Build a plank road in the open(míng xiū zhàn dào，àn dù chén cāng)

Build a plank road in the open

It is a Chinese idiom to build a plank road in the open and build a warehouse in the dark, which means to hide the real intention behind the surface action, confuse the other party with obvious action, make the enemy have the illusion, and ignore their real intention, so as to win by surprise.

Sometimes, we can omit the word "mending the plank road openly" and use it separately.

Explanation of words

Chencang, an ancient county, is located in the east of Baoji City (Chencang District), Shaanxi Province. When General Liu Bang sent troops to attack Xiang Yu from Hanzhong, General Han Xin deliberately made a detour to attack Chencang to win. It is a metaphor to confuse the other party with an illusion in order to achieve a certain purpose.

Idioms and allusions

It comes from the biography of Huaiyin marquis in historical records. It used to confuse the enemy from the front, cover up his attack route, and make a sudden attack from the flank. Extended meaning: the strategy of confusing the enemy with obvious actions and making the enemy unprepared. It also refers to activities in secret. It is a metaphor to confuse the other party with an illusion in order to achieve a certain purpose. This is a strategy of striking the West from the East and winning by surprise. According to historical records, biography of Huaiyin Marquis, Cao Xiangguo's family and biography of Fan Li guanteng, there is no description of "mending the plank road in Ming Dynasty" when Han xinbing left Guanzhong. In fact, fan Kuai, Guanying and others led soldiers to feint attack Longxi area from Qishan Road, and Han Xinbu raided Chencang from the old road (also known as Chencang Road), thus seizing Guanzhong. The theory of "mending plank road in Ming Dynasty" originated from Yuan Dynasty's dramas, which has not been recorded before (if there is any relevant historical evidence, please make it clear!). Related riddle "night tour Baoji City". In Yuan Dynasty, the second fold of anonymous's "living in the dark in Chencang" is: "I can live in the dark in Chencang's ancient road if I build the plank road in the light of fan Kuai. This Chu soldier does not know is the wisdom, certainly platoon soldier guards in the plank road. I'll cut off the old Chencang road and kill him by surprise. " The first fold of Qi Ying Bu written by Shang Zhongxian in Yuan Dynasty: "Han Xin, a lonely family, planned to build a plank road in the light of the truth, surmounted Chen Cang in the dark, attacked Sanqin and robbed five countries." It is an unconventional military principle and a military strategy in ancient times. There were many successful cases in history. the so-called "plank road" refers to the passageway built by drilling supports and laying boards in the dangerous places on the cliffs. It can be used for marching, transporting grain and grass, and also for caravan business travel. Chencang, the ancient county name (now Chencang District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province), is the throat of Hanzhong to Guanzhong. When the Qin Dynasty was just overthrown, Xiang Yu, Liu Bang and other generals who participated in the anti Qin war gathered together to discuss how to separate the territory after victory. Xiang Yu, who was the most powerful at that time, tried to dominate the world. On the surface, he advocated to divide the land into kings, and he made decisions without authorization. He set up kings one by one and allocated territory to everyone. But in his mind, he began to figure out how to eliminate them one by one. Xiang Yu has no scruples about the general, but he is not at ease with Liu Bang. He knew that the most difficult opponent to deal with was Liu Bang. Earlier, it was agreed that whoever first attacked Xianyang, the capital of Qin Dynasty (near Xi'an, Shaanxi), would be the king of Guanzhong. As a result, Liu Bang was the first to enter Xianyang. Guanzhong, originally referred to the present central Shaanxi area, is the native land of Qin Dynasty. Due to the vigorous management of Qin Dynasty, Guanzhong is not only rich in products, but also has a solid foundation for military engineering. Xiang Yu didn't want Liu Bang to be the "king of Guanzhong" or to go back to his hometown (now Peixian County, Jiangsu Province), so he deliberately assigned Ba, Shu (all in today's Sichuan Province) and Hanzhong (in today's southwest mountain area of Shaanxi Province) to Liu Bang and made him the king of Han Dynasty. Taking Nanzheng as the capital of Hanzhong, he wanted to shut Liu Bang into remote mountains. In order to block Liu Bang's way out to the East, Guanzhong was divided into three parts and divided into three parts: Zhang Han, Sima Xin and Dong Yi. Xiang Yu made himself the overlord of the Western Chu Dynasty and granted nine prefectures. He occupied the fertile land in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River Basin, with Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province) as the capital. Liu Bang did have the ambition to dominate the world. Of course, he was very unconvinced. Other generals were also dissatisfied with the smaller territory they were given. However, frightened by Xiang Yu's power, everyone did not dare to disobey, so they had to follow their orders and go to their places. Liu Bang also had to take the lead to the West for the time being and drive to Nanzheng. He accepted Zhang Liang's stratagem and burned down all the hundreds of miles of plank road he had walked all the way. Plank road is a passage erected with wood on the dangerous cliff. 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 does not intend to come out, so as to relax his guard against Liu Bang.

Discrimination of words

The 96th chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty: "I decided that Zhuge Liang would follow Han Xin's plan." it is shown that it is active (1) and active (2).

notes

(1) Show it to move: show it to others. "Feint" refers to the military action that confuses the enemy, such as the frontal feint and feint. (2) Yi Dong Er Xun: the language comes from the hexagram of Yi Jing. Yi, hexagram name. This hexagram is a superposition of different hexagrams. The upper hexagram is Xun, and Xun is wind; the lower hexagram is earthquake, and earthquake is thunder. It means that the wind and thunder are surging, and its potential is increasing, so the hexagram is named Yi. They are opposite to each other and form a unified group. "Yi Gua" of the "Yu" said: "Yi move and Xun, day into the boundless This is to say that the lower earthquake of Yi hexagram is thunder and movement, and the upper one is wind and order. Then, movement and rationality are born to be long and have infinite benefits. this plan is to make use of the enemy's deceptive means of "showing it to move", while I take advantage of the situation to achieve a surprise military victory.

story

Han Xin took Sanqin as his weapon. At the end of Qin Dynasty, after Xiang Yu destroyed Qin, he became the overlord of Western Chu and betrayed the agreement of who was the first to invade Xianyang. Liu Bang was extremely dissatisfied. He led his troops into Sichuan, burned the plank road of Bashu along the way and became the king of Han Dynasty. With the help of Han Xin, Liu Bang was building the plank road in Mingli, bypassing Xiang Yu's general Zhang Han, and then became the king of Central Plains

Notes

Strange comes from right, no right can be extraordinary. If you don't know how to build a stack Road, you can't sneak through the old storehouse. In the past, Deng AI Tun was to the north of Baishui, while Jiang Wei Yao was to the south of Liaohua tun. AI said to the generals: "we have only a small number of soldiers, so we should come and cross instead of making a bridge. We can't make it back. It will attack Taocheng from the East. " AI is the night army, the path to Taocheng. Viggo came to ferry. And AI first arrived, according to the city, can not break. This is Jiang Wei's bad plan to sneak through the past, and Deng Aicha knows his plan to attack the West from the East.

Related riddles

Night tour of Baoji City

English translation

pretendtopreparetoadvancealongonepathwhilesecretlygoingalonganother

Chinese PinYin : míng xiū zhàn dào，àn dù chén cāng