History of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty Chapter 7 Three Lets Xuzhou
Ma Teng and Li hi attacked each other
Ma Teng, the general of the expedition to the west, lived in Liangzhou for a long time, and entered the Chang'an Dynasty in March of the first year of Xingping (194) to see Emperor Xian, and the garrison was in Baqiao (now Dongba Shui, Xi'an City, Shaanxi, the old site is ten miles north of the bridge), so Li Xun refused his request, so he joined forces with Ma Yu in the service, Liu Fan in Zuo Zhonglang, Chong Shao in the consultation doctor, and Du Yu in Zhonglang to attack Li Xi, and the two armies held each other for many days. Han Sui, the general of Zhenxi who occupied Liangzhou with Ma Teng, heard that he came to Chang'an with his army to reconcile him, but immediately attacked Li Lu with Ma Teng and others. The two armies fought at Changpingguan, fifty miles west of Chang'an, Li Hircong's son Li Li, Fan Chou, Guo Yan and others defeated the Liangzhou army, Ma Teng and Han Sui fled back to Liangzhou, so that the Han court appointed Ma Teng as the general of Andy. Han Sui surrendered to the general for An.
Cao Cao attacked Tao Qian
In the first year of Emperor Xingping of the Han Dynasty (194 AD), Cao Cao returned from Xuzhou to conquer Tao Qian. In the past, Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, returned to Qian County after leaving his post. Dong Zhuo's rebellion, he took refuge in Langxie and was killed by Tao Qian. Therefore, Cao Cao was determined to take revenge, so he attacked Tao Qian to the east. In the summer, Cao Cao sent Xun and Cheng Yu to stay in Juancheng, and sent troops to recruit Tao Qian. After conquering the five cities, he got a lot of places, only to Cambodian Hai County (now southwest of Tancheng County, Shandong). The army returned and passed through Tan County (present-day Tancheng County, Shandong). , Tao Qian's troops Cao Bao and Liu Bei garrisoned in the east of Tanxian to intercept Cao Cao's army. Cao Cao defeated the armies of Cao Bao and Liu Bei, so he conquered Xiangben. Where Cao Bing passed, many were killed.
Tian Kai and Liu Bei rescued Tao Qian
Xuzhou Mu Taoqian complained to Tian Kai, the assassin of Qingzhou, and Tian Kai and Liu Bei, the prime minister of the Plains, led the army to rescue the others. Liu Bei had his own army of thousands of people, and Tao Qian allocated 4,000 soldiers from Danyang County to his command, so Liu Bei broke away from Tian Kai and defected to Tao Qian. Tao Qian recommended Liu Bei as the assassin of Yuzhou and stationed in Xiaopei. It happened that Cao Cao's army rations had also run out, and he led his army to withdraw to Yanzhou.
Zhang Miao and Chen Gong Yingli established Lu Bu as the pastor of Yanzhou
In the summer of the first year of Xingping (194), Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao and Chen Gong took the opportunity to attack the key to Xuzhou (now Tancheng, Shandong), rebelled against Cao Cao, and established Lü Bu as the pastor of Yanzhou. Cao Cao and Zhang Miao were originally good friends. Cao Cao escaped from Luoyang and was entrusted with refuge in Zhang Miao, where Cao Cao Chenliu County (present-day Henan) waged war, and was also greatly helped by him, and was once subordinate to Zhang Miao. Later, Cao Cao served as the pastor of Yanzhou, but on Zhang Miao's side, Zhang Miao was dissatisfied, and the two gradually became suspicious. Chen Gong is a native of Yanzhou East County, and later took refuge in Cao Cao, and personally persuaded the Yanzhou people to welcome Cao Cao as the pastor of Yanzhou, Cao Cao's actions in Yanzhou caused strong dissatisfaction among the Yanzhou people, Chen Gong was uneasy, so Chen Gong persuaded Zhang Miao to betray Cao Cao and welcome Lu Bu. Lü Bu was a famous general for a while, and after killing Dong Zhuo with Situ Wang Yun in the third year of Chuping (192), he caught up with the attack of Li Xu, Guo Yan and others, and escaped from Chang'an (now northwest of Xi'an, Shaanxi). Later, after Chen Liu, he was greeted by Chen Gong, Zhang Miao and others to Puyang, and served as Yanzhou pastor. Chen Gong and Zhang Miao were in Yanzhou as early as Yanzhou, which had a great influence, and Cao Cao's army was far away in Xuzhou, so the two returned, and the counties of Chongzhou responded one after another. Before Cao Cao set out on the expedition, Sima Xun, who handed over the affairs of Yanzhou to him or disposed of, Xun or heard of the interrogation, and urgently ordered the general Xiahou who was stationed in Shu County to return to the army to hold the state city of Juancheng, and asked Shouzhang County to order Cheng Yu to leave Zhenfan (now southeast of Fan County, Shandong) and Dong'e (now northeast of Yanggu County, Shandong). , refused to hold the city, and waited for Cao Cao to return to the army. Cao Cao listened to what happened in Yanzhou in Xuzhou, and quickly withdrew his troops back to rescue Yanzhou.
Cao Cao and Lü Bu fought for Yanzhou
In the summer of the first year of Xingping (194), when Yanzhou Mu Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, a rebellion broke out in Yanzhou, and Yanzhou Zhinacheng (now Juanchengbei, Shandong), Hefan (now southeast of Fanxian County, Shandong), and Dong'e (northeast of Yanggu, Shandong) all rebelled and responded to Lü Bu, and the situation was very tense. Cao Cao was afraid of a dilemma, so he hurried back to Yanzhou. On the way, he was persuaded that Lü Bu could not conquer Juancheng in Chongzhou Prefecture, and was stationed in Puyang County (southwest of present-day Puyang County, Henan). , very happy, lobbied Lu Bude Yanzhou, could not resist Dongping (now Dongpingdong, Shandong), cut off the road of Yuan Father (dangerous road, now south of Jining County, Shandong), Taishan, cut off the attack on our army according to the danger, retreat and stationed in Puyang, he will not do much. So he marched to Puyang. Lu Bu sent the big surname of Puyang to make a counter-plot to deceive Cao Cao into entering the city, Cao Cao had already entered the city, ordered the city gate to be burned, and encouraged the soldiers to advance without retreating. Lu Bu was sent out by a large number of soldiers, and Cao was defeated into an army. Cao Cao fled on a single horse and strayed into Lü Bu's army, Lü Bu's soldiers did not know Cao Cao and asked: Where is Cao Cao? Cao Cao lied: He ran on a yellow horse in front of him, so he was out of danger, and when he arrived at the city gate, a fire broke out, and his left arm was burned by fire. Cao Cao was defeated at Lübu at first, so he built siege equipment and repeatedly attacked Puyang for more than 100 days, but finally could not conquer it. Later, the locust plague broke out, and the food supply of Lü Bu and Cao Cao was not available, so the fighting was temporarily stopped, and each led troops to retreat, Cao Cao returned to Juancheng, and Lü Bu was stationed in Shanyang County (now northwest of Jinxiang County, Shandong). At that time, Jizhou confiscated Yuan Shao, seeing that Cao Cao had recently lost Yanzhou, and the army had no food, he sent an envoy to persuade Cao Cao to join him, and moved his family to Yecheng to make him a subordinate of Yuan Shao. Cao Cao categorically rejected the suggestion of the strategist Cheng Yu. In the spring of the second year of Xingping (195), Cao Cao attacked Lü Bu again, first defeating Lü Bu (now Shandong) at Dingtao. In the summer of the following year, he attacked Xue Lan and Li Feng, the generals of Lü Bu's troops stationed in Juye (present-day Juye South, Shandong). Lu Bu led his troops to the rescue, and when he saw that Xue Lan and the others had failed, he retreated. Cao Cao then killed Xue Lan and others. Lü Bu then led an army of more than 10,000 people to rebel against Cao Cao, when Cao Cao's soldiers went out to fetch wheat, and there were less than 1,000 people in the camp. Lü Bu fled by night. Cao Cao continued to march, recovered Dingtao, and divided his troops to pacify the counties, Zhang Miao fled to Xuzhou with Lü Bu, and Cao Cao recovered all Yanzhou. In October of this year, the Han court officially made Cao Cao the pastor of Yanzhou, and here, Chongzhou was controlled by Cao Cao.
Sun Ce attacked Lujiang
In the first year of Xingping (193), Sun Ce recruited hundreds of people for Danyang Taishou in his uncle Wu Jing, so in the second year of Xingping (194), he went to Shouchun (now Shou County, Anhui) to find Yuan Shu to ask for his father Sun Jian's old department, and Yuan Shu returned more than 1,000 people to Sun Ce. At that time, the Han court's Taifu Ma Ri held the Fu Festival to pacify the Kanto, and recruited Sun Ce with a gift in Shouchun, and asked the court to appoint Sun Ce as the captain of Huaiyi. It didn't take long for Yuan Shu to send Sun Ce to attack Lujiang and other places. However, Yuan Shu successively approved the appointment of Danyang, Lujiang County and other county governors, but none of them were fulfilled. At that time, the Han court took Liu Xuan, the imperial historian, as the assassin of Yangzhou, and was occupied by Yuan Shu according to the state rule, and Liu Xiang moved to Qu'a County, Wu County (now Danyang, Jiangsu). Sun Ce broke through the Lujiang River, and Liu Miao was worried that Yuan Shu would then plot himself, so he expelled Danyang Taishou Wu Jing and Sun Cetang's brother Danyang Duwei Sun Ben, marched to occupy Danyang (now Xuancheng, Anhui), and stationed the key with generals Fan Neng, Yu Mi, Zhang Ying, etc., to guard against Yuan Shu. Wu Jing and Sun Ben retreated to Liyang (present-day Hexian, Anhui). Yuan Shu sent Wu Jing and Sun Ben to counterattack and was invincible. Sun Ce then persuaded Yuan Shu to help Wu Jing attack Liu Xuan, hoping to find an opportunity to get rid of Yuan Shu's control and develop his own strength. Yuan Shu then asked Sun Ce to be the captain of Zhichong and the general of Xing Kou, and ordered him to lead his troops to attack Liu Xuan. In the second year of Xingping (195), Sun Ce led more than 1,000 people to Liyang, recruiting troops and horses along the way, and there were already five or six thousand people in Liyang. After this, he got rid of Yuan Shu's control and began the cause of pacifying Jiangdong.
Liu Bei served as the pastor of Xuzhou
In the first year of Xingping (194), Tao Qian was seriously ill and told him not to drive Mizhu to welcome Liu Bei as the successor of Xuzhou Mu. This is before, Tao Qian so Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou in a hurry, and asked Liu Bei for help from the plains, and Liu Bei led a thousand troops to help Tao Qian. Tao Qian sent 4,000 troops to Liu Bei and asked him to stay in Xiaopei (now Pei County, Jiangsu). , and asked Liu Bei to be the assassin of Yuzhou. Tao Qian was dead, so Lu Zhu and others led the people of Xuzhou to Xiaopei to welcome Liu Bei. Liu Bei didn't dare to accept it at first, so please greet Yuan Shu instead. Chen Deng, the captain of the Diannong School, and Kong Rongming, the minister of Beihai, thought that Yuan Shu was not a person who governed the country, and strongly persuaded Liu Bei to accept it. So Liu Bei came out to serve as the pastor of Xuzhou, and was able to occupy Xuzhou (now Tancheng, Shandong). Liu Bei garrisoned Xiapi (northwest of present-day Suining, Jiangsu). Here, Xiapi became the governance center of Xuzhou.