In May of the fifteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, personally led a large army to march south to Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, entered Wancheng in July, and met with General Yangwu and Nanyang Taishou Zhang Xiu. Due to the summer heat and the rampant epidemic, Cao's army rested temporarily at the foot of the green forest and dragged it until winter, before it began to advance to Xiangyang, Liu Biao's base camp.

However, at this time, Jing Yang had already joined forces, and Zhou Yu led an army of 30,000 troops to the east along the river to aid Liu Biao. Cao Cao was forced to successively send troops and horses from all over the Central Plains to the south, with a total strength of up to 200,000, and wanted to fight with Liu Biao and Zhou Yu in the Hanshui Valley. Immediately, Zhou Yu made a plan, held Liu Biao hostage, abandoned Xiangyang, and retreated south to Jiangling.

At the beginning of the following year, in the next battle of Jiangling City, Zhou Yu burned Cao Ying, and Cao Cao was forced to abandon Jiangling and turn to Jiangxia County to govern Xiling. In February, Zhou Yu defeated Cao's army under Xiling City, and Cao Cao saw that his morale was low and his food was insufficient, so he had no choice but to order the troops to return.

If the war ends here, it will almost be a copy of the "Battle of Red Cliffs" in the original history, and the losses of Cao's army are not very large. The reason for this is that under the instigation of Xun Xiao's butterfly wings, Cao Cao quelled Yuan Shao's forces in advance, and even entered Liaodong, destroyed Gongsun, and made Lu Bu go to Dingliangzhou, temporarily ensuring the safety of the flanks. In addition, the alliance between Sun Quan and Liu Biao was looser than that of Sun Quan and Liu Bei, and each of the two families was constrained by a large number of surrendering factions, which made it difficult for Zhou Yu to complete his work.

There are other factors that restrict the outcome of this battle, such as Chen Dengwei's death, Tai Shici's defense of Huainan, Lu Su's rough construction of a water division in Pengli, and Cao Cao's failure to collect the half-hearted Jingzhou soldiers, and so on. Plainly. Only in the midst of strategizing. Therefore, it can win a thousand miles. This battle was a full five years earlier than the original history, and the accumulation of the northern army was greatly greater than that of the southern army, and it was able to defeat but not collapse.

However, the interesting thing is that although the main battlefield is in Jingxiang, the final result is an idle man thousands of miles away - it is Xun who led the Youzhou Navy Division to the south, harassed Wu Hui, and forced Sun Quan to recall Zhou Yu. As soon as Zhou Yu retreated, Huang Zu was unable to support himself. It is to raise Jiangxia to surrender Cao Cao, although Cao Cao's dragon is overturned, but it has a corner, and it has regained a lot of advantages on the overall board. Therefore, Cao Cao did not flee all the way back to Xudu as in the original history, but reluctantly beat the drum of victory and declared to the outside world that he was a teacher of the Song Kai class.

The inside has not been lost, and the face has been gained, although Prime Minister Cao Cheng has regrets in his heart, his mood on the way back to Beijing is not very bad. Seeing that he was about to arrive in Xudu. Xi was worried about the letter and told Cao Cao. said that the Son of Heaven planned to meet him in person. Cao Cao said a few words of humility, but in his heart he was quite useful.

At this moment, a fast horse suddenly sent Lu Su's urgent letter. Cao Cao unfolded the letter and looked at it, and suddenly his eyebrows were raised, his eyes were bloodshot, and he shouted: "The thief dares to hear!" ”

What news did Lu Su report to Cao Cao? It turned out that Zhou Yu returned to the teacher and passed through Spring Valley, but he was stabbed by Sun Quan's brother Sun Wei!

After two battles under Jiangling and Xiling City, Cao Cao hated Zhou Yu so much that he said that when I reorganize my troops and horses, I can ignore the isolated city of Jiangling, take Jiangdong directly, and then compete with the juniors! Since the beginning of the army, there has never been such an ugly battle, and it is simply played by Zhou Yu. Whether it is strategic planning, or campaign scheduling, or tactical application, Zhou Gongjin is a masterpiece in the world, if I can't break it in person, how can I eliminate the hatred in my heart? !

But I didn't expect Zhou Yu to die in the hands of "my own people", Cao Cao didn't feel the slightest joy, but he was full of anger, and he regretted it very much - I relied on my junior to hang up with the halo of defeat like this, I can't make up for it this time, it's bearable, it's unbearable!

Lu Su recounted in the letter, saying that he had secretly sent people to lobby Sun Wei a long time ago—since Sun Wei had been interested in seizing power and had been alienated by Sun Quan after his defeat, it was a great opportunity for us to divide Jiangdong. Originally, Cao Cao knew about this, of course Lu Zijing reported it, and Cao Cao also promised that if Sun Wei surrendered, he could transfer Sun Ben's position as the assassin of Yangzhou to him, and give him the title of general and the title of marquis of Ting, and even the title of county marquis. Lu Su used it to lure Sun Wei, Sun Wei was quite moved, but he couldn't find a suitable opportunity - he only had more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in his headquarters, and he was transferred out of his heart, even if he made a rebellion, he couldn't shake Sun Quan's rule; Directly cross the river to Cao Cao, one is not the size of the merit, I am afraid that Cao Cao will not keep his promise, and the other is that even if he gets the post of Yangzhou Assassin, it is an empty title.

This time, Zhou Yu withdrew his troops and returned to Wuhui, and Lu Su sent someone to inform Sun Wei again, saying that the opportunity had come, if he could rob this army and horses on the road, would you still be worried that Sun Quan would not die? "Su expects the day when the general enters Wu." Of course, Lu Su didn't have much hope for Sun Wei, and he didn't believe that he could capture the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Xiajiang East and West Expedition, but if he wanted to make some trouble, he might be able to profit from it.

Unexpectedly, Sun Wei was crazy, and he actually invited Zhou Yu to a banquet, so he persuaded Zhou Gongjin to surrender during the banquet. Zhou Yu resolutely refused, Sun Wei was angry, simply threw the cup as a signal, ambushed the soldiers, directly took Zhou Yu's life, and then took Zhou Yu's seal to receive the soldiers and horses. He didn't expect that at this time, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and other veterans had already refused to obey Zhou Yu's dispatch, ignored them, and continued to return east. And Zhou Yu did not return to the boat for a long time, but saw that someone took the seal ribbon and asked to hand over the soldiers and horses to Sun Wei to command, Dong Xi, He Qi, Zhou Tai and other generals were all suspicious, and soon the two sides clashed in Chungu County. Sun Wei was defeated and tried to cross the river north to Lusu, but was caught up by Dong Xian and directly overturned his boat, and the Dingwu Zhonglang general of Eastern Wu was drowned alive.

When Lu Su heard the news, he hurriedly reported to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was really angry when he saw the letter - of course he didn't blame Lu Su, Lu Zijing stood in his own position, trying to mess with the enemy, not only did he have no fault, but also had merit, and Lu Su didn't ask Sun Wei to kill Zhou Yu. was full of resentment, and it was all sprinkled on Sun Wei's head, and he couldn't help sneering: "If he doesn't drown, I will crack it!" ”

By the way, he also angered Sun Quan again: "The Sun family is all wolves and jackals, but it's a pity that Gongjin doesn't know his master!" "Didn't I have a chance to fish out Sun Wei's body from the Yangtze River to crack the car? It doesn't matter, another day I can split Sun Quan, as well as Sun Quan and Sun Wei's big ticket brothers!

Cao Cao's good mood was overwhelmed in an instant, and he returned to Xu Capital with a straight face, which made Liu Xie, the son of heaven who came to the suburbs to greet him in person, feel worried. Liu Xie heard that the prime minister's southern expedition on the surface won half of Nanjun and the entire Jiangxia, but in fact, the loss of troops and generals almost outweighed the losses. He was secretly happy at the beginning, this mood can hide from others, but he can't hide from the queen Fu and the old father-in-law Fu Wan, the eldest brother-in-law Fu Dian, and the younger brother-in-law Fu De - it can't be that those people leaked some news, so that the prime minister didn't give me a good look, right?

What can I do? What can I do?!

After Liu Xie returned to the palace, he cried at his wife, saying that Cao Cao's power is getting bigger and bigger, and maybe one day he will abolish me...... "There is a precedent for Qingguan old history, can the Son of Heaven live?" ”

After the back is like the color of the earth, he replied: "I'm afraid I can't live ......" from the end of the Han Dynasty forward, although the history is not long, there are many precedents: first of all, Liu Hong, the young emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, when he punished Zhu Lu and welcomed Xiaowen for the courtiers, he slandered him for not being the son of Emperor Hui, and he was directly slaughtered; Then his son Liu Ying, Wang Mang usurped the throne, he was imprisoned at the age of five, and was later killed by Li Song; Finally, it was Liu Wei, the king of Hongnong, and Dong Zhuo made Li Ru enter a glass of wine......

This is still the same dynasty, if the dynasty is really going to change, is it possible that the abolished son of heaven will not die?

If you want to say that it is really okay, in the original history, after Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, he was quite generous to put Liu Xie under house arrest, and he was under house arrest until he died of old age, and the ending was not very bad. The problem is that the change of dynasty and the abolition of the Son of Heaven have to live, Liu Xie's is the first one (Liu Ying is barely counted, but soon the world will be in chaos, but he wants to live and can't do it), at this time, he can't imagine that he still has the last luck. So the husband and wife were hugging their heads and crying, and after finishing the troubled and filial piety, they wrote a letter to tell their father, and they were so frightened that they said they were sick for more than a month and did not dare to go to court.

Besides, when the news of Zhou Yu's murder reached Wu County, Sun Jing, who was already in seclusion, was so shocked that she was wearing mourning clothes and personally ran to Sun Quanmen's door to kneel and plead guilty. Sun Quan hurriedly went out, picked up Sun Jing, and said Uncle, this is none of your business, and I will not be angry with the brother next to me - but immediately ordered that Sun Wei's name be deleted from the family tree, and from now on he was not allowed to have the surname Sun, and when he talked about it, he would say "evil".

Immediately, Sun Quan set up a mourning hall and personally guarded the sacrifice for Zhou Yu, crying like a tearful man in front of the ministers. Sun Quan is not pretentious, thinking that Sun Ce died at the beginning, Sun Wei wanted to be chaotic, Zhang Zhao was the mastermind inside, and Zhou Yu was in charge of the military outside, but if one of these two refused to protect himself, he would never have the opportunity to sit on the throne of Marquis Wu. Emotionally speaking, of course, he is not as good as his own brother, and he can be like a brother with Zhou Yu, but in terms of political interests, especially at this critical juncture, I really can't lose Zhou Gongjin!

Do you want to kill my grandson?

Zhang Zhao came to pay tribute, and he also mourned and cried - although he and Zhou Yu have different political concepts, they have no selfish grudges, and they have been colleagues for many years, and Zhou Yu has always been respectful before and after "Zhang Gong", and Zhang Zibu can't bear to see him fall into such a fate. However, feelings belong to feelings, state affairs are state affairs, and then Zhang Zhao wiped away his tears and advised Sun Quan, saying that Gongjin was killed, like the collapse of beams and columns, then the building will collapse, you should quickly make up your mind, send a question to the court, and express obedience.

Sun Quan was about to agree, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others quit, saying that Gong Jin's words are still in his ears, and now that the bones are not cold, can you bear to betray his concept? Although Gong Jin is dead, we will not allow Cao thieves to get involved in Jiangdong!

The two sides almost quarreled on the mourning hall, and finally Bu Qi jumped out to be a peacemaker, saying that we can send both hostages and not hostages - the lord's brother can't send it to Xudu, we can send it to the brother, aren't Sun Wei's younger brothers all suitable candidates?

In the end, it was decided to send Sun Jing's fourth son, Sun Huan, to Xu Du as a hostage, and to perfunctory Cao Cao for the time being. Cao Cao was honest and polite, and directly put Sun Huan in prison, and waited for the rest of his brothers to be arrested and killed together, so as to avenge Zhou Yu! (To be continued......)