Chapter 4: The Black Hand
In other words, when people in later generations look at the Three Kingdoms and taste the Three Kingdoms, they see the majestic momentum, and they all see heroes who are short of breath and have long children. Who will think deeply about the irrationality behind those major historical events?
Zhang Jiao is a monk who has become a cultivator, but why did he engage in the Yellow Turban Rebellion and stir up the Han Dynasty?
Dong Zhuo is just a warlord in Xiliang, but why was he able to enter Beijing, so as to dominate the Beijing division and monopolize power?
In the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao's army was more than 500,000, but why was he defeated by Cao Cao, who had less than 100,000 soldiers?
In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao's army was nearly one million, and he carried the momentum of devouring Jingxiang, but he still fell in Chibi, why is this?
In the battle of Yiling, Liu Bei's army of more than 700,000 people was so defeated that Jiangdong children had to surrender, but why was it burned by a fire for 700 miles?
Also, did Guan Yu really carelessly lose Jingzhou?
Is it true that Ma Tan lost the street pavilion because of his conceit?
Why did the fire in the upper valley catch up with the rain?
On the Wuzhang Plain, the Seven Stars were about to succeed, but why did Wei Yan want to break into the big tent?
All of this, I don't think I think it when I look at the Three Kingdoms and taste the Three Kingdoms.
Now, the soul pierces Zhuge Liang, and he also receives the unwilling soul fragments of the prime minister of Shu Han decades later, Zhuge Liang looks at this era again, and connects this series of events, no matter how you look at it, it is all foggy, as if there is a black hand behind it, pushing all this.
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Zhang Jiao is a monk, and the Dao method is still a little successful, so he should continue to cultivate in the blessed land of Xianshan. But he just got involved in Hongchen, and also organized Taiping Dao and engaged in a Yellow Turban Uprising.
For the sake of luck or karma, there are also people who cultivate the Tao and go into the red dust for a while.
Even in troubled times, in order to compete for a lot of luck, it is not a problem to go out of the mountain to assist a certain prince.
However, why did Zhang Jiao want to fight for the dragon by himself?
It is important to know that Taoism and dragon qi cannot coexist.
Cultivators fight for the dragon, or the Dao devours the dragon qi, and if they fail to fight for the dragon, their power will be extinguished in an instant.
Either the dragon qi has eroded the Dao Dharma, and the monk's cultivation will eventually regress to the bottom.
Even if the dragon battle is successful in the end, it is only an emperor.
Moreover, when monks enter the world to fight for the dragon, it has always been a matter of success or death.
Even if you can succeed in fighting for the dragon in the end, you will have to be counterattacked by heaven. The dynasty he established was short-lived, not to mention, and the princes and grandsons could not produce long-lived people. This kind of backlash is irreversible unless it has contributed greatly to the world.
As a monk who has achieved a small degree in cultivation, could Zhang Jiao not understand this?
However, Zhang Jiao just entered the world to fight for the dragon, and led the so-called Yellow Turban Army of official coercion and civil rebellion to shake the decadent and degenerate Han Empire, which still has decades of energy.
In other words, the so-called official coercion and civil rebellion, one county, one county, may be possible.
Could it be that the entire thirteen states of the Han Dynasty are all forced by the government and the people?
However, Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Army swept through eight states, almost two-thirds of the territory of the Han Empire.
It is said that at this time, Zhang Jiao's battle for the dragon is almost complete, right?
But on the contrary, Zhang Jiao died violently at this time.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion that swept through Bazhou was also quickly suppressed.
To say that there is no black hand behind this whole thing, Zhuge Liang does not believe it.
Many bricks in later generations called beasts, far-fetched, and found many reasons to prove that the Yellow Turban Rebellion would undoubtedly fail, but almost no one dug deeply, and many of them were unreasonable.
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Dong Zhuo was originally just a strong party in Xiliang.
In normal times, Dong Zhuo was very righteous, taking advantage of the chaos of the Hu people in Liangzhou, forming a tribe, taking advantage of the chaos, and then buying off the government, and then becoming the Taishou of Xiliang, becoming one of the major warlords in Liangzhou.
It stands to reason that the battle in the center of the court should not summon the princes of the border lands.
Even if you want to summon the princes and King Qin, it won't be Dong Zhuo's turn to say!
In the end, Dong Zhuo was summoned to King Jingqin.
The history and romance of later generations detained this black cauldron on Yuan Shao.
Let Dong Zhuo cause trouble to the Han family, this selfishness, Yuan Shao may or may not have it.
Even if Zhuge Liang is already in this era, he can't figure it out.
But no matter what, behind Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing, isn't there a black hand pushing it?
Moreover, according to Dong Zhuo's performance in Xiliang, even if he is ambitious, he should be a normal prince. But why did Dong Zhuo behave so brutally after entering Beijing?
Is Dong Zhuo brutal by nature?
Or is someone luring Dong Zhuo to rush on the brutal road?
Even if Zhuge Liang is wise and close to the demon, he can't tell the difference at this time.
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The most puzzling thing is that there are three major battles in the entire Three Kingdoms period.
In the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao had an army of more than 500,000, countless grains and grasses, and even more strategists around him, and fierce generals like rain.
On the other hand, Cao Cao, with an army of less than 100,000, had to divide his troops to guard against Liu Biao in Jingzhou and Sun Ce in Jiangdong; Its grain and grass are heavy, and it cannot support a protracted war. The strategists around him are okay, but the generals who are charging into battle, except for one Xu Chu, no one can compete with Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Zhang He.
It stands to reason that Yuan Shao didn't say that he would crush Cao Cao, but it was impossible for Cao Cao to defeat the strong with the weak, right?
In the early stage of the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao really lost more than he won. If it weren't for Guan Yu who happened to be tied up in Cao Ying, and beheaded Yan Liang and Wen Chou for Cao Cao, whether Cao Cao could hold Yan Liang and Wen Chou was a question.
Even if Yuan Shao folded Yan Liangwen and was ugly, as long as the battle situation continued, he would still be able to consume Cao Cao, right?
It is also true that when Yuan Shao still had more than one million stone military rations, Cao Cao's military rations had already run out. But at this time, one of the important strategists around Yuan Shao, Xu You ran to Cao Cao overnight and guided Cao Cao to the place where Yuan Shao stored grain.
As a result, a fire in Wuchao, Yuan Shao's millions of grains and grass were all turned into ashes, and it was also the beginning of Yuan Shao's downfall.
This series of things seems to be fine.
But from the conspirator's point of view, this is not the case.
One of the most critical is why did Xu Yu abandon the powerful Yuan Shao at the critical moment and defect to Cao Cao, who was already defeated?
If there is no Xu Yu's defection, the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao will be defeated!
The brick family of later generations called the beast analysis, which was the result of the tearing of several major strategists around Yuan Shao.
Let's ask, Xu You, Tian Feng, Guo Tu and others, since they are important strategists around Yuan Shao, no matter how they tear up on weekdays, don't they know how to exercise restraint at critical moments?
Do you have to force Xu Yu to defect to Cao Cao?
They are both a loss and a glory with Yuan Shao!
It's just that what is the purpose of not letting Yuan Shao annex Cao Cao?
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Let's talk about the Battle of Chibi.
Since the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao has become the overlord of the north, and took advantage of Liu Biao's illness to die.
At this moment, Cao Cao has an army of nearly one million, and his territory has reached the eight states of the Han Dynasty, with countless grains and grasses, and his subordinates are even more strategists and generals, which are ten more powerful than Yuan Shao at the beginning.
On the other hand, Sun and Liu joined forces.
Liu Bei is the remnant army that has just retreated from Xinye, although Guan Zhang Zhao is here, and the military division "Zhuge Liang" has been added, but there are only three or two thousand soldiers. Even if you count Liu Qi's troops stationed in Jiangxia, Liu Bei's forces are less than 30,000.
Although Sun Quan sits on the six counties of Jiangdong and is blocked by the Yangtze River, his army is less than 100,000.
If so, the combined forces of Sun and Liu are only 1230,000 people.
Not to mention that with 1230,000 soldiers and horses, how can they defeat Cao Cao's million-strong army, which is the money and grain of the six counties of Jiangdong, how can they compete with Cao Cao's wealth in the eight states?
It is said that Cao Cao's sweep of Jiangdong should be no problem.
But the result was that Cao Cao was burned to the ground by Zhou Yu's fire!
What arrogant soldiers will be defeated, what kind of deception surrender, that's all nonsense!
Cao Cao defeated the strong with the weak in the Battle of Guandu, wouldn't he be wary of following Yuan Shao's old path in the Battle of Chibi?
Even if Cao Cao couldn't think of it for a while, the strategists around him couldn't think of it?
Was Cao Cao blinded by others and became arrogant?
Or is there someone around him, a pawn laid by the mastermind behind the scenes?
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In the battle of Yiling, Liu Bei advanced by land and water, with an army of 750,000, along the Yangtze River, all the way like a bamboo, and the Jiangdong was defeated, and even Cao Wei was frightened and did not dare to pull Liu Bei's hind legs behind his back.
Liu Bei was so powerful, but he was burned by Lu Xun's fire for 700 miles.
This fire, the 750,000 army of Shu Han, not to mention all the ashes, even the Shu Han Emperor Liu Bei died in the White Emperor City.
This is another typical example of defeating the strong with the weak!
In other words, Liu Bei has experienced the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi, and has witnessed the defeat of the weak over the strong twice, is he defenseless and defeated the strong by Jiangdong?
If Liu Bei was on guard, why would he still be defeated by the Jiangdong Army with the weak?
It is recorded in the romance that the so-called brick family called the beast in later generations also analyzed that this was because the heat was hot, and the Shu army hid in the dense forest to escape the heat, which gave Lu Xun the opportunity to burn the company camp.
In Zhuge Liang's analysis at this time, this is also nonsense!
It's nice to have a hot day, but in the dense forest, it seems to be full of green branches and green leaves, right?
On the premise of not laying fire oil and igniting things in advance, who can set fire to mountains and forests with just thousands of flames?
Even the forest fire prevention in later generations was in autumn and winter.
In spring and summer, in the dense forest, the humidity is very heavy, and it is difficult to ignite the green branches and green leaves.
Of course, if you put fire oil and other things in advance, there is no problem.
But the question is, how did Lu Xun do it, in the dense forests all over the Shu army, people unknowingly planted things that ignited fire?
Lu Xun definitely can't do it, let alone a seven-hundred-mile company camp.
In this way, only the monk's action can not only ignite the dense forest in spring and summer, but also burn the camp for 700 miles at once!
It's just that the monk is so disrupting the general situation, he is afraid that the backlash he will receive will not be light, and his body and soul will be destroyed, this is certain.
But who would do that?
The mastermind behind this scene, in order to prevent Liu Bei from annexing Jiangdong, even ignored the backlash that the monk had to bear!
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These three major battles, if viewed individually, are all classics of defeating the strong with the weak.
But when put together, you can see the irrationality.
After Cao Cao defeated the strong with the weak in the Battle of Guandu, he did not take the enemy's lessons as a warning, but was defeated by the weak in the Battle of Chibi.
Liu Bei experienced two battles in which the weak defeated the strong, but he didn't take it as a warning, and the battle of Yiling was defeated by Sun Wu with the weak.
Now it seems that this is the operation of the people behind the scenes!
The fundamental reason for this is nothing more than to prevent someone from unifying the world.
In other words, to prevent someone from unifying the world in advance!