At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Hezhou Army and the Liangzhou Army were known as the two strongest forces in the world. It is said that "the world is strong and courageous, and the people are afraid of him, and there are those who are harmonious and cool." In the sixth year of Zhongping (189 AD), Dong Zhuo, the commander of the Liangzhou Army, was summoned by the general He Jin and Yuan Shao, a lieutenant colonel, to lead an army into Luoyang to fight against the Ten Constant Attendants. Taking advantage of the fact that He Jin and the eunuch clique were killed in an internal struggle, Dong Zhuo first took over the garrison around Luoyang, and then bribed Lü Bu to kill Shi Dingyuan, the assassin of Hezhou who came to the rescue, and annexed the Hezhou army in one fell swoop.
Cool and jealous, mutual suspicion
From then on, both the Liang and He armies fell under Dong Zhuo's command. Dong Zhuo was very fond of Lü Bu, the leader of the Hezhou Army, and the two "swore to be father and son", and Dong Zhuo "often defended himself with cloth". But Dong Zhuo's closeness with Lü Bu did not resolve the contradictions between the two armies. The hezhou army was annexed by Dong Zhuo by conspiratorial means, and the whole army was dissatisfied; and Dong Zhuo's trust and closeness to Lü Bu also caused the jealousy of the generals of the Liangzhou army.
This contradiction was not prominent when dong zhuo group was in a good situation, but when the big war came, especially when the war was defeated, it completely burst out. In the second year of the Eighteenth Route Princes' joint crusade against Dong Zhuo, "Sun Jian gathered his scattered pawns and entered the Yang people of Tunliang County. Zhuo Dispatch attacked Hu Yi and Lü Bu, but Bu and Lü Bu were incompetent, and the army was terrified, and the soldiers were scattered. After the strong pursuit, the cloth and the cloth were defeated. ”
They were jealous of each other and lost the battle
At that time, the Eighteenth Route princes had long lost the momentum of the initial army, and another Cao Cao, who was used to duel with Dong Zhuo, had been defeated by Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong and others, and Sun Jian could be said to be alone, but still defeated the two generals Hu Yi and Lü Bu, and also occupied Luoyang. The reason was that Hu and Lü were at odds, and Hu Yi, as the commander-in-chief, threatened before sending out the troops, "On this trip, we must cut off a green silk, but tidy ears."
According to the Eastern Han dynasty etiquette system, qingshou is the standard of the Zhonglang general. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, The Biography of Lü Bu of the Three Kingdoms, Lü Bu, who served as the governor of the army, happened to be the general of Zhonglang, so the green silk that Hu Yi wanted to be beheaded actually referred to Lü Bu. Therefore, when Sun Jian led the army to attack, Lü Bu and others declared that they were "thieves" and the army was running in chaos, and as a result, the combined forces of the hezhou and Liangzhou cavalry were actually defeated by Sun Jian's Jiangdong troops.
Contradictions broke out and casualties were heavy
With the continuous fermentation of the contradictions between the two armies, especially the loss of peace between the commanders of the two armies, Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu, the two sides finally reached the point where water and fire were intolerable. According to the "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu Lü Bu Biography", "Zhuo Was rigid and stubborn, did not think about difficulties, tasted a little frustration, and pulled out his hand and threw a cloth." Bu Fist Jie avoided it, for Zhuo Gu Xie, Zhuo Yi also understood, by the yin resentment Zhuo. Dong Zhuo's brutal personality eventually pushed Lü Bu to the side of Wang Yun, a courtier who was also a stateman.
After Lü Bu killed Dong Zhuo, the contradiction between Liang and Liang was completely made public. "After Bu committed suicide, he feared the people of Liangzhou, and the people of Liangzhou complained." At the same time, the Liangzhou Army, led by Li Dai, Guo Feng, and others, was also very resentful of Lü Bu's behavior of killing Dong Zhuo with the state army, "and the people of Hezhou and the hundreds of men and women in the army were killed." "With the death of Dong Zhuo alone, all the people in the army were killed, which shows the depth of mutual resentment."