In April 221, Liu Bei declared himself emperor in Chengdu, and in July he officially sent an army to attack Wu, all the way into Wu Territory, Sun Quan, after claiming to Cao Pi to avoid a two-front battle, led troops with Lu Xun as the governor to meet the enemy, and in August 222 the two sides fought at Yiling, and Liu Bei fled back to the White Emperor City in a big defeat.
The fiasco at the Battle of Yiling had an extremely far-reaching impact on Shu Han, Liu Bei's strength once reached its peak before the war, but after the war, he returned to the pre-liberation period overnight, so how heavy were Liu Bei's losses to Wu? Nearly 100,000 elites were wiped out, and the Mesozoic generals were almost wiped out.
Because Wei Yan needed to guard Hanzhong to prevent Cao Wei, Ma Chao had to assist Wei Yan and may have been ill at that time, Zhao Yun needed to sit in Jiangzhou to deal with Chengdu, Nanzhong, and Yong'an (White Emperor City) at any time, so Wei Yan, Ma Chao, and Zhao Yun, the three tiger generals, did not accompany the expedition to Eastern Wu; Liu Bei's division was unfavorable, Zhang Fei led his troops to meet but was killed by his subordinates, Zhang Fei died before he could leave the division, Liu Bei lost a tiger general, and Zhang Fei was also the first general that Liu Bei lost to WuZhong.
Who were the generals who followed Liu Bei on his expedition? There were at least a dozen people with names and surnames: Liao Hua, Feng Xi, Wu Ban, Zhang Nan, Fu Wei, Sha Moke, Cheng Qi, Zhao Rong, Fu Kuang, Wang Fu, Huang Quan, Ma Liang, Chen Shi, Pang Lin, Shi He, Du Lu, Liu Ning, and so on, so what was their ending?
Those who died in the Battle of Yiling were Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Ma Liang, Fu Wei, Sha Moke, Cheng Qi, Zhao Rong, Wang Fu and others (of which Wang Fu was one of the few survivors in the Battle of Xiangfan, and Sha Moke was the leader of the Wuxi Barbarians who was persuaded by Ma Liang to assist Liu Bei, Zhao Rong was the governor of Liao Hua and Fu Wei at that time, if he had not died in battle, he would certainly have mentioned it later, but the history books after the Battle of Yiling were not found); those who surrendered to Eastern Wu were Du Lu and Liu Ning.
Before the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei, in order to guard against a possible sneak attack by Cao Wei, sent Huang Quantun to attack Jiangbei, and the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records: "'With Quan as the general of Zhenbei, he supervised the Northern Jiang army to defend against the Wei division. When Lu Xun burned the camp, Huang Quan was blocked in jiangbei and could not withdraw to the White Emperor's city, and he was unwilling to surrender sun quan, so he led his troops to surrender to Cao Pi, so how many soldiers and horses did he take?
Wang Shen's Book of Wei records that "Quan and Lingnan Commandery Taishou Shihe and other three hundred and eighteen people." Bai Quan was the general of Zhennan in Shizhong, the Marquis of Fenglie, and the envoy of The Same Day; and Feng Shihe and forty-two others were all Marquis of Lie, and there were more than one hundred generals for the general Lang. ''
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records: "Tongdi Lin (Pang Lin), who was engaged in the northern general Huang Quan zheng wu in the jingzhou zhizhong, was defeated in the army, and entered Wei with power, and Wei was enfeoffed as a marquis, and was too defensive of Julu. ''
In addition to Huang Quan, two heavyweights are also mentioned in the historical records: one is Shi He, and the other is Pang Tong's younger brother Pang Lin. Three hundred and eighteen and forty-two men must have been generals of a certain position in Huang Quan's army, Zuo He, who were preparing to serve as officials in Jingzhou after retaking Jingzhou, and Huang Quan's tun army in Jiangbei to prevent Cao Wei's troops would not be too small, and it was conservatively estimated that it was at least between 5,000 and 10,000 people.
Of course, there were also four people who escaped: the first was Liao Hua, needless to say, the second was Wu Ban, because later during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, Wu Ban also made military achievements, and finally Guanju Was a general; the third was Chen Shi, because in 229 Zhuge Liang led an army to capture Wudu and Yinping Counties during the Third Northern Expedition; the fourth was Fu Kuang, who was the same as Liao Hua, and the general who was followed by Shu Han Guanju Zhennan.
Therefore, after taking stock of them in this way, there were huang quan, Pang Lin, Shi He, Du Lu, Liu Ning, Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Ma Liang, Fu Wei, Sha Moke, Cheng Qi, Zhao Rong, Wang Fu, and others, including Zhang Fei, and at least a dozen people, and most of these people were elites of the Mesozoic generation of the Shu Han Dynasty, and they were also the talents that Liu Bei planned to focus on cultivating, but unfortunately after a big war, they were almost destroyed by the regiment, and only a few people escaped.
In addition to the generals, how many soldiers and horses did Liu Bei lose? It is certainly too exaggerated to say in the speech that Liu Bei "commanded more than 700,000 elite soldiers", but Liu Bei's large-scale slaughter of Wu's 100,000 soldiers and horses is estimated to still exist, because the "Fu Zi" records: "Quan general Lu Yi defeated Liu Bei, killed more than 80,000 of his soldiers, and prepared to save only himself." "There were more than 80,000 people killed in battle alone, plus 5,000 to 10,000 people taken away by Huang Quan's surrender to Cao Pi, so that Liu Bei's nearly 100,000 elites were wiped out, and Shu Han's strength suddenly fell to the bottom from the peak period after taking Hanzhong, and Liu Bei's hard work for more than ten years since the Battle of Chibi was also wasted, such a price was absolutely painful for Liu Bei and Shu Han!