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At that time, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan had not yet shined on the stage in the early Three Kingdoms, and many princes could dominate one side by virtue of the inheritance left by their ancestors, Liu Bei was the most special one, there was no family lineage, no stage, and the only ones who could be relied on were the two brothers around them, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, known as Shi Huchen.
However, there were two more pocketed princes in the Three Kingdoms, and their influence in the Three Kingdoms could be said to be unprecedented, but they underwent a shocking reversal in the later period.
Bai Ma Yicong's Gongsun Zhan
There were two powerful cavalry units in the Three Kingdoms, namely Dong Zhuo's Western Liang cavalry and Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yicong, and when Gongsun Zhan was stationed in Liaodong, the nomadic peoples such as Xianbei and Karasuma were almost beaten by Gongsun Zhan without the ability to fight back, unable to invade the Central Plains.
In 191 AD, 300,000 Yellow Turban troops crossed the Yellow Turban Army to the north, wanting to enter Jizhou and meet the Black Mountain Army, Gongsun Zhan once defeated the 300,000 Yellow Turban Army, killed tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Troops, and the river water was stained red.
However, it was such a super strong existence of the Three Kingdoms, after the battle with Yuan Shao's boundary bridge, there was no longer the strength to fight back, simply hid in the Yijing Castle he personally built, never came out again, killed his wife and children, and self-immolated to death.
The seven-foot boy did not die in battle, but hid in the castle he personally built, compared with the early Gongsun Zhan, it was simply a different person.
Yuan Shao of the Fourth Dynasty and the Third Duke
Yuan Shao's influence in the early three kingdoms period can be said to be very huge, with the huge family influence of the fourth and third dukes, brought him a lot of benefits, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty foreign relatives and eunuchs in the struggle between each other, he advocated the killing of eunuchs, and when the general He Jin was killed by eunuchs, Yuan Shao killed almost all the eunuchs, which is considered to have done a little as a vassal for the Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, as Dong Zhuo entered the capital, Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo clashed, began to order the crowd, and pulled up an anti-Dong Zhuo alliance, but this banner of justice had not stood for long, internal battles with each other, and the matter of grabbing each other's territory happened, and the Kwantung Coalition Army only had two soldiers and horses fighting with Dong Zhuo to the death, that is, Sun Jian and Cao Cao.
In 200 AD, Yuan Shao, who owned the four prefectures of Qingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, and Hezhou, officially launched an offensive by Cao Cao, who was developing vigorously, and the battle that took place on the banks of the Yellow River ended in Yuan Shao's defeat.
Yuan Shao's 100,000-strong army was defeated by Cao Cao's 30,000-strong army, but after Yuan Shao's influence in Jizhou was unprecedented, even in the case of his defeat, the people of Jizhou wanted to defect to him, and it took Cao Cao eight years to completely disintegrate Yuan Shao's power.