In history, some wars have indeed been lost, but after unintentional operation, the battle was finally reversed, and today, I will take you to understand the battle of Huanwen and Shu.
Huan Wen was a man of great strategy and talent, and in 346 AD, he sent an army to destroy Shu in one fell swoop.
In this battle, Huan Wen led his army to go deep alone, abandoning reinforcements, and once he was defeated, there was no way back.
Li Shi, the emperor of Western Shu, only cared about pleasure and did not care about the life and death of the country, and was a completely dimwitted monarch. After Huan Wen entered the Shu land, he did not encounter much resistance, and soon he led his army closer to the hinterland of Bashu.
At this time, Li Shi learned that Huan Wen led the army to attack, was shocked, organized the strength of the resistance, the senior generals were also very confused, constantly quarreling, and there was no complete battle plan, resulting in the Jin army driving straight in, only a hundred miles from Chengdu.
Huan Wen had few soldiers, but morale was high, and there were many Shu soldiers, but their command was not unified, the people's hearts were scattered, and they were not opponents of the Jin army at all, and the whole line was defeated.
The Jin army approached the zuó bridge two kilometers southeast of Chengdu, where the two sides fought to the death.
Huan Wen's general Yuan Qiao was the forward, leading the army to lead the way, but there was still no progress, the Shu army broke out in danger, the Jin army attack line was shaken, Huan Wen decided to withdraw the army, to avoid the total annihilation of the army.
The commander was very frightened when he found that the battle line was about to collapse, and under extreme nervousness, he passed on the drumming sound that was originally going to be sung and collected into a drumming march, rumbling war drums, and the Jin army was beaten dizzy and did not know the battle situation. Thinking that the enemy had been defeated, he began a counter-offensive.
Yuan Qiao saw this situation and turned around and rushed into the enemy position, and the Shu army was also stunned when it saw this situation, and the army was in chaos and retreated on all sides.
After the defeat of the Shu army, Li Shi led his cronies to flee, and there was no way to go, so he sent Huan Wen to the surrender table, and Huan Wen finally sent him to Jiankang, where he was canonized as Guiyi Hou, lived for another 14 years, and died of illness in Jiankang.
The commotion of the messengers successfully reversed the tide of battle, and Huan Wen successfully destroyed Shu.