Liu Table, Character Jingsheng. He served as the Marquis of the Northern Army, and the official was Jingzhou Mu. One of the heroes of the late Han Dynasty. When he was young, he participated in the Student Movement and was forced to flee during the scourge of the party. After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he sent Liu Biao to be the Assassin of Jingzhou. Faced with a chaotic land of Jingxiang and a dangerous road into Jingxiang, Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou without a single soldier. After taking power, he befriended Pu Liang, Qu Yue, and Cai Mao to discuss the grand plan. Eventually, he became a tyrant in the land of jingjiang. Judging from his resume, it seems that this is a man of great ambition, cleverness and boldness. But why did he, who was sitting on thousands of miles and carrying 100,000 armor, not dare to go north to resist Cao Cao when he unified the north?
First, Liu Biao's people are actually unambitious and tend to be in a corner of peace.
Although in his resume, we see that he is also participating in party struggles and single-handedly entering Jingxiang, people can't help but think of Second Master Guan who went to the meeting with a single knife. But this does not prove that he is determined to be in the world, he is only determined to be in the land of states and counties. Cao Cao saw this very clearly, and when Liu Bei and Cao Cao were talking about heroes in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the dialogue between the two was as follows:
Xuan De said: "There is a person named Bajun, Weizhen Jiuzhou Liu Jingsheng can be a hero?" Cao Yue: "Liu Biao is false and untrue, not a hero."
Look at what he did after he occupied Jingzhou, in addition to the standard tasks of the princes such as attacking the outside world and developing armaments, he protected the territory and the people, opened the scriptures, recruited talents, and loved the people and raised soldiers... He can be said to have handled this kind of trivial matter in the series of internal affairs in an orderly manner. Liu Biao focused his energy on internal development, while external military operations basically had no northward trend after the unification of Jingxiang.
In the Battle of Guandu, he watched from side to side, Yuan Shao asked him for help, and Cao Cao showed him that he ignored it, hesitated, and only asked for self-preservation. Because he had no intention of chasing the deer at all.
Second, the Jingzhou marine division is not good at land warfare
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had a legendary army in his hands - the Tiger and Panther Riders. As the elite unit of the Central Army, the Tiger and Panther Riders belong to the armored Iron Horse, and after charging on the battlefield, the damage to the infantry is devastating. And Cao Chengxiang was able to gain a foothold in the north, but also by relying on the powerful army in his hands. In the age of cold weapons, the army that dominated the land was cavalry. In addition to the elite of the tiger and leopard riding in Cao Cao's hands, the ordinary cavalry unit was also second to none at that time.
On the other hand, although Liu Biao had more than 100,000 armored soldiers, most of the troops in his hands were sailors. The Cai Mao he befriended was a water warfare expert in the Three Kingdoms, and one of the people Zhou Yu later eliminated with the anti-plot before the Battle of Chibi. Just like the people under Cao Cao's hands in the south who are not good at water warfare and are dizzy when they take a boat. Liu Biao's Jingzhou water division, which crossed the Yangtze River and cut through thorns and thorns, could only be slaughtered at will in the land war in the north.
If you want to fight for hegemony, you need strength, Liu Biaoshan is not good at land warfare, which is why he and the Sun family brothers cannot fight, and the invitation of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao during the Battle of Guandu cannot be denied and uncertain. In addition to his indecisive personality, the lack of available soldiers is also an important factor.
Third, Liu Biao thought that he could not compete with Cao Cao and was afraid.
Sometimes, whether a person's personality is reckless or cautious, radical or conservative, irritable or peaceful, is inseparable from people's age. Even people's aspirations change with age and experience.
For example, Dong Zhuo, when he was young, defended the township and fought against the Xiongnu, full of enthusiasm only for reimbursement to the imperial court. However, when he reached middle age, after entering Beijing, he began to be murderous in the face of the disdain and even foul language of the scholars' disdain for his status as a good family son. In the face of the temptation of power, he did not dare to give up his rights and even chaos.
Liu Biao was the same, after he was appointed to take over the Jingzhou Assassin History, he was already in his forties, at this time he was already a year of confusion, and the blood of his youth was gradually cooling. By the time Cao Cheng held Tianzi hostage to order the princes to compete with Yuan Shao for the north, he was already in his fifties and nearly a year old.
At this time, as an old man, he no longer had the energy and courage to exhaust himself to fight with heaven (public opinion), with the earth (the family clan), and with people (princes of all walks of life). In the face of constant strife and wolf smoke, he only wants to manage his acres and three points of land. His own Jingzhou can not pick up the road, and he will not close the house at night.
Then, psychologically, he did not dare to face Cao Cao's soldiers, and then look at his own water division, look at Cao Cao's invincible army, he was afraid that he also understood the gap between himself and Cao Cao.
Not to mention that there is also a Liu Bei group in the territory that is eyeing its own family property, speaking of Liu Bei, Liu Bei accepted Liu Bei out of fear of fighting Cao Cao alone. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is written:
Xuande, my brother also. Long desire to meet and can not get. It is a blessing to be willing to patronize now!" Couldn't Liu Biao see Liu Bei's wolf ambitions? Only because he needed Liu Bei to work with him to prevent Cao Cao from attacking.
Because he was older and more conservative, he did not have the desire to compete with Cao Cao. This is also the reason why he did not go north to resist Cao.
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