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The Empty Fort Strategy (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] vrojak@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or just have the bowman trainees assemble, tell them the first one to hit the general gets a promotion.

[โ€“] AppaYipYip@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

To be fair, even archers have to get in range and Zhuge Liang had successfully tricked them in the past. If real, I can imagine they felt its better to save their men for another fight.