In 221, Liu Bei ascended the throne as emperor in Chengdu, and after this, he decided to go on a crusade against Sun Quan despite the persuasion of Zhao Yun and other old ministers. When Sun Quan heard the news, he immediately sent people to ask for peace, but Liu Bei was not moved, he insisted on going his own way, and finally personally led the army to launch a large-scale war against Eastern Wu in July. At that time, the border between Eastern Wu and Shu Han had moved to the vicinity of Wushan, so Liu Bei asked Wu Ban, Feng Xi, Zhang Nan and others to lead 30,000 troops to seize the Three Gorges Gorge, the main passage between the two countries, and entered Wudi, when Liu Bei once broke through the Eastern Wu generals Li Yi and Liu A and others, and occupied Zigui. After this, Liu Bei, while stationing Huang Quan on the north bank of the Yangtze River to prevent Cao Pi from taking the opportunity to attack, on the other hand, arranged for Ma Liang to go to Wuling generation, and won the help of the local tribal leader Sha Moke, when more than 10,000 People from Wuxi Barbarians joined the Shu army and accompanied Liu Bei to attack Wu.
Sun Quan saw that the Shu army was threatening, and he had to appoint Lu Xun as the governor of the capital, commanding Zhu Ran, Pan Zhang, Han Dang, sun Huan and a total of 50,000 people to the front line to resist the Shu army, and at the same time, in order to avoid a two-front battle, Sun Quan bowed to Cao Pi. After Lu Xun became the governor of Dadu, he decided to avoid the Shu army and wait for the opportunity, so Lu Xun led his army to retreat to the Yiling area, and then confronted the Shu army here. Although Liu Bei led a large army to penetrate two or three hundred miles deep into Wu Territory, due to the Obstruction of the Wu Army, the Shu Army was difficult to penetrate, and the two armies faced each other until June. Because the Shu army was fighting across borders and had been far away from Shu for a long time, the generals were quite nostalgic for their hometown, and the heat at that time was compelling, and the soldiers were very uncomfortable, so Liu Bei had no choice but to set up the military camp in the deep mountains and dense forests. When Lu Xun saw this opportunity, he immediately burned the company camp for seven hundred miles, defeated Liu Bei, and won the victory at the Battle of Yiling.
It should be known that Liu Bei's attack on Eastern Wu this time was almost a desperate fight, but what is strange is that the generals under his command during the Eastern Expedition were not highly qualified, such as Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Wu Ban and Fu Wei, who had no record before, which made people feel very mediocre, and although Huang Quan and Ma Liang had a certain reputation, they were still not the strongest soldiers in Shu Han at that time. On the other hand, on the Eastern Wu side, whether it was Lu Xun, or Zhu Ran, Xu Sheng, and Zhu Huan, they all had certain achievements before the Battle of Yiling. You must know that although the talent of Shu Han was withering away at that time, there were still Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun, wei Yan and other people alive, why didn't Liu Bei appoint these people as generals?
In fact, this lineup is already a senior lineup that Liu Bei came up with. It should be known that the emperors of the past were personally marching, and the first-line generals led by them were actually relatively few, after all, the first-line generals were often responsible for leading an army alone, or staying in the pass, and because of this, when Liu Bei entered Sichuan, the generals led by Liu Bei were only Huang Zhong and Wei Yan, and Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei later followed Zhuge Liang into Sichuan. It was only because Huang Zhong and Wei Yan had outstanding abilities that they were brought together by Liu Bei and became well-known generals. Therefore, if Wu wu is successful, then Fu Tong, Wu Ban and others also have a great chance of being brought up by Liu Bei, and this name will go down in history.
However, in the case of Guan Yu's death, Zhang Fei's killing, and Ma Chao's inability to reuse it even if he did not die of illness, Zhao Yun in Liu Bei's hands had to sit in the rear to prevent Liu Bei from having no way to retreat, so Liu Bei asked Zhao Yun to oversee Jiangzhou to meet him, and Wei Yan wanted to guard Hanzhong, and he could not send a general to replace Wei Yan, so Wei Yan was not in Liu Bei's army. Zhuge Liang, on the other hand, had to sit in the rear and guard the base camp for Liu Bei, and could not leave, under such circumstances, Liu Bei brought Wu Ban, Chen Shi, and Liao Hua with him, which showed that Liu Bei did not take Eastern Wu lightly, and he had already prepared most of the outstanding soldiers and strategists of Shu Han in the case of shu Han talents withering away.
The author believes that if Liu Bei wins the Battle of Yiling, then these generals who followEd Liu Bei will naturally be more famous, but after Liu Bei's defeat, most of the generals either die or fall, so their reputation is not obvious. Therefore, the soldiers led by Liu Bei during the Eastern Expedition were actually the strongest lineup of Shu Han, and it can be said that Liu Bei had done his best.