📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual
Both sides stand nearly complete: Red has two chariots, two cannons, a knight and both elephants; Black fields the same heavy pieces, a pair of palace advisors, and two extra pawns. Red to move, and the manual Uyên Thâm Hải Khoát (game 255) concludes: draw. Between armies this even, any edge can only lie along a route the eye cannot see — the very spirit of this position's name. 'The Secret March to Chencang' is the eighth of the Thirty-Six Stratagems: one army repairs a mountain road noisily in broad daylight for all to watch, while the real army slips through a pass in another direction, by night. That opening gambit of Liu Bang's bid for empire in 206 BC is told below. Back to the board: in a position that seems to hide nothing, which Red force is the 'noisy road crew' — and which marches through the dark?
白昼に堂々と棧道を直し、夜陰に乗じて陳倉を抜く――「明修棧道、暗度陳倉」
将軍が白昼、太鼓を鳴らし旗を翻して山道の修理を命じた。誰の目にも明らかな大工事――だがその陰で、別働隊が闇に紛れて抜け出していた。この一手が、漢の天下取りの幕を開けた。 紀元前206年、劉邦は辺境の巴蜀に押し込められ、漢王とされていた。張良が去るにあたり、彼は崖に張り付く木造の棧道を焼き払った。「漢王は二度と東へ進まない」という宣言のつもりだった。項羽は油断した。ところが韓信は正反対の策を献じた。棧道を公然と修理し、日がな山に槌音を響かせるのだ。三秦への関門を守る雍王・章邯は、その騒々しい木と石の山にすべての目を奪われた。 その隙に、劉邦の本隊は人影のない故道を静かに進み、陳倉に躍り出た。章邯…
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