Sun Ce's death was another mystery case in the early days of the Three Kingdoms after the edict of Yi Dai.
This unexpected death changed history: before his death, Sun Ce poured all the troops of Eastern Wu, intending to capture Guangling in one fell swoop, march to Xuzhou, and threaten Xudu. If he succeeds, Cao Cao, who was attacked by Yuan Shao and Sun Ce on both sides, is likely to be in danger.
With Sun Ce's death, all relevant plans came to naught.
Along with this death, there are also many doubts: Why was Cao Cao's advisor Guo Jia able to accurately predict Sun Ce's death in advance? Why was the probable event determined by Guo Jia to be inevitable? How did they learn about Sun Ce's whereabouts by the protégé of Wu County's Taishou Xu Gong, who was killed by Sun Ce?
Some people say that leaders should be good at pulling in a gang, fighting a gang, and driving away a gang, so as to ensure the stability of their position.
Sun Ce, a new force in the workplace, developed rapidly in Jiangdong, and at the same time sparked fierce competition with his brother department Jiangdong Yinghao and his rival Cao Cao.
However, in order to seize the opportunity of Yuan Shao's call to crusade against Cao Cao, Sun Ce further intensified the contradictions of all parties, and urged competitors and his brother departments to unite, and fell into a dangerous situation of internal and external troubles in a daze.
So Sun Ce followed Sun Jian and fell into the law of blood reward, and once again paid a high price for it.
Sun Ce was assassinated
Crazy Jiangdong forces, lost people
Let's start with the Jiangdong forces.
At that time, there were roughly three Jiangdong forces that opposed Sun Ce:
Eastern Han court forces, such as Liu Xuan, Wang Lang and others. These men had already been defeated in the Battle of Jiangdong by Sun Ceping and expelled from Jiangdong;
Jiangdong local handsome, such as Yan Baihu, Zu Lang, Tai Shici and others. These earth snakes did not have a strong will to confront Sun Ce, so they were adopted by Sun Ce to encroach and disintegrate;
The Jiangdong family, led by "Gu Lu Zhu Zhang", is rich and landed, and is deeply rooted in Jiangdong, and is the most difficult opponent to deal with.
Because Sun Ce followed Yuan Shu before, most of the forces in Jiangdong initially regarded Sun Ce as a minion of Yuan Shu's invasion of Jiangdong, and they never had a good impression of him.
This can also be understood, the Sun family was originally a grassroots in Jiangdong, and their ancestors made a living by growing melons. And Sun Ce only inherited the official position of his father, Sun Jian, as a general. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, General Po Lu was just a miscellaneous general of the five grades. It doesn't seem realistic to let many Jiangdong heroes obey him.
However, Sun Ce took thunderbolt measures in a hurry and suppressed all forces with all his might. He attacked Lujiang, killing half of more than 100 people of the Lu clan; in Huiji, he killed Zhou Xin of the Zhou clan; and then launched the "Killing Heroes" incident, killing a large number of Jiangdong celebrities, including Zhou Xin, Sheng Xian, Gao Dai, Yu Ji and others.
This is the root of the disease.
Sun Ceping Jiangdong
Some Jiangdong scholars fled one after another and turned to Cao Cao, such as Xu Yi, Chen Jiao, Xu Xuan, etc. Of course, there were also some people who stayed in Jiangdong and maintained inextricable ties with Cao Cao. For example, Xu Gong.
Xu Gong was the Taishou of Wu County of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After being defeated by Sun Ce, he switched to the bandit Yan Baihu. Later, Yan Baihu was defeated by Sun Ce, and the two had to defect to Xu Zhao in Yuhang.
Because he was unwilling to lose to Sun Ce like this, Xu Gong set up a bureau around 197 AD.
He presented to the imperial court, believing that Sun Ce was brave and crowning, and pointed out that allowing Sun Ce's power to sit large would eventually become a great disaster for the imperial court and Cao Cao, and put forward the idea of summoning Sun Ce to the imperial court by the emperor's order.
Sun Ce Xiaoxiong, similar to Xiang Ji, should be added to the noble pet and recalled to Jingyi. If it is edicted, it will have to be returned, and if it is put outside, it will be a disaster for the world.
In this way, Sun Ce will fall into a dilemma:
If Sun Ce is appointed as a Beijing official, then it will be as difficult to make a difference as it is after Liu Bei defected to Cao Cao;
If Sun Ce refused, it would be tantamount to an open break with the Han court. And there will be warlords and generals in Jiangdong who will rebel against Sun Ce on the orders of the emperor, and Sun Ce will become the target of public criticism in Jiangdong.
And Xu Gong can rise up and regain a piece of the world.
Unfortunately, this watch was intercepted by Sun Ce, who confronted Xu Gong, who said that he did not have a watch, so Sun Ce ordered the warriors to strangle Xu Gong.
But this incident has far-reaching implications:
1. Xu Gong must have a close connection with Cao Cao, and can consider the problem from the perspective of the imperial court or Cao Cao, and use the resources of the imperial court to dig a pit for Sun Ce.
2. Shortly after Xu Gong wrote this table around 197 AD, in 198 AD, Cao Cao proposed to marry each other with the Sun family, marry his sons and daughters, and politely hire Sun Ce's younger brothers Sun Quan and Sun Yi to serve in the imperial court. is called a post, but it is actually a hostage. This is similar to Xu Gong's plan, which seems to be the same person's thinking.
3. Xu Gong foresaw a future in which Sun Ce would inevitably clash with Cao Cao.
As a result, the contradiction between Sun Ce and the heroes of all parties in Jiangdong has become a hidden danger that can erupt at any time.
Sun Ce, who is too strong
Cao Cao's inside and outside should be combined
Regarding the revenge of the later Xu Gongmen, one cannot help but wonder:
Xu Gong was killed by Sun Ce around 197 AD, but why did Xu Gong's disciples choose to take revenge three years later?
This had to be linked to the Battle of Guandu.
In the first month of 200 AD, the East Window Incident occurred, and Dong Cheng and others were killed. Yuan Shao sent an edict to attack Cao Cao, and Liu Bei, Sun Ce and others responded one after another.
In April 200 AD, when Cao Cao was fighting against Yuan Shao's generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou in Guandu, he heard the news that surprised him: Sun Ce was heading north to attack Guangling County. Guangling is an important gateway to curb the power of Jiangdong. Once Guangling is lost, Sun Ce will be able to threaten the entire Xuzhou, and even take advantage of the situation to march to Xudu.
But at this time, Cao Cao threw all his troops into the Guandu battlefield, and he was unable to draw up troops to rescue Guangling.
The year before, Chen Deng, the Taishou of Guangling, had resisted two attacks by the Wu army in fear. But this third attack was personally commanded by Sun Ce, and the army marched all the way to the north. Even because of the large scale of the army this time, there was a situation where the military rations were not in place for a while, and Sun Ce had to enter the Dantu and wait for the military rations to arrive before moving north.
If Cao Cao was allowed to fight with Yuan Shao's top generals in the north at this time, he would also allocate a part of his troops to the south to resist Sun Ce, God knows what would happen!
At the juncture, the strategist Guo Jia said lightly:
Clever and unprepared, impatient and scheming, it is the brave ear of the horseman, and he will die at the hands of the villain one day.
Miraculously, not long after Guo Jia said this, Sun Ce was indeed killed by Xu Gong's disciples.
Battle of Guandu
On April 4, the fifth year of Jian'an (May 5, 200), Sun Ce hunted in Dantu Mountain. He rode a fast horse, and the cavalry was left far behind. At this time, he suddenly met three people, all of whom were the disciples of Xu Gong, the Taishou of Wu County, who was killed by Sun Ce, and the three of them wanted to avenge Xu Gong.
Sun Ce asked, "Who are you?" and the three of them replied, "We are Han Dang's soldiers, shooting deer here." Sun Ce said: "I know all the soldiers of Handang, and I have never seen you. With that, Sun Ce shot an arrow at one of them, and the man fell to the sound of the bowstring. The remaining two immediately bent their bows and arrows and shot arrows at Sun Ce. During the confrontation, Sun Ce was hit by an arrow in the cheek. At this time, Hu from the back found Sun Ce from the cavalry and killed all the assassins.
Some people will be surprised: Why was Guo Jia so clever and clever, and if he hit Sun Ce, he would definitely be assassinated? Why did this revenge, which was enough to affect the course of history, not too early or too late, have to choose Sun Ce to do it when he planned to go north? And at this time, Xu Gong had been dead for three years, and his power should be gone, so how did the three disciples get the information about Sun Ce's whereabouts, so they set up an ambush in advance?
To figure out these issues, we might as well start with the beneficiaries.
Sun Ce is dead, and Cao Cao will definitely benefit the most, after all, he has relieved the worries of the rear. Secondly, Sun Ce's blood, Sun's strength will inevitably be damaged, and Jiangdong Yinghao can get rid of the suppression and take the opportunity to recover.
So let's assume this:
1. Xu Gongmenke's own lack of information and identity cover, if they want to get through the tricks, it is almost impossible to set up an ambush on the road that Sun Ce must pass.
2. Cao Cao will inevitably participate. Because of Xu Gong's close ties with Cao Cao, after Xu Gong was killed, Xu Gong's disciples either defected to Cao Cao's camp or continued to engage in anti-Sun activities with the support of Cao Cao's camp. The so-called "raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while" can ensure that at critical moments, with the quality of a professional assassin, they can hit with one hit.
3. The wealthy clans of Jiangdong also provided various conveniences to the assassins through their own connections. It is hard to imagine that such a precise assassination could have been carried out without the support of local forces. I think that Zhang Liang assassinated Qin Shi Huang in Bolangsha back then, because of the lack of real-time information of the First Emperor's convoy, he only hit the auxiliary car of the convoy and finally failed.
And if these assassins were able to clearly know the information of the army led by Sun Ce, and falsely claimed that they were Han Dang's soldiers, using this as a cover to avoid the troops along the way and approach Sun Ce, then they must have received help from within the Wu army.
In addition, Guo Jia also clearly pointed out: "(Sun Ce) he will die at the hands of villains one day." It can be seen that Guo Jia has a very clear understanding of the revenge of the Jiangdong Hao family, so he can put it forward as an important supporting argument for Sun Ce's assassination at a critical moment.
In this way, the context of the event is clear:
Jiangdong Yinghao had long been planning a plan for revenge, and at this time, Sun Ce planned to attack Cao Cao, and Cao Cao wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible. So Guo Jia and others contacted and cooperated with people in Jiangdong and jointly completed the assassination of Sun Ce perfectly.
As for why you want to find Xu Gong Doorman, or dump the pot to Xu Gong Doorman?
Because Xu Gong was an independent force between Cao Cao and Jiangdong Yinghao, Xu Gong was dead, and Xu Gong's disciples were killed, even if the successor Sun Quan wanted to track it down, he had no way to do it. And behind the scenes, everyone was able to retreat and hide in the smoke of Xu Gong's three guest houses.
Sun Ce was assassinated
Both father and son died in assassination
Sun Ce's death reminds people of his father: Sun Jian. What is surprising is that Sun Jian also died in assassination.
In 192 AD, Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian to conquer Jingzhou and attack Liu Biao. Liu Biao sent Huang Zu to fight between Fancheng and Dengxian. Sun Jian defeated Huang Zu, took advantage of the victory to pursue, crossed the Han River, and surrounded Xiangyang. Liu Biao closed his door without a fight, and sent Huang Zu out of the city at night to mobilize soldiers. Huang Zu returned with his troops, and Sun Jianfu fought with him. Huang Zu was defeated and fled to the Da Xian Mountains, where Sun Jian pursued. Huang Zu's subordinates will launch a hidden arrow from the bamboo forest, and Sun Jian is killed by the arrow.
The reason why Sun Jian suffered such a fierce counterattack is also related to his past. He has coveted Jingzhou for a long time, and once used the excuse of crusading against Dong Zhuo, on the way north, he wantonly eliminated nearby local forces, first forced Jingzhou to assassinate Shi, and then beheaded Nanyang Taishou. With these bad deeds first, Liu Biao must want to get rid of them quickly. Therefore, after killing Jingzhou officials for no reason, and after Jingzhou was full of hatred points, Sun Jian was not unjust in paying the price of his life.
However, Sun Jian's killing in the pursuit is also full of doubts: Why didn't there be a few capable generals like Cao Cao to escort him? Why did Sun Jian's escort have no sense of existence? In addition to Sun Jian's courage in battle and taking the lead, were there any other internal disputes and contradictions?
After Sun Quan took over, he got rid of the curse of being stabbed one after another
Can the cold door counterattack avoid the high blood reward?
Sun Ce's death is like an accident but not like an accident. It's hard not to say that there's a hidden smell of "blood reward" in this.
The so-called blood reward is the logic of the exchange of life and survival resources. The Sun family was born from the grassroots and had no survival resources, so they began to "exchange" one after another. First of all, his father Sun Jian was ordered by Yuan Shu to lead an army to conquer Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and shot Huang Zu's soldiers to death for Liu Biao's troops. Subsequently, his son Sun Ce responded to Yuan Shao's call and led an army to defeat Cao Cao, and was killed by the disciples of Xu Gong, a Jiangdong force. Although it provided the foundation for the children of his family to pass through Jiangdong after that, Sun Jian and Sun Ce's father and son also paid a heavy price.
Because he was born from the grassroots and lacked survival resources and network resources, in order to open up his own world, he could only rely on his own strength to scare the air, which led to hatred in the end and many enemies under the tree. In the end, I had to pay a high blood price to solve the problem.
This seems to be an unsolvable dead end. Isn't there a way to avoid pitfalls? Not really.
You can refer to Cao Cao's rise to prominence. Cao Cao, who was also from a humble background, because his family background was not high, in the process of crusading against the Yellow Turban Army and Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao did not even dare to surpass Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and other wealthy generals in the army.
However, Cao Cao skillfully used various contradictions in his subsequent development: the contradiction between the strong and the strong, the contradiction between the big and the small and medium-sized, and the contradiction between the strong and the grassroots. "Coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes", won the extensive support of many small and medium-sized landlords and grassroots talents, and united Kong Rong, Xun Yu and other wealthy clans, and finally defeated Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and other wealthy clans, and unified the north.
Only by knowing how to avoid making enemies as much as possible and making rational use of contradictions can we win over people, so that we can give full play to our own advantages in a time when there is a storm, so as to find an effective way to counterattack.