【First Site】

When the sour jujube coalition was disbanded, due to the deep grudge between Liu Dai and Qiao Mao, Liu Dai took the opportunity to kill Qiao Mao and let his subordinate Wang Qiu serve as the Taishou of Dongjun.

Soon after, the Black Mountain thieves Kou Yuxuan, Bai Huan, and Zheng Gu led more than 100,000 people to Wei County and Dong County to rob them, and Wang Qiu was powerless to resist. Cao Cao decided to send troops to support Dongjun in this situation, and he had an encounter with Bai Huan in Puyang, and he broke the thief army. Therefore, Yuan Shao listed Cao Cao as the Taishou of Dongjun, replacing Wang Qiu, and the county seat was located in Dongwuyang, which was also the first territory obtained by Cao Cao in the history of the Three Kingdoms, and it was the birthplace of Cao Cao.

In order to fight against the Yellow Turban Army's remnants of the Black Mountain bandits, Cao Cao personally commanded the army to garrison Dunqiu, and Yu Poison and others attacked Cao Cao's base camp Dongwuyang. However, Cao Cao did not order reinforcements, but instead ordered the army to march west into the mountains and attack the camp of Yu Poison and others. At that time, all the subordinate generals asked for the rescue of Dongwuyang, and Cao Cao said: "Let the rebels hear that we are traveling west, if they come back to rescue, then the siege of Dongwuyang will not be relieved; If they don't come back, then we will be able to capture their camp, and they will certainly not be able to take Wuyang. ”

Cao Cao led his army to attack the enemy's lair. When Yu Poison heard that Cao's army was heading west, he was forced to abandon Dongwuyang and return to the army to rescue the camp. Cao Cao took advantage of the situation to march into Neihuang and launched an attack on Zhenggu and Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Fuluo, defeating both teams.

In this way, Cao Cao basically repelled the Black Mountain bandits and the Southern Xiongnu in Dongjun.

In the second year of Chuping (191), after Cao Cao officially became the Taishou of Dongjun, there were many happy events, not only Chen Gong, a native of Dongyang, decided to assist him, but even Yingchuan Xunyu abandoned Yuan Shao to join him. Chen Gong and Xun Yu were the first strategists to defect to Cao Cao, and from then on, Cao Cao was no longer a general who could only lead troops to fight, but officially became one of the princes, and the civil and military teams around him were gradually built.

Xun Yu is Xun Shu's grandson and has been talented and famous since he was a child. At that time, the world was in turmoil, and he said to the elders in the township: "Yingchuan is flat and surrounded by enemies, so you should take refuge as soon as possible." "Many people in the village are attached to their homeland, and they are reluctant to leave, only Xun Yu led his family to defect to Han Fu. Later, Li Dao and Guo Yan invaded the Yingchuan area, and almost all the villagers who did not leave were killed by the Xiliang army.

When Xun Yu arrived in Jizhou, Yuan Shao had replaced Han Fu, although Yuan Shao received Xun Yu with the gift of honor, but he still thought that Yuan Shao could not achieve great things in the end, and after hearing that Cao Cao had great talents, Xun Yu left Yuan Shao and went to Cao Cao. After Cao Cao interviewed him, he was very happy and said, "This is my Zhang Liang!" So he appointed him as Fenwu Sima.

After Cao Cao got "Wang Zuozhicai" and "his own ovary" Xun Yu, he successively recommended many talents such as Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Xun You, Zhong Xuan, Chen Qun, Du Yi, Sima Yi and so on, which made Cao Cao's think tank gradually plump, and the talent pool of Cao Cao Group became more and more huge. Later, Xun Yu became the second person in Cao Cao's group, and Cao Cao basically let him "hold the middle".

[Liu Dai who died]

Liu Dai was a relative of the Han family, and after Dong Zhuo came to power, he became the Yanzhou Assassin under the recommendation of Wu Qiong and Zhou Bi, but he then joined the Kwantung Coalition to defeat Dong Zhuo.

Later, Liu Dai was involved in a dispute between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan. Liu Dai made peace with Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, and Yuan Shao even let his family live in Liu Dai's residence at first, and Gongsun Zhan also sent his subordinates to assist Liu Dai by leading the army to assist Liu Dai. After Yuan Shu, Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao fell out, Gongsun Chan led his troops into Jizhou to crusade against Yuan Shao, at the beginning Yuan Shao was beaten and retreated one after another, Gongsun Chan took this opportunity to strongly ask Liu Dai and Yuan Shao to cut off contact, and even ordered his subordinates Fan Fang: "If Liu Dai does not drive Yuan Shao's family away, you will lead the army back." When I destroy Yuan Shao, I will attack Liu Dai. ”

Liu Dai hesitated about this matter and couldn't make a decision, and his other driver Wang Yu told Liu Dai that it was better to ask Cheng Yu. So Liu Dai summoned Cheng Yu and asked him for a strategy, Cheng Yu said: "It is useless to give up the close aid of Yuan Shao of Jizhou and want to get the distant help of Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, just like going to a distant place to ask a swimmer to rescue the people who are about to drown here." Moreover, Gongsun Chan is not Yuan Shao's opponent, and now although Gongsun Chan has defeated Yuan Shao's army, he will eventually be captured by Yuan Shao. ”

Liu Dai listened to his strategy, and Fan Fang led the cavalry to leave Yanzhou and return to Gongsun Zhan's camp, but before he arrived, Gongsun Zhan had already been repelled by Yuan Shao.

In the third year of Chuping (192), the Yellow Turban Army revived, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, which numbered as many as one million people, entered Yanzhou and killed Zheng Sui, the minister of Rencheng.

Liu Dai, as the assassin of Yanzhou, was ready to lead troops to suppress it, but was dissuaded by Bao Xin, the minister of Jibei: "Now there are more than one million thieves, the people are panicked, and our morale is low, so we can't confront them head-on; The thieves were accompanied by groups of young and old, and military supplies were scarce, and they only relied on looting to supply the troops. They can't fight, and they can't attack the city, and they are bound to disperse, and then we will send elite soldiers and strong generals to occupy dangerous terrain, and then we can defeat the thieves in one fell swoop. ”

It's a pity that Liu Dai didn't listen, and insisted on personally leading the troops to fight, but the result was defeated, and Liu Dai himself was killed by the Yellow Turban Army. It is in response to the saying "If you don't listen to the good (old) people, you will suffer in front of you".

After the death of Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, Yanzhou became a borderless land.

After Chen Gong, who had already taken refuge in Cao Cao at that time, learned about this, he immediately proposed to Cao Cao that he go to the state capital to persuade Yanzhou not to drive and support Cao Cao as the pastor of Yanzhou. With the strong support of Bao Xin and others, Chen Gong quickly reached an agreement with the governor Wan Qian and others through his own lobbying, and everyone immediately went to Dongjun to support Cao Cao as the pastor of Yanzhou.

【Yanzhou】

After Liu Dai forcibly sent troops back to heaven, Cao Cao took the opportunity to become the pastor of Yanzhou on his behalf.

Yanzhou consisted of eight counties, including Chenliu, Dongjun, Rencheng, Taishan, Jibei, Shanyang, Jiyang, and Dongping, with a general scope in present-day western Shandong and eastern Henan, and its seat of governance was in Changyi (now Changyi Town, Juye County, Shandong Province).

Historically, in the early days of Cao Cao's reign as the pastor of Yanzhou, in order to resist Yuan Shu, he changed his administrative office to Juancheng, which was closer to Jizhou.

Although Cao Cao seized the opportunity to become the pastor of Yanzhou, Yanzhou was facing a huge internal and external crisis at this time. Internally, the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou is still wandering around, causing chaos everywhere, making it impossible to ignore them; Externally, the imperial court has newly sent Jin Shang as the assassin of Yanzhou, and Yuan Shu, Tao Qian and others, who are at odds with Yuan Shao, are also eyeing them from the sidelines.

Under such a severe internal and external crisis, is Cao Cao, a little fresh Yanzhou pastor, enough to survive?