In August of the first year of Xingping, Cao Cao besieged Lü Bu at Puyang.
The Tian clan, a large household in Puyang County, ostensibly claimed to be willing to act as Cao Cao's internal response, and agreed to let Cao Cao lead the army into the city at an agreed date, but in fact, he was helping Lü Bu to implement a counter-plan, preparing to hunt him down after Cao Cao entered the city.
At the agreed date, Cao Cao led his troops into Puyang City and fell into the encirclement that Lü Bu had already arranged, and the two sides fell into a street battle with short troops.
Unintentionally, the army led by Cao Cao was defeated by Lü Bu's army and scattered in a hurry, and Cao Cao himself could only flee alone.
Lü Bu's knights captured Cao Cao, but they did not know that this person was Cao Cao, but instead asked Cao Cao, "Where is Cao Cao?" Cao Cao was in a hurry, and quickly pointed to a deserter riding a yellow horse in front of him and said, "The man who escaped on the yellow horse is Cao Cao." ”
Capturing the enemy commander before the battle is naturally much greater than capturing an ordinary shrimp soldier crab general. Lü Bu's knight heard that Cao Cao was in front, and quickly threw down the "shrimp soldier and crab general" Cao Cao in front of him, and went to chase after the man riding the yellow horse.
In this way, Cao Cao was finally able to escape and return to his military camp outside the city.
In August of the 20th year of Jian'an, Sun Quan personally led an army of 100,000 to besiege Hefei.
At this time, Cao Cao was attacking Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and the few generals in charge of garrisoning Hefei were Zhang Liao, Li Dian, Le Jin, and Xue Ti, who was guarding the army, and the strength of the army was only 7,000. However, before Cao Cao sent troops to attack Zhang Lu, he left a "brilliant plan" (a combat instruction) to Xue Ti, and wrote on the side of the envelope of the instruction: "The enemy is coming, open it again." ”
When Sun Quan personally led a large army to attack, Zhang Liao and others opened the instructions, but saw that the instructions read: "If Sun Quan arrives, General Zhang and General Li will fight to meet the enemy, General Le will defend the city, and the guards will not participate in the battle." ”
What's the trick? The generals in Hefei City, who originally thought that they had a good strategy for breaking the enemy, were all dumbfounded when they saw Cao Cao's instructions. They believe that the current situation is outnumbered, and the few troops in Hefei city are not enough to defend the city, so how can they divide the troops and take the initiative to attack?
Just when everyone was expressing doubts about Cao Cao's instructions, Zhang Liao, Cao Cao's "die-hard loyalist", stood up and said: "Wei Gong expeditioned Zhang Lu, and when he sent rescue troops to arrive, the enemy will definitely break us." Therefore, he instructed the enemy to resist head-on when it was not assembled, so as to break the enemy's front and calm the hearts and minds of our army, and then it was possible to resist. ”
Lejin and others heard the words, or they would believe it and doubt it, and did not say a word. Zhang Liao then said angrily, "The key to victory or defeat is in this battle." If you still have any doubts, I Zhang Liao will fight alone to decide the winner or loser. ”
Li Dian was originally at odds with Zhang Liao, but at this time, seeing that Zhang Liao was so resolute, he also said indignantly: "This is a major state affair, just to see what your plan will be, how can I damage justice because of private grievances!" I ask to join you. ”
Therefore, Zhang Liao recruited eight hundred "death squads" who dared to fight with him that night, and slaughtered cattle and set up a feast to reward them solemnly. The next morning, Zhang Liao, dressed in armor and holding a battle axe, shouted "I am Zhang Liao", took the lead as a soldier, charged all the way to the battlefield, and after killing two generals and dozens of soldiers in Eastern Wu, finally broke through the Eastern Wu military camp and killed directly in front of Sun Quan's big tent.
Zhang Liao did not know Sun Quan at that time, and when he killed Sun Quan's big tent, he saw a purple-haired general retreating in panic to a nearby high hill, so he shouted loudly for the purple-haired general to come down and fight. Everyone in our later generations now knows that this purple-haired general is actually Sun Quan.
Sun Quan was indeed blinded by Zhang Liao, and for a moment he did not dare to move, until he saw clearly that Zhang Liao did not have many people and horses, so he ordered Zhang Liao to be heavily surrounded.
Zhang Liao led dozens of his men to break through the siege and rushed out, and the rest shouted: "Is the general going to abandon us?" Zhang Liao turned back to kill and broke through again to rescue the rest of the warriors. Sun Quan's men and horses were overwhelmed and did not dare to resist.
In this battle, from early morning to noon, the soldiers who fought directly in Eastern Wu were scattered and had no fighting spirit, so Zhang Liaocai ordered them to return to the city, deploy the defense of the city, and renovate the city's defenses, so that the hearts and minds of the people and the army were stable.
After the war, Zhang Liao asked those who had surrendered from Eastern Wu: "To the purple-haired general, long and short, he is good at shooting, who is it?" The descendant replied, "That is Sun Quan." ”
Zhang Liao heard the regret and said to Lejin that if he had known that the purple-haired general was Sun Quan, and he had worked harder to catch up with him, he would definitely be able to capture and kill Sun Quan.
Lü Bu's knights missed the opportunity to hunt down cao Cao, and Zhang Liao missed the opportunity to hunt down and kill Sun Quan, both because they did not know each other. So I thought, if the ancients had our modern face recognition technology, or Lü Bu's knights and Zhang Liao had our current face recognition machines in their hands, then Cao Cao and Sun Quan would have already been arrested and killed, and there would have been no later history of the Three Kingdoms.