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1. Taoyuan Sanjieyi: At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, political corruption in North Korea, coupled with years of famine, made people's lives very difficult. Liu Bei intends to save the people, and Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are also willing to do something with Liu Bei. The three of them hit it off and chose Zhangfeizhuang as the Peach Blossom Garden. At this time, the peach blossoms are in full bloom and the scenery is beautiful. Zhang Fei prepared a green cow and a white horse as sacrifices, burned incense and prayed, and took the oath. Three people recognized their brother by their age. Liu Bei became the eldest brother, Guan Yu the second and Zhang Fei the third. This is the famous "Three Realms of Peach Blossom Garden" in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Guan Yu was separated from Liu Bei and Zhang Fei after going through five customs, and later got the news of Liu Bei. So he resigned from Cao Cao immediately, but Cao Cao avoided it. Finally, Guan Yu had to leave without saying goodbye. Because he didn't get Cao Cao's instructions, all the way was blocked, but Guan Yu passed the five customs (cities) under Cao Cao's jurisdiction by himself and beheaded six generals of Cao Cao. Here refers to Kong Xiu killed him at Dongling Pass; Killed Han Fu and Meng Tan when crossing Luoyang City; Kill Bian Xi when crossing Si Shuiguan; Kill the satrap Wang Zhi when crossing Xingyang; When crossing the Yellow River ferry, he killed Chyi Chin, hence the name "going through five customs and killing six generals".

3, riding a single savior: in the battle of Xinye, Liu Bei defeated Cao with less wins, and Cao Cao led 500,000 troops to revenge. Liu Bei's 3,000 troops arrived in Dangyang County and were suddenly stopped by Cao Bing. They didn't get rid of Cao Bing's pursuit until dawn. Zhao Yun, who was guarding Liu Bei's family, found that Liu Bei was missing. He separated his mother and son, hastily called thirty riders and went back to the disorderly army to look for him. Zhao Yun fought the general with great ferocity. Seeing that Zhao Yun was unstoppable, Cao Cao, who was watching the battle on the mountain, ordered that he must be captured alive. Zhaoyun took advantage of this opportunity to rush out of the encirclement, even killing 50 members of Jiangcao, and finally gave Adou to Liu Bei.

4. Flooded Seven Armies: Liu Bei became the Queen of Hanzhong, and Guan Yu personally led the army to attack Fancheng. Coss, the Wei Jun Shoujiang of Fancheng, hurriedly asked Cao Cao for help. Cao Cao sent two generals, Ban and Pound, and led seven armies to meet him. Just as the two sides were deadlocked, there was a heavy rain in Fancheng area. The Hanshui River soared, and the water on the flat ground was more than ten feet from the ground. Yu Jin's military camp was blocked on the flat ground, and floods rushed in all directions, flooding all the military camps of the Seventh Army. Yu Jin and his soldiers had to swim to find a high place to avoid water.

Guan Yu has long grasped the weakness of being forbidden to camp on the flat ground. He took advantage of the flood, arranged many ships, large and small, and led the water army to attack Cao Jun. They first surrounded the commander and told him to lay down his arms and surrender. Yu Jin was surrounded by a small mound of Hanshui River, forcing no way back to surrender in frustration. Pound fell into the water, and Guan Yu's water army caught up with him and captured him alive.

5. Borrowing an arrow from a straw boat: Zhou Yu was jealous when he saw that Zhuge Liang, who was resourceful, was better than himself everywhere, and even wanted to kill Zhuge Liang. In the name of the lack of arrows in the army, he made a plan for Zhuge Liang to build 100 thousand arrows in ten days. It seems that Zhou Yu is not only jealous, but also very cunning. However, Zhuge Liang, who had an eye, readily agreed. Taking advantage of the fog, he "borrowed" 100,000 arrows from Cao Ying with a straw boat, and successfully completed the task seven days in advance, completely defeating Zhou Yu's plot.

6. Burning the camp: Liu Bei led an army to attack Wu in retaliation for Wu's capture of Jingzhou and the killing of Guan Yu. Xun avoided its front, persisted in not fighting, and the two sides fell into confrontation. The expedition of the Shu army is difficult to supply, and it is impossible to make a quick decision. Coupled with the hot weather after the summer, the spirit gradually lost and morale was low. In order to relieve the heat of the sergeant, Liu Bei ordered the Shu army to camp in the mountains for the summer. Lu Xun seized the opportunity and ordered the soldiers to take a thatch with them. When they arrived at the camp of the Shu army, they set fire to it and launched a storm. The wooden fence and surrounding trees in the camp of Shu army are flammable, and the fire spread rapidly in each camp. The Shu army was in chaos, and Wu Jun even broke more than forty battalions. Lu Xun's success in burning down the camp determined that Shu defeated Wu Sheng in the battle of Xiaoting.

7, seven capture Meng Huo: Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, was entrusted by the orphan of Emperor Liu Bei of Zhaolie and decided to explore the north to revive the Han Dynasty. Just then, the southern barbarians of Shu attacked Shu again, and Zhuge Liang immediately ordered the army to go south. In the land of barbarians, the two sides fought Zhuge Liang in the first battle and captured Meng Huo, the leader of barbarians. However, Meng Huo was not convinced. During this period, Zhuge Liang used Ma Su's strategy to capture Meng Huo alive seven times, and Zhuge Liang released him. Meng Huo vowed never to rebel again. Seeing that he was convinced that he was available, Kong Ming appointed him to be in charge of the barbarian land, and Meng Huo and others could not help but be deeply moved. From then on, Kong Ming no longer worried about Na Man, but devoted himself to Wei.

8. Take advantage of the east wind: Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu discussed burning Cao Ying. 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. 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. A few days later, the southeast wind blew, which laid a material foundation for Battle of Red Cliffs's victory.

9. Empty city plan: During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei sent Sima Yi to attack Shu Street Pavilion, and Zhuge Liang sent Ma Su to station. Sima Yi led the troops to attack Xicheng, and Zhuge Liang had no soldiers to meet the enemy, but he was calm and calm, opened the city gate wide, and personally played the piano on the rostrum. Sima Yi suspected an ambush and led the troops to retreat. Knowing that Xicheng was an empty city and going back to fight again, Zhao Yun rushed back to the rescue.

10, three visits to the thatched cottage: Liu Bei heard that Zhuge Liang was very knowledgeable and talented, so he took gifts with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to Wollongong in Longzhong to invite Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain and help him do things for his country. It happened that Zhuge Liang went out that day, and Liu Bei had to go home disappointed. Soon, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei braved the snowstorm and invited them for the second time. I didn't expect Zhuge Liang to go out for a walk again. I didn't see Zhuge Liang on my third visit. In this process, Liu Bei showed great patience and sincerity. This matter is called three visits to the cottage.

1 1, Baidicheng entrusted orphans: Jingzhou was captured by Wu, Guan Yu was defeated and captured, but he was killed instead of falling. Hearing this, Liu Bei went all out to crusade against Wu and avenge Guan Yu. But it was set on fire by Wu, who was defeated and retreated to Baidicheng. He can't get sick. Liu Bei said to Zhuge Liang, "If you think A Dou is the material to be an emperor, you can help him. If he is not cut out to be an emperor, you can depose him. Be an emperor yourself. " Hearing this, Zhuge Liang immediately knelt down and said, I will wholeheartedly help Liu Chan, and I will never dare to be emperor myself. I will do my best until I die. This is the white emperor of the Three Kingdoms.

12, Cao Cao killed Lv Boshe. Cao Cao failed to assassinate Dong and fled. On the way, he went to his old friend and killed pigs with Lu to entertain guests. Cao Cao thought that Lu would harm himself and killed Lu's family. "I would rather lose the world than the world lose me" became his famous saying.

Kill Yang Xiu. Yang Xiu, a sponsor, committed several taboos against Cao Cao. There are several things that can be explained: First, Cao Cao wrote the word "live" on the door of the garden to show off his talent, but this guy Yang Xiu didn't give him face and insisted on wearing Cao Cao's peep show-Cao Cao "avoided it". Second, the guests from afar sent a box of cakes to Cao Cao, who ate them alone. In our modern words, it is to show off cleverness-Cao Cao's "evil". Third, Cao Cao wanted to kill people in his dream to warn everyone, but Yang Xiu insisted on exposing Cao Cao's "worse" in front of everyone. Fourth, Yang Xiu told Cao Pimi to invite Song Chaolong Wu Zhi to enter the imperial court for discussion, but he was framed by Wu Zhi's machinations. Cao Cao thinks that Yang Xiu is framing Cao Pi, Cao Cao's "worse place". Fifth, Cao Cao wanted to try the talents of Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, but Yang Xiu insisted on teaching Cao Zhi how to do it. The result was discovered by Cao Cao, which ruined Cao Cao's "great anger". Sixth, Yang Xiu answered Cao Zhi's question and was told by Cao Cao that Cao Cao was "furious". These six things forced Cao Cao step by step, and finally killed Yang Xiu under the pretext of "chicken ribs" incident and "disturbing the morale of the army", which became the objective reason why Yang Xiu was killed by Cao Cao.

14, kill Hua tuo. In order to build the first temple, Cao Cao personally cut down the pear tree in front of Yuelong Temple with his sword, which offended the god of pear trees. That night, he had a nightmare. After waking up, he continued to have a headache. He found a good doctor, but it was useless.

Later, Hua Tuo recommended Hua Tuo to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao immediately sent someone to invite Hua Tuo to see him in the evening. Hua Tuo believed that Cao Cao's headache was caused by a stroke, and the root of the disease was in his head, which could not be cured by drinking some soup. First drink "Ma Fei Tang" (also known as "Leprosy Powder", an anesthetic invented by Hua Tuo), and then cut his head open with a sharp axe to remove the root of the disease.

Suspicious Cao Cao thought that Hua tuo was taking the opportunity to kill him and avenge Guan Yu, so he ordered Hua tuo to be put into prison and tortured, resulting in the death of a generation of imperial doctors in prison, and Hua tuo's "Green Capsule Book" was also lost.

15, Cao Cao killed the grain officer. At that time, Yuan Shao's younger brother was called Yuan Shu. In Shouchun, Anhui Province, because I got the seal of the emperor, he thought I could be the emperor now, and I proclaimed myself emperor in Shouchun City. Actually, your strength is not enough. What's the use of having this stamp box? So Cao Cao wanted to attack him. However, Shouchun City is not easy to attack. After a while, you can't beat it. What should I do if I see that I'm running out of food and grass? He called Dong Wang, the grain official, and told him that from today on, you will give me a small bucket to put grain. The grain official said, everyone can see that soldiers won't complain about me immediately if they don't have enough to eat? Cao Cao told him that you don't have to worry about this matter, and I will be responsible for it for you. Wang Nan had to do as he told him. Sure enough, the soldiers below were in an uproar because they didn't have enough to eat that day. What shall we do? Then Cao Cao called this Dong Wang and told him that I wanted to borrow something from you. This Dong Wang said I have nothing to lend you, "your head", borrow his head. This Wang Nan said I was innocent. You asked me to put the food in a small bucket. Why did you kill me? Cao Cao said, I know you are innocent, but not killing you is not enough to make the people angry, so I told him that from now on, your wife and children will be raised by me, and you can set your mind at ease to put Wang Nan out and behead them, telling everyone that it was Wang Nangan, a grain official, and Wang Nan devoted himself to Cao Cao's great cause.

16, "Step on the wheat field and cut your hair instead of your head". I'm glad I won a war, and it happened to be a bumper harvest in April. Because I was in a good mood, I gave an order that all soldiers were not allowed to spoil food. Some people would be beheaded as soon as they stepped into the wheat field, but just after this order was issued, his own horse was surprised by a turtledove flying in the field. Then he set foot on a large wheat field alone. what should he do ？ I want to kill myself with my sword. Of course, I want to advise you, Prime Minister, that you can't kill yourself. If you kill yourself, what shall we do? Who do we rely on? I count on you to unify the world. So Cao Cao said, what should I do? I will cut off my hair, which is my punishment. When he breaks the law himself, it will be nothing to solve the problem. Haircut: Also known as "Qiu", it is the punishment second only to beheading.

17, Xuzhou massacre. His philosophy of life is "I'd rather be negative about the world than teach the world to be negative about me". Lv Boshe's family, who treated him warmly, was brutally murdered by him. In order to avenge his father and attack Xuzhou, he "killed everyone" and "left no chickens or dogs" wherever he went.

18, Cao Cao dreamed of killing people. Cao Cao told his entourage that he would kill people in his dreams to protect himself. In order to convince people to believe what they said, they deliberately pushed the quilt away when they slept one night. A servant who is deeply loved by Cao Cao usually picks up the quilt on the ground and covers it for his master. Cao Cao suddenly turned over, jumped up, pulled out the sword beside the bed, and with a wave of his hand, the servant died at once. Cao Cao was still playing dumb when he woke up the next day. Let everyone believe that Cao Gong does have mysterious self-protection ability in his sleep. Only one person can see this move of Cao Cao clearly. This man is Yang Xiu. When Cao Cao pretended to send his attendants to the funeral, he held the coffin and said with a wry smile, "It's not Cao Gong who is dreaming, it's you who is dreaming!" " Cao Cao hated Yang Xiu when Yang Xiu was exposed.