Pang Tong died at the Fallen Phoenix Slope.
After Liu Bei marched into Xichuan and took Jiameng Pass and Fushui Pass, he immediately attacked Ruicheng. Zhuge Liang dissuaded Pang Tong from returning, but Pang Tong did not listen to his advice. Liu Bei and Pang Tong decided to march in two ways. Liu Bei took the main road and Pang Tong took the small road. When Zhang Ren, the general of the city guard, learned that Liu Bei's army had split into two groups to attack the city, he quickly led 3,000 troops to set up an ambush at Luofeng Slope. At that time, Pang Tong was riding Liu Bei's horse. When Pang Tong led the army to Luofeng Slope, he was mistaken for Liu Bei by the ambush soldiers and was shot to death by arrows.
Before Pang Tong died, he shouted out eight words,"Today, I die because of the heavens."”
When Liu Bei heard Pang Tong's last words, he did not understand the true meaning. After Zhuge Liang heard this, he remained silent. He actually had the thought of returning to the mountains and returning to Wolonggang.
In the sixty-third chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it was said that Pang Tong was moving forward. When he looked up, he saw two narrow mountains and dense trees. It was late summer and early autumn, and the branches and leaves were lush. Pang Tong was very suspicious and asked," Where is this place? A few soldiers who had just surrendered pointed out: This place is called Fallen Phoenix Slope. "My Taoist name is Phoenix Chick," said Pang Tong in alarm."This place is called Fallen Phoenix Slope. It's not good for me.”He ordered the rear troops to retreat quickly. There was the sound of a cannon in front of the hillside, and arrows flew like locusts. They could only see the man riding on the white horse coming. Poor Pang Tong died under the arrows. He was only thirty-six years old. Pang Tong was known as the Phoenix Chick, but he ultimately died at Fallen Phoenix Slope. From this, it seemed that this place was indeed very disadvantageous to him.
White Horse Pass was where Liu Bei and Pang Tong exchanged horses. It was only right that when Liu Bei and Pang Tong were splitting their forces to attack Ruicheng, Pang Tong's mount was frightened. In order to win over the hearts of the people, Liu Bei gave up his "Lu" to Pang Tong. It was also Pang Tong's turn to face such a calamity."Di Lu" Ma Su had the reputation that riding would hinder the master, and this time, it came true at Fallen Phoenix Slope. It turned out that Zhang Ren mistook the man riding the white horse for Liu Bei. Through the weeds, he saw that the man riding the white horse was getting closer and closer. He ordered the ambush soldiers to shoot arrows at the man riding the white horse. Poor Pang Tong was killed by the arrows and died on the battlefield.
Baima Pass's Luofengpo was a pass behind the five passes of Jiannan Shu Road. The ancient road passed through the mountains, and there were forested slopes on both sides. It was a good place for soldiers to ambush.
Everything was divided into two, just as the Book of Changes said: Taiji gave birth to the two elements, and everything had yin and yang. It was a philosophy of positive and negative. Zhang Ren, who had shot Pang Tong, had cleverly used the geographical environment of Fallen Phoenix Slope to win a war. The death of the phoenix chick at Fallen Phoenix Slope also fulfilled the taboo of Feng Shui.
I remember a nursery rhyme singing: a dragon and a phoenix, will be in Shu, only halfway, phoenix died on the slope east. Send dragon wind, rain with phoenix, when Shu Road is prosperous, Shu Road is smooth, when Shu Road is prosperous, there is only dragon.
Zhang Ren was well-versed in astronomy and geography, and had done a lot of research on the Book of Changes, Eight Trigrams, and Feng Shui. It is said that he once divined a hexagram saying: Left dragon right phoenix, fly into Xichuan, young phoenix fell to the ground, Wolong ascended to heaven, one gain and one loss, the fate is natural, see the opportunity to act, do not lose Jiuquan. Thus, he found the best place to ambush according to the young phoenix falling to the ground-Fallen Phoenix Slope.
The 7th day of the 7th month was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. The Fallen Phoenix Slope was overgrown with dense vegetation, which created favorable conditions for Zhang Ren to set up an ambush. With the right time and place, how could he not win?
Mister Shui Jing once said,"If a dragon and a phoenix get one, the world will be at peace.”It was obvious that Pang Tong's talent was not inferior to Zhuge Liang's.
These words also implied that the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix Chick could only get one. Even if there was a chance for the two to cross paths, in the end, it would only be an accident halfway through. This was heaven's will.
As the saying goes, a fool's thoughtfulness will always have a gain, and a wise man's thoughtfulness will always have a loss. Such a wise man did not study the bad feng shui environment of the Fallen Phoenix Slope in advance. As a military counselor, did he not know that the terrain of the Fallen Phoenix Slope was low-lying, shaped like an ashtray, high in the surroundings and low in the middle, overgrown with weeds, dense forests, and deep ditches? The environment was dangerous and suitable for ambushes. However, he did not understand the geographical environment there in advance. Without any preparation, he rashly marched forward, causing him to fall into an ambush and be pierced by an arrow, resulting in a tragedy. At the age of 36, he died young."The hero died before he won the battle, and his tears filled his lapels.”
The dragon died in Wuzhang Plain
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms chapter 104 records:
That night, Zhuge Liang ordered people to help him out. He looked up at the Big Dipper and pointed to a star in the distance. This is my general star.
Everyone looked at him and saw that he was dark and tottering.
Zhuge Liang pointed his sword at him and chanted a spell. When he returned to his tent, he was unconscious. The generals were in a panic when Li Fu, the minister of history, suddenly came again.
When he saw that Zhuge Liang was unconscious and could not speak, he cried and said, I've ruined the country's affairs!
After a while, Zhuge Liang woke up and looked around. He saw Li Fu standing in front of the bed.
Zhuge Liang said,"I already know why you came again."
Li Fu thanked him and said,"I have been ordered by the emperor to ask the prime minister who will be able to take up the important task after a hundred years." It happened that I was in a hurry and didn't ask for permission, so I came again.
Zhuge Liang said,"After my death, there is one person who can take on great responsibilities." Jiang Gongyan is very suitable.
Li Fu said: After Gongyan, who can succeed him?
Zhuge Liang said: Fei Wenwei can succeed him.
Li Fu asked again: After Li Wenwei, who should succeed him?
Zhuge Liang did not answer. The generals came forward to see that he was dead.
It was August 23, the autumn of the twelfth year of Jianxing, and he was fifty-four years old.
Zhuge Liang was known as the Crouching Dragon, and the place where he died was known as the Wuzhang Plain. A five-foot-wide area was probably too small to be a Crouching Dragon. Therefore, it was reasonable for Zhuge Liang to die again.
Wuzhang Plain was located at the western end of Qinchuan, which was 800 miles away. It was an ancient battlefield where Zhuge Liang stationed his troops during the Three Kingdoms period. He was famous for his numerous victories.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang stationed his troops in Wuzhangyuan to fight against Sima Yi. Later, he died of illness due to overwork. Wuzhangyuan became famous in the world.
In 234 AD, Zhuge Liang led his troops from Hanzhong, crossed the Qinling Mountains, and entered Wuzhang Plain. When he first arrived, he did not have enough food and grass. He first opened up wasteland and trained his troops to wait for the opportunity to attack Wei. Sima Yi, the general of the Wei Dynasty, knew Zhuge Liang's divine plan. He defended the north bank of the Wei River and did not dare to send troops rashly. The two sides held a stalemate in Wuzhang Plain for a hundred days without fighting. Zhuge Liang had to lure the Wei soldiers into the gourd ditch to fight and set fire to the mouth of the valley to defeat Sima Yi. Unexpectedly, a heavy rain caused the Wei army to escape. In the autumn of the same year, Zhuge Liang died of illness in the army, and the Shu army retreated.
Zhuge Liang was good at using fire all his life.
The first fire was Zhuge Liang's first battle after he stepped out of the grass: Fire burned Bowang Slope.
The 100,000 Cao soldiers under Xiahou Dun's command were almost all gone.
The second fire was the fire that burned Xinye after Zhuge Liang joined Liu Bei's army.
The fire attack and flood had almost wiped out Cao Ren and Cao Hong's 100,000 troops.
The third fire was the most exciting battle in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Battle of Red Cliff.
The million Cao soldiers suffered a crushing defeat. In the end, only 27 of them escaped with Cao Cao.
At that time, people called these three fires " Zhuge Liang's Three Fires." Later on, it became what people often said,"A new official takes office with three fires."
At that time, the most powerful weapon on the battlefield was fire. Fire had great lethality and could increase the enemy's losses, causing the enemy's resistance to collapse.
Fire attacks were an effective way to kill enemies on a large scale in ancient times. And Zhuge Liang used fire attacks mostly when he was weak, which was the case when he defeated many with fewer forces. For example, the Bowang Slope and the famous Battle of Red Cliff were examples.
There was another story about using fire: When Meng Huo was captured seven times, he set fire to the rattan armor soldiers and defeated the barbarian reinforcements.
Zhuge Liang's fire attack failed once. It was when Sima Yi was set on fire. Due to a miscalculation of the weather, the heavy rain saved Wei. This was also the reason why Sima Yi's life should not end!
Fire attack is cruel, but it is used as a last resort, often will shorten life.
From this, it could be seen that Pang Tong died at Fallen Phoenix Slope and Zhuge Liang died at Wuzhang Plain.
In addition, as mentioned earlier:
The dragon said to the phoenix,"I'll step on your fallen phoenix slope."
The phoenix said to the dragon,"I'll blast you into Wuzhang Plain."
Pang Tong died because of his horse at Fallen Phoenix Slope, and Lu Ma killed his master! He was thirty-six years old, which meant that he was sixty-six and thirty-six years old!
Zhuge Liang died of illness in Wuzhang Plain due to the Heavenly Cannon (Fire) and the fire in his liver. He died of illness during the Northern Expedition at the age of 54! Six, nine, five, fourteen!
This kind of action of knowing the fate of the heavens and revealing the secrets of the heavens made people sigh endlessly. Could this be fate?
When Zhuge Liang fought against Sima Yi, he had failed at the last moment. He wanted to make it clear that no matter how powerful a hero was, no matter how great a strategist was, they could not fight against fate.
Everything was fate, not at all controlled by people!
The life and death game that Ge Liang had set up before his death!
This was Zhuge Liang's life and death game. Legend had it that this was the life and death game that Zhuge Liang had set up before his death!
It was said that if the red chess piece did not die within five moves, the world would be theirs!
The known conditions are: the red team goes first, and it is impossible to kill the black team, and the horses, chariots, and generals run horizontally and vertically.
There were no other chess pieces except the chess pieces and generals shown on the map. Zhuge Liang believed that if the red chess piece did not die within five moves, Shu Han would win the world.
According to the analysis of the situation, the black side's two chariots had already entered the threatening position of the two ghosts knocking on the door, and one horse had entered the corner of the nine palaces. Behind the chariots, it formed a terrifying killing situation of pulling the spring horse, the two chariots, the eight-horned horse, and the bold heart.
A relevant expert's explanation for this mess was:
1. Self-deprecating: The Nine Palace Box represents Mount Qi and Wuzhang Plain. The commander refers to himself, the horse refers to Sima Yi, and the two chariots represent the enemy army. The meaning may be that the Shu army only has Zhuge Liang as the commander, and I know the fate of heaven, which implies the situation of the Shu army.
2. The general trend of the world:
The chariot below may be referring to Wu, the chariot above refers to Cao Wei, the commander refers to Shu Han, and the horse refers to Sima Yi. They follow behind Cao Wei to assist Cao Wei. Wu and Cao Wei both want to expand their forces and are eyeing Shu Han covetously.
3. Predict the future of the world: If the chariot below was not black, the horse could eat it. If the horse was from the Sima family, the chariot below referred to Wu, the chariot above referred to Cao Wei, and the marshal referred to Shu Han. Sima could use the power of Cao Wei to destroy Wu at any time. The power of chariots was equal, but it was different if the horse was added. Wu could be destroyed at any time, but the marshal was different. Anyone who had played chess knew that it was very difficult for a horse to eat the marshal because the chariot above was the horse's leg.
At that time, Cao Wei was the most powerful force among the three kingdoms. Therefore, the Sima family had to figure out how to take Cao Wei under their control. Once they took Cao Wei under their control, the situation of the world would be decided. The facts proved that Sima family had done it. Shu Han had always been a force that Sima Yi feared, so the next step was to take Shu Han under their control. Because of Wu, Shu Han had no way to retreat. They were recruited by the Western Jin Dynasty. Two-thirds of the world belonged to the Western Jin Dynasty. The destruction of Wu was inevitable.
The meaning of a red chess piece that could win the world if it did not die within five moves:
Five years after Zhuge Liang's death, Cao Rui, Emperor Ming of Wei, passed away in 239. Cao Fang succeeded to the throne and Sima Yi assisted in the government. Sima Yi could expand his strength even more. This year also determined the inevitable trend of the Sima family unifying the world.
Five moves could also refer to Wuzhang Plain. Before he died, he had played a game of chess that meant that he would die here.
According to the research of relevant experts, Zhuge Liang's Eight Formation Diagram was also closely related to Chinese chess. The Eight Eight Six Fourteen Gates of Life used the 32 chess pieces as an auxiliary. Although one was a real formation to defend against the enemy, the other was a sand table of red and black confrontation, no one knew the mystery.
In this endgame, the ultimate secret of the Eight Formation Diagram was revealed--how to set it up and how to break it. However, was this game really unsolvable? Were there any other pieces of strength that could save the situation on the chessboard? Why did Zhuge Liang set up such a strange endgame? What kind of shocking secret was hidden in it?! Were there still unknown forces lurking in the world at that time that could influence the overall situation? Who would unravel the mystery? Who would end the tragedy? Many suspense, all looking for the final answer.
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