Is Zhuge Liang a military strategist?

Zhuge Liang is an excellent politician and a good writer. But he was clearly not a good military strategist.

Zhuge ruled Shu, the most excellent in the first Three Kingdoms period. He rectified and reformed and strengthened the efforts of ethnic minority areas.

Control, develop silk weaving, make Shu rich and strong. But at this time, Zhuge Liang showed that he was extremely unstrategic.

One step: Six expeditions to Wei, all of which were unsuccessful. The six defeats greatly weakened Shu's strength and national self-confidence.

In addition, Zhuge Liang mainly contributed to the Sun-Liu alliance to resist Cao Cao. did not directly participate in the Battle of Chibi, which is also described in some official histories, and on the side, it can also be found from the poems of Su Shi or other predecessors who describe the Battle of Chibi that Zhou Yu did not mention Zhuge Liang.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as **, there must be artistic processing, and the plot may not all conform to historical facts, and it cannot be fully believed.

Yes, the Three Kingdoms is the most typical example.

History is not true ... Zhuge Liang is just a legend!

Counting, his empty city strategy is a typical military strategy.

Zhuge Liang in history is an excellent politician, not a god military strategist like in **, Zhuge Liang in ** is not real, that is **image, not a historical image, you can go to see the Three Kingdoms or listen to Yi Zhongtian's products of the Three Kingdoms. Zhuge Liang, the word Kongming, known as Wolong, was a native of Yangdu County, Langxi County, Xuzhou in the late Han Dynasty (now Yinan County, Shandong), his father Zhuge Jue was Taishan County, and his uncle Zhuge Xuan was a famous man at that time. Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge did not share Dai Tianjin's Shi in Wu Sunquan, worshiped the general, Zuo Duhu, and led Yuzhou herd.

Liang Cong's younger brother Zhuge was born in Wei, as a minister, and he was tired of moving Yangzhou assassins, Zhendong generals, and Sikong. The three brothers were "famous, each in a country." At that time, I thought that 'Shu got its dragon, Wu got its tiger, and Wei got its dog'" (Shishuo Xinyu Pinzao" Note Cloud:

The dog is the dog of the "gong dog", although it is not the comparison of the dragon and the tiger, but also the person of great merit, so it is said to be famous. )。

Zhuge Liang was unwilling in his early years and was not succumbed to his ambitions, so he settled in seclusion in the mountains of Xilong in Xiangyang City. In 207 A.D., Liu Bei, who was thirsty for sages, looked at the thatched cottage and asked Zhuge Liang to calculate it, Zhuge Liang incisively analyzed the situation in the world, and proposed that the unification of the world should take the road of three points and Wu to resist Cao, also known as "Longzhong countermeasures". This is a correct political line and military line proposed by Zhuge Liang for Liu Bei, and it is also a program of action for Zhuge Liang's life.

Since then, Liu Bei's career has taken a turn for the better.

In 208 AD, Cao Cao led an army of 300,000 to Jingzhou in the south, and Zhuge Liang sent an envoy to Eastern Wu with his great wisdom and courage to persuade Eastern Wu to resist Cao Cao and win the Battle of Chibi, gaining a foothold for Liu Bei. Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor, and Ge Liang was appointed prime minister. In 223 A.D., Liu Chan, the queen of Shu, succeeded to the throne, and Zhuge Liang was named the Marquis of Wuxiang and led the Yizhou pastor.

He made great efforts to govern the country, rewarded and punished strictly, implemented the Tuntian policy, and improved the relations between the various ethnic groups in the southwest and the Shu Han, which was conducive to the development of the local economy and culture. He made six northern expeditions to the Central Plains. In 234 A.D., due to overwork, he died of illness in Wuzhangyuan and was buried in Dingjun Mountain (now southeast of Mianxian County, Shaanxi).

Zhuge Liang's life lasted for two twenty-seven years. The twenty-seven years before 207 A.D. were the preparatory stage for his self-cultivation and determination to use the world. After he learned something, he did not go north to Cao Cao, nor did he return to Sun Quan in the south, but assisted Liu Bei, who was "famous and outnumbered", which is of course objective Harada, but it is not accidental.

The reason why he chose the path of reviving the Han dynasty shows that he is an orthodox thinker who upholds feudal norms and advocates Confucian loyalty, righteousness and morality. The twenty-seventh year from 207 to 234 A.D. was the stage when Zhuge Liang was loyal to Shu Han. Both the first and the latter trusted him very much.

He did not abide by Confucian dogma, he respected the king and did not fight against him, marched into Nanzhong, and Fuyi Yue, and implemented the best ethnic policy in the Three Kingdoms. He knew the law, was upright, and governed the army, and fought to the last breath of his life with the selfless dedication spirit of "doing his best and dying". His spirit of loyalty to the public body and the country was deeply loved by the Shu people during his lifetime, and he was admired by future generations for a long time after his death, and has become a heritage of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

Zhuge Liang is a politician who takes three points of the world, and even Wu and Wei are his outstanding performances in politics. But as a politician, Zhuge Liang also has immaturity, his ideas are very good, but they do not match the reality of Shu. The strategy of not having a complete understanding of the actual situation and national strength of Shu in the later period, and constantly taking military actions on the basis of idealized national strength, was obviously a failure.

It is not only the adoption of a series of reforms and other measures, but also idealistic. Because the fundamental strategic deployment has failed, no matter how superb the strategy is, it will still not be able to escape the fate of failure in the end. So, I think, Zhuge Liang can be called a politician, but he is not outstanding!

Zhuge Liang is good at scheming, but not good at frontal attack. This dictates that he can be the best staff officer, but not the best manager.

Let's talk about two points: the first point: Kong Ming was indeed an outstanding statesman, both in terms of political ability and the application of power, he reached a very high level, and it can almost be said that he was the idol worship of later generations of Chinese literati.

The second point: Secondly, Kong Ming's military capabilities are indeed limited, but they are by no means as low as you think. This kind of advanced strategic awareness and clear strategic intent planning can almost be said to be a very correct prediction.

Such a strategic vision in the history of China is indeed not very many. Of course, Kong Ming was indeed a literati and could not fight. But you see, from the years he followed Liu Bei to fight, he actually learned!!

He fought three battles with Liu Bei: seizing the southern part of Jingzhou, entering Sichuan, and entering Hanzhong. See?

There are people who have never learned to fight in their whole life, and he has learned it three times, don't you think he is absolutely talented? And who was the one who taught him to lead his troops into battle? Liu Bei, who has never won a few times in his life, haha.

As for his lack of obvious merits in the later six out of Qishan, it is a matter of tactical application and the opponent's reaction.

Therefore, Kong Ming's political ability is outstanding, while his military ability is average.