But it was said that Cao Cao saw Xu Chu on the boat, and sighed: "Xu Chu is really a tiger idiot." ”

Cao Cao was afraid that Xu Chu would lose, so he ordered the two armies of Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong, who had come to meet from both sides, to attack Ma Chao.

The sergeant saw Xu Chu with two arrows in his arm and hurriedly helped him get off the boat.

Pang De and Ma Dai saw the arrival of Cao's reinforcements, commanded the two wings of iron cavalry, rampaged, and killed each other until the shore, and most of Cao's troops were wounded.

Ma Chao killed Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong, saw Cao Cao crossing the river by boat, and led the cavalry to shout and shoot on the shore, and arrows rained down.

Xu Chu, known as the "tiger idiot", used a saddle to block arrows with one hand and a pole with the other, rowing desperately.

Ding Fei, the captain of Cao Cao's tent, released several herds of cattle and horses on the river bank and galloped in the array.

Ma Chao's soldiers didn't care about the victory, and most of them ran to catch the running cattle and horses.

Ma Chao couldn't control it, so Cao Cao was able to successfully cross the river.

Cao Cao's generals were terrified when they saw the defeat on the south bank and did not know Cao Cao's whereabouts. When they saw Cao Cao, they were sad, happy, and some even shed tears of joy and sorrow.

Cao Cao laughed and said, "If it weren't for Ding Fei's design to lure the enemy, he would have almost been trapped by the thief!" “

In the battle of Tongguan, Cao Cao was pursued by Ma Chao, the village built by the logging company was burned, the tree fence was broken, the pontoon bridge across the river was demolished, and the generals were defeated and gathered, all of them panicked and depressed.

Sudden report: Xu Huang and Zhu Ling led 4,000 elites to cross Puhanjin at night, waited for work, defeated the 5,000 troops and horses of Liang Xing, the general of the Guanzhong Coalition Army, and set up camp west of Puhanjin and north of Weishui.

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Good." ”

Another report: The Qiang soldiers led the crowd to aid the pass. Everyone was shocked, and Cao Cao was happy: "It's just right." ”

Everyone was puzzled and asked why.

Cao Cao said: "Tell me after victory." Then he ordered the generals to reorganize the army and horses, set up camp in Weinan, and fought a fierce battle with the Guanzhong coalition army.

Ma Chao was stationed in Weikou for rounds of harassment and raids, and Cao Cao was very anxious because the Weihe beach was loose and could not set up a camp.

Just when Cao Cao was anxious and the generals were helpless, he suddenly saw a person say that the camp could be established overnight.

Cao Cao regarded it as Lou Gui, a military counselor.

Lou Gui, Zibo, a native of Nanyang County, Jingzhou (now Nanyang, Henan), is ambitious, flexible and changeable, and often sighs: "When a man is alive, he can get tens of thousands of troops and tens of millions of BMWs, so that he will not be disgraced in this life." "Everyone laughs.

During the early peace period, Lou Gui recruited troops in the northern part of Jingzhou, gathered some troops, and attached himself to Liu Biao. During this period, he welcomed the northern exiles and refugees to Jingzhou for Liu Biao.

When Wang Zhong was also among the exiles, he didn't want to go to Jingzhou, so he led the exiles to counterattack Lou Gui's welcoming troops, and took away more than 1,000 of Lou Gui's soldiers and defected to Cao Cao.

Lou Gui had no face to see Liu Biao because of this, and wanted to recruit people again, but he was imprisoned as a death row prisoner by the Nanyang County Government for the crime of hiding outlaws.

Lou Gui bribed the jailer, escaped from prison, and was chased in a hurry, that is, he changed his clothes and shouted "arrest the fugitive", and was thought to be a righteous man who helped the fugitive, so he was able to escape.

Lou Gui saw that he had no future in Jingzhou, and he was unwilling to sink into hiding, so he also took refuge in his old acquaintance Cao Cao.

Cao Cao knew that although he loved money and was greedy for money, he still had a skill, so he used it as a military counselor.

Lou Gui followed Cao Cao, and although he was not in charge of the soldiers, he could also come up with some ideas.

Cao Cao pacified Jizhou and made meritorious contributions. Cao Cao captured Jingzhou, Liu Cong surrendered, everyone suspected fraud, but Lou Gui said: "The world is chaotic, everyone is greedy for self-preservation, and now Liu Cong is obedient with etiquette, which must be sincere." Cao Cao agreed, and gave him a generous salary.

Cao Cao once joked: "Although Uncle Zi is richer than me, he is not as powerful as me." ”

Seeing that Cao Cao was worried about the village, Lou Gui said: "Now that the weather is cold, you can build a city with earth and sand, and then pour in water, and the water will freeze and be hard like iron and stone, and the city can be built in one night." ”

Some people questioned: "How can it be frozen in September?" ”

Lou Gui said: "This year's run in August, now September is over, and the coming day is October, which is equivalent to November in previous years." In the past few days, the weather has been cold and cloudy, and it has not been opened for several days. Although the water is not frozen in the river, if it is taken out and dispersed in the soil and sand, the cold wind blows strongly, and the clouds are covered, it can be frozen. ”

Cao Cao heard and realized that he did what he said.

It was night, the wind was blowing, and Cao Cao drove his soldiers to carry the soil and splash water. In order to solve the shortage of water-holding utensils, the sergeants were ordered to make a bag to hold water with the placket of their clothes, water the soil and sand, and freeze with the construction, and until dawn, the water, soil and sand were frozen together, and the earth city was built.

Cao Cao praised and said: "Lou Zibo's strategy, I can't do it." So he rewarded Lou Gui generously.

Ma Chao saw that Cao's army had built a walled city overnight, and it was difficult to obtain a strategic place for a while, so he had to retreat and refuse to defend Weikou.

The various units of the Guanzhong coalition army had different intentions, and discussed requesting land cession and sending hostages to ask for peace.

Cao Cao adopted Jia Xu's strategy, pretended to agree, and then talked and laughed with Han Sui before the battle, and wrote a book to Han Sui, leaving traces of alteration in critical places, and using discord to sow discord between the coalition forces and make them suspicious of each other.

Cao Cao took this opportunity to attack, and the two sides launched a decisive battle in the area of Weinan, Cao Cao sent light troops to pick them up, concentrated his forces to encircle and annihilate the coalition army, and won a decisive victory.

Han Sui and Ma Chao again asked for peace in Longxi, but Cao Cao did not allow it, Ma Chao was defeated and walked to Tai (now Tianshuixi, Gansu), Cheng Yi and Li Kan and other rebel generals were beheaded, and Yang Qiu fled back to Anding (now Jingchuanbei, Dingxi, Gansu), and the rest were scattered.

In October, Cao Cao marched to settle down, Yang Qiu and the candidates surrendered, were made marquis, and ordered to guard Weikou.

Suddenly, when he heard that Su Bo and Tian Yin were rebelling, Cao Cao immediately led his troops to Chang'an to quell the rebellion.

Liangzhou joined the army Yang Fu, the word Yishan, a native of Tianshui Ji County (now southeast of Gangu, Gansu), in his early years, he was famous with Yin Feng and Zhao Ang of the same county, and served in Liangzhou together.

During the Guandu War, Yang Fu was sent to Xuchang by Liangzhou Mu Weiduan, who was quite appreciated by Cao Cao and was appointed as the chief historian of Anding.

Yang Fu returned to Anding, and the generals asked him who would win Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, Yang Fu said: "Yuan Gong is generous but not decisive, likes strategy but lacks decision-making, if he is not decisive, there will be no majesty, and if he lacks decision-making, he will make mistakes, although he is powerful, he will not achieve great things after all." Cao Gong has great talent and foresight, does not hesitate to make decisions and adapts, the laws and regulations are unified and the army is excellent, and he can use people who do not follow the rules, and those who use them do their best, and they must be people who can achieve great things. ”

Wei Duan recruited him as a servant. Wei Duan's son, Wei Kang, served as the assassin and recruited him as a separate driver. He was recommended as filial piety, served in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and was appointed to join the army.

When Yang Fu saw that Cao Cao's soldiers were still in Chang'an, he rushed to Chang'an and said to Cao Cao: "Ma Chao has the courage of Han Xin and Tu Bu, and he is extremely supported by the Qiang, Hu and other ethnic groups, and the people on the western border are in awe of him. If the prime minister's army returns to the division and does not make careful preparations, the counties of Longshang may no longer be owned by the state. ”

Cao Cao deeply agreed, and ordered Yang Fu and Liangzhou Assassin Shi Weikang to lead troops to defend Jicheng to prevent Ma Chao.

Yang Fu received the promise and asked for "Chang'an must leave heavy troops as backup".

Cao Cao followed his words and left Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He and other famous generals to guard the key passes.

Guanzhong was established, and the Hejian rebellion was quelled, and Cao Cao's class returned to the capital.

Emperor Pailuan drove out of Guo to greet him, imitating the story of Gaozu treating Xiao He well, and edicting Cao Cao to "visit the temple without a name, enter the court without tending, and go to the palace with a sword". Cao Cao's son Cao Pi was appointed as a general and deputy prime minister of the five officials. Hundreds of civil and military officials came to congratulate, Cao Cao rewarded the three armies, rewarded meritorious soldiers, and set up a banquet to celebrate the victory of Pingding Guanzhong.

During the banquet, many of the strategists and generals who accompanied the army put forward the strategy, tactical subtleties and incomprehensions of this battle.

Cao Cao, as if summing up lessons and lessons after previous wars, explained his doubts one by one, and outlined the strategic deployment and tactical essence of this battle, which should be regarded as a military education for all strategists and generals.

At the beginning, Cao Cao asked the emperor to order Ma Teng to enter Beijing, and moved to Yecheng as a hostage, in order to provoke Ma Chao; In the name of conquering Hanzhong, he used the false trick to force Ma Chao and Han Sui to become famous; Then the heavy troops attacked Tongguan, mobilized the Guanzhong coalition army to gather Tongguan, and used the strategy of attacking the east and the west, and sent Xu Huang and Zhu Ling to cross Puhanjin by night and go deep behind. Build a road, build an ice city, stick to it without fighting, show weakness to be arrogant, and make it unprepared. I was happy to hear that the reinforcements of the Qiang soldiers were because Guanzhong was far away, and if all the departments insisted on holding on to the danger and wanted to be pacified, I don't know how many years it would be. Now they all come to gather in one place, although there are many of them, the hearts of the people are different, that is, they use discordant tactics to make them suspicious of each other, concentrate their forces, and annihilate them in one fell swoop with lightning speed.

After everyone listened, they all admired Cao Cao's strategy and tactics after making a decision, planning in motion, designing in strategy, and improvising on the situation.

Indeed, the battles of Tongguan and Weinan in Guanding are a famous classic example in the history of our country, which shows Cao Cao's military talent.

The generals worshipped: "The prime minister is a god, and everyone is out of reach." ”

Cao Cao smiled and said: "The change of soldiers is not the same; The ability to win a battle is not the work of one person. In such a battle, if Xu Huang succeeded in smuggling, Xu Chu viciously fought Ma Chao, Ding Fei harassed cattle and horses, Lou Gui built an ice city at night, and Jia Xu offered a plan to divide the world, I don't know what the result would be? As the old saying goes, 'The one who wins the bird will have one eye, and the one who opens the eye will not be able to get the bird.' Birds can fly far away, relying on the power of the six feathers, but without the help of the feathers, they can't fly far'. The whole and the part, the whole and the individual, are inseparable! Everyone was convinced, and everyone cheered.

Since then, Cao Cao has been powerful and powerful.

Dong Xuan and other ministers of the court, seeing Cao Cao's remarkable merits, had the intention of offering the emperor Jin to Cao Cao as the Duke of Wei.

Xun Yu Wenzhi thought: "Prime Minister Benxing righteous soldiers to Kuang Dynasty Ningguo, loyal and sincere, and the truth of retreat; A gentleman loves others with virtue, and it should not be so. ”

Xun You believed: "The prime minister has the merit of conquering the world, and he has the talent to govern the world, and it is not inappropriate to be named a duke." ”

Xun Yu said: "Being named prime minister, a very popular minister, that is, being criticized as 'the name of the Han Minister, but actually a Han thief', if he is promoted to the rank again, will he not sit on the ambition of usurping the throne step by step." My uncle and nephew have been with each other for many years, scheming and making suggestions, and in the end they will end up with a reputation for aiding and abusing. ”

Xun You said: "Uncle, don't worry too much. The world is not the world of the Liu family. Moreover, the Liu Han family has long existed in name only, and the evil in the world has been exhausted. For hundreds of years, there has been a king. With the prime minister's merit and strategy, even if it is replaced, it should be a timely move. You and my uncles and nephews accompany you, you should be regarded as the founding hero, and you will not insult your ancestors and descendants. ”

The uncle and nephew disagreed, and Xun Yu was depressed and depressed.

When Cao Cao heard this, he was silent.