As one of the four famous works in ancient China, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not only well known to all the old and young people in the country, but also famous overseas. However, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is only a novel in essence, and many officials and masters would be very wrong if they really regarded "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a canonical history. In the hands of the author Luo Guanzhong, the military generals of Cao Cao's lineage were always "ugly" by him, especially the ability of the pro-clan generals was even more devalued. However, in the real history, the ability of Cao Cao's relatives and generals is still very strong, and the representative figure belongs to Cao Zhen. This famous general of the State of Wei, who had twice repelled Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, was once blackened into a powerful and jealous villain, and today Xiaobian will "correct his name"!
Cao Zhen actually had nothing to do with Cao Cao in terms of blood, but his father Qin Shao was unfortunately killed by Yuan Shu's men while covering Cao Cao's retreat. In order to repay Qin Shao's life-saving grace, Cao Cao also adopted his child and changed his name to Cao Zhen. Because Cao Zhen was similar in age to his children at that time, Cao Zhen grew up with Cao Pi and Cao Zhi from an early age, and thus received a good education.
Cao Zhen was a well-known "Hercules" when he was young, Cao Zhen, who learned martial arts from childhood, was very interested in hunting, in a hunting, Cao Zhen happened to meet a fierce tiger, and the average person saw that the tiger was panicked and fled, but Cao Zhen faced such a fierce beast not only did not retreat but was warlike, only to see Cao Zhen calmly take a bow and shoot arrows and successfully kill the tiger with a fatal blow. Cao Cao was also shocked to hear about this, and it has always been Cao Cao's style to treat talents kindly, so Cao Cao included Cao Zhen in the "Tiger and Panther Horse" and served as the leader of the army, and since then Cao Zhen has also begun his military career!
Cao Zhen, as a junior valued by Cao Cao, naturally received high-level key training, and whenever there was a war, Cao Cao would send Cao Zhen to go through some training. It is so many times of experience that Cao Zhen's war literacy has been improved, in 217 AD, in order to seek a breakthrough in the national fortunes of Liu Bei decided to send troops to the Central Plains, Cao Cao heard about this matter also decided to let Cao Hong, Cao Zhen and other generals go to the defense, in the Battle of the Lower Debate, Cao Zhen stood out and successfully led his troops to kill Liu Bei's main army, successfully forcing Zhang Fei and Ma Chao to retreat, it can be said that this blockade battle successfully allowed Cao Zhen to enter the upper echelons of Cao Wei's camp!
It has to be said that Cao Zhenzhen can be described as a famous general of the State of Wei, and his rongma has lost only a few battles in his lifetime, and in the records of the history, Cao Zhen has successfully sniped at the Northern Expedition of Western Shu many times, and has also been trusted by the lords of the past. At the peak of Cao Zhen's reign, he became the supreme commander of Cao Jun! In 231 CE, Cao Zhen died of illness and was posthumously honored as Yuan Hou by the then Wei emperor Cao Rui. You must know that in that era, all the generals who could be posthumously after death had made great contributions to the country, and Cao Zhen was worthy of being a famous general of the Wei state!