The country is picturesque, and there are many heroes at one time. I recall Gong Jin’s time when Xiao Qiao was getting married for the first time, looking majestic and handsome. Feather fans and turbans, while talking and laughing, the oars and oars disappeared into ashes...
A song Su Shi's "Nian Nujiao·Chibi Nostalgia " instantly took us back to the Three Kingdoms period when heroes arose in large numbers. When it comes to the Three Kingdoms, there is a person who has to Mention, he is the Prime Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, Mr. Wolong Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang once used various and ingenious strategies on the battlefield to defeat the enemy, such as empty city strategy , borrowing arrows from a straw boat, drawing fuel from the bottom of the cauldron, etc. In fact, in addition to these strategies.
Perhaps it is because of this that many people think that Zhuge Liang relied on strategy to win the war. In fact, he also relied on the combat effectiveness of the army. Zhuge Liang once established a very mysterious army. This army's combat capabilities were terrifying. It once defeated an enemy army of 60,000 with 3,000 men.
can be said to be a typical case of defeating more with less. However, such a brave and majestic cavalry was completely wiped out in the later stage because of protecting Jiang Wei. So, what exactly is this army called? How did they all get wiped out? Let’s talk about it today.
Wudang Feijun was first established
In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang, as the prime minister and military advisor of the Shu Han Dynasty, has always been regarded as the most reliable person by Liu Bei. Even if the latter himself was not going to die soon, he would still sacrifice his only son. Liu Chan was entrusted to Zhuge Liang.
It is a pity that Liu Chan is an Adou who cannot be supported. He has not inherited half of his father Liu Bei's style and sagacity. As the prime minister, Zhuge Liang can only face the difficulties under tremendous pressure and die exhausted.
After Liu Bei's death, Cao Wei brought one hundred thousand Qiang soldiers from western Liaoning, Nanman King Meng Huo one hundred thousand soldiers, King Wu of Wei Sun Quan one hundred thousand soldiers, Meng Da one hundred thousand mediocre soldiers and the general of Wei State. Cao Zhen One hundred thousand soldiers and five hundred thousand soldiers were divided into five groups to attack the Shu Han.
Who would have thought that Zhuge Liang had already arranged a countermeasure in a snap of his fingers. Facing the Qiang soldiers, he sent the mighty general Ma Chao in the Qiang people's hearts; facing Meng Huo, he sent Wei Yan to delay the attack with suspicion. His army; facing Meng Da, he sent his life-and-death friend Li Yan to write a letter to persuade him to retreat;
facing Cao Zhen, sent Zhao Yun to defend firmly; facing Sun Quan, he sent Deng Zhi to persuade Dong Dong to export. Wu. Zhuge Liang defeated the arrogant Five Route Army with his different strategies. Perhaps it was at this time that he had the idea of establishing a mysterious army.
The mysterious army mentioned above is the Wudang Fei Army. The establishment of this army also begins with the story of "Seven Captures and Seven Copies" Meng Huo. In other words, Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times during his southern campaign and released him seven more times.
It was not until the last time he caught him that Meng Huo was completely convinced. The southern ethnic minorities headed by Meng Huo completely integrated into the Shu Han and became part of the Shu Kingdom. They were also one of the sources of Shu army soldiers.
Zhuge Liang discovered that although the life of the barbarians was difficult, it also tempered their hard-working character. If such people were organized into an army, they would be unstoppable. So, he organized these ethnic minority soldiers in the southern part of Shu and gave them the famous name Wudang Feijun.
Show your power by winning more with less
Thanks to the tough folk customs of the ethnic minorities, every soldier in the Wudang Fei Army is exceptionally strong. In addition, they ride horses in the mountains and forests all the year round, and their horse fighting skills are second to none. The cavalry's The impact is strong.
Not only that, Zhuge Liang also equipped the Wudang Fei army with iron armor and sophisticated weapons. According to records, almost every member of the Wudang Fei army was equipped with a crossbow and enough poisonous arrows, plus special defensive weapons. Ma Ding, it can be said that Wudang Feijun is the first field army of Shu Army.
At the same time, they are also good at using their geographical advantages to conduct defensive operations. They can be called an all-round force that can advance, attack, retreat, and defend. The total number of Wudang Feijun is roughly 3,000, but their overall combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.
As a trump card in Zhuge Liang's hand, as the only elite unit of the Shu army, Zhuge Liang naturally had to choose a brave and resourceful commander for him. After repeated deliberation and thinking, Kong Ming selected Ma Su as the commander-in-chief, but the real leader was Wang Ping.
As a veteran, Wang Ping is well-known and battle-tested. The most important thing is that Wang Ping has both Han Chinese and Qiang ancestry. The soldiers from the ethnic minorities are quite convinced of him, and it is precisely because of Wang Ping's Only with this existence can the Feijun retreat unscathed during the first Northern Expedition.
As we all know, Zhuge Liang mistakenly trusted Ma Ji during the First Northern Expedition and appointed the boastful general as a vanguard stationed at the street pavilion. Who would have thought that Ma Ji's insistence on going his own way led to heavy losses in the First Northern Expedition.
Fortunately, Wang Ping was a rigorous man. , he did not listen to Ma Ji's words and went to garrison on the mountain. Instead, he led the Wudang Fei Army to defend at the foot of the mountain. This decision saved the 3,000 soldiers of the Wudang Fei Army.
It is worth mentioning that Zhuge Liang was disgraced by the defeat in the first Northern Expedition, but the second Northern Expedition was more glorious, and the trump card that allowed the Shu army to counterattack was the 3,000-man useless flying army.
There was a head-on confrontation between the Shu army and the Wei army. The famous Wei general Sima Yi led 60,000 soldiers to attack the Shu army. He even gained a certain advantage and surrounded the Shu army, trying to catch a turtle in a jar.
Faced with Sima Yi's tactics, Zhuge Liang's Thirty-six Strategies were the best, but the departure of the large army would inevitably trigger Sima Yi's attack. Under this situation, Zhuge Liang chose to let the large army leave first, instead of fighting with Sima Yi's 60,000 army to buy time.
Wang Ping was ordered to lure the enemy deep into the mountains. He took advantage of the 3,000 useless flying troops to fight against the 60,000 Wei troops. The 3,000 soldiers of the Wudang Fei Army all come from ethnic minorities in the mountains and basins. It was much stronger than the Wei army from the plains.
It can be imagined that under the fierce fighting of Wudang Feijun, all 60,000 Wei troops were buried in the mountains. In this way, the situation was instantly reversed. Shu Han made a beautiful turnaround with this battle of defeating more with less. In this battle, Wudang Feijun became a unique team among the Shuhan army.
The decline of Wudang Feijun
After the death of Wang Ping, who managed Wudang Feijun, general Zhang Yi took his place. Zhang Yi had served in the Nanman land for decades and was known as the "King of Nanzhong". The Wudang Feijun still shines in his hands.
After Zhang Yi's death, the Wudang Feijun was taken over by Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's apprentice Jiang Wei. As the saying goes, "If you are not afraid of divine opponents, you are afraid of pig teammates." Jiang Wei did not understand the soldiers who came from the south and could hardly exert the power of this army. .
Wudang Feijun was good at fighting in the mountains, but Jiang Wei often fought positional battles with the Wei army, and even made many sneak attacks and sieges. It is conceivable that the Wudang Feijun, who was famous and powerful under Wang Ping, suffered repeated defeats and heavy losses in the hands of Jiang Wei.
After repeated defeats, it can be said that the heavy losses made the Wudang Flying Army almost exist in name only. Most of the people who were recruited later were not southerners, but local residents of Bashu. The power of the Wudang Flying Army was no longer what it used to be.
Jiang Wei's wrong tactical guidance and short-term awareness of the overall situation indirectly ruined the future of the useless flying army. At the end of the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Jun's family was the dominant one, and the Shu Han's strength was far less than it was back then, but Jiang Wei still adopted a very aggressive style of play.
If he had relied on the geographical advantages of Bashu and taken advantage of the mountain warfare without flying troops, he would not have suffered repeated defeats, and he would not have lost the lives of his soldiers. After experiencing several Northern Expeditions, there were only a hundred "purebred" soldiers left in the flying army.
Later, these hundreds of people were trapped in an ambush by the Wei army because of Jiang Wei's wrong decision. In order to give Jiang Wei a bloody path, the now unstoppable and indestructible Wudang Feijun was completely annihilated in the long river of history.
Jiang Wei won a glimmer of hope due to his selfless risk as a flying army, and withdrew his remaining subordinates to Shuzhong, saving a small life.
As Zhuge Liang's apprentice, Jiang Wei is also very talented in military affairs, but he is not as good as Zhuge Liang in knowing how to adapt measures to local conditions and use them according to people. This is a major weakness of his.
To give a simple example, Gongsun Zan had a special force called " Baima Yicong". From the current point of view, it was a lightly armed force. It had a natural advantage in fighting the nomads in the north, and could compete with the Central Plains. He fought with heavy armor but was defeated repeatedly. This was one of the biggest reasons why he lost to Yuan Shao.
In the same way, the powerful army Zhuge Liang left for the Shu Han was completely wiped out due to Jiang Wei's poor decision-making. Such an ending is really disappointing. What are your different views on this?
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