An Overview of the Dark Content in Romance of the Three Kingdoms

When the Qin Dynasty was overthrown, Xiang Yu, the most powerful man, tried to rule the world. He has no scruples about the general, except Liu Bang. Earlier, he agreed with Liu Bang that whoever captured Xianyang first in Qin Dou would be the king of Guanzhong.

As a result, Liu Bang was the first to enter Xianyang. Xiang Yu didn't want Liu Bang to be the king of Guanzhong, and he didn't want him to go back to his hometown, so he specially named him the three counties of Ba, Shu and Hanzhong, and he wanted to put him in a remote mountain. He claimed to be the overlord of the West Chu, occupying the vast fertile land in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River basin, with Pengcheng as the capital.

Liu Bang did have the ambition to dominate the world, but he was in awe of Xiang Yu's power, so he had to obey the command, temporarily led the army westward and headed for Nanzheng, and accepted Sean's plan to burn all the hundreds of miles of plank roads he had walked all the way. The purpose of burning the plank road is to facilitate defense, and more importantly, to confuse Xiang Yu and make him think that Liu Bang really doesn't intend to come out, thus relaxing his guard against Liu Bang.

When Liu Bang arrived in Nanzheng, he found a talented person-Han Xin, so he worshipped him as a general and asked him to plan the military deployment to develop eastward and seize the world. Han Xin's first step was to seize Guanzhong, open the East Gate, establish base areas, and prosper Han and destroy Chu. So hundreds of officers and men were sent to repair the plank road.

Zhang Han, who is guarding the western part of Guanzhong, heard the news and thought that they would burn it themselves before repairing it. I don't know when such a big project will be completed, so I didn't pay attention at all. However, before long, Zhang Han received an urgent report that Liu Bang's army had invaded Guanzhong, their positions were occupied and their commander was killed.

After Zhang Han confirmed the news, he quickly led the troops to resist. It was too late, and the Guanzhong area, known as Sanqin, was suddenly occupied by Liu Bang. It turned out that Han Xin sent troops to repair the plank road on the surface and pretended to attack from the plank road. In fact, he and Liu Bang commanded the main force, secretly copied the path to attack Chencang, and won while Zhang Han was unprepared. This is called "building a plank road in the Ming Dynasty, hiding the truth."

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Author Sima Qian (formerly145-no textual research) was born in xia yang (now south of Hancheng, Shaanxi). Historians and essayists in the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Tan's son, Ren Taishiling, was imprisoned for defending Li Ling's defeat and surrender, and later served as the secretariat. He worked hard to complete the historical records he wrote, and was called Shi Qian, Tai Shigong and the father of history by the later Buddha.

Sima Qian studied under Kong Anguo and Dong Zhongshu in his early years, roaming around, learning about customs and collecting rumors. As a first-time doctor, he served in the southwest. In the third year of Yuanfeng (108), he was appointed as the Taishiling, inherited his father's business and wrote history. He created China's first biography and general history book (formerly known as Taishi Gongshu) with the historical knowledge of "studying the relationship between man and nature, understanding the changes from ancient times to modern times, and making a family statement". It is recognized as a model of China's history books, which records more than 3,000 years' history from the legendary period of the Yellow Emperor to the first year of the founding of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is the first of the "twenty-five histories" and is praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, and Li Sao has no rhyme".

Idiom allusion: from Historical Records Biography of Huaiyin Hou. At first, it refers to confusing the enemy from the front to cover up his attack route and making a surprise attack from the flank. Extended meaning: a strategy of confusing the other side with obvious actions and making the enemy unprepared. It is also a metaphor for secretly carrying out activities. Metaphor is to confuse each other with illusion to achieve a certain goal.

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