Chapter 22, the eight-character mantra

Chen Gong Chen Gongtai is not only Lu Bu's advisor, but also pawns soldiers and horses, in terms of his status, he can be compared to the frustration of Yuan Shao's subordinates in the past (of course, it refers to the previous affairs of frustration and exclusion by Guo Tu and others), in a sense, he can completely leave Lu Bu on his own.

Previously, it was Chen Gong who plotted and united with Ma Chao to pull Lu Bu into the rebellious thief ship, and led him to a big battle with Cao Cao. Although the peace agreement was concluded, LĂź Bu went north to attack Putou, but left Chen Gong on the southern front, and at the same time monitored the Guanzhong soldiers and horses of Han Sui in Jincheng, Liu Bei in Yizhou, and Cao Wei. Liu Bei wanted to send troops with Lu Bu to invade Guanzhong, and first sent Dong He, the general in charge of the army, to lobby, but was politely refused by Lu Bu on the pretext that he was busy attacking Han Sui. So Liu Bei used the strategy of Fa Zheng, and then sent Ma Chao to contact Chen Gong, saying that you have a grudge against Cao Cao in Gongtai, do you think that as long as you hide far away, you will be fine? Seeing that Cao Cao is about to pacify Jiangdong, he will inevitably turn around and use troops in the west, can you still abandon China and continue to flee west?

So Chen Gong's old trick was repeated, and once again provoked border friction, but Xiahou Yuan did not know how to retreat, that is, to kill Liangzhou near Longguan. Chen Gong got this excuse, so he sent troops to cooperate with Liu Bei without authorization, and the coalition army of more than 70,000 attacked Longguan.

Xiahou Yuan made the new Yongzhou assassin Sima Yi sit in Chang'an, and made Fufeng Taishou Su Zetun Yixian, Dangkou general Zhang Hetun Chen Cang, and Sima Guo Huai and others to defend Longguan - as far as Xiahou Miaocai's thoughts are concerned, what is Liu Bei? However, he is just a nouveau riche who is wandering around and gaining power due to fate, and the road from Hanzhong to Shanglong is difficult, so he has nothing to do, and only Lu Bu can be regarded as a strong opponent. Therefore, when he heard that Lu Bu had not arrived, only Chen Gong and Liu Bei joined forces to kill, so he simply - let's go out and attack!

In a big battle west of Longguan, Xiahou Yuan saw Liu Bei's big bow and umbrella cover from afar, so he immediately led the elite cavalry to charge into battle, wanting to take Liu Bei's head, Guo Huai persuaded: "The enemy is outnumbered, and I will be serious." Xiahou Yuan didn't listen at all: "I am the enemy against me, but I will fight forward, in order to break the heart, if you retreat, you will be defeated!" ”

As a result, it was quite smooth at first, but seeing that Liu Bei's army was approaching, suddenly the drums beat loudly, Zhao Yun was on the left, Wu Yi was on the right, and each led a large army to kill, wanting to cut off his way back. Xiahou Yuan saw that the enemy was rushing and did not move, so he had to retreat, Liu Bei's army was shaking the banner, the whole division pursued, Xiahou Yuan was hit by several arrows, and was forced to withdraw to Longguan - before Chen Gong also came out of the other way and stormed Longguan, if it were not for Guo Huai's defense, the city almost fell, then Xiahou Yuan retreated nowhere and would be defeated.

However, even if you return to the customs along the way, the loss is not less. After this defeat, this Xiahou Miaocai general no longer dared to go out of the pass to face the battle, but only guarded it strictly. However, this gentleman is a master of mobile warfare, but he is not good at defending the war, and it is inevitable that he will be overstretched and full of dangers. In addition, there were also warning signals from Chencang in the south, Zhang Fei, Chen Zhi and others came out of the old way from Sanguan, and after wanting to go down Chencang to break the Longguan, Zhang He defended quite hard. Therefore, Xiahou Yuan planned to abandon Longguan and retreat into Guanzhong, taking advantage of his familiarity with the terrain to contain and defeat the enemy in the movement, so he sent a fast horse to ask for instructions from Anyi.

At this time, Cao Ang, Shi Xun and others were not in Anyi, and there was only one Shangshu Ling Xun Yu left. On the one hand, Xun Gongda basically approved Xiahou Yuan's plan, and on the other hand, he successively mobilized soldiers and horses in Wei to reinforce, and at the same time reported the news to Xudu.

It happened that Cao Cao had also returned to Xudu because of the rebellion of Geng Ji and Wei Huang, so he planned to go west to support Xiahou Yuan. Shi Xun was deeply worried about this - didn't this fall into the embarrassing situation of Cao Cao's two-front battle in his later years, refusing to block the east and the west, and ending up being unpopular everywhere? It was too late to save Hanzhong, and Xiahou Yuan was beheaded, and then he helped Jingzhou and slowed down, and the Seventh Army was drowned...... It's all the result of this.

And at this critical juncture, Boss Cao was hot-headed for a while, and wanted to force Liu Xiexan to let - I just complained that day, I wanted you to beat the emperor well, but I really didn't have the heart to usurp the throne!

So he admonished Cao Cao bitterly, but Cao Cao waved his hand: "Sun Quan's corpse is still angry, there is nothing to worry about, wait for Jiang Nanping, you can ...... as you wish" The words were very secretive, but Xun understood as soon as he heard it - Ruyi, like whose will? Naturally, as the Cao family intended, Cao Cao wanted to perform the supreme position. Cao Cao's meaning, of course I won't change the dynasty immediately, I have to wait until Jiangnan is leveled first.

If Jiangdong is determined and the Sun clan is destroyed, then Jingzhou will be difficult to survive alone - not to mention that Liu Qi and Liu Pan are still breathing, if there is no foreign aid, they will basically fall down as soon as they push - with Jing and Yang, and then send a partial division to the south ridge, Jiaozhou can also be controlled. If that day really comes, and Liu Bei and LĂź Bu in the west are still turned away from the Guanzhong and fail to cause actual damage to the Guanzhong region, then Cao Cao does have the capital to be the emperor.

But is Koto so peaceful? Although Zhou Yu is gone, Lu Su is not there, Lu Meng has not grown up, and Lu Xun is the leader of the party at all, but there are still a lot of talented people in Jiangnan, Cao Cao is in person, even if he does not suffer the defeat of Chibi, it is difficult to overcome it in one go, not to mention that Cao Cao is back? Xiahou Yuanrang? Can he really pacify Jiangdong smoothly?

Maybe Cao Cao's brilliance is too dazzling, obscuring the edge of his subordinates, in the original history, Cao Ying has countless famous generals, but if you really want to say that you can do it in all aspects, lead a large army to fight in a large area and win, for example, Zhou Yu is in Chibi, Lu Xun is in Yiling, it seems that there are really not many, it may be just a battle of Xiahou Yuan Pingliangzhou - later there were Sima Zhongda, Deng Shizai, etc., but they led the troops are no longer Cao Cao's life. In addition, Zhang Liao was in Hefei and Xu Huang was in Xiangyang, although they fought very well, even if they did not consider the factor of the opponent's big move, the scale of the battle was not large after all, and it was incomparable.

So Lao Cao, you are back, just leave Xiahoudun, he may be able to win a few battles, but when it comes to pacifying Quanyang, what are the chances of success? Maybe it will drag on until the Year of the Monkey?

Shi Xun euphemistically raised his concerns to Cao Cao, but Cao Cao didn't care: "With Jia Wen and supplements, Yuan Rang will be able to make contributions." ”

Shi Xun still shook his head and said: "Wenhe is proficient in Western affairs, if he is brought into the customs, it will be difficult for Liu Bei and others to go deeper, but the affairs of Jiangnan ......" No matter how capable the generals and strategists are, it is impossible to conquer the world, and they all have their own limitations. Jia Xu is a native of Liangzhou, and he has been fighting in Guanzhong and Henan for many years, if you bring him to the Western Front, he will definitely be able to show his talents, but let him assist Xiahoudun to fight Jiangdong...... The Battle of Red Cliffs Zhou Yu fought beautifully, right? However, if you pull him to the Central Plains and fight against Xun You and Cheng Yu, it is estimated that he will have no fun.

Later generations often question why Cao Cao was able to lose so badly when he was in Chibi, including Xun You, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, and Liu Ye? In fact, it is restricted by the geographical and human environment. Cao Cao once sighed: "Guo Fengxiao is here, don't let him be lonely." "In fact, it's just a fantasy, even if you add Guo Jia, the chance of Chibi losing is still very high......

Facing Shi Xun's worries, Cao Cao smiled slightly, held his hand, and said warmly: "There is Jia Wenhe in the front, and then there is Hongfu, and the lonely is worry-free - Hongfu is the first book of eight characters, Wenhe thinks that it is directly aimed at the hearts of the people, and it must be Jiangnan, and the lonely is to stay in Zuoyuan." ”

It was Xun Yi who frowned, and said in his heart, why is there still my business here? What did I say that made Jia Xu so confident? It was hard to remember - "the eight characters of the previous book", I can't rely on those eight words!

On the day of Cao Cao's southern expedition, the Sun family was overstretched, so he sent Zhang Zhao to Cao Ying to negotiate peace, his posture was very low, and the conditions were also low, saying that you just need to leave Huiji County to us. Cao Cao was just when the wind was going well, his attitude was arrogant, and he was bent on completely destroying the Sun family, Zhang Zhao said, we must not let our lord go north, otherwise we will all die - we will fight with you!

When he was in Anyi, he heard this letter, and he wrote eight words in his letter to Cao Cao: "The southerners return to the south, and the northerners return to the north." "Didn't Sun Quan grit his teeth and refuse to be restrained? That's good, it's okay to leave him in Jiangdong, but all the Huaisi generals under him have to return to Jiangbei.

Originally, it was just a joke. In fact, those eight characters were not created by Xun, but came from a great traitor more than a thousand years later - Qin Hui. It is said that before Qin Hui became the prime minister, he once threatened that I had two plans, but I could settle the world; Others ask you why you don't want to say it, and there is no prime minister when you say it, and words are useless. When he was able to be the prime minister, he finally officially put the two plans on the table, which is the above eight words.

Qin Hui's intention was to admit the political pattern at that time, completely dispel the idea of recovering his homeland, and give up all the land and people north of the Yangtze River to the Jin people, or the puppet regime supported by the Jin people, and from then on, the Southern Song Dynasty court no longer accepted anti-Jin righteous people who were exiled from the Central Plains. Of course, the Jin people didn't capture a few southerners, and those who didn't return it were free to do so, so these eight words, "northerners return to the north" is true, and "southerners return to the south" is false.

But even if the four words are true, add four more words to clear it up, and make it seem like a reciprocal treaty, and the strong smell of surrender in it still can't be washed clean, so Zhao Gou is also vague, and said to people: "Qin Hui Yunnan people return to the south, northerners return to the north, and I return to the north." Although the humiliating Shaoxing peace conference was finally completed, these eight words still did not dare to be said in the open.

As a result, these eight words were said more than 1,000 years in advance, and Xun said them half-jokingly, but they were given by Cao Cao and Jia Xu as a treasure. The Sun family is originally from Fuchun County, Wu County, and is a southerner, while its core Huaisi group, such as Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, etc., is a northerner (Zhou Yu is a native of Shuxian County, Lujiang, and if the Yangtze River divides the north and south, it is also a northerner). Jia Xu thinks that this plan can perfectly block Sun Quan's mouth, and he can also take the opportunity to divide and divide the Sun Group.

Did Xun Xin say no, these eight words that were originally stinky on the street would become fragrant and sweet on this timeline? Where is the reason...... R1152