Pang Tong, who is it? All the friends who are familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms know that Pang Tong was an important strategist under Liu Bei's account during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, called "Fengchian", and he worshiped the general of the military division with Zhuge Liang, and his talent, wisdom, and insight were no less than Zhuge Liang.
On the jiangnan territory, many learned people with full stomachs emerged, such as Zhuge Liang with the title of "Wolong", Sima Hui of the "Water Mirror", Pang Tong of the "Phoenix", and Lu Ji, alias "Lu Gongji". At that time, it was said among the princes and courtiers that whether it was "Wolong" or "Phoenix Chick", one person could win the world.
Emperor Liu Bei's luck was really good, and Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong both followed him successively and offered advice for his founding of the country. However, although Liu Bei was assisted by two famous scholars, he would not unify China in the end, but only in a quiet corner of Yizhou. Why? According to the analysis of historians, it was only because Pang Tong had spoken to Liu Bei, but Liu Bei did not adopt it, which led to strategic failure.
In 211 AD, three years had passed since the Battle of Chibi, and Liu Bei at this time was no longer a young man who had been hunted down and killed by Cao Cao and had no place to settle down. After cao cao's army was defeated, Liu Bei occupied five counties in southern Jingzhou and the city of Jiangxia, with tens of thousands of armor under his command, and more generals than Huang Zhong and Wei Yan.
At this time, Liu Bei could be said to be full of spirit, thinking all day about how to eliminate the Han thieves and restore the Han room, just when he was thinking left and right. At this time, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong disagreed on the issue of strategic planning. As early as when Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, he was like Liu Bei expounding the "Longzhong Countermeasures".
According to the situation in the world, Zhuge Liang put forward the strategic vision of taking Jingzhou as his home first, and then taking advantage of the development of The Prefecture, and finally forming a full momentum and then seeking the Central Plains and unifying the world. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Jingzhou is north of Han and Chu, Li exhausts the South China Sea, east of Wuhui, and west of Tumba Shu, and this place of use is also.") ”）
In Zhuge Liang's eyes, Jingzhou is an excellent position, if it is used as a base and slowly developed, it can take advantage of the innate advantage in the long run.
However, Pang Tong held the opposite opinion, in his view, Yizhou was the base for Liu Bei's great achievements. According to the "Spring and Autumn of Kyushu", "Tongshu Beiyi said: "Jingzhou is desolate, the characters are exhausted, there are Wu Sun in the east, there are Cao clans in the north, and it is difficult to achieve the ambition." Now Yizhou is rich and strong, with a million household registrations, four soldiers and horses, what must be produced, treasure goods are not sought outside, and now it can be used to determine major events. ”
In Pang Tong's view, although Jingzhou has a good geographical location, due to the suffering of war and chaos for many years, the people have been displaced, which is not enough to maintain a huge battle plan. Moreover, at this time, Liu Bei did not command the "Nine Counties of Jingxiang", but only occupied the five southern counties. If we want to use this as a base, we are bound to suffer from a situation of being attacked on both sides, which is very dangerous.
What Liu Bei thought in his heart was not written in the historical materials, and presumably only he himself knew. After some deep thinking, Liu Bei thought about it three times, but in the end he did not adopt Pang Tong's words and still adhered to Zhuge Liang's strategic plan.
However, according to the author's analysis, those who can become great things since ancient times have more or less special skills, and Liu Bei is naturally no exception. Although you are the emperor's uncle, but the family road has long been in the middle, from a down-and-out royal family that weaves mats and sells shoes for a living, with its own tenacious qualities, step by step, and finally becomes a prince of the party, Liu Bei naturally has his superiority.
On the surface, Liu Bei adopted Zhuge Liang's strategy, but in fact, as the eldest brother who took his brothers to start a business, he did not have a piece of land of his own in his life, and the taste of sending people under the fence was really uncomfortable. Nowadays, it is hard to have such a large piece of land, how can I give up lightly in my heart? In addition, at this time, there were several new fierce generals under his command, and there were also people who offered advice, money, food, soldiers, horses, and equipment, so who was afraid of such a strong strength? As long as you work together, you will be able to do the soldiers to block and the water to cover up.
However, it turns out that Pang Tong's vision is still very accurate. In 219, Guan Yu mobilized the elite of Jingzhou and attacked Cao Ren from the north. Although in the early stages, Cao Ren was trapped, captured in the forbidden, and beheaded Pound, wei Zhen Huaxia. However, during the critical period of the battle, Sun Quan stabbed Guan Yu in the back, causing Guan Yu to be defeated and killed, and a generation of famous generals, Guan Yu of the Righteous Thin Cloud Sky, fell.
It is regrettable that after entering the river, Pang Tong was shot by a flying arrow and died when attacking Luocheng. He was six years old at the Chinese New Year's Eve time. When taking Xichuan, if Liu Bei obeyed Pang Tong's plan, "select elite soldiers, and directly attack Chengdu day and night, you can decide in one fell swoop." "Well, Pang Tong may not die early, but unfortunately history has no ifs."