How many troops do both sides have in Hanzhong?

The battle of Hanzhong took place between Liu Bei and Cao Cao. The war lasted for two years, and finally Liu Bei's war was called Hanzhong King. In the battle for Hanzhong, both generals were killed, but the history books rarely recorded this battle. The following is the strength comparison between the two sides in the Hanzhong War that I have carefully compiled for you. I hope you like it.

The strength of both sides in Hanzhong campaign

The commanders of the warring parties in Hanzhong are Liu Bei and Cao Cao respectively. It is difficult to verify the strength invested by both sides. When Liu Bei attacked Zhang, he invested more than 10,000 elite soldiers, but the total force Liu Bei invested in the whole Hanzhong War was not recorded. On Cao Cao's side, in the 22nd year of Jian 'an (2 17), Chen Lin published "Wen Qu of Wu Distribution Department", claiming that there were 50,000 soldiers guarding Hanzhong in Xia, and some ethnic minority troops. In Zhuge Liang's anthology, it is said that Cao Cao himself came and took hundreds of thousands of troops to fight for Hanzhong. The losses of both armies are even more unrecorded.

Brief introduction of Hanzhong campaign

The Battle of Hanzhong was a battle between Liu Bei and Cao Cao for Hanzhong during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of Han Dynasty. This war was initiated by Liu Bei in the 22nd year of Jian 'an (2 17) and ended in May in the 24th year of Jian 'an (2 19). The war lasted nearly two years. The commanders of the warring sides are Liu Bei and Cao Cao respectively. Liu Beifang's war generals mainly include Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Fa Zheng and Huang Quan, while Cao's war generals mainly include Xia, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Cao Hong, Zhang He, Huang Xu and Guo Huai. Liu Bei began to take the initiative and sent Liu Feng to fight in front of Yangpingguan. Cao Cao cursed Liu Bei and often sent his seme to battle, saying that he could play Liu Feng with Cao Zhang, a yellow beard. Cao Cao sent for Cao Zhang to help Hanzhong. In May, Cao Zhang traveled day and night to Chang 'an. But Cao Cao has withdrawn from Hanzhong. The battle of Hanzhong ended with Liu Bei's victory. In autumn and July, Liu Bei was called the King of Hanzhong.

The history of the Battle of Hanzhong is rarely recorded.

In the battle of Hanzhong, both Cao and Liu invested a lot of fighting power. Liu Beifang's generals Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, etc. And Cao's generals Xia, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Zhang He, and Guo Huai. During the Three Kingdoms period, it was a close war. However, this war, which lasted for nearly two years, is rarely explained in history books, and there are few tactical evaluations of this war in past dynasties.

The battle of Hanzhong ended in summer.

Xiahou Yuan's performance in the battle of Hanzhong mainly began in the twenty-fourth year of Jian 'an, and from the battle of Dingjunshan to the battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei's generals took advantage of chaos to burn Xiahou Yuan's barracks and carried out a large-scale siege war. Xia sent troops to resist the attack of Liu Bei's army. Liu Bei couldn't attack for a long time, so he concentrated his firepower on fighting Zhang He, the leader of the Xia army. When Zhang He was defeated, Xia Ling came to save him. Under the command of Liu Bei, the Shu army sent Huang Zhong who was good at attacking from afar. Huang Zhong was brave and invincible, and his physical strength was in full swing when he first went out to war. In the battle with Xia, Wei Jun was quickly beaten out of the water, and in the process of confrontation, he killed Xia and others, a general of Wei Jun, and won a great degree.

After Xia's death, Wei Jun's morale quickly dissipated, which made Wei Jun, who was originally in an advantageous position, lose confidence. On the contrary, the Shu army quickly captured Hanzhong after winning the battle.

The reason why Liu Bei's land was not worth the loss in the battle of Hanzhong

Since Cao Cao was proud of Hanzhong, he had plans to emigrate. According to Zhang Lu, there are as many as 100,000 households in Hanzhong, while Liu Bei was only 200,000 when he was in Shu. Hanzhong and Wudu are one third of Yizhou's population. Since the Sanfu Rebellion, a large number of people moved to Sichuan, and a large number of people stayed in Hanzhong because of the administrative fairness in Zhang Lu. Zhang He attacked Brazil again and covered the local tribal leaders to return to Hanzhong. Although Zhang Fei broke Zhang He, Shu lost some people.

/kloc-the relocation of 0/00,000 families is a long process, and we must also consider the issues of popular support and civil unrest. Cao Cao was the first to move to Zhang Lu clan, and many Buddhists also volunteered to move with Zhang Lu. It was clearly recorded in the later Biography of Du that 80,000 people emigrated from 2 15 to 2 18. Based on the shallow calculation of a family of five, Hanzhong has a population of at least 500,000, which is very slow. At that time, Cao Cao didn't want to give up Hanzhong completely, but the situation in the north was ten households and nine empty houses. Many people originally came from Guanzhong and the Central Plains, and they wanted to transfer part of Hanzhong population to the north regardless of Liu Bei's threat.

Cao Cao's second migration was in 2 19, after the death of Xia. Zhang Bichuan used the spring and autumn brushwork, which made many people mistake it for 2 15, but Sima Guang's Zi Tong Zhi Jian recorded it as 2 19. Xia's death made Cao Cao determined to emigrate completely. He went to Hanzhong to beat Liu Bei, on the one hand, to try to repel Liu Bei, on the other hand, to buy time for immigrants.

Xia was killed in January, Cao Cao entered Hanzhong in March and confronted Liu Bei until May, during which Zhang He fought alone for more than two months. In addition to cleaning up Hanzhong people, Cao Cao also moved more than 50,000 Miao tribes in Wudu County to Fufeng and Tianshui. One of them, Dou Mao, refused, and the whole tribe was slaughtered by Cao Cao. Liu Bei's Wudu didn't get a population at all. Liu Bei may have got the population of Mianxian county in Hanzhong, but he didn't get the main population of Hanzhong because Zhang He blocked the entrance of Nanzheng.