Compared with Cao Zhen on the eastern front and Cao Xiu on the western front, Cao Ren's attack on the central line was the latest, he first used the strategy of attacking the east and the west to lure Zhu Heng, the commander of the Wu State, to divide his troops, and then surrounded Zhu Heng in the city of Misu with superior forces, but Cao Ren's command was wrong in the later period, resulting in the defeat of the Cao army on the central line. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

【Midline Battlefield】

The Wei State attacked Wu on a large scale, and the Eastern Wu was attacked by the three sides, among which the Wei State Grand Sima Cao Ren led tens of thousands of cavalry to march to the expedition, and the scattered cavalry Chang Ji servant, his son Cao Tai, the generals Chang Diao, Zhuge Qian, and Wang Shuang followed. On the Wu side, Zhu Huan succeeded Zhou Tai, who died of illness, as the governor of Wei, and there were generals such as Luo Tong and Yan Gui under his command.

Cao Ren planned to attack Zhoushang, first pretending to attack Xianxi to the east, but in fact it was Jiang Ji who led the troops; Zhu Huan divided his troops and rushed to Xianxi, and after the troops set off, he suddenly learned that Cao Ren had only seventy miles to march into Xixu. Zhu Huan sent an envoy to chase back the troops who rushed to Xianxi, but the troops had not yet rushed back, and Cao Ren had already arrived suddenly.

At that time, there were only 5,000 soldiers under Zhu Huan and the soldiers deployed nearby, and the generals were very afraid. Zhu Huan enlightened them and said: "Whenever two armies face each other, the victory or defeat depends on the ability of the generals, not on the number of soldiers. You have heard about Cao Ren's use of soldiers, how can you compare with me Zhu Huan? The Art of War says that the defender only needs half of the army to resist several times the enemy's army, which refers to the battle on the plains, and in the absence of a city as a garrison, the victory or defeat depends on whether the soldiers are brave and whether they advance and retreat consistently. Now the enemy's Cao Ren has neither command talent nor bravery, and his soldiers are very timid, and thousands of miles away, long journeys, men and horses are tired and sleepy, I, Zhu Huan and the generals, together with the high city wall, the south of the river, the north of the mountains and mausoleums, to wait for work, to the main control of the guest, this is the battle of a hundred battles and all victories. Even if Cao Pi came in person, there was no need to worry, let alone just Cao Ren's generation! ”

So Zhu Huan died down, looking very weak from outside the city, thus luring Cao Ren to attack. Cao Ren really sent his son Cao Tai to raid the city of Weixu, and sent the general Chang Diao to supervise Zhuge Qian, Wang Shuang and others, and in the morning took an oil boat to attack another attack on Zhongzhou, which was where Zhu Huan's wives and children were. Jiang Ji knew that he said to Cao Ren: "The thieves occupy the west bank and line up the boats upstream, while our soldiers enter the continent, they put themselves into hell, which will lead to dangerous death." Cao Ren didn't listen.

Cao Ren personally led 10,000 people to stay in Lugao as a backup for Cao Tai and others. Zhu Huan led the troops to attack the oil tanker, and sent another general to attack Chang Diao and other generals, Wu general Luo Tong and Yan Gui resisted and defeated together, Zhu Huan and other generals personally resisted Cao Tai, burned his camp to repel them, so he beheaded Chang Diao, captured Wang Shuang alive, and sent it to Wuchang, where more than 1,000 people were killed or drowned.

Later, Cao Pi ordered the entire front to retreat, and after Cao Ren went through this battle, he was full of regret and died of illness soon after.

[Retaliation after the fact]

Previously, after Wu Xikou's general Jin Zong led an army to rebel against Wu and surrender to Wei, Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi named him the Taishou of Qichun, and ordered him to return to Qichun (now southwest of Qichun, Hubei), defend the border, and cross the river from time to time to attack the border city of Le'an and other places on the border of Wu. Sun Quan was ashamed.

In June of the second year of Huangwu (223), when Sun Quan had just retired from Cao Wei's army, he ordered He Qi to command Elfang, Liu Shao and other troops to crusade against Jinzong.

[Summary of the three lines]

Historically, Cao Pi attacked Wu in three ways, the scale is still not small, relatively speaking, the middle line is obviously not the main direction of attack, Cao Wei's main generals are only Cao Ren, the eastern front has at least Cao Xiu, Zhang Liao, Zang Ba three generals, and the western front is more, not only Cao Zhen, Xu Huang, Xiahou Shang, Zhang He and other generals, but also Cao Pi in Wancheng to suppress the formation, so the western front should be Cao Wei's main direction of attack, the middle line and the eastern front may only play a leading role.

In order to fight against Cao Pi, Sun Quan also sent generals such as Lü Fan, Xu Sheng, Quan Cong, and He Qi on the eastern front, with Zhu Heng as the commander in the middle line, and Zhu Ran stationed in Jiangling on the western front, Zhuge Jin, Pan Zhang and others as support.

In terms of troops, Cao Wei has sent tens of thousands of troops in the middle line battlefield, it can be seen that the troops on the other second-line battlefields can only be more, the total strength of Cao Wei on the battlefield of Jiangling may even exceed 100,000, and the total strength of the third line is estimated to be about 200,000.

Coincidentally, the situation on the eastern, middle and western fronts was basically similar, with Cao Wei's army gaining the upper hand first, but none of them made a breakthrough, and was later reversed by Eastern Wu.

On the Eastern Front, because the Yangtze River is separated, Cao Wei's naval army has a great disadvantage compared to Eastern Wu, so Cao Xiu and others have no good way to take Lu Fan at the beginning, but Lu Fan and others have bad luck, a strong wind directly dispersed Wu's naval army, Cao Xiu took the opportunity to pick up a big bargain, but even so, Cao Xiu still couldn't break Xu Sheng with superior military strength on the water, and when He Qi came to help, Cao Xiu couldn't beat it, so he had to adopt harassment tactics, but unfortunately the effect was not great.

On the whole, Cao Xiu was forced by the disadvantage of the naval army on the battlefield of the Eastern Front, and it was difficult to cross the river, so Cao Xiu's original intention of the army may have been to contain the Wu army, and it was not the main direction of Cao Wei's attack, but later he was helped by the strong wind, and Cao Xiu once had a chance, but unfortunately it was finally destroyed by Xu Sheng, He Qi and others.

And the middle line Cao Ren attacked the wet beard, this place Cao Cao has fought many times, but none of them have been defeated, so Cao Pi may not have expected to be able to defeat in advance, so he only sent Cao Ren a general, and it is estimated that it is mainly to contain the Wu army. However, because Zhu Heng fell for Cao Ren's plan to attack the east and west, he gave Cao Ren a chance to break through the wet beard.

However, Cao Ren later committed his own death, and as a general, he did not personally lead the troops to fight, but ran to the rear as support, and sent his eldest son Cao Tai, who had almost no military experience, to command the siege battle, and also sent troops deep behind enemy lines, not listening to Jiang Ji's advice, and finally suffered a big defeat, and he lost his life afterwards.

As Cao Wei's main direction of attack, the situation on the western front battlefield was much better than the other two-line battlefield, Sun Wu's peripheral troops in Jiangling were quickly wiped out by Cao's army, Jiangling City was easily surrounded by Cao Zhen, Xiahou Shang and others, Sun Quan's reinforcements Zhuge Jin, Pan Zhang and others also rescued to no avail, so Cao's army gained six months to break through Jiangling and defeat Zhu Ran.

However, Cao Jun couldn't break Jiangling City to the death, under Zhu Ran's guard, Jiangling City was impregnable, after Zhu Ran's long delay, the situation gradually changed, with the outbreak of the plague, Cao Jun had to swallow the defeat and retreat.