The three kingdoms in history are not like this, even the comprehensive strength of Shu Han is the weakest, and it is simply rubbish compared with Cao Wei. If you don't believe me, just compare the following data.
Wei Shuwu site comparison
The most important data of a country are territory and population. At that time, the civilization of the Central Plains was higher than that of the North and the South, and the population density was also high. Cao Cao, who was born in a famous family, began to fight in Chenliu County. The first is to form an anti-Dong Coalition. After the alliance broke down, he began to fight in the world. He defeated Liu Dai, Zhang Xiu, Lu Bu and other Central Plains governors and became the overlord of the Central Plains. Later, he annexed Tao Qian in the name of revenge for his father and confronted Yuan Shao in the north.
At first, Yuan Shao was stronger than Cao Cao, but Cao Cao countered Yuan Shao with the battle of Guandu, and Yuan Shao died the next year. Later, it took Cao Cao several years to annex Yuan Shao's territory and was directly promoted to the most powerful vassal in the country. In his later years, he won the battle of Xiliang, including Xiliang and the Western Regions, and controlled seven-tenths of the world's territory. When Wei was founded, the population of the whole country exceeded 6 million. Starting from Sun Ce, Wu Dong took six counties in Jiangdong on the eve of the battle of Guandu, and built the core territory of Wu Dong. During Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, Sun Quan took the opportunity to attack Jingzhou. After the battle of Yiling, the territory expanded from six counties in Jiangdong to Jingzhou, with the exception of Xiangyang and Fancheng. Later, because it formed an overwhelming advantage over Jiaozhou, it soon included Jiaozhou. Although there are three states in Wu Dong, most of them belong to wild areas with a population of only 2.4 million, second only to Cao Wei. Due to the fall of Jingzhou, Shu Han actually only controlled Yizhou and Hanzhong. Yizhou is known as the land of abundance, because it is stable all the year round and has a larger population than other states, with a total population of about 6.5438+0 million. Han Zhongyuan is Zhang Lu's territory. After Cao Cao captured Hanzhong, he moved all the people in this area, nearly 300,000 people, to Guanzhong and Wancheng areas, so Liu Bei only got a clearing. During Zhuge Liang's southern expedition, the south-central region was included in the territory of Shu and Han, but at that time, the environment here was harsh and there were not many migrants, so the life population of Shu and Han was less than 165438+ 10,000, ranking the bottom.
Comparison of Military Strength among Wei, Shu and Wu
After the establishment of Cao Wei, it has been divided into Huainan Legion, Liang Yong Legion, Northern Legion and Li Si Legion. The head coach of Huainan Legion was Zhang Liao at first, and later became the imperial clan general Cao Xiu. The main purpose of the Legion is to fight against Wu Dong, with 90,000 infantry and 30,000 water troops. Liang Yong Legion is mainly stationed in the west, and its task is to resist Shu Han. In history, Sima Yi led the Liang Yong Legion to fight against Zhuge Liang, with a total of 6,543,800 infantry and 30,000 cavalry.
The northern army was deployed on the northern border of Cao Wei to resist the Huns. Because of the long front, the legion has the largest number, reaching 6.5438+0.5 million, including more than 80,000 cavalry and the rest infantry. Li Si Legion is the central army of Cao Wei, mainly conquering Luoyang and Xuchang, with 50,000 troops. The size of Wei Jun's troops is as high as 450,000. Wu Dong's army is dominated by navy and infantry. On the eve of Battle of Red Cliffs, Wu Dong had nearly 80,000 troops, including 40,000 navy troops and 40,000 infantry troops. After the capture of Jingzhou, Guan Yu's 40,000 troops were annexed, and then more than 10000 soldiers who were originally captured by Guan Yu surrendered. At this time, the military strength of Dongwu expanded to 13000. After the alliance of Soochow and Shuhan once again targeted Cao Cao, Sun Quan expanded his army again, and the total national strength reached 1.6 million. This time, it was mainly to expand the infantry and manufacture a large number of siege equipment, but the effect was not obvious, and it was impossible to break through the defense of the Huainan Army of Cao Wei.
The army of Shu and Han is dominated by a large number of crossbowmen and some cavalry. During Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, there were1.30,000 troops in Shu Han, of which 30,000 troops were deployed in Hanzhong area under the command of Wei Yan, 30,000 troops were deployed in South China under the command of Hogo, and the remaining 60,000 troops were Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition Army, and1.30,000 troops were under the command of Zhao Yun, mainly in Chengdu, Wu Gong, to protect the safety of the royal family. After Zhuge Liang's death, Shu Han carried out strategic defense and once disarmed to 90,000 people.
In Jiang Wei's era, the national strength of Shu Han was much higher than that of Zhuge Liang's era because he once again carried the banner of the Northern Expedition. Jiang Wei was able to pull the 65,438+10,000 troops of Shu Han to the Northern Expedition many times. Considering that Jiang Wei had integrated the forces of Hanzhong at that time, the total population of Shu Han was not large, and the military strength of Shu Han did not exceed150,000 at its peak.
Comparison of talents in Wei Shuwu
Yu Xun, Xun You, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Zhong You, Chen Qun, Dong Zhao, Sima Yi and Du Ji. Military commanders include imperial clan generals Coss, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, Cao Chun, Xia, and generals have five sons, Zhang Liao, Yu Jin, Zhang He and Zhang He. Later civil servants included Zhong Hui, Jia Kui, Hua Xin, Cui Yan, Mao Jie, Guo Yuan and others. Military commanders include Sima Shi, Si Mazhao, Wargo, Zhuge Xu, Tomb, Zhao Hao, Xinmeile Co., Ltd., Guo Huai, Wen Yang, Chen Tai and others, which condensed most of the force and wisdom of that era.
Early Wu Dong included Zhang Zhao, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lv Fan, Gu Yong, Yu Fan, Bu Zhi, Xue Zong, Yan Bian, Luo Tong and Zhu Gejin. Military commanders include Monroe, Gan Ning, Cao Lin, Ling Tong, Zhou Tai, Quan Cong, Taishi Ci, Ding Feng, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and Jiang Qin. In the later period, there were Lu Xun, Lu Kang and his son, Zhuge Ke and so on, and the number of talents declined seriously.
There were Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Fazheng, Ma Liang, Huang Fusong, Li Yan, Meng Da, Jiang Wan, Liu Ba and Xu Jing in the early Shu Han Dynasty. The military commanders are about the five tiger generals represented by Zhang Zhao, plus General Wei Yan to support the table. In the later period, only Fei Yi, Guo Youzhi and Qiao Zhou were counselors, Jiang Wei was the only military commander, and Xia Houba who defected from Cao Wei and Liao Hua, 70 years old. As a result, there was a saying in Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition that there was no general in Shu and Liao Hua was the pioneer.
The competitiveness of a country is nothing more than the competition of population, land resources, science and technology, talents and wisdom. As far as population, territory and military power are concerned, Cao Wei is an overwhelming existence to Shu Han and Wu Dong. Faced with this huge strength gap, Shu Han and Wu Dong are doomed to be difficult to turn over.
In addition, Cao Wei has enough population base and strong productivity to provide talents for him. On the other hand, the talent gap between Soochow and Han Shu is very serious, especially in the case that there are almost no successors in Han Shu. Even Jiang Wei was recruited by Zhuge Liang from Wei Jun. It can be said that Shu Han is the weakest country among the three countries, and it is normal to be annihilated first.