It took almost three years for Temujin to finally annex Yelu Abaoji, allowing him to take a big step towards unifying the entire grassland.
After this battle, on the one hand, Temujin himself suffered small losses, and on the other hand, the fruits of victory obtained in this battle also need to be allowed time to be digested. Therefore, Temujin can no longer make any big moves in the next period of time.
However, even if this is the case, Temujin did not do anything. Instead, he followed the example of the Han people and established the country as emperor and named it Yuan.
In addition to founding the country and proclaiming himself emperor, Temujin also studied various aspects of the Han system and transformed it to form a system suitable for this new country and political power.
Previously, whether it was the extinct Xiongnu, the later Mongols, or the Xianbei and Wuhuan, they were essentially tribes. But after Temujin founded the country and proclaimed himself emperor, it rose to the level of a country. There was an essential difference between before and after.
Temujin's move also caused a chain reaction on the grassland. After Temujin, Tuoba Tao and Nurhaci were not to be outdone. They also chose an auspicious day to start the process of founding a country and proclaiming themselves emperor.
Tuoba Tao established the country as Wei, while Nurhaci established the country as Qing. At the same time, these two people, like Temujin, took the initiative to absorb some excellent systems from the Central Plains and transform them.
Temujin, Tuoba Tao, and Nurhachi are all heroes of the generation. They can clearly see what their strengths and weaknesses are compared to the Central Plains!
Among the three heroes, Tuoba Tao was the most thorough in learning from the Han people. Even, in order to express his determination, Tuoba Tao even gave himself another Chinese name with Yuan as his surname.
In the former Eastern Xianbei and now the Wei Dynasty, compared with the two grassland forces of Temujin and Nurhachi, their exchanges with the Han people were originally more in-depth.
The two masterminds Tuoba Tao relied on most, Gao Yun and Zhang Bin, were both Han Chinese, and Tuoba Tao was greatly influenced by these two people.
Not only Gao Yun and Zhang Bin, but also Wang Huilong, Han Yanguang, Lu Zhen and many other generals from Eastern Xianbei were of Han origin, and their status in Eastern Xianbei was no worse than those of the Xianbei generals!
Moreover, a considerable number of the Tuoba clan are deeply influenced by Han culture. Tuoba Tao was not the first to change his surname to Han. Before him, a series of Tuoba nobles such as Yuan Shanjian, Yuan Tianmu, Yuan Zan, Yuan Yu, and Yuan Kuo had already changed their surnames to Han.
Therefore, although the resistance to Tuoba Tao's sinicization is not small, it is much smaller than that of Temujin and Nurhaci. It is precisely because of this that Tuoba Tao's sinicization road can go deeper than the other two.
The three heroes on the grassland successively established countries and titles based on the Han system. Although it also caused quite a shock among the Han people, the princes of all walks of life could only let it go.
Otherwise, these princes can't send troops to fight over it! This was a thankless task, and all the princes could only pretend they didn't see it.
If you want to take action on the grassland, it is inevitable that the major princes of the Central Plains will join forces with each other again. But at that time, the princes of the Central Plains were all involved with each other and were still at war with each other. How could this alliance be formed?
Unlike the previous time when the Grassland Alliance took the initiative to attack and the Central Plains princes were in a passive defensive state, this time, if they attack the grassland, the Central Plains princes will be in a proactive offensive state.
It is unrealistic to go deep into the grassland to attack these grassland forces. If you rely on infantry, it will be too easy for the opponent to cut off the supply line, and it is far less flexible than the grassland cavalry in tactics.
And if you rely on cavalry, don’t be ridiculous. Even the northern princes are far from being able to compete with the grassland forces in cavalry, let alone those Central Plains princes and southern princes!
On the grassland, it was Yelu Abaoji who came to an end, while in the Central Plains, it was Sun Ce who withdrew from the fight for world hegemony. Among the three heroes of the late Han Dynasty, the Sun family became the first prince to withdraw.
However, this is normal. Compared with the founding emperors, Sun Jian and Sun Ce did not have any advantages.
With Zhao Kuangyin and Yuan Shu successively attacking the Sun family, and with Cao Cao originally taking the lead, the Sun family could no longer survive. The death of the little overlord Sun Ce from injuries caused the Sun family's situation to completely collapse. . The deaths of two generations of lords, Sun Jian and Sun Ce, had a huge impact on the military morale of the Sun family!
In the end, the territory of the three counties controlled by the Sun family, except for Lu County, which had already been traded to the Yellow Turban Zhang Dingbian, the territory of the remaining two counties, Liang Kingdom, was taken by Cao Cao, and the remaining counties were taken by Cao Cao. It was divided between Zhao Kuangyin and Yuan Shu.
Among the four forces, Cao Cao, Zhao Kuangyin, and Yuan Shu all made huge profits, but only Sun Ce lost all his wealth.
The talents under the Sun family also suffered heavy casualties. The two veteran generals Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, who had been active since the Yellow Turban period, finally left the battlefield with regrets.
At this point, the four elders of Jiangdong who accompanied Sun Jian on the battlefield all came to an end.
Zhou Yu's father, Zhou Yi, was originally the Prime Minister of the Liang State. However, when the Liang State was conquered by Cao Cao, Zhou Yi led his own troops to attract the attention of Cao Jun in order to cover the departure of Sun Ce's younger brother, Sun Kuang, and was eventually killed by random arrows.
In fact, Cao Cao initially wanted to capture Zhou Yi alive. To Cao Cao, Zhou Yi is not important, but Zhou Yu is a talent. If you can control Zhou Yi, you can control Zhou Yu, but Lao Cao is a master who cherishes talents!
However, in the melee, any accident may happen, and the soldiers below do not know Zhou Yi, so it is not something you can capture alive if you want to.
Xu Kun, Sun Jian's nephew, also died in the melee and was trampled into a puddle of flesh by Cao Cao's ace troop, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.
Zhou Di, a younger brother of Zhou Yu clan, was killed by Cao Kerang with three shots during the battle. Facing the god-general-level Cao Kerang, Zhou Di died without any suspense.
It can be said that although Cao Cao had the idea of conquering Zhou Yu, his wishes were not fulfilled. Under a series of mistakes, Cao Cao could be said to have offended Zhou Yu to death, forming an outright mortal enemy.
Sun Ce's general Liu Quan was unlucky. He met Jiang Chen who showed up for the first time, but he fell into Jiang Chen's hands without even making a move.
Pan Zhang was ambushed by Xian Zhen, the commander of Yuan Shu's army. He and the three thousand soldiers he led were all burned alive in a canyon by Xian Zhen. Not even a whole body was left behind, and he was eventually destroyed. For a fly ashes.
