Three Kingdoms: From the Start, I Create a Ranking of Strategists

If the cunning schemer doesn't die, the Crouching Dragon will never emerge. If Guo Jia had lived longer, Zhuge Liang wouldn't have had such a stellar career.

Can't you at least look at history before you write this? If you don't want to look at history, at least write something that shows your understanding is completely unrelated to historical facts.

The Oath of the Peach Garden, the crossing of five passes and slaying of six generals, the slaying of Hua Xiong while the wine was still warm, the defeat of the army by shouting, the three heroes battling Lü Bu. You don't know the Longzhong Plan, the three visits to the thatched cottage, the Huarong Pass, etc.? How many people are like Liu Bei, willing to lead their people across the river and lose their kingdom for their brothers!

The role of strategists is far less significant than you might imagine; the role of commanders is far greater. Has no one noticed that, aside from the Three Kingdoms period, most of history's most famous figures are generals and commanders, not strategists?

Li Bai: The Red Crouching Dragon rises from the ashes, and the Sleeping Dragon gains the help of Zhuge Liang. Du Fu: His achievements surpassed those of the Three Kingdoms, and his fame was established by the Eight Trigrams Formation. Li Shangyin: Guan Zhong and Yue Yi are truly talented, but the Liangfu poem is filled with regret.

Zhuge Liang is number one, his name is enshrined in both the Temple of Literature and the Temple of Military Strategists, one of only two such figures in history. Who else in the Three Kingdoms period could compare? While emperors aren't enshrined in the Temple of Literature and Military Strategists, Sima Yi was thoroughly defeated by Zhuge Liang. Cao Cao and Liu Bei were both powerful rulers, but not strategists. Zhuge Liang's number one ranking is beyond question.

Zhuge Liang was an outstanding military strategist, inventor, writer, and politician. He was handsome and resourceful. He was a brave warrior and proficient in both domestic and military affairs. I might believe that Zhou Yu and Xun Yu could rival Zhuge Liang in the entire Three Kingdoms period. But to come to the comments section with "If Guo Jia hadn't died, Zhuge Liang wouldn't have emerged"? That's a modern invention, isn't it? That's quite an exaggeration.

In both the Records of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he is not as good as Jia Xu.

The top twenty strategists, the twentieth one is actually a liar, so there are only nineteen reliable strategists in the whole world, and the rest are not even as good as Guo Tu.

While I don't quite agree with some of the rankings, I can accept that they don't portray Liu Bei as negatively as other Three Kingdoms novels. In my opinion, Liu Bei wasn't a perfect hero, but he was definitely not a treacherous villain either; other authors have gone too far.