The Three Kingdoms is a chaotic world, in this era you can see the despicable nature of human nature, but also can make a talented person grow rapidly, I know Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Zhou Yu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei is the people of this era.
As the only monarch in this era who counterattacked from the grassroots to the founding emperor, Liu Bei's vision can be said to be top-notch. He believed that the horse mo could not be reused, and the fiasco of the street pavilion during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition confirmed Liu Bei's prediction. During the Battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei also lamented that he did not kill a person, and later this person really made Shu Han pay a great price.
Liu Bei's sigh
When Cao Cao learned that Liu Bei had taken Yizhou, for the purpose of suppressing Liu Bei, he decisively sent the Zhengxi general Xiahou Yuan to attack Hanzhong. At that time, Zhang Lu, the ruler of Hanzhong, saw the Cao army approaching the city and knew that his confrontation was only to hit the stone with an egg, so he surrendered the city. After Liu Bei learned of Cao Cao's annexation of Hanzhong, he commanded his army to march to Hanzhong without stopping, and the Battle of Hanzhong officially broke out.
At the beginning of the war, Cao Cao's strategy was to let Xiahou Yuan and Zhang Gao stop Liu Bei's army outside Yangping Pass at all costs, while he himself moved the people of Hanzhong to the Guanzhong area. Because of the long-term battle, the morale of the Shu army was actually not high, and Xiahou Yuan and Zhang Gao firmly held Liu Bei outside Yangping Pass for eight months. After entering the summer, Liu Bei accidentally knew that there was an extremely hidden path nearby, although it was very steep, but in fact he could bypass Yangping Pass to reach Hanzhong, so he confused Xiahou Yuan and secretly returned to Dingjun Mountain with the main force, just one step away from Hanzhong City.
Xiahou Yuan, zhang Guo, was so panicked when he learned that Liu Bei had reached Dingjun Mountain that he did not even want Yangping Pass, and quickly took his soldiers and horses to camp outside Hanzhong City in the east and west, with the purpose of preventing Liu Bei from capturing the city. According to the military division Fazheng's plan of attacking the east and the west, Fazheng had the veteran general Huang Zhong ambush in the dense forest on the mountainside of Dingjun with 2,000 cavalry in advance, and then commanded the main force of the Shu army to attack Zhang Guo. Zhang Gao was under great pressure and could only ask Xiahou Yuan for help, so Xiahou Yuan divided his troops to support Zhang Gao, leaving only 400 pro-soldiers to defend, and also personally commanded the construction of fortifications such as deer antlers.
At this time, Liu Bei burned the antlers, but he did not love war, and his purpose was only to lure out Xiahou Yuan. Xiahou Yuanzhongji did indeed go to the edge of the antlers, at this time Fa Zheng ordered Huang Zhong, who had been ambushing for a long time, to attack Xiahou Yuan with his cavalry condescendingly, and directly beheaded the commander of the Cao army on the spot, completely winning the Battle of Hanzhong. After the war, in order to expand the results of the battle, Liu Bei also sent troops to pursue Zhang Gao's troops who were running in the direction of Guanzhong, although they had captured a lot along the way, they were actually escaped by Zhang Gao, and Liu Bei lamented that it was a pity that he could not kill Zhang Gao after knowing it! Zhang Gao's ability
As one of the five sons of Cao Wei, Zhang Gao was initially a general under Yuan Shao. During the Battle of Guandu, he and The Yuan general Gao Gan attacked Cao Cao, but after learning that Wuchao had been captured, he felt that Yuan Shao was unable to return to heaven, and immediately surrendered to Cao Cao with his troops and horses. At that time, the generals of Cao Ying all looked down on Zhang Guo's behavior of selling the lord for glory, and deliberately excluded and snubbed Zhang Guo. But Zhang Hao did not care, but patiently waited for an opportunity.
At the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao's water army was burned to the ground, coupled with the counterattack of Liu Sun's combined forces and the plague caused by Cao Cao's army, Cao Cao once faced the most dangerous juncture in his life. At this time, it was Zhang Gao who led his troops and horses to restrain Guan Yu outside Jiangxia City, buying time for Cao Cao to run. When Cao Cao retreated to the north, he lamented Zhang Gao's loyalty and deliberately put aside his previous prejudices against him and entrusted him with heavy responsibilities.
During the Battle of Xiliang, ma Chao's Western Liang Iron Horse once killed Cao Cao and threw away his armor, and later Cao Cao used Jia Xu's divisive strategy to successfully divide the relationship between Ma Chao and Han Sui, and then sent Xiahou Yuan and Zhang Guo to attack Ma Chao's old lair, Xiliang. Xiahou Yuan fought all the way from Chang'an to Jincheng, and Zhang Gao fought from Chang'an to the tribes of the Anding and Qiang people, and the two gained countless, and in a few months, they completely destroyed the large and small separatist forces of Western Liang and completely controlled this land, and Zhang Gao thus entered Cao Wei's list of "five sons and good generals", which was also the reason why Liu Bei was jealous. Zhang Guo eventually became a major problem in Shu Han's heart
Because Zhang Gao was familiar with the terrain of Hanzhong, Xiliang, and Longxi, since Xiahou Yuan's death, Zhang Gao had become the actual commander of this area. He believed that Liu Bei was no longer able to expand in the short term, and that the two sides would enter a long tug-of-war, rather than passive defense, it was better to take the initiative to attack, deliberately stationing the army in the southwest of Longxi, forming an overwhelming force on the Langzhong region of Yizhou. Liu Bei feared that Langzhong would be breached by Zhang Guo, and that Yizhou might lose contact with the Hanzhong region, so he confessed to Appointing Zhang Fei as the Taishou of Langzhong, with the aim of using Zhang Fei to contain Zhang Gao.
Zhang Fei and Zhang Gao, two generals surnamed Zhang, started a game here, Zhang Fei once surrounded Zhang Gao with wu yi and Wu Lan, but was besieged by Zhang Gao's generals, fortunately, Zhang Fei's martial arts were strong and successful, but from the perspective of the battle loss ratio, Zhang Gao actually took more advantage. Later, Zhang Gao followed Lü Meng's example and sent some soldiers dressed as displaced people to mix into Langzhong, with the purpose of cooperating with the capture of the city inside and outside, but it was discovered by Zhang Fei, and the two armies became a battle in Langzhong, each leaving hundreds of corpses behind and collecting troops. It can be said that Zhang Gao successfully pinned down Zhang Fei and also eased the offensive of Shu Han.
During Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, Zhang Guo had actually become the deputy commander of the entire Cao Wei Yongliang Military Region, second only to Sima Yi. Because the Shu army unexpectedly took the three counties of Cao Wei and Longxi, in order to digest the results of this battle, Zhuge Liang specially arranged for Ma Mo town to guard the street pavilion fortress. At that time, Ma Mo had 20,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and with the advantage of geographical advantages, many Wei generals did not dare to engage Ma Mo. But Zhang Gao believes that this is the breaking point and deliberately applies to play. Later, Zhang Gao led 10,000 Wei troops to cut off the water source of the street pavilion, and completely annihilated Ma Chen's army for the first time in the world. Sima Yi took advantage of the breakthrough of this street pavilion to personally lead an army of 100,000 to attack Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang had no choice but to retreat. The State of Wei later regained the lost territory, and Shu Han also lost the possibility of a reversal because of Zhang Gao. brief summary
Zhang Gao experienced the era of Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Rui, and it can be said that Cao Wei's three super-old ministers were also heavy subjects, coupled with Cao Cao's kindness, they were actually hardcore supporters of their Cao family. Since Sima Yi commanded the army, Zhang Gao obviously felt that Sima Yi had a lot of selfish intentions, and obviously had many opportunities to make the Wei army win a big victory, and even kill Zhuge Liang, but they were all wasted by Sima Yi.
And Sima Yi's ambitions are obvious to all, his purpose is to replace the Cao Wei regime, like Zhang Gao, who finally ended up in the Cao family, is naturally a big problem for Sima Yi, and later he actually borrowed Zhuge Liang's hand to get rid of Zhang Guo. A generation of famous generals were betrayed to death by their colleagues in this way, which made people sigh endlessly.