Friends who have read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms know Cao Cao and Liu Bei's "Heroes on Cooking Wine", in which Cao Cao believes that the only heroes in the world are Cao Cao and Liu Bei. In Cao Cao's view, it seems that Liu Bei is far ahead of Lü Bu, Sun Ce, Yuan Shao and others, but is this really the case? What is the level of military talent?
If you carefully look at the historical materials of the Three Kingdoms, you will find that Liu Bei has actually been losing battles before he met the "Wolong" Zhuge Liang, although he can achieve defeat without dispersion, defeat without death, which shows that Liu Bei's military ability is really average. Many people will say that liu bei's group was weak at that time, and it was really difficult to compete with the crowd. So let's take a look at a big battle in which Liu Bei is independently led and his strength is still dominant, and what about his performance?
I believe that everyone has thought that this battle is the famous Battle of Yiling, in this battle it can be said that Liu Bei had an advantage at the beginning, mainly reflected in:
First, the division is famous. Ancients Yun: If the name is not correct, it is not smooth, and although Liu Bei took the initiative to attack Eastern Wu, but it was to avenge his good brother Guan Yu, it can be said that the master is famous, and he first grasped the right to speak.
Second, the mourners will triumph. Liu Bei's army was to avenge Guan Yu, and Liu Bei had all three armies wear ma dai filial piety for Guan Yu, creating an atmosphere of victory for the mourning soldiers.
Third, morale is high. Before the expedition to Eastern Wu, Liu Bei had just been proclaimed emperor, and Liu Bei belonged to the Imperial Conquest, which naturally boosted the morale of the Army of the Shu Han Dynasty.
Fourth, the combat effectiveness is strong. Liu Bei's army in the Conquest of Eastern Wu was all armies that had just participated in the Sichuan War and the Battle of Hanzhong, with rich combat experience, and there were also vine armor soldiers from ethnic minorities in the southwest, plus the famous general Huang Zhong and others, so the combat effectiveness of Liu Bei's army was still there.
Moreover, Liu Bei was geographically upstream and occupied favorable terrain. It was precisely because Liu Bei's army had the above advantages that it would frighten Sun Quan, who could still collapse in front of Mount Tai in the face of Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops. But it is very strange that Liu Bei, a generation of tyrants who have the advantage after hundreds of battles, has suffered a crushing defeat to Lu Xun, a hairy boy, why is this?
One of the most important factors is that Liu Bei is not quiet and does not maintain his usual modest and cautious style. At that time, Liu Bei's heart was full of hatred, and at the same time, he had just claimed that the emperor had established the Shu Han regime, and he could not listen to the opinions and suggestions of others at all, and changed from a "mourning soldier" to an "arrogant soldier", which was a taboo for soldiers. Moreover, when he learned that the commander of the other side was Lu Xun, who was young and had no war experience, Liu Bei's mentality was even more inflated, which seriously affected the judgment of the battlefield.
It was the change in Liu Bei's mentality that led to many low-level mistakes in this war, losing his previous advantages, and even because he was too conceited, he did not even bring a military division, and everyone knew that Liu Bei could basically not win a battle without a military division.
Liu Bei, a "hero" who has always been modest and prudent and benevolent, was even more paralyzed in his previous letters to the success of the Battle of Eastern Wu and Lu Xun's praise, and lost himself, thus losing his normal judgment in the face of Lu Xun's stubbornness, believing that Lu Xun was incompetent, afraid of himself, and did not dare to fight with the Shu army, so he made a more serious mistake and led the army to camp in the dense forest. In the case of the unbalanced mentality of the leaders, the Shu Han army began to have poor military discipline and lazy military morale after several months of fighting.
When Liu Bei was full of confidence and unconscious, he was turning his advantages into disadvantages, and Lu Xun was good at grasping, and at a glance he saw the rapid changes in the battlefield and saw the changes in advantages and disadvantages, so the Eastern Wu army beat Liu Bei back to its original form with a fire, and the newly established Shu Han regime was also severely damaged, basically losing the opportunity to unify the world.
Judging from Liu Bei's performance in the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei originally had the advantage, but because of his lack of calmness, he lost all his advantages, which eventually led to his own failure. In reality, many of us are the same, we can find danger in adversity, overcome danger, but can not see the crisis in good times, lose ourselves in mental imbalance, lose basic judgment, and lead to failure in our own lives. Therefore, in our lives, we must learn not to lose, but also to win without arrogance, no matter what advantages we have, in the face of what situation we must learn to "have calm in every big event", and we must maintain a modest and cautious attitude.