Text: Chasing the Wind (Author's Original Authorization)
In the famous book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Wei Yan was originally a fierce general under Han Xuan, the Taishou of Changsha, and because he admired Liu Beirenyi, he led the people to surrender Kaesong. In the history books, Wei Yan's first appearance was to follow Liu Bei into Shu as a part of the song ("Romance of the Three Kingdoms": Wei Yan was a long man, and the Yiyang people were also. Yibuqu followed the previous lord into Shu, counted the battle merits, and moved the general of Yamen), but wei Yan really became a part of Liu Bei's side, probably earlier, because Wei Yan was a native of Nanyang County, north of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou under the former liu biao's administration. And Liu Bei came to the south of the Yangtze River after the Battle of Chibi, the Yangtze River was difficult to cross in ancient times, plus Zhuge Liang was only 26 years old at this time, Wei Yan must have been younger.
In ancient times, one was 200 people, the other was 1,000 people, according to historical speculation, the starting point of Wei Yan's career should be a minister, it is unlikely to serve in Jingzhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River, it should be on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Therefore, Liu Bei and the people crossing the river should be Wei Yan's first battle, he was blessed by Liu Bei, from a small soldier in front of the battle to a minister of 200 people, seeing that more than 100,000 ordinary people were willing to follow Liu Bei, seeing Liu Bei playing Cao Cao's 5,000 tiger and leopard ride, it is estimated that the admiration in his heart is like the water of the Yangtze River.
There is a saying that after the Battle of Chibi, the three-legged situation was basically formed. I don't entirely agree with this view. After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Liu had a tendency to divide the world into three parts, saying that the three legs were standing tall, and at this time it was almost hot. At that time, there were more than three separatist forces in the world, the author will take stock, first of all, like the Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Wuhuan, such nomadic armies are simply difficult to become a climate, at that time, the forces that were still divided were Cao Cao in Guandong, Ma Teng in Xiliang, Han Sui in Guanzhong, Gongsun clan in Liaodong, Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, Liu Zhang in Yizhou, Sun Quan in Jiangdong, and the smallest force was not Liu Bei, but Liu Qi of Jiangxia County, Liu Qi had 20,000 horses, plus 3,000 people and horses brought by Liu Bei from Nanyang County, and tens of thousands of people. At this time, Liu Qi was the nominal leader, not a puppet, but it seemed that he was seriously ill or plagued, and he was already dying, and his breath was like a gossamer.
So, after the Battle of Chibi, how did Liu Bei rise? What happened to Wei Yan here? And listen to the author slowly.
After Cao Cao's Chibi was burned back to the north in the first battle, he figured out that he was too anxious, so he began to engage in TunTian Order, as well as the promotion of the King of Wei and other actions. Militarily, he gave the army a temporary break, professional soldiers specially trained, and non-professional soldiers participated in Tuntian. in preparation for a war against Guanzhong and Korea. Cao Cao's idea of unifying the world was to emulate the method used by Liu Xiu to achieve Longwangshu, from the Shaanxi-Gansu region into Yizhou, and then down the river to the east, to unify the world.
On the side of Sun Quan in Jiangdong, he formed an alliance with Liu Qi. And Zhou Yu? He was loyal to the Han Room, but he did not look up to Liu Bei, the Han Room. Zhou Yu and Lu Su told Sun Quan a strategy of their own. Both Lu Su and Zhou Yu thought that Cao Cao would come from the direction of Yizhou next time, and Lu Su had already proposed a three-point world collapse strategy, originally Liu Biao, and now with Liu Qi, maintaining sun Liu alliance, and then jointly resisting Cao Cao. Zhou Yu's three-point world was even bolder, taking Nan County and taking Yizhou, while allying with Ma Chao and attacking Cao Cao. Zhou Yu's idea was not only surprised by Sun Quan, but also a hundred people in the Jiangdong Shi clan who disagreed, after all, Ma Chao was a very distant person and thing.
Sun Quan also wanted to unify the world, but Zhou Yu's idea was too advanced, and the Jiangdong Shi clan wanted Liu Qi Liu Bei as an outpost in Jiangdong to resist Cao Cao. Before the Battle of Chibi, Liu Biao had 7 counties, Nanyang County and part of Nan County north of the Yangtze River, and most of the South County, Changsha County, Wuling County, Lingling County, Guilin County, and Jiangxia County south of the Yangtze River. After Cao Cao arrived, all but Jiangxia County, the rest of Jingzhou surrendered to Cao Cao. Although Cao Cao returned, he also left tens of thousands of horses in Nan County under the command of Cao Ren. Several other counties also have a small number of men. And Cao Ren was like a nail, which made Sun Liu's alliance unhappy, so Sun Quan let Zhou Yu fight Nan County, and he assisted Zhou Yu in Hefei, and let Liu Qi send Zhang Fei to assist.
When Zhou Yu was fighting Nan County, he was hit by an arrow in his stomach and worked hard to defeat Nan County, driving Cao Cao's forces out of the south of the Yangtze River. However, Zhou Yu looked back, although Liu Qi died of illness, but Liu Bei took the opportunity to get the Changsha County, Wuling County, Guilin County, Lingling County in the south of Jingzhou, plus the original Jiangxia County, Liu Bei suddenly had 5 counties, became a divided force, the territory area was almost the same as Jiangdong, angry to fight the four counties of Jingnan, Liu Bei's army and Jiangdong army's big war was almost triggered.
At this time, Liu Bei went to Sun Quan to borrow Nan Commandery from Sun Quan, which was Lu Su's strategy, the idea of the Jiangdong Shi clan. Lu Su wanted to divide the world, the Jiangdong Shi clan wanted Liu Bei to block Cao Cao for him, Zhou Yu was light-hearted, and Sun Quan asked him to give up Nan Commandery to Liu Bei. In fact, the four counties of Jingnan were economically backward for Sun Quan, and there had been many years of fighting with Liu Biao before, and the locals hated Eastern Wu, so letting Liu Bei take it could reduce his own troubles. In addition, Zhou Yu's idea is too bold, what if it threatens my authority? Therefore, he ordered Zhou Yu to cede Nan County to Liu Bei, and also sent his sister to bring a women's security team to marry Liu Bei for political marriage.
So the question is, how did Liu Bei get the four counties of Jingnan? Why can we get the four counties of Jingnan?
First of all, the four counties of Jingnan are geographically remote, and Cao Cao's people and horses are not many, and there must be a lot of contradictions with local officials. Therefore, Liu Bei cooked and almost did not encounter resistance.
Second, when Jingzhou surrendered to Cao Cao, it turned out that the eight major families of the Jingzhou Shi clan had offered their courtesy to Cao Cao, but seeing that Cao Cao was beaten away by Sun Quan, they originally had a deep contradiction with the Jiangdong Shi clan, so they all fled to the north to live a rich life. Therefore, in the four counties of Jingnan, the influence of the original Jingzhou Shi clan has been greatly weakened.
Third, the four counties of Jingnan were still somewhat loyal to Liu Biao, Liu Qi still had influence there, and Liu Qi listened to Liu Bei, and coupled with the constant conflict between the people of Jingnan and the soldiers of Jiangdong, liu bei was even more centripetal.
Fourth, there is also the role of Wei Yan here, but Wei Yan has not come to the fore much. What is Wei Yan's role? Wei Yan had the role of starting a propaganda machine, Wei Yan was originally a native of Jingzhou, or Liu Bei's pro-soldiers, plus the above three reasons, perhaps the four counties of Jingnan could be submitted to Liu Bei more quickly. In the Battle of Jingnan, because of Wei Yan's merits and prestige among soldiers, Liu Bei promoted Wei Yan from minister to Quchang and managed a force of 1,000 people. Of the 1,000 people, liu bei only 3,000 people crossed the river with the people, which was already one-third of the number of people before Liu Bei crossed the river with the people.
At that time, Liu Bei had already gained the strength of two-thirds of Liu Biao's troops, which was already a big force. Sun Quan and the Jiangdong Shi clan did not take this force as a threat, but hoped that Liu Bei could act as a barrier for them to resist Cao Cao and bring disaster to the east.
Liu Bei got Nan County, which was the only way to enter Yizhou, and there was no passage into Yizhou in the southern part of Jingzhou, which was a dangerous place surrounded by mountains at that time. Next, Liu Bei will prepare for entering shu land, and Wei Yan is about to emerge...