Friends who are familiar with the Three Kingdoms know that Zhuge Liang is a very intelligent person and has been rated as a "multi-wise and near-demon", but have you ever thought that Zhuge Liang was so powerful that he failed to unify the Three Kingdoms in the end, why is this?
Zhuge Liang
Although many people on the Internet have criticisms of Zhuge Liang, they have to admit that Zhuge Liang is still a real person!
First of all, Zhuge Liang's strategic ability is very strong! Liu Bei groped and fought for decades at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and as a result, except for mixing up a reputation of benevolence and righteousness, he did not get any benefits, but was picked up and run around, and when people reached middle age, they also sent people to the fence, and they were very miserable, and even when he thought of his own situation, he could not avoid tears. But then again, Liu Bei's strength is actually not very weak, he still has a group of elite soldiers under him, and the combat effectiveness is good, otherwise those princes would not be happy to accept Liu Bei! The turning point in Liu Bei's life was because he met Zhuge Liang!
Before that, Liu Bei did not have any grand strategy, only knew to surrender to the powerful princes, and ran when he saw that the situation was not good, but after contacting Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei knew for the first time how to go in the future! A longzhong pair, a strategy of occupying Jingzhou, seizing Yizhou, and dividing the world into three parts directly shocked Liu Bei and opened a new chapter for Liu Bei's career. Since then, Liu Bei has been out of control, and in a short period of time, he has laid the foundation of "Shu Han" and become one of the hegemons of the Three Kingdoms, and the reason why he has this achievement is because Zhuge Liang's strategic ability is very strong!
Secondly, Zhuge Liang is very good at handling internal affairs! Many people have the impression that Zhuge Liang fought a battle of Bowangpo just after he came out of the mountain, defeated the Cao army, and demonstrated his super military talent, in fact, this impression is wrong! When Liu Bei was alive, Zhuge Liang did not lead his troops to fight much, because what he was good at was not military, but internal affairs and logistics.
I have to admit that Zhuge Liang's internal affairs work is still doing very well, shu han law is he presided over the revision, although he enforced the law strictly, but also let the Shu han people see the fairness, so everyone more support him. In the Battle of Yiling, the elite of the Shu Han dynasty was wiped out, Liu Bei also died soon, and the entire Shu Han was caught in the storm, and even Cao Wei and Eastern Wu did not look favorably on the Shu Han, believing that the Shu Han was likely to collapse and even perish. As a result, Zhuge Liang stood up, stabilized the situation of Shu Han, pulled Shu Han back to the right track, and soon built a strong army to start the Northern Expedition!
It can be said that it is because Zhuge Liang's internal affairs ability is very strong that he successfully extended the life of Shu Han for decades, if it were not for Liu Bei's death soon after, Shu Han would definitely collapse! However, although Zhuge Liang was so strong, he was unable to defeat Cao Wei and unify the Three Kingdoms in the end, which is regrettable, so why did Zhuge Liang fail to unify the Three Kingdoms?
Regarding this question, in fact, we can draw the answer from the sentence of Sima Yi, Zhuge Liang's biggest opponent!
The reason why Zhuge Liang was unable to unify the three kingdoms
Sima Yi was Zhuge Liang's biggest opponent during the Northern Expedition, and it was precisely because of Sima Yi's obstruction that Zhuge Liang, although he had the advantage, was never able to defeat the Wei army and unify the three kingdoms! As the saying goes, a person's opponent knows him better than himself, and as Zhuge Liang's biggest opponent, Sima Yi actually explained why Zhuge Liang could not unify the three kingdoms through seventeen words!
"Book of Jin": Liang Zhi is big but does not see the opportunity, is more resourceful and less decisive, is a good soldier but has no power, although he has raised 100,000 pawns, he has fallen into my paintings, and he will be broken.
Sima Yi said that Zhuge Liang was "brilliant and did not see the opportunity, was resourceful and less decisive, and was a good soldier but had no power". In fact, we can understand it this way!
The phrase "Liang Zhi is big and does not see the opportunity" means that Zhuge Liang has great ambitions (Kuang Fu Han Room, unifying the world), but the timing is not right, now in the world, the demise of the Han Room is already a historical trend, Zhuge Liang is going against the tide, and must fail!
The phrase "more resourceful and less decisive" means that Zhuge Liang is very intelligent and resourceful, but lacks domineering determination. Compared with Cao Wei, Shu Han's national strength was relatively weak, and if he wanted to completely defeat the Wei army, he must make a dangerous move, but Zhuge Liang did not dare to take risks because of his personality, so he could not completely defeat the Wei army. When Wei Yan wanted to use the Meridian Valley plot, Zhuge Liang's disagreement was a clear proof! With small and broad, we must not be hard, otherwise we will lose!
"Good soldiers but no power" refers to the fact that although Zhuge Liang likes to use soldiers, his power has always been on Liu Chan's side, and he has not realized that he will not be spared the lives of foreign kings. For example, in the Fourth Northern Expedition, Sima Yi was already destroyed, and as a result, Liu Chan gave an order, Zhuge Liang retreated, giving the Wei army a chance to breathe, which is a typical lack of command, if you insist on fighting, the Wei army will be defeated!
epilogue
Although Zhuge Liang was "a multi-wise and near-demon", he could not unify the three kingdoms, why? Sima Yi gave the answer in 17 words! These 17 words are "Liang Zhi is big and does not see opportunities, more resourceful and less decisive, good soldiers but no power", Sima Yi's words mean that Zhuge Liang went against the tide, Shu Han had restraints on him, and he himself did not have a domineering decision, so he could not defeat the Wei army and could not unify the three kingdoms! Do you agree with Sima Yi's views on this? Welcome to leave a message to discuss
(This article mainly refers to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of Jin)