Why did Guan Yu attack Cao Wei and Liu Bei hit Sun Wu first? Why is the order different?

Guan Yu attacked Cao Wei because the Sun-Liu alliance relationship was not broken, and Liu Bei attacked Sun Wu first in order to capture the lost Jingzhou。At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was divided into three parts, Cao Wei Shu Han, and Dongwu each occupied a piece of land, forming a relatively balanced case, the world got a short period of peace, but the world must be divided for a long time, and the situation of the three kingdoms could not be continued, Liu Bei won the battle of Hanzhong, Cao Cao saw that his opportunity to make a contribution came, he took the initiative to launch the battle of Xiangfan, but gave Dongwu the opportunity to recover Jingzhou.

Among the three kingdoms, the Cao Wei regime was the most powerful, and Sun Quan and Liu Bei could only barely survive if they joined forces. Guan Yu had occupied Jingzhou for many years, and Eastern Wu and Shu Han had always maintained a peaceful situation, and they both knew that Cao Cao was their worst enemy, and it was impossible for Guan Yu to turn around and launch an attack on Eastern Wu now. This is equivalent to cannibalism, which greatly depletes the common strength of the Sun-Liu Alliance.

Guan Yu can open the door to attack the Central Plains by taking the Xiangfan area, and Chang'an will be exposed to the attack range of the Shu Han regime, which is the strategic purpose of Guan Yu's campaign to launch the Xiangfan War.

Guan Yu did not expect that the Eastern Wu regime would attack Guan Yu from behind, defeat Maicheng and lose Jingzhou. Liu Bei lost his most important base, according to Longzhong's strategy of deployment, Liu Bei only has Jingzhou and Yizhou to have the opportunity to unify the world, and now if he loses Jingzhou, he will lose the qualification to unify the world, Liu Bei will certainly not be willing to fail like this. At present, the strength of the Shu Han regime is not enough to defeat the Cao Wei regime, and if it sends troops to attack Cao Wei, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Liu Bei's strategic purpose in attacking Eastern Wu was to regain control of Jingzhou. In the battle of Yiling, Lu Xun burned the Shu army company camp for 700 miles, and the war ended in Liu Bei's defeat, and the vitality of the Shu Han regime was greatly damaged, and it has been in a state of collapse ever since. Liu Bei returned to the White Emperor City and was seriously ill and bedridden, and the task of reviving the Han family was handed over to Zhuge Liang when he was dying, and a generation of heroes fell, and Guan Yu and Liu Bei both left this world.

This was a decision made due to the deployment of military forces of the three parties at that time, because Guan Yu was strong at that time and carelessly was attacked and defeated Maicheng and then killed by Eastern Wu, and Liu Bei went to attack Eastern Wu in order to take revenge.

At that time, Jingzhou, where Guan Yu was located, was ostensibly peaceful and friendly neighbors with Eastern Wu, while Cao Wei was eyeing the north, and he attacked Cao Wei for the sake of Shu's Northern Expedition.

And Liu Bei died in the hands of the Wu army because Guan Yu was attacked by Eastern Wu at that time, and he attacked Eastern Wu first under the banner of avenging Guan Yu.

Because Shu Han and Sun Wu first had an alliance, but Sun Wu reneged on the covenant, attacked Jingzhou without authorization, and killed Guan Yu. Liu Bei was furious and vowed to attack Sun Wu to avenge Guan Yu and recapture Jingzhou.

In ancient China, in the Later Han Dynasty, there was a relatively short period. During that time, the whole world was in turmoil, full of different factions. Later generations are accustomed to calling it the Three Kingdoms.

For a lot of historians, this is a very interesting thing. During this period, a lot of interesting things happened, and a lot of things that people liked happened. The world pattern in the early days of the Three Kingdoms was relatively chaotic, but after it developed to a certain extent, there were only three countries: Wei, Shu and Wu.

And this time, it was when Sun Ce took control of Eastern Wu. At that time, the pattern of the Central Plains was not clear enough. Cao Cao, as the overlord of the Central Plains, was already in a state of distress under the encirclement and suppression of many forces.

At that time, if Dongwu can seize this opportunity and surprise Cao Cao's base camp, I am afraid it will be step by step. Maybe it will dominate the world. But unfortunately, Sun Ce, the founding emperor of Eastern Wu, died in an accident.

Otherwise, with his courage and the strength of Soochow, he can definitely go to the next level. Since then, Soochow has completely lost hope of a unified world. It is a very remarkable thing that Soochow was able to resist the invasion of foreign enemies for a long time.

It is also because of the topography of the region where Soochow is located. Many people know that Soochow is not in the heart of the Central Plains, but in the relatively remote part of Jiangdong. Although Jiangdong is the Yangtze River, it is not afraid of foreign invasion.

More often, however, is a navy dedicated to water operations. In order to claim hegemony in the Central Plains, a navy alone is far from enough, and a strong infantry must be had. However, with the current situation of Soochow, it is completely possible to train a large number of infantry.

In this way, when Soochow is competing for territory, it can expand externally. If you can't continue to expand your sphere of influence, you must stick to your territory, otherwise you will find yourself in trouble in all areas. This also led to the slow development of Soochow as a whole.

In short, we come to the conclusion that Soochow did get a good opportunity, but he didn't take it. If Xiaobawang is within ten years, then the pattern of the whole world will change dramatically. If it weren't for Zhou Yu running into Zhuge Liang, Eastern Wu might have been able to easily capture the nine counties of Jingxiang.

However, there is no historical assumption that the fall of the Soochow Empire was inevitable after all. The demise of Soochow is not a coincidence. At that time, Soochow seemed to be powerful, but in fact, it was secretly killing.

In this way, it would be good if Soochow could hold out for decades.

From the perspective of strength, the strength of Eastern Wu was not strong enough to be unified, because although Eastern Wu gradually became stronger under Sun Quan's hard work, it was actually relatively weak for the Cao Wei camp at that time.

Even if he once defeated Liu Bei and recaptured Jingzhou, he couldn't change the situation. It can be said that if Cao Wei was bent on attacking Eastern Wu at that time, in fact, Eastern Wu would not be able to resist Cao Wei's attack.

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Therefore, at that time, the resistance to the Cao Wei camp was mainly through the alliance between Eastern Wu and Liu Bei to reach the point of resistance. The second is that Sun Quan had a conflict with his own support forces at that time, because the reason why Sun Quan was able to make Eastern Wu strong was actually related to the Jiangdong clan that had always supported Sun Quan behind him.

However, due to the strength of Eastern Wu, this in turn made the power of the Jiangdong clan become bigger and bigger, which led to a problem, that is, the imbalance of power, the power of the Jiangdong clan has reached the point of threatening Sun Quan, so Sun Quan can only further weaken the power of the Jiangdong clan in order to maintain his hegemony.

There are reasons for Sun Quan, but in the final analysis, the military strength of Eastern Wu is too weak and does not have the strength to confront Cao Wei.

No, it is certainly not a problem for one person to be able to form the situation at that time, and Wu Guo's own strength is not very large.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei died, and Wu could not complete the unification, on the one hand, there were successors in both countries, and on the other hand, Sun Quan himself was not able to reverse Wu's disadvantage in national strength.

First: it may be that the ability of Eastern Wu is limited, second: Sun Quan's frequent suspicion and killing, and third, the intensification of the contradiction between Sun Quan and the Jiangdong clan may still have a certain relationship with Sun Quan.

At that time, it was Cao Cao who ordered that Zhao Yun could not be killed. I think that if Cao Cao had ordered Zhao Yun to be killed at that time, Zhao Yun would not have been able to break through. Cao Cao wanted to capture Zhao Yun alive, so he didn't allow his subordinates to release hidden arrows, which gave Zhao Yun a chance to break through.

Mainly because Lu Bu and Guan Yu were facing the Cao army with a formation, and they were surrounded by the Cao army. And the Cao army that Zhao Yun encountered did not have a formation, Cao Jun's team was disrupted, and Zhao Yun could take advantage of the loopholes.

Because Zhao Yun's strength is very strong, there were two breakthroughs in Cao's army, one was the Battle of Changbanpo, the other was the Battle of Hanshui, and then Zhao Yun's Battle of Xiapi was all urban offensive and defensive battles.