"If a person doesn't have a dream, what's the difference between that and a salted fish?" Wei, Shu, and Wu in the Three Kingdoms era all had their own dreams of reunification.
Among them, the most famous in history is zhuge liang of the Shu Han Dynasty
"Longzhong pair",
And because it did not achieve it in the end, it became a regrettable beauty, a crippled beauty, which made countless people sigh.
However, with shu Han's same disease and pity for Wu Guo, the original Sun Quan, also had almost the same dream.
For a long time, because people's disregard for Wu Guo, it has become a very unpopular and little-known history. Today, we will talk about Sun Wu's strategic planning during the Three Kingdoms period.
I. Lu Su's "Policy on the Bed"
The first to propose Wu Guo's version of "Longzhong Pair" was Lu Su, who was friendly with Kong Ming.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Lu Su is an extremely loyal and even bullied image of an air bag, which is actually very different from his real historical image.
The historical Lu Su was born into a rich family in Anhui. He was tall and burly, powerful, and could even shoot through shields with a bow and arrow.
Despite his family's wealth, Lu Su was not arrogant at all, he was good at befriending Haojie, his reputation was prominent, and he was completely an image of a "Chai Official".
In 200 AD, Lu Su met Sun Quan for the first time, and the two of them saw each other as they were, talked happily, and decided to drink on the bed at night and talk about the general trend of the world.
During the banquet, Lu Su proposed a unified strategy that was very similar to Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair", because Lu and Sun were on the bed at that time, so the history was called
"On the bed".
"The Han Chamber cannot be revived, and Cao Cao cannot be eliminated." For the sake of the general, only dingzu Jiangdong, to see the world's provocations. The scale is not to be blamed. Who? Northern sincerity is also multi-tasking. Because of its many tasks, he eliminated Huang Zu, entered Liu Biao, and even the Yangtze River was extreme, according to it, and then built an emperor to try to the world, and this high emperor's karma was also. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
Lu Su's "policy on the bed" was not as hidden as "Longzhong's pair", and he threw aside the slogans of "reviving the Han Room" and told Sun Quan straight to the point: The Han Dynasty has not been saved, and Cao Cao we cannot defeat it for the time being.
So what to do? Lu Su's suggestion to Sun Quan was: First base on Jiangdong, watch the changes in the world, and take the opportunity to attack Huang Zu and Liu Biao to the west, and then seize the entire south of the Yangtze River, and then you can call the emperor the founding of the country, which is the number of ways for Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, to start a business.
Lu Su's strategy was to let Sun Quan stand firmly in Jiangdong, then take Jingzhou, and then advance upstream of the Yangtze River, realize the "extreme of the Yangtze River", take the entire Yangtze River for himself, and then he could rule the river with Cao Cao.
Although the "Tatami Strategy" said that it was "the extreme of the Yangtze River", it did not mention that he wanted to attack Liu Zhang, who had divided Sichuan, perhaps because at that time Liu Zhang had just taken over, and a large-scale rebellion was taking place inside, and Liu Zhang was a cowardly and gentle person, and he could not enter Lu Su's eyes at all.
From today's point of view, the content of Lu Su's "Tatami Strategy" proposed in 200 AD is extremely far-sighted.
At that time, Cao Cao had just defeated Yuan Shao at the Battle of Guandu. Although Yuan Shao lost soldiers and generals at the front, he still had large areas of land such as Jizhou and Youzhou and tens of thousands of people and horses in his hands.
At this time, Lu Su had accurately predicted that Cao Cao would definitely destroy the Yuan clan, unify the north, and become an enemy that Sun Quan could not resist for the time being.
It should be known that after these 7 years, Cao Cao really unified the north; after these 8 years, Cao Cao launched the Battle of Chibi in the south. This shows the poison of Lu Su's vision.
In terms of content, Lu Su's "strategy on the bed" and Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong pair" are contradictory.
In the "Longzhong Pair", Zhuge Liang's advice to Liu Bei was to base himself in Jingzhou and take Sichuan in the west, but based on these two base areas, the Northern Expedition advanced into the Central Plains and competed with Cao Cao for the world.
In the "Tatami Strategy", Lu Su also advised Sun Quan to seize Jingzhou and occupy Sichuan. It can be said that the strategic conception of Wu and Shu is irreconcilable.
Second, Zhou Yu's version of "Longzhong Pair"
In 208, Cao Cao was defeated by Sun Liu's allied forces at Chibi. Subsequently, Jingzhou was divided between the Cao, Sun, and Liu families.
Sun Wu, who contributed more in the Battle of Chibi, actually received only a small part of Jingzhou.
At that time, Zhou Yu, the governor of Eastern Wu, proposed to Sun Quan a strategic idea of unifying the world:
"Beggar and Fenwei (Sun Yu) both forge ahead of Shu, and get Shu and Zhang Lu, because fenwei remains firmly in its place, so as to help Ma Chao. Yu also held Xiangyang with the general to rub the exercise, and the north could also be tu. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
According to Zhou Yu's vision, Sun Quan could compete for the world according to the following steps:
1. Cao Cao must have no intention of going south for the time being after the defeat of the Chibi army, and Sun Quan could take this opportunity to order Zhou Yu and the Fenwei general Sun Yu to march west to take Sichuan, and then go north to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong.
2. After obtaining Sichuan and Hanzhong, Sun Yu remained in garrison and formed a strategic alliance with Ma Chao in the northwest to unify against Cao Cao.
3. After obtaining Sichuan and Hanzhong, Zhou Yu returned to Jingzhou and attacked with Sun Yu in two ways.
We can see that Zhou Yu's strategic concept is a further expansion and extension of Lu Su's "policy on the bed":
Lu Su only considered crossing the river with Cao Cao, and ruled
Zhou Yu stressed the need to unite with Ma Chao in the north and jointly resist Cao, and also pointed out that it was necessary to use troops against Cao at the same time in Jingzhou and Hanzhong to capture the world.
Don't you think zhou Yu's strategic planning is quite familiar? That's right
Zhou Yu's idea was almost the same as Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair".
However, for Shu Han, it is fortunate that Zhou Yu died young on the way to the west, and his great idea was temporarily shelved.
However, next, Sun Quan did not stop the pace of chasing dreams. Because Sun Wu's strategic planning and the "Longzhong Pair" had a strong conflict, their war with the Shu Han was inevitable.
Third, the tragedy of the Wu and Shu families
After the Battle of Guandu, because of the rise of Cao Wei first, the living space of the Wu and Shu families was greatly compressed, so the two countries of Wu and Shu, who were also determined to unify the world, formulated almost the same strategic plan in the next step.
Therefore, Jingzhou, Yizhou (Sichuan), and Hanzhong, which are the few areas that are not owned by the Cao clan, will inevitably become the key areas of contention between the Wu and Shu families.
However, for the Eastern Wu side, because of Zhou Yu's sudden death, to a certain extent, it disrupted its proper pace, causing Liu Bei to take Yizhou and Hanzhong first.
And Sun Quan, who also harbored the world, could not sit back and watch his "strategy on the bed" fail, let alone sit back and watch Liu Bei become bigger and annex Cao Wei, because this also meant the end of Sun Wu.
Therefore, when Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army and threatened Huaxia, Sun Quan "wrote a letter with Cao Gong and begged for Yu's self-efficacy." He silently betrayed Sun Liu's alliance in exchange for his own safety. Therefore, Lü Meng sneaked into the public security, took Nan County, occupied Jiangling, captured Guan Yu, and held Jingzhou.
This wave of dizzying operations, although Sun Quan partially completed the goal of "tatami strategy" and also made Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong pair" come to naught, but Sun Liu's alliance also declared its dissolution.
Therefore, in the case that the strength of both sides was not enough to completely eliminate the other side, the wu and Shu sides could only use more intense internal friction to resolve the grievances they had formed this time, so there was the later Battle of Yiling.
And Cao Wei, who sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, was relatively stronger. After this battle, both Wu and Shu had lost the possibility of fighting with Cao Wei, let alone unifying the world.
Whether it is "Longzhong pair" or "bed-top strategy", it all ended in failure.