If Sun Ce and Zhou Yu don't die young, will Soochow unify the Three Kingdoms?
The answer is that there is a great chance to unify the three countries.
Many friends are not optimistic about Soochow, let alone Sun Ce, basically for two reasons:
First of all, Cao Cao occupies the north and has advantages over Wu Dong in population, territory and resources. With the advantage of the north, Cao Cao will completely destroy Wu Dong.
Second, the combination of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu is not the best combination, which can't compare with the civil servants and military commanders on Cao Cao's side.
People who have the above ideas are mostly influenced by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and they don't know enough about the real Sun Ce and Zhou Yu in history.
Sun Ce, born in Wu Jun, is the eldest son of Sun Jian, the tiger of Jiangdong. Sun Jian, the general of Lu, led his troops to bash Lu Bu head-on when the governors of all walks of life crusaded against Dong Zhuo. He is brave and invincible.
Sun Ce inherited Sun Jian's brave genes perfectly. After Sun Jian's death, he first surrendered to Yuan Shu, and then led the former headquarters of Jiangdong to cross the river to conquer Jiangdong in A.D. 195. It took five years, and more than 2,000 men rose up. In 200 AD, they defeated Liu Xun, the satrap of Lujiang, and Huang Zu, the satrap of Jiangxia, and completely unified Jiangdong.
It can be said that the efficiency of Sun Ce's conquest of Jiangdong was not comparable to that of any military commander in the whole Three Kingdoms period, and the name of Little Overlord was by no means a hollow reputation.
If it weren't for being attacked by an assassin while hunting, injured by an arrow and unfortunately dying young, it wouldn't be difficult for Sun Ce, who is as brave as Xiang Yu, to kill the Yangtze River and seize Jingzhou.
Once Soochow annexed Jingzhou, the world could continue to seize Yizhou, and China could send troops to Fancheng and Xiangyang to fight against Cao Cao, taking the route of Shu Han and Liu Bei.
Zhou Yu, whose real name is the Zhou family in Lujiang, was born in autumn for the second time, and his family background is not inferior to that of the fourth generation, Gong Yuan Jia. Zhou Yu himself was even more resourceful, commanding the Soochow army to defeat Cao Jun in Chibi, making 800,000 Cao Jun disappear into laughter. He is a wise general of our time.
The so-called Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind and the straw boat borrowed the arrow, which defeated Cao Jun. These were all invented by the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There is no such thing. Historically, Zhou Yu led an army to defeat Cao Cao and save Wu Dong.
If Sun Ce and Zhou Yu don't die young, with the help of civil servants and military commanders such as Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong, Lu Xun, Zhu Gejin, Lv Meng, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Ding Feng, Zhou Tai, Taishi Ci, Cheng Pu and Pan Zhang, they are fully capable of sharing the world with Cao Cao.
Zhou Yu's talent is not inferior to Zhuge Liang in history, but even stronger in the military.
If Wu Dong seized Jingzhou before Cao Cao's Northern Expedition, and then seized Yizhou in the north and occupied two states in Liang Yong, then Cao Wei in the north could be completely suppressed.