How many troops did Liu Bei use to attack Wu?

In July of 22 1 year, Liu Bei personally led tens of thousands of Shu-Han troops and launched a large-scale war against Wu. At that time, the border between the two countries had moved westward to Wushan, and the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River became the main channel between the two countries.

Liu Bei sent generals Wu Ban and Feng to lead about 30,000 people (with the participation of Wu Yi in the later period, and the total strength should reach 50,000 people) as the vanguard troops, and seized Xiakou, occupied the territory of Wu, defeated Wu Jun's Li Yi and Liu Abe, and occupied Zigui (now Badong, Hubei).

In order to prevent Cao Wei from taking the opportunity to attack, Liu Bei sent Huang Quan, the general of Zhenbei, to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and sent Ma Liang, the deputy commander, to Wuling, in order to win over the local tribal leader Shamok and the Shu-Han army.

Facing the strategic attack of the Shu army, Sun Quan stepped forward. General Zhenxi and right-back Lu Xun were appointed as viceroy, commanding Zhu Ran, Pan Zhang, Han Dang, Xu Sheng and other 50,000 people to go to the front to resist the Shu army.

At the same time, messengers were sent to Cao Pi to make up for it and avoid fighting on two fronts (the so-called saying that Liu Beiyou had 40,000 former troops was mainly based on Liu Bei's 40,000 party in Sun Quan's distress letter to Cao Pi at this time).

After Lu Xun came to power, he took the initiative to retreat, lured the enemy into depth, concentrated his troops, and smashed the enemy with his camera. He ordered Li Yi and Liu Ke to retreat to Yiling and Xiaoting (now Yidu North, Hubei Province, and the east bank of the Yangtze River) and ceded hundreds of miles of canyon mountains to Liu Bei, thus exposing the front of the Shu army.

The expedition of the Shu army is difficult to supply, and it is impossible to make a quick decision. Coupled with the hot weather after the summer, the spirit gradually lost and morale was low. In order to relieve the heat of the sergeant, Liu Bei ordered the Shu army to camp in the mountains for the summer.

Lu Xun seized the opportunity and ordered the soldiers to take a thatch with them. When they arrived at the camp of the Shu army, they set fire to it and launched a storm. The wooden fence and surrounding trees in the camp of Shu army are flammable, and the fire spread rapidly in each camp.

The Shu army was in chaos, and Wu Jun even broke more than forty battalions. The success of Lu Xun's fire company camp decided that Shu defeated Wu Sheng in the battle of Yiling (the battle of Xiaoting).

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Commanders of both sides:

1, Liu Bei

Liu Bei (161-June10,223), namely Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty (reigned 22 1-223), was born in Zhuoxian County (now Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province) at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Liu Sheng, King of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, and during the Three Kingdoms Period. Historians usually call it the late master.

When Liu Bei was a teenager, he worshipped Lu Zhi as a teacher, and later participated in activities such as suppressing the Yellow Scarf Uprising and punishing Dong Zhuo. Because of his limited strength, Liu Bei suffered repeated failures in the scuffle among princes, so he attached himself to Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and other princes.

However, because he always adhered to the code of conduct of serving people with virtue, he was respected by celebrities at home and abroad. Even Tao Qian and Liu Biao gave up letting their sons inherit the inheritance, but chose to hand over their territories Xuzhou and Jingzhou to Liu Bei.

After unremitting efforts, after Battle of Red Cliffs, Liu Bei successively won Jingzhou and Yizhou, and established the Shu-Han regime. Later, because Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei ignored the advice of his ministers and insisted on going to war with Wu. The result was defeated by Yiling, and finally Zhangwu died in Baidicheng in 223. At the age of 63, posthumous title Zhaolie was buried in Huiling.

2. Lu Xun

Lu Xun (183-0319,245), whose real name was Lu Yi, was born in Wuxian, Wu Jun (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Wu, a statesman and strategist in the Three Kingdoms period.

In the eighth year of Jian 'an (2003), he entered the Sun Quan shogunate, and served as a captain of Haichang wasteland, a captain, and a supervisor under the account. Thanks to Sun Quan's appreciation, he was able to exert his outstanding military talents and his position gradually flourished. In the 24th year of Jian 'an (2 19), Lu Xun participated in the attack on Jingzhou.

In the second year of Zhangwu in the middle of Shu (222), Sun Quan took Lu Xun as the commander in chief and defeated Liu Bei in the battle of Yiling. In the seventh year of Wu (228), Lu Xun won the battle.

In the first year of Huanglong (229), after the rise of Sun, he took Lu Xun as the general, assisted his grandson Deng, and made Wuchang the capital. In the seventh year of Chiwu (244), he was worshipped as the Prime Minister, the garrison of Jingzhou Animal Husbandry and Tourism, the general manager of Sangong Affairs and Wuchang Affairs. Sun He and Sun Ba were involved in the dispute between Sun Quan and his son in the Second Palace, and died at the age of 63 the following year, pursuing Zhao.

Lu Xun followed Sun Quan for more than forty years and led the military and political affairs of Wu for more than twenty years. He is far-sighted and loyal to honesty and frankness. He was hailed as "the minister of the country" as soon as he was born.

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