Liu Bei s defeat in Yiling cost 50,000 people, why did Shu Han break his muscles and bones and decay

The loss of Shu Han was not just as simple as 50,000 troops, but related to the complete loss of Jingzhou.

really dealt a heavy blow to Guan Yu, directly leaving him homeless, and the loss of Shu Han was not just as simple as 50,000 troops, but related to the complete loss of Jingzhou.

Shu Han's loss was not just 50,000 troops, but it really dealt a heavy blow to Guan Yu, directly leaving him homeless, and finally died tragically under Lu Meng's knife.

Because the loss of Shu Han was not only 50,000 troops, but also the gains and losses of Jingzhou.

really dealt Guan Yu a heavy blow, directly leaving him homeless, and finally died tragically under Lu Meng's knife.

Because they used 50,000 soldiers to poison Shu Han and let them die slowly.

The success or failure of a war can not only be seen in the loss of personnel, but also in the strategic impact on the entire country.

Because the loss of Jingzhou is fatal, 50,000 horses can come back, but Jingzhou is difficult.

Because there were too many failures at that time, in fact, it was also because morale was sluggish and there was a lot of brain drain, so this situation occurred.

Because Shu Han had lost a lot of opportunities at that time, and secondly, because Liu Bei's subordinates had lost a lot of talents, and their morale had also decreased a lot.

Because this battle directly destroyed the self-confidence of the Shuhan Group. Liu Chan took the position and took over a mess.

The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms recorded the battle of Yiling, and believed that in the battle of Yiling, the troops of Wu and Shu were about the same, accounting for about 50,000 soldiers and horses each. This is a world of difference from Liu Bei's 750,000 army described in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. So judging from this number, this battle of Shu Han is equivalent to the annihilation of the entire army.

Of course, with the national strength of Shu Han, it is a pity to lose 50,000 people, but it does not mean that the country will be destroyed, so why did Shu Han collapse after this battle? I think there are three reasons for this.

One. The loss of the Battle of Yiling of Shu Han was not only the attrition of 50,000 soldiers and horses, but the most fundamental reason was that Guan Yu had lost the land of Jingzhou before. Since ancient times, the land of Jingxiang has crossed the world, and the importance of Jingzhou to Shu Han has been pointed out in Zhuge Liang's Longzhong Dialogue, and the loss of Jingzhou land marks the complete failure of Zhuge Liang's strategic concept of "crossing the land of Jingyi".

The Battle of Yiling is the last battle of the three major wars of the Three Kingdoms, that is to say, this battle is a decisive battle related to the life and death of Shu Han, because the previous Guan Yu's loss of Jingzhou has actually made Shu Han lose the initiative in the Three Kingdoms Hegemony War. And this battle is nothing more than Liu Bei's dying struggle, intending to seek the land of Jingzhou. However, Sun Wu insisted on Lu Xun's policy of "waiting for work with ease", and the final result was that Liu Bei did not get any benefits, and lost 50,000 horses, making both sides lose.

Two. After the Battle of Yiling, the real Three Kingdoms situation began to take shape. This is also the reason why the historiography called the Battle of Yiling the dividing point between the three kingdoms before and after.

During the period of the first three kingdoms, the three kingdoms attacked each other, and the alliance was established day and night, and it collapsed in an instant. After the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei and Sun Wu both suffered great losses, although Liu Bei did not capture Jingzhou, but also made Sun Wu pay a heavy price. For the next forty years, neither of the two countries was capable of destroying the other, let alone fighting Cao Wei alone.

The end result was that the two countries would join forces to defend against Cao Wei. And Cao Wei was not able to eliminate any country at the same time, so a situation of three kingdoms in the true sense of the word was formed.

Three. After the Battle of Yiling, the Kingdom of Shu underwent earth-shaking changes. In the war, Shu Han lost a lot of soldiers, horses, materials and famous generals, which created a difficult situation for the later Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition that had no generals available.

More importantly, after the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei died soon after. For the country of Shu Han, although Liu Bei's fighting skills are not as good as Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang and others, for the Shu Han soldiers and people, Liu Bei is their spiritual belief and their backbone. After Liu Bei's death, the civil strife and rebellion in Shu Han continued, and it took Zhuge Liang four or five years to stabilize the domestic situation, and he could barely pack his bags and prepare for the Northern Expedition.

But in fact, the Shu Han at this time was no longer the Shu Han that Liu Bei was alive. Therefore, the defeat of the Battle of Yiling marked the decline of Shu Han from then on.

Because although Shu Han lost many people and horses, but there were many famous generals who fell, Huang Zhong and Ma Liang all died in this battle, and the talents withered, and finally languished.

This is because Liu Bei wasted a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in order to launch the Battle of Yiling, so after losing this war, Shu suffered a lot of losses.

Because these 50,000 troops are all the elites of Shu Han, they were deceived from Cao Cao at the beginning, and Shu Han can't build it with his own strength.

Because the Shu Han was very chaotic at that time, even if they didn't lose a single soldier, they would collapse.

Shu Han not only lost 50,000 people, because the 50,000 troops were the elite of Shu at that time, and Liu Bei also lost most of the military generals in this battle.

Although it was only 50,000 people, in this battle, it lost many outstanding generals of Shu Han, and without their strong support, Shu Han was useless.

There are two theories that Liu Bei participated in the battle of Yiling, one is 40,000, and the other is 80,000, but according to the situation that Liu Bei had lost Jingzhou at that time, Liu Bei should not be able to take out 80,000 soldiers and horses to deal with Eastern Wu, so it can only be 40,000.

The soldiers and horses led by Lu Xun of Eastern Wu are 50,000, which does not include the subsequent increase in troops, just as the 30,000 troops at the beginning of the Battle of Chibi in Eastern Wu were only at the beginning, and they will continue to increase their troops later.

Therefore, Lu Xun's battle in Yiling cannot be called a victory with less and more, this is different from the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Guandu, those two battles are indeed won with less.

According to Liu Bei's 40,000 yuan, then some of them are still back, but not much, so the loss is about more than 30,000, this data will be more appropriate, but this ratio is also quite amazing.

Then why didn't Shu Han work after that? In fact, this statement is not correct, the failure of the Battle of Yiling made Shu Han weaker, and what really made Shu Han weaker was the loss of Jingzhou.

The loss of Jingzhou has lost all the accumulation of Jingzhou for many years, and half of Jingzhou is gone, and the next chain reaction is that the three counties of Shangyong are also lost.

This is the biggest loss of Shu Han, after all, the key to restricting the strength of Shu is population and territory, so to speak, at least half of the strength has been lost.

And Liu Bei's defeat in Yiling exacerbated this loss, because Liu Bei wanted to fight Eastern Wu under Cao Wei's nose, then it must be the best of the best, of course, many people said that there were no powerful people in the battle of Yiling, yes, it doesn't seem to be powerful, that's because they died in this battle, and naturally there will be no later.

And like Huang Quan, who surrendered to Cao Wei, and Liao Hua, who survived, are also talents.

Therefore, the defeat of Jingzhou and the defeat of Yiling made the Shu Han people gone, the land was gone, the confidence was gone, and Liu Bei himself was gone.

The Battle of Yiling was also the dividing line of the weakening of the Shu Han, and after the Battle of Yiling, the Shu Han lost the conditions and strength to unify the world.

Because with the strength of Shu Han, it is impossible to build these tens of thousands of troops, which are the elite troops that Liu Bei deceived from Cao Cao in the early stage.

Because although Liu Bei lost very few troops at that time, he lost many generals, and Liu Bei also died later, so he collapsed.

Because a big failure will cause everyone to lose confidence and languish, it will be difficult to regain the previous motivation in the later stage.

The defeat of this war can be said to be painful for Shu Han, basically the elite of Shu Han was lost in this war, and it can be said that Shu Han has been greatly injured because of this. It was a big blow to Shu Han, they directly lost hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, relatively speaking, the morale of Shu fell sharply, and it was possible to collapse.

In the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei lost about 50,000 soldiers and horses, and for Shu Han, it went downhill from then on, and Longzhong's strategy was impossible to achieve.

The defeat of Yiling meant that Shu Han lost the opportunity to dominate the world, and he no longer had that kind of strength; The losses were particularly large, and the elite of Shu Han was lost.