In the Three Kingdoms of Wei Shu and Wu, Cao Cao's official eunuch family had deep family roots, Sun Quan sat on the Jiangshan laid down by his father Sun Jian and his brother Sun Ce, but Liu Bei's foundation was the shallowest, and there was a name after King Jing of Zhongshan, and the others had nothing, and they were really self-made tyrants.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the heroes of the world flocked out, there are many haojie who are better than Liu Beipai, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, etc., why can Liu Bei stand out and finally be juxtaposed with Cao Cao and Sun Quan?
Chen Haonan came out to mix, relying on the three things of "fierce enough, righteous, and brotherly", the latter two aside, Liu Bei was fierce enough to be obvious.
Liu Bei defected to Tao Qian, and soon after Tao Qian's father and son died, Liu Bei became the Assassin of Xuzhou; when Liu Bei surrendered to Cao Cao, Cao Cao treated him quite well, so that he could be made a general of Zuo, but Liu Bei was ready to assassinate Cao Cao; when Liu Bei surrendered to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao left the city for two hundred miles to greet him, but Liu Bei was busy cultivating his own forces all day, and did not cooperate with the task of attacking Cao, and Yuan Shao was defeated at Guandu. After that, Liu Bei defected to Liu Biao, and Liu Bei helped Liu Zhang. Anyway, the reason why Liu Bei defected to whom and who was unlucky was that he was fierce enough.
In the chaotic world, if you want to be rich and prosperous, if you want to have great power, you can't talk about benevolence and righteousness, only if you are fierce and fierce, even if you treat your former benefactors. The difference is that Cao Cao said, "I'd rather bear the world's people than the world's people bear me", nakedly saying that even if he killed the benefactor, he would not feel guilty, Liu Bei was good at disguise, and only did not say.
Fierce heart, cold-blooded and ruthless, no guilt, this is a typical imperial personality, so the ancient king called himself "widow", "lonely" and so on. But there are exceptions to everything, and Liu Bei himself once said that he was ashamed of Huang Quan, who defected to the State of Wei.
After Huang Quan defected to Cao Pi, according to the regulations at that time, Huang Quan's family would be imprisoned and dealt with according to the seriousness of the situation, the most serious of which was the three ethnic groups. However, Liu Bei issued an instruction saying: "Huang Quan is alone, and the right is not to bear the responsibility of being lonely", which means that Huang Quan has not done anything wrong. As a result, Huang Quan's family still enjoys the previous treatment. Later, Huang Quan's son Huang Chongguan zhi Shang Shulang, in the Battle of Wei to destroy Shu, Huang Chong followed Zhuge Zhan to meet Deng Ai, but unfortunately Zhuge Zhan did not listen to Huang Chong's persuasion, and eventually missed the opportunity, and Huang Chong's lone army fought to the death.
So, what is the origin of this Huang Quan, who makes Liu Bei ashamed, and what is his extraordinary experience?
Huang Quan was not Liu Bei's old subordinate, he was initially a subordinate of Liu Zhang, and like Liu Ba and others, when Liu Zhang planned to welcome Liu Bei into Shu to assist in the attack on Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, he objected, believing that Liu Bei was very likely to occupy the magpie's nest. But Liu Zhang not only did not listen, but also sent Huang Quan to Guanghan County.
After Liu Zhang surrendered to Liu Bei, Huang Quan submitted to Him and was awarded the title of General by Liu Bei. Considering that Liu Bei was the left general at that time, Guan Yu had just been promoted from a partial general to a general of Lang Kou, so in the Liu Bei clique at that time, the status of the partial general was not low.
After Huang Quan defected to Liu Bei, his first contribution was to suggest that Liu Bei attack Hanzhong, believing that Hanzhong was the thigh and arm of Sichuan Shu, and once Cao Cao captured Hanzhong, the land of Sichuan and Shu would inevitably be in danger. Fa Zheng's proposal to take Hanzhong was only put forward after Huang Quan, so Huang Quan was the first person Liu Bei to plot to take Hanzhong, and he had a very strategic vision. Even, Huang Quan's strategic vision may surpass Zhuge Liang's.
Through the Battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei had just captured Hanzhong, and in the distant Jingzhou region, Guan Yu also launched a major battle. Guan Yu first threatened Huaxia and defeated the Cao army, but the successive victories of the Shu state at the Battle of Hanzhong and the Battle of Xiangfan worried Eastern Wu and the State of Wei, so the two countries began to cooperate, and eventually Eastern Wu secretly attacked Jingzhou to stab Guan Yu, causing Guan Yu to defeat Maicheng.
Why did Eastern Wu sneak up on Jingzhou, and why did it sneak up on Guan Yu? First, it hoped to occupy strategically important places and prevent the enemy from using Jiangling as a base to go down the river; first, the Shu kingdom was too popular, and at that time it became the strongest of the three kingdoms, and naturally it was going to be attacked.
Guan Yu died, the strategy of reviving the Han Dynasty was frustrated, and Liu Bei was old....... A series of factors intertwined, so Liu Bei planned to attack Eastern Wu. At this time, Fa Zheng was dead, what was the opinion of Zhuge Liang and Huang Quan, two people with extremely strategic vision?
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang said: "I have tried to advise several times, but I just don't listen. Today, I will go with me to the teaching field. Later, Zhuge Liang and the Hundred Officials persuaded Liu Bei: "If you only want to cut down Wu, and order the general to unite the army to cut down Keye, why should you personally labor the holy car?" However, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and other canonical histories, there is no record of Zhuge Liang's advice, and only after the fiasco at the Battle of Yiling, he sighed: "If Fa Xiaozhi (Fa Zheng) is there, he can dominate the lord and make him not go east; (even if he cuts down Wu), he will not fall into danger (he will not lose so much). "It's a bit of an "hindsight."
Before the Battle of Yiling, who dared to say that the Battle of Wu would be 100% lost? The battle of Wu wu failed, Liu Bei was not wrong from the beginning to the end, the decision to cut Wu was not wrong, and many victories were achieved in the early stage, but later the tactics went wrong, plus he encountered a Lu Xun who opened the hanging, so it caused a catastrophe. Therefore, it is normal for Zhuge Liang not to advise, who could have predicted that Liu Bei and Feng Xi would make such a big mistake? If Zhuge Liang had advised, with Chen Shou's admiration for Zhuge Liang and the importance of the battle against Yiling, this kind of thing would have been truthfully recorded.
Zhuge Liang did not advise, but Huang Quan did, and he saw the danger before the war.
Huang Quan persuaded Liu Bei: Wu Jun biao is good at war, our waterway troops down the river, easy to advance and difficult to retreat, so I will go to the vanguard of the troops, test the wu state virtual reality, Your Majesty you sit in the rear.
In hindsight, Huang Quan's suggestion was very correct! Because of the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Yiling, it was Lu Xun who lured the enemy to go deeper, and then held the city, and the two sides fell into a stalemate, because the weather in June was too hot, Liu Bei had to abandon his boat and go ashore, setting up his military camp in the rugged mountain road of the front line for hundreds of miles, preparing to wait until autumn to fight again. Because of the distance from the country, the logistical difficulties, and the dispersion of the company battalion for a hundred miles, it gave Lu Xun the opportunity to counterattack strategically.
Like Zhuge Liang, Huang Quan did not think that cutting down Wu was wrong, but unlike Zhuge Liang, his perennial military career made him keenly aware of the dangers of "easy to advance and difficult to retreat", so he put forward cautious and prudent suggestions.
If we add the previous proposal to seize Hanzhong, we can see that when it comes to strategic vision, Huang Quan is even more clever than Zhuge Liang at that time.
Liu Bei naturally did not take Huang Quan's advice, but promoted Huang Quan to the position of general of Zhenbei and stationed him on the north bank of the Yangtze River, commanding the Northern Shu army in Jiangbei to prevent Cao Wei from attacking, and commanding himself on the Jiangnan front.
After the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei was defeated, and Lu Xun took the opportunity to cover up and use the water army to cut off the connection between the two sides of the Yangtze River of the Shu army, and also cut off Huang Quan's way back to Shu. As a result, Huang Quanbu became a lone army, unable to retreat, and forced by the situation to surrender to the State of Wei.
Back to the previous article, according to the regulations at that time, the rebels' families had to be dealt with, but Liu Bei knew that the fault was not Huang Quan, so he would say, "I am sorry for Huang Quan, and Huang Quan is not sorry for me." After that, Liu Bei asked people to continue to treat Huang Quan's family kindly. Liu Bei did not misread Huang Quan, after Liu Bei's death, Cao Wei rejoiced in the whole country, as if it were a festival, but Huang Quan did not have a smile.
Huang Quan's inability to forget his kindness (Liu Bei) and his modest and cautious attitude made Emperor Cao Pi of Wei greatly appreciate Huang Quan, and sima Yi also appreciated Huang Quan very much, and both reused Huang Quan. Huang Quan once said that he "believed sincerely with Liu Bei (Liu Bei) and Ge (Zhuge Liang)." In short, Huang Quan was unanimously recognized by the Shu Wei high-level and was a seriously underestimated genius of the Three Kingdoms.
If there had been no Battle of Yiling and Huang Quan had been in the Shu Kingdom, with his military talents, the fate of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition and the Shu State might have changed greatly.