Zhou Yu befriended Sun Ce since childhood. When Sun Ce rose, Zhou Yu swept across Jiangdong and contributed money to help Sun Ce achieve great things. Yuan Shu admired Zhou Yu's talent and wanted to hire Zhou Yu as a general, but Zhou Yu refused on the grounds that Yuan Shu could not achieve great things. Later, he managed to formally defected to Sun Ce and fought side by side with Sun Ce, which made great contributions to the establishment of Jiangdong and was trusted by Sun Ce. After the assassination of Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao jointly assisted Sun Quan and took charge of the military and political affairs. After Cao Cao destroyed Yuan Shao, he threatened Sun Quan to send his son as a hostage. Zhou Yu was ambitious and discouraged Sun Quan from delivering the hostages. In Battle of Red Cliffs, fighting Cao Cao, foreseeing the disadvantages of Cao Jun and the advantages of our army, and commanding the whole army to defeat Cao Jun in Chibi and Wulin were the most classic battles in the history of the Three Kingdoms. Later, he successfully conquered Nanjun, a strategic place in Jingzhou, but Coss failed. After Battle of Red Cliffs, Zhou Yu suggested to Sun Quan to send troops to attack Shu, destroy Zhang Lu, annex Liu Zhang, and share the world equally with Cao Cao. Zhou Yu died in Baling while preparing for war in Gangneung at the age of 36.
Zhou Yu in history was open-minded. Veteran Cheng Pu refused to accept Zhou Yu because he was young and insulted him many times in person. Zhou Yu didn't care about him. Cheng Pu was finally impressed by Zhou Yu's talent and morality, and moved to say, "Make friends with Zhou Gongjin, and you won't get drunk when you drink." He became friends with him. Zhou Yu, who is narrow-minded and described in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a supporting role image deliberately created by Luo Guanzhong to set off Zhuge Liang. It's an artistic treatment, so you can't take it seriously. Of course, there is no historical basis for "Three Yu", and Zhou Yu finally died of illness on the way out.
Zhou Yu is proficient in temperament and elegant in manners. Even if he is drunk, he can hear fallacies in music. Therefore, the history books record the folk songs: "The song is wrong, Zhou Lang cares" and "In order to attract the attention of the enemy, she touches the wrong note from time to time".
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms portrays Zhou Yu as a typical narrow-minded and jealous person. As soon as he found out that Zhuge Liang was more intelligent than himself, he tried to kill him, and he tried to get rid of Kongming quickly. As a result, Zhuge Liang saw through his plans one by one, and he fell into Zhuge Liang's trap. He was so angry that he vomited blood to death again and again, and he let out a sigh when he died. The novel vividly depicts a series of wits and wits between Yu and Liang around Battle of Red Cliffs, which is quite successful from the perspective of characterization, but completely false from the perspective of historical authenticity, and is purely a novelist's literary creation.
Zhou Yu in history was certainly not angered by Zhuge Liang, and there was no trace of "three Yu" at all. Judging from the historical background of Zhou Yu and Kong Ming at that time, as well as their political status and historical role before and after Battle of Red Cliffs, the real winner was Zhou Yu, not Kong Ming. Zhou Yu, who is brilliant and shrewd, has surpassed Kong Ming, whose career has just started.
When Zhou Yu helped Sun Wu to raise troops in Jiangdong, Kong Ming was still living in seclusion.
Reflection? Wu Shu? Zhou was born in (now Shucheng, Anhui) county. He is tall and strong, handsome and handsome. He was born in 175, six years older than Zhuge Liang, and entered the political career much earlier than Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain at the age of 26, and Zhou Yu entered the ranks of military horses in his early 20 s.
In the second year of Han Xingping (AD 195), Sun Ce took Jiangdong as an excuse, and Zhou Yu, under the leadership of his uncle Danyang (now Xuancheng, Anhui Province), helped Sun Ce to cross the river, defeating Liu You, the secretariat of Yangzhou at that time, and played an important role in pacifying Jiangdong in Sun Ce. Zhou Yu was 2 1 year-old. Zhou Yu and Sun Ce were in the same year. As early as Sun Ce's father Sun Jian began to beg Dong Zhuo to move to Shu County, Zhou Yu once vacated a big house for Sun Ce to live in. They have a very deep friendship. So when Sun Ce returned to Jiangdong, Zhou Yu went to help, and Sun Ce was very happy about it. He told Zhou Yu that he could get your help and his career would be successful.
After Sun Ce defeated Liu You, there were tens of thousands of troops. He thought it was no longer a problem to pacify Wu Jun and Huiji County, so he sent Zhou Yu and his uncle back to Danyang to guard. Soon Yuan Shu sent his cousin to replace Zhou Yu's uncle as the governor of Danyang, and Zhou Yu and his uncle came to Shouchun (now Shouxian County, Anhui Province). Shouchun was the home of Yuan Shu, the great warlord who occupied Jianghuai at that time. Yuan Shu took a fancy to Zhou Yu and wanted to appoint Zhou Yu as the Ministry. Zhou Yu thought that Yuan Shu would not achieve much, so he left Shouchun for an excuse and returned to Wu Sunjun Ce in the third year of Jian 'an (AD 198). Sun Ce personally greeted him and awarded him the post of corps commander. At that time, Sun Ce himself was just a general, and this corps commander was privately appointed by Sun Ce, ranking second only to the general. Zhou Yu was 24 years old then.
As soon as the young man Zhou Yu arrived in Wu Dong, he was appointed as a corps commander, and Wu soldiers called him Zhou Lang. Sun Ce sent Zhou Yu to Niuzhu, an important ferry in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (located in the north of dangtu county, Anhui Province, also known as quarrying), and later served as the county magistrate of Chungu (now southwest of Fanchang County, Anhui Province). Soon, Sun Ce wanted to seize Jingzhou, and appointed Zhou Yu as the central guard (both military commanders as important as the central leaders) and concurrently served as Jiangxia prefect (in fact, Jiangxia County was owned by Liu Biao at this time, and Sun Ce appointed Zhou Yu to seek Jiangxia to take Jingzhou). Zhou Yu took Jingzhou with Sun Ce, conquered Anhui County (now Qianshan County, Anhui Province), and got two daughters of Gong Qiao, a minister at the end of the Han Dynasty. Gong Qiao and Gongqiao are both beautiful and have the appearance of cities. Sun Ce married the bridge herself, and Zhou Yu married the bridge. Then he captured Xunyang (now southwest of Huangmei County, Hubei Province) and asked Jiangxia County, but failed. When he returned to the army, Zhang Yu (now Nanchang, Jiangxi Province) and Luling (Sun Ce was separated from Zhang Yu County (now southwest of Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province) settled down in the south, and Zhou Yu stayed behind to guard Baqiu in Luling County (now Xiajiang County, north of Ji 'an City).
From the second year of Emperor Xingping (195) to the fifth year of Jian 'an (200), before Sun Ce was stabbed to death, Zhou Yu made great contributions at the beginning of the warlord scuffle at the end of Han Dynasty and became the first hero to help Sun Ce lay the foundation of Jiangdong. At that time, there were six counties in Sun Ce: Danyang, Wu, Huiji, Lujiang, Luling. Among them, only when Wu Jun and Hui Ji were taken, Zhou Yu didn't attend, but he also contributed, because if he hadn't helped Sun Ce cross the river and defeated Liu You, Wu Jun and Hui Ji, the secretariat of Yangzhou, wouldn't have earned it for Sun Ce.
When Zhou Yu became the founding father of Sun Shi regime, Zhuge Liang was far from debut. When Kongming 14 years old (AD 194), he left home and went to Zhang Yu as a satrap with his uncle, and then went to Jingzhou with his uncle, so he took refuge in Liu Biao whenever he met with anything. 17 (ad 197), when his uncle died, Kong Ming moved to Longzhong, 20 miles west of Xiangyang (which belonged to Nanyang County of Jingzhou at that time) and began to live in seclusion for ten years. So when Zhou Yu helped Sun Ce to establish the foundation of Jiangdong (Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui areas south of the Yangtze River), Zhuge Liang was living and studying. At this time, Yu Heliang is naturally incomparable, and it is not easy to compare. The real comparison with Liang can only be discussed after Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain in the winter of 207 AD.
Battle of Red Cliffs Zhou Yu is the protagonist, and Kong Ming is only a supporting role in the war.
In the fifth year of Jian 'an reign of Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty (AD 200), Sun Ce was assassinated, and the business of Sun Quancheng's father and brother continued to be the masters of Jiangdong. Zhou Yu led troops from Baqiu to Wu State to attend the funeral, so he stayed in Wu State (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) and took charge of the military and political affairs together with Zhang Zhao, who has a long history, as the national guard of China. At that time, Sun Quan was only 19 years old, and Zhou Yu assisted him wholeheartedly, which made great contributions to establishing Sun Quan's prestige, consolidating the six countries and defeating Huang Zu, the satrap of Liu Biao Jiangxia, in attacking Chai Sang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi). In the spring of the 13th year of Jian 'an (2008), Sun Quan once again marched eastward to Huang Zu, and Zhou Yu was the former army commander (commander-in-chief of the first team), leading people to win a great victory in stabbing Huang Zu. After Zhou Yu conquered Huang Zu, he was ordered to guard Poyang (now Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, east of Poyang Lake).
In July of the lunar calendar, Cao took Jingzhou, and Cao, Liu and Sun competed for the ownership of Jingzhou in an all-round way, followed by the famous Battle of Red Cliffs in history. In the process of Battle of Red Cliffs, Zhuge Liang Fang and Zhou Yu showed their magical powers, but Zhou Yu was the protagonist and Kong Ming was only a supporting role, which could not be compared with Zhou Yu. Zhuge Liang undoubtedly played an important role in the alliance between Sun and Liu, but this was only the diplomatic mediation before Battle of Red Cliffs. In this diplomatic mediation, Lu Su of Soochow played a greater role than Kong Ming. It was only after Lu Su helped Liu Bei to unite with Wu against Cao that Kong dared to let Sun Quan unite with Liu against Cao. At the critical moment when Cao Cao's army marched eastward, Zhuge Liang went to Wu to persuade Sun Quanlian and Cao, who were still hesitating, to show his wisdom and talent on the spot for the first time, which was fully affirmed by history. But at this time, Zhuge Liang, after all, just came out of the mountain, was young and had little reputation. In addition, Liu Bei was weak and needed the help of Soochow. The protagonist of Sun and Cao was Dongwu, and Liu Bei Group was in a subordinate position. Kong Ming's role is limited. Zhou Yu is a key figure from decision-making to military action.
At that time, after Cao Cao took Jingzhou, he went down the river from Jiangling, hand in hand with land and water, and it was huge. Cao Cao sent someone to write a letter to Sun Quan, threatening: "Now there is a water conservancy army of 800 people, and Fang and generals will hunt in Wu." This is a diplomatic rhetoric for fun, which means to persuade Sun Quan to submit as soon as possible. Sun's book was circulated by county officials, and all the officials were shocked and pale. Zhang Zhao and others all advocate welcoming surrender. Du quietly told Sun Quan that anyone who advocated welcoming surrender was for his own benefit and should not listen. He suggested that Sun Quan immediately recall Zhou Yu. After Zhou Yu returned from Poyang, he severely refuted the capitulators, refuted Cao, and analyzed Sun Quan's strength and disadvantages, which prompted Sun Quan to finally make a decision to unite Liu against Cao. In other words, Lu Su, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu all played their respective roles in pushing Sun Quan to resist Cao Cao, and Zhou Yu played a key role in pushing Sun Quan to make up his mind to resist Cao Cao. Only when Zhou Yu made a clear statement can the capitulators headed by Zhang Zhao be suppressed. Zhou Yu showed his political mind at the crucial moment.
In military action, Zhou Yu was not only the commander-in-chief of Wu Jun, but also the commander-in-chief of the allied forces and the commander of Battle of Red Cliffs. Zhuge Liang was only a participant. Although there are many reasons for Sun Liu's winning, and no one can enjoy the credit alone, Zhou Yu, as the head coach, is undoubtedly the first hero who defeated Cao in Chibi. The second hero should be Huang Gai. Because the fake surrender and fire attack were put forward by him and carried out under the command of Zhou Yu. What role Zhuge Liang played in this battle is unknown in history. Zhuge Liang Biography only describes that he set out with Wu Jun, arrived at Liu Bei, and joined forces with Soochow to "reject Tsao Gong". In legend, Kongming was very active in Battle of Red Cliffs, and his ingenious plan was unparalleled. He borrowed the arrow of the strange grass boat (in fact, what Sun Quan did when he confronted Cao in Hefei). He worshipped the east wind with the seven-star altar and even attacked him with fire. It seems to be the key figure to break Cao, but these descriptions are only literary creation.
At that time, Zhou Yu shouldered the heavy responsibility of commander-in-chief and ruled the army strictly, which made Liu Bei awe. Liu Bei went to see Zhou Yu from Fankou, and when he learned that Zhou Yu had only brought 30,000 troops, he asked Lu Su and others to come and discuss with him. Zhou Yu said that he accepted military orders and was not allowed to entrust an agent at will. If you want to see Lu Su, you can visit him another day. Liu Bei was ashamed and happy to see the purge of Zhou Yu's army. After Cao Cao's defeat, he wrote to Sun Quan, saying, "Battle of Red Cliffs, worthy of his illness, burned his boat alone and retired endlessly, which made Zhou Yuxi famous." (biography of Jiang Biao). This is Cao Cao's proud words, and it also reflects that Zhou Yu is the main hero of Battle of Red Cliffs.