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Introduction: "There are talented people in the Jiangshan Dynasty, and each has led the way for hundreds of years", Zhuge Liang, a minister of the Shu State, is one of these people. He can not only govern the country, but also train troops to fight, and even has the special function of knowing astronomy and geography, such a person is simply a strange person who is rare in a hundred years. So is he really supernatural, or is he vain? Today we will talk about a story that happened to Zhuge Liang.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that on the eve of Zhuge Liang's northern expedition to Cao Wei, the veteran general of the Shu state, Wei Yan, offered him a plan - zhuge liang could lead a large army to attack from the front, while he himself only needed to prepare five thousand elite troops, copy the meridian valley path in Qinling, and kill Cao Wei by surprise, as long as the grain and grass were sufficient, there was no need to worry. But Zhuge Liang stopped him, Zhuge Liang thought this plan was too risky, wei Yan thought he was too timid.
The Meridian Valley was the closest road from Hanzhong to the Wei state of Chang'an, and the whole process was extremely hidden, and it was difficult for the enemy to detect, if there was no emergency on the way, then the expected effect must be achieved. However, Zhuge Liang's consideration is not entirely unreasonable, as the most rugged of the six roads in qinling, it is sandwiched between two mountains, dangerous and unpredictable, but whenever the enemy sets up an ambush here, it is as easy as catching turtles in an urn; and there is no one in all directions, and army supply is the primary problem.
Although Wei Yan's suggestions were not successfully adopted, many military generals flocked to this area since then. For example, Cao Zhen, a general of the State of Wei, took a risk during a campaign against the Shu Kingdom. When Cao Zhen led the mighty army to the Meridian Valley, it was the rainy season, many boardwalks were swept by rain, he led the troops while building roads, the originally dangerous place is now more difficult to move, and finally the large army walked for a whole month and did not complete half of the road, and had no choice but to return to the original road. In addition to Cao Zhen, Sima Xun of the Eastern Jin Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties also tried to lead his troops through the Meridian Valley and directly go north to raid And attack Former Qin, who knew that Former Qin had already prepared, and they set up an ambush in advance, resulting in Sima Xun's fiasco.
More than a thousand years later, Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the peasant army during the Ming Dynasty, planned to sneak through the Meridian Valley to sneak into Xi'an, but history is always strikingly similar, and Sun Chuanting set up an ambush in advance, resulting in the destruction of Gao Chuangwang's entire army. The timeline shifted to the Republic of China years, the Nationalist general Wang Yaowu once again tried to sneak into Xi'an from the Meridian Valley, and as a result, the army marched to the halfway point, the mountain road was too steep, the supply was not enough, and it was still deserted and fled. Is this a response to the old saying: "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer losses in front of you"?