At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Biao was one of the many haojie who divided the side. In our impression, Liu Biao is a mediocre person.
In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as a haojie who dominated Jingzhou, Liu Biao was not inferior to other heroes.
The Jingzhou Assassin Was killed, and Liu Biao was recommended as the Jingzhou Assassin
In 190 AD, the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty had lost control of the world. Local Haojie has long regarded the Eastern Han government as nothing. At that time, Wang Rui, who was appointed by the imperial court to serve as the assassin of Jingzhou in the Jingzhou region, was killed by Sun Jian, a powerful man in Jiangdong. The Jingzhou region lost the responsible officials. The imperial court needed to reassign officials to go.
Under dong Zhuo's strong recommendation, the young Liu Biao was appointed as the Assassin of Jingzhou. However, the Jingzhou area was not stable at this time. The powerful Yuan Shu occupied the Luyang region, and even Nanyang was included in his sphere of influence. In addition, Changsha was also occupied by the Su Dynasty of Eastern Wu, and the areas in Jingzhou were occupied by local militia forces even if they were not occupied by Haoqiang.
Liu Biao's appointment can be described as full of thorns.
The heroic Liu form rode into Jingzhou
Due to the dangers of the road to Jingzhou, Liu Biao decided to ride to Jingzhou anonymously after consideration. Liu Biao, who was alone in strength, believed that even if he successfully reached Jingzhou and took office, he would not be able to control Jingzhou. He is likely to follow the fate of his predecessor Wang Rui.
Liu voted to win the support of the local forces in Jingzhou,
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Liu Biao, who rode into Jingzhou, did not go to office immediately, he came to Yicheng first.
He found Cai Mao, Qu Liang and other more famous figures in the Jingzhou area to discuss the big plan.
During this period, Liu Biao asked, "Now that bandits are in the Jingzhou area, the masses are not attached to the imperial court, not only that, Yuan Shu and others have also taken advantage of the chaos in Jingzhou to occupy a large number of places." I want to recruit troops here, but I am afraid that no one will respond, what can I do? ”
At the suggestion of Ku Liang and others, Liu Biao asked Ku Yue to use his interests to lure fifty-five bandits occupying the Jingzhou area to a banquet, and then took the opportunity to kill them. Then, Liu Biao took advantage of the loss of the bandits to lead the soldiers and horses to suppress the bandits. At the same time, envoys were sent to the counties of Jingzhou to say surrender.
At this point, only Nanyang was left of the eight counties of Jingzhou, except for Yuan Shu, and the remaining seven counties were controlled by Liu Biao.
Yuan Shu feared that Liu Biao would attack the Nanyang region and joined forces with Eastern Wu Sun Jian to attack Liu Biao.
Liu Biaobu ambushed Huang Zu in the bamboo forest and took the opportunity to shoot Sun Jian, causing chaos in Eastern Wu. After that, Liu Biao led the main force to cut off Yuan Shu's grain route. And Cao Cao had already spied on Yuan Shu's forces for a long time. Took the opportunity to launch the Battle of Kuangting.
Yuan Shu's great battle with Cao Cao resulted in his inability to continue to occupy Nanyang, and as a result,
Liu Zhang rode into Jingzhou and successfully occupied the whole territory of Jingzhou.
During Liu Biao's reign in Jingzhou, Enwei was combined, making the Jingzhou officials rule clearly and the people live and work in peace and contentment. At the same time, Liu Biao married Yuan Shao and Zhang Xiu externally, so that the Jingzhou area avoided the devastation of war.
During Liu Biao's occupation of Jingzhou, he had hundreds of thousands of armored men.
However, it was such a heroic figure who could ride alone in Jingzhou chose to look at it coldly when the crowds were expanding their own power, and when Cao Cao led a large army to expedition to Liucheng, Liu Bei had suggested to him that he take the opportunity to send troops to attack Xu Du, and Liu Biao was desperate.
If he had led his troops north to expand his strength at that time, he would have had a place in the history of the three kingdoms' struggle for hegemony.
Liu Biao, who lost this opportunity, completely withdrew from the stage of hegemony. Such a Liu Biao is undoubtedly the hero of the most "waste material" in the Three Kingdoms.