The Battle of Mianzhu was the last battle before the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, before that, the 140,000 main force of the Wei general Zhong Hui was blocked by Jiang Wei in the Sword Pavilion, and it was already intended to retreat, and once The Zhong Hui retreated, it meant the defeat of the Wei State's Battle of Shu.
But unexpectedly, Deng Ai, who was initially strongly opposed to Shu (the General Deng Ai of Zhengxi thought that Shu had not provoked and repeatedly disagreed with It), took 20,000 soldiers around the Sword Pavilion and forcibly marched 700 miles from the Yinping No Man's Land into the hinterland of Shu Han.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Deng Ai smuggled into Yinping, completely changing the situation between the Wei and Shu armies. </h1>
Due to the surrender of Jiangyou Shou's general Ma Mi and the opening of the Yizhou Plain, the main force of the Shu Han Dynasty led by Jiang Wei was thousands of miles away and could not quickly return to help. Therefore, the key to whether Shu Han could turn the crisis into safety was whether the remaining troops in Chengdu could defeat Deng Ai.
According to the "Book of Jin and Emperor Wen", "90,000 Shu warriors, no less than 40,000 in Chengdu and Beita County", although the Chengdu garrison was not elite in hundreds of battles, it was still more numerous than Deng Ai's Wei army in terms of numbers, and it was still able to fight a battle.
However, in the selection of generals in Shu Han, Liu Chan refused the request of the Annan general Huo Yi to lead the troops, and instead chose the military division general Zhuge Zhan. Zhuge Zhan was the son of Zhuge Liang, and he successively served in the Shu Han regime as a cavalry lieutenant, a yulin lieutenant general, a shangshu servant, a military division general, and a xingdu escort general, but these official positions had no actual experience in leading troops except for representing Zhuge Zhan's higher rank.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > and the opponent Zhuge Zhan will face is Deng Ai, who has been fighting with Jiang Wei on the front line for many years and has rich combat experience. Liu Chan's insistence on letting Zhuge Zhan, who had never brought soldiers, to meet the enemy did bring "evil consequences." </h1>
In the winter of the sixth year of Jing Yao (263 AD), after Zhuge Zhan led tens of thousands of troops to Fu County, he did not heed the advice of Shang Shulang Huang Chong to seize the danger, and as a result, he was preempted by Deng Ai, and Zhuge Zhan was forced to retreat to Mianzhu.
In the Battle of Mianzhu, Zhuge Zhan gave up Jiancheng and chose to go out to fight, and as a result, the entire army was destroyed, the heads of Zhuge Zhan and Zhuge Shang's father and son were cut off by Deng Ai for merit, and the last line of defense in Chengdu was lost, and Liu Chan surrendered.
Under the premise that Jiang Wei's main force was still there and the Chengdu garrison was more than Deng Aiwei's army, the collapse of the Shu Han defense system seemed to be mainly due to Zhuge Zhan's indecisiveness and improper military decision-making.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > however, 86 years after the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, the historian Chang Xuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty accidentally obtained long-hidden historical facts from Shu when he wrote the Huayang Guozhi. </h1>
Before Zhuge Zhan sent troops, more than 10,000 of the 40,000 defenders who remained in Chengdu had been reinforced by Liao Hua and Zhang Yi, respectively, and At Yang'an Pass. The tired people of Yizhou heard that the Wei army was coming, and they "burst into the mountains" one after another, unwilling to fight for the Shu Han, and the representative of the native faction of Yizhou, Chen Zhou, vigorously advocated that the general trend had gone.
In this situation, Liu Chan abandoned the use of su generals and desperately put all his chips on Zhuge Zhan, who had never led a soldier, and his real intention was to use Zhuge Liang's prestige to rule Shu before his death to re-unite the people's hearts that had been scattered.
In fact, in the first battle of Mianzhu, in the face of the elite Wei army that came from a surprise and danger, the temporarily assembled Shu Han defenders did indeed burst out of amazing combat effectiveness under the command of Zhuge Zhan, Shi Zai: "Ai Shuzi Hui Tangting Hou Zhong waited for his right, Sima Shilu waited for his left. Loyalty and the battle were unfavorable, and returned, that is: the thief is not attackable," Zhuge Zhan once fought against the Wei army with plans to retreat, and Deng Ai had to threaten to behead the prime minister and urge the Wei army to fight to the death. In the end, Zhuge Zhan, who had no combat experience, did not last to the end.
As soon as Zhuge Zhan died, the Shu Han soldiers immediately appeared "all scattered", which is enough to show that nearly 30 years after Zhuge Liang's death, Zhuge Shi is still very appealing in Shuzhong.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > and another thing recorded in the Huayang Guozhi again confirms this:</h1>
After Zhuge Zhan's death, his head was cut off by Deng Ai, but the body was mysteriously missing. Soon, Shudi began to spread that "Zhuge Zhan fought with Deng Ai in Mianzhuye, when he died and lost, or Yan Sheng fled deeply", 5 years after Zhuge Zhan's death in battle, a soldier named Wang Fu, because of his appearance like Zhuge Zhan, claimed that Zhuge Du was guarding Linqiong to raise troops, and actually got the response of the original Shu Han soldiers (Zhan Zhan's soldiers looked like Zhan, so they were rich and false).
From the initial understated sentence "This nephew of the Xiahou clan also" won the surrender of Xiahou Ba's true heart, and then later insisted on using Zhuge Zhan as a marshal, Liu Chan was not the faint and incompetent person in his impression, but was very much of an imperial means. Unfortunately, the national strength of Shu Han is far from being comparable to That of Cao Wei, and the fall of Shu Han is inevitable.