Introduction: Liu Bei evolved from "the prince of benevolence and righteousness" to the king of the king.
Since Liu Bei occupied Yizhou, it seems that his entire insight and style of doing things have changed greatly! In other words, after Liu Bei took Chengdu, he had the appearance of an emperor with three points. Of course, the reason why Liu Bei was able to make such a big change was thanks to one person, who was Pang Tong.
Pang Tong, Dao feng chick. Liu Bei also improved the insight, pattern, and strategy of achieving the cause of kingship because of Pang Tong. At that time, Pang Tong proposed three brilliant plans to help Liu Bei Ding Shu, but unfortunately Liu Bei did not choose the first one at that time, otherwise Pang Tong could have survived death.
Later, Liu Bei took advantage of Pang Tong's death to make a fuss and counterattacked Liu Zhang, claiming that he was avenging the military master Pang Tong! Why did Liu Bei change so much? All this was well guided by Pang Tong, if it were not for Pang Tong letting Liu Bei understand the "strategy of power change", Liu Bei would not have been able to quickly oppose Liu Zhang, and finally surrendered Ma Chao, a fierce general!
If Liu Bei was still as knowledgeable as before, it was estimated that Liu Bei would not be able to take down Ma Chao! Because Ma Chao's reputation is really not very good, abandoning his wife and abandoning his father is very different from the slogan advocated by Liu Bei, Kuang Fu Han Room, and the Prince of Benevolence and Righteousness! With Pang Tong's teachings, Liu Bei understood that if he wanted to achieve hegemony, he must use any means and use all the resources available around him! Liu Bei took Ma Chao, Liu Ba, Fazheng, Li Yan, and even married Wu Shi, all of which was just a stopgap measure, and in order to realize the cause of Wang Hegemony, Liu Bei had to do this!
After stabilizing the situation in Sichuan and Shu and uniting the internal forces, Liu Bei poured out all his soldiers, horses, money and grain, and fought a big battle with Cao Cao in Hanzhong. History says, the Battle of Hanzhong. In this battle, Liu Bei dispatched all the generals including Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, Wei Yan, Zhang Fei, Liu Feng, Meng Da, etc., in other words, except for Guan Yu, who was defending Jingzhou, who did not participate, the rest of the big and small battles would basically arrive!
After defeating Cao Cao at the Battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei also ushered in the peak of his life, maximizing his territory, diversifying his generals, and countless strategists and courtiers, and Liu Bei's strength once reached its peak.
After Hanzhong's great victory over Cao Cao, Liu Bei ushered in a new question, who will guard Hanzhong? Many ministers thought it would be Zhang Fei, because Guan Yu was already guarding Jingzhou, and the probability of Liu Bei handing over to Zhang Fei in Hanzhong was also the greatest! However, Liu Bei's decision was to let Wei Yanzhen guard Hanzhong and Wei Yan to defend the northern army. Liu Bei's move can be said to have taught Zhang Fei and all the ministers a lesson!
Everyone couldn't figure out why Liu Bei wanted Wei Yan, whose qualifications and martial arts were weaker than Zhang Fei's, to guard Hanzhong. In fact, Liu Bei's move mainly has two meanings, the first is to cultivate talents, and the second is to indirectly eliminate some of the exaggerated generals, so as to promote the most trusted and most appreciated tough generals!
In fact, at that time, Liu Bei reused Wei Yan in order to cultivate generals in the late Shu Han Dynasty. And letting Zhang Fei go to Shou Langzhong is to indirectly let Zhang Fei hone his temperament and grow himself by the way. Why? In fact, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Zhang Fei's Biography", it is stated that the ancestor of the Lord's constant precepts is known: "Qing's punishment and killing are not only too bad, but also the day by day to lash out jian'er, and the order is left and right, and this way of taking trouble is also." "
From Liu Bei's words, it can be seen that Liu Bei is actually dissatisfied with Zhang Fei. At least for a general, in addition to his superior martial arts, he must also think about the overall situation, especially his subordinates, not like an enemy. That is to say, Zhang Fei still has a long room for growth in Liu Bei's view.
And the general that Liu Bei is admiring, who is there? There were only three people in total, except for Wei Yan, who were the remaining two people?
First place: Guan Yu
Guan Yu has been used by Liu Bei since he came out to break in, and before Liu Bei had no military division to advise, Guan Yu basically served as both a general and a military master.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms": The first lord is the plain phase, and the feather and fly are the other simas, which are divided into unified parts. But in Liu Bei's heart, Guan Yu was a very reliable person, not only strong in martial arts, but also extremely righteous. And Zhang Fei's words, you need a person to assist and restrain.
In the early days of Liu Bei, he worked everywhere and suffered, and Guan Yu also worked tirelessly and paid a lot for Liu Bei's cause. In that year, Guan Yu defected to Cao Cao, the main purpose of which was to save the two sisters-in-law. Later, Qianli rode alone and escorted the two sisters-in-law to meet Liu Bei. This is a thousand-year-old story.
After Liu Bei borrowed several counties in Jingzhou, he also let Guan Yu guard, and it can be said that Guan Yu was already a commander in Liu Bei's heart. Therefore, Liu Bei dared to rest assured that he would hand over all the rule of Jingzhou to Guan Yu, and before Liu Bei could take Chengdu, several counties in Jingzhou were Liu Bei's rear cities, and once Liu Bei lost, he did not even have a city to live in.
Judging from Liu Bei's trust in Guan Yu, Guan Yu is worthy of Liu Bei's trust and is also the most admired general.
Second place: Wei Yan
Then, in addition to Guan Yu, the second general that Liu Bei admired was Wei Yan.
Wei Yan surrendered to Liu Bei's camp after the Battle of Chibi. However, when Liu Bei fled with his people, Wei Yan had shown Liu Bei's overtures. At that time, Liu Bei and many people wanted to enter the city of Jingzhou to avoid Cao Cao's pursuit. However, at that time, the defending general Wen Ping ordered Liu Bei and his party to enter the city.
However, Wei Yan, who was inspecting the situation from the sidelines, was very angry when he found out about Wen Ping's move!
The forty-first time in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: I saw a Pegasus in the city lead the army out and shouted: "Wei Yan is a no-name pawn, An dares to create chaos!" Do you recognize my general Wen Ping! Wei Yan was furious, raised his gun and prancing horses, and came to fight.
At that time, Wei Yan agreed with Liu Bei, so he also wanted to let Liu Bei and his party enter the city, but Wei Yan's position was low at that time, and his right to speak was insufficient, even so Wei Yan still tried his best to fight for Liu Bei, risking unemployment and changing jobs, and personally fought with Wen Ping. In fact, from here, it can be seen why Liu Bei wanted to keep Wei Yan after Guan Yu took Over Changsha County.
At the Battle of Jinchuan, Wei Yan became Liu Bei's main general. At that time, Liu Bei entered Sichuan, and mainly brought Huang Zhong with him, and then Wei Yan. And Huang Zhong, we all know that although the value of force is good, it is a little old after all, and for the veteran, as long as he exerts his greatest value, it is enough.
For Wei Yan, Liu Bei mainly wanted to cultivate him and make him a general who could stand alone, that is to say, he wanted Wei Yan to become the second Guan Yu of Shu Han.
Sure enough, after the Battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei abandoned the grumpy Zhang Fei, thus allowing Wei Yan to successfully ascend to the throne and become a general of the Shu Han Dynasty. Ren Hanzhong Taishou (任汉中太守), the general of Zhenbei (镇北將軍). After Wei Yan took office, he successfully developed the strategy of "wrongly guarding the sieges". (Build multiple castles in the territory, one city has something to do, many cities help each other, do not let the enemy come in alone!) ）。
Wei Yan's wrong defense strategy allowed Cao Wei's soldiers and horses not to enter Hanzhong for 10 years. Wei Yan was able to do this, and it was also worthy of Liu Bei's promotion that year, but unfortunately, Wei Yan's temperament was also similar to Guan Yu's, and he eventually died on top of his own temperament.
Third place: xiang pet
To pet? Speaking of this person, it is estimated that many people have basically never heard his name. This is not surprising, because Xiang Yu is an extremely low-key general. However, in the historical data, Xiang Pet has relevant records.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms: A Tooth Gatekeeper when he was the First Lord. The defeat of Zi Gui was completed, and the pet camp was completed.
The above historical data says that when Liu Bei launched the Battle of Yiling in that year, all the tents were basically traumatized, but the tents managed by Xiang Pet suffered very little loss, basically no losses. At that time, Liu Bei praised Xiang Pet, saying that Xiang Pet was powerful and a good general.
Later, Zhuge Liang also praised Xiang Pet, and suggested to the rear lord Liu Chan that Xiang Pet should be reused. The table and the later lord said: "The general Xiang Favor, the sex of Shu Jun, Xiao Chang military, tried to be used in the past, the former emperor called it Yue Neng." This is Zhuge Liang's recital to Liu Chan, who recommended Xiang Favor and suggested that Liu Chan should reuse this person.
After receiving Zhuge Liang's proposal, Liu Chan consulted with the ministers, and finally appointed Xiang Yu as the leader of the central army, putting him in charge of the control of the military forces in the palace and participating in the military activities of each camp. Somewhat similar to the meaning of the military staff officer, but Xiang Yu eventually died in the rebellion, in the Hanjia Barbarian Rebellion in 240 AD.
In Zhuge Liang's view, the general Xiang Xiang, the sex of Shu Jun, xiao Chang military, is a good sage in the army.
However, what people did not expect was that such an excellent military general as Xiang Pet died in the rebellion, otherwise Huang Hao in the later stage would also have some scruples.
Among the three generals that Liu Bei admired, Guan Yu died in the Battle of Xiangfan. At the Battle of Xiangfan, Liu Bei did not allocate a single soldier to Guan Yu, however, Liu Feng and Meng Da did not send troops to support in time. Why did Liu Bei see Guan Yu die and not save him? In addition to their own strength does not allow, that is, the internal team is still not united enough! Moreover, Liu Bei wanted to shift the focus of development towards Sichuan and Shu. There was no time to support Guan Yu, and at the same time, he did not expect that after experiencing the demarcation of the Xiangshui River, Sun Quan would suddenly change his face!
All this caught Liu Bei off guard, so in the end Guan Yu would fall alone. And Wei Yan? Somewhat similar to Guan Yu, mainly due to his arrogant disposition.