introduction:
In June of 199 (the fourth year of Jian'an), the Battle of Guandu broke out.
This was the duel between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the largest power in the north, and after several months of stalemate, it ended in October 200 (the fifth year of Jian'an) after Cao Cao's Jedi raid, and Cao Cao won a great victory, finally winning the battle against his sworn enemy and friend Yuan Shao.
After winning the battle, Cao Cao, of course, had to beat the falling water dog, but Yuan Shao was not an easy person, and the two sawed each other for a while, until June 28, 202 AD, after Yuan Shao's death, the battlefield gradually changed.
(Decisive Battle of Guandu)
Yuan Shao's death caused internal turmoil in Yuan Shao's forces, and several princes fought against each other, giving Cao Cao the opportunity to win.
After seven years, Cao Cao finally eliminated all the remnants of Yuan Shao, and in order to stabilize the safety of the rear, Cao Cao adhered to the principle of eliminating evil and doing everything, through an expedition, and the cooperation of the follow-up Gongsun Kang, completely eliminated everything that belonged to Yuan Shao.
After doing all this, he became the biggest warlord in the north, and at the same time began to look south, where there were still many enemies waiting for him to destroy!
So the question is, what are Liu Biao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan doing in the south for more than seven years?
Here we say one by one with the timeline, their actions are very interesting, but there is no big effect.
(Liu Biao is also a cruel person)
One: Look at Liu Watch first
Liu Biaoqi was evaluated as a "dog that guards the land", which means that this person, ah, does not have great ambitions, cannot withstand many storms, is an honest person in a chaotic world, and is accustomed to sitting at home and watching the world.
If you look at Liu Biao from this point of view, it is a big mistake, and Liu Biao, who rode into Jingzhou alone, is not an easy person!
Liu Biao's ambitions were actually not small at all, and he was particularly restless before the Battle of Guandu.
When Yuan Shu's forces were still there, he and Yuan Shu competed for control of Yangzhou Yuzhang County, and after sun Ce's forces rose, he fought with Sun Ce for control of Jiangxia County.
In addition to competing for Yangzhou and Jingzhou, Liu Biao also spied on Jiaozhou and fought with Zhang Jin several times.
In addition to fighting, Liu Biao also plays Yin!!
After the death of Zhang Jin of Jiaozhou, Liu Biao sent Lai Gong to take over the position of Jiaozhou Thorn Shi, hoping to swallow Jiaozhou. After the death of Cangwu Taishou Shi Huang of Jiaozhou, Liu Biao once again sent Wu Ju to take over as Cangwu Taishou, causing the people of Jiaozhou to be a little afraid of him, who did not have any real power, and still did not dare to offend.
In addition to Jiaozhou, Liu Biao also spied on Yizhou, often saying that Liu Yan had problems and wanted to be held responsible, and then he was ready to fight the autumn wind to occupy the land.
But Liu Biao's actions have no effect, Yizhou's geographical location is dangerous to fight, Jiaozhou is too far away to control, Yangzhou has Sun Ce in a bad fight, Liu Biao's three-sided attack is not successful and drunk.
After the drunken Liu Biao woke up, he set his eyes on Cao Cao, only this time he was fake hands.
(Liu Biao is also not at ease)
In 196 AD, zhang ji, who was at the end of the road, attacked Liu Biao and died on the battlefield, Zhang Xiu became the new leader of this unit, and Liu Biao eased the relationship with Zhang Xiu by way of condolences and reached a cooperation agreement.
Zhang Xiu became liu biao's southern gate to resist Cao Cao, but Liu Biao did not trust Zhang Xiu, but was more defensive, so that when Zhang Xiu faced Cao Cao's attack, Liu Biao's reinforcements did not come, and Zhang Xiu simply surrendered. If it were not for the Cao Cao's wife incident, it is estimated that it would become an opponent.
Zhang Xiu used a sneak attack to kill Cao Cao's son, nephew and Dianwei, at this time Liu Biao's reinforcements finally arrived.
Looking at Liu Biao's style, Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu both knew that this so-called gentleman was actually a villain who did not hesitate, and when faced with Cao Cao's third attack, he simply surrendered.
Losing Zhang Xiu's containment, Liu Biao's Nanyang County lost most of it, jingzhou became an open park, in the face of this situation, Liu Biao was afraid and thought of finding a replacement. Just at this time, Liu Bei, who was at the end of the road, came, and as soon as he saw Liu Bei with a fierce future, Liu Bei's brain turned, and liu Bei was stationed in Xinye and became his new shield.
With Liu Bei's shield, Liu Biao was finally at ease, and he also soberly realized that Cao Cao's strength was something he couldn't afford to provoke, not to mention that his own backyard often had problems!
(Liu Biao's civil unrest)
Therefore, at the Battle of Guandu and the subsequent Cao Cao pacifying Hebei, although Liu Biao made moves, he basically did not carry them out.
In 200 AD, the Battle of Guandu broke out, Liu Biao originally wanted to help Yuan Shao, but encountered the rebellion of Zhang Xian in the rear changsha Taishou, which affected the two counties of Lingling and Guiyang, and these three counties all had problems, so that Liu Biao did not dare to move and focused on solving internal problems.
His own three counties rebelled, Nanyang was also occupied by Cao Cao, Jiangxia and Sun Ce, Liu Biao felt that there was only one internal and external trouble at that moment!
Later, if Zhang Xian had not died and the rebels had lost their main backbone, Liu Biao estimated that he would have been busy until the Battle of Chibi, and he might not be able to quell the civil unrest, which would have delayed Liu Biao for seven or eight years.
After Zhang Xian's civil unrest was quelled, Yuan Shao also died, and Liu Biao, in order to make the Yuan family stronger for a longer time, once wrote a letter to advise Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang brothers to "want peace and not infighting", the purpose of which was to let them delay time as much as possible, but the result was no effect at all.
To add here, regarding Zhang Xian's internal unrest, many people say that there is Cao Cao's shadow behind this and Guo Jia's shadow, and I agree with this view, because this group of people's rebellion echoes Cao Cao, and it is indeed Guo Jia who is in charge of espionage work.
After this turmoil, Liu Biao lost his ambition, even though Liu Bei repeatedly persuaded to attack Cao Cao, Liu Biao was still unmoved, and only took the time to send Liu Bei to fight once, presumably knowing that he was also afraid of internal turmoil.
Then, Liu Biao burped just before Cao Cao went south, and his Jingzhou was also offered to Cao Cao by Liu Zong.
(Liu Bei)
Two: Look at Liu Bei again
Compared with Liu Biao's lack of skill, Liu Bei's strength is not enough.
In 200 AD, Liu Bei defected to Yuan Shao because of the exposure of the Yidaizhao incident, and later stayed with Yuan Shao for a long time, so he fooled Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses and went to Runan County to organize the Yellow Turban Army where Liu Pei ce to respond to Yuan Shao.
When Cao Cao heard that Liu Bei had actually revived, he immediately sent Cao Ren to attack Liu Bei, and Liu Bei fled back to Yuan Shao when he saw it.
After the Battle of Guandu broke out, Liu Bei looked at Yuan Shao's faction, and it didn't look like he could win the battle left and right, so he found an excuse to contact Liu Biao for a joint attack, and took Gong Du and others to Runan County, lurking behind Cao Cao.
At that time, Cao Cao was confronting Yuan Shao against Guandu, and had no time to pay attention to Liu Bei, so he sent Cai Yang to attack Liu Bei.
Liu Bei's battle is actually still very powerful, as long as it is not too much difference in strength, generally will not lose, this is not Cai Yang will lose. However, Liu was constrained by the troops, and there was nothing he could do, so he stayed quiet for a while after defeating Cai Yang.
In 201 AD, after the victory at Guandu, Cao Cao immediately attacked Liu Bei in the south, and Liu Bei saw that Cao Cao was coming and quickly ran to Liu Biaona.
Uncle Liu Huang's characteristics are that the more he runs, the higher his status, he runs to Yuan Shao where Yuan Shao personally receives, runs to Liu Biao, Liu Biao personally goes to the suburbs to greet him, and also eats and drinks all day to serve, giving Xinye to let Liu Bei settle down.
Liu Bei's mind was that he had a home, and Liu Biao's mind was that the North Gate was safe.
(Liu Bei and Liu Bei)
In 202 AD, Yuan Shao died, and Cao Cao and Liu Biao made moves. Cao Cao meant to continue the attack, to attack Hebei, and Liu Biao's mind was to send Liu Bei to fight the autumn wind.
After receiving Liu Biao's request, Liu Bei led his troops north to attack Ye County, and when Cao Cao saw that this sworn enemy was coming again, he sent Xiahou Huan, Yu Ban, and Li Dian to attack together.
The three famous generals all came, liu bei did not instigate, used a move to lure the enemy deeper, hit Xiahou Huan an ambush and almost killed Xiahou Huan, after the battle, Liu Bei, who felt that his troops were not enough, withdrew. This battle made Liu Bei more famous in Jingzhou, and also made many people turn to Liu Bei, which made Liu Biao think badly, and the relationship between the two began to have problems.
In 207 AD, the news of Cao Cao's great victory in Hebei came, Liu Bei saw the opportunity, and suggested that Liu Biao attack Cao Cao, at that time, Cao Cao, who was preparing to attack Wuhuan, was indeed a good opportunity to attack, but Liu Biao was afraid that Liu Bei did not accept this suggestion and missed a good opportunity.
Later, in 207 AD, Liu Bei, who had been dormant in Jingzhou for several years, finally ushered in Wolong out of the mountain after three visits, Zhuge Liang became Liu Bei's person, and "Longzhong Pair" became Liu Bei's strategic plan.
History began to change, and as for Cao Cao, he was building a water army and preparing to go south.
(The bitter Sun Quan)
Three: Finally, look at Sun Quan.
In 200 AD, Sun Ce was assassinated by assassins and finally fell ill and died, leaving a turbulent Eastern Wu to Sun Quan.
The root cause of this turmoil is related to the instability of Sun Ce's family and the rear!
Although the Sun Ce family was ancestral to plant melons, but later Ding Xingwang also became a hao clan, there were many internal contradictions, and when Sun Ce pacified Jiangdong in the follow-up, because killing many family clans also made the local unstable.
For example, the Lu family, where Lu Xun was located, suffered a massacre by Sun Ce.
This caused constant trouble in Jiangdong after Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, and he encountered a rebellion in the four counties of Jiangdong as soon as he took office.
Among them, there were their own family members Luling Taishou Sun Fu and Sun Huan, there were also foreign surnames such as Lujiang Taishou Li Shu, and even Yu Zhang and Huiji's Shanyue also came to join in the fun, making Sun Quan anxious, and it took three years to deal with this rebellion, until 203 AD.
After quelling the rebellion, Sun Quan also faced other challenges.
(Sun Ce's Killing)
For example, the provocation of the family clan, the struggle of the Hao clan, the mountain thieves all over Yangzhou, when all this is stable, Cao Cao is also ready to go south.
All this tells us that Sun Quan's first seven years in power were spent in uneasiness.
Smoke is everywhere, there is fire everywhere, people's hearts are not attached, and Sun Quan is also bitter.
From this point of view, when we watched Cao Cao go south, when he threatened to hunt Jiangdong with Wu Hou, the countless local Hao clans and Wenchen said that they could not fight, and if they wanted to surrender, they would understand the root cause!
They were not on the right plate, and they wished someone had come to rescue them.
Fortunately, Sun Quan has his own brother and his father to give him a team.
At the critical moment, Lu Su rebuked the group of ministers for marrying Liu Bei, Zhou Yu stepped forward at the critical moment to lead the army to go out, Cheng Pu did not count gains and losses at the critical moment, and Huang Gai did not avoid danger and obstacles at the critical moment.
This group of people, except for Lu Su, were all the remnants of the old father and brother, and the Yu Lie of the Third Dynasty of Fen, only then did they have the chibi fire!
(Jiangdong III Yuli)
Four: Finally, use the timeline to make a summary!
In 200 AD, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were facing each other, Liu Bei was on the run because of his clothes, first went to Yuan Shao, and then went to Runan, completing a marathon, Sun Quan had just taken office and was busy suppressing the rebellion, Liu Biao was unstable internally, and he was also busy quelling the chaos.
In 201 AD, Yuan Shao's army was defeated in Hebei and was healing his wounds, Liu Bei fought with Cao Cao and then defected to Liu Biao, who had no kung fu in civil unrest in liu biao's family and no kung fu in sun quan's family.
In 202, on June 28 of that year, Yuan Shao died, Yuan Shao's family was in civil unrest, Cao Cao continued to attack Hebei, and when he saw Cao Cao attack Hebei, Liu Biao continued to suppress the rebellion and instructed Liu Bei to attack, Liu Bei won the battle against Xiahou Huan but did not dare to continue fighting, and Sun Quan was still quelling the civil unrest.
In 203 AD, Yuan Shao's family was infighting, Cao Cao continued to attack and capture Qingzhou, Liu Bei and Liu Biao did nothing, Sun Quan was still quelling the civil unrest, and by the way, he fought with Liu Biao.
In 204 AD, Cao Cao conquered Yicheng, the Yuan brothers fled, Liu Bei lamented that "the flesh was revived", Sun Quan ended the rebellion and began to rectify the Hao clan in Jiangdong, Liu Biao wrote a letter to persuade him to fight uselessly. (Yuan brothers)
In 205, Liu Bei suggested that Liu Biao take advantage of Cao Cao's pacification of Hebei to attack Wuhuan to attack Cao Cao, but Liu Biao did not allow it, Liu Bei continued to nest in Xinye, and Sun Quan was cleaning up the Shanyue people and the Hao clan.
In 206 AD, Cao Cao pacified and merged the prefecture, Sun Quan eliminated the mountain thieves, and Liu Bei and Liu Biao were drinking.
In 207 AD, Cao Cao obtained the heads of the Yuan brothers from Gongsun Kang, Hebei was pacified, Liu Bei asked Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountains and usher in Wolong, Sun Quan was beating Liu Biao, and Liu Biao, who had a big heart, was drinking alcohol.
In 208 AD, Cao Cao was preparing to go south and attack Jingzhou, and Emperor Liu, who could run away, ran away with the people, Liu Biao drank too much, his son's succession was demoted, and Sun Quan continued to attack Jiangxia and killEd Huang Zu.
In the end, the two men saw Cao Cao heading south and reached an alliance agreement, causing Cao Cao to suffer a great loss at Chibi.
(Battle of Chibi)
End:
The period from 199 AD to 208 AD was a period of intermission between the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi.
When the overall situation has been decided, it is also the most interesting time for all parties.
During this period, Liu Bei still ran around to turn to people, and from time to time he defeated his mortal enemy Cao Cao, and finally ushered in Zhuge Liang.
Liu Biao spends most of his time drinking, and a small part of his time is calculating, but he has not acted.
As for Sun Quan, the anxious young man had been rectifying the little broken thing in his own house, and when the broken thing was finished, Cao Cao also came.
Then, the remaining Sun Quan and Liu Bei joined forces to instigate a Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms of Dingding.
The era ushered in three divisions of the world, and Cao Cao gradually lost his ambition to unify the genius after the defeat in this battle, and began to enter the era of political power grabs.
On the contrary, Liu Bei, Cao Cao's peer, because of the tight containment of the first half of his life, broke out unparalleled combat effectiveness in the follow-up, and became a tidemaker in the new era.