If Guan Yu's careless loss of Jingzhou was the turning point in the transformation of Shu Han from prosperity to decline, then Liu Bei's Battle of Yiling was the beginning of Shu Han's loss of the opportunity to compete for the world, and many people would have such a question when watching the history of the Three Kingdoms or the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", why did Liu Bei lead a large army to cut down Wu without some famous generals that we are familiar with, but only with some military generals with relatively low ability and level?
Then let's look at the ten generals that Liu Bei brought at that time, Huang Quan, Liao Hua, Chen Shi, Wu Ban, Fu Kuang, Xiang Pet, Zhao Rong, Zhang Nan, Feng Xi, Fu Wei, to say that their popularity is low, but to say that their strength is weak, then the real situation is certainly not like this, think that their low ability and level is just your illusion.
To know that the road to becoming a famous general is not an easy task, when Guan Yu and Zhang Fei just came out of the mountain, one was only Liu Bei's horse archer, the other was Liu Bei's infantry archer, without the baptism of battle, how can they become famous generals? I believe that if Liu Bei won the Battle of Yiling, then these people may also be able to become famous generals who are attracted by all.
And Liu Bei's expedition can be said to be the strongest lineup that Shu Han can go out at this stage, at this time Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Huang Zhong have all passed away, the "Five Tiger Generals" have gone to the third, and Ma Chao is also in the final stage of his life, it can be said that only Zhao Yun is still in the last stage of his life, it can be said that only Zhao Yun is still the only one who still has combat effectiveness, but Zhao Yun opposes Liu Bei's attack on Wu, Liu Bei will leave him to oversee Jiangzhou, and Wei Yan needs to guard Hanzhong to rely on Cao Wei, so the military generals who can be brought out are carefully selected by Liu Bei, and the only regret is that there is one less military division that understands military affairs. Zhuge Liang needed to guard the base camp, and if one of Pang Tong and Fa Zheng were alive, the ending might be rewritten.
The main reason for the defeat in this battle was not the failure of the military generals, but the strategic problem, Liu Bei was mainly responsible, in addition to the few people who died in battle, the survivors were also the backbone of the Shu Han.
Let's first look at the strength of these people, the first one has to say Huang Quan, Huang Quan, as the only general who surrendered in this battle, was not criticized, the reason is very simple, Huang Quan surrendered to Cao Wei because of the road extinction, some people will say that Huang Quan did not die in battle, it is not OK, but even if Huang Quan fought with Eastern Wu, it is meaningless to this battle that has been decided, it is completely meaningless, after all, this is not only related to his own life, there are so many soldiers under him, even Liu Bei said." Lonely yellow power, the right is not to bear the lonely also. ”。
Huang Quan was greatly valued by Cao Wei, and even the later Sima Yi looked at him differently, and Huang Quan's forced surrender to Wei was arguably one of the biggest losses of Shu Han in this battle. Although Huang Quan defected to the State of Wei, he also left a son, Huang Chong, in Shu Han, and Huang Chong, who can be said to have been loyal to Shu Han for his father, to know that his father had surrendered to the State of Wei, but he could still fight and die for Shu Han li when the State of Wei was cutting shu, how difficult it was.
The second is to say xiang pet, everyone has learned Zhuge Liang's "Table of Renunciation" when they were in school, remember that it should be to recite the full text, presumably if everyone has seriously memorized it, then this paragraph is no stranger, "General Xiang Pet, Sexual Behavior Shu Jun, Xiao Chang Military, Trial in the Past, the Former Emperor called it Yue Neng, is to be the governor of the public opinion." Foolishness thinks that the affairs of the camp, if they are consulted, will be able to make peace in the line, and the good and the bad will be the same. ”
Even in the era when Zhuge Liang was in power, Xiang Yu's ability was also recognized, but unfortunately he eventually died in the barbarian rebellion.
The third is to say that Liao Hua, this can be said to be the most famous of these people, just because of the sentence "There is no general Liao Hua in Shu to become a pioneer", but you must know that this is not a demeaning sentence, although Liao Hua was only Guan Yu's follower at the beginning, but he could become the mainstay of the late Shu Han Dynasty by relying entirely on hard power.
The fourth is to say Chen Style, Chen Style conquered the Wu capital and Yinping County of Wei during Zhuge Liang's Third Northern Expedition, and was also one of the main military generals in the late Shu Han Dynasty.
The fifth is to say Wu Ban, Wu Ban broke Sima Yi in Zhuge Liang's Fourth Northern Expedition, and let Sima Yi give him a background board, do you say that he is not strong?
The sixth is to say that Fu Kuang, although he did not have any outstanding achievements later, but the final official to the right general also proved that he was not a general.
The other four were all killed in this battle, the most worth mentioning is Fu Wei, when the whole army was defeated, Fu Wei led the army to break, for the retreat of the large army to buy precious time, and when all his men were killed, the General of the Wu Army surrendered to him, he scolded: "Wu Dog! What a Han general surrendered! "In the end, I fought and died, which is really a song and a cry."
Due to the defeat in this battle, the military strength of Shu Han was greatly hit, Liu Bei's special ability was to know people and employ people, and his selection of generals this time also left a valuable team for Liu Chan, it can be said that the Nengchen was basically left by Liu Bei, how could the son not be able to do it, less than one-tenth of Lao Tzu, and finally he was still a pro-villain Yuanxianchen, so the overthrow of Shu Han was not the disadvantage of the military generals, but the fainting of the commander-in-chief.