Kongming burned 300,000 people in Wei Jun without fear. Why did he say "it will damage longevity" when he burned Fu Jia soldiers?

Those of us who have read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are familiar with the story of Zhuge Liang's burning of Fujia soldiers, and we all know that Fujia soldiers are invulnerable, which has caused great losses to the Shu army. Finally, the method of fire attack was used as the last resort. After the victory of the battle, Zhuge Liang said, "Although I have made contributions to my country, I will lose my life." This leaves us with many questions. Zhuge Liang used several fires against Cao Cao and destroyed so many Cao Cao's soldiers. Why are the Fu Jia soldiers who burned 30,000 this time so depressed?

According to the analysis, Zhuge Liang devoted himself to Liu Bei's cause of reviving the Han Dynasty for decades. As a strategist, he took advantage of all the conveniences of the right time, the right place and the right people. Zhuge Liang, who is good at fire attack, used it five times in his military career. Except for the last unsuccessful trip to the valley, Zhuge Liang succeeded in attacking with fire four times. Below, the author will analyze the difference between burning Fu Jiabing and burning Wei Jun.

The first burning of Bowangpo was the front-end battle of Battle of Red Cliffs after Cao Cao pacified Yuan Shao in the north. Cao Cao took Liu Bei first because Liu Bei was also a participant in the imperial edict, and Cao Cao wanted to get rid of it quickly. Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang to go down the mountain after visiting the thatched cottage. Zhuge Liang's first battle was to burn Bowangpo. As a result of this battle, all the troops under Xia Houdun's command were defeated. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others who were unconvinced by Zhuge Liang were deeply impressed. Cao Cao was furious and led an army to crusade against Liu Bei's new field.

After the second Xinye fire, Cao Cao became angry from embarrassment after the first failure, and led 500,000 troops to win Liu Bei in one fell swoop. Xinye City, where Liu Bei was stationed at that time, is now Xinye County, Nanyang City, Henan Province. How can a tiny place stand the torment of Cao Cao's army? He made a strategic shift and left an empty city for Cao Cao. When Cao Cao's army spent the night in the city, they touched the organs arranged in the city. The fire spread throughout the city, and countless soldiers were killed in the fire.

The third time was burning Chibi. Battle of Red Cliffs is a classic example in the history of the Three Kingdoms and China. The key to the success or failure of this campaign is Zhuge Liang's east wind. Bottom line: The east wind was not in harmony with Er Qiao, which also profoundly proved the importance of the east wind to Sun Liulian's resistance to Cao Cao. It is said that Zhuge Liang borrowed from the east wind because of the superstition of the ancients. In fact, Zhuge Liang saw the unusual weather changes, and Zhou Yu, who saw the opportunity, launched a precise attack, which led to the tragic failure of Cao Cao and Battle of Red Cliffs.

For the fourth time, Meng Huo, a conqueror from the south, burned Fu Jia soldiers to death. Burning Fu Jiabing was the last battle to capture Meng Huo. After Liu Bei entrusted orphans in Baidicheng, Cao Pi used five passers-by to deal with the weak Shu Han, and Zhuge Liang also responded to Cao Pi's plot with the way of settling down. Only Meng Huo, the king of the South, wanted to make a personal expedition. The reason is that Meng Huo, the southern king, was originally the territory of Shu Han, and he rebelled after being bewitched. The degree of civilization of southwest ethnic minorities is limited, and the purpose of personal expedition is to solve the southwest problem once and for all.

Meng Huo turned to King Hugo for help when he failed many times and lost his base. King Hugo mobilized 30,000 rattan armour soldiers from all over the country to help Meng Huo, because the rattan armour of rattan armour soldiers is made of oil, which is not only invulnerable, but also can be used as a raft. Under the technical conditions at that time, it was black technology, and the Shu army led by Wei Yan was defeated. Zhuge Liang had to lure Fu Jia soldiers to the Pansnake Valley and attack them with fire. Under the raging fire, 30 thousand Fujia soldiers instantly turned into a coke under the fire, which was terrible.

The fifth time was to burn Fang Shang Valley. Zhuge Liang designed to lure Sima Yi to Fangshang Valley, surrounded him from front to back, and set him on fire. Unexpectedly, it rained heavily, the fire attack plan failed, and Sima failed to extinguish it. Zhuge Liang later died in Wuzhangyuan. If the fire attack is unsuccessful, I won't go into details.

After expounding Zhuge Liang's combat experience of using fire as a soldier, let's get back to the question. Zhuge Liang attacked with fire three times before, which also caused many deaths. No matter what kind of political relationship he is in, he is always the product of this world. Zhuge Liang did not feel that he had done anything wrong in the first three battles against Cao Cao Group. I think there are three reasons:

First, war is a continuation of politics. Cao Cao is the political sworn enemy of Liu Bei Group, and political struggle is one of the most cruel struggles. The purpose of political struggle is to completely and effectively destroy all the effective forces of political enemies. Political struggle is either life or death, and being too kind will bring bad to the army.

Second, judging from the moral and ethical principles in charge at that time, Cao Cao held the emperor to make the princes and called Han Xiang a thief, which was the object of indignation of the Sun-Liu Alliance at that time. Facing the attack of Cao Cao's army, resisting the invading enemy in an effective way and destroying the effective force of the invaders is tantamount to a defensive war, regardless of whether the way is correct or reasonable, and it will not take into account inhuman issues.

Third, Liu Bei was weak at that time. When Wu Dong's army faced Cao Cao's 800,000 troops, many people also advocated surrender. In the case of disparity in strength, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang have the same idea. Only by attacking with fire can we destroy a large number of invading enemies and defend our homeland. On the strategic and tactical level, it is understandable to use the right time and place to achieve your strategic goals in order to win when your own strength is weak and the enemy's strength is strong.

Through these points, I'm afraid we will know why Zhuge Liang burned Wei Jun 300,000 without fear, and everyone will be clear. So what is the reason why Zhuge Liang said that burning rattan armor soldiers would damage life? This should also be analyzed bit by bit:

First, political purposes are different. Zhuge Liang's conquest of Meng Huo in the south was not in the traditional sense, but in order to subdue Meng Huo and make him surrender and not be instigated to revolt. All the prisoners captured in the battle were put back home, not assembled or killed. The purpose is to manage this land well and let the people on this land live and work in peace and contentment. The fire led to the total annihilation of Fu Jia soldiers, which violated Zhuge Liang's original intention of conquering the south.

Second, the conquest of Meng Huo in the south is an internal contradiction in Shu. Meng Huo took Zhuge Liang to fight with people from Shu, and Zhuge Liang actually launched a war to suppress the frontier rebellion. Rattan armor soldiers are dressed in rattan armor, and there is no chance of escape in case of fire burning in the canyon. Zhuge Liang, who has fought many battles, will see him educating his people in such a cruel way, which means that I have done something wrong and God will punish me.

Third, this is a war of genocide, because all the soldiers of Wei who died in previous battles were Han Chinese, and Zhuge Liang, with a large population of Han Chinese, would not think too much. This time, the Fu Jia soldiers who were completely annihilated in the Pansnake Valley should be said to be young and middle-aged in the whole country of Ugo. At that time, ethnic minorities in the border areas were all militia. At that time, if a large number of young people died in a tribal country, it would easily be annexed by other tribes or even disappear. Zhuge Liang thought that his military actions led to the collapse of a small country and he blamed himself very much, so he later said this at the celebration banquet: "It is my great sin to let the people of Ugo leave no species."

To sum up: Zhuge Liang took his time in the face of Wei Jun's 300,000 fires, but it was uncomfortable to burn Fu Jiajun. That's because the enemies we face are different, the nature of the enemies is different, and the strategic purpose is different, so Zhuge Liang's mood is different in the face of the same result.