"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is one of the four famous works in ancient China, describing the hundreds of years of power struggle from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, the chaos of the world, and the struggle for hegemony among the princes, directly exposing the chaos of the Division of the Three Kingdoms period. The book begins with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, describing the reasons for the revolt of the people and leading the princes to crusade against Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo is burly and evil, his appearance is very fierce, as the prime minister of a country, he is manipulating right and wrong in the imperial court, covering the sky with one hand, and putting the emperor's power in the air, and his misfortune and chaos have caused dissatisfaction among the princes of the world, which has led to the historical event of the famous Eighteenth Road princes rebelling against Dong Zhuo.
In such a chaotic world, the power of the princes had overshadowed the imperial power, and the number of soldiers and horses under the princes was even more staggering, taking Yuan Shao, the county lord of the party at that time, as an example, he controlled as many as ten places and sat on 100,000 troops and horses. However, a small Dong Zhuo had an army of 50,000 in his hands, so even if Yuan Shao led the army alone to fight Dong Zhuo, it was enough, why did he need to unite with the Eighteenth Road Princes?
Dong Zhuo was able to sit in the position of prime minister in this chaotic world, and even the power was tilted to the opposition, which showed that he was not an ordinary person. Dong Zhuo was fierce, extremely strong in means, extremely good at the art of war, and he had several generals under his command, of which Lü Bu and Hua Xiong were the most famous, who made great contributions to Dong Zhuo's conquests everywhere. Dong Zhuo's army not only has brave and strong generals, but also his team is also a crack soldier and strong horse, Dong Zhuo had harvested a well-trained team when he went out to fight earlier, from the distant Western Qiang, tall, good at riding and shooting, and had a lot of combat experience. Although Dong Zhuo only had 50,000 soldiers and horses, he was all well-trained, and the team was full of morale and worked together.
Compared with Dong Zhuo's small number and refinement, the princes' armies were large but lacked training. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes rose up one by one, and many new teams appeared, although they were numerous, but they had not received systematic training and had no real combat experience. The princes did not dare to easily attack Dong Zhuo, which was why Dong Zhuo was able to commit evil in the imperial court for several years, and this was an era of princes competing for hegemony, and they all cultivated their own armies and had their own thoughts. Therefore, at this time, only by joint operations and seeking some generals with excellent ability to confront the generals of Dong Zhuo's army can the odds of victory be improved.
In the end, the war against Dong Zhuo ended in victory, but it was not only because of the strength of the Eighteenth Route Princes. In this war, almost no one was Lü Bu's opponent, and Hua Xiong was even more invincible. However, Dong Zhuo's failure was to some extent his own doing, because of the competition, Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu turned against each other, and Lü Bu, who was Dong Zhuo's right arm, left, giving Dong Zhuo a heavy blow. Dong Zhuo was obsessed with pleasure in the later period, and had no intention of focusing on the struggle for power, and the result of the defeat was inevitable.
Dong Zhuo's death also opened a new chapter, and the Wei, Shu, and Wu regimes began to appear on the stage of history.