At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, the princes were in conflict, and the people were in trouble, and Cao Cao rose up according to the situation.
In that era of great struggle, everyone in the princes wanted to be independent, but they could not get what they wanted without two brushes in their hands. Even if they stood on the top of the mountain for a short time, they would soon be crushed to pieces.
The first rise of Dong Zhuo , Yuan Shu , Yuan Shao , and others are bloody examples.
Cao Cao was a strategic master, so he naturally would not have no knowledge of like these people. Especially in his attitude towards the Han emperor, Cao Cao raised his own flag, neither abolishing the emperor nor killing the emperor, but instead used the emperor to command the princes.
But the move to take over the emperor is risky, especially for emperors like Emperor Xian of Han who do not intend to live a cowardly life. It is difficult to completely control him.
Cao Cao is not a good deal, he naturally has the means to deal with Emperor Xian of Han.
As Cao Cao's authority continued to increase, Emperor Xian of Han was just a puppet in his hands, which would naturally cause dissatisfaction among other princes. Liu Bei is the representative of these princes.
Speaking of which, Liu Bei is also a hero in the chaotic times. Compared to Cao Cao, he almost started from scratch, and the element of his success is naturally good at using people.
Liu Bei's own ability may not be high, but the people he used are remarkable, , Guan Yu Zhang Fei and others have a lot of military power, Zhuge Liang Pang Tong and others have outstanding wisdom, as the saying goes: everyone has high firewood, and they work together to develop the spark of Shu Han into a prairie fire.
In our impression, Zhuge Liang is an existence similar to a demon. He is the incarnation of wisdom. He has the ability to predict the future and can even borrow the east wind.
has such a character around, which is really reassuring. However, when we study Liu Bei's life, we will find a strange phenomenon in . In the very important battle in Liu Bei's life, we can't see Zhuge Liang at all.
So why didn’t Liu Bei like to take Zhuge Liang to the war?
Cao Cao once made two words of evaluation of Zhuge Liang and also revealed the mystery.
Liu Bei asked Zhuge Liang to come out
Episode 0 In order to control Emperor Xian of Han, Cao Cao was willing to invest in his capital and gave his grown-up daughters one after another to Emperor Xian of Han as a concubine. Even though he had six or seven daughters, his son-in-law was only Emperor Xian of Han.
Even so, Emperor Xian of Han wanted to get rid of Cao Cao's control, and even wrote the edict to kill Cao Cao with his own blood, and passed it secretly to Dong Cheng .
Dong Cheng thinks this matter is an opportunity. Once successful, he will shine his ancestors and be the most powerful minister. However, the high return means high risks. If you want to take a chance, you have to take risks.
So Dong Cheng secretly contacted Prince's server , Wu Zilan, Liu Bei and others prepared to murder Cao Cao.
But before these people could take action, the incident of the belt edict was revealed, Dong Cheng and others were all killed, Liu Bei fled and officially broke up with Cao Cao.
Cao Cao felt that it was very uncomfortable to be fooled by Liu Bei, so he led his troops to attack Liu Bei himself. Liu Bei was defeated and went to Liu Biao and stationed his troops in Xinye. Liu Bei was unwilling to accept it and actively contacted local heroes. At this moment, he learned about Zhuge Liang's name from Sima Hui .
was introduced by Xu Shu . Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang three times and finally met Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang then completely conquered Liu Bei with an article " Longzhong vs. ". This move made Guan Yu and Zhang Fei feel very uncomfortable. After all, they used to be wearing pairs of pants with Liu Bei, but now it has become Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei wearing pairs of pants, which is really uncomfortable.
But Liu Bei didn't care about the discomfort in their hearts, and directly determined Zhuge Liang's core position in one sentence, namely:
The lonely one has Kongming , just like the fish has water. I hope you don't say anything again.
The two wars experienced by Liu Bei
After Liu Bei was assisted by Zhuge Liang, his power was quickly expanded, which made Liu Bei very satisfied, and then he began to unswervingly follow the basic strategy of "Longzhong Pair".
In "Longzhong Pair", captures Yizhou as a crucial step. In the 16th year of Jian'an, a big pie fell in front of Liu Bei. Fazheng Fengyizhou's governor Liu Zhang went to Jingzhou welcome Liu Bei against Zhang Lu , and took the opportunity to persuade him to seize Yizhou. Liu Bei hesitated.
, as famous as Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong analyzed the situation for Liu Bei and made up his mind, so he led Pang Tong's army into Yizhou. However, Liu Zhang soon discovered that Liu Bei was an ungrateful wolf who was not familiar with him, and the two broke up completely.
At this time, Pang Tong once again planned three strategies for Liu Bei, middle and lower. Liu Bei chose a relatively conservative strategy, but when he attacked Luocheng, he ruined Pang Tong.
When Liu Bei gained a foothold in Yizhou, Guan Yu was careless and lost his life. Liu Bei was very angry, so he led the troops from all over the country to fight against the Eastern Wu.
It is obvious that this is a great war that can determine the situation of the Three Kingdoms. As a result, Liu Bei was burned by Lu Xun and was defeated. He led his army to break through and ran to Baidi.
He felt depressed and felt the call of death, so he immediately summoned Zhuge Liang to entrust his orphan, and then passed away.
These are two major wars in Liu Bei's life. Zhuge Liang did not follow the army, and we rarely see Zhuge Liang in other wars in Liu Bei, which is really puzzling.
Cao Cao's evaluation of Zhuge Liang
In our impression, Zhuge Liang was able to lead troops to fight, and several northern expeditions are proof of this. So why did Liu Bei almost not take Zhuge Liang to the expedition?
In that chaotic era, In terms of personal ability, Cao Cao was undoubtedly the most worthy of talk about . As a military strategist, he had two words of evaluation of Zhuge Liang, which can be said to reveal the mystery, namely:
caution.
Leading troops to fight is necessary, but if is too cautious, it will often miss the opportunity. On the battlefield, the situation changes rapidly. If you can't grasp the opportunity, you may have to lose and return if you can't seize the opportunity.
Zhuge Liang's cautious attitude is suitable for success and not for progress. At that time, Liu Bei was in the process of starting a business. If he could not make progress, then the three-point world was just a dream.
Liu Bei is very accurate in viewing people. Liu Bei can see what Cao Cao can see. If he brings Zhuge Liang by his side, he must take care of Zhuge Liang's plan. After all, if he sets out the humble lord who accepts advice to the outside world, he will leave a message if he ignores Zhuge Liang, but if he takes care of it, it will naturally restrict his action plan.
and Pang Tong, on the other hand, is a very radical figure, so Liu Bei would take him with him, but Liu Bei did not expect that Pang Tong was too radical and always liked to take the lead in charge when fighting, but ended up losing his life.
Perhaps some people would say that after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang also became radical and continued Northern Expeditions, which made him, the prime minister, show his all-out prestige.
But if we study some of his achievements in the Northern Expedition, we can find that Zhuge Liang is really not good at fighting. Several Northern Expeditions ended in failure, and they also made Shu Han recover and produce wealth, almost all of which were empty.
However Although Zhuge Liang was not good at fighting, he was a good player in politics, so Liu Bei did not take him with him and let him stay in the rear to manage the government affairs, which was also a way to make full use of his talents.
References: "The Three Kingdoms" and so on.
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