As the saying goes, "a mountain is still higher than a mountain", in the Three Kingdoms period, there was definitely not only Zhuge Liang a cattle man, not to mention other fields, just in the military field, Zhuge Liang has many places to play. At the time of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang had no choice but to face Sima Yi's strategy of sticking to the strategy of not fighting. When facing Liu Zhang's death in the city, Zhuge Liang was also helpless, and later Liu Bei privately surrendered Ma Chao, which successfully took Chengdu.
In fact, during the Three Kingdoms period, whether zhuge liang or Liu Bei, they all had nemesis. Even Sima Yi, the founding father of the Jin Dynasty, also had a nemesis. Today, let's talk about a Tianwei general that Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, and Sima Yi are all jealous of.
Who is this person? He was one of the five sons of Cao Wei, ranked fourth and was named a cheqi general by Cao Cao, and he was Zhang Gao.
Speaking of this, perhaps many officials will have a question, since Zhang Gao is so powerful, then why did Cao Cao put him in the fourth place? The reason is also very simple, do not believe you to see what Zhang Gao's position is? Zhang Gao was a che general in Cao Wei, while Zhang Liao was a former general, Le Jin was the right, Yu was forbidden to an anyuan general, and the right general Xu Huang.
The che riding general is the higher position in ancient times, generally speaking, except for the general, that is, the che riding general has a higher position. In other words, Zhang Gao's position was higher than that of Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Le Jin, and Yu Ban.
Moreover, during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had already set the che riding general as a common position, which means that this military position has always existed. What does this mean? Cao Wei's trust in Zhang Gao, an affirmation of his ability.
First, what is Zhang Gao's ability? Warm-up race, let Ma Chao admit it!
When it comes to Zhang Gao's true ability, perhaps many officials do not know it.
Many people may only know that Zhang Gao was originally a general under Yuan Shao, who only defected to Cao Cao at the time of the Battle of Guandu. This is true, but Zhang Gao had just entered Cao's camp when he was promoted by Cao Cao to a partial general. And when the crowd shouted, "
As the neutrino goes to Yin,
Han Xin
Gui Han also
Cao Cao's words were enough to see his importance and trust in Zhang Gao.
And Zhang Gao, after defecting to Cao Cao, also followed him to conquer the four sides,
Attack on Yecheng,
Yuan Tan,
Crusade against Guan Cheng, break the Wuhuan, repel Ma Chao, in short
Zhang Gao was absolutely worthy of Cao Cao's official position.
It is recorded in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms Xiahou Yuan:
On the Wei river, Chao will be thousands of rebels. Without a fight, Chao went, and Gao Marched to collect Super Military Equipment.
In the above historical introduction, it is proved that Ma Chao led his troops to meet Zhang Gao at that time, but did not fight Zhang Gao, and directly turned around and left. Zhang Gao then collected Ma Chao's grain and grass, weighed them, and took back several counties that were occupied by Ma Chao at that time. By the time Xiahou Yuan arrived, Zhang Hao had finished his work.
Why didn't Ma Chao fight at that time? One is in the inferior position, and the other is afraid of Zhang Gao, afraid of not winning the battle, after all, Zhang Gao has natural advantages and experience in field combat.
Second, Zhang Gao fought with Liu Bei, leaving Liu Bei helpless and using female soldiers from Sichuan and Shu.
In 218, in order to reclaim Hanzhong, Liu Bei led his elite troops to attack Tunyu
Yangping Pass. At that time, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Guo, and Xu Huang were responsible for dealing with Liu Bei. However, at that time, Liu Bei did not attack Xiahou Yuan, nor did he send troops to attack Xu Huang, but directly sent high-quality troops to attack
Zhang Gao!
Why did Liu Bei attack Zhang Guo? The reason is very simple, in Liu Bei's heart, the person he fears most is Zhang Gao. As long as Zhang Gao is defeated, Hanzhong can be in hand.
To this end, Liu Bei mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack Zhang Gao.
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The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that more than 10,000 pawns were prepared, divided into ten parts, and attacked gao at night.
Gao led his own soldiers to fight, and he could not overcome his preparedness. This was very embarrassing, although Liu Bei took advantage of the night to attack Zhang Guo, but Zhang Gao could eventually lead the team to repel Liu Bei, Liu Bei wanted to hit Zhang Gao by surprise, but he was bitten by Zhang Gao.
At a critical moment, Liu Bei had no choice but to write a letter asking Zhuge Liang of Yizhou to quickly send troops to help him attack Zhang Gao, a man who was too embarrassed.
Zhuge Liang thought at that time that Yizhou did not have many troops, which was not enough to support daily work, and he did not want to send troops to support Liu Bei. However, Yang Hong, a strategist of Sichuan and Shu, said: "Hanzhong, the throat of Yizhou, the chance of survival, if there is no Hanzhong, there is no Shu." The calamity of this family door is also suspicious! Teacher Yang's words awakened the dreamer, and Zhuge Liang realized the importance of Hanzhong.
So Zhuge Liang prepared soldiers and horses in Yizhou, and even used female soldiers to let them all go to the battlefield, in short, in the Hanzhong War, Liu Bei's side was able to achieve men on the battlefield, and women transported military food. (For specific historical materials, you can refer to the Zizhi Tongjian.) ）
Later, Fa Zheng and Huang Zhong used a strange plot to kill Xiahou Yuan at Dingjun Mountain. However, when the information officer in front of the account told Liu Bei the news that Huang Zhong had beheaded Xiahou Yuan, Liu Bei shouted, "What is the use of beheading Xiahou Yuan?" If you want to chop, chop Zhang! As the boss of the Shu Kingdom, Liu Bei's words were obviously unfair, especially for the veteran Huang Zhong.
At the same time, Liu Bei's speech in this way is obviously undignified. Where does this make Huang Zhong's old face go? A large number of young people still came out to fight, and it was difficult to make a head achievement, but in exchange for such words!
Of course, Liu Bei's inappropriate words were ignored by Chen Shou. But in "Wei Liu", it is recorded word for word.
Wei Luo: And killing Yuan, Bei yue: "Deserve its leader, what is evil with this!" I'm afraid that this sentence will not only leave Huang Zhong speechless, but also make Fazheng and Zhuge Liang speechless.
Third, let Zhuge Liang be helpless, and the second Northern Expedition will return without success!
In 228, Zhuge Liang launched the First Northern Expedition. Due to the surprise of the Northern Expedition, Cao Wei was not prepared at all, and Zhuge Liangsheng's strategy of attacking the west from the east was indeed flexible, so he quickly subdued the three counties of Nan'an, Tianshui, and Anding, and also poached Jiang Wei.
However, Cao Wei soon sent rescue troops.
At that time, Zhang Gao
The overseers blocked Ma Mo at the street pavilion, and cut off the grain so that Ma Mo could not defend the street pavilion, so Zhuge Liang had to retreat. The First Northern Expedition to Zhuge Liang also ended in failure.
Then the Second Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang also chose to go after the defeat of the army, that is, in the beginning of 229 AD. Zhuge Liang expected that the Cao Wei clique would not defend itself, because he had just lost the battle. It is only right to defend Eastern Wu if we want to prevent it. Therefore, Zhuge Liang chose to quickly launch an attack on Cao Wei after just losing the battle!
In 229 AD, Zhuge Liang's army attacked Chen Cang.
Cao Rui urgently summoned Zhang Gao to Jingshi to discuss countermeasures.
Cao Rui treated Zhang Gao at that time with the highest rank of military generals, sending 30,000 elite soldiers, and more
Wu Wei,
Soldiers from two battalions of Tiger Ben came to guard Zhang Gao.
Cao Rui sent sergeants to such a big fuss
Zhang Gao, enough to prove this time
How much Cao Rui relied on it
Zhang Gao.
Cao Rui asked
Zhang Gao: "When the general arrives at Chen Cang, it is estimated that Chen Cang has already been taken by the Shu army." ”
Zhang Gao said at that time:
"Before the bichen arrived, the light was gone; the grain was not counted for ten days."
What does this sentence mean? Quite simply, according to the veteran's estimation, before I reached Chen Cang, it was estimated that Zhuge Liang would have left long ago. Why? Because Zhuge Liang was engaged in a surprise attack this time, if he did not succeed in taking Chen Cangcheng in a short period of time, he would definitely not be able to persist. Because the grain and grass he brought with him were definitely not much, he could only manage to use it for 10 days at most!
Later, Zhang Gao and his party did not reach Chen Cang, and Zhuge Liang withdrew. Idioms
Handful
Also from the mouth of Zhang Guo, it has been transmitted to this day, and to this day there are still many people who use idioms!
Four: Become a stumbling block to Sima Yi's control of Cao Wei's power!
After Cao Cao's death, cao Wei's military operations relied heavily on Zhang Gao, Cao Zhen, and others. And Zhang Guo was the best among the generals with foreign surnames, whether he was leading soldiers or staff officers, he was no less than Sima Yi.
And Sima Yi, although he was one of Cao Cao's ministers, Cao Cao told Cao Pi to use Sima carefully and guard against him until he died! This meant that he was afraid that he would seize cao Wei's power, so during the reign of several generations of Cao's rulers, he was not careful to guard against Sima Yi.
And Sima Yi? He was also afraid of making the slightest mistake, but during Zhuge Liang's Fourth Northern Expedition, he used his position as governor of the capital to maliciously let Zhang Gao lead his troops to pursue Zhuge Liang, who was retreating at that time.
Zhang Gao said angrily:
"Military law, the siege of the city will open the way out, return to the army do not chase."
This is
Zhang Gao, advice to Sima Yi. However, at that time, Sima Yi was indeed a senior official, and Zhang Hao had no choice but to carry out the order.
On the other hand, Zhuge Liang was well aware of Zhang Gao's talents, and if he wanted to defeat Cao Wei, he must get rid of Zhang Gao. Therefore, Zhuge Liang, Jiang Wei and others summed up the method of getting rid of Zhang Gao.
Outside the Mumen Valley, Zhuge Liang ordered the Shu army to arrange an ambush, taking advantage of the high ground and pursuing them
Zhang Gao's military horse carried out a frenzied shooting. As a result, Zhang Hao's old life was arranged on the battlefield.
In fact, judging from Zhang Gao's last words to his superior Sima Yi, Zhang Gao also expected the risk of going here. However, Sima Yi was in charge of the overall situation at that time, and although Zhang Hao knew that this was more vicious and less auspicious, he could not refuse. And Sima Yi? Because of the private abolition of the public, the only advantage is that Sima Yi got rid of his nemesis who he could not get rid of, and at the same time indirectly helped Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others to get rid of the big problems in their hearts.
In the middle and late period, Zhang Guo, in terms of strength, only the martial saint Guan Yu was alive, and he could fight with one.