Sun Quan did agree to Zhou Yu's plans to consider attacking Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu ( who controlled the modern southern Shaanxi ) to try to take over their territories, but after Zhou Yu died in 210, the plans were abandoned.

*** Sun Luban ( 孫魯班 ), initially married to Zhou Yu's oldest son Zhou Xun, later married Quan Cong

After Zhou Yu's death, relations between Liu Bei and Sun Quan gradually deteriorate but not to the point of open conflict.

* Zhou Cang, Guan Yu's rebel-turned-weapon bearer.

The morale of Zhou Yu's army improved greatly after, and soon they routed Cao Ren and captured Nanjun.

When Lu Su took over Zhou Yu's position, he went to visit Lü Meng.

Zhou Jing ( an elder cousin of Zhou Yu's father ) and Zhou Jing's son Zhou Zhong both took the post of Grand Commandant in the Han imperial court.

Zhou Yu's father, Zhou Yi, was the Chief of Luoyang, the capital.

Zhou Yu's uncle later became the governor of Danyang under the warlord Yuan Shu

In order to control Sun Ce, Yuan Shu had Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's families imprisoned.

It was during Zhou Yu's journey to Wu that he encountered a wealthy merchant called Lu Su, whom he took to Sun Ce.

This raised Zhou Yu's prestige within the Sun family, and he was treated as an older brother by Sun Quan.

Cao Ren, the defending general, heard of Zhou Yu's injury and ordered his soldiers to yell insults outside Zhou's camp in an attempt to dishearten his army.

** Zhou Shang ( 周尚 ), Zhou Yu's uncle, served as Grand Commandant

** Zhou Jun ( 周峻 ), son of Zhou Yu's elder brother, appointed Lieutenant-General

Cheng Pu, a senior general who had served the Sun family since Sun Jian's time, made fun of Zhou Yu's young age, but Zhou took his remarks stoically and they became friends later.

At the age of fourteen, Zhou declared that his motivation for pursuing education was to " become a great man who will take up the heavy responsibilities of the country in the future.

Many believe that Zhou is merely a puppet, and the local officers pursuing funds from the central government in the name of tiger research and preservation, as well as tourists ' interest to the area are the real thread pullers.

After crushing an army disused in the eastern provinces as the prime minister of Zhou, Emperor Wen took the throne by force and proclaimed himself emperor.

Around 1046 BC, Wen's son, King Wu of Zhou, led an army of 45, 000 men and 300 chariots across the Yellow River and defeated the Shang King Di Xin at the Battle of Muye, marking the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty.

The early Western Zhou supported a strong army, split into two major units: " the Six Armies of the west " and " the Eight Armies of Chengzhou ".

Di Xin, the last Shang king, is said to have committed suicide after his army was defeated by Wu of Zhou.

Legends say that his army and his equipped slaves betrayed him by joining the Zhou rebels in the decisive Battle of Muye.

However, Zhou Wu sent three of his brothers and an army to ensure that Wu Geng would not rebel.

Both Korean and Chinese legends state that a disgruntled Shang prince named Jizi, who had refused to cede power to the Zhou, left China with a small army.

An earlier biographer claims that Chiang Kai-shek put Zhou in charge of " an advanced training center for the CCP members and commissars withdrawn from the army.

In August 1934, with the Red Army depleted by the prolonged conflict, a spy, Mo Xiong, placed by Zhou Enlai in the KMT army headquarters in Nanchang brought news that Chiang Kai-shek was preparing a major offensive against the Communist capital, Ruijin.

To avoid a fatal confrontation with the enemy, Zhou and Mao maneuvered the Red army south and west, through Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan, feigning attacks on Guiyang and Kunming to disguise their movements.

Sun Quan put Zhou Yu in charge of his 30, 000 men, largely stationed on naval ships, and Zhou set up in a defense position in conjunction with Liu Bei, whose army was stationed on land.

This tricked the Wei general Cao Xiu, who led a large army south to support Zhou Fang.

When Fa Mulan hears that her elderly father Fa Zhou, the only man in their family, is forced to join the army, she decides to stand in his place, disguising herself as a young man named " Ping ".

When Fa Mulan hears that her elderly father Fa Zhou, the only man in their family, is forced to join the army, she decides to stand in his place, disguising herself as a young man named " Ping ".

In 954, his army defeated combined Khitan and Northern Han forces, ending their ambition of toppling the Later Zhou dynasty.

During the Cultural Revolution, however, further destruction was prevented when Premier Zhou Enlai sent an army battalion to guard the city.

Zhou Enlai ordered army units placed around some temples and other ancient structures to protect them.

Upon learning that a Song invasion was imminent, the Lý army and navy totaling about 100, 000 men under the command of Lý Thường Kiệt, Tông Đản used amphibious operations to preemptively destroy three Song military installations at Yong Zhou, Qin Zhou, and Lian Zhou in present-day Guangdong and Guangxi, and killed 100, 000 Chinese.

However, with the Zhou domain greatly reduced to Chengzhou and nearby areas, the court could no longer support the six army groups it had in the past ; Zhou kings had to request help from powerful vassal states for protection from raids and for resolution of internal power struggles.

While the Zheng rulers initially supported the Zhou royalty, relations soured enough that Duke Zhuang of Zheng ( 757 – 701 BC ) raided Zhou territory in 707 BC, defeating King Huan's army in battle and injuring the king himself ; the display of Zheng's martial strength was effective until succession problems after Zhuang's death weakened the state.

When the Soviet agent Pavel Mif arrived in Shanghai to lead the Comintern in China in December 1930, Mif criticized Li's strategy as " left adventurism ", and criticized Zhou for compromising with Li.

The two days before Gu arrived in Nanjing to meet with Chiang gave Zhou time to evacuate Party members and to change the communication codes used by Teke, all of which were known to Gu.

Although he had supported the elimination of counterrevolutionaries, Zhou actively suppressed the campaign when he arrived in Jiangxi in December 1931, criticizing the " excess, the panic, and the oversimplification " practiced by local officials.

Although the de facto leader of the party at the time, Zhou Enlai, originally supported Mao's purges as necessary to eliminate KMT spies, after he arrived in Jiangxi in December 1931 Zhou criticized Mao's campaigns for being directed more against anti-Maoists than legitimate threats to the Party, for the campaign's general senselessness, and for the widespread use of torture to extract confessions.

In the 11th century BC, the Zhou Dynasty of Shaanxi arrived from the west and overthrew the Shang Dynasty.

Under the direction of Mao and Zhou, the Red Army finally arrived at the remote Communist base of Yan ' an, Shaanxi, in December 1936.

* Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka arrived in Beijing, where he was welcomed by China's Premier, Zhou Enlai.

In 143 BC, on one occasion, Zhou was summoned to dinner with the emperor, knowing that he still has great influence within the military, Zhou arrived late, when the emperor had a large piece of meat placed before him, but no chopsticks were provided to him.