Dong Zhuo has 50,000 soldiers and horses, why do he need the EighteenTh Way Princes to fight?
Dong Zhuo this person in history did a lot of bad things, he has no king's law, breaking the rules of the imperial court, his personality is very grumpy, causing serious trouble to the lives of the people, so at that time many princes wanted to go on a crusade against him, but people said that Dong Zhuo only had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, why was there a total of eighteen princes to go to fight him at that time?
Dong Zhuo was born on the border of the Han Dynasty, he grew up in a gentry family since he was a child, he grew up with the wind and sand and war horses, so his personality has always been very grumpy, after Dong Zhuo grew up, he used brutality and money to subdue the Qiang people, and also specially formed an army that was all Qiang people, the combat effectiveness of this army is very strong, and everyone has the ability. Ma Teng and Han Sui's Western Liang Army was known as a strong army on the border at that time, but even in this way they could not defeat Dong Zhuo's troops, and Dong Zhuo's team was probably only comparable to the Central Army.
Later Dong Zhuo led three thousand troops to the capital, he used the Tianzi at that time to blackmail them, it can be said that he had the advantage at that time, and later he took In Jin's forbidden army, Ding Yuan was particularly dissatisfied after knowing what Dong Zhuo had done, Dong Zhuo turned lü Bu's army after learning about this matter, Dong Zhuo asked him to assassinate Ding Yuan, and later Dong Zhuo took Lü Bu and Ding Yuan's army into his hands.
In this way, Dong Zhuo's army could not be only fifty thousand, this was just one of his words, at that time, his strength was the strongest of all the princes, and he wanted to wipe out all of them.
At that time, there were only new recruits in the army of the princes, and these randomly combined local armies and forbidden armies could not be compared, which was what worried the princes.
There was also the fact that every prince at that time was in charge of his own army, and every team was desperately trying to improve their strength, so they would not rush to make things up, when this moment of calm was broken, the armies of these princes could not achieve very good strength, so they did not want their own army to charge the front, but the problem was that none of them was Dong Zhuo's opponent at that time.
In the end, the princes decided to set out together with the army of the Eighteenth Route, so that not only were there many people, but the people could also believe in themselves, and every prince did not want to contribute to himself, but only for his own interests, so this temporarily formed team had no system at all.
Therefore, Dong Zhuo at that time did not care about this temporary army, and later when Sun Jian was defeated, everyone fled in all directions.