Liu Bei took a few people with him and went to Qingzhou to find Yuan Tan.
Yuan Tan is Yuan Shao's eldest son. Yuan Shao is Liu Bei's classmate and the sworn enemy of the old prefect Gongsun Zhan. Yuan Shao killed Gongsun Zhan, from Liu Bei's standpoint, Yuan Shao is Liu Bei's enemy, how can he go to his eldest son Yuan Tan?
Liu Bei's situation at that time was also miserable enough, worse than Lu Bu before. When Lu Bu arrived in a place where there was no place in the world, there was also a Hanoi Taishou Zhang Yang, who was a fellow villager and friend.
Although Zhang Yang is sometimes silent, he is only silent. At the last moment, Lü Bu was besieged by Cao Cao in Xiapi, but Zhang Yang still led troops to rescue him, and died halfway through (killed by his subordinates, who may have been bought by Cao Cao).
Therefore, we can say that Zhang Yang's friendship with Lu Bu is unswerving. As for Liu Bei, except for Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun around him, who are like brothers, there is no good friend like Zhang Yang who has a county territory and can defect.
Liu Bei had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to Qingzhou to join the enemy's eldest son Yuan Tan. Between the two enemies of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, Yuan Shao is the old enemy and Cao Cao is the new enemy; Yuan Shao is an indirect enemy, and Cao Cao is a direct enemy.
So, Liu Bei decided to put his fate and life in Yuan Shao's hands.
Liu Bei is not hopeless. He can have a little relationship with Yuan Tan. Not long ago, after he was recommended by Cao Cao as the "Yuzhou Mu", he once promoted Yuan Tan as "Maocai" (Yuan Shao's family is a big family in Ruyang County, Runan County, Yuzhou. Ruyang County was in the northwest of today's Shangshui County at that time. The south of Shangshui is Yuan Shikai's hometown Xiangcheng).
Maocai in the Eastern Han Dynasty was slightly higher than filial piety; Filial piety is one person per 200,000 population, and Maocai is only one person per state. Filial piety is guaranteed by the Taishou of a county or the minister of a country; And Mao is the state pastor or the history of the assassin to protect. In addition to the state pastor and the assassin history, there are only four big officials who can protect Maocai, Sangong and Guangluxun, and they can only promote one every year.
Yuan Tan has his father Yuan Shao to give him an official, and he may not be rare for this Mao talent qualification. However, Liu Beibao promoted him, which was more or less a friendship. Yuan Tan expressed his affection for Liu Beizhi like this, at least he would not hate it. According to the habits of the Qing Dynasty, those who have passed the examination, such as Xiucai, Renren, and Jinshi, have always respected them as teachers for the main examination, and they are called "teachers";
The examiner always thinks that those who are admitted in person are promoted when they have the opportunity. This kind of "teacher-student relationship", which has never had the fact of teaching and listening, was a major tradition in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty. The Han Dynasty may not be so, but it is not necessarily a similar situation.
Yuan Tan does have a good impression of Liu Bei, as evidenced by history. When he heard that Liu Bei wanted to come to Qingzhou, he immediately brought infantry and horses to greet him. This is not only polite, but also a de facto necessity. Liu Bei, who was beaten to the ground by Cao Cao, could not have enough troops to resist Cao Cao's pursuers. Yuan Tan came to greet him, but also to protect him.
Yuan Tan protected Liu Bei and protected it until Liu Bei's "old travel place" plain (Liu Bei was under the command of Gongsun Zhan, accompanied Gongsun Zhan's Qingzhou Thorn Shi Tian Kai, fought Yuan Shao's army, won the war, and was successively appointed by Tian Kai as the county commander of Pingyuan County and the minister of Pingyuan State).
Yuan Tan naturally handed the report to Yuan Shao a long time ago. Yuan Shao sent a general to lead the men and horses, drove to Pingyuan, and invited Liu Bei to meet Yuan Shao's base camp in Ye County, Wei County, Jizhou, west of Linzhang, Henan.
Yuan Shao himself, personally went out of the suburbs of the city to greet him, more respectful than the ordinary so-called suburbs, and went out of the city for 200 miles.
In the spring of the fifth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei was the general of Cao Cao's defeated army, a poor man who had no place to return and coveted his face to join the old enemy, why did Yuan Shao treat him so politely?
The reason is that although Liu Bei's material power is small, his spiritual power is very large. Whoever has Liu Bei is enough to elevate his status and increase his appeal.
What spiritual strength does Liu Bei have? It is not relying on the gold-lettered signboard of the word "Uncle Huang" as called in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". His blood relationship with Emperor Xian is extremely estranged, and he is just a distant family that has been separated for three hundred years.
Liu Bei's spiritual strength lies in winning the hearts of the people. The reason why he won the hearts of the people was that he had faith in his friends, and second, he was extremely kind to the people.
No matter when he arrives, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei always follow him, or although they are temporarily separated, sooner or later they will always come to meet him without avoiding all the hardships. This is not only the case with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but also with Zhao Yun, Mi Zhu, Xu Shu, and Zhuge Liang.
Subsequently, Pang Tong, Huang Zhong, Zhang Song, Fa Zheng, Yan Yan, Ma Chao, Liu Ba, Li Ping, Ma Liang and other civil and military talents, as long as they met him and made friends, they were willing to be with him forever. To his friends, he is not only "out of the same opinion, sit at the same table", just like Cao Cao did to him;
is not only "sleeping in the same bed, Enruo brothers", just like he himself did to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei; Or "sit at the same table and eat together", as he did with the intellectuals of Plains County.
The reason why he won the love of so many talents was that he was sincere in nature, and he was accustomed to talking to his friends without saying anything, and first showed his unreserved trust to his friends, so he won the trust of his friends.
Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Mi, Xu, Zhuge , Pang, Huang, Wei, Zhang, Fa, Yan, Ma, Liu, Li, Ma, many of these believed that Liu Bei would always be their trusted friend and governor. What a powerful spiritual force this is? He is also very willing to help and contribute to his general friends, and never considers whether his strength is enough, he has saved Kong Rong and Tao Qian.
He also contained Lu Bu. This is because he doesn't know people and doesn't get home, it's not that he doesn't mean it enough (he seems to be sorry for Cao Cao, then Cao Cao is indeed a person who doesn't have to be too worthy. Later, he was also very sorry for Liu Zhang, but that was a "political issue" that had to be left for later).
Liu Bei is good to the people and is really well-known. The author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" sometimes describes him as a mother-in-law and mother-in-law, often with a handful of snot and tears, which inevitably overpraises him and helps him a lot.
He is kind to the people, not because he often cries, but because he keeps the difficulties of the people in his heart and strives to solve them. Back then, when he was the county commander and the minister of the country in the plains, he had already achieved "the outer palace is difficult, and the internal wealth is rich".
The people of Qingzhou, not only in Pingyuan Country, but also in other counties and countries, also love him; Not only the people of Qingzhou, not only the Han people, but even the Wuhuan people and "Zahu" in Youzhou are willing to go to the end of the world with him, the "Liu Envoy", to join the ranks of thousands of hungry people, and rush to Xuzhou to rescue Tao Qian and resist Cao Cao.
At that time, Liu Bei's own soldiers were only about 1,000, plus these thousands of hungry people, as well as Wuhuan and Zahu, the momentum was not small. But this momentum is only on the surface, how can you fight Cao Cao?
Tao Qian allocated to him all the 4,000 soldiers recruited from his hometown of Danyang in Xuzhou. With these 4,000 people, plus the hungry people, etc., a good Liu Bei actually dared to confront Cao Cao in Tancheng! This kind of spirit is really extraordinary, and it won Cao Cao's promise as a "hero" afterwards.
This kind of courage that does not care about success or failure, but righteousness is the truth, is a major reason why Liu Bei is famous all over the world, makes the people yearn for it, makes the scholars return to their hearts, and makes everyone willing to form an alliance with him.
It doesn't matter if he fights or not. With such a person, in such a situation, sooner or later he will always have his due. All that is missing is a helper; is not an ordinary helper, but a helper like Zhang Liang and Zhuge Liang.
Zhang Liang, he has no luck to find. Zhuge Liang, thanks to Xu Shu's introduction, he finally found it. As soon as he found Zhuge Liang, his situation was different: like a fish getting water!
God didn't give him too much pleasure, and asked him to teach Yuan Shao's incompetence before he met Zhuge Liang, and arranged him to be there for Yuan Shao, and saw Yuan Shao's generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou with their own eyes, and were defeated and beheaded by Zhang Liao and others under Cao Cao (Guan Yu was also on the front line of Cao Cao's army at this time, killing Yan Liang. Whether he also killed Wen Chou, it's hard to test).
Liu Bei contributed a plan to Yuan Shao, and at the same time asked Yuan Shao for an envoy: ask Yuan Shao to send him to Runan County, contact the local Yellow Turban leader Liu Pi, and attack Cao Cao's base Xu County. Yuan Shao accepted and handed over some soldiers to him.
At this time, many of his old officers and soldiers had already been transferred from Xuzhou to Ye County to find him, so that he had a fairly decent army.
He took this army and Yuan Shao's troops to Runan, where he joined Liu Pi and Liu Pi's friend Liu Shao and occupied Yinqiang County (east of Linying County). The people of other counties rose up one after another and responded to Liu Bei, which made Cao Cao's officials in Xu County and the counties south of him afraid. Cao Cao himself got the news on the front line of Guandu, and he was also quite worried.
He sent his cousin Cao Ren and brought cavalry to fight, and only then did he recapture Xianqiang and other counties. Liu Bei did not dare to fight with Cao Ren for a long time, left Yuzhou, went to Ye County, Wei County, Jizhou, and reported to Yuan Shao.
In Guandu, he saw that Yuan Shao did not know how to use troops, and sooner or later he would inevitably be defeated by Cao Cao, so he asked Yuan Shao for another errand, went to Liu Biao, and persuaded Liu Biao to send troops to attack Cao Cao.
Yuan Shao knew that Liu Biao had never intended to attack Cao Cao, so Liu Bei did not have to convince Liu Biao. At this time, there was another leader of the Runan Yellow Turban, surnamed Gong Mingdu, who was worth contacting. Yuan Shao asked Liu Bei to take Zhao Yun and others to Runan again.
Zhao Yun was a colleague with Liu Bei at Gongsun Zhan and became friends; Later, under the pretext of his brother's funeral, he said goodbye to Gongsun Chan and returned to his hometown in Zhending County, Changshan County, Jizhou (Zhengding, Hebei); Soon, he came to Qingzhou and became Liu Bei's subordinate, leading the cavalry; He also followed Liu Bei to Xuzhou to rescue Tao Qian, fought Yuan Shu, fought against Lu Bu, resisted Cao Cao, and was dispersed by Cao Cao.
Liu Bei settled down in Ye County, and when Zhao Yun heard the news, he came to Ye County and recruited hundreds of recruits for Liu Bei, strengthening the lineup of Liu Bei's old troops who came one after another.
This time, Liu Bei took Zhao Yun and other generals and a number of men and horses to the south, but Yuan Shao did not divide troops to assist. At this time, Yuan Shao has become a disadvantage to Cao Cao, and he may not be able to distinguish any soldiers.
When Liu Bei arrived in Runan, he and Gong Du's disciples combined, there were only a few thousand people, and Cao Cao looked down on him and sent a third-class character to fight. These third-class characters are surnamed Cai Mingyang, and they died as soon as they clashed. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" said that he died under Guan Yu's knife, it is possible.
However, Cai Yang's task is not to chase Guan Yu, but to fight Liu Bei. Guan Yuzhi left Cao Cao, not in Xu County, but on the front line of Guandu; It was not to rush to the ancient city occupied by the legendary Zhang Fei in the countryside of Zhenyang County, Runan County, but to the camp of Yuan Shao's troops who ran to the north of the Guji River and the north of the ancient Yellow River shortly after killing Yan Liang.
Cao Cao heard him leaving, forgave him for his painstaking efforts, and ordered all the generals: not to chase Guan Yu.
Guan Yu didn't have to go through five levels and kill six generals (sorry, I had to poke through the dramatic legend and disappoint the reader.) However, true history, if there is sufficient historical data, is not intriguing, and even more singable).
Guan Yuzhi left Cao Ying and ran to Yuan Ying, the risk he took was greater than the legendary five passes and six generals, he was the person who killed Yuan Fang's general Yan Liang (contained in the "Three Kingdoms Shu Book" volume 6 "Guan Yu Biography"), and in order to reunite with Liu Bei, he came alone, and the probability of death is 99%. How could Yuan Shao not care about this great enemy who killed his beloved general Yan Liang?
Moreover, as soon as he escapes, will Cao Cao send Zhang Liao, Cao Ren and other good men to chase him and kill him? Guan Yu was also unsure in advance. Such a righteous anger that disregards personal life and death, and only wants to see friends again, is really a person through the ages.
Looking at the tone of "The Biography of Guan Yu" in Volume 6 of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Book of Shu", it seems that after Guan Yu arrived at Yuan Ying, he went to Jingzhou with Liu Bei and defected to Liu Biao, omitting Liu Beizhi's two trips to Runan, the first time to find Liu Bi, the second time to find Gong Du, and also missing Liu Beizhi's trip to Jingzhou, not directly from Yuan Shao's place in Ye County, but from the place of Gongdu in Runan, when Yuan Shao was defeated and Cao Cao came south to attack him. So, how did Guan Yu follow Liu Bei to find Liu Biao? Difficult to examine.
Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao's main force in October of the fifth year of Jian'an; In April of the sixth year of Jian'an, he defeated Yuan Shao's army stationed in Cangting. Since then, Yuan Shao has not been a problem for Cao Cao.
Cao Cao returned to Xu County in June; Soon after, he personally led the elite to Runan to fight Liu Bei and Gong Du. Liu Bei avoided contact with Cao Cao and went to Jingzhou in one breath to find Liu Biao (Gong Du's disciples scattered in a hurry).
Liu Biao heard that Liu Bei was coming, and just like Yuan Shao the year before last, he personally went out of Xiangyang City to welcome him. However, Yuan Shao was 200 miles out of the city, and Liu Biao had never come out so far. In terms of politeness, Liu Biao was also quite thoughtful: he treated Liu Bei as a guest, and gave Liu Bei a number of soldiers.
Liu Biao designated Xinye County as Liu Bei's garrison. Xinye belongs to Nanyang County, the closest to Xuchang, and is the gateway to Jingzhou. As soon as Liu Bei lived in Xinye, he lived for seven years, eight years before and after, from six years in Jian'an to thirteen years in Jian'an.
He has lived most of his life, and he has never been so stable. Although he did not have many soldiers at this time, he was not too few, and there were several fierce generals who were like brothers like brothers, and Mrs. Gan was around to take care of food and daily life, and there were a number of celebrities in Jingzhou who often went back to each other, so to speak, life was quite easy, and it was better than the situation when the prince of Jin lived in Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Chong'er has the advice of his uncle who went against him: "Feast on poison, don't conceive"; There is also a new wife Jiang who understands righteousness and is willing to sacrifice her happiness for her husband's future.
Liu Bei, when Cao Cao was about to call, he found Zhuge Liang; And poor Mrs. Gan, who is not the daughter of Duke Qi Huan, who has received a very high education, how can she know how to persuade Liu Bei not to covet temporary enjoyment?
Besides, since Mrs. Gan married Liu Bei in Xiaopei, she has been displaced and has endured enough hardships, how can she ask Liu Bei to embark on the road of struggle again?
Not only did Mrs. Gan's origin not be explained in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but even "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" did not create a set of theories to satisfy the curiosity of readers.
The reader gets the impression that she is about the same status as Mrs. Mi, but seems to be slightly inferior. Her son, Adou, was born to her. When Mrs. Mi caught up with Cao's army, in the midst of the chaos, she handed Adou to Zhao Yun and threw herself into the well. Zhao Yun knocked down the wall next to the well and covered it up so that her body would not be picked up by the enemy and insulted!
Mrs. Gan also died before Liu Bei Dezhi.
Liu Bei always missed Mrs. Gan, and posthumously named Mrs. Gan as the queen after becoming emperor. He has never posthumously crowned Mrs. Mi as the queen, nor has he expressed any nostalgia for Mrs. Sun.
During the more than seven years that Liu Bei was stationed in Xinye, he had only one military operation. Liu Biao told him to march to Xu County. He passed through Wanxian (Nanyang), Bowang (Bowangyi, sixty miles northeast of Nanyang), Changshan (Fangcheng Mountain), and arrived at Ye County in the southwest of Xu County. The general of the Cao army in Shouye County was Xiahoudun. Below Xiahoudun, there are two generals, Li Dian and Yu Ban.
This battle was fought well: there was a tactic of setting up an ambush on the side of the road, and the pursuers led by Xiahoudun and Yu Ban were defeated (Li Dian did not advocate the pursuit of Liu Bei, and was designated by Xiahoudun to stay in Ye County).
Li Dian did not advocate pursuit, and he was right. First, Liu Bei did not lose his troops and surrendered his generals, so he suddenly retreated, which is very much like "fraud". Second, to the south of Yexian County, the road to Bowang is the mountain pass of Fangcheng Mountain, which is very narrow and long, with lush vegetation on both sides, and Liu Bei may have arranged an ambush. Xiahoudun didn't listen to Li Dian's words and suffered a big defeat.
Did Liu Bei not only attack Xiahoudun's pursuers with ambush troops, but also burn the grass and trees in the mountains on both sides of the mountain road with fire, as mentioned in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? It's possible, but not necessary. Moreover, if fire is used on the dry day of autumn and winter, it will not only be Xiahoudun and Yu Ban's soldiers who will be burned.
Was Liu Bei's victory due to Zhuge Liang's command for him? Has Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang three times at this time and invited Zhuge Liang to be a military advisor by his side?
We know that this defeat of Xiahoudun's pursuing army was before Li Dian participated in Cao Cao's siege of Ye County. The siege of Ye County began in February of the ninth year of Jian'an and ended in August.
Zhuge Liang wrote his "Former Master Table" in the fifth year of Jianxing (227 AD) of the later lord Adou, and said the following words: "The first emperor did not treat his ministers as despicable, and he was humiliated by himself. After the overthrow, when he was entrusted with the defeat of the army, he was ordered to be in danger, and he was twenty years old. ”
The lovely Pei Songzhi, under these few sentences, notes very clearly: "Liu Bei was defeated (in Cao Cao) in the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD) and sent Liang to Wu." Liang Jianxing resisted the Northern Expedition for five years, and it has been 20 years since its overturning. However, Liu Bei met with the debut, a year before the defeat. ”
From this point of view, not only is the matter of "burning Bowangpo" unfounded, but Zhuge Liang was still lying high in Longzhong at that time, and he did not "fake" Liu Bei's sword and seal in the camp of Liu Bei in "Xinye", and issued an order to Guan, Zhang, Guan Ping, and Liu Feng, telling Guan Yu to take a thousand "militiamen" to ambush the so-called "Yushan" on the left of Bowang, and asking Zhang Fei to take a thousand "militiamen" to ambush the so-called "Anlin" on the right of Bowang; He also called Guan Ping and Liu Feng to bring 500 "militiamen" each and ambushed behind Bowangpo.
Zhuge Liang instructed these four people in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to wait for Zhao Yun and Liu Bei to confront Xiahoudun successively, defeat him, retreat past Bowangpo, and set fire to them together.
The author of the romance said that Xiahoudun was the one who came to attack, and Liu Bei was the one who was attacked, but he had never examined it deeply: it was Liu Bei who took the offensive, and Xiahoudun only "pursued" after Liu Bei retreated. The author of the romance said that Xiahoudun came from the south to the north, which was too confused about Xuchangzhi's northeast of Xinye.
The general authors of the romances of various dynasties, and many of today's historical writers, as well as the directors of TV series, nine out of ten people like to supplement history, distort history, and spoil history. They believe that literature and art are literature and art, and history is history, and it seems that the tiger head card with the word "literature and art" has the privilege of slandering the ancients and deceiving the present. The ancients are dead and can't**; Today's people are deceived, and there are endless troubles in the future.
Except for the defeat of Xiahoudun's pursuing army, Liu Bei had no other military performance in Liu Biao's place until July of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, when Cao Cao's troops came to Jingzhou.
Cao Cao's army pressed the border, and Liu Bei retreated his troops from Xinye to Fancheng. Fancheng is separated by only one water from Xiangyang, where Liu Biao is stationed: Fancheng is north of the Han River, and Xiangyang is south of the Han River.
Liu Biao was all the literati at that time who only knew the scriptures and history and could not fight. Not only was he unable to fight, but he also did not understand strategy and the military-political situation. He should have had a choice between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao: either Liancao or Lianyuan. Lian Cao, Cao will not let him continue to divide the territory, but may give him *** **; Lian Yuan, you can keep your territory, but you must constantly fight against Cao.
If Cao defeats Yuan in the end, Liu Biao will inevitably avoid Cao's large-scale crusade; If Yuan Shao wins, Yuan Shao may not be able to tolerate Liu Biao. The idea that "the world is set in one" is a great tradition of the Chinese; This idea was not only shared by Meng Ke, who advocated benevolent government, but also by those superstitious warlords and tyrants who believed in force, as they had since Qin Shi Huang.
The policy adopted by Liu Biao was neither to join Cao nor to join Yuan, but only to unite Yuan and his enemies on the surface.
In the fifth year of Jian'an, Yuan's main force was defeated by Cao: in the seventh year of Jian'an, Yuan Shao himself vomited blood and died; Liu Biao still didn't make any moves, waiting for Cao Cao to solve Yuan's three sons and one nephew in turn.
It is true that when Cao Cao entered or before Cao Cao entered the siege of Ye County in the ninth year of Jian'an and eliminated Yuan Shao's third son, Yuan Shang, Liu Biao once asked Liu Bei to march to Xu County, which was quite like smashing Cao Cao's rear and dealing a fatal blow. However, Liu Bei had to retreat when he entered Yexian, which shows that Liu Biao did not send heavy troops to Liu Bei's command to try to deal a fatal blow to Cao.
Liu Biao's policy, to put it simply, is to "sit back and watch the success or failure", that is, "wait for slaughter". So, is there a better way for him than to join the Cao or descend the Cao? Is it feasible to join Yuan?
Gou Ran is feasible, but it must live up to its name, cooperate with Yuan with all his might, attack Cao Cao, capture Xu County, and eliminate Cao Cao; And the sooner you send troops, the better, don't wait until Cao and Yuan finish the decisive battle in Guandu.
If Liu Biao is worried that it will be difficult for Yuan Shao to wait in case of victory, then he might as well devise a set of plans for the world's three points, so that Cao Cao will be defeated but not all defeated, and Yuan Shao will win but not all of them. Exercise decisive influence and checks and balances among Cao and Yuan.
A better policy is to abandon the style of vertical and horizontal sloppiness, devote oneself to the glory of the Han Dynasty, put things in order, try to support Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty in Xu County, and even send him back to Luoyang to rebuild the fine system of "division of labor among the three powers" and "employing people on the basis of merit" during the heyday of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Biao is dead, even if I am his contemporary, or he is my contemporary, I am also guilty of the "gaffe" of "speaking with someone else", how can he Liu Biao's piece of material listen to my upright and principled advice?
Only Liu Bei is qualified to listen to such suggestions. And what Zhuge Liang said to Liu Bei was exactly this set, but because of the objective facts at that time, Chen Yi could not be so high, but only talked about how to make the world divided into three parts of the first step, and how to march on two routes and the northern expedition to Cao Wei as the second step.
The reason why Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang "can talk" is because they have a common premise and a common basic concept: "Han and thief do not stand together." Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Liu Biao are all warlords or powerful ministers who have no Han family, and they are all "thieves".
Yuan and Cao fought each other, and it was two thieves fighting each other. Cao Cao came to attack Liu Biao, but it was just a big warlord to fight a small warlord. Liu Bei, who was caught in the middle, the pain in his heart could be imagined. However, his love for the people and his desire to save the world are seen by the world, and it is no accident that more than 100,000 refugees have chosen him and followed him.
Cao Cao came in July of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Liu Biao died in August, and the "Battle of Red Cliffs" took place in December. Although the "Battle of Chibi" relied on Sun Quan to send Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu with 30,000 people to help in the war, the Wei part of the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" still recorded Liu Bei as the victor: "(Cao) Gong went to Chibi, and it was not good to prepare for war." ”