There are many cases in history in which fewer victories are more, among which Xiang Yu's tens of thousands of people defeated the Battle of the Giant Deer of the Qin Army of 400,000 people, and Han Xin's battle of defeating the Zhao State with 200,000 people in the Battle of the Backwaters have all been canonized, and they have all mastered the know-how of putting them to death and being born later, so why did the Horses of the Shu Han of the Three Kingdoms use the same method in the street pavilion but failed?
Uncle Meng will analyze the difference between the three people today, first of all, let's look at the Battle of the Giant Deer of Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, when the main force of the Qin State besieged the State of Zhao, and the State of Zhao had no choice but to ask for help from the princes of various countries, and as a result, Zhang Handan's prisoner army and Wang Li's Great Wall Army were too strong in combat, and they were at the point where who came and who died, and the princes' armies did not dare to move.
At this time, king Huai of Chu took Song Yi as the general, Xiang Yu as the second general, and Fan Zeng as the last general, and led tens of thousands of troops north to aid Zhao, and Song Yi felt that he should wait for the two armies of Qin and Zhao to be defeated and wounded, and then lead the army to kill and reap the benefits of the fisherman, so the Tun soldiers remained unchanged for 46 days, it is reasonable to say that Song Yi was indeed selfish, but this decision was indeed in line with the interests of the Chu state.
However, Xiang Yu's flesh and blood were strong, and he could not tolerate Song Yi's reckless behavior, so the following criminals beheaded Song Yi and seized the military power, and the King of Chu Huai had no choice but to appoint Xiang Yu as a general to command the Chu army.
Everyone knows the things behind, Xiang Yu led the soldiers across the river, directly sank the boats, only brought three days of grain, indicating that the end of the battle within three days, if not victorious, all the soldiers understood, fight to survive, if you retreat there is only one way to die, so they are willing to die, and finally break the Qin army. After the war, the princes and generals came to see Xiang Yu on their knees, and did not dare to look up.
Let's look at the Battle of Huaiyin Marquis Han Xin, the background of which was the Chu-Han war, Liu Bang sent Han Xin to attack the Zhao state that was dependent on Xiang Yu, but Han Xin only had 12,000 miscellaneous troops in his hands, while the Zhao state had 200,000 troops.
This obvious gap was supposed to hit the stone with a pebble, and as a result, Han Xin was lurking near the base camp of the Zhao Army in two thousand light horses, and another ten thousand people were lined up with their backs to the river. The so-called "trapped beasts are fighting, let alone people?" The Han army, which had no way to retreat, had no fear in the face of the 200,000 Zhao army that had been killed, and all of them fought to the death, at this time, two thousand ambush soldiers directly took the old lair of the Zhao army, and the Zhao army was immediately confused by the enemy before and after, and was finally defeated by Han Xin.
Let's finally look at the Battle of Ma Mo's Jieting, which was Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, he first pretended that the Shu army would attack Yu County from Xiegu Road, and sent Zhao Yun and Deng Zhi to be suspects, while he personally led a large army out of Qishan, which frightened the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui into a cold sweat.
However, in terms of important employment, Zhuge Liang did not use Wei Yan, Wu Yi, and others, who were highly recommended by everyone, as the vanguard, but let Ma Liang's younger brother Ma Mo lead the army and send him to garrison the military stronghold of the street pavilion.
This Ma Mo had always been familiar with the art of war and often talked about it, but when Liu Bei was alive, he had seen that he was a flashy mediocre talent, but perhaps because of his relationship with Ge Ma Liang, he was deeply appreciated and taken care of by Zhuge Liang.
This time the town guard street pavilion should have been a good opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions, but he was self-righteous, not according to the military orders to camp, but gave up the water source to camp on the mountain, thinking that he was condescending and could defeat the Wei army in one fell swoop, but when Zhang Guo's army killed, he directly cut off the water source of the Shu army, and the Shu army was in disarray, and finally several breakthroughs were defeated by the Wei army, resulting in the loss of the street pavilion and the failure of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.
Looking at Xiang Yu and Han Xin, both of them had insight into human nature, using the way to force people into a desperate situation to stimulate the potential of soldiers, the Chu army understood that losing to the Qin army would die, the Han army understood that losing to the Zhao army must die, and finally completed the feat of winning more with less, and Ma Mo did not use this condition of death, originally the Shu army Wei army was equally strong, when the street camp was still able to fight, and the Shu army was cut off from the water source after going up the mountain, several breakthrough failures directly caused the army to waver, and if the Shu army chose to surrender, it was not bound to die, so there were more and more deserters. In the end, Ma Mo abandoned the army and fled, like Ma Mo,giving up his advantage and choosing a desperate situation was simply stupid, and the result was only one more paper joke in history.