During the Three Kingdoms period, the Shu state was located in the mountainous Yizhou, with limited national strength, coupled with the early death of the founding emperor Liu Bei, and his heir Liu Chan had no ability, and the country could only rely on Zhuge Liang to struggle. However, Zhuge Liang knew that if the Shu state insisted on sticking to it, it would be dragged to death by the powerful Wei state, so he was ready to "change his life against the sky" and carry out the Northern Expedition.
History refers to Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition military campaign as "Six Out of Qishan". In Luo Guanzhong's description of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang's 6 Northern Expeditions were abruptly stopped for some reason, but each time he could fight the Wei state in chaos, causing headaches for famous generals such as Sima Yi and Cao Zhen every minute.
If there is a war, there will be casualties, and what does the specific record of the Shu state of fighting the strong with the weak look like? According to the records of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Shu state lost a total of 16 military generals, while the Wei state lost 28 talents.
In the military operations of the 6 Northern Expeditions, Zhao Yun of the Shu State, Guan Xing, Wu Yi, Wang Ping, and Deng Zhi died of illness one after another, Ma Chen, Wei Yan, and Chen Shi were executed by Zhuge Liang, Zhang Xiu, Li Sheng, Zhang Bao, Gong Qi, Xie Xiong, and Meng Da were killed in battle, Yang Yi committed suicide, and Li Yan cried to death. In total, the Shu state lost 16 people.
In the 6 Northern Expedition Wars, wei's losses were even greater, losing 28 talents. The Wei state had 21 people, Han De, Han Ying, Han Qi, Han Yao, Han Qiong, Xue Ze, Dong Xi, Cui Qiong, Yang Ling, Fei Yao, Wang Shuang, Cao Zun, Zhu Zan, Marshal Yue Ji, Xu Huang, Zhang Gao, Su Yong, Zheng Wen, Qin Ming, Qin Lang, and Cen Wei, who were directly killed in battle, Wang Lang was scolded to death by Zhuge Liang, Cao Zhen was killed by Zhuge Liang, Hao Zhao was scared to death by Zhuge Liang, and Yin Xiang, Liang Xu, Liang Qian, and Jiang Wei submitted to the Shu state.
In the Shu kingdom, the deaths of Zhao Yun, Guan Xing, Wei Yan, Zhang Bao, and Li Yan still had a relatively large impact on the country. Zhao Yun was the only survivor of the Five Tiger Generals, and was the golden sign of the Shu Kingdom, and his death affected the vigor of the Shu Kingdom. Guan Xing and Zhang Bao were in their prime, and they were rare talents in the Northern Expedition of the Shu State, and their deaths were the losses of the Shu State. Wei Yan did not say much, the Shu kingdom was second only to the fifth tiger general's 6th master, Li Yan had also pacified Huang Zhong, so the death of these 2 people was also a big blow to the Shu state.
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Xiu and Li Sheng will be the real characters recorded in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but there is no mention of a word in the interpretation. These 2 people followed Ma Mo and Wang Pingzhen to guard the street pavilion, but they did not expect that Ma Mo came to a "new and unusual", and after guarding the mountain, he pit the whole army. The Shu soldiers who did not have water to drink were in chaos, and Zhang Xiu and Li Sheng were the military generals who died heroically in this situation.
In the wei side, Xu Huang, Zhang Gao, Cao Zhen, Wang Shuang, and Jiang Wei were very important. Xu Huang and Zhang Hao were both one of the five sons of the State of Wei, and their martial arts were outstanding and influential, and as a result, Meng Da solved Xu Huang with an arrow, and Zhuge Liang shot Zhang Hao with a plan. Cao Zhen was the emperor of the State of Wei, a handsome man in charge of the soldiers and horses, and his death directly led to Sima Yi being left unattended, and finally indirectly achieved Sima Shi's abolition of the emperor and the establishment of the Jin Dynasty. Wang Shuang didn't need to introduce him much, and no one in the late Shu Kingdom could beat him.
In general, the Shu state could still occupy a certain advantage in the 6 Northern Expedition Wars with a weak and strong, mostly thanks to the wisdom of Zhuge Liang. The first wise man of the Three Kingdoms, with his own talent, achieved a certain strategic advantage, and finally found Jiang Wei, the heir.
However, objectively speaking, most of the losses of the Shu state were not caused by losing the battle. Although the Shu state lost 16 generals, 5 of them died of illness, 5 died of fault, and only 6 died on the battlefield. Moreover, Zhang Bao still fought a victorious battle to pursue the enemy and fell and died, not at the hands of the enemy; Meng Da died at the hands of Neiying because he did not listen to Zhuge Liang's advice; Gong Qi and Xie Xiong received a box lunch as soon as they appeared because they were small roles in running dragon sets; Zhang Xiu and Li Sheng were victims of Ma Mo's erroneous strategic policy.
Judging from the comparison of the losses of the Shu state and the Wei state, the shu state really did not lose much under the leadership of Zhuge Liang.