【Cao Song】

Cao Song, whose name is Jugao, was born in Peiguo County (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province), the adopted son of Cao Teng, a frequent attendant in the eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao's father.

Relying on Cao Teng's relationship and treating people decently, Cao Song in the last years of Emperor Huan had already paid homage to the commander of the school, and when Emperor Ling ascended the throne, he was promoted to the position of Dasi Nong and Dahonglu, and was successively in charge of the country's financial etiquette, ranking Jiuqing, and high power.

Cao Song is not like his adoptive father is an honest person, he has been an official for many years, and even has been a big farmer who manages the country's finances. As mentioned above, during the period of Emperor Ling, as long as you have money, you can buy any official, Cao Song was not satisfied with the position of Da Honglu, and paid a bribe of at least 100 million yuan to buy the position of Taiwei for himself, and the position of Taiwei was second only to the general at that time. After doing Jiuqing and becoming the third duke, Cao Song reached the peak of his political career.

Cao Song didn't like his eldest son Cao Cao very much at first, because Ah Pu was too naughty when he was a child, and he did too many "bad things" and caused a lot of trouble for Cao Song. But Cao Song still had a lot of relationships with Cao Cao, Cao Cao was able to become the commander of Dunqiu, serve as a speaker and speaker, become a cavalry lieutenant during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and Cao Cao could later become a military captain in the "Eight Captains of the West Garden", Cao Song made a lot of efforts, and who doesn't want his son to be good.

When the Ten Standing Servants were in turmoil, Cao Song resigned and lived in Luoyang. Later, Luoyang became more and more chaotic, and Cao Song took his family to Xuzhou Langxi to avoid trouble.

In the fourth year of the first peace period (193), Cao Cao had become the pastor of Yanzhou, and Cao Song defected to Cao Cao with his wife and concubine and youngest son Cao De, but they were all killed by the soldiers of Xuzhou.

Cao Cao avenged his father and attacked Xuzhou, opening a chapter in the Battle of Xuzhou.

【First Battle of Xuzhou】

After Cao Cao learned of the death of his father Cao Song and younger brother Cao De, it didn't matter whether Tao Qian deliberately did it at that moment, at that moment the blood had rushed to Cao Cao's brain, his heart was dripping blood, and the blood debt could only be repaid with blood.

In the autumn of the fourth year of Chuping (193), Cao Cao led a large army to crusade against Tao Qian and marched to Xuzhou, when Yuan Shao also sent his general Zhu Lingdu to help with three battalions.

Cao Cao's army successively conquered more than ten cities, and Cao Jiang conquered Guangwei (east of Pei County) in the ban, along Surabaya to Pengcheng. Another striker, Cao Ren, did not attack Tao Qian's general Lu You, and after breaking the enemy, he also joined forces with Cao Cao. Tao Qian led the army to meet the attack, but suffered a big defeat, so he had to flee from Pengcheng and retire to Tancheng in the East China Sea.

During Dong Zhuo's rebellion, most of the displaced people from all over the country moved east to attach themselves to Tao Qian and lived in the Pengcheng area, and this time they encountered Cao Cao's army, all of them were killed, and tens of thousands (some say hundreds of thousands) of people were driven to the Surabaya River to drown, and the corpses blocked the river, so that the river could not flow.

Cao Cao attacked Tancheng for a long time and did not resist. Then he turned to attack the three counties of Xian, Suiling, and Xiaqiu, and all the places he passed were slaughtered, the chickens and dogs were not left, and there were no more pedestrians in the ruins of the old city.

In order to fight against Cao Cao, Tao Qian sent people to ask for support from Tian Kai, the assassin of Qingzhou, and Tian Kai and Liu Bei led the army to rescue, at this time Cao Cao's army was about to run out, and he had to retreat.

This battle was not the result of Cao Cao's group's planning, but Cao Cao's hasty and rough decision, with an obvious revenge nature. Cao Cao himself started this war immediately after learning that his father and younger brother were killed, in fact, the Cao Cao group was not ready at that time, which can be seen from the fact that Cao Cao's military rations were insufficient.

Cao Cao slaughtered a large number of Xuzhou people to avenge his father Cao Song by means of blood for blood and tooth for tooth, but in this war, Cao Cao's basic purpose was not achieved, not only did he not occupy Xuzhou, but Tao Qian did not die, so it is foreseeable that the next battle of Xuzhou is already on the line.

【Tao Qian's dilemma】

Cao Song's death in Xuzhou put Tao Qian in a very disadvantageous position morally.

On TV, we saw that after Cao Cao invaded Xuzhou, Tao Qian sent people everywhere to ask for help, Yuan Shu ignored him, Yuan Shao hummed, and Gongsun Zan was thinking, and in the end, only the imperial uncle was willing to rescue, and then we were moved to tears by the emperor's uncle's benevolence.

But these were not staged at all in real history, because it was impossible for Tao Qian to send someone to ask them for help.

Yuan Shu and Tao Qian did fight against Yuan Shao and Cao Cao together, and it was also convenient for the two to rescue not far away, but that was already the past. After Yuan Shu lost to Cao Cao, he hit the idea of Yangzhou, which coincided with Tao Qian, the two turned their faces because of interests, Yuan Shu also called himself "Xuzhou Bo", do you think Tao Qian will lead the wolf into the house?

Yuan Shao won't say it, that's Cao Agui's iron buddy, at that time, don't say that Cao Song is dead, Cao Cao got the name of righteousness, that is, Cao Cao has nothing to do to crusade against Tao Qian, Yuan Shao may send troops to support, of course, it will not be Tao Qian's reinforcements.

Although Liu Biao has no contradiction with Tao Qian, first, his Jingzhou and Tao Qian's Xuzhou are too far away, and there is no time to rescue; The second is that Liu Biao had not fallen out with Cao Cao at that time, strictly speaking, Liu Biao was still Cao Cao's ally.

As for Gongsun Zhan, he was already Tao Qian's only ally at that time. But if you ask Gongsun Chan for help directly, it will be too late in time, after all, Gongsun Chan is in Youzhou, so it was the best choice to ask for help from Qingzhou Thorn Shi Tian Kai under Gongsun Chan at that time.

After Cao Cao retreated, Tao Qian knew very well that all this was not over. At that time, Qingzhou Thorn Shi Tian Kai wanted to turn back to guard Qingzhou, Tao Qian in order to leave the famous Liu Bei, his hometown of four thousand Danyang soldiers were handed over to him, so Liu Bei turned to subordinate Tao Qian, Tao Qian on the table Liu Bei for the Yuzhou Thorn History, tun in Xiaopei.

After doing everything well, Tao Qian could only look forward to the favor of Lady Luck.

【Battle Xuzhou again】

In April of the first year of Xingping (194), Cao Cao asked Sima Xunyu and Shou Zhang to order Cheng Yu to defend Juancheng, and after preparing everything, he led the army south to attack Xuzhou again.

Pull out the five cities first, and then go to Langxie and the East China Sea. The Hui army passed through Tancheng, and the Xuzhou generals Cao Bao and Liu Beitun soldiers in Tandong, invited Cao Cao to attack, and were broken by him.

After Liu Bei also failed, Tao Qian felt that the twilight of the day was exhausted, thinking that victory was hopeless, in order to avoid Cao Cao's pursuit he planned to flee back to his hometown Danyang, at this time, Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao betrayed Cao Cao, and his younger brother Yuan Guangling Taishou Zhang Chao welcomed Lu Bu into Yanzhou, Cao Cao had to return to the division to quell the rebellion.

But Tao Qian, an old man in his sixties, couldn't stand this kind of stimulation anymore, and after entrusting Xuzhou to his imperial uncle, Tao Qian died in the same year.

ps: Who is Uncle Huang?