Cao Cao - Ruler of the World, Adulterous Male Subordinate

In early 197, Cao Cao led a large army to advance towards Zhang Xiu's Wancheng. Zhang Xiu learned of this and consulted with Jia Xu, and finally came to the conclusion that he surrendered to Cao Cao. Cao Cao led his troops into Wancheng, and Cao Cao took a fancy to Zhang Xiu's sister-in-law (Zhang Ji's widow) as his little wife, much to Zhang Xiu's displeasure. One night, Zhang Xiu led his soldiers to attack Cao Cao's barracks, Dianwei protected Cao Cao, killed the bloody road, Cao Cao escaped, but Dianwei died. Even Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, died. Cao Cao's liver and intestines were cut off.

At this time, Zhang Xiu was pursuing cao Cao, and Cao Cao was rescued by Yu Ban. Cao Cao said that he could not retreat, and if he retreated, he would return to Xuchang, so he had to fight Zhang Xiu to the death, and Cao Cao defeated Zhang Xiu and occupied some places in Nanyang and Zhangling that originally belonged to Zhang Xiu. Cao Cao did not chase after Zhang Xiu and returned to Xuchang, wanting to adjust and fight again, but Zhang Xiu united with Liu Biao.

In 197 AD, Yuan Shu became emperor in Shouchun. When Sun Jian attacked Luoyang and drove Dong Zhuo away, he obtained the Chuanguo Jade Seal, and after Sun Jian died in battle, Yuan Shu snatched the Chuanguo Jade Seal from Sun's family.

Cao Cao issued an edict in the name of the Yellow Emperor Liu Xie, condemning Yuan Shu for rebellion and wanting to build an alliance with Yuan Shu and attack Yuan Shu.

Because Yuan Shu had suffered Cao Cao's losses, he did not want to confront Cao Cao head-on, so he consulted militarily, and finally decided to attack Lü Bu to occupy Xuzhou, so that he could resist Cao Cao. Lü Bu asked Cao Cao for help, and Cao Cao put aside Lü Bu's grievances and led a large army to meet Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu was defeated, and Yuan Shu fled south of the Huai River, because Cao Cao had no boats and no way to cross the river, so he gave up, because Yuan Shu had been drained by Cao Cao and could only wait for death. Cao Cao returned to Xuchang and prepared to continue his conquest of Zhang Xiu.

At the end of 197 AD, Cao Cao gathered troops to recruit Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu once again asked Liu Biao for help, Liu Biao had not yet replied, Cao Cao had already captured Huyang, and then began to clear all of Zhang Xiu's forces, into the harsh winter, Cao Cao ordered to return to Xuchang and repair for two months.

In 198, Cao Cao attacked Zhang Xiu again, and Zhang Xiu was also determined to let Cao Cao have no return, because with Liu Biao's help, he did not want to help, because if Cao Cao occupied Zhang Xiu's territory, then Liu Biao would have to face Cao Cao directly. So such a relationship in Liu Biao had to help Zhang Xiu. Cao Cao led a large army around the town, marched in the wilderness, and directly attacked Zhang Xiu's old lair, Rangcheng, and when attacking Huangcheng, Cao Cao received news that Liu Biao sent troops to Anzhong and cut off his back road. This made Cao Cao suffer from the enemy on his back.

Just when he was trying to figure out a way, Xun Yu sent a message saying: Yuan Shao was going to attack Xuchang. This frightened Cao Cao not lightly, so he hurriedly abandoned Yongcheng and returned to Xuchang. However, Zhang Xiu boldly went out of the city to pursue Cao Cao, and when Cao Cao arrived at Anzhong, Liu Biao had been waiting for a long time, which made Cao Cao face a pinch attack, in front of Liu Biao, and behind him was Zhang Xiu.

Cao Cao was in a hurry and ordered his army to retreat into a narrow river valley, and that night Cao Cao ordered his men to dig tunnels on the ground and let the soldiers ambush them, waiting for Zhang Xiu, who led the elite troops to break through Liu Biao's encirclement. When Zhang Xiu chased after him, he fought with the ambush troops, because the ambush troops were not elite, so they were defeated by Zhang Xiu, and then Zhang Xiu continued to chase after Cao Cao, and when Cao Cao broke through Liu Biao, the breakthrough was successful, and then when Zhang Xiu went to catch up, Cao Cao's elite troops defeated Zhang Xiu.

After Cao Cao returned to Xuchang, he found that Yuan Shao did not attack Xuchang, but he did not investigate deeply, and what he was in a depressed mood now was because Zhang Xiu, he could not fight it, and he could not get out of this breath without fighting. This caused Cao Cao to have a headache attack, which lasted for several days.

In August 198, cao cao prepared to attack Lü Bu, and Cao Cao asked emperor Liu Xie to issue a letter of edict against Lü Bu, calling Lü Bu a traitor. When Lü Bu learned of this, he actually attacked Liu Bei's Xiao Pei first, which made Liu Bei a little inexplicable, Liu Bei hurriedly asked the imperial court for help, and Cao Cao sent Xiahou Huan to lead a force to rescue Xiao Pei. He then led the main force straight to Lü Bu's lair.

Xiahou Huan was defeated by Lü Bu's general Zhang Liao, and was also shot in the left eye, and soon Xiao Pei fell, and Liu Bei fled. Cao Cao did not feel sorry for losing Xiao Pei, but was sad that Xiahou Huan had lost one eye. Cao Cao led the main force to the border of Xuzhou, began to attack Lü Bu's city, and finally arrived at Pengcheng, the key place of Xuzhou, Lü Bu learned of it, threw down Xiao Pei, returned to save Pengcheng, Cao Cao surrounded Pengcheng tightly, and after discussing countermeasures with his staff, began a crazy siege of the city, Lü Bu has not yet arrived, Pengcheng has been captured. Lü Bu learned of this and went directly to Xia Pi City.

So Cao Cao also led his troops to Xia Pi City, surrounded Xia Pi Tuan tuan to death, Lü Bu and Cao Cao began to fight, Lü Bu was repeatedly defeated, and finally Xun Yu made a move, turning Xia Pi City into a swamp, Xia Pi City was soaked for more than a month, one day Lü Bu's several lieutenant generals found the lost horse, they found Lü Bu to celebrate, Lü Bu was very angry, because he was surrounded by Cao Cao, several of his lieutenant generals were laughing and drinking, Lü Bu was angry and said that he could not drink alcohol during the war, he was going to cut off one of them' heads, and several other people pleaded, Lü Bu spared him. Then, very angry, several lieutenant generals made a decision that night, they secretly opened the city gate to let Cao Cao enter the city. After Lü Bu's death, Cao Cao successfully took over Xuzhou and then returned to Xuchang, and Hui Xuchang also brought Back Liu Bei.

When Cao Cao left Xuchang, Dong Cheng secretly began to organize a resistance in Xuchang, wanting to kill Cao Cao, and this time Cao Cao brought back Liu Bei, which made Dong Cheng very happy. Every time Dong Cheng invited Liu Bei to dinner, Liu Bei was pretending to be drunk, because he did not want to discuss with Dong Cheng about killing Cao Cao, several times pretended to be drunk, Dong Cheng also understood, once again Dong Cheng invited Liu Bei to dinner, Dong Cheng asked Liu Bei if he wanted to see the emperor, Liu Bei began to pretend to be drunk again, Dong Cheng knew that Liu Bei was pretending, and said: "Uncle Liu Huang, you are also a member of liu's royal family, how can you be so decadent?" Unless you are not a royal family of the Liu clan. When Liu Bei heard this, he immediately sat up straight, took another sip of wine, and said, "See you, what are you afraid of!" ”

Dong Cheng sneakily took Liu Bei to see Emperor Liu Xie, Liu Bei saw the weakened Emperor Liu Xie and cried out on the spot, Emperor Liu Xie saw That Liu Bei also cried out, Liu Xie said: "Now that Cao Cao is powerful, I hope you can help me." ”

Liu Bei heard this and immediately stopped: "Emperor..."

Dong Cheng suddenly said, "Emperor, if Uncle Liu Huang is willing to help, this matter will become." ”

When the emperor just wanted to say what to do, Liu Bei said that he wanted to leave, saying that he would consider the long term, and if he took it too long, he was afraid of being discovered by Cao Cao, and he would discuss it next time. He said that he had been drinking frequently recently and had a stomach problem. Dong Cheng had no choice but to send Liu Bei out of the palace again.

A few days later, Dong Cheng found Liu Bei again, took out a piece of cloth from inside his clothes, and said, "This is the emperor's edict, written to let you kill Cao Cao." Liu Beilang thought for a while and said, "I did this, allow me three days." Dong Cheng was very happy to leave.

Liu Bei brought Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to discuss the matter, and finally came up with the method of leaving Xuchang as soon as possible. Because Liu Bei knew that it was impossible to kill Cao Cao.

Recently, there was reliable information that Yuan Shu was going to take Xuzhou to defect to Yuan Shao, and if these two individuals were to join forces, it would be a big blow to Cao Cao. Just when Liu Bei used this incident to leave Xuchang as soon as possible, Liu Bei found Cao Cao and said that he wanted to help Cao Cao to intercept Yuan Shu, Cao Cao considered for a while, agreed, and gave Liu Bei some soldiers, and that night Liu Bei led Cao Cao's soldiers and horses and left Xuchang.

Dong Cheng knew that Liu Bei had left Xuchang, but he was so angry that he died and came back to life, but this accelerated his attempt to assassinate Cao Cao. Dong Cheng deliberately put out some rumors, saying that Cao Cao sent people to scold the emperor every day. Upon learning of this, Cao Cao consulted with Xun Yu and Guo Jia, and finally came to the conclusion that all those involved in this matter would be killed, and the emperor would still be the emperor. In this way, Dong Cheng and other cadres were executed.

Before his death, Dong Cheng told Cao Cao that Liu Bei was also involved in this matter, and that he had fled away from Xuchang, and Cao Cao learned that he had ordered Liu Bei to return to Xuchang, but how could Liu Bei obey, so Liu Bei killed the military and political governor of Xuzhou and wanted to ally with Yuan Shu, but Yuan Shu had already died of illness. Therefore, Liu Bei could only ally with Yuan Shao, and at this time, Yuan Shao had already beaten Gongsun Zhan without the strength to fight back, and it was just that he and Liu Bei could jointly oppose Cao Cao.

Cao Cao learned that Liu Bei and Yuan Shao had formed an alliance to scold Liu Bei.

In 200 AD, Cao Cao personally brought troops to Liu Bei to have a break, Liu Bei hurriedly wanted Yuan Shao to ask for help, but just at this time Yuan Shao's younger son fell ill, leaving Yuan Shao with no heart to fight. In this way, Liu Bei's entire army was destroyed, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei ran away, but Guan Yu was forced to have no way out, the two sides reached a reconciliation, and Guan Yu surrendered.

Cao Cao wanted to have a short time with Yuan Shao, but before going to war with Yuan Shao, there was another thing that was Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu was able to live so far because there was a military Jia Xu.

Yuan Shao wrote to Zhang Xiu, asking Zhang Xiu to turn to him, after consulting with Jia Xu, Jia Xu still wanted to defect to Cao Cao, but Zhang Xiu killed the son and general of the family after all, Jia Xu finally went to Xuchang to negotiate with Cao Cao, Cao Cao liked Jia Xu very much, but wanted to kill Zhang Xiu, and finally through consultation, Yuan Shao had ordered 100,000 troops to attack Xuchang, so Cao Cao agreed to Zhang Xiu to rely on himself, and also let his son Cao Jun marry Zhang Xiu's daughter.

When Yuan Shao arrived in Liyang, he ordered the general Yan Liang to attack Baima City, which was Cao Cao's military stronghold, and liu Yan, who was in charge of Baima City, liu Yan immediately wanted to ask the imperial court for help, Jia Xu and Xun Yu both suggested that Cao Cao should not send troops first, first of all, Baima City was strong, Liu Yan's ability was also very strong, and it would not fall in a short time, and secondly we could see the combat effectiveness of Yuan Shao's army, if it could not be attacked within a month, Yuan Shao's morale was depressed, and we were rescuing. Sure enough, a month later, the White Horse City was still in Liu Yan's hands.

In April 200, Cao Cao reorganized his troops and horses and went to rescue White Horse City. At this time, Xun Yu gave Cao Cao a move, Cao Cao led a troop to Yanjin, made a posture of crossing the river to attack Yuan Shao's rear, Yuan Shao would definitely divide his troops to intercept it, and then we were shooting soldiers to attack Baima City, unexpectedly, attacking it, and killing Yan Liang in a battle.

When Yan Liang was deceived to attack Cao Cao, Cao Cao approached Guan Yu and told Guan Yu that if he killed Yan Liang, he would be free. Guan Yu didn't say a word, stepped onto the war horse, and rushed out alone. So Cao Cao sent Zhang Liao to go with him. Guan Yu killed Yan Liang, and all of Yan Liang's soldiers ran away. Yuan Shao's empress dowager was very angry and sent Wen Ugly, but Wen Ugly eventually fell on Cao Cao's when he was beheaded by Cao Cao's soldiers.

In 200 AD, both Yuan Shao and Cao Cao had been fighting, and Cao Cao's biggest crisis was grain.

Yuan Shao's adviser Xu You suggested to Yuan Shao that a force be sent to attack Xuchang, and Yuan Shao listened to Xu You's advice, but did not expect that Cao Cao had already ambushed a force on the road to Xuchang, and as a result, Yuan Shao's army was completely destroyed.

Due to the agreement between Cao Cao and Guan Yu, Guan Yu was released.

Cao Cao's army had run out of food, so Cao Cao wrote to Xun Yu saying that he wanted to retire back to Xuchang, but Xun Yu disagreed with Cao Cao's proposal. Xun Yu said in his reply: Yuan Shao poured all his strength into Gathering Guandu to fight you to the death. Compared with Yuan Shao, you are too weak, and if you retreat with weakness, you will definitely be multiplied by the strong. Now is the critical juncture of changing the world's overall situation, and you must not back down. I said a long time ago that Yuan Shao's Li is far from yours, and now what you are worried about is the grain problem. But have you ever thought about it, Yuan Shao and you have been deadlocked for more than half a year, and he has not helped you to do anything, which shows that he is too stupid and has exhausted his donkey skills. At this time, it is a good time for you to defeat the enemy with your magic tricks, and you must not back down. Cao Cao read Xun Yu's letter, his heart churned, and excitedly told the generals, you see how good Xun Yu said. So Cao Cao began to discuss countermeasures with the generals.

At this time, the family of Xu You, a military master in Yuan Shao's account, broke the law in Jizhou and was imprisoned and sentenced by officials. Xu You went to Yuan Shao and asked Yuan Shao to let his family go. Here it should be said that Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Xu You were childhood friends who grew up together, and Xu You believes that Yuan Shao can get bigger and bigger is his credit. Yuan Shao said to Xu You: "The Son of Heaven has committed the same crime as the common people. Xu You and Yuan Shao had a very unpleasant quarrel. Xu You couldn't sleep when he returned to his tent. In a fit of anger, he left Yuan Shao's camp that night and went to see Cao Cao. Cao Cao was eating badly and sleeping badly at that time, and when he heard that Xu You had come, he was very happy, and he walked out of the big tent without even wearing shoes to greet him.

Xu You told Cao Cao that Yuan Shao's granary was in Wuchao, and after consulting with Jia Xu, Cao Cao was ready to sneak up on Wuchao, and that night Cao Cao led his troops to burn Wuchao.

After Yuan Shao learned of this, he divided his forces into two, part of which was to save Wuchao and part of which was to attack Guandu. Yuan Shao sent Zhang Jaw to attack Cao Cao's Guandu, which was guarded by Cao Hong. In fact, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shao's military master Guo Tu guessed wrong Cao Cao, they thought that Wuchao was burned so quickly, Cao Cao should bring the main force to Wuchao, Guandu is very good to attack, but in fact, wrong, Cao Cao went to Wuchao to know 5,000 soldiers and horses, the main force is still in Guandu. When Zhang Jaw attacked Guandu, it had already been discovered that Cao Cao's main force was in Guandu. So it is impossible to capture.

At this time, Guo Tu told Yuan Shao that Zhang Jaw and Xu You had a very good relationship, Xu You turned to Cao Cao, and Zhang Jaw actually did not capture Guandu, which they thought did not have the main force, and it was Zhang Jaw's intention. Therefore, Yuan Shao immediately sent someone to the battlefield to execute Zhang Jaw, and Zhang Jaw got the news and surrendered directly to Cao Hong. Cao Hong accepted Zhang Jaw's surrender and ordered him to be the vanguard to attack Yuan Shao's base camp.

Yuan Shao was at the end of his rope at this time, his supplies were burned, and the main force led by Zhang Jaw rebelled again, turned around and killed back, yuan Shao had to abandon Yangwu and flee north of the Yellow River. Yuan Shao fled back to Jizhou and found only eight hundred cavalry around him. Because Cao Cao's strength had also been exhausted, his harm to Yuan Shao would not allow Yuan Shao to challenge him.

After Cao Cao entered Yang Wu, he met Chen Lin, who was chen lin who had previously attacked Cao Cao to write a letter of solicitation of thieves, Cao Cao loved money, so he left Chen Lin by his side, and found many letters between officials and Yuan Shao, but Cao Cao was not angry and ordered people to burn the letters, and did not blame them. Many people began to admire Cao Cao.

In the winter of 200 AD, Cao Cao won a great victory and returned to Xuchang.

Just when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were fighting in Guandu, Sun Ce was not idle, and he thoroughly swept away the remnants of Yuan Shu's forces and achieved great results. This achievement made Sun Ce have a more crazy idea of attacking Xuchang and blackmailing tianzi to order the princes. Cao Cao learned of this and prepared for battle. But Guo Jia said: "Sun Ce cannot come to the north in his lifetime, and if he comes to the north, it will be his death date." ”

From Sun Ce's base to Jiangsu to Xuchang, the road is long and the enemy is dense. Sure enough, a few days later, Sun Ce was killed by the Enemy family while hunting in Dantu. Due to the advice given by Guo Jia and Xun Yu, Cao Cao appointed Sun Quan as the Taishou of Huiji in the name of the imperial court. In this way, Jiangdong was stabilized, and he could concentrate on doing other things.

In the spring of 201 AD, Cao Cao was preparing to fight Runan, Liu Bei was in Runan, and when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao went to war, Liu Bei developed his own forces in Runan, and now had about three thousand soldiers in his hands. Liu Bei learned that Cao Cao was going to attack Runan, and Liu Bei's three brothers fled with three thousand soldiers. He fled all the way to Jingzhou, Liu Biao's territory. Liu Biao asked Liu Bei to garrison Xinye, and Liu Bei agreed.

Cao Cao prepared for a final battle with Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao quickly gathered more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, in fact, these soldiers and horses were brought by 2 sons and a nephew, and they were not used in the previous attack on Cao Cao. However, due to the dissimilarity of the three people, he was soon defeated by Cao Cao, and Yuan Shaoqi vomited blood and finally died in May 202. Three months after Yuan Shao's death, Cao Cao began to attack Yuan Shao's remaining forces.

In March 203, after besieging Liyang for half a year, Cao Cao finally captured the strategic stronghold of the Yuan family. However, Cao Cao did not immediately attack Yecheng, because the walls of Yecheng Were thick, and if Cao Cao attacked strongly, Yuan Shao's two sons Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan would definitely cooperate to resist Cao Cao, and if Cao Cao let it go, they would have no foreign enemies, and the two would definitely fight for your life.

In May 204, Cao Cao met Xuchang. Every time Cao Cao returned triumphantly, he would report good news to Emperor Liu Xie. In fact, he did not have to do this, but he wanted the people of the world to know his merits and that he still served the emperor.

Just as Cao Cao thought, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan fought personally, Yuan Tan could not defeat Yuan Shang and finally asked Cao Cao for help, Yuan Tan sent someone to tell Cao Cao that if he helped him kill Yuan Shang, he would submit to Cao Cao, Cao Cao recruited his staff to a meeting and decided to send troops, so Cao Cao gathered his troops and arrived in Liyang, claiming to attack Yecheng. Yuan Shang learned that he would immediately stop chasing Yuan Tan and return to Yecheng. Cao Cao besieged Yecheng for 3 months and finally took Yecheng.

In the first month of 205 AD, Yuan Tan betrayed Cao Cao, and Cao Cao attacked Yuan Tan together, and finally Yuan Tan was beheaded by Cao Cao's soldiers.

In 206 AD, Cao Cao attacked and stabbed Gao Gan to death before surrendering to Cao Cao but rebelled against Cao Cao, so this time surrendered again, Cao Cao did not accept, and Gao Gan fled overnight. However, in the end, he was killed by people who wanted to defect to Cao Cao.

After Cao Cao regained sizhou, because Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi had defected to Wuhuan, Cao Cao was afraid of their resurgence, so he wanted to attack Wuhuan. After consulting with Xun Yu, Guo Jia, and Jia Xu. May 207 AD. Cao Cao sent troops from Xuchang to conquer the Wuhuan base camp. Soon Wuhuan was attacked by Cao Cao. But what disturbed Cao Cao at this time was that Guo Jia was very ill.

Beginning in 199 and ending in 207 AD, Cao Cao spent eight years restoring northern China for the imperial court. In the past eight years, Cao Cao's conquests have been countless, his defeats and victories have been almost equal, and the only thing that has made him successful is the emphasis on talent and the unswerving spirit of struggle. On the way back to Xuchang, Guo Jia unfortunately died, which made Cao Cao cry bitterly. While passing through the shores of the Bohai Sea, he wrote the famous poem "Turtle Although Shou". "Old Ji Futuo, determined to be in a thousand miles" .

In 207 AD, Liu Bei had already begun to retire in Xinye, and when there was nothing to do, he went to liu biao to drink, and suddenly one day a person came to Xinye and wanted to defect to Liu Bei and realize the value of his life, that is, Xu Shu, he was an all-rounder of literature and martial arts. But a month later, he found that it was more difficult to make a difference here than to ascend to heaven, so he recommended a person to Liu Bei, it was Zhuge Liang.

At the end of 207 AD, Liu Biao was seriously ill. Liu Bei went to see Liu Biao, who was already insane and grabbed Liu Bei's hand and said, "If I die, please take over Jingzhou." In order not to let Liu Biao return, Liu Bei spread the news that Liu Biao wanted to give him Jingzhou. When Sun Quan learned that Liu Biao was seriously ill, he sent an army to attack Xiakou and captured Xiakou.

In July 208, Liu Biao fell ill and died. His Jingzhou pastor passed on to his younger son Liu Chun. Cao Cao quickly moved south, and Cao Cao's first stop wanted to fight Xinye, but Liu Bei did not give him this opportunity, and Liu Bei had already fled south to Fancheng. After Liu Chun knew about it, he discussed Cao Cao's southward journey with the military division and finally decided to surrender to Cao Cao. Fancheng is also Liu Chun's territory, so Liu Bei wants to leave as soon as possible, Liu Bei wants to take the people of Fancheng with him, but the military and political governor of Fancheng said that now Fancheng is the imperial court, Cao Cao will not slaughter the city, Liu Bei also knows in his heart, but Liu Bei still killed the military and political chief of Fancheng, and then went up to the city tower and tearfully told the people about Cao Cao's slaughter in Xuzhou, and let the people go with him.

Liu Bei set out for Jiangling with his people, and Cao Cao learned that he had sent five thousand elite cavalry. When Liu Bei arrived at Changshanpo, Cao Cao's elite had already caught up. Zhuge Liang asked Guan Yu to lead the water army to Jiangling first, and let Liu Bei run first, and after running for a long time, Liu Bei thought of forgetting to take his wife and son. At this time, Zhao Yun was willing to look for Liu Bei's wife and son. By this time, Cao Cao's soldiers had captured Liu Bei's wife and son alive. Liu Bei's soldiers could not defeat Cao Cao at all, and cao Cao lost his armor and armor. Zhao Yun actually single-handedly snatched Liu Bei's son back, and Liu Bei's wife committed suicide. Zhang Fei cried out in madness on the bridge, and Cao Cao's soldiers did not dare to go over. Cao Cao's main force was blocked by Zhang Fei on the side of the bridge, and Cao Cao's detachment bypassed the bridge to pursue Liu Bei, and Cao Cao warned the soldiers not to kill the common people.

The mother of the strategist Xu Shu was captured alive by Cao Cao's soldiers during the escape, Xu Shu could only go to Cao Cao where to get his mother, Cao Cao liked Xu Shu very much to keep him, although Xu Shu stayed, but since then he has not said a word.

Liu Bei fled as if he had no life, and finally thought of going to Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu Biao. Liu Bei and Liu Qi meet at Fankou.

What Cao Cao wanted most was Liu Biao's water army, which was commanded by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and when Cao Cao arrived outside Jiangling City, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun left the city to welcome Cao Cao into the city.

In the autumn of 208 AD, Cao Cao was full of ambition in Jiangling, Hubei Province. Cao Cao's plan was to get rid of Liu Qi and Liu Bei before attacking Sun Quan. Sun Quan and Liu Bei had allied to prepare to resist Cao Cao together. Zhou Yu led 30,000 people up the river and joined Liu Bei. Liu Bei Liu Qi and Zhou Yu officially declared war on Cao Cao at Fankou. Cao Cao gathered his waterway troops, and the water army flowed down the Yangtze River, and the army was led by himself. At this time, Liu Bei Liu Qi and Zhou Yu had reached Chibi on the bank of the Yangtze River.

The two sides faced each other across the Yangtze River. Cai Mao and Zhang Yun offered to fight, but Cao Cao refused, wanting to see how the northern water army he trained was doing. After Cao Cao's northern water army boarded the ship, Zhou Yu also photographed a water army, and because Cao Cao's water army was too weak, it was soon completely destroyed.

That night Cao Cao held a pre-war meeting, everyone put forward the proposal, Cao Cao vetoed, and finally Cao Cao himself came up with a way is to lock the boat, after these are done, the soldiers on the ship demonstration effect is not bad, Cao Cao continued to carry out military exercises on the yangtze River warship. Cao Cao did not attack, the reason was that the soldiers had not yet adapted, and most importantly, the soldiers began to suffer from the plague, and Cao Cao sent a message that Xu Chang would let Hua Tuo think of a way. Cao Cao then sent Jiang Gan to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender.

While waiting for the war, Huang Gai proposed a plan to Zhou Yu to attack with fire, but the question of the direction of the wind was not right, Zhuge Liang's words demeaned Huang Gai, Gai Huang's face was green, and he said directly: "Aren't you omnipotent?" Borrow some East Wind, and I can break the Cao Army. Huang Gai thought again that he could pretend that he was going to surrender the ship close to Cao Jun, so that he could set a fire.

So there was this zhou yu beating Huang Gai one willing to fight one wish to be beaten. Huang Gai sent a letter of surrender, Cao Cao read it and consulted with everyone, and finally Cao Cao prepared to write a letter to Huang Gai, so both of them personally agreed on a secret code. Huang Gai gained Cao Cao's trust and began to discuss how to burn Cao Cao's ship.

At the agreed time, Huang Gai sailed to the river with dozens of ships, and Zhou Yu threw all the warships into the battlefield and silently followed Huang Gai. When Huang Gai was close to Cao Cao, he told Cao Cao that he had come to burn him, because of the problem of the wind direction Cao Cao laughed, and then let the archer shoot at Huang Gai. After being shot by Cao Cao's archers, the ship began to burn, at this time the northwest wind also stopped, the southeast wind blew up, the yellow cover burning stern directly hit Cao Cao's water village, the army camp was also affected by the fire, and the north bank of the Yangtze River fell into a sea of fire.

Cao Cao was gone, and ordered his soldiers to burn the rest of the ships and leave no room for Zhou Yu. Cao Cao began to retreat, and Cao Cao took Huarong County and fled to Jiangling. This was the most embarrassing time in Cao Cao's life. Cao Cao fled back to Jiangling, asked Cao Ren to guard Jiangling, and returned to Yecheng himself, but when Zhou Yu and Cao Ren fought a great battle under Jiangling City, Liu Bei did not follow, and Liu Bei quickly took over the four departments in southern Jingzhou. This is a typical robbery that makes Zhou Yu angry. The great battle lasted for a long time, and Cao Ren's soldiers became less and less, and finally Cao Cao asked Cao Ren to retreat, and Jiangling fell into the hands of Zhou Yu.

At the end of 208 AD, Cao Cao returned to Xuchang, had a headache, let Hua Tuo treat him, but there was no curative effect, and finally Hua Tuo had to do craniotomy, Cao Cao was very angry that Hua Tuo wanted to kill him, so he directly killed Hua Tuo, of course, the medicine at that time made a person believe that it may be impossible to open the brain and live.

In 210 AD, Cao Cao built Tongquetai in Yecheng.

In 211, Cao Cao regained his forces.

In 212, Sun Quan moved to Jianye (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu). The intention was obvious, to compete with Cao Cao for Huainan.

In 213, Cao Cao sent troops to resist Sun Quan with all his might. At the time of the war between Cao Cao and Sun Quan, Xun Yu died, the cause of death is unknown. There are two versions, one saying that Xun Yu died of illness and the other saying that Cao Cao killed Xun Yu.

In May 216, Emperor Liu Xie gave Cao Cao the title of king.

In June 216, the 62-year-old Cao Cao prepared to attack Sun Quan again, but he never attacked, and Sun Quan also knew that he could not drive Cao Cao away, so the two sides reconciled, Cao Cao withdrew, and Sun Quan also sent Cao Cao some specialties. However, Cao Cao did not withdraw all his troops, and several teams were guarding Sun Quan's doorstep. In the end, Sun Quan really couldn't stand sending envoys to make peace with Cao Cao.

In 217, Cao Cao proposed to the officials to establish an heir, and some officials abstained, and most of the officials preferred Cao Pi.

Cao Cao asked Sima Yi, and Sima Yi replied, "Cao Pi, because Li Yan is long." Cao Cao asked Jia Xu, and Jia Xu said yuan shao's son directly, because Yuan Shao loved his younger son, and because Yuan Shao's son was not compatible, he was finally swallowed by Cao Cao.

In 218, Cao Cao personally conquered Liu Bei, Wu Huan launched a rebellion, Cao Cao ordered his son Cao Zhang to evaluate the rebellion, and then Cao Cao's favored Wancheng defender Xiahou Yin betrayed Cao Cao, and it was not until the first month of 219 AD that Cao Ren recaptured Wancheng and beheaded Xiahou Yin.

In May 219, Cao Cao's body could not support it any longer, and he withdrew to the north of Qinling. Liu Bei secretly wrote a letter to Emperor Liu Xie asking Liu Xie to make him the King of Hanzhong, and the letter fell into Cao Cao's hands, and Cao Cao replied, disagreeing. But after Liu Bei received the letter, he told his subordinates that the emperor agreed, and then burned the new one.

Guan Yu began to fight steadily, attacking Fancheng step by step, which made Cao Cao in Luoyang anxious, and Sima Yi gave Cao Cao an idea, asking Cao Cao to write a letter to Sun Quan, asking him to attack Guan Yu, and then we gave him benefits. Because after the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei and Sun Quan defeated Cao Cao, and they were given Jingzhou, and Sun Quan thought that Liu Bei had taken most of the land without doing anything, but Liu Bei thought that he deserved it. Cao Cao thought that Sima Yi's idea was very good, so he wrote to Sun Quan, sun Quan was not rare in Cao Cao's benefits, and he really wanted to get the other half of Jingzhou.

Sun Quan consulted the general Lü Meng about the matter, and Lü Meng offered a plan to sneak attack Jingzhou, and Sun Quan was overjoyed after seeing it and asked him to implement it immediately. Here Guan Yu knew that Sun Quan was going to sneak attack Jingzhou, and Guan Yu did not go back, but continued to attack Fancheng, cao ren and Xu Huang launched an attack, so that Guan Yu was defeated. Neither Cao Cao nor Sima Yi was prepared to pursue Guan Yu, and wanted Sun Quan to kill Guan Yu.

In November 219, Guan Yu was pursued by Sun Quan and fled to Maicheng, where he was killed a month later in the breakout. His head was waxed and delivered to Cao Cao's hands.

In the first month of 220 AD, one day Cao Cao had a headache, and the next morning Cao Cao felt that he was in good condition, so he immediately ordered someone to take a piece of paper and write a suicide note.

On March 15, 220, Cao Cao died at the age of 66.