As one of China's four classical novels, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms has always been loved by many people. Many characters in the book have left many stories that we still relish, such as Guan Yu's killing Hua Xiong with warm wine, Zhuge Liang's borrowing from the east wind, Zhou Yu's burning Chibi, Lu Xun's burning camp and so on.

But in fact, many Romances of the Three Kingdoms have been adapted, like Hua Xiong who was killed by Sun Jian in the official history. Today, let's talk about whether Lu Xun's story that Liu Bei led 700,000 troops to attack Wu and was defeated by 50,000 people is true.

The cause of the story is that when Guan Yu was at war with Cao Wei, Sun Quan sent Lu Meng to steal Jingzhou and recapture Jingzhou cheated by Liu Bei, but it also led to Guan Yu's death. After Liu Bei heard the news, he sent 700,000 troops to attack Wu, and Wu quickly dispatched 50,000 men with Lu Xun as the commander-in-chief to fight it. As a result of this war, Lu Xun burned down the camp and defeated the Shu army. Liu Bei died in Baidicheng shortly after his defeat.

First of all, we can be sure that these 700,000 people are definitely fake. You know, at that time, the total number of Shu was around 6.5438+0 million, while the number of troops should be around 6.5438+0 million, and some of them should be left to prevent Cao Wei's attack. Therefore, the real number may only be 70,000. We know that the number of people is thousands, and the number is endless.

So 700,000 is just Liu Bei's unilateral statement. And how many people others can't count, in fact, this kind of behavior, we have all seen, Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Wei's so-called million-strong army, but only they know how many. Obviously, Wu also knows very well that Shu's 700,000 troops are just to show their momentum, but in fact there are not so many people.