In 221 AD, Liu Bei led a large army to kill Eastern Wu with great momentum. The slogan he shouted was to avenge Guan Yu, but Liu Bei's real intention was also obvious: to annex Eastern Wu and increase his strength.
At this time, Lü Meng had died, and Eastern Wu seemed to have fallen into an overwhelmed situation, and such Eastern Wu was simply vulnerable to Liu Bei. However, Liu Bei did not know that his battle would make great contributions to the establishment of a new commander of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Eastern Wu.
Before Lu Xun was the commander of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Eastern Wu, lü Meng changed Lu Su's erroneous policy of joining Forces with Liu, returned to an active offensive strategy, and recaptured Jingzhou from Guan Yu. However, Lü Meng died of illness before the new policy of Eastern Wu was released, which aroused Liu Bei's desire to swallow Wu and raise troops to fight.
The Battle of Yiling in Wushu was actually unremarkable to me, and the gap in strength between the two sides was actually not large, and it was not possible to say that less was more than enough. This issue has been discussed in many articles and will not be repeated here. Curiously, Lu Xun, who was extremely in favor of attacking Jingzhou, did not oppose returning to the track of Lian Liu after winning the Battle of Yiling, and this huge contrast between the previous and the latter made many people unclear. Does Lu Xun support Lian Liu or support Swallow Liu? Or does he have other ideas? It depends on how he presents his ideas to Sun Quan.
In his bones, Lu Xun should be inclined to an offensive strategy. When he was still young, he advised Sun Quan to say: "Fang Jin's hero is sloppy, the rich wolf is bullish, the enemy is in chaos, and the crowd is not good." And the old evil of the mountain is deep in the ground. The husband's heart is not flat, it is difficult to go far, but most of them can take their elite. For the barbarians, Lu Xun did not intend to adopt any offensive strategy like Ma Mo and Zhuge Liang, And Lu Xun's idea was to completely level shanyue and expand himself with the power of shanyue. This is consistent with Cao Cao's strategy against Karasuma, which is the idea of cutting grass and removing roots. Judging from the effects of the three kingdoms in dealing with the barbarians, the State of Wu was obviously very successful. Although Cao Cao dealt a devastating blow to Wu Huan, after all, he created a chaotic farce with xianbei and other ethnic minorities during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Zhuge Liang's so-called strategy of attacking the heart was actually unsuccessful, because he walked on the front foot, and the south was brutal and rebellious on the back foot, and it was only later that Li Hui used force to finally cut off the troubles of the south. After Eastern Wu's three large-scale military raids by Lu Xun and Zhuge Ke, Shanyue soon disappeared from history, and Eastern Wu obtained many brave and good soldiers from Shanyue.
On the Jingzhou issue, Lu Xun, like Lü Meng, supported the seizure of Jingzhou by force and personally planned and implemented this strategy. He once said to Lü Meng: "Guan Yu is in the border, how to go far down, and then should not be worried?" Yu Is humble and angry, and he is a man. There was great merit in the beginning, and it was intended to be proud and ambitious, but to go north, not to be afraid of me, and to have heard of sickness, it will be beneficial and unprepared. Now it is unexpected, and it can be made of poultry. See the Supreme, it is advisable to plan. It can be seen that Lu Xun had specific measures on how to kill Guan Yu early on.
But what is doubtful is that Lu Xun actually made a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn after adopting a tough policy against Liu Bei at the Battle of Yiling, and tried to promote Liu Liu. The reason for this is that the situation has changed radically at that time. Lü Meng died prematurely, his strategy was not mentioned for the time being, and he also looked at Zhou Yu. The background of his proposal of the world's half-point plan was Cao Cao's new defeat at Chibi, internal turmoil, and the strength of the northwest was not bad, which could be strong reinforcements, and Liu Bei was weak and could be annexed. However, after Lu Su's seven-year joint Liu policy, the situation has changed beyond recognition. Cao Wei's internal stability was gradually stable, there was no room to drill for the time being, the northwest power had been eliminated, there was no other choice for allies, Liu Bei whale swallowed the Western Shu Hanzhong, and was no longer the rookie of the past. Under such circumstances, Zhou Yu's half-point plan was obviously completely unworkable.
However, eastern Wu junchen had previously agreed that Liu Bei's army was extremely unreliable, so why did Lu Xun promote an alliance between the two sides? The situation is also different. In Liu Bei's heyday, he crossed the Jing Dynasty and hid his sword in the smile of Eastern Wu, which not only posed a serious threat to Eastern Wu, but also occupied Jingzhou, a strategic place in Eastern Wu, so Eastern Wu had to point the spearhead at Liu Bei. However, after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang changed his strategy, no longer had any intentions against Eastern Wu, but sincerely wanted the two families to unite, turning the muzzle of the gun on Cao Wei. Liu Bei was unreliable, but Zhuge Liang, a hardcore pro-Wu faction, still deserved to be regarded as an ally.
Although Sun Liu's re-alliance was almost a hit-and-go, Eastern Wu at this time also faced an unavoidable question: where was the road to development. Zhou Yu's earlier plan of the Western Shu can pass, and the northwest can also pass. Eastern Wu can consider, one is Huainan, Xuzhou, and the other is overseas. However, earlier Lü Meng had opposed Sun Quan's strategic plan to seize Huainan and Xuzhou, and Lü Meng said: "Now that Cao is far away in Hebei, he has newly broken through the Yuan Dynasty, and has not had time to look east. Xu Tu guarded the soldiers, smelled nothing, and went to self-keke. However, the terrain is land- and the horses are ridden, and the Supreme Being has Xuzhou today, and he will come to fight after the end of the exercise, although he will guard it with 70,000 or 80,000 people, he should be worried. It can be seen that the Northern Expedition is not a good way, under the cavalry superiority of the State of Wei, Xuzhou is easy to gain and lose, and the investment in the Northern Expedition may be difficult for the State of Wu to bear. This was already reflected in the later Eastern Wu's repeated use of troops against Hefei without progress.
So what about continuing to develop south? Lu Xun said to Sun Quan: "The subjects have thought about it repeatedly, but they have not seen the benefits, they have attacked from thousands of miles, the winds and waves are unpredictable, the people are easy to water and soil, and they will cause diseases and epidemics. And the pearl cliff is extremely dangerous, and the people are like animals and beasts, and their people are not enough to help, and their soldiers are not enough to lose the people. "At that time, the development of the southern coastal areas was seriously backward, just like Lu Xun said, it was useless to occupy them, and it was not a loss to abandon them, so why waste manpower and material resources to engage in that shadowless thing?" If the country is unified, it is not impossible to allocate some funds for development, but now is a delicate period of confusion.
Some people may say that you can fight from Jingzhou. This is too terrible, Eastern Wu has just engaged in a sneak attack behind the back to get Jingzhou, although it is allied with Shu, but after all, the rift still exists, who dares to guarantee that Shu Han will not come to a tit-for-tat? Jingzhou was the throat of Eastern Wu, and could not be used to verify whether Shu Han was sincerely allied, and once the experiment failed, Eastern Wu would suffer heavy losses and could not be repaired. Therefore, the Eastern Wu junchen never talked about the Northern Expedition from Jingzhou since the Battle of Yiling.
Moreover, the most crucial thing was that Cao Wei did not leave Eastern Wu with the vacancies after the defeat of Chibi.
In this way, the three roads of Eastern Wu are completely blocked.
This is a serious consequence of Lu Su's strategy of joining forces with Liu, and the firm momentum has been achieved, and even if he is as capable as Lu Xun, he will not be able to solve this situation. Moreover, at this time, Sun Quan also changed, he favored Lü Yi to let him have his dictatorship, and he began to suspect the heavy subjects... Some were for political purposes, some were to pave the way for the prince, but it was obvious that Sun Quan was a little out of the ordinary.
Under such circumstances, Lu Xun's choice can only be to fight for development. He said to Sun Quan: "The subject is foolish to think that the four seas are undecided, and when the people's strength is needed, to help the current affairs... To control chaos and rebellion, the soldiers must be the mighty, the peasants must be clothed and fed, and the people's own business, while the people are not killed, and the people are hungry and cold. The subjects think that it is advisable to raise the people, to forgive their rents, to make peace with the people, to persuade the brave, then the river can be peaceful, and the nine have one unification. In fact, although Eastern Wu reluctantly made many attempts at Hefei, but all of them were fruitless, Eastern Wu really had no other choice.
During the Lu Resistance period, the State of Wu was already a yellow flower after the autumn, the emperor fainted, the traitor Yu Yinglu, Zhuge Ke, Sun Jun, Sun Qiang... The courtiers hurried through the stage of history like a marquee.
Like his father, Lu Kang could not reverse this passive situation, and his only choice was to constantly give the imperial court a table, engage in internal affairs, impeach the courtiers, and at this time, Eastern Wu even had the policy of joining Forces during the Lu Xun period to exist in name only. Lu Kang said in Shangshu: "There is no aid from the state outside the country, the strength of the Western Chu within, the late administration of the government, the unworthiness of the people, and the fear of the deliberators, the mountains of Changchuan, and the restriction of the sealing of the territory, this is the last thing of the country, and the non-wise are the first." It can be seen that at this time, Eastern Wu has become a caged bird, and only the Yangtze River is in danger of surviving. Lu Kang could only expect a miracle, and his miracle was that the enemy made a low-level mistake. He later said in Shangshu: "It is advisable to take the initiative to make small rules, and with the strength of the animals and the people, to observe the quarrels and serve the gaps, and to have no regrets." ”
History is fair, and it provides another opportunity for Eastern Wu. From 251 to 257 AD, a series of rebellions broke out in the Huainan region of the Wei state due to dissatisfaction with the dictatorship of the Sima family, and Wen Qin, Yuqiu Jian, Zhuge Shi, and others stirred up the chickens and dogs in the Huainan region. This was a perfect opportunity, but unfortunately, at this time, the situation in Eastern Wu was not much stronger than that in Huainan, and the opportunity flashed in the hands of Sun Jun and Sun Qiang, two strategic idiots, and Lu Kang did not even participate in it.
Although Lu Kang later wiped his ass once for Sun Hao's tyranny in Xiling, this was more like the last flash of the cul-de-sac of Eastern Wu. History was cruel again, and there was no chance for Eastern Wu to rise again.
Looking back on the past, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu swept through Jiangdong vividly, and their heroic appearance and demeanor were just like yesterday. Eastern Wu was once so sunny, so vigorous and energetic, that people could shed tears of joy and excitement for them. With the passage of time, the death of a generation of heroes Zhou Yu caused the rapid decline of Eastern Wu, and Lu Su's wrong strategy deprived Eastern Wu of its best and only chance to rise. One wrong step, one wrong step. Eastern Wu had the opportunity to end this chaotic world early, but the wheel of history was like lightning, leaving behind a broken Eastern Wu and countless heroic souls wandering among Wu and Chu who did not want to leave.