In the sixth year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang led a large army out of Hanzhong suddenly from the north, Nan'an, Tianshui and other counties fell in the wind, Cao Wei was shaken, Cao Rui, who had just succeeded to the throne, sent Zhang Hao as a forward to meet the battle, and Zhuge Liang, who had the opportunity, sent Ma Mo and Wang Ping to guard the street pavilion.
However, after Ma Mo arrived at the street pavilion, he camped according to the mountain, was cut off from the water source by Zhang Gao, and finally suffered a major defeat, resulting in Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition ending hastily, and Zhuge Liang executed Ma Mo afterwards. This buried the most likely chance of the Northern Expedition to succeed, which is a pity.
Ma Mo had been placed high hopes by Zhuge Liang, trusting him very much, Ma Mo was also not convinced, and the offensive plan during the Southern Expedition period received good results, and the street pavilion was deliberately promoted to be alone at the beginning, and did not reuse the experienced Wei Yan and other generals, who knew that Ma Mo was too far-spanning, making people fall through the glasses.
Here it can be seen as an attempt by Zhuge Liang to deliberately cultivate Ma Mo, but the cost was too great, resulting in the failure of the first Northern Expedition, the loss of a talent, yes, that is, Ma Mo, although it seems to have little ability, but for the Shu Han who has few talents, any talent can not afford to waste.
Moreover, this horse mo is not a complete waste, Chen Shou evaluated the talent of the person, good at military planning, and Zhuge Liang deeply added to the instrument. That is to say, the reason why Zhuge Liang reused him was because his talent tools were good, he was still young at the time, only 38 years old, perhaps, Zhuge Liang was deliberately cultivating the prestige of Ma Chen and accumulating battle achievements for him.
Unfortunately, it all came to naught. Afterwards, the only way to pursue responsibility is to be canonically punished. Even if the law is strict, but also to consider the specific situation, Shu Han talent can not afford to waste, in the later Period of Jiang Wei Northern Expedition, Shu Zhong no general, Liao Hua pioneer is this reason, too few talents, and too much waste.
Then, if Zhuge Liang did not kill Ma Mo at that time and left him to atone for his sins, would he be able to help and advise Jiang Wei in the later stage? When Ma Mo died, Jiang Wei had just surrendered to Zhuge Liang, a completely new face, and it would be about 20 years before he could grasp some power, but if he kept Ma Mo, he would be more than 50 years old at that time, and his seniority would exceed Jiang Wei's, could he still be at ease with his subordinates?
First of all, we must affirm Ma Mo's strategy, this person can't lead the soldiers to fight, one is inexperienced, one is because of serious dogmatism, does not know how to be flexible, and holds the soldier's book to admit death, which is also the reason for the failure of the street kiosk, whether Ma Mo can help Jiang Wei in the later period lies in whether he can accurately locate his identity.
Compared with the internal qualifications of shu Han, Ma Mo is definitely not as good as Jiang Wei Feiyi, and the competition for favors is not as good as Chen Yi and others, Jiang Wei's large-scale Northern Expedition is after Fei Yi was assassinated, Ma Mo is also 60 miles away, if he comes up with a plan, that is, a military division or the like, if he does not fight for power, for Jiang Wei, crooked history feels that it is better than nothing.
In fact, there is a role, it is certainly helpful, but the role is limited, Jiang Wei is bold, and Ma Mo is adventurous, coupled with conceit and seniority, so that two people together is really not easy to say whether it is a blessing or a curse, maybe it will cause unexpected trouble, or it may harvest unexpected success.
For such a hypothesis, can only guess, there is no way to verify, it is impossible to get a standard answer, the combination of Jiang Wei and Ma Mo is more radical and bold, so that only when holding the sails all the way, can we harvest unexpected success, and once the wind is against the wind, for the weak Shu Han, it will undoubtedly worsen, it will cause unexpected trouble.
Moreover, the probability of causing trouble is far greater than the benefits created, not to mention, the two may not be compatible together, such as Wei Yan YangYi almost finished playing the army with infighting.