Cao Cao's topic of "Qingzhou Soldiers" has long been exaggerated and misread on the Internet. Some people boasted that the large number of soldiers in Qingzhou was of great help to Cao Cao's entrepreneurship. In fact, these views are simply rootless trees.
First of all, the "Qingzhou Soldiers" were only one of Cao Cao's armies, and the army under Cao Cao's command was definitely not the only one, nor did it rely on this army.
For example, when the Qingzhou soldiers joined, Cao Cao's army at least had Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Huan, and Xiahou Yuan, and the local Bao Xin yubu and Li Qian in Yanzhou were naturally subordinate to Cao Cao. In the twenty-first year of Jian'an (217), Cao Cao rebelled against Sun Quan's later Banshi Tunju nest and made Xiahou Shu feel sorry for him
Governor of the Twenty-sixth Army
。 Even if the Qingzhou Army was listed, it was only one of the twenty-sixth armies. Moreover, Cao Cao could certainly mobilize more than these twenty-six armies.
And
The Qingzhou soldiers have no merit in the history books, and some are just scandals of corrupt military discipline.
Let me analyze it bit by bit.
The number of Qingzhou soldiers
The Book of Emperor Wu is very clear:
In the winter, more than 300,000 soldiers, more than 100,000 men and women, and those who received their elites were called Qingzhou soldiers.
This means that Cao Cao selected elite people from the 300,000 yellow turban soldiers who surrendered and formed the "Qingzhou Soldiers". It can be seen that the number of Qingzhou soldiers is by no means as many as 300,000.
At that time, the normal establishment of an army was only a few thousand people. Moreover, in the chaotic era at the end of the Han Dynasty, the supply of the army itself was a big problem, and Cao Cao could not afford to raise a large army.
For example, Gao Shun's trapped camp was only more than 700 people, and Cao Ren's people and horses when he returned to Cao Cao were probably more than 1,000 people, which shows that this was a common situation at that time.
Later, in the first year of Xingping (194), when Cao Cao and Lü Bu were fighting for Yanzhou, because of famine, Cao Cao dismissed the newly recruited officials and soldiers in order to save money.
"Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Emperor Wu of The Chronicle": It is The valley of the year who has more than half a million dollars, cannibalism, and is a new recruit of the strikers.
If you think about it carefully, the Non-Concubine Army of the Qingzhou Soldiers is naturally the object of key cutting!
Therefore, the number of Qingzhou soldiers is guaranteed to be a thousand, and more than a few thousand people are killed, and that is it. If the brain was supplemented into the main force of tens of thousands of people, which was inconsistent with the historical records, Cao Cao could not use the Qingzhou soldiers as the main force.
The record of the Qingzhou soldiers
When Lü Bu and Cao Cao were fighting for Yanzhou, Lü Bu's cavalry rushed to kill the Qingzhou soldiers, and the Qingzhou soldiers could not resist at all, and fled in all directions, resulting in chaos in Cao Cao's army, Cao Cao fell from his horse in distress, and his left palm was burned.
The Records of Emperor Wu :( Lü) bu sent troops to fight, first riding against the Qingzhou soldiers. The Qingzhou soldiers ran, Taizu was in disarray, galloped out of the fire, fell off his horse, and burned his left palm.
The same example of cavalry versus infantry,
Yuan Shao's general Yi Yi led eight hundred infantry as the first to climb, using a thousand strong crossbows to cover, and defeated Gongsun Zhan's thousands of "white horse Yicong".
This story tells us:
The Qingzhou soldiers lacked combat experience against cavalry.
The military discipline of the Qingzhou soldiers
Such an event is recorded in the Forbidden Tales.
In the second year of Jian'an (197), Cao Cao attacked Zhang Xiu in Wancheng, and was calculated by Jia Xu, his son Cao Ang and ai general Dianwei were killed, and Cao Cao was wounded and fled.
On the same way to escape, Yu Ban's army was only a few hundred people, and when he saw more than a dozen Soldiers of Cao Cao's army walking naked and wounded, he felt strange: Zhang Xiujun wanted to pursue and kill people, so why did he rob clothes?
Therefore, Yu Ban went to ask these unfortunate soldiers, and these soldiers said, "It was the Qingzhou soldiers who robbed us on the way to escape!" ”
Yu Ban was furious: The Qingzhou soldiers were originally Cao Gong's army, why are they now doing the robber thing?!
Yu Ban took a team of several hundred people to smash the Qingzhou soldiers' barracks to vent their anger (yu ban's hundreds of people had all dealt with the Qingzhou soldiers, which showed that the number of Qingzhou soldiers at that time was really small).
The Qingzhou soldiers were still not convinced, which was equivalent to forbidding them to turn around and leave, so they went to Cao Cao to file a complaint. Fortunately, Cao Cao was a wise man, sensible, and after figuring out the origin of the matter, he gave Yu Jiagong a knighthood.
From this story, we can see:
The military discipline of the Qingzhou soldiers was corrupt, and Cao Cao did not trust the Qingzhou soldiers very much.
In the first month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an (220), Cao Cao died of illness in Luoyang. The Qingzhou soldiers and Zang Ba's army thought that the world would be in chaos, so they left Luoyang without authorization.
"Wei Luo": Hui Taizu Beng, The Basuobu and the Qingzhou soldiers thought that the world would be in chaos, and they all sounded the drum and went away.
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Decades later, even if the Qingzhou bing army was replaced by a group of people, their loyalty to Cao Cao was still very low, including military discipline, which still tended to be nothing.
After that, there is no record of this Qingzhou soldier in the history books, and in connection with the Wei Emperor Cao Pi taking advantage of the eastern tour to seize Zang Ba's military power, presumably, the Qingzhou soldiers also gave Cao Pi rectification and dismissal.
Finally, I give the answer to the question:
Qingzhou soldiers, this kind of army that has no military discipline, no record, and three has no loyalty, what is the use of Cao Pi still keeping hope?