In the thousands of years of history of China, there have been many civilian and military generals, but if you want to leave your own name in this long history, it is not just a matter of just saying it with your mouth.
According to the existing historical records, the more social turmoil and frequent wars occur, because of the need to fight against enemy countries, the demand for talents will naturally increase much more than usual. It is precisely because of this that many famous generals were born in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Ma Mo, who was born at this time, was a pity general.
There is a famous and crucial battle in the history of the Three Kingdoms:
The Battle of Jieting, which was originally the first battle in the Northern Expedition War carefully prepared by Zhuge Liang, was naturally of great significance. However, people are not as good as heavenly calculations, and Zhuge Liang handed over this battle to Ma Mo, who did not yet have actual combat experience, and was eventually destroyed because of Ma Mo's overconfidence. The long-planned plan also ended in the failure of the first battle.
But if at that time, Zhuge Liangming, as a military division of the Shu State, knew that this battle was very important to the fate of the Shu State, and there was Zhao Yun, who had experienced hundreds of battles under him, why did he not let him go but instead entrusted such a heavy responsibility to a Horse Mo who had never experienced actual combat and would only talk about soldiers on paper? Perhaps we can find the reason in the next few aspects.
Matthew is born talented
In the contents of the famous works, Ma Mo often followed Zhuge Liang's side in the army or in peacetime, and also joined the army as a general in the army. Zhuge Liang often discussed with him about the army and state affairs, and the conversation was from morning to night, as if he had never felt tired. It was as if he and Zhuge Liang were talking to each other between the teacher and the students he was very satisfied with.
The reason why Ma Mo was able to be given such a high official position was not only because he was very talented in knowledge, but also because in the first conversation and discussion between Zhuge Liang and Ma Mo, Ma Mo, as a junior, happened to say what Zhuge Liang had in mind at that time.
At that time, at the end of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang decided to march south to the southern barbarian forces led by Meng Yue, and in the discussion with Zhuge Liang at that time, after listening to Ma Chen's specific analysis and understanding of this matter, Zhuge Liang was very surprised, because Ma Mo's ideas coincided with his own ideas. After this discussion, Zhuge Liang felt that he was a talent that could be created, so he immediately sealed him as a member of the army.
At that time, there was a shortage of talents in the Shu kingdom
At the time of the first Northern Expedition, the Shu state had already lost many generals, and even the five tiger generals who were the most famous and familiar to us at that time were also killed one after another, leaving only the last Zhao Yun who had entered middle age.
The major problem faced by the Shu state at that time was that the older generation of generals left one after another, and the younger generation of generals was very lacking. This is also one of the questions that Zhuge Liang needs to think about after the death of Liu Bei, the founding king of the Shu Kingdom. Because of this, Ma Mo, who had already received Zhuge Liang's attention, would naturally be cultivated as the pillar of the future.
In the Shu kingdom at that time, the more famous ones were naturally Zhao Yun, the only remaining general of the Five Tigers, plus Jiang Wei, who had defected from Cao Weifang, and so on. These generals are very famous now, and Zhuge Liang at that time naturally took this aspect into account.
On the one hand, at that time, it was already the end of the Shu Kingdom, Zhao Yun was already middle-aged, and even the physical fitness of Changshan Zhao Zilong, the general who had always won the battle, would be much worse than before, and Zhuge Liang, as a military master, naturally did not want to bury the remaining Five Tiger Generals in this battle, if there was a problem, it would be fatal.
On the other hand, Jiang Wei, as mentioned above, Jiang Wei came from Cao Wei's side, and this war also took place between him and the State of Wei, and even Zhuge Liang could not vote to say that after Jiang Wei surrendered to the State of Shu, he must be wholeheartedly loyal to the State of Shu without the slightest intention of rebellion in the face of the old lord. It is precisely because there is no way to fully trust Jiang Wei, naturally Jiang Wei will not be allowed to lead this battle.
Zhuge Liang himself also wanted to cultivate Ma Chen
In the Shu kingdom at that time, Guan Yu had just lost Jingzhou, and he himself was killed in battle, which could be said to be a huge loss to the combat effectiveness of the Shu state. At that time, as mentioned above, talent was very scarce, and a new generation of young generals were gradually growing, and it just so happened that a person was needed to go to the town to guard the street kiosk. So after thinking about it, Zhuge Liang decided to send Ma Mo to lead the battle of the street pavilion, on the one hand, believing that Ma Mo's talent could be competent for this task, on the other hand, hoping that after the victory of this battle, he could give the credit to Ma Mo and let Ma Mo become the leader after that.
But what turned out was that inexperience was inexperience, and in the Battle of Jieting at that time, Ma Mo faced Zhang Guo, a great general of the State of Wei who had experienced hundreds of battles, and a person who had never experienced actual combat faced a general with rich practical combat experience, and the result could be imagined. In today's investigation of street kiosks, street kiosks are not as easy to defend and difficult to attack as recorded in history.
It can be said that even if you have a lot of talent, you need to accumulate experience through actual combat, so that you can handle things with ease in the real face. After all, paper talk is a paper soldier, and only by applying knowledge in reality can we gradually improve ourselves.
It can only be said that Zhuge Liang was a little anxious about this matter, and if he gave a little time to Ma Mo instead of something like this, I believe that in time he would be able to take on the heavy responsibility.