Chapter 215 Chapter 29 Do not take Hanzhong, only take the world (8)

He stirred the chicken soup in the bowl with a spoon. The soup was already cold, and the smooth yellowish chicken ribs seemed to be a long round face. Isn't this Liu Bei's face? Cao Cao scooped it up.After watching for a while, Poured into a bowl, he thought angrily: "I have lived in Huanyu for most of my life. When will I not eat beef ribs with mutton, and I will eat it for three days. Xiahouyuan! Xiahouyuan! My dominance of the world was destroyed by you! Then he thought again: "Hanzhong is nothing but a place the size of a chicken rib, so why not give it to Liu Bei! A man only takes the world, and the world is all received. Isn't Hanzhong something in my pocket?" "

After the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao believed that the world was divided into three parts, and almost gave up his ideal of unifying the country. He once wanted to abolish Emperor Xian of Han in a hurry.And Xun Yu restored his confidence, so he built a An went west to Hanzhong in twenty years.Although he was lucky enough to win and destroy Zhang Lu, his self-confidence and ambition to seek hegemony have improved a lot.But he didn't take the initiative to take the opportunity to enter Yizhou, and kept feeling that his He is old, in fact, he already subconsciously thinks that his aggressiveness has weakened.Now it is actually born that "the big man only takes the world, and the world takes it all. Isn't Hanzhong in my pocket?"

The idea of ​​"is just deceiving himself and others, and even he himself thinks this idea is absurd. So he changed his idea: "Hanzhong is a small place, but if the small place is not guarded, An Neng Mohua Xia Zhiye? " Cao Cao's idea of ​​being a hero and pursuing a great cause could no longer be justified by this time. He felt the sadness of the hero's end, and he even made his return of "not taking Hanzhong, but only taking the world". Ashamed of avoiding reality. Liu Bei claimed not to be a hero, but he, a great hero, faced the dilemma of possible defeat. What a shame!Cao Cao thought of these, what arrogance, what a big event, as if

It is the clouds in the sky that are unattainable.For the first time in his life, he experienced the emptiness after his ideals were shattered... Just as he was sighing, Xu Chu came in to ask for the night password.Cao Cao casually said "chicken ribs!" When the command of "chicken ribs" spread throughout Cao Ying, Yang Xiu, the chief secretary of the march, told his followers to pack up their luggage, organize their documents, prepare their horses, and prepare to go home. . Seeing Yang Xiu's actions, Cao Ying's generals were quite puzzled, so they asked him what he meant.

Yang Xiu said: "What the King of Wei meant was that Hanzhong is like a 'chicken rib'. There is no meat to eat, but it is delicious to discard. There is no need to pay a heavy price for it. Therefore, I guess that the King of Wei will fight against the Japanese. Back to the court, in order to avoid panic and disorder when dismantling the camp, so pack your bags first." Yang Xiu said in a relaxed and joyful tone. After hearing this, the generals thought it was reasonable, so they immediately packed up their carriages, horses and luggage. When everyone was busy, the inspector came, and they didn't understand why, so they asked him, and they told him exactly what Yang Xiu said.

In order to verify whether this was true, the inspector went to Cao Cao to report it in person. When Cao Cao heard this, he was shocked first and then angry.Thinking: I have no plans for dominance, it is all the mistakes of a group of smart people .Xia Houyuan ruined my big business, and you, Yang Xiu, still poach my corners, it is really unreasonable.So Cao Cao shouted: "How can he speak nonsense? Our soldiers are in danger of being distracted, but he is in front of me. It is too much to spread rumors and disturb before making a decision! " So he ordered the sword and axe to arrest Yang Xiu, and issued a beheading order on the same day. Regardless of the opposition of the generals, he showed his head to the public.

Yang Xiu was famous in the north for his talent when he was young. When Cao Cao announced the "Decree of Seeking Talents" around the fifteenth year of Jian'an, he was 25 years old and promoted Xiaolian.Cao Cao said that he "knows everything inside and outside, and knows everything about it." meaning", once valued him. But Yang Xiu relied on his talents and became addicted to alcohol.He and Cao Zhi have similar personalities, and Cao Zhi often invites him to drink and discuss literature and politics in the mansion.Once, he and Cao Zhi drank until they were drunk, and they were so excited that the two actually

Violating the palace ban, he opened the outer gate of the Simamen's palace privately. When Cao Cao punished Cao Zhi, he secretly remembered Yang Xiu's passing.In the fourteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Zhi got drunk and missed a military plane, which angered Cao Cao.And that The next time they had a drink together, Yang Xiu was present, and Cao Cao scolded him angrily.Even so, because Cao Cao is a person who loves talents, he pays attention to "only talents", and does not care about Yang Xiu's perverted and unrestrained attitude. section.However, Yang Xiu's participation in the struggle for the throne between Cao Zhi and Cao Pi annoyed Cao Cao.

Furthermore, Yang Xiu was the son of Taiwei Yang Biao who was loyal to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. His uncle Yuan Shu was one of Cao Cao's early political enemies.For a person of such status, Cao Cao is of course on guard.Only It is because Yang Xiu is not like his father and uncle, he is only loyal to the Cao family. Yang Xiu died under the butcher's knife, he can only be blamed for his cleverness but was misunderstood by his cleverness, or his bad luck. In the trap of anger, Cao Cao at this time is very easy to vent his anger on others, because on the one hand, he admits that he has lost confidence and fears that he will really fight Liu Bei, and on the other hand, he admires himself alone

, Yelang is arrogant, contradictory, there is no place to vent his anger, no place to express his resentment, so if Yang Xiu wants to expose his secret world, or subconsciously expose it, he will commit a crime against Cao Cao, who is now strong from the outside but in the middle. Ji, and finally ended up in the sad and deplorable end of the body being separated. After killing Yang Xiu, Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, but new ideas tormented him again.He thought painfully: "Yang Xiu has been killed. If the troops are withdrawn soon, the generals will understand that he is telling the truth, but how can I admit that this is the truth? If the troops are not withdrawn, Liu Bei will really come from the Western Han

Crossing the water, I can imagine the power of the weak teacher who came to kill me. " He suddenly fell into a dilemma.After much deliberation, he had no choice but to pretend to be sick and use this as an excuse to order the withdrawal of troops.At the end of May, Cao Cao retreated with his army, and he was lying on the curtain In the tightly closed chariot, thinking that the withdrawal of the troops was done by a hero with the excuse of old age and sickness, I couldn't help crying, and I suddenly aged a lot.However, his never-before-seen Crying bitterly, only the car that carried him knew, the earth knew, and God knew. Cars rattled, horses rustled, Hanshui whimpered.A generation of heroes with lofty aspirations is like an aged tiger, whose power has faded and the word king in his forehead is blurred. Hanzhong Sanchuan, Cao Cao surrendered to Liu Bei.This was Cao Cao's last confrontation with his old enemy Liu Bei in his lifetime, and he lost without a fight.Liu Bei and him finally realized the "world hero" For Liu Bei, he was satisfied, because he became the king of Hanzhong soon after occupying Hanzhong, and realized his highest ideal; while for Cao To put it bluntly, it is a tragedy.Because he already knew that the loss of Hanzhong was not just a chicken rib, but half of a fat deer, or a foot of a golden tripod.In his sickly old age, Wanting to regain Hanzhong and unify the country is tantamount to nonsense.Therefore, amidst the sound of rolling wheels, Cao Cao, who was slumped and lying down, knew that he was a hero at the end of his life.Come out of Hanzhong and go back to the dynasty through the Xiegu In fact, the word "withdrawal" should be replaced with "fleeing". He has completely lost the spirit of fighting hard to the end in his early years. In autumn and July, Zhang He and Cao Hong left behind by Cao Cao guarded Chencang and Wudu counties to prevent Liu Bei from entering Wudu and forcing Guanzhong; in addition, Zhang Ji, governor of Yongzhou, strengthened the deployment of border defense in Yongzhou Soon, Cao Zhen, the second-generation elite of the Cao family, covered Cao Hong and left Wudu. The Battle of Hanzhong lasted more than a year, and Cao Cao was defeated by Liu Bei! When Cao Cao returned to Yecheng, he fell ill from overwork, or became seriously ill due to excessive melancholy, and stayed in the mansion every day, shutting himself out.