In the autumn and seventh month of the first year of Zhang Wu (221), Liu Bei sent generals Wu Ban, Feng Xi, and Zhang Nan to break through the Wu army and occupy Zigui. www.biquge.info In the following year, in February, Liu Bei personally led the main force from Zigui to arrive at Yiting, and Sun Wu took Lu Xun as the governor and led the army to confront Liu Bei in Yiling.

【Zigui First Battle】

In the autumn and July of the first year of Zhang Wu (221), Liu Bei personally led various armies and horses to conquer Eastern Wu in the name of revenge against Guan Yu. Sun Quan sent an envoy to ask for peace, Liu Bei Sheng angrily refused to agree, Wu generals Lu Yi, Li Yi, Liu A and other garrisons in Wuxian and Zigui area, Liu Bei sent Wu Ban and Feng Xi from Wuxian to defeat Li Yi and others, marched to Zigui, and the Wuxi Barbarian tribe in Wuling County sent envoys to ask for troops to help Liu Bei fight against Sun Quan.

After Liu Bei sent troops, Huang Quan, who was engaged in Zhizhong, advised: "The Wu people are strong and good at fighting, and our naval army is down the Yangtze River, it is easy to advance, but it is difficult to retreat." Please send me to lead the army as the vanguard to attack the enemy, and Your Majesty should be in the rear. Although Liu Bei did not take his advice, he appointed Huang Quan as the general of Zhenbei and sent him to command the Shu armies north of the Yangtze River to defend against Wei, while Liu Bei himself was on the front line in the south of the Yangtze River.

[Confrontation]

In the first month of the spring of the second year of Zhang Wu (222), Liu Bei led the army to return to Zigui, and the generals Wu Ban and Chen Shi led the water army to garrison Yiling, and camped along the east and west banks of the Yangtze River. In February, Liu Bei Zigui led the generals to march into Wuxi, crossed the mountains and mountains, and set up camp in Yidao Yaoting, and opened the mountain road from Sheshan to Wuling, Liu Bei sent Ma Liang to pacify the various tribes of Wuxi, sent gold and brocade silk to the barbarian tribes of Wuling, and awarded them the official position and title of leader, and the departments responded one after another, and the leader of Wuxi, Shamoke, personally led the troops to help. Zhenbei general Huang Quandu led the Jiangbei armies and engaged the Wu army at Yiling Road.

On the other hand, in the face of Liu Bei's large-scale attack, Sun Quan ordered Lu Xun to be the governor of the capital, and led Zhu Ran, Pan Zhang, Song Qian, Han Dang, Xu Sheng, Xian Yudan, Sun Huan and other 50,000 horses to resist Liu Bei.

Liu Bei from Wuxia, Jianping to the border of Yiling, connected dozens of camps, lured the ethnic minority tribes with gold, silver brocade and knighthood rewards, appointed Feng Xi as the governor, Zhang Nan as the vanguard, Fu Kuang, Zhao Rong, Liao Chun, Fu Wei as the governors of each branch, and first sent Wu Ban to lead thousands of people to camp on the flat land, wanting to challenge the Wu army.

All the generals of Eastern Wu wanted to attack Wu Ban, and Lu Xun said: "There must be fraud in this move of the Shu army, so let's observe it for the time being." Liu Bei knew that his plan would not succeed, so he led 8,000 ambush soldiers and withdrew from the valley. Lu Xun said: "The reason why I didn't listen to you to attack Wu Ban was because I guessed that the Shu army must be deceitful. ”

According to the "Book of Wu", at that time, the generals of Wu asked to send troops to meet the attack, and Lu Xun said: "Liu Bei led the army along the Yangtze River to the east, and the spirit was in full swing, and it was difficult to launch a rapid attack on them because of the high mountains and the danger." Even if the attack is successful, it will not be able to defeat them all, and if the attack is unfavorable, it will damage our main force, which is not a small mistake. At present, we can only praise and motivate the soldiers, adopt and implement the strategy of breaking the enemy in various ways, and observe the changes in the situation. If this area is a plain wilderness, we also have to worry about chasing each other; Now that they are deploying their armies along the mountains, not only are they unable to deploy their forces, but they are becoming exhausted by being trapped in the trees and rocks, and we must be patient and wait for them to attack with their own destruction. The generals still didn't understand, thinking that Lu Xun was afraid of Liu Bei's army and was strongly dissatisfied with him.

During the Battle of Yiling, although Lu Xun had already made great achievements in eliminating Guan Yu, on the whole, he was still too young and lacked qualifications.

Lu Xun had no choice but to hold the hilt of his sword and say: "Liu Bei is famous all over the world, even Cao Cao is afraid of him, and now he has entered the realm of our country, this is an extraordinary enemy." You are all deeply blessed by the country, and you should be at peace with each other, annihilating this powerful enemy together, and reporting the favor of the Lord that you have received, and now we are not at peace with each other, which is not what we should do. Although I am a scholar, I accept the Lord's commission. The reason why the state has wronged you to obey my command is that it thinks that I still have some strengths to use and can bear the burden of humiliation. How can each bear his own responsibility, and then pass the buck to one another? Military orders are regular, and they must not be violated! ”

Later, the generals saw that Lu Xun was full of scheming, and they were gradually convinced.

[Refusal to save Sun Huan]

At the beginning, Wu Andong Zhonglang general Sun Huan, and led the army to fight against the Shu army in Yidao, surrounded by the Shu army, at that time Liu Bei's army was very strong, full of mountains and fields, full of valleys, Sun Huan waved his knife to fight to the death, and asked Lu Xun for help, but Lu Xun said: "No." ”

The generals said: "General Sun is a fellow of the king's clan, and now he is besieged and trapped, why don't you send troops to rescue?" Lu Xun replied: "General Sun has won the hearts of the army, the city is strong, and the military food is sufficient, so there is no need to worry." After my plan succeeds, if we don't save General Sun, the siege of General Sun will be lifted on its own. ”

After learning that Lu Xun did not send reinforcements, Sun Huan was quite complaining, but he still had to fight, in the face of the siege of Zhang Nan, the former governor of Shu Han, Sun Huan fought bravely and persevered, and finally waited for the change of the battle situation.

【Cao Pi's Opinion】

When Cao Pi heard that Liu Bei led his army eastward and fought with Sun Quan, Shuzha Company Camp for more than 700 miles, he said to his ministers: "Liu Bei doesn't know the art of war, how can there be a company camp for 700 miles to resist the enemy!" 'The bud plain is dangerous and the soldier is the enemy', this is the taboo of using soldiers, and Sun Quan's letter to defeat Liu Bei is about to arrive. ”

In history, Lu Xun faced the attack of Liu Bei's army, only thirty-nine years old, but he was very calm and steady, which made people have to be impressed, when the morale of the Shu Han army was booming in the early stage, when the invitation to fight, Lu Xun did not agree to the invitation of his subordinates, but dragged it out again and again, forcing out Liu Bei's ambush, and then the royal family Dongzhonglang surrounded Sun Huan by Liu Bei's army, Lu Xun can also calmly analyze the situation, refuse to divide the troops, and do not give Liu Bei a chance.

At that time, Lu Xun's strategy was also very clear, he led the army to withdraw from the high mountains and mountains, leaving the hundreds of miles of mountains that were difficult to deploy to the Shu army. Under the circumstance that the Wu army held on to the important places and could not fight, the Shu army, which had penetrated deep into the enemy's territory, had no choice but to set up dozens of camps on the Wuxia Gorge, Jianping and Yiling lines, and transferred the naval boats to the land, and the troops were stationed next to the streams to rest.

After a long confrontation, one drum, then decline, and three exhaustions, the morale of Liu Bei's army was gradually consumed, and the situation began to shift towards Liu Bei little by little, and Lu Xun finally waited for his own fighter.

This was also as Cao Pi expected, and soon Liu Bei was going to fail.