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During the Three Kingdoms period, who can compare with Zhuge Liang in talent and strategy?

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhou's talents and strategies were comparable to Zhuge Liang's. Zhou Yu was described as narrow-minded in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and eventually died of vomiting blood by Zhuge Liang's "Sanyu", but Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a novel, mostly fictional. The real Zhou Yu needs to refer to the History of the Three Kingdoms. According to the records in the reflection, Zhou Yu, whose real name is Gong Jin, is strong, handsome and elegant, and Jiangdong has the saying that "the wrong song cares", which is enough to show that Zhou Yu's literary talent is superb.

Besides, Zhou Yu is very good at analyzing the political situation. When Cao Cao led an army to attack the State of Wu, most ministers of the State of Wu demanded surrender. They think that fighting will lead to failure, and only surrender can save Wu Dong. But Zhou Yu believed that Wu Dong could defeat Cao Jun, because Cao Jun's soldiers were very tired after a long journey. Moreover, the weather in Jiangdong was cold at that time, and horses had no food and no grass; Cao Jun's soldiers are mostly northerners, and they are not good at water warfare. They come from afar, and their fighting capacity will be greatly reduced. There are hidden dangers behind Cao Cao, because Ma Chao and Han Sui threatened Cao Cao in Kansai. Zhou Yu further analyzed the actual strength of Cao Jun. He pointed out that Cao Jun had only 150,000 or 60,000 people, while Liu Biao's new army, which recently surrendered, had only 70,000 or 80,000 people, with a total of no more than 200,000 people and far less than 1 million people. Finally, he pointed out that Cao Cao held the Emperor in his arms so that the hearts of the princes, vassal states and people turned to Wu Dong, not to Cao Cao. This is enough to show that Zhou Yu's ingenuity is superb, and Zhuge Liang is not the same.

In the end, Zhou Yu defeated Cao Cao in Battle of Red Cliffs, weakened Cao Cao, and finally established the political situation of "three points in the world", which was inseparable from Zhou Yu's careful planning, which also coincided with Zhuge Liang's political situation of "three points in the world" for Liu Bei.

Then, Lu Su's talent can also be compared with Zhuge Liang. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Su was only a cautious counselor, but in the official history, Lu Su was born in a big family, strong, handsome, good at shooting, chivalrous and courageous, eloquent and talented in governing the country.

Lu Su was pursued by Yuan Shu, but Lu Su kept calm in a crisis and shot through the shield with a strong bow, making the pursuers afraid to flee. When Zhou Yu was in trouble, Lu Su generously donated 3,000 yuan of grain, which was chivalrous and fearless. Battle of Red Cliffs, Lu Su and Zhou Yuli fought the main battle and finally won, which shows their superb strategic vision and powerful strategy; Zhuge Zengliang's "war of words is crowded with Confucianism", but Lu Su met Guan Yu and refuted Guan Yu's speechless. This is the famous allusion of "going to the meeting with one knife", and the "going to the meeting with one knife" in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is adapted from this. It is precisely because of Lu Su's diplomatic efforts that the alliance between Wu and Shu did not break down further, and Jingzhou was carved up by Xiang Shui, which was called "Yu Shi" in history.

Where there is "Wolong", there will be "Feng Chu". Pang Tong is also a very talented person, but he died young because he was shot by a flowing arrow when attacking Luo County, and his talent was not fully displayed. As for the description in Romance of the Three Kingdoms that he was killed for credit, it was made up for the myth of Zhuge Liang.

In addition, there are allusions: Sun Quan, who gave birth to such a child, and Sima Yi, who "ignored each other for three days" and finally defeated Shu, and Jiang Wei, who was smarter than him and died before his ambition. Please see the official history for details. Space is limited, so I won't go into details.

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