Shu Han was able to stand on three feet with Cao Wei and Eastern Wu, and it was inseparable from Zhuge Liang's painstaking and lonely advice. However, Zhuge Liang died before he could succeed, so that Liu Bei Kuang's legacy of supporting the Han Room could not be completed in the end. As the saying goes, the father of the tiger has no dog, and Zhuge Zhan, as the son of Zhuge Liang, was placed high hopes on the people of Shu Han. Zhuge Zhan was indeed famous, but his strategy was far below his father. In the Battle of Mianzhu, Zhuge Zhan led an army of 70,000, but was defeated by Deng Ai's 2,000 remnants.
The Battle of Mianzhu took place in the late Three Kingdoms period and was a key battle in the Battle of Wei and Shu. In the sixth year of The Reign of Emperor Wei (263), Sima Zhao decided to go to war against shu Han. Originally, the Wei army was divided into three routes, with Deng Ai attacking Jiang Wei, Zhuge Xu responsible for cutting off Jiang Wei's back road, and Zhong Hui taking the opportunity to attack Hanzhong. The Wei army had a good plan, but Jiang Wei surprised the Wei army, and after engaging Deng Ai, he flew zhuge Xu and then went to stop Zhong Hui's main army from attacking Hanzhong. As a result, the main forces of the two sides confronted each other and a stalemate could not be reached.
Deng Ai proposed that he lead his elite troops to bypass Yinping and raid Jiangyou to open up the situation. Deng Ai's surprise attack caused Jiang You to surrender without a fight, and Liu Chan sent Zhuge Zhan to lead his troops to meet Deng Ai. Zhuge Zhan was ordered to fight Against Deng Ai, but ultimately failed, for several reasons that had to be mentioned.
First of all, Zhuge Zhan himself was not a general and was not suitable for leading soldiers to fight. After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang devoted himself to completing the Northern Expedition, but he became ill with overwork and died of illness in Wuzhangyuan. The people of the Shu Han Dynasty were grateful to Xiang Xiang for bowing down and doing their best, and they praised Zhuge Zhan a lot, and whenever there was a good policy promulgated in the dynasty, they attributed his credit to Zhuge Zhan. In fact, Zhuge Zhan was proficient in calligraphy and painting, knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and was indeed a talented man, but he was not good at leading soldiers to fight. When Zhuge Liang died, Zhuge Zhan was only eight years old. He was still young and could not follow his father in the southern conquest of the northern war, and Zhuge Liang's experience was naturally difficult to pass on. Subsequently, the Northern Expedition was presided over by Jiang Wei. Throughout history, Zhuge Zhan has not achieved impressive results in military affairs, and suddenly sent him to meet the battle, and it is inevitable that he will lose.
In addition to the shortcomings of not being good at conquest, Zhuge Zhan was also reluctant to take Yayan, resulting in a missed opportunity. Zhuge Zhan led his troops to meet the battle, and after reaching Fu County, he stopped advancing. At this time, Shang Shulang Huang Chong advised him to seize the opportunity and occupy the dangerous place first. Zhuge Zhan did not think much of this, and after hesitating, he finally missed the opportunity, allowing Deng Ai to drive straight in. Deng Ai defeated the Shu army's forwards, causing Zhuge Zhan to have to retreat to Mianzhu. In addition, the Shu general Li Qiu also gave Advice to Zhuge Zhan, proposing that the Shu army should divide its troops out of the city and hold the dangerous pass.
However, this recommendation was also not adopted. These proposals are all desirable, and if adopted, they may not be successful, but at least for a while.
In contrast, the Shu army was indeed numerous, but the soldiers were not necessarily sophisticated, and the generals were not necessarily able to fight. The Wei army did not have many troops, but it was carefully selected by Deng Ai. Before Deng Ai smuggled into Yinping, he selected 30,000 soldiers, who were already elites. From Yinping to Jiangyou, although the Shu Han were not fortified, the mountains were obstructed and inaccessible. In the meantime, it is extremely difficult to cross this place for more than seven hundred miles. After the Wei army experienced all this, what was left was not so much a remnant soldier as a crack soldier.
It is no wonder that Jiang Youshou saw that the Wei army was like a divine soldier descending from heaven and descending without a fight. The elite troops of the Shu Han Dynasty were more led by Jiang Wei, and the soldiers led by Zhuge Zhan were relatively poor in military quality, and even the general Li Qiu was ordered to take command.
In combat, in addition to objective factors, morale is also a point that cannot be ignored. A year before the Battle of Mianzhu, Jiang Wei's Eleventh Northern Expedition was declared a failure, and the Shu army turned to a passive defensive posture. The Shu army's view of the war situation was not optimistic, which was also the reason why Jiangyou fell without a fight. Before the Mianzhu war, Zhuge Zhan had blamed himself, internally unable to get rid of the traitor Huang Hao, externally unable to balance Jiang Wei, the march could not defend the territory, he had three sins, had no face to go back, and decided to fight with the Wei army to the death. It can be seen from this that zhuge Zhan wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Wei army, and what he held was not the will to win, but just wanted to escape. The general is still like this, let alone the soldiers?
The Shu army was low, but the Wei army was highly motivated. At the beginning of the Battle of Mianzhu, Deng Ai sent his son Deng Zhong to attack from the right, while he sent his division to encircle from the left, but they were all defeated. The two reported that it was difficult to break, and Deng Ai was furious and scolded, life and death, in this move, there is no no no no. So they were to behead the two, and later the two men broke the merits and fought again, defeating the Shu army.
It can be seen that Deng Ai has the heart to fight a battle against the water, as a general, he has a firm stance, the military orders he issued are timely and powerful, the morale of the soldiers is naturally high, and it is not surprising that the Wei army can win.
The Battle of Mianzhu, the defeat of the Shu army, did greatly affect the war situation, leaving Jiang Wei isolated and helpless, leading to the eventual annihilation of Shu Han. The Battle of Mianzhu is certainly regrettable, but it is also unfair to attribute all the fault to Zhuge Zhan. Zhuge Zhan really made a mistake, but even if he won a short victory, The national strength of Shu Han was already far behind that of Wei, and its demise was only sooner or later