Some people say that the decline of The Liu Bei Group began with the death of Pang Tong, because the death of Pang Tong brought at least six negative effects to the Liu Bei Group. Looking closely, the author agrees with three of them, as for the remaining three, it is really difficult to comment, and there is a request for readers to have their own opinions.
As for Pang Tong's death and Liu Bei's crying, whether Zhuge Liang was sad or secretly happy, we can't watch the interpretation, or we have to rely on the correct history, and then we can draw a more cautious preliminary conclusion.
Liu Bei was very unlucky in this life, as a model of grassroots counterattack, his spirit is worth learning, but the struggle process of step by step is really tired to watch: before the Battle of Chibi, he ran east and west, his wife and children lost more than once and more than one; Jingzhou did not take long to get his hands on the throne, he was stolen by his uncle Sun Quan; it was difficult to ascend the throne as emperor, and he hurried to "ride the imperial conquest", and was burned by Lu Xun in Yiling. Liu Bei's last days were almost spent on the toilet.
Some people have summed up the setbacks that Liu Bei has encountered in his life, and it is really not the loss of his wife and the loss of Jingzhou, after all, the wife can remarry the children and regenerate, and the loss of Jingzhou can also be regained, but the Liu Bei Group, which is short of talents, has lost the top civilian officials and military generals one after another, and it is really gone.
Yuan Shao had the Four Pillars of Hebei, folded Yan Liangwen ugly and Zhang Gaolan, ran away Xu You and Tian Feng frustrated guo tu, and Liu Bei was different: Pang Tong was gone, Fa Zheng took over, Fa Zheng was gone, Zhuge Liang had to hold several positions; "Shu Xiaoguo also, the famous general Wei Yu", a Guan Yu he could not afford to lose, not to mention Zhang Fei, who was called "ten thousand enemies" with Guan Yu, also followed.
First of all, we must say that Pang Tong died in battle and Liu Bei cried bitterly, this is true, Chen Shou, who originally did not have much loyalty to Shu Han, there was no need to make up good words for Liu Bei. Therefore, Chen Shou's words of scolding Liu Bei may not be credible, he had to praise Liu Bei, that is to say that this matter is well known, and he is not embarrassed to falsify, so the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Volume 37" left such a record: "Entering Luo County, commanding the people to attack the city, being hit by the flow of arrows, pawning, and Chinese New Year's Eve six." The Lord lamented, and his words drooled. ”
According to the zhengshi record, Liu Bei is a small strong who cannot be killed, he is moody and angry, rarely shows his true feelings, and the person who can make Liu Bei cry when he mentions it, in the main history, only Pang Tong Fazheng, Guan Yu Zhang Fei sacrificed, and the zhengshi does not record that Liu Bei cried or did not cry.
Pang Tong sacrificed, Liu Bei "Yang Ze drooled", Fa Zheng died of illness, Liu Bei "tired of running for a drooling day", Guan Yu Zhang Fei died, Liu Bei's reaction was flat, so that Chen Shou was too lazy to write, and the "Huayang Guozhi", "Heroes of the Late Han Dynasty", and "Classics" in the same period also had no words and only a single record.
Putting aside the death of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, let's still look at the six negative effects of Pang Tong's death on Liu Bei, the first of which is that Liu Bei lost a good chief of staff.
As a generation of tyrants, Liu Bei's military ability must be affirmed, and denying Liu Bei is equivalent to denying Cao Cao's Sun Quan, because Sun Quan was very afraid of Liu Bei, and in the Battle of Hanzhong, Cao Cao was also beaten away by Liu Bei.
However, Liu Bei's strong military ability does not mean that he is proficient in everything, and he has formulated major policies, which still need to be refined and implemented. In terms of administration, Zhuge Liang could help him "feed enough soldiers", and militarily, he had to rely on Pang Shiyuan, who had served as an aide to Zhou Yu.
Pang Tong worked for Zhou Yu, which is recorded in the history, Zhou Yu Baqiu was ill, and the person who escorted the coffin back to Chai Sang was Cao Pang Tong of Nan County.
Comparatively speaking, although the age is similar, Pang Tong is more experienced than Zhuge Liang, so after having Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong is still very much valued by Liu Bei: "With Liang and a general in the military division." ”
Liu Bei lost a good chief of staff and failed to take Xichuan with all his might. This is the second negative impact of Pang Tong's death on Liu Bei: if Pang Tong, who likes to win by surprise, is still there, he may come up with another three strategies to take Xichuan without using Zhuge Liang Zhang Fei Zhao Yun.
The third negative impact of Pang Tong's death on Liu Bei was naturally that Liu Bei lacked people under him, and zhuge liang Zhang Fei and Zhang Yun were dispatched to sichuan together, which gave Sun Quan an opportunity: if only tens of thousands of enemies Zhang Fei were transferred to fight a hard battle, let Zhuge Liang help Guan Yu to make suggestions, and let Sima Zhao Yun guard the rear, not to mention Lü MengLuxun, that is, Zhou Yulusu's resurrection, there would be no room to drill.
In fact, these three negative effects can be boiled down to one: Pang Tong's personal person seems to be able to match Zhuge Liang's Zhang Fei Zhao Yun's three, so he sacrificed a Pang Tong, and Liu Bei had to transfer three people to fill the vacancy.
The next three negative effects are very debatable: First, Liu Bei lost an outspoken and outspoken slanderous courtier, so that in the future Liu Bei made mistakes, and only Zhao Yun dared to oppose it in person (there is no record in the main history of Zhuge Liang opposing the Jingzhou clique's division of Shu Zhongtian property and opposing the cutting of Wu); second, the two military divisions zhonglang would not have one, which gave Zhuge Liang the opportunity to monopolize power; third, Liu Beituo had to abandon Li Yan, who was not of the same heart, so that Li Yan demolished Zhuge Liang's platform. This made Zhuge Liang helpless to withdraw his troops under superior circumstances.
Regarding these three points, the author does not quite agree, but I can only hold reservations, so I have asked readers to express their opinions in the comments.
The focus of this article is still to look at Zhuge Liang's attitude toward the death of Pang Tong.
First of all, it is certain that Zhuge Liang should not be schadenfreude and secretly happy to have the opportunity to show his skills, because Zhuge Liang is also a high-powered position in Jingzhou, and he has a passion for serving the country and has room to show it. Even if Liu Bei was in Jingzhou, the civil affairs were still dominated by Zhuge Liang, "overseeing the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang, and Changsha."
In fact, Liu Bei had no territory except for these three counties—Xiangyang County, Nanyang County, Nanxiang County, and half jiangxia County (the other half occupied by Sun Quan) were in Cao Cao's hands, and Nan Commandery was still borrowed (exchanged) from Sun Quan. What was actually in the hands of Liu Bei and not under Zhuge Liang's control was just a Wuling County.
Zhuge Liang himself was too busy to be a front-line chief of staff at all, and although Zhuge Liang was young and tall, he didn't seem to be in good health, and he couldn't charge forward like Pang Tong.
In addition, zhuge liang's relationship with Pang Tong is also quite good, Pang Tong was dismissed from office when he was incompetent (without Zhang Fei's inspection), it was Zhuge Liang who strongly recommended it, pang Tong entered Liu Bei's line of sight: "Zhuge Liang also said that the first lord, the first lord and the good Tan, the great instrument, thought to be engaged in the rule of the middle. ”
In Liu Bei's clique, the civilian officials and strategists were mainly Zhuge Liang, supplemented by Pang Tong, and the name had been determined, and there was no question of who was jealous of whom: Liu Bei treated Pang Tong as "personally inferior to Zhuge Liang", that is to say, Pang Tong was not only Liu Bei's chief of staff, but also Zhuge Liang's right-hand man.
From this point of view, based on the analysis of the correct history, Pang Tong's sacrifice and Liu Bei's weeping and weeping are indeed true, and Zhuge Liang should also be sad and cry when he hears the bad news.
Readers all know that Pang Tong, born in 179, is only two years older than Zhuge Liang, born in 181, and three years younger than Fazheng born in 176, and among these three people, Pang Tong may be the most physically strong, otherwise he would not have charged forward in the Battle of Luocheng, so that he was shot by a stray arrow.
Fa zheng Zhuge Liang died of illness, only Pang Tong's sacrifice was an accident, and it was the butterfly effect caused by this accident that led to a series of tragedies in the Liu Bei Group later. The author even imagines: If Pang Tong had not been killed, it is really difficult to say who would unify the three kingdoms...