In fact, Zhuge Liang can ride a horse, and from the plot of him giving up riding a four-wheeled vehicle twice and changing to a war horse, we can infer why Zhuge Liang obviously has no disability in his legs, but he likes to go to war in a wheelchair.
Can Zhuge Liang ride a horse?
On the question of whether Zhuge Liang will ride a horse, in fact, many people will wonder, because from the film and television dramas we have watched, Zhuge Liang seems to be riding a four-wheeled vehicle every time he goes to war, and it seems that he has not seen him riding a horse, so everyone generally believes that Zhuge Liang is a scribe, not very good at riding horses, and can only ride a four-wheeled vehicle!
In fact, this statement that Zhuge Liang cannot ride a horse is wrong! There are three reasons for this.
First, the literati of the Eastern Han Dynasty were very different from the literati after the Song Dynasty, and the literati at that time were able to cut people at the front. At that time, it was "etiquette, music, shooting, imperial, book, and counting", and literati like Zhuge Liang, who not only knew literature, but also martial arts, riding horses, and this kind of thing was simply pediatrics for him!
Second, Liu Beituo was alone, and he urgently summoned Zhuge Liang to come, and Zhuge Liang could not take a four-wheeled vehicle. After the defeat of Yiling, Liu Bei did not return to Chengdu, but stayed in the White Emperor City, while Zhuge Liang remained in Chengdu. When Liu Bei was dying and rushed to summon Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang could not still sit on his four-wheeled vehicle and come to the White Emperor City slowly, otherwise Liu Bei would have died long ago. Therefore, Zhuge Liang must have come on horseback, because in that era, horses were the fastest means of transportation!
In the original work of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a record of Zhuge Liang riding a horse, and more than once!
Therefore, from a comprehensive point of view, Zhuge Liang will definitely ride a horse, but people are not willing to ride a horse, and people like to ride a four-wheeler! So the question is, since Zhuge Liang can ride a horse, and he has no disability in his legs, why does he always have to go to war in a wheelchair? Why doesn't he ride a horse? Obviously, the movement of horseback riding is faster and more conducive to battlefield command!
In fact, there are three main reasons why Zhuge Liang did this! And these three reasons can be seen from his two changes of warhorse!
First change of war horse
During the attack on Yizhou, Zhuge Liang changed horses for the first time. At that time, Liu Bei and Pang Tong attacked Yizhou, and the result was a misplaced strategy, not only was Pang Tong ambushed by Zhang Ren, regrettably killed, but even Liu Bei's main force, under Zhang Ren's attack, suffered a big defeat! Seeing that he was not Zhang Ren's opponent, and even the military division had been killed, Liu Bei was discouraged and could only choose to let Zhuge Liang take Zhang Fei Zhao Yun to help. In addition to Guan Yu having to hold Jingzhou and not be able to take it away, Liu Bei was going to move out this time, and the whole army was pressed down, and he must defeat Zhang Ren!
After Zhuge Liang received Liu Bei's order, he immediately divided his troops into two routes, one led by Zhang Fei and taking the land route into Shu, and the other leading by Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun, taking the water route into Shu. It is reasonable to say that the Shu Road is difficult, the checkpoints are easy to defend and difficult to attack, Zhuge Liang they should be the first to arrive at the battlefield, but Zhang Fei's performance in this battle into Shu is extremely eye-catching, by subduing Yan Yan, Zhang Fei took the land road even faster than Zhuge Liang they took the water route to reach the battlefield, and Zhang Fei as soon as he went to the battlefield, he happened to encounter Liu Bei being chased and killed by Zhang Ren, saving Liu Bei's life!
Zhang Fei was a fierce general under Liu Bei, on the subject of force, few people in the world were his opponents, on strategy, he had the plot of changbanqiao to scare off Cao Cao, and the plot of righteous interpretation of Yan Yan, which can be described as brave and strategic. However, in the face of Zhang Ren, Zhang Fei was frustrated. In terms of force, Zhang Ren was not as good as Zhang Fei, but Zhang Fei could not quickly take down Zhang Ren, and Zhang Ren was a very slippery person, often using deceitful tactics, and Zhang Fei was almost ambushed by Zhang Ren!
Original text: Zhang Fei got on the horse to greet him, let alone talk, and clashed with Zhang Ren. After more than ten battles, Zhang Ren was defeated and walked around the city. Zhang Fei tried his best to chase after him. Wu Yi's army intercepted, and Zhang Ren led the army back, encircling Zhang Fei in the heart of the city, unable to retreat.
Although Zhang Fei's force was stronger than Zhang Ren's, he was still inferior to Zhang Ren in terms of wisdom and strategy, fortunately, Zhao Yun's reinforcements suddenly killed and successfully rescued Zhang Fei! So far, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and other Jingzhou reinforcements have arrived, Liu Bei's camp can be described as a wealth of talents, but Zhuge Liang is not complacent, he knows Zhang Ren's ability, he does not dare to attack, can only use the trick of defeat to lure Zhang Ren, and in order to lure Zhang Ren, Zhuge Liang actually used himself as bait and personally committed dangers!
Original text: Kong Ming rode a four-wheeled vehicle, the lun scarf lupine fan out, and more than a hundred riding clusters on both sides... Zhang Ren saw that Kong Ming's army was not in line, and sneered on the horse: "People say that Zhuge Liang used soldiers like gods, and it turned out that there was no real name!" "Shoot the gun, and the big and small military academies will come together." Kong Ming abandoned the four-wheeled vehicle and got on his horse and retreated across the bridge.
In this battle, Zhuge Liang completely used himself as bait to lure Zhang Ren into pursuit, and then let Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Yan Yan and others cut off Zhang Ren's retreat, and in order to make Zhang Ren fooled, Zhuge Liang also gave up riding a four-wheeled vehicle for the first time and rode on a war horse! From here, we can see that Zhuge Liang can ride a horse, but he usually likes to ride a four-wheeled bicycle, and when it comes to danger, he will ride a war horse! In the rendition, Zhuge Liang gave up the four-wheeled vehicle for the second time and switched to a war horse at this moment!
Second change of war horse
Zhuge Liang's second change of war horse took place during the First Northern Expedition. At that time, Zhuge Liang ordered people to pretend to be Wei generals and wanted to deceive the Wei army in Tianshui County, but the plan was discovered by Jiang Wei, and Jiang Wei also came to a general to make a plan, and defeated Zhao Yun, who had gone to attack, which surprised Zhuge Liang very much! Zhuge Liang used soldiers all his life, very few people can see through his plan, as a result, in such a remote place as Longyou, someone can actually see through his plan, which makes Zhuge Liang very curious, in addition, Zhao Yun's praise for Jiang Wei also aggravated Zhuge Liang's doubts, so he decided to personally lead the army to meet Jiang Wei!
On Jiang Wei's side, after repelling Zhao Yun, he thought that the Shu army would definitely make a comeback, so he told Tianshui Taishou to let everyone not sleep at night, some people guarded on the city wall, and some went to ambush outside the city, waiting for the Shu army to come. This time, Jiang Wei saw through Zhuge Liang's plan again, and once again hit Zhuge Liang in an ambush, which made Zhuge Liang marvel, Jiang Wei was really a general, and he took the heart to subdue Jiang Wei!
Original text: Waiting until midnight, suddenly four fires soared into the sky, shouting and shaking, and I did not know where the soldiers were coming. Only to see that the city was also clamoring and shouting accordingly, and the Shu soldiers were running wild. Kong Ming hurriedly got on the horse, and The two generals Of Xing and Zhang Bao would protect them and break out of the siege.
Zhuge Liang originally wanted to attack Tianshui City at night, but the plan was discovered, and he was ambushed by Jiang Wei, and in the panic of the Shu army, Zhuge Liang once again gave up the four-wheeled vehicle and changed to a war horse, protected by Guan Xing and Zhang Bao, and killed out of the siege, slightly embarrassed!
Synthesizing the example of Zhuge Liang's two changes of war horses, we can see that Zhuge Liang can ride a horse, and his two experiences of changing war horses are in the panic of the army and the time of defeat! Of course, the first time he changed horses, Zhuge Liang deliberately showed defeat and lured Zhang Ren to pursue! It is also from Zhuge Liang's two examples of changing war horses that we can summarize the reason why Zhuge Liang usually likes to ride a four-wheeled vehicle!
First, deter the enemy
Since Zhuge Liang began to sit on a four-wheeled vehicle to direct the battle, he almost always won great victories and rarely failed, which made everyone in the world have a fixed impression: Zhuge Liang, who commanded the battle in a four-wheeled vehicle, was invincible in the world! Ordinary people command the army to fight, they all ride war horses, so that they can be flexible and mobile, and they can make the commander condescending and appear majestic and domineering. But Zhuge Liang is different, Zhuge Liang is sitting on a four-wheeled vehicle, which will make the enemy confused at first, but as Zhuge Liang's victories are more and more, the enemy will form a fixed thinking, that is, the reason why Zhuge Liang sits on the four-wheeled vehicle is because he is full of confidence, which is a manifestation of self-confidence!
On the four-wheeled vehicle, Zhuge Liang strategized and pointed out the country, which was a kind of confidence to crush the enemy! It will make the enemy feel frightened! In the struggle with Sima Yi, every time Wei Jun heard that Zhuge Liang came out in a four-wheeled vehicle, he would be very nervous; when Deng Ai entered Shu, he heard that Zhuge Liang appeared in a four-wheeled vehicle, and Wei Jun shook, all because the image of Zhuge Liang riding a four-wheeled vehicle caused a huge psychological shadow to the enemy!
On the contrary, if Zhuge Liang gave up the four-wheeled vehicle and changed to a war horse, this means that Zhuge Liang did not have the confidence to win the war, and the Shu army would lose! Zhang Ren was so clever and often used deceitful tactics, why he was deceived by Zhuge Liang, it was because Zhuge Liang gave up riding a four-wheeled vehicle and changed to a war horse! For Zhang Ren, this kind of move means that Zhuge Liang has no self-confidence and the Shu army is going to lose! When attacking Jiang Wei, the reason why Zhuge Liang changed to a war horse was also this reason, but the Shu army at that time was really defeated, and Zhuge Liang really did not expect Jiang Wei to be so powerful!
Second, cheer yourself up
In addition to deterring the enemy, another function of Zhuge Liang riding a quad was to cheer up the Shu army's own people! Zhuge Liang commanded the battle in a four-wheeled vehicle, which would make the Shu army think that Xiang Xiang was confident and could win the battle by obeying his orders. Moreover, Zhuge Liang's move is also telling everyone that once the battle fails, he will not take the lead in escaping, and he will not abandon his men, after all, the four-wheeled vehicle cannot run the war horse!
Third, Zhuge Liang was busy with official duties
Zhuge Liang was not actually a pure military talent, for a long time, he was also responsible for handling the internal affairs of shu Han! If he was traveling on a war horse, due to the bumps of the war horse, Zhuge Liang did not have the energy to deal with those documents. If you sit on a four-wheeled vehicle, the driving process is relatively smooth, which will save Zhuge Liang most of the time, he can be single-minded and double-minded, and handle many official affairs on the four-wheeled vehicle!
In fact, the later the period, Zhuge Liang's task became more and more arduous, and there were Liu Bei Guanyu and others in the early stage of combat, but after the death of the older generation of Shu Han figures, only Zhuge Liang could support the overall situation, Liu Chan was an emperor who did not care about things, so the more Zhuge Liang went to the back, the more he relied on the four-wheeled vehicle, and this four-wheeled vehicle was equivalent to Zhuge Liang's mobile office!
epilogue
From a comprehensive point of view, the reason why Zhuge Liang had to use a wheelchair to fight was not because he had a disability in his legs, nor because he could not ride a horse, but because of the following three reasons! First, Zhuge Liang deliberately created an identity to deter the enemy army; second, Zhuge Liang used this to boost morale and stabilize people's hearts; third, Zhuge Liang was busy with official duties and was forced to use a four-wheeled vehicle as a mobile office!
(This article mainly refers to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms)