At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the crowds were in strife, and at the end of the laughter was Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and Wei Shuwu became the last player. Rational analysis, in fact, these three people are not the most dominant princes in the Three Kingdoms period, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan in the north, Dong Zhuo in the west, Liu Biao in Jiangnan, Yuan Shu in the east, that is not more powerful than Cao Liu and others? What's more, Liu Bei was originally just a straw shoe seller.
In the final analysis, to sum up the reasons, in addition to Yuan Shao and other people's short-sightedness, they do not have much available materials under their hands, take Yuan Shu, in the second year of Jian'an (197), he was proclaimed emperor in Shouchun, occupying the central region of Guangfu and rich in money and grain, sitting in four states, with a household registration of one million people, but Yuan Shu seems to be a light rod commander, speaking of his subordinates, everyone may have an impression of a Ji Ling, who was still a second by Zhang Fei in the middle of the performance. It is no wonder why Yuan Shao failed.
And The Jingzhou Thorn History Liu Biao, it seems that there is no one to use, he can get his hands on it, is the famous "often defeated general" Huang Zu in the Three Kingdoms period, Huang Zu Zhengshi and Yanyi novels record about the same, anyway, the mouth cannon has not lost, the war has not won, and winning is a miracle. And the famous Jiangdong general Gan Ning's evaluation of him was: "Zu is old this year, he is very dim-witted, he is not rich in wealth, he is bullying left and right, he is in charge of goods and profits, and he encroaches on officials." The historical writer Cai Dongfan also believes that "Huang Zuben has no intelligence." However, after the general Huang Zu was captured, Liu Biao was willing to exchange Sun Jian's corpse for it, Huang Zu was repeatedly defeated, and Liu Biao never blamed him, but always let him guard the important place of Jiangxia. This is enough to state that Huang Zu is still not as unbearable as everyone thinks.
One of the most amazing skills of "often defeated general" Huang Zu is that he can kill a major general of the other side almost every time he fails a battle. During the Three Kingdoms period, because Liu Biao's Jingzhou was from the middle of the Central Plains and was a place where soldiers and families had to fight, it was red-eyed by many people, naturally including the Sun family in Jiangnan, Sun Wu had organized several western expeditions, and Liu Biao and Huang Zu insisted on adopting a defensive strategy and did not take the initiative to attack.
In the second year of Chuping, (191), Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian to conquer Jingzhou and attack Liu Biao, and Huang Zu immediately fought at Fancheng, where was Huang Zu's opponent? Soon defeated, Sun Jian's army thus took advantage of the victory to cross the Han River, besieged Xiangyang, Liu Biao could not hold out, Huang Zu led reinforcements back, Sun Jian fought a big battle with him, the result was that Huang Zu still could not fight, lost again, fled to Da Nang Mountain, Sun Jian already knew Huang Zu's dish, naturally insisted on pursuing, but was shot by Huang's subordinates, and from then on Liu Biao and Jiangnan formed a feud.
This vendetta is indeed a bit unjust, after all, you bully others first, are you not allowed to fight back? Sun Wu organized military operations against Jingzhou in 199, 203, 204, and 206, but Huang Zu was always a piece of candy between them and Jingzhou, and Huang Zu's troops were not opponents in Jiangdong, but every time they insisted on stubborn resistance, or took the lead in abandoning the city, until Sun Wu's grain and grass were not good, they made a comeback again, so in these several wars, although Huang Zu basically did not win, the Wu people's harvest was only to plunder a little population. However, the land of Jiangxia never fell into the hands of the Sun family, and Huang Zu basically took away the generals under Sun Wu's hands every time he fought.
For example, in the eighth year of Jian'an (203), although the Eastern Wu general Ling Cao took the lead in light boats, killed Xiakou and broke the enemy's forward, he was shot by Huang Zu's subordinate Gan Ning, while Sun Jian's nephew, the Pingyu general Xu Kun, fought very bravely, established military merit many times, and was also shot by his army during the conquest of Huang Zu. I have to say that Huang Zu is the nemesis of Eastern Wu, obviously he is weaker than you, but he can also make you itch your teeth. Finally, under the perseverance of Eastern Wu, in the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Eastern Wu successfully occupied this place again in the course of the battle against Jiangxia, and captured Huang Zu and killed him, while Liu Biao lost a reliable subordinate, and could only rely more on Liu Bei, from a historical point of view, cooperating with Liu Bei was tantamount to conspiring with the tiger, liu biao's Jingzhou, not far from being discarded.