Jiang Wei, Zhuge Liang's successor, where is his stage? Jiang Wei's stage is in Lintao. In the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, Jiang Wei completed the peak battle of his military career in Lintao amid the sound of an iron horse. Why is the legend of a generation of famous players staged in Lintao, and what will be the truth after a thousand years?
Lintao is about100km away from Lanzhou, and is known as the back garden of Lanzhou. For thousands of years, this place is not only the battlefield of nomadic people and farming people, but also the place where the two cultures collide and merge. Perhaps it is a deep precipitation, perhaps it is a long culture. Lintao's Three Kingdoms culture has been forgotten by people intentionally or unintentionally. Many people only know that there is a Jiang Weidun, but few people know the past behind this pier.
Jiang Weidun is on the top of Dongshan Mountain outside Lintao City. The name of Dongshan Mountain is Yuelu Mountain, which is said to be named after the Dongyue Temple in the Song Dynasty built on the foothills. Although the mountain is not high, it overlooks the whole city of Lintao, a bit like the country-specific ones in Lanzhou.
Before climbing the mountain, Lintao's friend Wang Zhenhua said that there was a winding mountain road in the back hill, which could go directly to the top of the mountain. Just drive up. In the end, I chose hiking. There are not only Jiang Weidun on this mountain, but also Jiaoshan Temple built in Ming Dynasty to commemorate Yang Jisheng. According to legend, the couplet "An iron shoulder with virtue and an iron hand with words" which has been handed down for hundreds of years was written by Yang Jisheng in the transcendental academy on Yuelu Mountain. He went up the mountain to express his admiration for this saint.
When I climbed to the top of the mountain, more than an hour had passed. A two-story building imitating the Han Dynasty appeared in front of us. It looks a little new. It was rebuilt in recent years. Lintao's friend said that this is Jiang Weidun. Sure enough, the gate reads "Jiang Wei's Instructor in Shuhan", and there is a plaque on the second floor door, which reads "Jiang Weidun". The door was unlocked, so I went into the yard and walked up the steps. At the top is a platform. Looking around, I have a panoramic view of Lintao County. It's a bit of an exaggeration to say it's about the stage. There is not much flat land around the stage, and there is not much room for foot soldiers. Obviously, it is impossible to point to it. Then, it can only be a beacon tower.
In the 1930s and 1940s, people once excavated iron halberds, ironclad and other things near the docks. In the early 1960s, fragments of bricks and tiles from the Han Dynasty were found here, which seems to indicate that the origin of Jiang Weidun is unusual.
Standing on the top of the dock, the scenery of Didaochuan is unobstructed, and the county town with a little fashion color brings our topic back to Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei has the reputation of "Staff Sergeant Liangzhou" and is regarded as a descendant by Zhuge Liang. He is undoubtedly a tragic figure among many famous stars. In desperation, Zhuge Liang subdued him and led the Shu army to the northern expedition several times. After fighting for more than ten years, Shu surrendered. He even pretended to surrender in despair and finally failed to commit suicide.
In the fourth year of Yan Xi (AD 24 1), after Jiang Wan wrote to Shu, he recommended Jiang Wei as the secretariat of Liangzhou. At this moment, it has been seven years since Zhuge Liang died in 234. Speaking of this Liangzhou secretariat of Jiang Wei, it is a bit shabby. Liangzhou of Shu only governs Wudu and two counties, and the rest are in Wei's hands, which needs him to take back. This means that Shu gradually resumed Zhuge Liang's strategy of attacking instead of defending. Two years later, Jiang Wei and Fei Yi carved up the Shu military power, and people talked about Jiang Wei's nine attacks on the Central Plains also reached a climax.
It is in this context that a generation of superstars began his peak work. It's a little awkward to say. Jiang Wei sent troops to attack Wei for seven times, ten years, twelve years, sixteen years in spring, sixteen years in summer, eighteen years, nineteen years and twenty years in Yan Xi. In other words, it is not true that people say that Jiang Weijiu attacked the Central Plains or that he invaded the Central Plains. However, some people counted Jiang Wei's eleven attacks on Wei (counting all Jiang Wei's wars against Wei). No matter how many times, there is one fact that cannot be changed. The main battlefield of Jiang Wei's attack on Wei was in Longyou, basically in the Taohe River basin, and only the last time he went out to attack the Qinling Mountains.
Zhuge Liang's six visits to Qishan were not far from the Central Plains, but by Jiang Weishi, the battlefield was gradually moving westward and farther away from the Central Plains. It seems that some generations are worse than others.
During the Northern Expedition, Jiang Wei led the army to besiege Didao five times (now Lintao). The first time was in the second year of Yan Xi, when Jiang Wei led his troops into Gansu and wanted to attack Didi Dao. As a result, Chen Taixian, commander-in-chief of Wei, occupied Didao, and Jiang Wei had no choice but to burn down Chen Taigong's military camp. The second time was ten years. The Qiang people in Anding, Jincheng and Xiping (now Xining) rebelled against Wei. Jiang Wei attacked Didao again and was forced back by Guo Huai. The third time was in the sixteenth year. Jiang Wei besieged Didi Dao again. Guo Taiwei raised hundreds of people in Guanzhong to lift the siege of Didi Dao, and Jiang Wei gave up all the food. The fourth time was in Yan Xi for seventeen years. In March of this year, Li Jian, the magistrate of Wei Didao (now Lintao), wrote to Jiang Wei, saying that he was willing to surrender to Shu, and Jiang Wei led the army to surrender. Later, Longxi County was surrounded to govern Xiangwucheng and defeated Xu Zhi, the commander in chief of Wei Jun, but Zhang Ben, his subordinate, was killed by Xu Zhi. In October, Jiang Wei attacked Xiaheguan County (the ancient city of Changning Yi in the northwest of Jishishan County), which was slightly superior this time.
After coming down from Jiang Weidun, we walked back along the mountain road. The trees in the mountains grow well, and there is an endless stream of people climbing the mountain to keep fit. Cars flow like water in the county town below the mountain. Thousands of years ago, Jiang Wei completed the peak battle of his military career in this land.
Jiang Wei's fifth siege of Lintao was the most wonderful, which took place in the eighteenth year of Yan Xi. This time, Jiang Wei took advantage of Wei's civil strife and led tens of thousands of troops to attack Longxi in August, ready to capture Linxia today. At this time, Guo Huai, a famous soldier stationed in Longyou for a long time, has died, and Jiang Wei has no opponent, so he is in the right place at the right time. The most successful battle of the Shu army was in Guguan (now on the west bank of Beitaohe River in Lintao County), where Jiang Wei commanded the Shu army and wiped out tens of thousands of Wei Jun in one fell swoop. The details of the battle are still unclear. This battle is the greatest victory for Jiang Wei, but it is slightly inferior to the ancient and modern famous soldiers, which seems to be the reason why this battle was completely annihilated.
When the Shu army won, the whole line of Wei Jun shook, and Wang Jing, the secretariat of Yongzhou, was frightened and retreated to the dripping way. Jiang Wei followed him and surrounded the drip. Si Mazhao was afraid of the fall of Didao and mobilized Wei Jun to save him. At this time, Chen Tai, the Wei Zhengxi general who succeeded Guo Huai, clashed with Wargo to rescue Didao. Wargo is ready to give up the drip, claiming that Jiang Wei has just won a great victory in eliminating tens of thousands of people in Wei Jun and should be avoided. Chen Tai saw through Jiang Wei's plot. He believes that Jiang Wei's purpose in taking Longxi lightly is to seize the drip channel first, and then use the drip channel as a springboard to move eastward to seize the grain-producing area in Longyou. If you break the drip, you will live completely. Chen Tai led the army alone, crossed shouyangshan and Weiyuan City overnight, and occupied the mountainous area southeast of Didao City, which is now Jiang Weidun area. He told the soldiers to light a bonfire and bluff. Caught off guard, Jiang Wei sent the Shu army to attack along the foothills, and Wei Jun occupied the geographical advantage, so the Shu army could not win. At this time, Wei Jun reinforcements from Liangzhou also crossed the Woganling (Aganling, 25 kilometers south of Lanzhou). Jiang Wei was afraid that the strong enemy would break the back road, so he evacuated the drip road and returned to Zhongti City (now northwest of Chengxian County).
The Northern Expedition Shu army annihilated tens of thousands of Wei Jun, besieged Didao for ten days, and Wei Jun was shaken across the board. It can be regarded as the most beautiful battle of Jiang Wei's many northern expeditions, and it is also one of the few battles in his life. It is no exaggeration to say that Lintao is Jiang Wei's stage.
When we lift the veil of history, we see such a real face. Who would have thought that the famous Jiang Wei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms attacked the Central Plains nine times, and most of the battles were actually around the Taohe River Basin. Jiang Wei, regarded as Zhuge Liang's successor, has deviated far from the Central Plains. Zhuge Liang's northern expedition took more Qishan and Jiang Wei's northern expedition attacked Lintao, which seemed to indicate Jiang Wei's tragic ending.
Jiang Wei's attack on Lintao was helpless. Wei Qiang and Shu Wei have been facing each other for decades. The defense lines of Qinling and Qishan have long been impregnable. Jiang Wei can only go the wrong way, develop westward, and start from the weak points. In this way, he can also use his familiar conditions to control the Qiang people and then attack Cao Wei eastward. Therefore, Jiang Wei had to besiege Didao five times to get through the road of Xiping in the hinterland of Qiang people.
In fact, Si Mazhao was very dissatisfied with Jiang Wei's victory and Zhuge Liang's stratagem. He believes that it is actually impossible to occupy Longyou and seek the Central Plains. Zhuge Liang can't achieve it, let alone Jiang Wei. "Great things are far-reaching, not dimensional." Obviously, Si Mazhao and Jiang Wei are not in the same level.
Paying too much attention to tactics and ignoring strategy is the shortcoming of Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei. Tactics can only play a temporary role. This doomed Lin Tao's stage as a famous star to be shrouded in the fog of history.
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Core Tip: Jiang Wei's talent was really outstanding in the later period of Shu, but it was only the ability of the frontier commander, far from being used by Zaifu. This article is taken from Zhang Ruiqiang's Death of a Famous Official. In fact, Zhuge Liang's biggest mistake in employing people was not Ma Su or Wei Yan, but Jiang Wei.
Core Tip: Jiang Wei's talent was really outstanding in the later period of Shu, but it was only the ability of the frontier commander, far from being used by Zaifu. This article is taken from Zhang Ruiqiang's Death of a Famous Official. In fact, Zhuge Liang's biggest mistake in employing people was not Ma Su or Wei Yan, but Jiang Wei.
Core Tip: Jiang Wei's talent was really outstanding in the later period of Shu, but it was only the ability of the frontier commander, far from being used by Zaifu. Zhuge Liang's choice of this successor is not a success.
Jiang Wei was born in Yixian County, Tianshui County, Yongzhou (now southeast of Gansu Gangu). When I was a child, I read the comic book Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and I remember that one of them was called Shoujiang Wei. It is still on the stage of Beijing Opera. However, Jiang Wei's trip to Sichuan was not so dramatic.
In the spring of 228 AD, Zhuge Liang sent Zhao Yun, the general of the town east, and Deng Zhi, the general of Yang Wu, to occupy Ji Gu (now Baoji South, Shaanxi Province), and made a gesture of sending troops from praise and thanks to contain Wei Jun's main force. Cao Rui and Wei Mingdi sent Cao Zhen, the viceroy, to take command of all the troops in Shanhaiguan Pass and defend them heavily. Zhuge Liang took the opportunity to head the main force and stormed Qishan. The Shu army was powerful, and Tianshui, Nan 'an and Anding immediately rose up against Wei and annexed Shu. At that time, Jiang Wei served as a corps commander in Tianshui County, and was accompanying Guo Huai, the secretariat of Yongzhou, to inspect various places with Ma Zun, the satrap. Guo Huai heard that the three counties rebelled against Wei, and quickly returned to Shangguan to deploy defense. Ma Zun suspected that Jiang Wei and others had infidelity and rushed to Shangguan overnight. With Jiang Wei, there are Gong Cao, Zhu Shang, Zhu Qian and others. They found that the two leaders had slipped away and hurried to catch up with them. Unfortunately, they were one step late: when they arrived in Shangguan, the city gate was closed, and Guo Huai and Ma Zun refused to let them enter the city; Jiang Wei and others had no choice but to return to Jixian, only to be refused food. They had no choice but to go to Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang got Jiang Wei as a treasure. He wrote a letter to Jiang Wan who joined the army in a very excited tone: "Jiang Boyue is loyal to current affairs, thoughtful and meticulous, and he won all the exams. Yong Nan (Shao Li) and Ji Chang (Ma Liang) are not as good as others. He is also a staff sergeant in Liangzhou. " The letter also said: "We must teach five or six thousand Chinese tiger infantry first. Jiang Boyue is very sensitive to the military, with both courage and understanding. This man's heart is in the Han Dynasty, and he can only be a man. When he has finished teaching the army, he should be sent to the palace to see the Lord. "
Jiang Wei was twenty-seven years old that year. Zhuge Liang named him General Feng Yi and Hou Ting Dangyang. Under Zhuge Liang's vigorous cultivation, it was not long before he rose to the position of supervisor and general of the Western Expedition.
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In contrast, Jiang Wei is still lucky. He just got the position of General Zheng at the age of 27. Zhuge Liang once praised him for being both civil and military, courageous and resourceful, and loyal to the Han Dynasty. The talent that Zhuge Liang valued so much was tortured by Fei Yi. Although he is very talented, he is quite loose and has no lofty aspirations.
Jiang Wei repeatedly told him to crusade against Wei, but Fei said that we were far behind the Prime Minister. Can we do what the Prime Minister failed to do? Sometimes I can't stand Jiang's nagging, so I give him thousands of people to harass Wei's border.
Later, after Fei's death, Jiang Ruhu came out, led tens of thousands of people to crusade against Liangzhou, defeated Wei in Taoxi area and wiped out tens of thousands of people. This is the biggest achievement of Shu Han in the western front after Liu Bei's Hanzhong War.
Wei, if it weren't for Chen Tai's stupidity and courage, the whole Liangzhou would have been annexed by surprise, because even such a valiant soldier as Wargo said that Jiang Wei was too strong at that time, so he should avoid it and give up Liangzhou. Later, Jiang was exiled to the middle wasteland. Later, as expected, Zhong will conquer Yangping, capture Hanzhong, and Deng Ai will smuggle Yinping to Chengdu.
At this time, Jiang moved to Jiange. He heard that Deng had arrived at the gates of Chengdu, so he advised Zhuge Zhan not to go out and touch Deng. Just leave the danger in Mianyang. If Deng's army doesn't go deep into the grain and grass, it will naturally be finished. But Zhuge Zhan didn't.
Listen, I was going to war, but Deng defeated me. At this time, Jiang Wei did not give up, so he organized a defensive war in Chengdu and waited for himself to return to Li. But Liu Chan surrendered. When Jiang Wei heard the news, he wished he could not draw his sword.
Cut the stones on the roadside! Later, at the celebration dinner in Chengdu, Deng Ai scratched his gray head and said drunkenly, Jiang Boyue is also a contemporary hero, but unfortunately he met such a master and met himself before he left.
There is no way out.