How cruel was the slaughter of the city in ancient times, and the homes of the people were looted and destroyed.
Those who luckily escaped the disaster are also better off alive than dead, and few people in the whole city can survive.
In 193 AD, he led troops to attack Taoqian and tu Xuzhou City;
In 195 AD, ZhangMiao was broken, tuyongcheng (present-day Baoji city);
In 198 AD, Lü Bu, Tu Xuzhou City;
In 204 AD, he attacked Yuan Shang and Tu Yecheng;
In 207 AD, He conquered Karasuma and Tuliu Castle (present-day Chaoyang City);
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These were all battles commanded by Cao Cao, and his generals also had a penchant for slaughtering cities.
After 214 AD, Xiahou Yuan tu Xingguo and Baohan;
In 219 AD, Cao Ren tu wancheng;
Cao Cao's paranoia caused him to destroy as many living forces as possible for every city he conquered.
Later generations evaluated Cao Cao: a capable minister who ruled the world, and a traitor to a chaotic world.
We all know that Cao Cao likes people's wives,
Of her 12 wives, 10 of them robbed others.
Although he is lustful, he is still good to every wife, and in that patriarchal society, it is also a rare and valuable side.
Cao Cao also had another hobby, that is, tucheng,
Let's take a look at the battle he used to slaughter.
Statue of Cao Cao
Attack Tao Qian and slaughter Xuzhou City
As one of the heroes of the late Han Dynasty, Tao Qian has always had a good reputation, has great ambitions, and is both literate and martial, and when he was serving as a pastor in Xuzhou, he appointed meritocracy, benevolence and love for the people, and vigorously developed productive forces.
But Xuzhou is always a small place, the strength of the army and Yuan Shao they can not compare, one day Cao Cao's father Cao Artemisia and his family passed through Xuzhou, Tao Qianhaosheng entertained, Cao Artemisia on the way back, was robbed by robbers, assassinated.
Since then, the enmity between Cao Cao and Tao Qian has been concluded, and he has tried every means to kill Tao Qian to avenge his father.
In 193 AD, in order to expand his territory, Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou under the banner of "avenging his father", and all the way to the ground, Tao Qian raised troops to meet Cao Cao, and after the defeat of the army, he had to flee xuzhou city and retreat to Tancheng.
Wherever Cao Cao went, he killed every person, hundreds of thousands of people were driven to drown in the Surabaya River, the corpses blocked the river, after Cao Cao slaughtered the city of Xuzhou, he led his troops to directly attack Tancheng, and Cao Cao, who could not attack for a long time, divided the troops to take the three counties of Worry, Suiling, and Xiaqiu, and where they passed, chickens and dogs were not left, and there were no living people in the city (these are recorded in the official history).
In April of the following year, Cao Cao again invaded Xuzhou, where there was no grass, and if there were living people, Chen Gong saw that Cao Cao's massacre of the people was too cruel, so he instigated Zhang Mi to copy Cao Cao's back road to relieve the danger of Xuzhou, and Cao Cao had to return to his troops to meet Zhang Mi.
After this blow, Tao Qianyi fell ill, coupled with the 63-year-old Gao Gong, ashamed of the people of Xuzhou, and died of illness in his hometown of Danyang.
Broken ZhangMiao, Tu Yongcheng
Zhang Mi relieved the danger of Xuzhou, but ushered in Cao Cao's army, and Cao Cao, who had suppressed a stomach fire, vented on Zhang Mi's body.
Cao Cao and Zhang Mi were originally small, and the two had a good relationship, and the first conquest of Tao Qian Zhang Mi served as Cao Cao's rear, not only providing grain and grass for Cao Cao, but also protecting the whole family for Cao Cao.
This time, at the instigation of another young Yuan Shao, and with Chen Gong adding oil and vinegar to the side, after Lü Bu came to vote, Zhang Mi finally pressed the restless heart and launched an attack on Cao Cao in the rear of Cao Cao.
Cao Cao broke Lü Bu in Puyang, and Zhang Mi and Lü Bu had to flee to find Yuan Shao to rescue the soldiers.
Zhang Chao took his whole family to retreat to Yongcheng, Cao Cao led his troops to besiege Yongcheng, and after breaking through the city, he slaughtered everyone in the city, and Zhang Chao's family was not spared.
Capture Lü Bu and then slaughter Xuzhou City
After Zhang Mi was destroyed, Lü Bu took the opportunity to occupy the city of Xuzhou and drove out Liu Bei in Xuzhou, who grew in power with the assistance of Chen Gong.
Liu Bei just defected to Cao Cao, and at the instigation of Liu Bei, Cao Cao sent troops to attack the city of Xuzhou for the third time.
Xi Liang Ma Chao killed Cao Cao and abandoned his robe, almost losing his life,
But Lü Bu beat Cao Cao, and he hardly won,
This time, lü Bu could not achieve victory, after Cao Cao took xia pi, the soldiers besieged xuzhou city, Lü Bu's army began to panic, civil unrest occurred, the soldiers killed Chen Gong and defected to Cao Cao, and Lü Bu, who was lonely and difficult to make a sound, was finally defeated and captured again.
The drama of the three Ying battles Lü Bu is just a play, when it is really dry, Lü Bu has beaten Liu, Guan, and Zhang hand in hand.
When the Three Ying fought Lü Bu, Liu Bei was equivalent to helping Lü Bu, otherwise the First God of War of the Three Kingdoms would have been under the joint efforts of Guan and Zhang.
After Lü Bu's death, Guan Yu saw everyone: you piaf.
He really has that strength.
This time, Xuzhou City was slaughtered for the third time.
Attack Yuan Shang, Tu Ye City
"In the spring, in February, Cao Cao attacked Liyang and fought with Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang at the city, but Tan and Shang were defeated and returned to Yi.
In 204 AD, Cao Cao pacified the various warlords around him, and now it was time to begin to unify the north, and Zhen was a woman that Cao Cao had coveted for a long time, and he dreamed of getting her, Yuan Shang's wife.
Raising troops to attack Yuan, he encountered Yuan Shao's sons Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, and after capturing Liyang, Yuan Shang defeated and left Yecheng to make the final defense.
Cao Cao could not attack for a long time, so he had to retreat.
Unexpectedly, Cao Cao's retreat was actually a strategy to attack Yuan Shang.
After Cao Cao withdrew, the two brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang began to fight for the sake of interests, and Yuan Tan was weak, so he actually ran to cooperate with Cao Cao to attack Yuan Shang together and unite with outsiders to attack his own brothers.
After half a year of fierce fighting, Cao Cao attacked The City of Yecheng, slaughtered the city, and took Zhen with him.
In the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao killed more than 80,000 Yuan troops.
This is not counting the slaughter of the city, but it is also similar, after all, it is the largest war at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Cao Cao's battle of Slaughtering City is very much, but it is rarely recorded in the history, just recorded twice at the beginning, and then vaguely passed, perhaps the historians behind are not embarrassed to record so much.
"White bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no chicken chirping for thousands of miles"
From Cao Cao's poems, we can see the authenticity of his slaughter of the city.
Why did Cao Cao slaughter the city, did he have a penchant for killing people?
Of course not, who has nothing to do with wanting to kill people and make strong enemies,
1. Motivate morale and buy people's hearts:
In ancient times, whenever a city was captured, the general would basically plunder for a few days, which could inspire the momentum and confidence of the soldiers to go into battle and kill the enemy.
In the past few days, military discipline has not existed, and the troops are similar to bandits.
In that chaos, no warlord has enough military expenditure, no one has the strength, and only gains in the war.
1. Raising military expenditure:
War is the easiest way to make money, and the United States has told us this truth with its actual actions over the past hundred years.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the Yellow Turban Army uprising was suppressed, the rebellion against the imperial court was like an open multi-fixed box, all over the country rose up in unison, each fighting with the warlords, the most important thing in the war years was material, Cao Cao to so slaughtered the city, mainly to grab materials, for all, that era of mixed wars, grain production was already seriously insufficient, plus the young and middle-aged laborers in their own jurisdiction were filled with troops on the battlefield, then there were extra people to plant crops and produce grain.
The term "Lieutenant Touching Gold" was created by Cao Cao, and in order to engage in military expenses, he specially created such a team to dig ancient tombs to raise military expenses.
For example, he first fought Tao Qian, that is, he took a fancy to Tao Qian's reign and the people were rich and prosperous, and only then did he launch the war.
2. Destroy the opponent's living forces:
The purpose of fighting a war is to make the other party no longer resist and surrender to himself, if he does not eliminate the opponent's living forces and let him have no capital to resist, how can others willingly fight for their own lives?
There is no room for the momentum to harass oneself again, and in that era of rising power, conquest and expansion of one's territory is necessary.
Cao Cao plays the role
Logically, Chinese has always been very disgusted with the slaughter of the city.
For example, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, people still curse incessantly, and they cannot be forgotten.
For example, Japan's massacre of Nanjing and other cities is a pain that can never be cut off in the hearts of Chinese, and whenever they mention it, they are indignant, and the pain in their hearts cannot be erased.
It is strange that most people have adopted an inclusive attitude toward Cao Cao's slaughter, and even the historical records are only a few battles in the early stages, and I think there are more that have been ignored by historians.
During the Three Kingdoms period, there were only more than 10 million people, and one-tenth of them were killed by Cao Cao.
Slaughtering countless Cao Cao is still liked by many people. Why?
1, more than a thousand years have passed, time is too long, people hear the experience of slaughtering the city, most of them are like listening to a long story, although some dissatisfaction, but also listen to even if it is difficult to resonate with people like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Nanjing Massacre and other events.
2, there have been many things in China that have slaughtered the city, in general, these are civil unrest, their own family affairs, there is an old saying in China: "The ugliness of the family cannot be publicized", so we can not publicize it externally.
But for outsiders slaughtering the city, it can never be forgotten. Although the Qing Dynasty was a node in Chinese history, it was only a foreign ethnic group for the Chinese people.
3. Before the Song Dynasty, Cao Cao had a positive image. This is related to the politics of the time, because it was the Jin Dynasty that continued to write the history of the Three Kingdoms, and the Jin Dynasty regarded Cao Wei as orthodox, so cao Cao's image was positive. With the popularity of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao became a negative image.
However, in recent times, there have been many literary video works that have whitewashed Cao Cao, which have gradually led the trend.
The "old man" also expressed his love for Cao Cao: Wei Wu wielded a whip, and there was a posthumous chapter on the jieshi in the east.
Cultural celebrities such as Gao Xiaosong even portrayed Cao Cao as a righteous figure.
People love Cao Cao more than they hate him, and many people like Cao Cao.
The descendants of the Cao clan worship their ancestors
"I'd rather bear the people of the world, and teach the people of the world to bear me."
Cao Cao was decisive in the war and did not have the slightest mercy
A generation of tyrants has his stubbornness and domineering.
One will accomplish all the bones, ancient and modern,
The great rivers go east, full of inexhaustible heroic blood,
As a descendant,
But in terms of its deeds, there is no need to discuss the heart.
For Cao Cao,
Are you like more and hate?
Or hate more and like it?
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References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han Dynasty
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