In history, Liu Bei took refuge in Yuan Shao after being defeated by Cao Cao, and this was the fifth and penultimate stop in Liu Bei's wandering career.

【Lost Xuzhou again】

In the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Liu Bei was ordered by Cao Cao to crusade against Yuan Shu and took the opportunity to seize Xuzhou, and then Cao Cao sent Liu Dai and Wang Zhong to crusade against Liu Bei, but failed, and then the edict occurred.

At this time, Cao Cao had Yuan Shao in front of him and Liu Bei in the back, facing a dilemma, Yuan Shao and Liu Bei formed an alliance at that time, Yuan Shao was Cao Cao's biggest enemy, although Liu Bei was weak, but if

When Cao Cao and Yuan Shao confronted each other, it was difficult for Cao Cao to deal with it, and if Cao Cao wanted to crusade against Liu Bei first, he was afraid that Yuan Shao would take the opportunity to overwhelm the army, so it can be said that Cao Cao himself had a big problem for himself.

But Cao Cao deserves to be Cao Cao. At that time, Cao Cao had already led his army to Guandu, but decided to crusade against Liu Bei first, at this time his subordinates all asked: "The person who competes with you for the world is Yuan Shao, and now Yuan Shao wants to come to fight, but you abandon it, and want to go east to conquer Liu Bei, if Yuan Shao takes the opportunity to attack from behind, what should I do?" ”

Cao Cao said: "Liu Bei is a big hero, if you don't get rid of him now, you will definitely become a big trouble in the future." Although Yuan Shao had great ambitions, he was slow to react and would not send troops immediately. Under Cao Cao's strong leadership, Guo Jia also supported Cao Cao's views, so Cao Cao sent troops east to conquer Liu Bei.

According to the "Fu Zi", Cao Cao asked Guo Jia about this matter at that time, and Guo Jia replied: "Yuan Shao is slow and suspicious, and he will definitely not come soon." And Liu Bei is new, and the people's hearts are not attached, if we attack him violently, we will definitely fail. This is the key to life and death, and we cannot afford to miss this opportunity. ”

The ending was as expected by Cao Cao, Guo Jia and others, Yuan Shao did not listen to Tian Feng's words and missed this opportunity, and Liu Bei had just gotten Xuzhou again, and he was not Cao Cao's opponent, at that time Liu Bei even thought that Cao Cao could not send troops to attack him in order to guard against Yuan Shao, until Cao Cao's army pressed the border, Liu Bei was surprised.

Due to Liu Bei's lack of preparation, he was not Cao Cao's opponent at all, his subordinate Xiahou Bo was captured by Cao Cao, and his wife was all captured by Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei had to flee to Yuan Shao's territory in the north, and then Cao Cao attacked Xiapi again, Guan Yu saw Liu Bei flee north and surrendered to Cao Cao (one said he was captured), and Xuzhou was pacified by Cao Cao again.

This crusade in history is also the only time that Cao Cao did not massacre Xuzhou after Cao Song's death, at least not recorded in the available information. After that, Liu Bei had no chance to return to Xuzhou.

【Zhao Yun's Return】

Zhao Yun was one of the famous generals under Liu Bei's later command, originally he was a subordinate of Gongsun Zhan, when Zhao Yun was elected by the people of Changshan State, and led the righteous soldiers of the county to defect to Gongsun Zhan. At that time, Yuan Shao claimed to be the pastor of Jizhou, and Gongsun Chan was deeply worried that the people of Jizhou had taken refuge in Yuan Shao, and it happened that Zhao Yun came over at this time, and Gongsun Chan said to Zhao Yun: "I heard that the people of Jizhou want to attach themselves to Yuan Shao, how can you be the only one who can get lost?" ”

Zhao Yun replied: "The world is in turmoil, I don't know who the Ming lord is, the people are in danger of being upside down, and after discussion and discussion, the people of Chenzhou want to follow the benevolent government, not because we are personally alienated from Yuan Shao and favor you, the general." Since then, Zhao Yun has been soliciting with Gongsun Zan everywhere.

After Liu Bei took refuge in Gongsun Zhan, he thought that Zhao Yun had great talents, so he had a heart-to-heart with him, and Zhao Yun was grateful to Liu Bei for becoming Liu Bei's subordinate in this way, and then followed Liu Bei south to help Tian Kai resist Yuan Shao. Zhao Yun went out with Liu Bei and took charge of the cavalry for Liu Bei.

Later, because of the death of his brother, Zhao Yun asked Gongsun Zhan to resign and return to his hometown, Liu Bei knew that Zhao Yun would not come back if he went, so he held Zhao Yun's hand and was reluctant to part. Zhao Yun said goodbye to Liu Bei and said, "After all, you can't do things that violate morality." ”

Then Gongsun Zan was eliminated by Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao in Xuzhou, so he went north to take refuge in Yuan Shao, Zhao Yun knew that Liu Bei was coming, so he went to Zhao Yun to Yecheng to see Liu Bei, and attached to him again, at that time Liu Bei regarded Zhao Yun as his confidant, and the two even slept in the same bed.

In order to accumulate strength, Liu Bei secretly sent Zhao Yun to recruit hundreds of soldiers, claiming to be the left general Liu Bei's remaining troops, and the matter was even concealed from Yuan Shao.

【Seek refuge in Yuan Shao】

After Liu Bei's defeat in Xuzhou, he fled to Qingzhou, and Liu Bei had recommended Yuan Tan as Maocai, because Liu Bei was kind to himself, so Yuan Tan personally led the army to meet Liu Bei, Liu Bei followed Yuan Tan to the plain, and then he sent someone to tell Yuan Shao that Yuan Shao left Yecheng for 200 miles to meet Liu Bei, Liu Bei stayed here for more than a month, and Liu Bei's scattered soldiers slowly gathered here.

After Liu Bei returned to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao's father and son both respected Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was also reused by Yuan Shao. When Yuan Shao went south to crusade against Cao Cao, Liu Bei was one of the generals under Yuan Shao, but due to the limitation of ability, the performance of the imperial uncle was not very good.

After Yuan Shao crossed the Yellow River, he sent Wen Chou and Liu Bei to lead the cavalry to challenge Cao Cao, but they fell for Xun You's trick to lure the enemy, were confused by Cao Cao's supply troops, and were disorganized, and were defeated by Cao Cao's cavalry in ambush, Wen Chou was killed in this battle, and Liu Bei fled back to the camp.

Later, Liu Pi, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan, and others rebelled against Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao immediately sent Liu Bei to lead the army and Liu Pikou to slightly reduce the territory near the capital to threaten Cao Cao's rear. After Guan Yu found out, he left Cao Cao and returned to Liu Bei's camp.

But because Liu Bei was a newcomer and was not very familiar with Yuan Shao's troops, he was defeated by Cao Cao's general Cao Ren and was driven back. And Liu Bei and Yuan Shao have been in contact for a long time, and they may also think that Yuan Shao can't succeed, and Liu Bei has wandered many times in his life, and he also has a sense of crisis, so he began to find an excuse to leave Yuan Shao.

At that time, Liu Bei used the reason of uniting Liu Biao to fight against Cao Cao, Yuan Shao thought that what Liu Bei said was also reasonable, but Yuan Shao was unwilling to divide his troops again after the defeat, so he let Liu Bei take his own team, and Liu Bei went south for the second time.

After that, Liu Bei was also unable to return to the north.

After Liu Bei went south, he came to the Runan area again, united with Gong Du, the remnants of the Yellow Turban, and organized thousands of troops, Cao Cao sent Cai Yang to attack, and was killed by Liu Bei.

Then Cao Cao won the battle of Guandu, and then waved his army to crusade against Liu Bei, Liu Bei knew that he was not defeated by Cao Cao, so he fled south to Liu Biao's Jingzhou, so Liu Bei came to the last stop of his wandering career.

Jingzhou is also the place where Liu Bei rose again after Xuzhou, where Liu Bei got Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Ma Liang, Ma Tan, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong and many other outstanding civil and military talents, laying the foundation for a long-term confrontation with Cao Cao in the future.

But Jingzhou is also a sad place for Liu Bei, two key defeats in the history of Liu Bei's group occurred in Jingzhou, and important figures such as Guan Yu and Ma Liang also died in Jingzhou.