Lead
Before the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei's people in Changsaka, Dangyang, were chased by 5,000 people of Cao Cao's ace army of tigers and leopards who traveled more than 300 miles a day, and the soldiers were defeated and scattered. Liu Bei abandoned his wife and children and led Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and dozens of others to flee south alone.
As Lu Su put it, Liu Beibu, who was defeated in Nagasaka, "was not a school, extremely calculating, and weak in ambition." Exhausted and exhausted, there was nothing he could do, morale was low, his power was declining, his strength was not as good as a colonel,000 or at most seven or eight hundred people, which could be described as the end of the road, and Liu Bei, who was disheartened and deeply devastated, also said, "There is an old relationship with Cangwu Taishou Wu and I want to throw myself into it." "The old friend who planned to defect to a corner of the remote area, and secretly gave birth, it can be said that Liu Bei completely lost his fighting spirit."
▲Liu Bei
At this time, why did the shrewd and capable Sun Quan unite with Liu Bei, who had only 700 or 800 people and was devastated (and Guan Yu's water army of 10,000) to resist Cao Cao? There are reasons for the incident, Sun Quan decided after careful consideration, not based on the void, but according to the following favorable levels.
The name is justified in his crusade against Cao Cao
▲Chen Qun
Although as Chen Qun and Huan Jie said, "Emperor An of the Han Dynasty has come, the government has gone to the office, and the number of national unifications is extinct, as for the present, there are only names, and the rulers and the people are not Han, and the fortunes of the period have been exhausted for a long time, and the end of the years has ended, and it is not suitable for today." "There is not an inch of land, and there is not a single people's Han room in name only, but at that time, the orthodox Han room was still in the minds of most people, "to eliminate the traitors and restore the Han room." "It is the righteous thing that the human heart desires.
Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Liu Bei, and the three heroic heroes whose ultimate goal is to unify the whole country, must know the truth that "those who win the hearts and minds of the people win the world", so they are well aware of the importance of unifying the world's reputation. Cao Cao registered the political name trademark of "Holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes" with a far-sighted vision.
▲ Cloth belt edict
Liu Bei, the "emperor's servant", regarded himself as orthodox, coupled with the rebellion with the belt, and public opinion at that time believed that "although the name of the Han Xiang is known, in fact, the Han thief is also." Cao Cao of Cao had a righteous reputation, but Sun Quan, as a subordinate of the Han Dynasty, if he resisted Cao Cao, who was crusading on the orders of the Son of Heaven, he would appear to be unjustified and in an awkward position.
If Sun Quan joined forces with Liu Bei, who was weak in strength and did not even have a place to stand a cone, then in the name of the teacher of justice, he would justifiably crusade against the "Han thief" Cao Cao, which would not only solve the problem of embarrassment in name, but also be in a favorable position politically. At the same time, Liu Bei, who was about to "wander" again, dreamed of and could not be sought, so Lu Su and Zhuge Liang, two able-bodied generals on both sides, with the full support of the two big men, removed obstacles one by one and quickly reached a military alliance to form a win-win situation.
Liu Bei was very prestigious in Jingzhou
▲ Jingzhou people
In the sixth year of Jian'an (201), Cao Cao personally conquered Liu Bei, and the self-aware Liu Bei, believing that he was not Cao Cao's opponent, defected from Runan to Mu Liu Biao of Tongzong Jingzhou. By the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208), Liu Bei had been living in Jingzhou for seven years, because of his "faith and righteousness in the four seas", coupled with the thirst for talents, so there was a phenomenon of "Jing and Chu Qunshi from the clouds", "Jingzhou Haojie returned to the ancestors more and more", Liu Bei's reputation in Jingzhou was extremely high and he was really supported and attached, such as Zhuge Liang (strictly speaking of Langya people), Pang Tong, Ma Liang, Ma Chen, Jiang Wan, Fei Yi, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan and other Jingzhou people, and then became the pillar of the Shu Han regime.
Not only did Haojie and people of insight return to him, but they also won the support of the vast number of ordinary people in Jingzhou. On the eve of the Battle of Chibi, when Liu Bei fled to the south to reach Dangyang, there were more than 100,000 people following him, which was enough to show Liu Bei's prestige in Jingzhou and the loyal support of the common people, which reflected that although Cao Cao had won Jingzhou and its land, he had not won the hearts of the people.
▲The people followed Liu Bei into exile
On the contrary, sun quan and Jingzhou Jiangxia Taishou Huangzu had a vendetta against his father, and he did not share the hatred of heaven, and not long ago he killed Huang zu and annexed most of Jiangxia County, so it is fortunate not to say that the people of Jingzhou support it. If Sun Quan and Liu Bei joined forces with Liu Bei, they would ease the hatred of the people of Jingzhou and further become a uniting force to resist Cao Cao, and if they attacked and captured Jingzhou, they could quickly pacify the people and stabilize the order in Jingzhou, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, as Lu Su said, "Say that you are prepared to care for the masses, work together with one heart, and rule Cao Cao together." ”
The weak resist the strong, and unity is the way to survive
▲Cao Cao
At this time, Cao Cao had unified the north, without spending a single soldier, easily obtaining Jingzhou, which was rich in land and people, plus countless elite soldiers, reaching the peak of its strength, the total strength of Sun Quan in the south was close to 200,000, and the only troops that Eastern Wu could mobilize were only 30,000 people.
At this time, Liu Bei was able to mobilize 10,000 Jiangxia garrisons, Guan Yu's 10,000 water troops, and scattered troops, a total of about 20,000. If Sun Quan and Liu Bei resisted Cao Cao one-on-one, it was simply to hit the stone with an egg and seek their own death, if there was still room for maneuver in the alliance. The weak resist the strong, only unity is the way to survive, so the alliance between Sun Quan and Liu Bei is also forced by the situation and the last resort, and it is also in line with the strategic thinking of Zhuge Liang in "Longzhong Pair" that the strong Cao Cao "cannot contend with the front" and the relatively weak Sun Quan "can help".
epilogue
▲ Sun Quan
Sun Quan and Liu Bei were forced by the situation, a wise choice to understand current affairs and have a general view, and it was also the way for the weak to survive, and the results of the Battle of Chibi, which were "facts speak louder than words", have shown this truth. No wonder that after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao heard that Sun Quan had lent Liu Bei to Jingzhou to strengthen the alliance, "Fang wrote a book and fell to the ground." "Let the battle-hardened Cao Cao have a rare state of soul loss, Sun Liu united is the last thing Cao Cao wants to see, further shows that Sun Liu union is the fundamental strategic idea for the survival of Eastern Wu and Shu Han, and it is also the basic way of survival."