In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liangyi made a total of five fire attacks, except for the last time when the burning of the upper valley was unsuccessful, the other four were relatively successful, and of the four successful times, the first three were against Cao Cao's Wei army, and only the fourth was the burning of the vine armor army.
According to the records, Zhuge Liang burned the Wei army three times, causing casualties of at least 300,000 or more, but Zhuge Liang seemed indifferent to the casualties of these Wei troops, but when he burned the 30,000 vine armor army for the fourth time, Zhuge Liang regretted it and always claimed that "Yang Shou will be damaged".
Zhuge Liang's four uses of fire to attack the specific situation
Zhuge Liang was deeply moved to assist Liu Bei after Liu Beisan Gu Maolu, and after Zhuge Liang came down, Liu Bei entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, so that both Guan Yu and Zhang Fei brothers were very dissatisfied with Zhuge Liang, in the eyes of both of them, Zhuge Liang was just a scholar, and he had no ability to occupy a high position.
It was at this critical moment that Cao Cao pacified Yuan Shao in the north and planned to start attacking the south, Cao Cao was the first to clean up Liu Bei, Cao Cao appointed his general Xiahou Huan to personally lead a large army to Bowangpo to clean up Liu Bei's clique, Xiahou Xiao was brave and good at war, under his leadership, the Wei army was like a broken bamboo along the way, and Liu Bei and others also felt the crisis.
At the critical moment, Zhuge Liang came on the field, and after analyzing the terrain of Bowangpo and the strength of the Wei army, he formulated a plan to burn Bowangpo, and relying on this plan, Xiahou Huan led the army to withdraw in a hurry, and Liu Bei's army won a stage victory.
Zhang Fei and Guan Yu saw that Zhuge Liang had fought a beautiful battle, and suddenly they also admired Zhuge Liang, and no longer dared to despise Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao's army suffered heavy losses, Cao Cao was very angry, and decided to personally lead half a million troops to Xinye to attack Liu Bei, but it was in This place in Xinye that Zhuge Liang repeated his old skills and once again staged the great drama of burning Xinye, Cao Cao can be said to have a word of suffering.
Perhaps Zhuge Liang's two burning of the Wei army is not enough to make people afraid, then the last burning of the Wei army will definitely make everyone frightened, this time is the famous fire burning Chibi, when Cao Cao had prepared an army of 800,000 people, planning to directly destroy Sun Quan and Liu Bei's clique, so that Cao Cao could officially unify the south and realize his grand ambitions.
Unfortunately, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu planned to give Cao Cao a big gift, so there was a heavy drama in which Zhuge Liangqiao used the East Wind to burn Chibi, and after burning Chibi, Cao Cao's strength was seriously reduced, and from then on, there was no strength to directly unify the world, and later there was a situation in which the Three Kingdoms were established.
After the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, whether it was the State of Wu, the State of Shu or the State of Wei, they did not dare to easily conquer each other, that is, during this time, the State of Shu was able to slowly recuperate and stabilize the internal political power, and in the process of stabilizing the internal political power, there was a stunned Qing Mengyu, who resolutely did not obey the dispatches of the Shu Han, and there was no way for Zhuge Liang to lead the troops to teach him a lesson, and the famous Zhuge Liang's Seven Captures of Meng Yu occurred during this period.
Meng Yue belongs to the ethnic minority, not only the people are fierce, but also basically all the people are soldiers, in the face of such a group of people, Zhuge Liang wants to easily conquer them, in fact, there are still some difficulties, especially meng Yue after he could not defeat Zhuge Liang, he actually moved 30,000 vine armor soldiers as rescue soldiers, which can make Zhuge Liang difficult.
The vine armor soldiers belong to the country of Wuge, this country is also a soldier of the whole people, and Meng Yu belongs to the ethnic minority, their vine armor soldiers were definitely special soldiers at that time, relying on their own vine armor, in the battlefield can be described as invincible, the Shu army wanted to capture them, but found that the oil-soaked vine armor was too slippery, simply could not get close, Wei Yan led the Shu army to the battle, were defeated by the vine armor army.
Obviously it is only a divided force, but now it is more and more courageous, in the face of such a situation, Zhuge Liang thoughtful, after careful analysis, Zhuge Liang found a fatal shortcoming of the vine armor soldiers, that is, the vine armor soaked in oil is afraid of fire, as long as it encounters fire, it will ignite quickly, so that it can defeat the vine armor soldiers.
After discovering the fatal shortcomings of the tengjia soldiers, Zhuge Liang ordered people to use fire attacks, and soon thirty thousand tengjia soldiers were killed in a sea of fire, Meng Yue did not dare to make a second move, looking at the burning fire in front of him, Zhuge Liang suddenly regretted it and said to the people around him, "It will damage Yangshou."
Writing this, there must be many people who will be quite curious, obviously when Zhuge Liang burned the Wei army three times before, the number of casualties caused far exceeded 300,000, this number is more than ten times that of the vine armor soldiers, at that time Zhuge Liang did not have any remorse, why did he say "will damage Yang Shou" when burning the vine armor soldiers?
Why did Zhuge Liang make such an exclamation?
In fact, combined with the historical background of the burning of the Wei army and the burning of the vine armor soldiers, it is easy to analyze the real reason behind Zhuge Liang's sigh, to say that this reason, in fact, is not complicated, in my opinion mainly includes the following two aspects.
The first aspect is the difference in strength between the two sides, Zhuge Liang's first three fire attack plans were all aimed at the Wei army, which was far stronger than his own, and it should be known that Cao Cao at that time had just taken Yuan Shao and unified the north, which belonged to the peak stage of military strength, and it was easy to clean up Liu Bei's clique.
Whether it was burning Bowangpo, burning Xinye or burning Chibi, in the situation of the huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and ourselves at that time, Zhuge Liang basically had no other tactics to deal with Cao Cao, and could only use the most insidious fire attack strategy, which caused the greatest damage to the enemy and was also the best plan when the disparity between the strength of the enemy and us was huge, Zhuge Liang basically had no choice, otherwise he might face the end of Liu Bei's group being annexed by Cao Cao.
Since he was cornered and had no other way, even if Zhuge Liang used the yin and damaged fire attack strategy, when he reflected later, he would not have any sense of guilt, just as the posterity said, "How can you do what you want, but seek to be unashamed", Zhuge Liang burned Wei Jun, although he did not do his best, but he was already ashamed of his heart, how can he feel guilty or regret it?
When the Tengjia soldiers were burned, the situation was completely different, although the Tengjia soldiers and Meng Yu, although it was more difficult to subdue, but after all, they were only a military force that belonged to the jurisdiction of the Shu State, and compared with the regular army of the Shu State, there must be a gap in their equipment and strength.
That is to say, because there is a gap in strength, Zhuge Liang can implement the "Seven Captures of Meng" plan for Meng Yu just like a game, if the strength of the two sides is equal, I am afraid that Zhuge Liang has no such opportunity at all. Since the difference in strength is so large, that is to say, Zhuge Liang is not completely unable to deal with the vine armor soldiers, in this case, using the yin damage fire attack strategy, Zhuge Liang will naturally feel guilty, after all, the lives of so many vine armor soldiers will disappear in the blink of an eye, but it is not a joke.
In addition to the first level of reasons, the second is the difference between the war of justice and injustice. Cao Cao launched an attack on Liu Bei's clique in the name of "holding tianzi hostage to order the princes", which in itself cannot be said in name, in the eyes of everyone, Cao Cao is a chaotic thief, everyone is cursed, as for what method to use to clean up Cao Cao, no one will care, this is one of them.
The second is that Liu Bei's identity is very special, Liu Bei has the orthodox bloodline of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, for the people of the world, Liu Bei is the most qualified person to rule the world, to fight Against Cao Cao in this capacity, nominally, Liu Bei Group belongs to the righteous side, Cao Cao Group belongs to the unjust side, fighting the unjust, there is no need to consider whether the method is reasonable, as long as the expected effect is achieved, even if it is OK, no one will care whether the fire attack used by Zhuge Liang hurts heaven and nature.
Since everyone doesn't care, Zhuge Liang doesn't need to worry that someone in the world will poke his own spine, and since he doesn't have any worries, why talk about regret or regret? Obviously, the basis for a person's regret is to feel that he has done something wrong, Zhuge Liang burned Wei Jun, that is to eliminate harm for the people, there is no such thing as doing wrong.
On the other hand, the existence of the Tengjia soldiers and the Wei army are two different things, the people themselves are just reinforcements invited by Meng to help, and there is no deep hatred with Zhuge Liang and others, so it is reasonable to say that Zhuge Liang did not need to kill them all, but Zhuge Liang was actually angry and used fire attacks, causing the tragedy of thirty thousand Tengjia soldiers to disappear.
What's worse is that these 30,000 vine armor soldiers are basically all the young and strong strength of the Ugo country, after the vine armor soldiers were burned by Zhuge Liang, it means that the Ugo country has been difficult to gain a foothold in the world from now on, the devastation and impact brought by this fire are too great, whether it is from the perspective of human morality or right and wrong, Zhuge Liang is unstable, so he will naturally regret it and say the words "will damage Yang Shou".
That is to say, from the detailed description of Zhuge Liang's words, we will have a deeper understanding of Zhuge Liang's personality, and at the same time, Zhuge Liang's character characteristics will be more full, from the perspective of writing and character shaping, Luo Guanzhong's description is mainly to beautify Zhuge Liang.
epilogue
The above content is all based on the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" analysis, the real history of Zhuge Liang, in fact, is not as fascinating as described in the speech, there are not so many rich and wonderful things, even the fire burning Chibi, there is no such mythological story as the borrowing of the East Wind, we will all be the talk after the tea, do not take it seriously!
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