The empty city plan in Romance of the Three Kingdoms is fictional. Is there a real story of an empty city plan?
Yes An empty story happened to Cao Cao. In the second year of Han Xingping (AD 195), once Cao Cao's army went out of the city to collect wheat, suddenly Lu Bu's army opened. In desperation, Cao Cao asked all his family members to stand guard on the wall. When Lu Bu came over, he saw the city singing and dancing, and when he watched it again, the city was singing and dancing.