At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three kingdoms were divided into three countries, and the war was endless. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Wei , Dongwu , and Shu Han three-legged tripod. They don’t know who the world will be, but they all want to be the only master of the world.
The lord of Shu Han Liu Bei Relying on his orthodox bloodline on his body, he has attracted many talents to contribute to his efforts, and the most powerful of them is the military advisor Zhuge Liang.
Liu Bei
Zhuge Liang, his power and magical tricks are all admirable, and the word wisdom is used to describe him.
Zhuge Liang is indeed talented and has plans, but he is just a person after all, a person who is flesh and blood and will have birth, old age, sickness and death. If you are a person, you will inevitably have bad things, and Zhuge Liang will inevitably have moments of mistakes.
So what mistake did Zhuge Liang make? That is, he killed two people by mistake, which led to no talent available in Shu Kingdom after Liu Bei's death. If Zhuge Liang left one of them, Shu Kingdom could have unified the Three Kingdoms without eventually heading into a tragic situation of destruction.
Zhuge Liang
So who are these two people killed? Why did Zhuge Liang, who had always implemented benevolent politics, insist on killing them?
Ma Su was defeated and killed
The first one is Ma Su . Let’s first take a look at Ma Su’s growth and background.
Ma Su is from Yicheng, Xiangyang. His family is very wealthy. His father has high requirements for him. Ma Su himself is also a talented person. He started reading , the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of three or four, and showed a strong interest in books such as military strategy.
Ma Su has five brothers in total, and all of them are talented. When talking about Ma Su's brothers, we should mention his brother Ma Liang . The best among the five brothers of Ma Su is Ma Liang. " Ma's five-chang , Bai Mei's most beautiful" is him.
Ma Su
Both Ma Liang and Ma Su served for the lord Liu Bei of Shu Kingdom. Ma Liang relied on his talent and sincerity to hold the position of Jingzhou from the beginning to the position of Shizhong later. He was humble and respectful and highly valued by Liu Bei.
Ma Liang and Zhuge Liang are also very close. They are both Liu Bei's advisers and adhere to the same policy in governing the country. Ma Liang even called Zhuge Liang "brother".
But unfortunately, Ma Liang was killed on the battlefield in June of the second year after becoming a servant. Ma Liang's death was because he was one of the soldiers with the army launched by Liu Bei. Liu Bei was defeated in the Battle of Yiling and retreated to Yizhou. Ma Liang unfortunately died in this battle at the age of 36.
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After Ma Liang died, Ma Su, who was also working for Liu Bei, was valued by Zhuge Liang and often talked with him late at night.
But Ma Su was not as respected by Liu Bei as his brother Ma Liang. Before his death, Liu Bei told Zhuge Liang that Ma Su's words were frivolous and unrealistic, and he could not be valued. Liu Bei saw that Zhuge Liang trusted Ma Su too much and was worried that Zhuge Liang would make mistakes in using Ma Su after his death, so he reminded Zhuge Liang to observe Ma Su more.
I have to say that Liu Bei's eyes are more vicious than Zhuge Liang when it comes to hiring people. But Zhuge Liang did not listen to what Liu Bei said, which led to a big mistake later.
Zhuge Liang reused Ma Su so much because Ma Su had a set of methods on military strategy , and he had a strange idea. When Zhuge Liang led his army to attack Nanzhong, Ma Su's plan to attack Zhuge Liang helped Meng Huo seven times and completely surrendered the people of Nanzhong, making them bow their heads and surrender.
Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times
After that, Zhuge Liang often asked Ma Su to provide advice and was quite satisfied with his strategy. He even felt that Ma Su would be the second self and loved him very much. In order to help Shu Kingdom, in order to help someone assist him after his death, he treated Ma Su as his successor to train him.
In the sixth year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang sent troops to raid Qishan, causing the Wei army to be caught off guard to be defeated again and again. The three counties of Tianshui, Nan'an and Anding in the north of Qishan surrendered to Shu Kingdom. After achieving such a victory, Zhuge Liang needed to go further. He wanted to send a group of troops to occupy Jieting as the stronghold of the Shu army.
At that time, who was sent to lead the troops? Others thought that they would let experienced veterans like Wei Yan and Wu Yi go, but Zhuge Liang disagreed with the public and sent Ma Su as the pioneer, and Wang Ping goes as the deputy general.
Ma Su's film and television image
Ma Su although he was familiar with military books and offered many strategies for military affairs, he did not have the actual experience in leading troops in combat, nor did he have the real ability to go to the battlefield. However, Zhuge Liang was eager to make Ma Su make contributions at that time and ignored this issue.
Before Ma Su set out, Zhuge Liang instructed him to station near the water source on the mountain, not to underestimate the enemy's carelessness, observe carefully, and not to lose Jieting, because Jieting is the throat leading to Hanzhong . If Jieting is lost, the Shu army will be defeated.
But after arriving at Jieting, Ma Su became frivolous and proud, disobeyed Zhuge Liang's instructions, and took his own initiative to station the army on the mountain far away from the water source, wanting to set up an ambush on the mountain.
Wang Ping repeatedly advised him but failed. Ma Su was stubborn and contented, believing that his plan would definitely win a great victory. Wang Ping had no choice but to see Ma Su not listening to his advice, so he asked him for a thousand soldiers to station himself next to the water source near the foot of the mountain.
Wang Ping
Wei State sent famous general Zhang He to fight. When Zhang He arrived at Jieting, he found that Ma Su abandoned the city and went up the mountain. He was secretly happy. He was experienced and knew that Ma Su had made a mistake of losing. Zhang He immediately ordered his men to siege the entire mountain, cut off the water source, and isolate the food channel.
In this way, the Shu army cut off water and food, and was hungry and thirsty, and the army was panicked. Zhang He seized the opportunity to launch an attack. The Shu army dispersed without fighting and fled in a hurry. Ma Su regretted that it was too late and could only break through the siege by himself.
Wang Ping, who was stationed not far from the foot of the mountain, made his thousand men beat drums, making Zhang He dare not approach easily, and then he retreated in a hurry.
Jieting was lost, and the Shu army had lost the important stronghold leading to Hanzhong, and there was no hope of victory. In order not to make the Shu army suffer even more heavy losses, Zhuge Liang could only retreat all the troops back to Hanzhong.
After withdrawing from Hanzhong, Zhuge Liang also lost several generals due to his retreat. He was heartbroken and asked in detail about the reasons for the failure of the Shu army. knew that it was Ma Su who violated his combat deployment and set up camp on the mountain. Ma Su confessed to his mistakes about this charge.
This war should have been a complete victory in Shu Kingdom, but it was defeated because of Ma Su's violation of military orders. It is really a pity!
Jieting was lost, and the people of Shu Kingdom were in panic, and Ma Su was the main wrong person in this incident and violated serious military laws. In order to appease Shu Kingdom and to strictly enforce military discipline, Zhuge Liang had to kill Ma Su in tears.
Zhuge Liang cried and killed Ma Su,
After killing Ma Su, Zhuge Liang felt guilty and was very guilty for his defeat in the Shu army due to improper employment. He asked Liu Chan to demote his official position to three levels to reflect on himself.
If Zhuge Liang listened to Liu Bei's persuasion and did not let Ma Su lead his troops on such a big matter, perhaps the Shu army would be able to win in this war and Shu would usher in a different history.
Liu Feng Refusal to rescue Guan Yu , Zhuge Liang advised Liu Bei to eliminate
The second person is Liu Bei's adopted son Liu Feng .
Liu Feng's original surname is Kou, and he is the nephew of the magistrate of Liu County, Fancheng. Why did Liu Bei accept him as his adopted son?
When Liu Bei rushed to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao , he was over forty years old and accomplished nothing. He had no children to live happily. His life was very lonely.During a party with Liu County Magistrate, Liu Bei saw the extraordinary temperament of Kou Feng around Liu County Magistrate. At that time, he felt that he was very similar to himself when he was young, so he had an idea in his heart.
Liu Feng
Liu Bei observed Kou Feng's every move and saw him bent down and picked up a piece of meat on the ground. Without blowing it, he ate the dirty pieces of meat into his mouth and swallowed it.
Liu Bei asked Kou Feng in confusion why he didn't scold his servants, and he swallowed them without blowing away the mud and sand from the meat. Kou Feng replied that as a general, he should always keep in mind the sufferings of the people. He should not easily discard a grain of rice or meat. The chefs in the army are exhausted all day long. How could he bear to scold such a small mistake!
Liu Bei highly praised Kou Feng's kindness and righteousness, so he decided to accept Kou Feng as his adopted son and change his name to Liu Feng on the spot.
Later, Liu Bei and Liu Zhang raised their troops to Yizhou to attack Zhang Lu . Later, Liu Bei and Liu Zhang turned against each other and became enemies, and Liu Bei decided to go south to attack Liu Zhang.
Liu Bei left Guan Yu in Jingzhou to guard the generals, and ordered Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, , , Zhao Yun and other generals to go west and go to Sichuan to fight. Along the way, the generals were extremely brave, and they were defeated by the generals, with a magnificent momentum. Liu Feng also made military achievements in this battle. After Liu Bei seized Yizhou, Liu Feng was promoted to deputy general of the army.
Liu Feng’s film and television image
Liu Bei occupied Shuzhong . After three years of tug-of-war with Cao’s army, he finally competed for the strategic location of Hanzhong. After that, Liu Bei decided to make a concerted effort and take advantage of the victory to open the portal of the Central Plains, so he sent Liu Feng, Mengda and Li Ping to conquer Shangyong .
Shangyong is the only way to Jingzhou from Hanzhong. It goes north and directly to Chang'an . It can support Jingzhou from south. Its location is very important and has been fought for by military strategists.
Liu Bei chose to let Meng Da assist Liu Feng in conquering Shangyong because Liu Bei had already had doubts about Meng Da. Meng Da had defected to Liu Zhang before, and later joined Liu Bei's family. He was really not a loyal person.
After Meng Da captured Fang Ling, he actually instigated his subordinates to kill Zhuge Liang's brother-in-law. After Zhuge Liang learned the news, he did not speak, but Liu Bei felt deeply guilty. In order to keep an eye on Meng Da, he put a curse on him, so when he entered the palace, he asked his adopted son Liu Feng to command Meng Da's subordinates.
Mengda
Liu Feng captured Shangyong without spending much troops. He entered Shangyong and treated Shangyong well, thinking about appeaseing the people of Shangyong and doing a good job in subjugation after the war. He transferred Meng Da back to Fangling to guard the police and did his best to do his job.
However, as a fierce general who has been through the battlefield, Liu Feng really lacks experience in managing local areas. All kinds of affairs have made Liu Feng anxious. He keeps running and busy, barely maintaining a stable situation.
Meng Da was a civil servant, and he had been the prefect of Yicheng before and had quite experienced in managing local areas, so these matters could not defeat him. Meng Da saw that Liu Feng was in such a miserable management, and he couldn't help but gloat and even spoke rudely.
Liu Feng was so angry that he was so angry that he was filled with smoke from his orifices. As Liu Bei's adopted son, Liu Feng has always accepted the respect of Liu Bei's subordinates. He looked down on people like Meng Da who were dissatisfied with others, and this time he was even more angry.
Liu Feng seized Meng Da's guard of honor, which made Meng Da very dissatisfied with him and directly broke up with Liu Feng. The two of them were in disagreement because of this matter. Liu Feng lost Meng Da's assistance, and it was even more difficult for Shangyong.
Liu Feng's tragic life is coming soon.
Liu Feng
Guan Yu led his troops to attack Cao Wei to occupy the area of Xiangfan , severely attacking Cao Wei, forcing Cao Cao to retreat to Hebei. Guan Yu, who was eager to attack, asked Liu Feng and Meng Da, who were not far from him, for support, hoping that they could help.
However, Liu Feng and Meng Da turned a blind eye to Guan Yu's request for help. After Guan Yu repeatedly asked for help but failed, he could only remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot and retrieve reinforcements from the Jingzhou garrison troops. Seeing the situation, Cao Cao followed Sima Yi's plan and raided Jingzhou with Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu.
Guan Yu lost Jingzhou carelessly and died under Sun Quan's hands. His body and head were different, which was very miserable!
The loss of Jingzhou undoubtedly caused Liu Bei to completely lose the base for the Northern Expedition in the East. He was very distressed and upset about the loss of Jingzhou, and was even more heartbroken by his second brother Guan Yu's tragic death on the battlefield. He blamed Liu Feng and Meng Da for standing sidelines and wanted to punish them heavily.
Meng Da saw that the situation was not good, so he turned against Shu and surrendered to Wei. Before leaving, he wrote a letter to persuade Liu Feng to surrender to Wei. Meng Da led the Wei army to attack Shangyong. Shangyong was unstable under Liu Feng's management. As soon as the Wei army arrived, Shangyong's prefect changed his flag and surrendered to Wei. Liu Feng could not defend Shangyong and retreated to Chengdu after his defeat. When Liu Bei saw Liu Feng, he was very angry. He knew that Liu Feng bullied others with his power and forced him to rebel against Meng Da, he even broke his gratitude to his adopted son. Liu Bei angrily scolded Liu Feng, believing that Liu Feng was fully responsible for the loss of Jingzhou and Shangyong.
Liu Feng did not expect that his adoptive father, who had always cared for him, is so unreasonable now, and he firmly refused to admit his mistake.
Zhuge Liang saw Liu Feng's rebelliousness and felt that Liu Feng could not be disciplined. If Liu Bei died, he would be unable to curb him. He was also worried that Liu Feng's existence would affect Liu Chan's succession to the throne in the future, so he persuaded Liu Bei to kill Liu Feng.
Zhuge Liang advised Liu Bei to kill Liu Feng
Liu Bei was extremely disappointed with what Liu Feng did. At this moment, Zhuge Liang, who he had always trusted, came to persuade him to kill Liu Feng, so he cruelly sentenced Liu Feng to death.
There is no general in Shu, Liao Hua as the pioneer
Ma Su's death was because Zhuge Liang was eager to cultivate his successor and made plans for the future of Shu Kingdom, and even more because Ma Su's own underestimation of the enemy; Liu Feng's death was because Liu Feng's personal ability was too strong, and Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were very afraid of him, fearing that he would become a threat to Liu Chan's succession in the future.
Ma Su was beheaded by Zhuge Liang, and Liu Feng was also sentenced to death by Liu Bei under Zhuge Liang's persuasion. The original five tiger generals of Shu also withered one by one, and there were basically no talents available in the later period of Shu. Zhuge Liang's five Northern Expeditions ended in failure.
In 234 AD, Zhuge Liang died of illness in Wuzhangyuan during his last Northern Expedition. Before his death, he regretted, " hadn't killed him wrongly, the Northern Expedition might have been successful." , Zhuge Liang, who devoted his life to Shu Kingdom, died with regret.
Zhuge Liang died of illness and Wuzhangyuan
After Zhuge Liang's death, Jiang Wei became the main figure in presiding over the Northern Expedition of Shu Kingdom. The talents in Shu Kingdom withered in the late period. Liao Hua, who was already in his seventies, was appointed as the right general by Jiang Wei.
Liao Hua was loyal to Liu Bei throughout his life, brave and good at fighting, and made many military achievements, becoming an important general in the late Shu Han Dynasty. " There is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is the pioneer " is a satirizing that Shu Han did not have young generals to fight, and that the elderly generals could only serve as vanguards. shows how scarce military talents in the late Shu Han were.
If Zhuge Liang had not killed Ma Su and Liu Feng, or left one of them, Shu might not have gone to an end. But no one is perfect, Zhuge Liang will make mistakes. After all, he is not a real god, so how can he be without mistakes?
