Dong Zhuo was absurd in history, after blackmailing the Heavenly Son to order the princes, he undermined the imperial court program, fierce, grumpy, so that the people did not have a good life, which also led to many princes at that time were discussing to go on a crusade against him, but it was rumored that Dong Zhuo only had 50,000 soldiers and horses, the number of troops was not much, and dong Zhuo was a simple dong zhuo, why did he need the eighteen princes to go on a crusade against him?
Dong Zhuo grew up on the border of the Han Dynasty, he was born in a family of gentry, and from an early age he dealt with wind and sand and war horses, so Dong Zhuosheng was very brave and fierce. And Dong Zhuo grew up, with his own character and money to conquer the Qiang, and with the Qiang people to form an army, this army is very strong, everyone is carefully selected, known as the border strong army Ma Teng and Han Sui's Western Liang army can not defeat Dong Zhuo, it can be said that Dong Zhuo had the strongest army at that time in addition to the central forbidden army.
After Dong Zhuo led three thousand people into the capital, he blackmailed tianzi to order the princes to take advantage of the heavens and the land, and then took the forbidden army of The Great General He Jin under his command. Because Ding Yuan was dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's move at that time, Dong Zhuo became resentful and used a ruse to rebel against Lü Bu, asking Lü Bu to kill his superior Ding Yuan, and then taking Lü Bu and Ding Yuan's army under his command.
From this, it can be seen that Dong Zhuo's army is far more than fifty thousand, and the fifty thousand he reported may be just a pretext to try to eliminate all the people and horses who want to attack him, at that time, most of the forbidden troops in the capital were his subordinates, coupled with the fierce Qiang army, it can be said that Dong Zhuo's army strength was already the strongest among the princes at that time.
At that time, the Eighteen Roads as princes were all self-formed armies or local troops, and the recruitment power in the Eastern Han Dynasty was only delegated a year before Dong Zhuo came to power. Therefore, many of the princes' soldiers were new recruits, and in this case, the strength of the local troops and the troops they formed were far inferior to the well-trained forbidden army in the capital, which was also one of the concerns of the princes.
Another reason was that at that time, the princes were each raising troops, trying to improve their strength, and wanted to break through a way of life in this chaotic world. Therefore, no one will deliberately provoke an incident, and if the short-term peace is broken, the princes of all walks of life will not have time to accumulate their strength, so they are hiding their armies. If there was a way for the princes to go out, it would inevitably break this stalemate, and no prince at that time was sure that he could defeat Dong Zhuo's army alone.
Therefore, the princes at that time decided to come to an eighteen-way conquest, with many people and great strength and sufficient momentum, which would not destroy the peaceful situation at that time, but also convince the people of their own, which was the best of both worlds. Although these princes played well, but each one only wanted to sit back and enjoy the success, each fighting for their own interests, there was no unified dispatch, this is also like a scattered sand, one has benefits everyone wants, one danger everyone wants to run, the typical three monks have no water to drink.
Therefore, the Eighteenth Route Princes at that time were just a joke, and with Dong Zhuo's strength, there was no need to worry about what waves this group of scattered sand would turn over, and the main force Sun Jian was scattered after being defeated.