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Today's Three Kingdoms idiom story is found in the fourteenth episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after Cao Cao escorted Emperor Xian of Han back to Luoyang, with characters li dai, Guo Feng, Jia Xu, and Cao Cao. The original text is as follows:
However, he said that Li Dai and Guo Feng knew that Cao Cao was far away and wanted to fight quickly. Jia Xu said, "No. It is better to be brave than to surrender and forgive one's own sins. The dagger said angrily, "Er dare to destroy my sharp qi!" "Draw your sword to chop it off." The congregation will be dissuaded. It was night, and Jia Xu walked back to the township on a single horse. The next day, Li Dai's army came to meet the troops. Cao Shilling Xu Chu, Cao Ren, and Dianwei led three hundred iron horses, and clashed three times in the dai formation before they deployed. In the circle of the formation, before Li Dai's nephew Li Xian and Li Bei came out of the horse formation, before they could speak, Xu Chu flew over and slashed Li Xian first with a knife; Li Bei was taken aback, and crashed off the horse backwards, Chu Yi beheaded it, and double-armed the head back to the battlefield.
Cao Cao caressed Xu Chu's back: "Zi Zhen Wu's Fan Duo Ye! "With the order of Xiahou Huan to lead the troops out to the left, Cao Ren to lead the troops out to the right, cao himself led the Chinese army to charge the front." The drum sounded, and the three armies marched in unison. The thieves could not resist the enemy and fled in defeat. Cao Qin took the sword and led the crowd to pursue and kill all night, killing a lot of people, and countless people descended. Dai and Feng looked west to flee for their lives, busy like dogs that had lost their families; they knew that they had nowhere to stay, so they had to go to the mountains and fall into the grass. Cao Cao returned to his army and remained outside Luoyang. Yang Feng and Han Xian discussed: "Now that Cao Cao has made a great contribution, he will hold heavy power, how can I be allowed to wait?" "It was the Son of Heaven who, only in the name of hunting down and killing Dai and Feng, led the headquarters army to Da Liang.
According to the plot of the novel, after liu xie, the emperor of han xian, returned to Luoyang, he ordered Cao Cao to come to Luoyang to assist the imperial government. However, before Cao Cao could reach Luoyang, Li Dai and Guo Feng led the troops to kill. Liu Xie was forced to move towards Shandong, where he joined Cao Cao on the way. At this time, the strategist Jia Xu suggested that Li Dai should avoid fighting Cao Cao and should surrender to Emperor Xian of Han in order to protect himself. Li Dai was furious and wanted to kill Jia Xu, but only after pleading with everyone did he give up. Jia Xu left the barracks overnight and returned to his hometown. The next day, Li Dai and Guo Feng engaged the Cao army. Xu Chu showed his might, killed two generals in a row, severely injured Li Dai and Guo Feng, and stabilized the situation in the capital Luoyang.
The idiom to be introduced in this article is the "countless" mentioned in the text, which means that there is no way to calculate the number, and there are many descriptions. The earliest source of this idiom is the Song Dynasty's Zhou Mi 's "Identification of The Collection of Decoction and Miscellaneous Identification: The Beginning and End of Xiangyang" in which "artillery and medicinal arrows killed the Northern Soldiers and those who fell into the water, countless of them." ”
The twists and turns described in the novel after Emperor Xiandi of Han returned to Luoyang City did not occur in history. According to the "Later Han Shu Dong Zhuo Biography", after the Han Xiandi Emperor Liu Xie escaped from Chang'an, Li Dai and Guo Feng had been in hot pursuit, and fierce battles broke out at the Hongnong Dongjian and Mengjin Yellow River crossings. However, after Emperor Xian of Han arrived at Hedong Commandery, Li Dai stopped pursuing him, and Emperor Xian of Han was able to return to the capital Luoyang smoothly. Therefore, the contest between Cao Cao and Li Dai's army that appears in the novel is only the author's fiction, not the truth of history.
The fact that Jia Xu left Li Dai overnight to return to his hometown mentioned in the novel is not a historical truth. According to the "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Jia Xu Biography", just after Li Dai and Guo Feng gave up pursuing Emperor Xian of Han, Jia Xu "returned the seal on the seal", resigned his official duties, and came to Huayin to surrender to his compatriot Duan Sheng, during which it was not Li Dai who wanted to kill Jia Xu. With the wisdom of Jia Xu in history, how could he put himself in such a desperate situation?
As for the Han Xiandi who appears in the novel as immediately after returning to Luoyang, he ordered Cao Cao to come to Luoyang, which is not a historical truth. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and Emperor Wu of The Chronicle, when Emperor Xian of Han returned to Luoyang, Cao Cao took the initiative to send Cao Hong to Luoyang, but was intercepted by the Wei general Dong Cheng, indicating that at this time Emperor Xiandi of Han did not issue an edict ordering Cao Cao to enter Luoyang, which meant that the reliable candidate in Emperor Xiandi's heart was not Cao Cao.
So, who is the reliable candidate in the mind of Emperor Xian of Han? The answer was very unexpected. This person was neither Cao Cao nor Yuan Shao, but a figure who was regarded by posterity as a "family slave with three surnames", Lü Bu. What's the proof? The answer is in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms Lü Bu, quoted in the Heroes. According to the "Book of Heroes", "In the beginning, the Son of Heaven was in Hedong, and there was a handwritten version of the book to summon cloth to greet him. As mentioned above, when Emperor Xian of Han came to Hedong, he had just escaped the pursuit of Li Dai and Guo Feng, and he was terrified. At this time, who the Han Xian Emperor asked for help naturally meant that this person was a loyal han courtier in the mind of the Han Xian Emperor. Just a few years ago, Lü Bu and Wang Yun worked together to eliminate the state thief Dong Zhuo. Therefore, Emperor Xiandi of Han personally wrote an edict to ask Lü Bu for help.
However, it was very embarrassing that the expectations of Lü Bu, the Emperor of Han Xian, were ultimately disappointed. The "Hero's Record" says: "The cloth army has no animal accumulation, can not help itself, and sends envoys to write." At this time, Lü Bu not only had a weak army, but also had an extreme shortage of grain and grass troops, and it was difficult to protect himself, and he was extremely depressed. Lü Bu had to write to Emperor Xian of Han and report his predicament, and he missed the opportunity to become an escort minister.
Reference books: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Romance of the Three Kingdoms