In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang's seven captures and seven indulgences in Meng Yue made people very enjoyable, and everyone marveled at Zhuge Liang's god of using soldiers, and even more admired his forbearance in order to subdue Meng Yue. In fact, in the "Spring and Autumn of the Han Jin Dynasty", there is also Zhuge Liang's capture of Meng, which is the famous Battle of Nanzhong.
In this battle, Zhuge Liang completely pacified the ethnic minorities in the southwest, and there are even rumors that Zhuge Liang hit the territory of Burma in this battle, so is this really the case?
The cause of the Battle of South Central
Guan Yu attacked Cao Wei's Xiangfan region, but due to Eastern Wu's back-to-back alliance, it sneaked in from behind, resulting in Guan Yu's defeat and Jingzhou being captured. Jingzhou was the bridgehead of the Shu Han Northern Expedition to Cao Wei, how could Liu Bei bear it to be taken, so after becoming emperor, Liu Bei led a large army to attack Eastern Wu and prepare to retake Jingzhou. However, due to the mistakes of Liu Bei's troops, the Shu Han army suffered a major defeat at Yiling, the elite losses of the army were exhausted, and the national strength of the Shu Han Dynasty plummeted, which was originally inferior to Cao Wei and Eastern Wu, which was even more painful. Seeing the decline of the Shu Han Dynasty, the forces of all sides were eager to move.
After Liu Bei's death, the forces in the southwest could not hold back any longer. Originally belonging to the Shu Han Dynasty, Taishou ZhuZhu of Muke Commandery, Gao Ding the Prince of Yueyue Commandery, and Meng Yu, the leader of the ethnic minorities in Yizhou County, joined forces to kill Taishou Zheng'ang, and the county general Jiao Huang ( Jiao Huang ) , engaged in Chang Qi , launched a rebellion against the Shu Han regime.
Original text: In the summer of the first year of Jianxing, Zang Ke was too defensive of Zhu Bao's rebellion. First, Yizhou County had the surname Yong Min rebelled, Liu Taishou Zhang was of Wu descent, and according to the county, Gao Ding, the king of Yue weiyi, also betrayed.
At this time, Shu Han had just experienced the great defeat of Yiling, and Emperor Liu Bei had just died, unable to send troops to suppress the rebellion, and could only take measures to appease, but these rebellions were intentional, and Shu Han's concessions did not make them restrain half a step, but intensified.
Battle of South Central
In the face of the rebellion in the southern central counties, Zhuge Liang calmly analyzed the current situation faced by Shu Han, first sent Deng Zhi to Eastern Wu to repair the alliance with Eastern Wu, and then sent generals to strictly guard the front line of Hanzhong and actively reorganize the armaments, after two years of preparations, finally the strength of the Shu Han state was restored, so Zhuge Liang began to suppress the rebellion by force.
In 225 AD, Zhuge Liang's soldiers attacked the rebellious Three Counties of Nanzhong in three ways.
The Western Route Army, with about 15,000 men, led by Zhuge Liang himself, prepared to first destroy Gao Ding of Yue County, and then attack Yizhou County, attacking Yong Min and Meng Yu.
The Zhonglu Army did not have many troops, and led by the governor Li Hui, prepared to set off from the small road and detour to Meng Yue's old lair, cutting off Meng Huo's retreat route.
The Eastern Route Army also did not have many troops, led by Ma Zhong, the under-command of the gatekeeper, and prepared to directly attack Muke County and eliminate Zhu Zhao's rebels.
According to Zhuge Liang's troop deployment, it is obvious that Zhuge Liang's main force was mainly to attack Gao Ding's army, and in the entire Southern Central Rebellion, Gao Ding's army was the most powerful, and defeating Gao Ding could expand the battle results. As soon as the war began, the balance of victory was tilted like that of shu Han, and Zhuge Liang's army first arrived at The Road from the waterway, which is today's Yibin, Sichuan, and then the three-way army separated here and attacked each other.
In the Beishui region, Zhuge Liang defeated Gao Ding's main force in the Battle of I, and then Gao Ding's army retreated to Qiongdu (now Xichang, Sichuan), preparing to continue to resist, and was defeated by Zhuge Liang, and in the end, Gao Ding's army was completely destroyed and Gao Ding was killed. Meng Yujun heard that Gao Ding was defeated and killed, and also began to retreat to Yizhou County, so Zhuge Liang launched a pursuit.
At the same time, Ma Zhong defeated Zhu Zhen's forces and left them stationed. Li Hui also defeated the enemy army, occupied Meng's base area, and cut off Meng's retreat.
In May, Zhuge Liang crossed Lushui (present-day Jinsha River) and entered Yizhou County, where he caught up with and defeated Meng Yu north of Wei County (in present-day Qujing, Yunnan). Zhuge Liang then marched south to join Li Hui and continued west to Dianchi (滇池, in modern Jinning, Yunnan) and pacify the surrounding tribes. At this point, the entire Battle of Nanzhong ended, Zhuge Liang pacified the three counties, and Banshi returned to the dynasty.
Where did Zhuge Liang hit the farthest? Where is it now?
Looking at Zhuge Liang's marching process, we can actually see that Zhuge Liang hit Yunnan as far as possible. However, many netizens also have more doubts about this.
This is mainly a dispute over ancient place names, in this article, Zhuge Liang crossed Lushui, launched a pursuit of Meng, the identification of Lushui is the current Jinsha River, and many netizens believe that Lushui in the Three Kingdoms period refers to the current Nu River, then according to this determination, Zhuge Liang crossed the Nu River to pursue Meng, should be chased to Burma. Therefore, there will be rumors that Zhuge Liang's Battle of South China hit Burma.
Now in Myanmar and northern Vietnam, there are stories of Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang is very respectful, and it is said that Zhuge Liang's Southern Expedition once hit here. However, according to this algorithmical reasoning, Zhuge Liang's battle record is too frightening, and under such harsh conditions in ancient times, he can go so far, and the author is skeptical. The author is more inclined to agree with the historians, Lushui refers to the Jinsha River, and Zhuge Liang hit the Jinning area of Yunnan as far as possible.
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Based on the above analysis, the author believes that during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang led a large army to march south to quell the rebellion in the three counties of Nanzhong, and the farthest reached Dianchi County, which is today's Jinning District of Kunming City.