The young man was in a hurry, and the war in the southeast was not over.
Who are the heroes of the world? Cao Liu. Having a son should be like Sun Zhongmou.
——Xin Renjie, "Jingkou Beigu pavilion has a nostalgia"
Ask the Three Kingdoms, who are the heroes? In that era of the collapse of Li le, although as Cao Cao said, white bones were exposed in the wild, and there was no chicken chirping for thousands of miles, but it was also like a rain of stars, and all kinds of heroes and heroes rose up together, disturbing thousands of years later. But the answer of a generation of literary heroes is that there are many heroes, and I serve Liu Suncao. This bold generation of poets, a lifelong and fierce patriotic lyricist, has repeatedly admired their heroic spirit of heaven and earth. Why are they heroes, or is it only because they established a government and became emperor?
Heroes do not ask about origin, let alone look at the final result, but look at who can bravely stand up and uphold justice when the mountains and rivers are in danger and the country is in danger, regardless of personal interests and gains and losses. From this point of view, since the time when Dong Zhuo was in turmoil in the world, the grass snake gray line, the floating vein thousands of miles, and the eighteen princes, then we could see the clues, and the three of them were the real heroes.
In the sixth year of Zhongping (189 AD), the Great Han Dynasty, which was already deepening land annexation and gradually declining in the process of becoming stronger and stronger step by step, was already dying under the toss of Emperor Heng and Emperor Ling, but it was still a ship broken and encountered a headwind, and the struggle between eunuchs and foreign relatives began to heat up. The great general He Jin listened to Yuan Shao's bad idea - "summoning many soldiers to advance", but unexpectedly married for others, not only died himself, but also attracted a super big wolf - Dong Zhuo, directly paralyzed the central political system of the Han Dynasty, and from then on, the era of terror began.
Dong Zhuo, who took advantage of the void, carried out a reign of terror, and luoyang, the ancient capital of Luoyang, which was once full of smoke and clouds in beijing, was gradually made of soil by Dong Zhuo and his men, and everything was destroyed, and mourning was everywhere, not to mention the rich households in the city, all kinds of bureaucrats at all levels, even the mausoleum where the sons of the Han Dynasty were buried, they were also dug up by him. Dong Zhuo's series of perverse acts of perversity instantly aroused the perverse actions of the people of the world, so the crowds of various places in the Kwantung saw this and immediately gathered together to form a coalition of eighteen princes and killed the imperial capital Luoyang in a mighty way.
Oh Princes of the Eighteen Towns, how great is the momentum? Even before they could gather, Dong Zhuo felt shocked and frightened, and sent Li Ru to kill the deposed emperor Liu Zheng, and then began to plunder Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an to avoid disaster, but Rao was like this, what were the eighteen town princes who shouldered the hopes of the people of the world, doing? Is there a danger of sending troops to the country? No! So what are these people doing? If they do not vigorously attack the troops, nor do they study how to recruit troops, let alone deploy military diplomacy, then what are they doing? Daytime cocktail parties, cooking cattle and slaughtering sheep for fun, all day long is either drinking wine or bragging about cow skins.
But this was not the case for the hot-blooded young Cao Cao, as early as when he was serving as a lieutenant of the Eighth Colonel, when all the ministers only knew how to cry, he dared to be alone, carrying a knife, trying to directly assassinate Dong Zhuo and eliminate harm for the country. There were already two people in front, because of the failure of the assassination, they were brutally killed by Dong Zhuozhong, and Cao Cao still went without hesitation, the assassination did not succeed, luckily escaped with his own wit, heard that the princes of the world were crusading against Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao was righteous again, he sold all his family property, only to pull up a small army, without saying a word, immediately threw himself into the battlefield, bravely killed the enemy, this spirit, due to the lack of soldiers and the lack of foreign aid, Cao Cao's army was not smooth this time, he himself was shot by an arrow, and the mount was also injured. If it were not for his cousin Cao Hong giving up his horse to him, he might have been martyred on the spot.
After his front-line reconnaissance, he offered a plan to the coalition forces: as long as Yuan Shao led the Hanoi troops to Mengjin, the sour jujube generals stationed in Chenggao, occupied Ao Cang, established camps in Yuanyuan and Taigu, controlled the danger, and Yuan Shu went from Nanyang to Dan and Jie, and entered Wuguan to sneak into Guanzhong, then the situation could be determined. Helplessly, none of this group of people was moved, except for Liu Bei, who was a little soft-spoken, almost no one supported him, so, once that hot-blooded young man, desperate, he completely understood, all of them were a group of fly camp dogs, counting on these people, than those who "cried" Dong Zhuo's group of ministers at the beginning.
"The combined forces of the army are uneven, and the geese are hesitant and marching. Snobbery makes people fight, and they fight each other. ——Cao Cao's "Artemisia Lixing" is only afraid that this is also the reason why later, among the heroes who cooked wine with Liu Bei Qingmei, he looked down on everyone so much. When the country is in trouble, he said that he would raise the banner of righteousness and cut down Dong Zhuo, but all he did was some black and black deeds, and who could see these people, the real heroes?
What about Liu Bei and the Sun family? In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu Wenjiu beheaded Huaxiong, and Liu Guanchang wrote a wonderful battle by Lü Bu, but that was only a deduction of the novel, but in real history, it was heard that Dong Zhuo was going to be attacked, and although Liu Bei was a minor official and did not enter the eyes of everyone, he still had no remorse and went all out. According to the "Hero's Chronicle" Yun: "In the last years of the Ling Emperor, Bei tasted in the Capital Division, and then returned to peiguo with Cao Gongju, recruited the masses, would ling emperor collapse, the world was in chaos, and Bi also raised an army to woo Dong Zhuo", although it was not as brilliant as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms rendered, but from here we can still see that in this matter, Liu Bei and Cao Cao, not only did the heroes see the same thing, but also showed with practical actions that he was worthy of the two words of hero. Later, when he was in Jingzhou, he met a person who praised himself as a national scholar everywhere, this person's name was called Xu Qi, and he talked about how he had once visited Chen Deng in Guangling, but the people were particularly cold to him, and they would not even let him sleep in a big bed. Why, he asked? Liu Bei said directly, you have met Chen Deng's family with a good temper, if you meet my villain Liu Bei, I will not even sleep for you. Xu Qi was puzzled, Liu Bei said, Your Excellency is known as a national soldier, at the time of national difficulties, to provide advice for the country, only to buy a house and buy land, to make the country difficult to get rich, talk about what kind of national soldier? Later, Xin Abandoned Disease issued a message in the evaluation of this matter: "Ask Tian tian to ask for a house, afraid that he should be ashamed to see, Liu Lang is angry." ”
What is the difference between these people of Yuan Shao and xu Qi's self-proclaimed so-called "national soldiers"? Deep in Liu Bei's heart, can he really afford it?
Liu Bei was limited to strength, and he was not an independent political force, and his performance in the battle against Dong was not outstanding, but he did not care about personal honor and disgrace, and joined cao Cao in the war, this action, he deserved to be called a hero. However, the one who hit Dong Zhuo the most was not Cao Liu, but the father and son of the Sun family, Sun Jian and Sun Ce. Incredibly, Sun Jian actually rushed from the distant land of Jiangdong starry night, unfortunately, as soon as he came, he slashed and killed, frightening Dong Zhuo, and immediately sent Xu Rong, Li Meng, and others to send out to deal with Sun Jian, but the coalition army had no one to take Sun Jian, resulting in Sun Jian's great defeat, and like Cao Cao, fortunately, the general sacrificed himself to escape the disaster, but many of his generals were tragically killed by Dong Zhuo. However, Sun Jian was not discouraged, received scattered troops, reconnoitred the terrain, and after a small renovation, immediately went to kill Dong Zhuo, this time, not only defeated Dong Zhuo's army, but also beheaded its vanguard general Hua Xiong, which made Dong Zhuo feel fear, insisted on moving the capital to Chang'an, and greatly boosted the momentum of the coalition army.
However, if you don't join forces or take cover in the front, this time Sun Jian won the battle, and he wanted to take advantage of the situation to pursue and further expand the results of the battle, but he also encountered these people stuck in grain and grass logistics, and made him stumble everywhere. Sun Jian even found that some of the princes and soldiers actually had contacts with Dong Zhuo in private, informing Dong Zhuo of some of the situation on his side, knowing that after he killed Huaxiong, Dong Zhuo had also sent people to win him over, and he would feel that how could he be with such people? So now? The real hero, who is obsessed with the so-called Eighteen-Way Princes?
What is ironic is that the princes of the Eighteenth Route, in the action of jointly attacking Dong Zhuo, not only did not form a fighting friendship, but also formed a deep hatred one by one, and all they cared about was how to use their friendship to conspire against others and how to grab more territory. You know, this scene Cao Cao once described in "Artemisia Lixing": "White bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no chicken chirping in thousands of miles."
In this military campaign against Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao was wounded in an arrow and fell off his horse, why did Cao Hong give up his horse to him, and desperately wanted to save him, and also issued: "There is no flood in the world, but it must not be without justice." Why was it that when Sun Jian was fighting against Dong Zhuo, when the army was defeated, Zu Mao and others willingly changed into Sun Jian's clothes and impersonated Sun Jian to rush into the enemy camp, preferring that they might suffer terrible torture and killing, but also to protect Sun Jian? Why can Liu Guanzhang and the three of them live and die together so much? What spirit inspires them? Because they know, and see in their eyes, their own protagonist, that is the real hero, worthy of their own oath to follow.
In the face of the brutal Dong Zhuo, only Liu Sun Cao's three families, in earnest, do not care about personal honor and disgrace, but are willing to live for the world, in the soup and fire, at all costs, but also in response to that sentence, the vicissitudes of the sea, fang show the true character of the hero.
Author: Xiao Yunan, our special guest author