He learned lianpo to defend as an attack, but was abandoned by Jiang Wei, and Jiang Wei was most responsible for the defeat of the Shu kingdom
Today, Xiaobian takes stock of a very famous character in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he is Wei Yan, but Xiaobian wants to clarify to you first that Wei Yan in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a little different from the Wei Yan actually recorded in history.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Yan is recorded as a halfway monk. It was only by suddenly following Liu Bei in the middle of the road, and later exerting his military talents to gain Liu Bei's approval and the support of the people of the Shu state, but in fact, Wei Yan was originally a member of Liu Bei's private army at the beginning, and he was regarded as an old general who rebelled with Liu Bei. Although he has a wealth of combat experience and the knowledge of learning military books from an early age, he has always belonged to an unknown person in the army, whether in the historical records or in the early stages of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he is not very eye-catching, it is a small transparent existence. It was later that the State of Shu was established, and he used his wisdom to set up a good way for the State of Shu to defend the State of Wei, but this method was abandoned by the later Li Si, causing the State of Wei to directly penetrate into the interior of the State of Shu.
The Shu kingdom is probably located near today's Sichuan, and we all know that Sichuan is a basin, and there are actually many mountains when entering Sichuan, and such places are often easy to defend and difficult to attack. When the situation of the Three Kingdoms was just formed, the Shu State should be the weakest of the three countries, and it could use such terrain to block the harassment and attack of the other two countries in order to develop its own domestic strength.
In fact, Liu Bang at that time also thought so, he first wanted to preserve his own strength, so he appointed Wei Yan, who had followed him for many years and trusted him very much, but because Wei Yan had not made much contribution at that time, he was questioned by many generals when he first took office. After all, people at first thought that such an important task should be given to Zhang Fei. Finally, in order to convince everyone that the people he had chosen were very suitable for the task of guarding the frontier, Liu Bei held a mobilization meeting for everyone, and specially invited Wei Yan to speak for everyone, Liu Bei said, What good methods and strategies do you have to ensure that the task I have entrusted to you will be successfully completed?
At that time, Wei Yan immediately stood up and said to everyone, I can guarantee that if the State of Wei sends all its troops to attack us, I will certainly let them not step into the territory of the State of Shu for a single cent, and if they send less than 100,000 troops to attack us, I will definitely kill them all. Such bold words and ambitions are not only Liu Bei's very enthusiastic boiling. Even those who had not believed in Wei Yan were willing to believe that Wei Yan could defend his country.
At that time, Wei Yan proposed a special method of warfare, which was to take advantage of the special geographical situation of the Shu state at that time to distribute the various troops at the narrowest mountain passes in each valley, so that it could effectively block the enemy from entering the borders of the vassal countries. Since the founding of the people's republic, the wei state's military strength has not stepped into the Shu state in a single bit, and such a long-term confrontation situation has also brought a very great opportunity for the development of the Shu state.
While Liu Bei was alive, Wei Yan was of course able to exert his talents, but after Liu Bei's death, some people suggested that his method was not suitable for long-term use. So just like the emperor at that time, Ah Dou, that is, Liu Chan proposed to change the method and strategy, let go of several valley mouths, and then gather forces at the two most important valley mouths, that is, to lure the enemy deeper and catch turtles in the urn. Such a method sounded really good, and after Liu Chan agreed, Jiang Wei began to implement his own battle plan. However, the battle plan he proposed was not suitable for the struggle between the powerful Wei state and the relatively weak Shu state, and the enemy's generals saw through his plan and did not go deep into his encirclement at all, but he was beaten by the enemy. I have to say that the decline of the Shu state later had an inextricable relationship with him.
And this story sounds particularly familiar, like the story of Lian Po and Zhao Kuo at that time, Lian Po is a famous general, he adopted a defensive-oriented, if according to his strategy has been developed, zhao state can one day compete with the qin state, and then defeat the qin state, but did not think that the emperor used Zhao Kuo who can only talk on paper and directly led to the demise of the country.
Sometimes a country can develop for a long time, not only because the great generals under his command have the strength to defend the country and fight the invaders, but also because the emperor has a little brain. Don't rush to make quick gains, first eat in your own bowl and then see how much is left in the pot, otherwise eating in the bowl and looking at the pot will only end up like the Shu Kingdom and the Zhao Kingdom. Finally, if you have any comments, please feel free to comment on the comments.