In the seventeenth year of Jian 'an (2 12), Sun Quan listened to Lv Meng's suggestion and prepared to send troops to Hefei. Cao Cao was completely passive this time. He planned to promote Gong Wei, but was opposed by Yu Xun. After learning that Sun Quan intended to fight in Hefei, he set out from Xudu in October of that year and went south to conquer Sun Quan. In addition to Cao Pi and Cao Zhi's brothers, there is also the unlucky Yu Xun (who died in Shouchun soon).
The purpose of Cao Cao's southern expedition was not to conquer Sun Quan. In fact, since Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao has basically given up the strategy of reunifying the north and the south. The purpose of this war is to control the war with war and pre-empt Sun Quan's possible attack on Hefei, so he boasted that he would ride 400,000 troops. Therefore, the marching speed was relatively slow, and it was not until the first month of the eighteenth year of Jian 'an that it reached Xukou (now the northeast of Wuwei County, Anhui Province).
Since then, the two sides have launched a low-intensity battle. Although Cao Jun won the first battle, he still breached Sun Quan's camp in Jiangxi and captured the enemy commander Gong Sunyang alive. But since then, the situation has become more and more unfavorable to Cao Jun. The main reason is the sudden change of climate, which has caused great difficulties for Cao Jun, which is not used to fighting in water. So, after the two wars failed, Cao Cao let Sun Quan challenge him and always stuck to the camp and refused to go out.
Hu Chong's "Wu Li" said that one day Sun Quan personally led a navy division to provoke, but Cao Cao still ignored it and prohibited archers from shooting arrows indiscriminately. Wei slightly said that when Sun Quan came to challenge in a big ship, Cao Ying's arrows were scattered all over the cabin, so that the hull tilted and was about to capsize. Sun Quan, however, was ordered to turn the bow and let the other side get an arrow in the hull. He didn't walk back calmly until the hull was stable.
Does this scene feel familiar? Yes, this is the original version of the grass boat arrow. This sentence in Wei Lue was later replaced by Zhou Yu in The Romance of Three Kingdoms, and Luo Guanzhong in The Romance of Three Kingdoms was replaced by Battle of Red Cliffs by Zhuge Liang? Grass boat borrows arrows? .
In the battle between Sun and Cao Cao, Cao Cao witnessed Sun's vivid battle and the purge of the army, and could not help but say with emotion? Children should be like Sun Zhongmou, and sons of Liu Jingsheng (that is, Liu Biao) should be like dolphins and dogs! ? This famous saying. In fact, Shu Yuan has a similar tone. He once praised Sun Quan's brother Sun Ce. If you have a son like Sun Lang, what do you hate after death? ?
Cao Cao said this not only because Sun Quan commanded the army well, but also because he was too disappointed when comparing his son with Sun Quan. Although most of Cao Cao's sons are outstanding, their specialty is not governing the country, and none of them really have the ability to inherit the grand inheritance he created. Lack of successors is the biggest worry of Cao Cao in his later years.
This is not to say that Cao Cao's education of his children is a failure. On the contrary, in the history of China, there are not many successful family education policies like Cao Cao. The only fly in the ointment is that the older generation of politicians failed to train a new generation of politicians.
Here we found what can be called. Ordinary? The common phenomenon is that the actual pioneers of Wei, Shu and Wu all grew up in single-parent families. Cao Cao lost his mother when he was young, and Liu Bei and Sun Quan also lost their father's love very early. An incomplete family, although emotionally unacceptable, is not necessarily a bad thing for children's success.
Cao Cao and Sun were at war for more than a month. Finally, Sun Quan broke the silence. He wrote a note to Cao Cao, which read: You can't live alone when you die. ? After receiving the letter, Cao Cao said appreciatively to the Ministry. Sun Quan doesn't bully orphans? Then he ordered the immediate withdrawal of Xukou and returned to Yecheng in April this year, but Sun Quan did not take advantage of the situation to pursue, and the confrontation between the two ended in such a dramatic result.