📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual
Red to move with two chariots against one — a visible edge in firepower. But Black is anything but outgunned: an extra knight, advisors and elephants screening the palace, and five pawns on each side drawn up like two armies facing off across a river. The classical manual Uyên Thâm Hải Khoát (game 5) concludes: draw. Red keeps pushing, Black keeps holding — a tug of war in which the attacker never quite finds the finishing blow. The name is the most famous "beautiful mistake" attached to Zhuge Liang: the histories record five personal campaigns against Wei (228–234), only two of them by way of Mount Qi — the "six" belongs to the novel and to tradition, as the anecdote below explains. After all those expeditions, still a drawn position: can you find the road that players old and new have left untravelled?
「祁山への六度の出兵」――史実は五度、しかもその道は二度だけ
三国志のファンなら誰もが知る言葉です。諸葛亮は祁山から魏へ六度出兵しました。詩や芝居や成語に刻まれています。ただ一つ問題があります。記録で遠征を数えると、その数も山も成り立たないのです。何が間違ったのでしょうか？ 228年から234年にかけて、諸葛亮が自ら率いた北伐は六度ではなく五度でした。しかも実際に祁山を通ったのは二度だけです。最初は228年、馬謖の街亭での惨敗に終わった遠征と、231年の遠征で、魏の将軍張郃が木門で討ち取られました。他はまったく別の進路を取りました。 「六度の出兵」は『三国志演義』で最も有名な地理的な誤りであり、何世紀も愛情を込めて繰り返されてきたため、誤りが完全に事…
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