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In Chinese history, there is such an emperor, he did not claim the title of emperor when he was alive, after his death his son was called emperor, he was posthumously crowned as emperor, he is the founder of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period Cao Cao, what kind of legendary story does this tyrant in the chaotic world have? Cat Cat will talk to you today from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the history of the Three Kingdoms.
The birth of a generation of tyrants
Cao Cao (曹曹), courtesy name Mengde (Chinese: 曹德; pinyin: Dīại), courtesy name A-mi and JiLi (吉利), was a native of Peiguo County (沛国谯县, in present-day Bozhou, Anhui Province) From 155 to 220 AD, Cao Cao was born in a family of eunuchs, and his father Cao Song was the adopted son of the Eastern Han eunuch Cao Teng, and after Cao Teng's death, Cao Song succeeded Cao Teng as marquis of Feiting.
Cao Cao
When he was young, Cao Cao was talented and had the ability to weigh and adapt to changes, but because he was debauched, did not cultivate his conduct, and did not study studies, people at that time did not think that he had any special talents, only Qiao Xuan of Liang Guo and He Yuan of Nanyang thought that he was extraordinary, Qiao Xuan said to Cao Cao: "The world will be chaotic, and those who are not destined to be able to help him, those who can be safe, they are in Junhu? Nanyang He Yong said to him, "The Han Chamber will perish, and those who are safe in the world will be this person too!" Xu Shao of Nanyang was known for his knowledge, and he once said to Cao Cao: "The traitor of Jun Qingping and the hero of the chaotic world."
In the chaotic world, Chen Liu raised troops
In 184 AD, the Yellow Turban Rebellion disrupted the world, and Cao Cao was worshipped as a knight lieutenant, and was ordered to join forces with Emperor Fusong and others to attack the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan, resulting in a major destruction of the Yellow Turban Army and beheading tens of thousands of ranks. Subsequently, it was moved to Jinan Xiang. During jinan's tenure, Cao Cao ruled as before. There were more than ten counties in the state of Jinan (present-day Jinan, Shandong Province), and the county chiefs were mostly dependent on the nobles, corrupt and perverted the law, and had no scruples. All the ministers of state before Cao Cao ignored it. When Cao Cao arrived at his post, he vigorously rectified the situation, and at once played eight-tenths of the long officials, Jinan was shaken, and corrupt officials and corrupt officials fled. "Politics and religion are in a big way, and one county is clear and peaceful."
Dong Zhuo
In 189 AD, Emperor Ling of Han died, crown prince Liu Jie ascended the throne, and Empress He came to the court to listen to the government. The general He Jin wanted to take advantage of Emperor Ling's death and the eunuch's loss of power to destroy the Ten Constant Attendants, but did not gain the support of Empress He. Therefore, He Jin took Yuan Shao's advice and did not listen to the advice of Cao Cao and Chen Lin, so he recruited Dong Zhuo, who was staying in Hedong County, to lead his troops into Beijing in order to coerce Empress He into agreeing to kill the eunuchs. But then the matter was revealed, the general He Jin was killed by the Ten Constant Attendants, and for a time there was chaos in the capital, Dong Zhuo took advantage of the situation to depose the Young Emperor and establish the Emperor Xian, cao Cao saw that Dong Zhuo was cruel and unkind, so he left the imperial court and returned to Chen Liu.
The masses are divided, and the world is in chaos
After Cao Cao returned to Chen Liu, he raised an army and called on the princes of the world to jointly attack Dong Zhuo, for a time the princes of the world responded, the coalition army held high the banner to Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo in order to avoid the momentum of the coalition army, burned Luoyang, took Emperor Xian of Han to Chang'an, at the same time, the fragile coalition army arrived in Luoyang and was hastily disbanded, Cao Cao was ambushed in the pursuit of the troops, the soldiers suffered serious losses, and had to return to Chen Liu, since then, the princes of various places have stood on their own and attacked each other, and the Han Dynasty has fallen into a storm.
Divide the crowds
After returning to Chen Liu, Cao Cao took his father Cao Song back to his side, and when Cao Song was passing through Xuzhou, he was killed by Tao Qian, Cao Cao was furious and led an army to attack Xuzhou, and the Eastern Commandery garrison Chen Gong was dissatisfied with Cao Cao, so he conspired with Chen Liu to guard Zhang Mi, Zhang Miao's brother Zhang Chao, and Engaged in Zhonglang Xu Feng and Wang Kai, and welcomed Lü Bu as Yanzhou Mu. Cao Cao fell into a desperate situation for a time, Lü Bu and Cao Cao's second army held out for more than 100 days, the locust plague broke out, the two sides stopped fighting, and later in 195, Cao Cao's entire army fought with Lü Bu again, and finally defeated Lü Bu, and Lü Bu's soldiers fled to Liu Bei in defeat.
Greet Emperor Xian of Han and divide one side
In 195 AD, because of the firefight between Li Dai and Guo Feng, Emperor Xian of Han returned from Chang'an to the east and issued an edict to let all the princes qin wang. In October, Emperor Xiandi officially worshipped Cao Cao as the Pastor of Yanzhou. Subsequently, Cao Cao followed Dong Zhaozhi's advice and moved emperor to Xu County in September, where he was made a general and Marquis of Wuping. Yang Feng was very dissatisfied with the move of the concession and planned to block the road and intercept it, but failed. In October, Cao Cao begged Yang Feng. In November, Cao Cao was appointed sikong and a military general, taking over power.
After Tao Qian's death, Liu Bei served as the pastor of Xuzhou for a time, and after Xuzhou was captured by Lü Bu, Liu Bei defected to Cao Cao. Cao Cao considered Liu Bei a hero and successively presented him as Yuzhou Mu and Zuo General. Soon after Cao Cao captured Xuzhou, Yuan Shu of Huainan prepared to flee to Qingzhou to yiyuan Shao, cao Cao sent Liu Bei to intercept it, yuan Shu could not go north, vomited blood and died.
In 200 AD, Dong Chengyi took the edict and Liu Bei fled Cao Cao, and later at Xuzhou was defeated by Cao Cao and fled to Yuan Shao, who launched an attack on Cao Cao, and the two sides confronted each other at Guandu.
The Battle of Guandu unified Hebei
Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang and others besieged Baima, kicking off the prelude to the great war. In April, Cao Cao personally led his troops north to relieve the siege of Baima, and he adopted the strategy of the strategist Xun You, advanced the army of Yanjin (in present-day northern Yanjin), made a gesture to cross the river to attack the Yuan army, attracted the Yuan army to divide its troops to the west, and then suddenly turned and rushed to Baima. Cao Cao's army suddenly killed, Yuan Jun was caught off guard, Yan Liang was beheaded by Guan Yu, Yuan Jun was defeated, and the siege of Baima was solved. Cao Cao rescued the White Horse soldiers and civilians and retreated west along the Yellow River. Yuan Shao heard this and immediately ordered Wen Ugly and Liu Bei to cross the river to chase Cao Cao. Cao Cao saw that the pursuing soldiers were approaching, and ordered the sergeant to unsaddle and release the horse, and placed the weight of the road. The Yuan army chased after the troops to the point of greatness, scrambling for weight, and the formation was chaotic. Cao Cao led the only cavalry to suddenly kill, breaking the pursuit of the troops, and beheading Wen Ugly. Cao Cao won the initial battle, took the initiative to withdraw his troops, and continued to hold Guandu.
Battle of Guandu
In October 200, Yuan Shao transported more than 10,000 trucks of grain and grass from Hebei, and sent the general Chun Yuqiong and others to escort more than 10,000 people along the way, staying overnight in Wuchao, forty miles away from Yuan Shao's camp. At this time, Yuan Shao's adviser Xu You, because yuan shao's plan to sneak attack Xu Du failed, and his family members in Hebei were arrested for breaking the law, and they were remorseful, so they came to cao cao and offered cao cao a plan to sneak attack Wuchao. Cao Cao was overjoyed, and stomped out to greet him, and then personally led the elite infantry to ride 5,000 people, the rank of the army, Malekou, and changed the military uniform of the Yuan army to sneak up on wuchao from the path at night. Cao Cao's army went to Wuchao and ordered fires to be set on all sides, and the Yuan army was in chaos, and Chun Yuqiong refused to camp to die. However, in the end, the Wuchao, which was unable to return to Heaven, was breached, and The Yuan army Zhang Gao, Gao Lan and others led their troops to surrender to Cao, and the Yuan army collapsed. Yuan Shao abandoned his army and fled back to the north of the Yellow River. Cao's army won a complete victory, and in this battle, Yuan Shao never had a comeback day, and finally in 207 Cao Cao unified the north.
Defeat Huarong, pacify Xiliang
After Cao Cao pacified the north, in 208 AD, Cao Cao personally led a large army south, vowing to pacify Jiangnan and other places in one fell swoop, Sun Quan and Liu Bei's two armies, with the efforts of Lu Su and Zhuge Liang and others, formed an alliance, sun Quan ordered zhou Yu to lead an army of 30,000, and formed a coalition with Liu Bei's 20,000 horses to resist Cao Cao. Cao Cao marched east from Jiangling to Chibi (赤壁, in present-day Wuchang County, Hubei) to engage Sun and Liu's combined forces, temporarily garrisoning Wulin (northeast of present-day Honghu County, Hubei), with Zhou Yu and others facing each other on the south bank.
Zhou Yu used the trick of surrender, ordered the general Huang Gai to lead ten small warships, loaded with firewood and grass, filled with anointing oil, nailed large nails on the bow of the ship, pretended to surrender, and marched to the north shore, and when they reached two miles away from Cao Ying, each ship lit fire at the same time, and then with the help of the wind, rushed straight to the Cao army, the Cao army was defeated, and the boat was burned. Cao Cao led his army to retreat to Jiangling by land from Huarong Province (present-day northwest of Jianli, Hubei). Withdraw the army north.
Battle of Chibi
After the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao first stabilized the internal situation, and then Cao Cao led a large army to personally conquer Guanzhong, defeating the Guanzhong coalition army, Ma Chao and others wanted to cut the land and seek peace, cao Cao did not allow it. In September, Ma, Han, and others again requested the cession of land and sent Renzi to seek peace, and Cao Cao took Jia Xu's advice, falsely agreed, and once again defeated Han and Ma Jun. Han Sui and Ma Chao were defeated and left Liangzhou, Yang Qiu fled back to Anding, Cao Jun beheaded rebel generals such as Chengyi and Li Kan, and Guanzhong was pacified from then on. In October, Cao Cao marched into Anding, and Yang Qiu surrendered. Cao Cao led his army to withdraw, and ordered Xiahou Yuan to continue his expedition to the west, and within two years, he would chase Ma Chao, break Han Sui, destroy Song Jian, sweep across Qiang, Qi, Hubu Pass, and the Liangzhou area was basically pacified.
Hero Twilight,
In the first month of 219 AD, Liu Bei crossed the river (present-day Hanshui) from Yangping Pass south, marched along the mountain, and garrisoned at Dingjun Mountain (in present-day southeast of Mian County, Shaanxi), Xiahou Yuan sent troops to compete with Liu Bei for terrain, was beheaded by Huang Zhong, and Cao's army was defeated. After that, Cao Cao personally led a large army to take Hanzhong, but Liu Bei could not get out of the wall, and Cao Jun and Liu Beijun were separated by several months, and there was no profit, so they abandoned Hanzhong. This battle was the last battle between Cao Cao and Liu Bei.
Cao Pi
In the first month of 220 AD, Cao Cao returned to Luoyang. In the same month, he died of illness in Luoyang at the age of sixty-six. Before his death, he left a Testament. According to Cao Cao's will, he was buried in Gaoling on the western outskirts of Yecheng on The 21th day of February (11 April). In October of the same year, his son Cao Pi deposed Emperor Xian of Han and established Wei, posthumously honoring Cao Cao as Emperor Wu of Wei.