Zhuge Liang (18 1 ~ 234) was born in Yang Du, Langya County, Xuzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He's not that ambitious. Although he lives in seclusion in Longzhong (north of Xiangfan, Hubei Province) and works as a farmer in Longmu, he reads widely and cares about world affairs. He often compares himself with famous generals Guan Zhong and Le Yi in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which shows his ambition.

Zhuge Liang

Zhuge Liang began to help Liu Bei build a foundation at the age of 27, and later became the prime minister of Shu until he died in the army at the age of 54. In the past 30 years, he has been a pivotal figure in the Three Kingdoms, and his historical role is second only to that of Cao Cao, Sun Quan and Liu Bei. He was an outstanding politician in the ancient history of China and an outstanding strategist in the military history of China. Zhuge Liang has 24 anthologies compiled by Chen Shou, the author of The Three Kingdoms, but the books have long been lost. Some articles in Zhuge Jiliang compiled by later generations are hard to distinguish. Based on the history of the Three Kingdoms, this paper briefly discusses Zhuge Liang's military strategic thought.