"Wolong Phoenix, one of the two, can be safe in the world." This is a sentence from Sima Hui, a reclusive person in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, to Liu Bei, mainly to express the high evaluation of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, the two great sages, in addition, it can be seen that the two are basically equal in name and comparable. So if Pang Tong led his troops to fight Sima Yi for Zhuge Liang, what would be the result?
Zhuge Liang came to visit Liu Bei three times, and Zhuge Liang sketched out the great strategic concept of "three parts of the world" for Liu Bei, and at Liu Bei's gracious invitation, he went out of the mountains, served as a military division, led Guan Zhang Zhao and other generals to continuously conquer and win, and finally assisted Liu Bei to become emperor, helping him establish the foundation of Shu Han that "there is one in three parts of the world".
After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang continued to assist Liu Chan, the lord of the later dynasty, first reconciled with Eastern Wu, stabilized internal affairs, recruited troops and horses, and then led a large army to march south, so that the southern barbarians submitted to Shu Han, and the south was established, leading the northern expedition, six out of qishan, and striving to achieve, and striving to achieve the grand cause of restoring the Central Plains, bowing down to exhaustion, and then dying.
However, "before the division was killed", Zhuge Liang bowed down and led the Northern Expedition six times, seeing that success was imminent, but the Wei monarch reinstated Sima Yi, whose strategy was no less than that of Sima Yi, and he could not hold out in the face of Zhuge Liang's constant shouting, and the long-term strategy of avoiding war dragged down the Shu army in time.
In the end, due to a series of reasons such as the loss of the street pavilion, Zhuge Liang died of illness at the end of the Northern Expedition, and passed away with endless regret and unwillingness.
And Pang Tong, from the perspective of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms alone, is more inclined to Zhuge Liang in terms of performance, so the description of Pang Tong is relatively small, but it makes people feel that Pang Tong is not as good as Zhuge Liang, in fact, Pang Tong does not have enough performance opportunities.
When Eastern Wu broke Cao Cao' occasion, Zhou Yu died after the Battle of Chibi, Lu Su recommended Pang Tong to Sun Quan, at that time Sun Quan was in a bad mood due to Zhou Yu's death, seeing that Pang Tong looked ugly, Sun Quan saw that he was even more displeased, directly perfunctorily sent him away, and then surrendered to Liu Bei under zhuge Liang's recommendation.
However, he did not give Much force to Liu Bei, and on the way to capture Huaichuan, he was fired by ten thousand arrows and died in Luofengpo, which can be said to be very wronged, if there was no such thing, how many chances would Pang Tong have against Sima Yi later?
First of all, as far as Zhuge Liang is concerned, he is best at governing internal affairs, and from the perspective of the list of teachers presented to Liu Chan before his Northern Expedition, combined with the current situation, he proposed a governing strategy for Liu Chan from many aspects such as "the imperial court, the imperial palace, internal affairs, and employing people".
In terms of military affairs, Zhuge Liang's style was to seek stability, and the cautious Zhuge Liang chose to go out of Qishan several times in the Northern Expedition and gave up the other two roads that were originally available, because he was not willing to take risks, wanted to win in stability, and even in the end he was unwilling to choose to use Wei Yan's risky strategy.
On the other hand, the style of Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang is somewhat opposite, the style of behavior is more radical, popularly speaking, it is a fanatical militant radical, Pang Tong originally belonged to Eastern Wu, Sun Liu joined forces, and when he united against Cao, he proposed to Sun Quan to detain Liu Bei in Jiangdong, but it was not adopted by Sun Quan at that time, and later after submitting to Liu Bei, he also generously admitted this matter.
After surrendering to Liu Bei, he followed Liu Bei to attack xichuan, at that time Liu Bei did not choose to take Zhuge Liang but took Pang Tong, at that time Pang Tong offered Liu Bei a plan to "take a decisive policy, leading the strong general to take Chengdu directly" but was not taken by Liu Bei, and after entering Xichuan, Liu Zhang feasted on Liu Bei, pang Tong proposed that "the axe hand is on both sides, and the cup is thrown, and it is removed." ”
However, Liu Bei disagreed, saying that "Liu Zhang is my fellow sect and cannot bear to take it" In the end, he still did not get his hands on it, although in the end he still won Xichuan, but it took a lot of trouble. It can be seen from this that the strategies of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong have essential differences, one seeking victory in stability, the other seeking wealth and danger, and it can even be said that it is two extremes.
We all know that during the First Northern Expedition, Sima Yi was exiled, so he did not fight zhuge Liang, when the Northern Expedition was facing Cao Zhen, a famous general in the second generation of Cao Wei, who reused Ma Mo only because he did not remember the advice given to him by Liu Bei, and the result was that "carelessly lost the street pavilion" led to the failure of the first Northern Expedition.
If at this time cao is really Pang Tong, then it is impossible to carelessly lose the situation of the street pavilion, Pang Tong may not use the horse at all, the street pavilion will not be lost, the situation of the first Northern Expedition will be further expanded, in the absence of Sima Yi, it may be possible to break through the bamboo and reach Chang'an, and the fate of Shu Han may not be able to turn around.
What would be the result if He used Pang Tong's radical tactics to face Sima Yi? In the early days, when Zhuge Liang was fighting against Sima Yi, the two sides still fought, and it had to be said that if the military side was superior to Zhuge Liang's Pang Tong, the advantage gained must be greater than Zhuge Liang's.
However, this practice will only allow Sima Yi to turn into strategic defense earlier, and Pang Tong will only let Sima Yi enter the state of "avoiding war and not being able to get out" earlier, because no matter who it is, he will lead the army to fight for a long time, face the problem of food, and cannot withstand long-term consumption, if Pang Tong is in a state of attack for a long time, then grain will undoubtedly become the primary problem.
In addition, Pang Tong's radical methods were also not conducive to the submission of the local people's hearts, as far as the Tianshui War was concerned, Zhuge Liang adopted Jiang Wei by peaceful means, and passed on all he had learned to Jiang Wei, taking it into consideration, so that Shu Han would succeed him.
If according to the advice given by Pang Tong in Eastern Wu and Xichuan before, it is not impossible to directly lead the troops to take tough measures to directly attack down, once this is done, whether Jiang Wei can return to Shu Han has become unknown, and the difficulty of attacking the city has also increased to a certain extent.
Moreover, according to the description in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, when facing the Wei army's grain shortage tactics, Zhuge Liang created a "wooden cow and a horse" to transport grain to the Shu army, which greatly solved the grain and grass problem of the Shu army.
To sum up, if Pang Tong fought against Sima Yi, the early stage of adopting an attack-based war strategy might taste a little sweetness, but in the face of the Great Wei Dynasty, which was so powerful and powerful, it was impossible to win in the short term, so the shortcomings of Pang Tong's radical tactics would soon appear.
Later, in the face of Sima Yi's insistence, Pang Tong would not have a better way to obtain grain and grass from the Layers of Blockade of the Wei Army, and Sima Yi's delaying tactics would soon cause the Shu state to collapse into an army. Therefore, even if Pang Tong commanded the Northern Expedition, it might hasten the defeat of Shu Han.
The best way is to compromise the tactics of the two, Pang Tong led the northern expedition with the help of Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang stabilized the rear, while guarding the family while giving advice, the two complemented each other, complementary advantages, Tun army Weinan, in order to make a protracted war, can change the final fate of the Shu state, it is not impossible to take the Central Plains in one fell swoop.