1, the dispute between Confucianism and Confucianism
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao seized the emperor to make the princes, and most of the more powerful warlords were wiped out by him. Only Liu Bei and Sun Quan have the possibility of development and expansion, and Cao Cao knows that it is still difficult to annex these two forces at once. So Cao Cao sent people to Soochow with letters, trying to join hands with Sun Quan to destroy Liu Bei.
Most of Sun Quan's advisers advocated Cao Cao's self-protection, and only Lu Su advocated Liu Kang Cao. However, Lu Su knew that it was difficult to convince Sun Quan and the civil servants in Soochow, and specially invited Zhuge Liang to be a lobbyist.
Lu Su introduced Zhuge Liang to a group of advisers in Soochow. They were not ordinary people, but all of them. They are all learned people. Zhang Zhao, the first counselor of Wudong, first made a fuss, saying: I heard that Liu Bei visited your home three times before inviting you out of the mountain, thinking that having you would be like fishing in troubled waters and trying to seize the nine counties of Jingxiang as the base. But Jing Xiang has been got by Cao Cao. What do you think?
Zhuge Liang thought that if Zhang Zhao was not stumped first, there would be no way to convince Sun Quanlian and Liu Kangcao. Zhuge Liang said: Liu Bei took Jingxiang's territory easily, but he didn't want to seize the inheritance of the same clan. Cao Cao took advantage of it. Now we are stationed in Jiangxia, and there are other grand plans. How do idle people know this?
In matters of state affairs and social security, people with real talents and practical knowledge should come up with good ideas. The speaker, sitting and talking, can't figure out a way when he meets something, but he can only be laughed at by the whole world. In a word, Mr. Zhang was speechless.
Later, a counselor asked: Cao Cao stationed millions of troops and will list thousands of people. You say you're not afraid, you brag. Zhuge Liang replied: Liu Bei retreated to Xiakou and waited for an opportunity to move, but the soldiers had enough food and grass, and the Yangtze River had natural dangers to defend, but it was a shame for your to persuade Sun Quan to surrender to Cao.
The counselors of Soochow challenged Zhuge Liang one by one, as many as seven, and Zhuge Liang refuted them.
2. Grass boat borrows arrows
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao led 800,000 troops to conquer Wu Dong. Sun Quan and Liu Bei planned to unite against Wei. There was a general named Zhou Yu under Sun Quan. He was clever and brave, but he was a little narrow-minded and jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent.
Because the water war needs arrows, Zhou Yu asked Zhuge Liang to build 100 thousand arrows in ten days, but Zhuge Liang only needed three days, and he was willing to issue a military order, and he was willing to be punished if he failed to complete the task.
Zhou Yu thought it was impossible to build 100,000 arrows in three days, and he just took this opportunity to get rid of Zhuge Liang. So on the one hand, he told military craftsmen not to prepare all the materials for making arrows, and on the other hand, he told minister Lu Su to inquire about Zhuge Liang's reality.
Lu Su met Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang said, "Please help me with this. I hope you can lend me 20 boats, each with 30 soldiers. The ship should be covered with green curtains, and more than 1000 grass targets should be arranged on both sides of the ship. However, this matter must not be known to your governor, otherwise it will not work. " ?
Lu Su reported to Zhou Yu that there was no need to prepare materials, and he made no mention of Zhuge Liang's plan. Two days passed and nothing happened. Zhou Yu thought: He must not build it well.
On the third day, at four o'clock, Zhuge Liang secretly asked Lu Su to board the boat together, saying that they would go to get the arrow together. Zhuge Liang ordered the ropes on the ship to be connected and rushed to the other side.
The river was foggy that day, and there was no one on the other side. When the boat approached the water village in Cao Jun, Zhuge Liang ordered the boat to be set aside and let the soldiers beat drums and shout. Thinking that the other side was coming to attack, Cao Cao was afraid of being ambushed in the fog, so he sent 6 thousand archers from the drought village to shoot arrows into the river, and the arrows rained down on the grass target.
After a while, Zhuge Liang ordered the ship to turn around and let the other side get an arrow. When the sun comes out, the fog will disperse. Zhuge Liang ordered the boat to return quickly. At this time, the wind was smooth, and it was too late for Cao Cao to chase.
At this time, the grass targets on both sides of the ship were densely covered with arrows. There are at least five or six thousand ships on each ship, and there are twenty ships in total, and the total number far exceeds one hundred thousand. When Lu Su told Zhou Yu the story of borrowing an arrow, Zhou Yu sighed, "Zhuge Liang has a clever plan, but I am not as good as him."
3. Jiang Gan steals books.
Jiang Gan, Cao Cao's counselor, studied with Zhou Yu since childhood, so he volunteered to cross the river to be a lobbyist in Soochow to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender. Cao Cao immediately asked Jiang Gan to cross the river to persuade Zhou Yu.
When Zhou Yu saw Jiang Gan crossing the river, a plan was already brewing. He gave Jiang Gan a warm reception. At the banquet, Zhou Yu was accompanied by people, showing off his strength, and stipulated that only friendship should be discussed, not military affairs, which blocked Jiang Gan's mouth.
Zhou Yu pretended to be drunk and slept with Jiang Gan. When Jiang Gan saw that Zhou Yu wouldn't let him talk about surrender, he felt uneasy and couldn't sleep. He sneaked out of bed and saw a letter about Zhou Yu's case. He peeked at the letter, which turned out to be written by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and agreed to cooperate with Zhou Yu from the inside to defeat Cao Cao.
At this moment, Zhou Yu talked in his sleep and turned over, scaring Jiang Gan to sleep. After a while, suddenly someone wants to see Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu got up and talked to the visitor, pretending to see if Jiang Gan was asleep.
Jiang Gan pretended to be asleep, and only heard Zhou Yu and them talking in a low voice, but they couldn't hear clearly, only heard the mention of Cai Hezhang. So Jiang Gan believed the tricks of Cai, Zhang and Zhou Yu.
He rushed back to Cao Cao overnight and showed him the forged letters. Cao Cao immediately became furious and killed Cai Mao and Zhang Yun. When Cao Cao calmed down, he realized that he had been played by Zhou Yu, but he was helpless.
4. Risk
In Battle of Red Cliffs, in order to fool Cao Cao, Zhou Yu decided to use risks. Huang Gai fought bravely, so at the military meeting, Huang Gai pretended not to agree with Zhou Yu's opinion and even spoke with contempt.
So Zhou Yu ordered Huang Gai to be beheaded. Because Huang Gai was an active veteran, the generals begged and begged. Zhou Yu changed the punishment to flogging and beat Huang Gai to bed.
This is for Cai Zhong Cai He, who made a false surrender to Wu Ying, so Kan Ze made a false surrender to Huang Gai, while Cai Zhong Cai He just sent this false information back to Cao Ying. Cao Cao was convinced that when Huang Gai led the way, he didn't take any preventive measures, which led to the fiasco of Chibi and Huarong.
Step 5 borrow the east wind
Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu made a plan to attack Cao Cao with fire. However, the northwest wind has been blowing on the river for several days, and the fire attack will not only burn Cao Bing on the north shore, but will burn himself. Zhou Yu was depressed by the east wind and was ill in bed.
After Zhuge Liang knew it, he gave Zhou Yu a prescription. Zhou Yu opened it and read: If you want to break Cao Bing, attack him with fire. Everything is ready except the east wind. Zhou Yu admitted that his mind was guessed by Zhuge Liang and asked Zhuge Liang what he could do.
Zhuge Liang said that he could borrow the east wind, so he asked Zhou Yu to build a nine-foot-high seven-star altar for him and then do it himself.
In fact, Zhuge Liang himself will not "borrow" the wind, but he is familiar with astronomy and geography. By investigating the changes of topography and biology, he has figured out that there will be a southeast wind on 1 1 20th of the month, so he made a few pretentious strokes on the Seven Star Altar.
1 1 On the 20th of the month, there was a southeast wind blowing. Zhou Yu felt that Zhuge Liang could not stay any longer, so he sent someone to kill Zhuge Liang at the Seven Star Altar. But Zhuge Liang had long expected that Zhou Yu would have this skill, leaving the Seven Star Altar ahead of time and returning to his base area, Xiakou.
Before leaving, he left a message to Zhou Yu: I hope Governor Zhou can make good use of this wind to break Cao Bing, and Zhuge Liang will temporarily return to Xiakou and meet again another day. Zhou Yu had to give up.