Cao Xiu's title of "Thousand Mile Colt" comes from Cao Cao's mouth, but this title is not Cao Cao's evaluation of Cao Xiu in our imagination, why? Because when Cao Cao said this, Cao Xiu was only less than 20 years old and had not yet experienced many battles, Cao Cao only said this title vividly because Cao Xiu rushed here from thousands of miles away to join him, and as a result, it was quoted by many people as Cao Cao's high evaluation of Cao Xiu's life. In fact, this is taken out of context.
Cao Xiu
Tell me about Cao Xiu's life.
Cao Xiu, Zi Wenlie, Cao Hong's nephew (Cao Xiu's grandfather and Cao Hong's father were brothers), Cao Xiu's grandfather was called Cao Ding, and the tomb of Cao Ding has been excavated, and it is determined from the two teeth left by Cao Ding: Cao Ding's Y chromosome haplogroup gene DNA is consistent with Cao Cao's descendants, and they are a real family (and Cao Shen's descendants are not the opposite).
Cao Ding teeth
Cao Xiu's fate was more tortuous, in the early years, his grandfather Cao Ding was a prominent official, who had successively served as The Minister of Hejian ( 河間相 ), Wu Commandery Taishou ( 吴郡太守 ) , and Shang Shuling , and the family was still prosperous , but later due to the chaos of the Eastern Han Dynasty court and the continual party strife , Cao Ding was impeached and lost his official position , and he fell into the family road. When Cao Xiu was ten years old, his father fell ill and died, and the family was so destitute that there was no place to be buried, and it was with the help of the cao family's former doormen that Cao Xiu's father was buried. Cao Xiu then took refuge in Wu Commandery (吴郡, in Jiangdong, the birthplace of the Sun clan in Jiangdong), where Cao Ding had been an official during his lifetime. Soon after hearing that his uncle Cao Hong had followed his uncle Cao Cao to raise an army in Chen to attack Dong Zhuo, Cao Xiu traveled thousands of miles from Wu County to Yanzhou to join Cao Cao. Cao Cao was very happy to see Cao Xiu, calling him "Qianli Ju" (meaning to come from thousands of miles away to defect), Cao Xiu was lonely and lonely, Cao Cao raised him as his own son, and they ate and lived with Cao Pi, at that time Cao Xiu was 10 years old, Cao Ang was about 12 years old, Cao Pi was only 2 years old, and Cao Pi had always regarded Cao Xiu as a big brother. Therefore, Cao Xiu was later very close to the Cao Wei royal family.
Cao Cao
After Cao Xiu grew up, Cao Cao also took good care of Cao Xiu, and did not let him follow Cao Ren, Cao Hong and other leaders to fight everywhere, but arranged him into the most elite cavalry unit- the Tiger and Panther Horse. The Tiger and Panther Horse was a special force of Cao Cao at that time, it was selected from the elite of ordinary cavalry, the ratio was 100:1, this unit was well-equipped, expensive, Cao Cao generally did not use it, unless it was at a critical time, as a magic weapon to win with one blow. Judging from the cultural relics unearthed in modern times, the tiger and leopard riding is divided into two battalions: one is the tiger riding camp, the other is the leopard riding camp, the tiger riding camp is mainly responsible for the conquest, and the leopard riding camp is mainly responsible for the guards. The earliest commander of the tiger and leopard riding was Cao Chun, and Cao Cao then arranged for Cao Xiu to exercise under Cao Chun. Judging from Cao Xiu's resume, he should have served as the commander of the leopard riding battalion, and when Cao Cao swept away the remnants of Hebei, Yuan Tan, only Cao Chun participated in the battle, and did not see Cao Xiu's shadow, and Cao Xiu should look after his home in the rear.
Tiger and leopard riding
It was not until the Outbreak of the Battle of Hanzhong that Cao Xiu officially participated in the foreign war (at this time he had withdrawn from the Tiger and Panther Riding). At this time, Cao Cao already had the idea of cultivating a new generation of generals of the Cao clan, and Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, and others all accompanied the army to fight. Cao Xiu followed Cao Hong as a soldier and attacked Zhang Fei and Wu Lanbu of shu Han, Cao Xiu nominally joined the army, but in fact Cao Cao asked Cao Hong to listen to him. Wu Lantun went down, and Zhang Feitun gushan threatened to cut off Cao Jun's rear road. Cao Xiu saw through Zhang Fei's plan, attacked Wu Lan's department with all his might, attacked the lower division, Wu Lan was defeated, and Zhang Fei was lonely and retreated without a fight. Cao Xiu's first appearance.
Cao Hong
Cao Pi claimed the title of empress dowager, trusted Cao Xiu even more, and entrusted him with important duties. Xiahou died, and Cao Xiu took over Xiahou Huan's military affairs, overseeing the southern military and facing Sun Wu directly. Cao Pi three roads cut Wu, Cao Ren out of The Beard, Cao Zhen out of Jiangling, Cao Xiu out of Dongpu (east of Jianye, Xuling opposite the guangling county riverside). As a result, only Cao Xiu broke the Wu general Lü Fanbu all the way, and Cao Xiu's name shook Jiangdong.
However, Cao Xiu is generally a person with great ambition and talent. He once suggested that Cao Pi let him lead his elite division south to Jiangdong, and then rely on war to raise the war and step on Sun Wu. But Cao Pi did not approve of his plan, and from the later situation, Cao Pi was wise.
After Cao Pi's death, Cao Xiu, together with Cao Zhen, Sima Yi, and Chen Qun, became ministers. Cao Xiu ascended the throne as Sima Da, the supreme military commander of Cao Wei, and sat in the south. Cao Xiu finally had the opportunity to realize the dream that cao Pi had rejected. At this time, Sun Wu was also planning an earth-shattering counterattack. Lu Xun asked Zhou Fang to surrender to Cao Xiu, and then led Cao Xiu's lone army deeper, and then surrounded Cao Xiu and earned him a sum. Cao Xiu thought that he was a heavenly opportunity, and he was deceived, and led an army of 100,000 to come and take poyang County, which was sacrificed by Zhou Fang. As a result, Wu wrapped dumplings for Lu Xun, Zhu Huan, Quan Chun and so on. Fortunately, Wei rescued Jia Kui in time, otherwise Cao Xiu would be buried in the stone pavilion. This is the famous "Battle of Shiting" of the Three Kingdoms, and it is also one of the two classic battles of Lu Xun's life.
Battle of Stone Pavilion
After this, Cao Xiu died in shame. Throughout Cao Xiu's life, although there are some flashes, but overall, there is not much merit, but in the Stone Pavilion to lose the teacher and humiliate the country, his head is more shrouded in the aura of Cao Clan relatives.
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