Northern Expeditions
One of the best known examples of the use of the Empty Fort Strategy is a 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.