Chapter 16 Liu Cao duel
If you want to talk about how Tao Qian is righteous and interesting, he thinks highly of him. He gave Liu Bei the big hat of "Yuzhou Inspector", and he didn't have any good intentions at all.
Yuzhou is about today's south of Henan and north of Anhui. Under its jurisdiction are Liang, Chen, Lu, Pei, and two counties of Yingchuan and Runan.
Runan County in the south and Pei State in the east are under Yuan Shu's control.The state of Liang in the north is probably the base of bandits such as the Baibo Bandit, the Yellow Turban Remnant Army, and the Black Mountain Bandit.Yingchuan in the west was nominally given to Lu Bu by the Chang'an government, but in essence it should be Cao Cao's sphere of influence.The Chen State in the middle was independently ruled by Chen Wang Liu Chong, and Tao Qian roughly controlled the Lu State in the east and Xiaopei in the northeast corner of Pei State.
Through the above description of forces, you should be able to easily draw a conclusion: Putting Liu Bei here in Xiaopei is obviously a watchdog for Xuzhou.
But even such a "shit shortage" is still a copycat.At that time, there was also a genuine governor of Yuzhou named Guo Gong. I don't know where he is stationed at the moment.
The most terrible thing is that Cao Cao did not forget Xuzhou.
Less than three months after Liu Bei took office in Xuzhou, in the summer of the first year of Xingping (AD 194), Cao Cao once again aggressively attacked Xu.Liu Bei returned from Xiaopei to the east, and joined forces with Cao Bao, the general of Xuzhou, in the east of Tan County, probably to cut off Cao's food supply.
It was the first time for Xuzhou officials and officials to see the two "famous generals" working together. They must have been very excited. They thought that this time Cao Cao's army went deep alone, and it was difficult to provide food and grass. It must be a dead end.
However, this is just the wishful thinking of a group of kittens.
Cao Cao knew that someone was stealing his back, so he immediately returned to the army to fight back, starting the first official Liu and Cao duel in history.The result can be imagined, under Liu Bei's "wise" leadership, the brave Qingzhou soldiers were brutally defeated. There was no suspense at all, and even Xiangben next to Tan County was lost.
In terms of military talent, Liu Bei and Cao Cao are simply incomparable, and failure is inevitable.
Fortunately, Liu Bei had magical powers to protect his body, so he escaped safely after the defeat.I believe that he still didn't forget to complain to Cao Bao in his busy schedule: "Obviously they all have the surname Cao, why is there such a big gap!"
But it was probably in this battle that Cao Cao learned about Liu Bei's ability and Guan Yu's bravery, which laid the groundwork for a complex cooperative relationship in the future.
Cao Cao raged in Xuzhou for two or three months, until Tao Qian had the idea of fleeing back to his hometown in Danyang.
Then came the moment to witness the miracle: Just when Xuzhou was about to lose its hold, Cao Jun suddenly withdrew his entire army and retreated like a whirlwind.
Come fast, go fast.
As soon as Cao Cao's army withdrew, the soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou, like groundhogs that had survived a snowstorm, poked their heads out to find out what happened.After a period of information back and forth, everyone finally figured out that it turned out that the backyard of Cao Cao's house was on fire, forcing him to temporarily let go of Xuzhou's mouthful of fat.
The person who dared to set fire to Cao's backyard is certainly not a simple character, and this person will dominate the next part of the story.Speaking of which, everyone is very familiar with this person, and I can sum it up in one sentence: This is a person who does not follow the rules of the game.
His name is Lu Bu.