Readers who are familiar with the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms know that Zhou Yu is a narrow-minded, jealous image in the novel, who was played by Zhuge Liang for a series of tricks, and finally died of Zhuge Liang's anger, and before he died, he issued an exclamation of both ShengYu and He Shengliang. There is another version of the folk tale, that is, Zhou Yu was not actually killed by gas, he hid in the coffin, and there were stomata in the coffin. Planning to send a signal to the sword and axe hand to kill Zhuge Liang when zhuge liang attended the funeral, Zhuge Liang discovered that Zhuge Liang's plan to attack Sichuan Shu for the sake of the lord Liu Bei was no longer hindered, and broke a small candle to block the air hole.
Of course, the above popular plots are fabricated by later generations, so who is more powerful than Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang in real history? The following article compares who is more powerful by explaining some of the things that have happened in history.
Zhou Yu was born in 175 AD, Zhuge Liang was born in 181 AD, and when they met, Zhou Yu was 34 years old and Zhuge Liang was 28 years old. Therefore, in ancient opera, Zhuge Liang is the image of lao sheng, and Zhou Yu is the image of Xiaosheng.
Zhuge Liang was born in the Eastern Han Dynasty Xuzhou Langya County (present-day Linyi, Shandong) in the family of the shi clan, to Zhuge Liang's father's generation has declined, the 13-year-old people of his hometown were slaughtered by Cao Cao, had to take refuge in Nanyang County, Jingzhou, in Nanyang County, to learn skills, although Gou Quan's life in the chaotic world, do not seek to reach the princes. In his heart, he also thought of restoring the Han Room to recreate the prosperous world. At the age of 27, he met Liu Bei and plotted a longzhong pair for Liu Bei, who had failed all his life, to cross the Yizhou of Jingzhou at the same time and stand on three legs with Sun Quan and Cao Cao. In later history, although Liu Bei Group was taken away from Jingzhou by Sun Quan Group, the three-legged pattern continued until the end of the Three Kingdoms era.
Zhou Yu was born into a family of Lujiang Commandery (庐江郡, in present-day Hefei, Anhui) in the Huainan region, and although his father Zhou Yi was a contemporary of Cao Cao, he was the mayor of Luoyang and was once Cao Cao's immediate superior. Zhou Yu's family and Sun Jian's family have been friends for generations, Sun Jian's sons Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were born in the same year, and Sun Quan was 1 year younger than Zhuge Liang. After Sun Jian's death, Zhou Yu began to assist Sun Ce and Sun Quan in the Jiangdong region and began his military career.
By the time the Battle of Chibi began, Zhuge Liang was Liu Bei's civilian official, and Zhou Yu was Sun Quan's military general. Zhuge Liang was just out of the woods, and Zhou Yu's military merits were outstanding. Faced with a common enemy, Cao Cao, the Sun-Liu Alliance was established. A fire in Chibi burned the 55-year-old Cao Cao back to the north, and many readers said that after the Battle of Chibi, the three-legged momentum was basically formed, and this article does not think so. This article believes that there were seven heroes of the Warring States at the end of the Warring States period, and there were also seven heroes of the late Han Dynasty at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. They were Cao Cao of Guandong, Gongsun Yuan of Liaodong, Han Sui of Guanzhong, Ma Chao of Longyou, Zhang Lu of Hanzhong, Liu Zhang of Yizhou, and Sun Quan of Jiangdong, and the smallest territory was Liu Qi of Jiangxia County, Jingzhou. Liu Bei was Liu Qi's nominal subordinate.
In fact, Cao Cao was not seriously injured, and he planned to use Tun Tian Ce to recuperate for a few years, and then attack Ma Chao Han Sui in Xiliang. After conquering Guanzhong, he went straight down to Sichuan and Shu and made a big siege of Sun Liu's alliance. At this time, Zhou Yu also proposed a more bold three-legged strategy:
At that time, There were seven counties in Jingzhou, Nanyang County and Xiangyang County on the north bank of the Yangtze River. On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Nan County, Jiangxia County, Changsha County, Wuling County, Guilin County. Except for one Jiangxia Commandery in Liu Qi's hands, the others were all in cao Wei's hands, especially Nan County, and Cao Cao arranged heavy troops to be guarded by Cao Cao's cousin Cao Ren. Nan County also has a geographical advantage, which can directly connect to Nishikawa and directly take Yizhou. The other counties in Jingzhou don't really matter.
Zhou Yu's strategy was to take Nan Commandery, take Xichuan directly, and ally with Ma Chao. Zhou Yu helped Ma Chao train the water army, and Ma Chao helped Zhou Yu train cavalry, and eventually attacked and cannibalized Cao Cao together. Sun Quan agreed, so Sun Quan began to pretend to attack Hefei, and the grass boat borrowed arrows to play a trick on Cao Cao, and Cao Cao lamented that having a son was like Sun Zhongmou. Then, Zhou Yu began to attack Nan County, and it took a year to finally drive Cao Jun away and take Nan County. During this period, Zhou Yu was a pioneer to boost morale, and the arrow in his stomach could not get out of the line of fire.
After Zhou Yu conquered Nan County, there was one thing that made him angry and aggravated, because Liu Bei took advantage of Zhou Yu's kung fu to fight Nan County, and this old boy actually borrowed Liu Qi's name before his death and took the four counties of Jingnan, plus a former Jiangxia County, a total of five counties, and the territory was not small.
When Liu Bei learned of Zhou Yu's strategy, he inhaled a cool breath. Liu Bei suggested to Sun Quan not to rush to fight Xichuan, and that Cao Cao was currently the number one enemy of the major separatist forces, and that all forces that could be united should be united against Cao Cao, including Liu Zhang of Yizhou, and asked Sun Quan to lend himself the Nan Commandery that Zhou Yu had worked so hard to conquer, and that both he and Liu Zhang, who were descendants of the Han Dynasty, should be able to agree to an alliance.
So what did Sun Quan and the Jiangdong Shi clan think? Zhou Yu's strategy was indeed tempting, but the Jiangdong Shi clan only wanted to protect themselves and were not interested. For Sun Quan, Cao Cao's threat was every moment, and he hoped that Liu Bei would help him share the pressure and attract firepower. Moreover, Liu Bei was nearly half a hundred years old, and in the first half of his life, there were more than enough things to lose, and he could still make some big waves, so he asked Zhou Yu to give up Nan County to Liu Bei.
Zhou Yu was even more angry, more seriously injured, and stated to Sun Quan the benefits of taking Shu, and had to put Liu Bei under house arrest, Sun Quan agreed, and when Zhou Yu was about to perform a grand cause, he died of a recurrence of injuries at the age of 36. At this time, Liu Bei eventually borrowed nan county and had a three-legged foundation.
In the history of Zheng, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang had their own advantages. To say that Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu are more powerful. More powerful than strategy, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang were stronger. Compared with the battle before the battle, Zhou Yu was bold and careful, and Zhuge Liang was cautious and heavy. Zhou Yu is experienced, Zhuge Liang can always retreat from the whole body, but it is definitely Zhou Yu who is more powerful. Compared with engaging in economy and administration and technology, zhuge liang is definitely more powerful, and Zhuge Liang is also the king of black technology invention in the Three Kingdoms era. In the pure military field, zhou Yu was definitely more powerful.
If Zhou Yu had not died young, Liu Bei would have done nothing for the rest of his life. After Zhou Yu's death, Sun Quan no longer had any ambitions and only wanted to protect himself.
(This article mainly refers to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms)