Chapter 37: The depressed Cao Cao
The land of Jingzhou was originally under the jurisdiction of Liu Biao, a clan member of the Han family. According to the primogeniture inheritance system, this property should have belonged to Liu Qi, but Liu Biao's wife, Mrs. Cai, controlled the power in Jingzhou, and the children of the Cai family all held important positions in Jingzhou. So, Liu Qi was scared away, and Liu Cong took over Jingzhou, but unfortunately, a few days later, as soon as Cao Cao's army arrived, Mrs. Cai and Liu Cong were so frightened that they let Jingzhou out.
After that, the big-eared thief Liu Bei and the black-bellied male Sun Quan wolf bèi were in cahoots, plotting to take away Cao Cao's land of Jingzhou, Jingzhou Eight Counties (Jingzhou Eight Counties or Nine Counties, etc., will be mentioned later, but now we will ignore it. Only Nanyang County and Zhangling County were in the hands of Cao Cao, and five of them were in the hands of Liu Bei, a big-eared thief, Nanjun, Changsha, Lingling, Wuling, and Guiyang. As the biggest contributor to the Sun-Liu coalition this time, Eastern Wu only has one county, Jiangxia, and Jiangxia still has part of the territory in Cao Cao's hands. In such a situation, Dongwu was obviously unwilling, but in order to work together to deal with Cao Cao, Sun Liu's biggest enemy, Dongwu could only swallow this breath, and the cracks in the Sun-Liu alliance naturally appeared.
As mentioned above, Cao Cao conspired against Guan Yu and secretly ordered Yu Ban to surrender. At this time, Dongwu, who was bent on recapturing Jingzhou, was also plotting, but the two sides unexpectedly conspired to deal with Guan Yu, and poor Guan Yu didn't know it.
Guan Yu placed 30,000 Cao Wei soldiers in Jiangling City, so that Jiangling City was short of food on a large scale. Jiangling City was originally the palace of the king of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and later Chu was destroyed by Qin and became an important town of Qin. When Guan Yu was stationed in Jingzhou, he placed the whole family in Jiangling City.
Speaking of this, Yuan Chang was puzzled, there were not so many soldiers in Jiangling City, but he released 30,000 Cao Wei soldiers, and he didn't know where this Guan Yu got his confidence. However, Yu Ban and the 30,000 soldiers were also very cooperative, eating and drinking, so it didn't take long for Jiangling to run out of food.
Immediately afterwards, Guan Yu began to look for food, and two meters in Xiangguan was the first choice.
Maybe God felt that Cao Cao occupied too much space and couldn't be busy, so he caused him a little trouble and made him have a head attack. As a result, the conspiracy could not be carried out. However, the surrender of Yu Ban and the 30,000-strong army brought opportunities to Eastern Wu.
It is recorded in "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Lü Meng": Wei envoy Yu Ban rescued Fan, and tens of thousands of people and horses were forbidden to eat without food, and took Xiangguan rice without permission. When the right heard of it, it was carried out, and the advance was in front. Meng to seek the sun, as far as its elite soldiers in the boat, so that the white clothes sway, as a businessman clothes, day and night, to the feather placed by the riverside waiting, all the restraints, is the feather does not know.
If the ban is not surrendered, 30,000 soldiers will not be brought to Jiangling, Jiangling will not have a large-scale shortage of grain, and there will be no large-scale transportation of grain from Hunan, then there will not be so many people in Dongwu who can easily cross the river.
According to the defense of Jiangling City, it is unlikely that a few thousand men and horses will be able to break through it in just a few days, and it will take several months for Zhou Yu to attack Jiangling City defended by Cao Ren with tens of thousands of men and horses.
History is sometimes so unpredictable! Man is not as good as heaven. The news of the destruction of Jiangling City reached Guan Yu in front, Guan Yu didn't believe it, to be honest, it was not Guan Yu who was arrogant, or it was unlikely that anyone would have thought that the seemingly indestructible Jiangling was gone.
Yu Ban's deception, who knows that Lu Meng has been fulfilled!
In fact, Yu Ban has completely followed Cao Cao's orders, and this play is wonderful enough. It's a pity that when the performance came to *, Cao Cao said that he couldn't get up, so he could only look at it. Therefore, Yu Ban, who lost his reputation and did not get it in Jingzhou, was very disappointed. After this battle, most of the credit was taken by Xu Huang, not to mention, but also fulfilled Lü Meng's name, so when Jiangling was captured by Lü Meng, Yu Ban really surrendered to Eastern Wu.
Originally, there were these 30,000 soldiers as capital, and Yu Ban would definitely be able to occupy a place in Soochow. Unfortunately, tragedy struck not long after.
Hearing that Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei was furious and swept Jiangdong with an army of 700,000 in Hanzhong. At this time, Sun Quan was afraid, so he once again declared himself a minister to Cao Wei, and in order to show friendship, he returned the ban and 30,000 soldiers to Cao Wei. At this moment, Yu Ban is really not a person inside and out.
After returning to Wei, Yu Ban told Cao Pi of Cao Cao's secret order, and Cao Pi also believed it. However, there must be a scapegoat for the failure of this strategy, Cao Cao is already dead, and it cannot be said that Cao Cao is a problem for the sake of face. So, he asked Yu Ban to go to Cao Cao's mausoleum to meet him, and he told Cao Cao about the matter.
Then, Cao Pi very insidiously made a painting of Yu Ban's surrender in the mausoleum, and Yu Ban saw it, and naturally understood what the situation was. So in disappointment and shame, Yu Ban fell ill and died within a few days.
In this way, the majesty of the Cao family has not been lost, and Cao Pi has solved the people he doesn't want to see, which is really killing two birds with one stone.
Not to mention Yu Ban, but also to say that Yuan Chang heard Cao Cao say that Yu Ban was not his subordinate, he sighed at the moment and said regretfully: "I don't want to be so talented and not my brother's general, it's a pity, if my brother has such a good general, it will be a matter of sweeping Dong Thief." ”
Yuan Chang looked sorry for Cao Cao, but it embarrassed Cao Cao, Bao Xin and Yu Ban.
Cao Cao's love is well known to the world, but Yu Ban is a general under Bao Xin, and although Bao Xin is the prime minister of Jibei, from another point of view, he can also be regarded as Cao Cao's die-hard follower. In this way, Yu Ban is actually Cao Cao's subordinate. Theoretically, this is the case, but being said by Yuan Chang made Bao Xin feel like he was going to be dug up at the foot of the wall, and a sense of crisis suddenly rose in his heart, and he subconsciously had a little defense against Cao Cao, and it was precisely because of these precautions that Bao Xin discovered a shocking conspiracy against him by Cao Cao in the future.
It's one thing to follow yourself, but it's another thing to follow your own subordinates. Just like he is Cao Cao's person, will his wife and concubine become Cao Cao's?
When Yuan Chang said this, Cao Cao had the heart to strangle him. It's just that the other party has a regretful expression, and it doesn't seem to mean anything else, so he can only hold down this evil breath.
"Haha, my brother is joking!"
Cao Cao saw that the atmosphere was a little solidified, so he snorted at the moment, and said with a smile: "Now that the artifact is covered with dust, the righteous people are all serving the country, so how can they divide each other?"
It's good not to say this, but saying this sentence makes Bao Xin feel that Cao Cao covets his general.
And Cao Cao also reacted after saying it, at this time, didn't saying this show that he had other ideas?
secretly hated Yuan Chang in his heart, and blamed him for talking nonsense and blocking himself.
"Haha, my brother, I have forgotten the things that the alliance leader explained, but I said here that this is an inconsequential matter, it is all my brother's fault, I will wait and go to the camp first, and wait for my brother to pour wine and apologize!"
Yuan Chang seemed to pretend not to know anything, and took Cao Cao's hand and blamed himself again and again.
And after listening to Yuan Chang's words, Cao Cao almost vomited blood out of breath, since you know that these are inconsequential things, why do you still say it?
Cao Cao shouted in his heart, sooner or later, I will kill him to vent the hatred in my heart!
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