idiom > leave nothing usable to the invading enemy
Qing Ye empty room
Explanation: Struggle against the enemy when things at home and hide the fields of agricultural products, after the arrival of the enemy will get nothing, nothing without the use of. Source: "Three Kingdoms Wei Shu Xun Yu Biography" East have switched this collection of wheat, will be invading to be general. "
kōng shì qīng yě
When the war home to people property and agricultural fields are covered up, the field near the houses, trees are all destroyed, not to plunder or to use the invasion of the enemy. "Room" is also a "house"
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No. 3
See "empty homes Kiyono."
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No. 4
空室清野 kōngshì-qīngyě
[leave nothing usable to the invading enemy] 战争时把群众家里的财物和田里的农产品都收藏起来,把战地附近的房屋、树木等都毁掉,不让入侵的敌人掠夺或利用。“室”也作“舍”
发音 kōng shì qīng yě
出处 《三国志·魏书·荀彧传》:“今东方皆已收麦,必坚壁清野以待将军。”
事例 沿途不是闭栅放炮,就是~,桂军只好一路以抢掠为生,军纪愈发废弛。 ★刘凤舞《民国春秋》第三十九章
English Expression
n.: leave nothing usable to the invading enemy
Thesaurus
fortify the defense works and to leave nothing usable to the invading enemy