【4K 60FPS】Empty Fort Strategy - Romance of the Three Kingdoms 【AI Restoration】

Made a restorated upscaling version for one of my favorite Chinese TV Series - Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994)!~
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'The Empty Fort Strategy' is the 32nd of the Chinese Thirty-Six Stratagems. The strategy involves using reverse psychology (and luck) to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes, and therefore induce the enemy to retreat.
One of the best known examples of the use of the Empty Fort Strategy is this fictional incident in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticises historical events in the late Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. This event took place during the first of a series of campaigns - known as Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions - led by Shu Han's chancellor Zhuge Liang to attack Shu's rival state, Cao Wei.
In the first Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang's efforts to conquer the Wei city Chang'an were undermined by the Shu defeat at the Battle of Jieting. With the loss of Jieting (present-day Qin'an County, Gansu), Zhuge Liang's current location, Xicheng (西城; believed to be located 120 li southwest of present-day Tianshui, Gansu), became exposed and was in peril of being attacked by the Wei army. In the face of imminent danger, with the main Shu army deployed elsewhere and only a small group of soldiers in Xicheng, Zhuge Liang came up with a ploy to hold off the approaching enemy.
Zhuge Liang ordered all the gates to be opened and instructed soldiers disguised as civilians to sweep the roads while he sat on the viewing platform above the gates with two page boys flanking him. He put on a calm and composed image by playing his guqin. When the Wei army led by Sima Yi arrived, Sima was surprised by the scene before him and he ordered a retreat after suspecting that there was an ambush inside the city. Zhuge Liang later explained that his strategy was a risky one. It worked because Zhuge Liang had a reputation for being a careful military tactician who hardly took risks, so Sima Yi came to the conclusion that there was an ambush upon seeing Zhuge's relaxed composure.

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Tokugawa used this tactic against Shingen😂.

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0:13 弹琴这一段，指节上的褶皱明显过多了。原片中某些多出来的褶皱是因为低分辨率低帧率造成的残像。这里能否做一下微调？

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以諸葛亮的算計，應該早已在城中部署好了3D立體成像投影。。

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为什么现在看觉得这是个喜剧

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For those who are wondering, there you go. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Fort_Strategy

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空城计 1994《三国演义》....... 2020_06_28

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Was it against his honor to take this fort, or what happened here? Unfortunateley I don't speak Chinese.

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Eng sub added! Long story short, in the fiction, during the Three Kingdoms era, Zhuge Liang (the general playing instrument in the video) fights against Sima Yi (the general on the horse) in a series of campaigns, and Zhuge always outsmarted Sima. In this scene, Zhuge's location is exposed and his fort is surrounded by Sima's main army, Zhuge then bluffs Sima by peacefully playing Guqin on the fort's wall, and orders all gates to be opened. That made Sima too suspicious to attack. Sima thinks there must be a huge ambush in the fort or around the hills waiting for him, so he immediately orders to retreat his army in the end... It's so called 'The Empty Fort Strategy' .

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@@dgspitzer4771 Ah, thank you very much! I was either to early or to dumb to turn them on (KZbin usually puts them on automatically). If the rest of the movie is like this I'll try to find version I understand.

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@@individuum4494 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpDVZJiNm7mAetU No problem! You can try this Harvard University archive version~

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​@@Ooooollee Yup there is also a theory that Sima intentionally let Zhuge escaped. There's an old Chinese saying, 'After the birds are gone, the bows will be cast aside, and after the hares are bagged, the hunting dogs will be cooked. '

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