In the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (194 AD), Cao Cao gathered soldiers and horses again to attack Tao Qian, and along the way, he easily swept through the counties of the East China Sea, came to Tancheng, and sent a letter asking Tao Qian to come and ask him to plead guilty, so as not to implicate the people of Tancheng. Tao Qian's resistance was weak, so he wanted to abandon the official and flee back to his hometown of Danyang, but he was afraid that Cao Cao would also come to "send a light horse to hunt down" to avenge his father, and his heart was really worried, and he could not eat or sleep, and as a result, he could not afford to be ill.
Tao Qian's illness, Xuzhou bing will be leaderless, then it will lose resistance even more, and even the consciousness of resistance will be gone. Seeing that Cao Cao was finished, a person jumped out, successfully dragged Cao Cao, and dragged until the situation was reversed.
This person was Liu Bei, it turned out that at the beginning of this year, Tao Qian had sent someone to report to his ally Gongsun Zhan, and Gongsun Zhan also had a good view of the overall situation, he knew that if Tao Qian was defeated, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's power would be even greater, and his Gongsun Zhan's Youzhou and Qingzhou would not be saved, so he sent Liu Bei's subordinates to the rescue. At that time, Liu Bei was still very weak, with only more than a thousand soldiers and horses of the Concubine Clan in his hands, plus some Wuhuan cavalry, and thousands of refugees, and the position was not like a fresh force, but like coming to eat a large household. However, Tao Qian's interest was not liu bei's soldiers, but Liu Bei's personal ability, so he recommended Liu Bei as the assassin of Yuzhou, increased his 4,000 Danyang disciples, and stationed him at Xiao Pei at the junction of Yanzhou and Xuzhou.
Tao Qian sent officials and people, to put it bluntly, he wanted to take Liu Bei as a shield, once Cao Cao came to attack, Liu Bei could resist first, but Cao Cao did not attack from Xiao Pei at all, but directly from Langya to the east to Tan County, fortunately Liu Bei was also interesting enough, at a critical moment, he led his troops to the west, and stubbornly blocked Cao Cao's troops in the east of Tancheng, Cao Cao took a lot of effort and time to repel it, and when he reorganized his soldiers and horses and attacked Tan County again, an unexpected thing happened.
It turned out that there was an accident in the rear of Yanzhou.
Cao Cao never expected that his most trusted old friend Zhang Mi and Chen Gong, an important booster of his career, would actually join forces to stab himself in the back, greeting the wandering warrior Lü Bu as Yanzhou Mu, and making Cao Cao, the overlord of East China, a wandering warrior.
Later, Yuan Shao's subordinate Chen Lin wrote the "Discussion with Cao Tan" that Zhang Mi, Chen Gong, Xu Feng, Wang Kai and other Yanzhou scholars rebelled because Cao Cao destroyed Chen Liu's famous soldiers and let the clan be destroyed, resulting in the injury of everyone. However, according to the Later Han Shu Wenyuan Biography, although Bian Rang insulted Cao Cao, Cao Cao did not do anything at that time, but waited until a few years later, during the Jian'an period, when some townspeople falsely accused Bian Rang of plotting rebellion, and Cao Cao ordered the local government to hunt him down.
That is to say, Cao Cao did not kill Bian Rang at this time, and there was another reason for the rebellion of the Yanzhou Shiren. Some historians believe that the reason why they rebelled was mainly because Cao Cao was too capable of recruiting trouble, first recruiting Gongsun Zhan and Yuan Shu, and then Tao Qian, fighting a lot of unnecessary battles, causing a lot of unnecessary burdens to the people of Xuzhou, in short, the more territory Cao Cao hit, the more talent was collected, and the more dissatisfied the Yanzhou soldiers became. In fact, they just want to find a strong spokesperson in the chaotic world to stand in front of them and protect their vested interests. However, Cao Cao's development was too fast, his ambitions were too great, he was completely out of their control, and he only spoke for himself.
This reason may explain the reason for the rebellion of Xu Feng, Wang Kai and others. But Chen Gong was different, when Chen Gong urged Cao Cao to run for Yanzhou Mu, he said: "The state now has no master, and the king's life is severed, the palace please say that the state is in the middle, please ask Cao Gong to be the state pastor." With this as capital, and then to collect the world, the overlord's industry is also. It can be seen that the purpose of Chen Palace is to help Cao Cao conquer the world and dominate the king; how can he be afraid that Cao Cao will develop too fast?
Therefore, when Luo Guanzhong wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he also realized that Chen Gong's rebellion may have other hidden feelings, so he supplemented him with an experience of fleeing with Cao Cao to Lü Bo's luxury family, adding rationality to his behavior.
In fact, Chen Gong's rebellion is not so much hidden, we can think of the problem simpler. At the beginning, Cao Cao was able to become the pastor of Yanzhou, all thanks to the efforts of Chen Gong; Chen Gong worked so hard that he obviously wanted to be Zhang Liang and Xiao He in the future; but after Cao Cao ascended to the throne, he reused the famous Yingchuan scholar Xun Yu and even called him "My Son's Room"; and Chen Gong, who had made great achievements, did not get the attention he deserved, and the gap in his heart could be imagined. Five years later, Chen Gong shouted from the White Gate Tower: "Cao Cao, the anti-thief, what a Ming Gong!" It is a true portrayal of the resentment in his heart and the inability to let go for many years.
This is exactly what I would have liked to do with the bright moon, but the bright moon shines in the ditch. Chen Gong was obsessed and wanted to help Cao Cao become a king, but unexpectedly Cao Cao belonged to another "Zhang Liang"! Chen Gong then resolutely rebelled and wanted to be "Zhang Liang" with Lü Bu. Chen Gong originally thought that Lü Bu did not have a single strategist under him, and he would have great potential, but he did not expect lü Bu's rough man to be even more hateful, and Chen Gong took pains to "draw a strategy for the cloth, and the cloth always does not follow his plan." "In the end, there will be the difficulty of the White Gate Tower, sadness, pity!
Pictured: Chen Gong and Lü Bu
As for Zhang Miao's rebellion, it is more the cause of the imbalance of mentality, how can Lao Zhang also be regarded as a prince ranked second only to Eryuan in the anti-Dong allies, and cao Cao's old superior, but now the crowd is growing, Zhang Mi is still when his Chen Liu is too guarded, not only has little development, but is subject to people, and has become a little brother who takes care of Cao Cao's home, do you think about what he should feel in his heart?
Photo: Zhang Mi
The reason why some people are dedicated is only because the status of the two sides is right;
And the reason why some people betray is only because they are depressed under the aura of the strong, so it is understandable that they must fight a blow and win a new world.