The Romance of the Three Kingdoms may have been seen by everyone, and the plot about the three kingdoms fighting in it is very exciting, and the characters in the Three Kingdoms are also lamentable.
Among the many figures in the Three Kingdoms, one of the dominant figures was Zhuge Liang, as a military division of Shu Han, who repeatedly turned Liu Bei into danger, and finally won a place in the hands of Eastern Wu and Cao Wei, helping Liu Bei establish Shu Han.
Later, he did his best to assist the young lord Liu Chan, but the timing was not good, and after the mistakes in the decision-making of the first Northern Expedition, he laid down the situation of inevitable defeat, and finally died of exhaustion, so what happened in the first Northern Expedition?
Zhuge Liang, as one of the best strategists in the Three Kingdoms, was highly skilled, and the use of Yang conspiracies was even more amazing, and he could also divinate the celestial elephants and meet people. Zhuge Liang's skills are only to assist Ming jun, so as to achieve a career with his own skills. Later, there was Liu Beisan Gu Maolu, and then asked Zhuge Liang to go out of the mountains to be his own military division and manage the overall situation for himself.
When the Shu Han Dynasty was not established, Zhuge Liang, as a military master, gave advice and counsel for Liu Bei and won many wars, many of which were won with less and more, and victory over the superior with the inferior. Zhuge Liang not only knew how to strategize in the war, but also knew how to buy people's hearts, plus a monarch like Liu Bei, who was very righteous and sensible, and gained a lot of good ministers and strong generals.
Under Zhuge Liang's strategy, Liu Bei joined forces with Eastern Wu to defeat Cao Wei and win the Battle of Chibi. Subsequently, Liu Bei occupied the Hanzhong region and determined the scene of the three kingdoms of Shu, Wu, and Wei, and then the Shu Han unified Yizhou and Jingzhou with a single blow, and established the state as Ji Han. Finally, after several years of conquest, the territory of the Shu Han was basically determined.
Not long after, Liu Bei died of illness, the White Emperor was entrusted with isolation, and Zhuge Liang was in danger and became the true ruler of Shu Han.
Although Liu Bei told Zhuge Liang that if Liu Chan could not govern the country, he could take his place, but Zhuge Liang was a man of honor and integrity, and he would not do such a thing as the following, so he spent his whole life in order to support the Han Room, which also led to the fact that he had already said this after bowing down and dying.
Shortly after Liu Bei's death, there was a riot in the southern part of the Shu Han Dynasty, and because the south was relatively remote and had not yet been vigorously developed, there were relatively few garrisons, and the south fell into the hands of others. Later, Zhuge Liang sent troops to attack the south, seven captured and seven released Meng, and pacified the entire region in one fell swoop, and then, the materials in the south began to be developed, and the Shu Han grew a part.
After quelling the rebellion in the south, Zhuge Liang began to analyze the situation in the Three Kingdoms in front of him. Among them, Cao Wei was the most powerful, occupying the Central Plains with abundant materials, and the troops were strong and strong, while Eastern Wu, although not as good as Cao Wei, occupied the rich Jiangdong region, with high grain production, so there was enough grain and grass, and there were more troops.
Shu Han was supposed to be the weakest of the Three Kingdoms, with scarce materials and the fewest troops. Therefore, after zhuge liang thought about it again, he decided to join forces with Eastern Wu to jointly resist Cao Wei.
At that time, Cao Wei was at war with Eastern Wu, and although Eastern Wu said that he would not fall behind for a while and a half, Cao Wei was after all a lot of people, and in the long run, Eastern Wu would certainly not be able to resist, and Zhuge Liang also gave three cities to show enough sincerity. Therefore, Eastern Wu and Shu Han joined forces against Wei.
After Zhuge Liang reached an alliance with Eastern Wu, he still felt that Cao Wei's power was too large, and the best way for future development was to attack instead of defend, even if he could not defeat Cao Wei, he could also contain the development of Cao Wei, due to the reasons of Eastern Wu, Shu Han launched a war Cao Wei certainly did not dare to use too many troops to attack Shu Han.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang began to plan the direction of the attack, thinking about it and deciding to fight directly from the Hanzhong region to the Chang'an area. After deciding on the general direction of the attack, Zhuge Liang began to prepare for the Northern Expedition.
Zhuge Liang, in order to have an extra layer of insurance, also alienated the western tribes and Cao Wei, so Cao Wei in the east faced war with Eastern Wu, and the west was harassed by other tribes from time to time.
Zhuge Liang felt that the time had come, and the random dispatch of troops used more than half of the domestic troops, and even dozens of strong generals led by Zhao Yun, attacked Cao Wei in two ways. The first Northern Expedition was a great success, capturing three cities in a row, but Cao Jun was not a vegetarian. Under the sudden attack of the Shu state, the Cao army immediately dispatched troops and combined with the local troops in Liangzhou to counterattack the Shu Han.
The Cao army formed a siege against the Shu army with reinforcements and garrisons, but with zhuge Liang's command, the counterattack of the Cao army did not achieve much effect. In the case of fruitless onslaught, Cao Jun chose to find another way, scouting the grain and grass of Shu Han in the area of Jieting.
Cao Jun's advisers offered advice, and let a general attack the street kiosk with 5,000 elite soldiers, as long as the grain and grass of the Shu army were burned, and there were no reserve resources, the Shu army would not be able to break itself.
Immediately, the Cao general Zhang Gao led the army to lead troops to attack the street pavilion. For the deployment of the street kiosks, Zhuge Liang chose the general Ma Mo, whom he trusted more. The Shu army of the street pavilion deployed a full of 30,000 people, and it is reasonable to say that the 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Cao army could not have any influence on the street pavilion, so when he got the news that the Cao army was rushing to attack the street pavilion, Zhuge Liang did not set up reinforcements to help the street pavilion.
However, what Zhuge Liang did not expect was that Ma Mo was arrogant, and Zhang Gao used a ruse to make the street pavilion defenders gradually defeated. In the end, Ma Mo unexpectedly fled with thousands of people, the street pavilion was occupied by the Cao army, and the grain and grass reserves of the Shu Han were also cut off.
When the news of the loss of the street kiosk came out, Zhuge Liang was stunned, and he did not expect to calculate such a crucial point. A few days later, Ma Mo fled with his soldiers and horses to the base camp of the Shu Kingdom, and Ma Mo wanted to complain when he saw Zhuge Liang. In order not to shake the hearts of the army, Zhuge Liang cut off Ma Chen with tears.
The loss of the street pavilion led to the Shu state not having the resources to advance any further, so Zhuge Liang decided to return to the dynasty, and the first Northern Expedition ended in failure.
In this war, Shu Han suffered a lot of losses, not only the cities and pools that had been captured before were returned to Cao Wei as they were, but also ten generals were also damaged in the army, in addition to Ma Chen, who had been beheaded before, there were also nine people such as Yang Qun, Ma Yu, Yan Zhi, Ding Li, Bai Shou, Liu Guo, and Deng Tong who were killed in the war.
The most heart-wrenching thing is that Zhao Yun was plagued by illness and died not long after the First Northern Expedition. At this point, Shu Han had lost eleven tiger generals. The loss of the generals was too much, and the military strength of the Shu state was weakened from then on, which also made the subsequent Northern Expedition war gain little, and all of them ended in failure. Finally, Zhuge Liang died, and Shu Han was annexed by Cao Wei.
Zhuge Liang's mistakes in employing people led to the defeat of the Northern Expedition, and the generals suffered too many losses, which also led to no one available behind them, laying hidden dangers for the demise of Shu Han. Wars are inherently lost and won, but the defeat of some wars determines the rise and fall of a country.