What strategy did Lu Xun use to turn defeat into victory and defeat Liu Bei's 700,000-strong army?

Lu Xun used delaying tactics, fire attacks and other tactics to defeat Liu Bei's 700,000-strong army.

Liu Bei attacked Wu, and Sun Quan appointed Lu Xun as the governor to fight against Liu Bei's army. At the beginning, the morale of Liu Bei's troops was high. Lu Xun's strategy was to temporarily avoid his attack and pretend to retreat, deliberately leading Liu Bei's army into a mountainous area. Later, Liu Bei stationed himself at Xiaoting and established a base camp. In fact, Lu Xun began to gather troops to prevent Liu Bei from continuing to move forward.

Because Liu Bei has entered more than 200 miles into the territory of Shu, and Liu Bei’s goal is very clear to recapture Jingzhou, so Lu Xun can no longer let Liu Bei move forward urgently, and Lu Xun is using the terrain to take advantage of the situation. Liu Bei was trapped. After all, Lu Xun must be more familiar with this place. At this time, Lu Xun used a delaying tactic, which was a bit like the method Sima Yi later used against Zhuge Liang.

Liu Bei saw that Lu Xun did not send troops, so he sent people to the front to insult and challenge, but Lu Xun was completely unmoved. No matter what methods Liu Bei used to provoke his generals, it was useless. Lu Xun just refused to send troops to fight Liu Bei to the death. I wonder if Sima Yi later learned Lu Xun's trick and dragged Zhuge Liang to death.

After several months of stalemate between the two sides, Liu Bei's morale gradually declined, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers was not as high as it was at the beginning. Lu Xun was waiting for such a moment.

So Lu Xun still sent people to hinder Liu Bei's logistics troops, because Liu Bei was stationed in the mountains and it was very difficult to ensure logistics. At first, Lu Xun succeeded frequently. Liu Bei was harassed and had no choice but to reinforce and protect the transportation of grain and grass, thus breaking the deployment in front of the battle.

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The reasons for the failure of the Shu Army Conference

First of all, using anger to raise the division violated a taboo among military strategists. Liu Bei was eager to avenge Guan Yu, and was overwhelmed by hatred. He lost his mind and caused the Shu army to advance all the way and entered the Wu Kingdom two to three hundred miles away. This was a typical case of a lone army going deep into the country and attacking rashly. The chance of failure was too high, so Liu Bei made a risky move and laid the foundation for it. the source of failure.

Secondly, the weather was hot at that time, and the Shu army actually camped for hundreds of miles, allowing the enemy to seize the opportunity at once. Once a fire attack was launched, it would be disintegrated in an instant. Liu Bei had been fighting for many years, but he forgot This shows how terrible it is to underestimate the enemy. Maybe Liu Bei only had revenge in his heart at this time and forgot this key point.

Finally, I have to say that Lu Xun has super commanding talents. Through rational analysis, he came up with the method of resisting the enemy. Then he used retreat to advance, worked step by step, looking for opportunities, and finally took the opportunity to annihilate the enemy. Sure enough, Defeat the Shu army and win the Battle of Yiling.

Later, Lu Xun felt that the time was ripe for counterattack, so he began to formulate the final plan. He discovered that Liu Bei's military camps were all built with wooden palisades, and it was a hot summer at that time, so Lu Xun decided to attack with fire. As long as the fire breaks out, Liu Bei's military camp will instantly fall into a sea of ??fire.

So Lu Xun asked each soldier to bring a handful of hay and prepare to attack Liu Bei's camp at night. It can only be said that everyone has his own destiny. Liu Bei was not in the upper valley this time and did not have timely rain. When the fire burned, Liu Bei's military camp instantly became a sea of ????fire, and then the Shu army was in chaos.

Afterwards, Lu Xun took advantage of the victory to pursue and defeated Liu Bei's generals one by one. By now, the Shu army had been defeated. And Liu Bei also knew that his situation was over, and he was defeated and finally fled to Baidi City.