancient chinese generals never disappoint us

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

well... the enemy general is kind of a disappointment... coulda just sent his least favorite platoon forward to scout (and capture, in this case).

[–] vrojak@feddit.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just have the bowman trainees assemble, tell them the first one to hit the general gets a promotion.

[–] AppaYipYip@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, even archers have to get in range and Zhuge Liang had successfully tricked them in the past. If real, I can imagine they felt its better to save their men for another fight.

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