
After Cao Cao eliminated Yuan Shao and unified the north, he personally commanded a large army to the south, and the sword blade pointed directly at Liu Bei and Sun Quan. For a time, black clouds in the Jiangnan area pressed the city and wolf smoke rose everywhere.
In the autumn and July of the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD), Cao Jun set out from Xuchang and went all the way south, taking Xinye, Occupying Xiangyang, taking Fancheng, and Jujiangling, and hundreds of thousands of troops were thunderous and invincible.
At a time when this large army was under pressure, Sun Quan and Jingxiang Liu Bei took charge of the national war situation, examined the current battle situation, plotted to defeat the enemy's battle methods, and measured the results of the battle; they urgently mobilized, gathered troops, mobilized warships, perfected the armored troops, gathered grain, gathered grain, cohesive strength, and swore to fight with Cao Cao to the death.
Cao Cao's conquest of Jiangnan will cross the Yangtze River Graben. In this grand river crossing campaign, water warfare is crucial. After Cao Cao's initial defeat at Sanjiangkou, he severely reprimanded the water army governors Cai Mao and Zhang Yun for teaching the water army. Zhou Yu couldn't help but be surprised after peeking into Cao Jun's water village, and deeply felt that the layout of Cao Cao's water village was "deeply wonderful for the water army!" So he decided to: first get rid of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and then break Cao.
On the one hand, Zhou Yu was stirring up his brains about how to "get rid of these two"; on the other hand, Cao Cao was also defeating the Chinese army and planning a plan to defeat the enemy. At the moment of this gathering of storms and clouds, Jiang Gan's pedantic Confucianism appeared on the scene. He boasted to Cao Cao: "Since he was a child, he and Zhou Lang have made a contract with the same window, and they are willing to use their three inches of uncorrupted tongue to say that this person has come to Jiangdong." ”
Sun Tzu said, "Know thyself and know the other, and never lose a battle." This Jiang Gan is also too unaware of the changes in the situation: at first, he and Zhou Yu were friends with the same window, and now, you Jiang Gan are Cao Cao's subordinate guests, and Zhou Yu is Sun Quan's share of Hong, the commander of the three armies, and the dongliang of Eastern Wu. Only knowing oneself and not knowing the other has the reason of invincibility.
That Jiang Gan wore a scarf and a cloth robe to come to Zhou Yu's camp like a wild crane. As soon as Zhou Yu heard that "the late Jiang Gan is visiting", he smiled indifferently and said, "Lobbyist is the best!" "The reason why Zhou Yu has such an accurate judgment is that the current situation makes Ran'er -- now that the two armies of Cao and Wu are looking at each other with a tiger's eyes, and a major war is about to break out, you Jiang Gan, as Cao Cao's guest of honor, do not plan the major affairs of the military state and have the leisure to come to reminisce about the past? Such tricks to coax a three-year-old child are acceptable, and it is really self-defeating and laughable to deceive me. You Jiang Gan want to "reminisce about the past," and I, Zhou Yu, want to "talk about the new." Not only do I have to be condescending, preemptive, and always have the initiative in discourse. It is even more necessary to borrow the hand of jiang gan to complete a major task of destroying Cao. As a result, a "reverse strange flower" bloomed open.
In this sound and colorful anti-intervening activity, Zhou Yu walked a total of six good moves-
Step 1: Shock your heart. It is said that when Zhou Yu saw Jiang Gan visiting, he led hundreds of followers, all dressed in brocade and hats, and flocked out from front to back. In the face of Jiang Gan, who only introduced a young boy in green clothes, the reason why Zhou Yu greeted him in such a big position was to make Jiang Gan unconsciously produce a feeling of dwarfing, a feeling of honor and inferiority, and a feeling of "I only come to personally reminisce about the past, but he received political reception", that is, to let Jiang Gan lose in a cramped and uneasy situation.
Step 2: Shut his mouth with words. As soon as Zhou and Jiang met, Jiang Gan asked, "Are your old friends okay?" And Zhou asked against the trend: If you don't work hard to travel far and wide, you won't be Cao Cao's lobbyist, right? Jiang was stunned and hurriedly replied, "Why suspect me as a lobbyist?" Zhou Yu smiled and took his arm and said, "I'm worried that you're Cao Cao's lobbyist." Jiang Gan gave Zhou Yu a fake courtesy, and Zhou Yu simply ignored that set, directly breaking his "lobbyist" identity with a seemingly skeptical tone. Jiang Gan argued: I am not a guest but just "reminiscing about the past." Naturally admitting that he was only "reminiscing about the past" and not a "lobbyist", then all the activities of Jiang Gan, the "lobbyist", also lost their foundation.
Step 3: Break the way with a sword. After Zhou and Jiang Hanhuo, they opened the feast. Seated at the table were civilian and military generals in brocade robes and flower hats, and generals with silver armor and rhinoceros armor. What's more, Zhou Yu gave his sword to Tai Shi Ciyue: "Gong Ke wears my sword as a prison drink: today's feast, but friends and friendships; if anyone mentions cao Cao's military journey with Eastern Wu, he will be beheaded!" Tai Shi Ci answered the promise and sat down on the table according to the sword. Jiang Gan was stunned and did not dare to say more. Tai Shi Ci broke the road with a sword, allowing you to come for "saying", but there was no "saying" to return. Zhou Yu wants to seal all of Jiang Gan's "speaking" roads, and then open up a more hidden road for him to go, if not, first, you Jiang Gan will not be able to make a difference when he goes back, and second, my plan to destroy Cao will not be carried out. At this point, all of Jiang Gan's actions had to be at the mercy of others, and he was completely unable to do so.
Step 4: Destroy your hopes. Just when the wine was hot, Zhou Yu pulled Jiang Gan around the camp again. When he saw the left and right sergeants in full costume and with a knife in full armor, Zhou asked: My unit is mighty and majestic, right? When I saw the mountains of grain and grass, I asked: Is my grain well prepared? Then Zhou Yanfeng turned and said: I share the blessings and misfortunes of my Lord. Now, Zhang Yi, Su Qin, Lu Jia, and Li Sheng, whose mouth is like a hanging river and whose tongue is like a sharp blade, will never be able to say that it moves my heart. At this point, the determination has been made clear, and the bottom card has been released, which is equivalent to telling you Clearly: I have prepared all the preparations for the battle, this big war is inevitable, we in Eastern Wu are united in life and death, and you Jiang fools should no longer hold out any hope in the word "say".
Step 5: Fish with bait. After the drinking strike was withdrawn, Zhou Yu took Jiang Gan into his tent and said to him: Tonight I will sleep with my old friend. Moreover, he pretended to "vomit" and "snort like thunder". At this time, Jiang Gan tossed and turned, without any sleep. Suddenly, on the desk of Zhou Gongjin, the commander of the Eastern Wu Army, he saw a letter that stunned him and made him feel even more precious—a letter written to Zhou Yu by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, the commanders of Cao Cao's water army. In the letter, Yu Jieshi wrote: "We did not surrender Cao for the sake of becoming an official and getting rich, but because we were forced to do it because of the situation. Now that we have tricked Cao Cao's troops into the water village, once we have obtained it, we will "sacrifice the head of Cao Cao's old thief to you" and say, "Someone will report to you secretly at night." Even at the same time that Jiang Gan was reading the letters, zhou Yu was not idle, he dreamed and spoke, and leaked secrets sentence by sentence -- Jiang Gan's old brother "Within a few days, I will teach you to see the head of the manic thief、、、、 teach you to see the head of the manic thief!" ”
Step 6: Prove your faith. This Zhou Yu is really cruel enough, the design of the documentary evidence, the dream certificate is not enough, he wants Jiang Gan to further enrich and strengthen the view that "Cai and Zhang secretly married Eastern Wu". As a result, the living testimony appeared--nearly four times, only to hear someone say to Commander Zhou in the tent: "Someone from Cao Cao's side is coming", Yu Drank: "Whisper!" Then he called: "Old Jiang, old Jiang." Jiang Gan only pretended to be asleep. Zhou Yu crept out of the tent. Jiang Gan also randomly got up and quietly followed behind to eavesdrop. At this time, only someone was heard outside the tent saying: "Governor Zhang and Cai Erdu said: Now that the situation is urgent, it is not convenient to start for a while..." The voice behind it is getting lower and lower, and it is not true to hear.
Now that there is documentary evidence, dream evidence, and more human evidence, the bold Cai Mao and Zhang Yun colluded with Eastern Wu to harm Cao ChengXiang, and the ironclad evidence is like a mountain, it is really a sin that deserves to die, and there is still more to die!
The task of "persuading Jiang Gan to surrender" was not completed, but he had such an unexpected gain. So he ran back to Cao Camp overnight. As soon as Jiang Gan arrived at Cao Ying, the heads of Cai and Zhang were immediately "clicked" by Cao Cao. Cai and Zhang were removed, and Zhou Yu was going to burn the Million Soldiers of the Cao Clan boiled in Chibi next.