Wolong Phoenix, the one who gets one can be at peace with the world. - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
As we all know, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Bei held the famous generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and there were Zhuge Kongming, Pang Tong and other great talents, which can be described as a gathering of heroes.
However, such an advantage still failed to allow Liu Bei to unify the three kingdoms. What's more, after the establishment of Shu Han, in just six or seven years, the dazzling new star of Shu Han began to fade.
For this matter, many people attribute the reason for Shu Han's loneliness to Guan Yu's death. In fact, the defeat of Shu Han was predestined as early as the time of Pang Tong's death.
Before his death, Pang Tong once said to Liu Bei: "You have been deceived by Zhuge Liang", and from this sentence analysis, the defeat of Shu Han seems to be doomed. Why? Let's take a look at it today.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > Zhuge Liang out of the mountains and Liu Bei to establish a power team</h1>
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei's turning point was during the Three Gu Maolu period, when he invited Zhuge Liang and solemnly obtained a blueprint for future development: "With Jingzhou as a springboard, develop towards the Bashu area."
Later, with the help of Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei won a crucial victory in the Battle of Chibi, and since then his life has been on the right track, and his military strength has also been greatly improved.
Later, after several years of development, Liu Bei occupied most of the Bashu area and established a political clique to compete with Cao Wei and Eastern Wu.
However, with Guan Yu being killed in Jingzhou, it caused irreparable losses to the Shu Han at that time. In anger, Liu Bei launched a war against Eastern Wu, violating Zhuge Liang's policy of "uniting with Wu to resist Cao".
As a result, in the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei was defeated and returned home for decades. Since then, Shu Han has fallen into a period of decline for a period of time, and Liu Bei can only regret being alone in the White Emperor City.
After that, although under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, Shu Han once went rich and strong, but still failed to revive the Han Room. In this regard, many people said that if Guan Yu did not die, the power of Shu Han might be stronger, and it was not impossible to chase deer from the Central Plains like Liu Bang.
In fact, if you have a certain understanding of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, you will find a very important problem: "The demise of the Shu Han Dynasty was actually highlighted before the death of Pang Tong."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > you were deceived by Zhuge Liang</h1>
It is said that after the Battle of Chibi, Pang Tong came to Liu Bei. It is written in the novel that although Pang Tong had Zhuge Liang's recommendation letter in his hand, he was useless. So for a while it was buried.
Later, because of Zhang Fei's discovery, Pang Tong ordered from a small county to become Liu Bei's military division. Perhaps because of this, Pang Tong has always felt suppressed by Zhuge Liang and wants to find an opportunity to rise.
Soon after, the opportunity finally came. After the outbreak of the Battle of Hanzhong, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Pang Tong tried his best to capture Hanzhong, but he failed to achieve his wish.
Because in Zhuge Liang's view, Pang Tong's doing so was an adventurous advance, so he said to Liu Bei: "The main general is more fierce and less auspicious." Zhuge Liang was the person Liu Bei trusted the most, so he naturally needed to consider Zhuge Liang's advice.
However, perhaps because of this, Pang Tong felt that Zhuge Liang was a little underestimating himself, and his rebellious psychology was getting heavier and heavier. So he said to Liu Bei:
"The lord was confused by Kong Ming, and he did not want to make the unification a great achievement, so he made this remark to confuse the heart of the lord." To put it simply, Pang Tong said that Zhuge Liang was seducing Liu Bei and did not want him to build a bigger cause.
Perhaps Liu Bei also thought that Zhuge Liang was too careful, so he agreed to Pang Tong. In this case, Pang Tong was naturally very happy and wanted to suppress Zhuge Liang through his battle achievements.
As a result, because of the "anger and rejuvenation of the army", in the First Battle of Hanzhong, Pang Tong fell. For Shu Han, Pang Tong's death in battle can be described as a heavy blow, and from this matter, it can also be seen that Shu Han has shortcomings, especially the "supreme leader" Liu Bei.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > Liu Bei's problems</h1>
For a "Shu Han clique", in fact, Liu Bei did not need to have much talent, because his subordinates were good generals and strategists, and as long as he could reconcile from it, he could achieve a great cause.
What Liu Bei lacked was this ability to "reconcile." We all know that the real role of the boss is not to "do business", but to balance internal forces and twist the scattered "lines" into "a rope", so that they will be more powerful.
Taking a step back, even if you can't twist a rope, at least don't be suspicious of each other and tear each other down. Looking back at Liu Bei's clique, in its heyday, Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang were his "generals in the military division", while Pang Tong was slightly inferior to Zhuge Liang.
Pang Tong was proud of himself and naturally did not want to do so, so he wanted to make great achievements and surpass Zhuge Liang. In fact, by this time, the contradiction between Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang had already appeared, and in a word, it was a mountain without moving two tigers.
On the other hand, Liu Bei, when there was a contradiction between Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang, he not only did not reconcile and repair, but also let the contradiction amplify arbitrarily. Under such circumstances, Pang Tong died in the Battle of Hanzhong, and Shu Han lost a military division that was "one enemy and ten thousand", which can be described as a heavy loss, which is Liu Bei's ill.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Pang Tong was called by Lu Su: "Not the talent of a hundred miles, but the commander of a thousand miles", Zhuge Liang is more like Xiao He of Han than Han Xin, such a combination of culture and martial arts can be called seamless.
It can be said that Liu originally had a good hand of cards, but in the end he broke it. Perhaps when there was a contradiction between Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, and Liu Bei was unable to reconcile, the fate of Shu Han was already buried at this time.
Of course, Liu Bei lost Pang Tong and buried a malady. It is said that in the sixteenth year of Jian'an, Pang Tong followed Liu Bei to Yizhou, and in the seventeenth year he took Fucheng.
Because of the victories achieved along the way, Liu Bei was overwhelmed and held a banquet in the army. After everyone was celebrating, Liu Bei proudly asked Pang Tong: "Is today's feast still happy?" ”
Pang Tong directly accused: "Treating other countries as happiness, this move is not a soldier of benevolence," Liu Bei said after hearing this, and he was furious and drove Pang Tong out of the barracks. After waking up drunk, Liu Bei realized his mistake and immediately went to Pang Tong to persuade him and invited him back.
From this point of view, Pang Tong had a cool military mind, while Liu Bei had many shortcomings in the military. For these problems, many people dare not point them out, even including Zhuge Liang, but Pang Tong dares to do so.
Why Liu Bei's war in the early Bashu Period was like a broken bamboo and a gradual victory had a lot to do with Pang Tong's advice from time to time, just like Tang Taizong and Wei Zheng. However, after Pang Tong's death, no one was Liu Bei's "mirror" (no one dared to advise).
Therefore, when Guan Yu died and Liu Bei crusaded against Eastern Wu, no one dared to come out and stop Liu Bei. In this way, there was the later defeat of Yiling, and the desolation of Liu Beibai's city.
In the eyes of many people, the turning point of Shu Han was the death of Guan Yu, in fact, strictly speaking, the decline of Shu Han from peak to trough was after pang tong's death, and Pang Tong's words presciently interpreted the demise of Shu Han.
The reason why Shu Han will go to extinction is closely related to the character of the leader Liu Bei, who holds Zhuge Kongming and Mr. Fengyan in his hands, but has not reconciled the contradictions between the two, which is Liu Bei's biggest deficiency.
In other words, if Liu Bei could have the talents of Zhu Yuanzhang (toying with Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen between the palms of his hands), the Shu Han Revival Han Room would be just around the corner.