Speaking of Zhuge Liang, he was the most famous figure in the Three Kingdoms period. How famous is it? Many people know that there is a Wuhou Ancestral Hall in Chengdu, which is zhuge Liang's ancestral hall. However, there is a very cold knowledge here, in fact, this ancestral hall is Liu Bei Temple! Zhuge Liang, who is so famous, in addition to being a politician and a writer, is also a military expert. So, is Zhuge Liang a military man in the end?
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are like two parallel time and space, some people love "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and some people like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but stripping away the battles that Luo Guanzhong fought for him, many people will question Zhuge Liang's military talent. Zhuge Liang was six out of Qishan and five to Cao Wei, and he did not succeed once. It seems that he is not a military man. However, even if Meng won these southern barbarians, famous generals such as Zhang Guo, Sima Yi, and Guo Huai were really Zhuge Liang's defeated generals. From this point of view, he seems to be a military man again. Zhuge Liang knew that the world was divided into three points before he was a fledgling, and politics did not need to be questioned. So how to judge the military, we look at his military achievements. In the first year of Jianxing, Liu Chan had just ascended to the throne of God, and things came. Without Liu Bei, a rebellion broke out in the south. Gao Ding of YueWei County, Yong Min of Yizhou County, meng yu, and Zhu Bao of Muke County became independent. In fact, unlike what is written in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Meng Yu is not the leader, and these rebel forces are just a loose alliance. Zhuge Liang was cautious in nature and did not fight uncertain battles, which was still relatively certain. After two years of preparation, Zhuge Liang sent troops to quell the rebellion. He first held back the rebels in Shang'an County to see how things unfolded. Sure enough, the rebels slowly became discordant, attacking each other, and the alliance was dissolved. Zhuge Liang seized the fighter plane and broke through the army in three ways, and was able to quell the rebellion. Of course, the Seven Captures of Meng did not have this, but it was recorded in the Huayang Guozhi.
With the training of the Southern Expedition, Zhuge Liang began the Northern Expedition until his death. In the course of six battles against the Wei army, Zhuge Liang actually showed his military ability is beyond doubt, let's look at them one by one.
The first and most successful one. Zhuge Liang adopted a strategy of attacking the west from the east, and Zhao Yun confused the Chang'an defenders and then captured Longxi. In this battle, if it were not for Ma Chen's defeat at the hands of Zhang Hao and Emperor Wei Ming's imperial conquest, it would be difficult to predict whether he would have won or lost. The second time, Zhuge Liang besieged Chen Cang. Here, it also highlights the characteristics of the Shu army's weak combat strength. Finally, when the grain ran out and retreated, he ambushed the road and beheaded Wang Shuang. There is a basis for advancing and retreating, and this is the most important quality that soldiers should have. Obviously, Zhuge Liang has. For the third time, Zhuge Liang captured Yinping County, the lifeline of the Shu state. We know that the subsequent demise of the Shu kingdom was the Yinping path that Deng Ai took. And this battle, capturing Yinping under the eyes of the famous general Guo Huai, showed Zhuge Liang's strategic vision. The fourth time, that is, Cao Zhen attacked Hanzhong and Zhuge Liang defended in the Meridian Valley, and we did not make judgments. Cao Zhen failed to attack Hanzhong, in addition to the difficulty of the mountain road, Zhuge Liang's strategy was thorough, so that the Wei army had no opportunity to take advantage of. The fifth time, in this battle, Zhuge Liang defeated Sima Yi and Zhang Gao in a row. Because Sima Yi went to war, he was defeated by Zhuge Liang and beheaded three thousand. It can be seen that Zhuge Liang is strong in ruling the army. Under his training, the Shu army was able to compete with the Wei army. In the process of retreating, he ambushed Zhang Gao. If you don't use the idea of belly blackness to say that Sima Yi has a crooked brain, it once again proves that the Shu army retreated in an orderly manner.
The last time, Zhuge Liang fell ill and died in Wuzhangyuan, and Sima Yi did not dare to fight at all. Through these several battles, we can know that Zhuge Liang never lost to the Wei army in the field battle. In the case of a strong enemy and a weak enemy, the Wei army had no way to take Zhuge Liang on iron horseback, was this not the embodiment of Zhuge Liang's military ability? Of course, it is also an indisputable fact that "the rule of the army is long, and the plot is short." However, the Shu state was weak, so how could Zhuge Liang take it for a fight.