The early Liu Bei With my mother at home, she worked as a business in weaving mats and selling shoes, and her life was very hard. One day, Liu Bei found an mulberry tree next to his house, which was five feet tall. People in the past thought that this tree was not an ordinary thing, which indicates that this family will produce great talents in the future.
Liu Bei often plays under the trees. Looking at the lush mulberry trees, he always thinks in his heart: "I will definitely be able to sit in such a big sedan in the future."
As expected, on the sixth day of April 26, Liu Bei ascended the throne in Chengdu on the sixth day of April 26th year of Jian'an. After years of war, Liu Bei realized his childhood dream, but all this was hard-won, among which Pang Tong died on the way to take Xichuan.
Mr. The Hermit Water Mirror in the Mountain once said: "A dragon and phoenix can be at peace with the world." Shui Mirror Mr. was a famous talent during the Three Kingdoms period. His strategy, astronomy, geography, and gossip calculations were all top-notch. But why did Liu Bei, who had both "Sleeping Dragon and Phoenix Chicken", not win the world?
Pang Tong died Luofengpo
When Liu Bei started to form his own team, there were only Guan Yu Zhang Fei and others around him. As time went by, many famous generals and princes at that time learned that Liu Bei was kind-hearted and wanted to restore the Han Dynasty, so he was willing to follow him or provide help. Only then did Liu Bei gain some power.
When Liu Bei stationed his troops Xinye , Xu Shu , who was a counselor under his tent, recommended him Zhuge Liang . After listening to Xu Shu's comparison, Liu Bei was overjoyed and took the two generals of Guan and Zhang to invite Zhuge Liang out of the mountain three times.
With Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei's long-cherished wish of reviving Han was approaching step by step. According to the " Longzhong vs. " presented by Zhuge Liang, after Liu Bei occupied Jingzhou , the second step was to enter Xichuan. At this time, Liu Bei also had the Dragon and Phoenix Chicken.
In the early years, Pang Tong worked as an aide under the account of Zhou Yu and was not reused for various reasons. Pang Tong's friends were interested in introducing him to King Wu Sun Quan to meet him, hoping that he could see Pang Tong's talent. But what was unexpected was that Sun Quan directly rejected Pang Tong because of his appearance.
discouraged Pang Tong no longer had any fantasies about Dongwu , so he turned to Liu Bei's command, hoping to display his talents here.
In 211 AD, a strategist named Fazheng came to Liu Bei's camp. After a conversation, I learned that he was from Xichuan and the purpose of this trip was to hope that Liu Bei could send troops to Xichuan. It turns out that Sichuan Liu Zhang is cowardly and has been bullied by Zhang Lu for many years. In recent years, it has become even worse. Liu Zhang really couldn't bear it, so he sent someone to ask for help.
From Fa Zheng's mouth Liu Bei heard his dissatisfaction with Liu Zhang, and strongly invited Liu Bei to take over Xichuan. He was willing to help him.
Liu Bei had already obtained two great talents, Wolong and Fengchu. After some discussion, he decided to lead his troops into Sichuan. However, because Jingzhou is large and strategically important, Zhuge Liang had to lead Guan Yu to stay. Therefore, the position of military advisor who captured Xichuan naturally fell on Pang Tong, and the generals were Huang Zhong , Wei Yan and others.
After Liu Bei and Liu Zhang met in Fucheng, they then stationed in the army with tens of thousands of infantrymen they led. In order to resist Zhang Lu, Liu Zhang submitted a statement to the court and elected Liu Bei to act as the Grand Sima . At the same time, he also provided many soldiers to Liu Bei and provided food and grass.
After Zhang Lu's army retreated, Liu Bei no longer led his army to pursue him, but instead won the hearts of the people in the local area.
In the 17th year of Jian'an, the incident of Zhang Song's secret meeting with Liu Bei was exposed. Liu Zhang also understood Liu Bei's ambition and planned to go against him.
As Liu Bei's military advisor, Pang Tong offered Liu Bei three strategies: top, middle and lower. The best strategy is to lead the army to directly attack Chengdu, because most of Liu Bei's subordinates were good at fighting soldiers, and there was enough food and supplies at this moment. If they could run at night, they would definitely catch Liu Zhang off guard and take Xichuan in one fell swoop.
Zhongce is to immediately take down Sichuan generals Yang Huai , Gao Pei and others to obtain their troops, horses, food and grass.In addition, Pang Tong also formulated a detailed strategy for this. He suggested that Liu Bei create the illusion of poor food and grass, and bring his subordinates back to Jingzhou, attracting the generals of Sichuan and Shu to see them off, so that they could annex their troops without any effort.
This is the second strategy proposed by Pang Tong. The disadvantage of this strategy is to alert the enemy. Once the news reaches Liu Zhang's ears, he will definitely rely on the favorable terrain of Sichuan and Shu to quickly organize defensive forces. In this way, it will be much more difficult to raise troops to conquer.
Pang Tong's worst strategy was to return to Jingzhou immediately and make a long-term plan. But in this way, it will be really difficult to reach the sky if you want to enter Xichuan in the future.
After some thoughts, Liu Bei decided to adopt the second strategy offered by Pang Tong. As Pang Tong expected, after luring Yang Huai and Gao Pei, although they obtained their troops and sloppy equipment, Liu Zhang still knew about it.
Liu Zhang sent Liu Xi, Lingbao , Zhang Ren , Deng Xian , Wu Yi and other generals to order them to prevent Liu Bei from entering Sichuan. But in front of Liu Bei, these soldiers who had not fought for many years were vulnerable. Not long after, these people fled and surrendered, and they could not stop Liu Bei from advancing.
When Liu Bei's army was in full force, a strong city blocked the way, that is, Luocheng.
Luocheng has superior terrain, strong city defense, and severe casualties will occur if there are strong attacks. Pang Tong thought of Fa Zheng's previous statement: "There is a big road in the north of the mountain, which leads directly to the east gate of Luocheng; there is a small road in the south of the mountain, which leads directly to the west gate of Luocheng; both roads can be advanced."
After hearing Pang Tong's suggestions, Liu Bei felt that the plan was feasible, so he agreed to Pang Tong take the small road and lead his army to take the big road. However, anyone with a little knowledge of military tactics knows that the path is narrow and rugged, which is especially suitable for ambushing. Pang Tong was born as a literati, and once he was attacked on the path, he would be killed.
Just as they parted, Liu Bei also gave up the "Lu" of the war horse that he had followed him for many years to Pang Tong, and this action touched Pang Tong very much.
But even if you ride a BMW, tragedy still happens. Just as Pang Tong reached Luofengpo, he heard a loud noise on the mountain, and then arrows shot towards Pang Tong like rain. In the end, Pang Tong was hit by dozens of arrows.
Before dying, he only said a few short words: "I die today, it is God's will!"
Why can't Liu Bei win the world with the Dragon and Phoenix Chicken?
According to Pang Tong's words, his death is destiny. What does it have to do with Liu Bei?
In fact, even though Pang Tong said that he was willing, it was not difficult to see his dissatisfaction with Liu Bei. If Liu Bei did not consider so much and chose the best strategy offered by Pang Tong, then Pang Tong would not have to die in battle.
Another thing is that, as the commander who has been fighting for decades, Liu Bei really doesn’t know if he will be ambushed when he walks a small path? He just gave up his BMW to Pang Tong, and he took the safe road. If he really cherishes good talents, he shouldn't have left such a dangerous road to a weak scholar.
Although Liu Bei had great ambitions and wanted to restore the Han Dynasty, he did not know how to realize their value after he obtained talents. Just as Zhuge Liang failed to die in the Northern Expedition, he also lamented that he was born at the wrong time, and although he met the wise master, he did not complete his career.
From this perspective, Liu Bei's mortal enemy Cao Cao is much stronger than him. Cao Cao did not avoid relatives when he selected wise men, did not care about trivial matters, and valued the talented people. Therefore, he had many civil officials and military generals under his command, so that he could ensure that Cao Wei lasted forever.
Another reason why Liu Bei failed was his loyalty, especially between him and his sworn brothers. In order to avenge his second and third brothers, Liu Bei refused to listen to Zhuge Liang's dissuasion and insisted on breaking up with the Eastern Wu. He was finally defeated by Lu Xun in the Battle of Yiling. It was from this time that Shu Han gradually went downhill.
Everything indicates Liu Bei's final defeat, which shows that his failure was not accidental.
Conclusion
Although Liu Bei is good at absorbing talents, he always acts emotionally at critical moments, which creates an ending where he cannot unify the world, and it is even more pitiful to those capable and ambitious people who have followed him throughout his life.
