Chapter 36: The Story That Yu Ban Had to Tell
"Don't dare, don't dare, Yuan Sima has an overreputation. In contrast, Yuan Sima is still young and promising, and when he believes in Yuan Sima's age, he is still singing happily, and he is ashamed of himself!"
Although Bao Xin despised Yuan Chang as a person, he was also curious about why Cao Cao was so enthusiastic about him, but at this moment, the other party greeted him so familiarly, and he also responded to the other party perfunctorily.
"Haha, General Bao is really a sincere person, I am very happy, today it is better for you and me to be married, what if?"
It seems that Bao Xin's sycophant makes Yuan Chang very useful, and after accepting it happily, he seems to feel that Bao Xin is very gregarious with him, and abruptly said a sentence that made everyone speechless.
Bao Xin didn't expect that his casual perfunctory words would cause such trouble to himself, and he knew that a simple reply would save politeness and trouble.
"My brother, the guard said, the alliance leader ordered you to be a brother with his followers, and to rescue the generals and Taishou, yes or no?"
Seeing that Bao Xin was in an embarrassing situation, Cao Cao jumped out to relieve him of the siege. At this time, Yuan Chang's words and deeds made Cao Cao feel that Yuan Chang was a gentleman, and his defense against him was much lowered.
Of course, Yuan Chang also deliberately said that, so that others would think that he was ridiculous, so that he would be included in the list, so that Yuan Chang acted and the possibility of exposure was much reduced.
"Yes, yes, when I saw my brother, I almost forgot about business. ”
Yuan Chang patted his head, pretended to be dissatisfied and blamed himself, and then looked at the guard who rushed into him before, and said with a smile: "Speaking of this, my brother wants to praise my brother for governing the army well. When the previous brother came, this guard brother exuded a terrifying momentum, which made the younger brother frightened, if all the generals and the soldiers of the Taishou were like his brother, what was Dong Zhuo afraid of?"
"Huh?"
Cao Cao looked at the guard with a puzzled face, and the guard knelt on the ground with a frightened "plop", and told the reason before and after, and scolded Yuan Chang for being a shameless villain in his heart. Wasn't it true that he had reconciled before, and then he told the matter again, wouldn't he have deliberately harmed him?
"Wu Zhuang, you are so ignorant, you actually offended Yuan Sima, if General Ben doesn't starve you, you don't know how bad, get out of here for General Ben first, and then clean up for you later!"
The sturdy man who followed Bao Xin heard this, and after hearing this, he scolded angrily, and asked the guard to return to the camp to wait for punishment.
In fact, everyone present could see that although the guard was not good at words, it was only his duty. It was originally a trivial matter, but Yuan Chang refused to let go of the guard, and if he wanted to pursue the other party, Cao Cao's side naturally needed to express it. As for whether it will be punished in the future, neither side cares.
"This general is rigorous in governing the army, and he really has the style of a famous general in ancient times, and my brother has such a great general, and my brother is very envious. ”
"Hehe, my brother misunderstood!"
Cao Cao chuckled, pointed at Bao Xin, and explained: "This is the general under the command of Brother Bao Xian. General Yu is strict in governing the army and acts like a thunderstorm. Although Cao has more than 10,000 soldiers, he has no generals in his hands, so he is handed over to the generals to command. However, for more than a month, the soldiers were forbidden by the orders of the drill, like a soldier in a hundred battles, all of which were the work of the general. ”
"Don't dare, don't dare, the deputy alliance leader is too prestigious!"
Yu Ban faced Cao Cao's praise, but he was indifferent.
History has commented that Cao Wei has five good generals, Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Yu Ban, Zhang He, and Xu Huang. In terms of commanders alone, the ban is the first place. With Cao Wei's talent atmosphere, Yu Ban can still be at the top of the list, which shows Yu Ban's strong ability to command troops.
However, it is such a general, who has followed Cao Cao for thirty years, but surrendered when Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, which is a bit puzzling.
In fact, as far as Yuan Chang is concerned, Yu Ban is not afraid of death, but because he has an advanced concept of commanding troops.
Many people know that whether it was in World War II or the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the soldiers of the United States had a characteristic, that is, when they ran out of ammunition and food, or when rescue was hopeless, one thing they did was to surrender. For the people of the United States, they do not have any loyalty, they preach personal freedom, since my body is all mine, then there is nothing wrong with me surrendering? So, when they are rescued, they put on military uniforms again, pick up arms, and then fight with others, their philosophy is that saving life is everything.
And Yu Ban is such a thought.
Yu Ban has followed Cao Cao for 30 years, Cao Cao's army can be said to have been brought up by him, people and animals still have feelings for getting along, Yu Ban has been with these soldiers for so long, how can he have no feelings? He naturally couldn't watch these soldiers who followed him in the southern and northern wars die, so he took the lead in surrendering, and those soldiers naturally did not resist to the end, and also surrendered. Because of Yu Ban's leading role, Yu Ban was flooded by Guan Yu in the Seventh Army, but except for Pang De and a small number of soldiers, most of them survived, and were finally rescued by Wu Guo and went back to be Cao Wei's soldiers.
It can be seen that Yu Ban's surrender is actually a relatively good thing.
It's just that Huaxia has accepted the Confucian idea of loyalty and righteousness since ancient times, although Yu Ban's behavior saved the lives of most of the soldiers, his reputation was lost, and finally Cao Pi let Yu Ban go to Cao Cao's tomb to visit, and deliberately let the painter paint a picture of Yu Ban's surrender. As a result, Yu Ban, who was already old, was ashamed, but he ended up depressed.
As far as Yuan Chang personally thinks, Yu Banzi is not a person who is afraid of death, he has followed Cao Cao for 30 years, and he has led countless troops to fight, if he is really a person who is afraid of death, how can he reach the position of General Zuo? Not to mention, how many 30 years of life are there?
Of course, there are also records in the history of the wilderness, indicating that the surrender of Yu Ban was Cao Cao's strategy.
At that time, the Seventh Army was short of food, and Cao Cao thought that Guan Yu must also be short of food, so a shocking plan came to mind. Cao Cao sent his cronies to order a secret ban on fraud, and if Pang De disobeyed, he would be excepted. It's a pity that Yu Ban was soft-hearted and didn't kill Pound, and as a result, he couldn't turn over. It happened that the heavens were very cooperative, and it rained heavily, and after Guan Yu broke the embankment, Yu Ban surrendered, but Yu Ban did not inform Pang De of Cao Cao's secret order, Pang De didn't know, so he naturally fought with Guan Yu, and finally the pipe he brought was also used.
So, after Yu Ban surrendered, the problem arose.
First of all, we must know that the number of people who surrendered this time was 30,000, and which of the three kingdoms would have surrendered 30,000 people, no! Therefore, the surrender of Yu Ban and 30,000 soldiers was the first of its kind. However, Guan Yu himself was already short of food, and with these 30,000 people, the grain and grass were quickly exhausted.
And Cao Cao's original plan was to wait for Guan Yu to run out of food, trap Fancheng and cooperate with the army sent by Xu Du, plus Yu Forbidden should cooperate with the outside, so he could naturally take Guan Yu in one go.
It's just that I don't know if Cao Cao's head disease has flared up again, Xu Du didn't send a large army here, and Cao Ren didn't notify him, so Yu Ban was sad and became a renegade general, not a person inside and out!
But that's not the worst of it!
[PS: I went to sweep my grandmother's grave this morning, I uploaded it late, it was a little sad, and I mourned one!!! I hope that my relatives will be filial when their elders are alive, and there will be no regrets when they are old!!!