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Introduction: The Meridian Valley plot was during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, Wei Yan proposed to him a strategy to quickly break through Cao Wei's forces, but Zhuge Liang at that time did not choose to use this strategy proposed by Wei Yan, so many people were particularly curious, wei Yan at that time was only to give Zhuge Liang a few thousand soldiers and horses, why did Zhuge Liang not choose to let Wei Yan lead thousands of soldiers and horses to take the risk? Today, I will analyze why Zhuge Liang disagreed with Wei Yan's Meridian Valley conspiracy.
Before that, I will introduce you to the general content of the Noon Valley Conspiracy in the future. Wei Yan proposed this strategy to Zhuge Liang during the Northern Expedition, mainly combined with the terrain at that time, he found the natural danger of the Meridian Valley from the map, and he was also extremely sure that Cao Wei would not fortify here at all, in this case, Wei Yan thought of leading the army through the Meridian Valley directly to cao Wei's interior, what he wanted was to let the defenders of Chang'an City abandon the city and flee without knowing how many troops Shu Han had, so that the Shu Han army could control Chang'an City and then capture Tongguan, one after the other as a defense. Waiting for the arrival of the Shu army, it is very feasible to listen to this plan logically.
So why didn't Zhuge Liang choose to let Wei Yan lead thousands of soldiers and horses to take the risk? In fact, as long as the background at that time is combined, it is not difficult for us to find the reason, and the following points are the author's summary of this. First of all, the first reason is that Wei Yan's Meridian Valley Conspiracy could not be completed at all. We literally sound like it doesn't have any big problems, but if it's implemented, it's harder than ascending to heaven. The Meridian Valley itself is a particularly steep sheep's intestine trail, which is not suitable for the army to shuttle at all, and the reason why Cao Wei is not fortified in the Meridian Valley is because it is impossible for the army to pass through here and go directly to Cao Wei's internal Chang'an, so on the question of whether it can pass through the Meridian Valley, Zhuge Liang directly rejected Wei Yan's idea.
Then the second reason was that Wei Yan was able to cross the Meridian Valley to capture Chang'an, and how long could he hold it? Not to mention whether he could let the Shu Han army pass through the Meridian Valley, nor whether the Chang'an defender would abandon the city and flee, when Wei Yan occupied Chang'an and Tongguan, how would he resist the crazy counterattack of Cao Wei's forces? What Wei Yan proposed was to lead a few thousand soldiers and horses to capture Chang'an, after occupying Chang'an, he would have to attack Tongguan again, at this time the defenders who could leave Chang'an City should be less than a thousand people, and how many defenders could be left in the two cities after occupying Tongguan, when the falsehood of Wei Yan's army was discovered, Cao Wei would definitely carry out a crazy counterattack, even if with the wall high and deep, he could resist cao Wei's previous waves of attacks, but whether he could hold out to the support of the Shu Han army, so in this case, Wei Yan's army occupying Chang'an was basically a sure end.
The third reason was that there were no generals available in the Shu Han military camp, and Zhuge Liang would certainly not let Wei Yan take the risk. When Zhuge Liang went to fight against Cao Wei, although at this time he still had many generals under him, but only Wei Yan was able to lead the army to fight, in this case, he simply could not send Wei Yan to personally cross the Meridian Valley and go directly to the interior of Cao Wei, if Wei Yan died on the way, the loss to Shu Han could be said to be too large, but in addition to Wei Yan, he did not have anyone who could lead thousands of soldiers and horses through the Meridian Valley to Chang'an. Therefore, in this case, Zhuge Liangxuan's choice to abandon Wei Yan's Meridian Valley plot is also forgivable.
Combined with the above points, the author believes that Zhuge Liang at that time did not choose to use the Meridian Valley conspiracy proposed by Wei Yan, and the biggest reason was that this plan was like a fantasy and could not be completed at all. It is not that Shu Han lacks these thousands of soldiers and horses, but Zhuge Liang knows that this strategy is impossible to complete, so he will not let Shu Han's thousands of elite soldiers, as well as Wei Yan, a general who risks his life to do an impossible thing, this kind of senseless sacrifice is not Zhuge Liang's style of behavior at all, so when he heard about the Meridian Valley plot, he directly refused. The above is the author's personal opinion, welcome friends with other insights to leave a comment.
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