Among the generals of the Three Kingdoms, the eighteenth is Zhou Tai.

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Zhou Tai, whose name is Youping, was a native of Cai under the Jiujiang River (now Fengtai, Anhui), and a military general of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

When Sun Ce pacified Jiangdong, he joined Sun Ce's army with Jiang Qin of the same county, and followed Sun Ce's side, and Sun Quan loved him as a human being, and asked Sun Ce to let Zhou Tai follow him.

Zhou Tai protected Sun Quan's safety many times in the war, and suffered dozens of injuries on his body, just like carving a painting on his skin, so Wu generals Zhu Ran and Xu Sheng worshipped him.

Later, in order to commend Zhou Tai's exploits in the birth and death of Eastern Wu, Sun Quan gave him a Qingluo umbrella cover.

The official to the Hanzhong Taishou, Fenwei general, Fengling Yang Marquis, died in the middle age of Huangwu, has a son Zhou Shao, also has a number of military exploits, died in the second year of Huanglong, Zhou Shao's younger brother Zhou Cheng inherited the military power and title.

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In the second year of Xingping (195), Yuan Shu sent Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jing to fight against Hengjiang, and Sun Ce took this opportunity to ask Yuan Shu to help Wu Jing.

Yuan Shu thought that Liu Jian (yáo) occupied Qu'a, Wang Lang was in Huiji, and Sun Ce might not be able to succeed, so he allocated all the old troops of Sun Jian to Sun Ce and let Sun Ce send troops.

In the first year of Jian'an (196), Zhou Tai successively defeated Yan Baihu, Wang Lang and others with Sun Ce.

At this time, Sun Ce married a wife for him. Zhou Tai originally had a wife and children, but during the campaign with their Sun family, they were abandoned, or captured and beheaded by the enemy.

Sun Ce married a rich woman for Zhou Tai, married a daughter, and gave birth to a boy, this boy was Zhou Shao, who had contributed to the war against Cao Wei and was a general.

Two years later, his wife gave birth to another boy for him, Zhou Cheng, who inherited the title of his father, Marquis Lingyang. Therefore, we see a strange phenomenon: the eldest son did not attack the lord, and the second son attacked the lord, just because the eldest son was a concubine, and the second son was a concubine.

At that time, Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan liked Zhou Tai's personality very much, so he asked Sun Ce to let Zhou Tai follow him, so Zhou Tai accompanied Sun Quan again.

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Yuan Shu co-opted Danyang, Xuancheng, Jing, Lingyang, Shi'an, Yi, She(shè) and other county bandit leaders Zu Lang, to make a disturbance in the local area, at that time, Sun Ce went to suppress the six county bandits, and Zhou Tai and Sun Quan lived in Xuancheng, there were less than a thousand people, the fighting spirit was low, and there were no protective fortifications, and thousands of bandits flocked to it.

As soon as Sun Quan got on the horse, the bandits had already been killed, the swords had been cut to the saddle, and it was difficult for the soldiers to meet the enemy with peace of mind.

In this battle, in order to protect Sun Quan, Zhou Tai was injured in twelve places and recovered for a long time.

Sun Ce praised him very much and appointed Zhou Tai as the head of the spring valley.

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After Yuan Shu's death, his subordinate Liu Xun occupied Wancheng and defeated Yang Hong and Zhang Xun who wanted to take refuge in Sun Ce.

Zhou Tai followed Sun Ce to Yuzhang and was appointed as the chief of Yichun.

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In the eighth year of Jian'an (203), Zhou Tai followed Sun Quanxi to fight against Huang Zu, and made military achievements, but failed to break through the city, and there were bandits who rebelled, so he had to retreat.

Zhou Tai played a meritorious role in the crusade against Huang Zu. Later, he and Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu rejected Cao Cao's army in Chibi and attacked Cao Ren in Nanjun.

Cao Cao came out of his beard, and Zhou Tai fought bravely to repel Cao Cao.

Sun Quan also conquered Huang Zu, and Zhou Tai followed him to conquer, and several of them had military exploits, and they returned to capture their people.

Sun Quan conquered Huang Zu again, and Huang Zu was killed by Feng Ze. In the same year, Cao Cao waved his army south, wanting to pacify Jiangdong in one fell swoop, Sun Quan and Liu Bei joined forces to resist Cao, and at the same time sent Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu as the left and right governors to fight against Cao Cao's army, and Zhou Tai followed Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and Cao Cao in the Chibi battle and repelled it.

Zhou Tai followed Zhou Yu into Nanjun, and Cao Ren was defeated. After Jingzhou was pacified, Zhou Tai led his army to settle in Cen.

In the eighteenth year of Jian'an (213 years), Cao Cao led the army to attack the wet beard, Zhou Tai led the army to resist, after Cao Cao retreated, Sun Quan worshiped Zhou Tai as the general of Pinglu, and stayed in the governor of the beard, and Zhu Ran, Xu Sheng and other generals were therefore dispatched by Zhou Tai, but, some dissatisfied, Sun Quan heard about this, personally went to the wet dock, and feasted the generals.

Sun Quan personally served wine to Zhou Tai, and then asked Zhou Tai to untie his clothes, Sun Quan pointed to a scar on Zhou Tai's body, and asked Zhou Tai how the injury came about, and Zhou Tai clearly said which battle this scar was and how he was injured.

Sun Quan took Zhou Tai's arm and cried and said, "Youping, you fought on the battlefield for our brothers like a bear and a tiger, never pity your body, dozens of injuries, and your skin seems to be carved, why don't I treat you as my dear flesh and blood, and entrust you with the weight of soldiers and horses?" You are the hero of Soochow, and I should share the glory and disgrace with you. ”

The next day, Sun Quan gave Zhou Tai Qingluo an umbrella cover, so Xu Sheng and others obeyed Zhou Tai.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), Sun Quan attacked and killed Guan Yu, wanting to take the opportunity to attack Shu, so he worshiped Zhou Tai as the general of Hanzhong Taishou and Fenwei, and sealed the Marquis of Lingyang.

During the Huangwu period (222-229), Zhou Tai fell ill and died.

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In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", similar to the official history, he first made a living by plundering in the river with Jiang Qin, and later returned to Sun Ce, and helped Sun Ce attack Liu Yu's (繇yáo) camp. When Sun Ce captured Wu County, Zhou Tai and Sun Quan guarded Xuancheng, during which the bandits came to attack the city, Zhou Tai was stabbed 12 times to protect Sun Quan, and was seriously injured, but fortunately the famous doctor Hua Tuo was able to save his life.

In the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Tai faced the enemy general Zhang Nan who came by boat and beheaded him.

When Zhou Yu attacked Nanjun, Gan Ning was trapped in Yiling, and Zhou Tai fought into the siege to save Gan Ning, and after entering the city, he cooperated with Zhou Yu's attack with Gan Ning to defeat Cao Renjun.

Zhou Yu lured Liu Bei across the river with a beauty trick, but Liu Bei eloped with Mrs. Sun, Sun Quan ordered Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai to take the sword to kill the two, but Liu Bei escaped smoothly because of Zhuge Liang and others.

During the battle of Hefei, Cao Cao personally led the army to defeat the Eastern Wu army, Sun Quan was surrounded, Zhou Tai fought hard, rescued Sun Quan and turned over and re-entered the enemy formation to rescue Xu Sheng, who was surrounded at the same time, so he was shot dozens of times, the skin was like a portrayal, Sun Quan was greatly grateful, and gave Zhou Tai Qingluo umbrella cover to commend his merits.

Cao Cao sighed: I don't want to write about the splendid township, and there are such tiger generals.

After Lü Meng attacked Jingzhou, Zhou Tai, Han Dang, and Jiang Qin teamed up to attack the Yu army and were defeated.

Liu Bei went east to avenge Guan Yu and Sun Quan, Zhou Tai went on the expedition as Han Dang's lieutenant, and his brother Zhou Ping was beheaded by the Shu general Guan Xing. After that, Lu Xun was ordered to lead the armies of Eastern Wu, Zhou Tai was not satisfied at first, but later because he saw that Lu Xun was too knowledgeable, he was convinced.

Lu Xun burned the company camp and defeated the Shu army, and the Shu army's reinforcement Fanwang Shamoke was killed by Zhou Tai.