In the battle of Yiling in history, although Liu Ye painstakingly advised Cao Pi, in the end Cao Pi still did not listen to his words and maintained a neutral attitude in this crucial battle. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

【Liu Ye's advice】

In the face of Liu Bei's offensive, Sun Quan sent an envoy to Wei to proclaim his ministers, and he was humble in his words, and returned Yu Ban and others. The ministers of the Wei court all congratulated, but Liu Ye said: "Sun Quan surrendered to me for no reason, there must be an internal crisis." Not long ago, he attacked and killed Guan Yu, and Liu Bei would inevitably send a large army to attack him. Sun Quan had a strong enemy outside, and his subordinates were uneasy, and they were afraid that we would take advantage of the opportunity to attack, so they offered their land to ask for surrender, first, to prevent us from entering, and second, to use our assistance to strengthen his own position and confuse his enemies. For example, if we occupy eight tenths of the country's land today, Wu and Shu each only retain the territory of one state, relying on the Yangtze River and the great lakes to rescue each other in times of emergency, so that it is beneficial to small countries. We should march in large numbers and directly cross the river to attack Sun Quan. Shu attacked from the outside, we attacked from the inside, and within ten days, Wu would die. Wu perished, Shu's forces will be lonely, even if Wu's land is ceded to Shu, it will not exist for long, not to mention that Shu only gets Wu's remote areas, but we can get Wu's homeland. ”

Emperor Wen said: "Someone surrenders to be a vassal, but we crusade against him, which will make the people in the world who are willing to join us suspicious, it is better to accept Wu's surrender for the time being and attack the back road of Shu." ”

Liu Ye said; "We are far away from Shu, but close to Wu, Shu knows that we are attacking it, so he will retreat and will not attack Wu, hearing that our army is attacking Wu, knowing that Wu will die, will be happy to march quickly to Wu, and fight with us for and divide Wu's territory, and will never change the plan, suppress their anger to rescue Wu." Emperor Wen did not listen and accepted the surrender of Wu.

【Great Opportunity】

In history, the Battle of Yiling was not only a decisive battle between Liu Bei and Sun Quan, but also a great opportunity for Cao Wei to dominate the world. As Liu Ye said, if Cao Pi sent troops at this time, he was likely to directly break through the Yangtze River defense line and enter the south of the Yangtze River.

Theoretically speaking, if Cao Pi crusaded against Hanzhong, Liu Bei could only be forced to return to help, and Sun Quan basically couldn't do anything to Liu Bei, so Cao Pi could only fight Sun Quan, and in the face of Cao Pi and Liu Bei's attack at the same time, Sun Quan would be difficult to resist.

For Cao Pi, the best result was that Sun Quan could not resist the attack of himself and Liu Bei, and was eliminated, leaving Liu Bei with only one opponent left, of course, if Liu Bei could be eliminated in battle, it would be better.

The worst result is that Sun Quan cedes the land and sues for peace, and re-negotiates peace with Liu Bei, just like when Liu Bei ceded the three counties to Sun Quan, which is equivalent to Cao Pi helping Sun Liu re-alliance again, and he gained nothing, this result is the worst, worse than Sun Quan's successful resistance to Cao Pi and Liu Bei's attack.

But even with the worst results, Cao Pi is not without a chance to send troops at this time, after all, it takes time for Sun Quan and Liu Bei to negotiate peace, and like those important towns in the south of the Yangtze River, including Jiangling, Gong'an, Wuchang, Jianye, Qu'a, etc., are basically on the Yangtze River, as long as Cao Pi lays down one, it will be of great benefit to the future.

Of course, if Cao Pi only wants to be a master of success and has no ambition to dominate the world, then that's another story. However, no matter what, the internal bar between Liu Bei and Sun Quan is good and an opportunity for Cao Wei, but how to grasp this opportunity and take advantage of this opportunity depends on personal means.

[Sun Quan commented on the three commanders of the Western Front]

In later generations, Sun Quan and Lu Xun commented on Zhou Yu, Lu Su and Lü Meng, saying: "Gong Jin is majestic and courageous, so he defeated Cao Cao and opened up Jingzhou.

Gong Jin used to ask Zijing to come to Jiangdong and recommended him to me, and when I drank and talked with him, he proposed a strategy to unify the world and establish an imperial foundation, which was the first comforting thing. Later, Cao Cao, because of the strength of Liu Cong's troops, threatened to lead hundreds of thousands of soldiers to enter Eastern Wu by land and water. I summoned all the generals to ask how to deal with it, but no one took the lead in proposing a proper strategy, as for Zibu and Wenbiao, they all said that they should send someone to send a letter of surrender to meet Cao Cao, Zijing immediately retorted that it was not possible, and advised me to quickly recall Gongjin and entrust the army with a heavy task to meet Cao Cao, which is the second pleasant thing. Moreover, his plan far exceeded the plan of Zhang Yi and Su Qin. Later, although he persuaded me to borrow land from Liu Bei, it was one of his major problems, but it was not enough to damage his two major strengths.

Zhou Gong does not blame people, so the lonely person forgets his shortcomings and respects his strengths, and often compares him to Deng Yu. When the next year was young, I only thought that he was not afraid of hard work and acted boldly and courageously. When he grew up, his knowledge enhanced his mind and his ingenuity, which can be said to be second only to Gong Jin, but his speech and discussion talent are not as good as Gong Jin. In terms of plotting to defeat Guan Yu, he is better than Zijing. Zijing wrote back to me: "The rise of the emperor has opponents to be eliminated, and Guan Yu is not enough to worry people. This is something that Zijing can't actually do, on the surface it's just a big talk, and I forgive him and don't blame him at will. But he commanded the army, did not lose any camps, was able to order and prohibit, there were no officials in his subordinate areas who were unruly in their duties, there were no roads to be left behind, and his governance measures were quite perfect. ”

Historically, Lu Su undoubtedly made more contributions to the Jiangdong Group, and Sun Quan also thought so, but some of Sun Quan's evaluations of Lu Su were inevitably a bit of hindsight.

When Lu Su persuaded Sun Quan to borrow Nanjun and establish a good relationship with Liu Bei and Guan Yu, Sun Quan himself agreed. Lu Su is a typical representative of the pro-Liu faction in the Jiangdong group, but this does not mean that Lu Su is not thinking about Sun Quan, under the strong pressure of Cao Wei, the Sun-Liu alliance to embrace the warmth itself is the proper meaning, and compared with Cao Wei, although Guan Yu is a famous general, he is old, and Liu Bei's primary enemy is also Cao Wei, and Guan Yu's army is not against Sun Quan, so I don't think there is any big problem with Lu Su's words.

If Cao Pi later took advantage of the fire to rob when Liu Bei attacked, and at the same time sent troops to crusade against Sun Quan, I believe that Sun Quan would not have been able to say such a thing, and Sun Quan would have recalled that Lu Su had persuaded him to have a good relationship with Liu Bei early on.

After all, compared to Liu Bei, Cao Wei was the real enemy of Jiangdong at that time, Sun Quan and Liu Bei were both wild boars, but Cao Wei was a tiger, and there may be infighting between wild boars, but wild boars and tigers cannot be friends.

The general trend of the Three Kingdoms era was that Sun and Liu united to resist Cao, which never changed, and the infighting between Sun Quan and Liu Bei could only weaken the strength of the alliance and make Cao Wei profitable.