Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms burned gourd valley.

In the spring of 234 A.D., Zhuge Liang led 350,000 troops in Qishan, and Sima Yi led 400,000 troops to fight Zhuge Liang in the Weishui belt west of Chang 'an. Zhuge Liang inspected the terrain in the layout. This is a clever plan. The valley is located between two mountains, with low terrain and narrow entrance. Only one person and one horse can pass at a time, but the valley can accommodate more than 65,438+0,000 people. This place is like a gourd, and it is a good place to defend and destroy the enemy. So Zhuge Liang asked people to pile dry wood, sulfur and ambush on the heights on both sides of the valley, and arranged for general Wei Yan to lure the enemy into Sima Yi and others to catch up with the mountains in the valley, and then threw countless wood and stones to block the entrance and left countless torches. Suddenly there was a sea of fire in the valley. Sima Yi and others saw that the whole army was wiped out, but the raging fire was doused by heavy rain. Sima Yi and his son led the troops to the war.