Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-sixth: Xuande Attacks Fancheng with Strategies

But Cao Ren was angry, so he raised his own troops and crossed the river at night, intending to conquer the new land. Let's say that Shan Fu won the victory and returned to the county. He called Xuande and said: Cao Ren stationed troops in Fancheng. Now that he knows that the two generals have been executed, he will raise a large army to fight.Xuande said, "how should we welcome it?"Fu said: "If he comes with all his troops, Fancheng will be empty, and he can take advantage of the time to seize it."Xuande asked for advice.Fu Fu whispered so so.Xuande is overjoyed, and the preparations have been made.Suddenly it was reported to the horse that Cao Ren led the army across the river.Shan Fu said: "It's not what I expected."So Xuande was asked to go out to meet the enemy.When the two battles were against each other, Zhao Yun went out to summon the other general to answer.Cao Ren ordered Li Dian to fight against Zhao Yun.After about ten battles, Li Dian expected that he would not be able to defeat him, so he pulled his horse back to the formation.Yun Zongma chased after him, and the two wings of the army shot and stopped, so they all stopped and returned to the village.Li Dian went back to see Cao Ren and said: "The other army is elite. Don't underestimate the enemy. It is better to go back to Fancheng."Cao Ren said angrily: "When you didn't leave the army, you already slowed down my army's morale; now you sell the formation again, and you will be beheaded for the crime!"Then drink the knife and axe and push Li Dian to beheaded; all the generals will complain to avoid it.Nai transferred Li Dian to lead the rear army, and Ren Zi led the troops to the front.The next day, they marched with drums and formed a formation, which made people ask Xuande, "know my formation?"Shan Fu went up to a high place to wait and see, and said to Xuande, "This is the eight-door golden lock formation."The eight gates are: Rest, Life, Injury, Du, Scenery, Death, Surprise, and Open.For example, if you enter through the gate of life, Jingmen, and open gate, you will be auspicious; if you enter through the gate of injury, surprise, and rest, you will be injured;Although the eight gates are arranged neatly today, there is still a lack of presiding in the middle.If you enter from the Shangsheng Gate in the southeast corner and exit from the Jingmen Gate in the west, the formation will be chaotic.Xuande sent an order to teach the soldiers to hold the corner of the formation, and ordered Zhao Yun to lead five hundred troops into the southeast and go west.Yun Deling raised his gun and leaped his horse, led his troops to the southeast corner and shouted, and rushed into the Chinese army.Cao Ren fled north.Yun didn't chase after, but protruded from Ximen, and came up from the southeast corner from Xisha.Cao Ren's army was in chaos.Xuande's army attacked, Cao Bing was defeated and retreated.Shan Fu ordered Hugh to pursue him, and withdrew his army to return.

But Cao Ren lost for a while, and Fang believed Li Dian's words; because he asked Dian to discuss again, he said: "There must be capable people in Liu Bei's army."My formation was broken.Li Dian said: "Although I am here, I am very worried about Fancheng."Cao Ren said: "Go to Jiezhai tonight."If you win, then discuss again; if you don't win, you will retreat back to Fancheng.Li Dian said: "No: Liu Bei must be prepared."Ren said: If you are so suspicious, why use troops?So he didn't listen to Li Dian's words.Self-introduced the army as the front team, made Li Dian the rear response, and robbed the stronghold at the second watch that night.

But it is said that Shan Fu was discussing matters with Xuande in the stronghold, and suddenly the wind rose suddenly.Fu said: Cao Ren will come to rob the village tonight.Xuande said: "Why are you against him?"Fu smiled and said, "I've made a budget."So the dense allocation has been completed.At the second watch, when Cao Renbing approached the stronghold, he saw fires around the stronghold, burning the gates of the stronghold.Knowing that he was prepared, Cao Ren hurriedly ordered the army to retreat.Zhao Yun concealed the future.Ren was too late to withdraw his troops and go back to the village, so he looked anxiously at Beihe and left.When he was near the river, he wanted to find a boat to cross the river. A Biao army on the bank came to him: the leader is Zhang Feiye.Cao Ren fought to the death, and Li Dian protected Cao Ren from getting off the boat and crossing the river.Most of Cao Jun drowned in the water.Cao Ren crossed the river, went ashore and rushed to Fancheng, which made people shout.I saw a drum beating on the city, and a general led the army out, shouting, "I have taken Fancheng for a long time!"All the people stared in amazement: it is Guan Yunchang.Ren was shocked, pulled his horse and left.Yun Chang came after him.Cao Ren broke off a lot of army horses and threw them into Xuchang at night.After inquiring on the road, I found out that there was Shan Fu as the military adviser, and he set up a plan.

Not to mention that Cao Ren was defeated and returned to Xuchang.Let's say that Xuande won a big victory and led the army into Fancheng. Liu Mi, the county magistrate, went out to meet him.Xuande Anmin has been decided.Then Liu Mi was from Changsha and a relative of the Han family, so he invited Xuande to his home and hosted a banquet for each other.I saw only one person standing on the side.Xuande regarded him as an imposing figure, so he asked, "Who is this?"Bi said: "This is my nephew, Kou Feng, who is the son of the Luo Hou Kou family; because both parents died, I depend here."Xuande loves him and wants his heir to be his adopted son.Liu Mi readily obeyed, so Kou Feng worshiped Xuande as his father and changed his name to Liu Feng.Xuande brought it back and made Bai Yunchang and Yide his uncles.Yun Chang said: "My brother has a son, so why use the bollworm?"Chaos will follow.Xuande said: "I treat him like a son, and he must treat me like a father. Why is there any chaos?"Yun Chang was not happy.Xuande discussed with Shan Fu and ordered Zhao Yun to lead a thousand troops to guard Fancheng.Xuande led the crowd back to Xinye.

But Cao Ren and Li Dian went back to Xudu, saw Cao Cao, wept and bowed to the ground to plead guilty, and said that they had lost their generals and soldiers.Cao said: "Victory and defeat are commonplace for military families."But I don't know who made a plan for Liu Bei?Cao Renyan said it was Shan Fu's plan.Cao said, "Who is Shan Fu?"Cheng Yu said with a smile: "This is not a single blessing: this man was fond of learning fencing when he was young; in the last years of Zhongping, he tried to avenge the murder of others, and walked away with his hair and face painted. On the car, beat drums and walk in the city, so that the people of the city know him, although those who know him dare not speak; but his companion steals and rescues him, but changes his name and flees, learns from others, visits famous teachers all over the place, and talks with Sima Hui.This person is Xu Shu from Yingchuan, and the characters are straight: Shan Fu is his name.Cao Cao said: "How is Xu Shu's talent better than that of the king?"Yu said: "Ten times stronger than Yu."Cao said: "It's a pity that the wise man belongs to Liu Bei!"The wings are done!What?Yu said: "Although Xu Shu is there, the prime minister wants to use it. It's not difficult to recruit him."Cao said, "Andrew is coming back?"Yu said: Xu Shu is extremely filial.When he lost his father when he was young, only his mother was in the hall.Now his younger brother Xu Kang is dead, and his old mother has no one to take care of her.The prime minister can make someone earn money for his mother to come to Xuchang, and order him to write a book to call his son, then Xu Shu will definitely come.

Cao was so overjoyed that he sent people to fetch concubine Xu at night.Not a day, take to.Cao treated him kindly, because he said: Xu Yuanzhi, the heir of Wenling, is a genius in the world.Now in Xinye, it is a pity to help the rebellious minister Liu Bei and betray the court, and the beautiful jade fell into the mud.Today, I am bothering my mother to write a book and call back Xudu. I will play it in front of the emperor, and I will definitely be rewarded.So he ordered his left and right to hold the four treasures of the study, and ordered Xu's mother to write books.Xu's mother said: "What kind of man is Liu Bei?"Cao said: "The juniors in Peijun falsely claim to be the emperor's uncle. They have no faith at all. They are so-called gentlemen on the outside and villains on the inside."Xu's mother said sharply, "how can you lie!"I have heard for a long time that Xuande is the great-great-grandson of Emperor Xiaojing after King Jing of Zhongshan.The yellow boy, the old man, the shepherd, and the woodcutter all know his name: he is also a true hero of the world.My son assists him, and he will be the master.Although you entrust your name to be a prime minister of the Han Dynasty, you are actually a traitor of the Han Dynasty.On the contrary, Xuande is regarded as a rebellious minister, and if you want to make my son turn his back on the dark, wouldn't you be ashamed of yourself!After saying that, he took the stone inkstone and beat Cao Cao.Cao was furious, and ordered the samurai to hold Xu's mother out and kill her.Cheng Yu stopped immediately.Entering the admonishment, Cao said: "Mother Xu wants to die if she touches the prime minister."If the prime minister kills him, he will be accused of injustice and become the virtue of Xu's mother.When Xu's mother dies, Xu Shu will definitely help Liu Bei to repay him; it is better to keep it, so that Xu Shu's body and mind will be separated, even if he helps Liu Bei, he will not do his best.And keeping Xu's mother here, Yu has his own plan to make Xu Shu come here to assist the prime minister.According to his words, he did not kill Xu's mother, but sent her to another room to raise her.Cheng Yu went to greet each other every day, falsely saying that he and Xu Shu had become brothers and treated Xu's mother like his own mother; when he often gave gifts, he must have a handwritten letter.Xu's mother also answered it by hand.Cheng Yu earned Xu's mother's handwriting, imitating her handwriting, and fraudulently repaired a family letter. He sent a confidant to Xinye County with the book to ask Shan Fu Xingmu.The sergeant introduced Xu Shu.The concubine's mother has a letter from her family, and she urgently calls to ask her.The person who came said: "A certain is a pawn in the hall, and there is a book attached to the words of the old lady."Shu unpacks it and regards it.The book says:

Nearly your younger brother Kang mourned, and he had no relatives.In the midst of grief, Prime Minister Cao sent people to Xuchang to earn money, saying that you had rebelled against me, and sent me to prison. Cheng Yu and others rescued me.If you come down, I can save me from death.For example, when the book arrives in the day, you can read the kindness of the work, and come to the starry night to show your filial piety; then Xu Tu will return to his hometown to avoid catastrophe.My life is hanging by a thread, and I only hope for rescue!Not to mention more. After reading it, Xu Shu burst into tears.He came to see Xuande with a book and said: a certain book of Xu Shu from Yingchuan, with straight characters; because of fleeing, the name was changed to Fu.I heard that Liu Jingsheng was recruiting talents, so I went to see him; and discussing things, I knew that he was a useless person; pretending to write a farewell, Kui Ye went to Sima Shuijing Village to tell the story.Shui Jing deeply blamed the common people for not knowing the Lord, because he said: Liu Yuzhou is here, why not do something about it?The concubine pretended to sing wildly in the market to move the king; fortunately, he did not abandon it, and gave it to him for reuse.Zhengnai's old mother has now been tricked by Cao Cao and has been imprisoned in Xuchang, where she intends to harm her.The old mother came to call in handwriting, and the concubine couldn't bear to go.If you don't want to imitate the hard work of dogs and horses, in order to repay your envoys;Let me go now, and Rong Tu will meet later.When Xuande heard the words, he burst into tears and said: "Mother and son are relatives by nature, and Yuan Zhi has nothing to prepare for."After I meet the old lady, I may have to teach again.Xu Shu then thanked him and wanted to do it.Xuande said, "I beg you to gather for another night and have a farewell party in the next day."Sun Qianmi said to Xuande, "Yuanzhi is a genius in the world. He has been in Xinye for a long time, and he knows the truth and reality in our army."If the envoy returns to Cao Cao today, he will definitely use it again, and I will be in danger.The Lord should keep it, don't let it go.Seeing that Yuan Zhi would not go, Cao Cao would kill his mother.Yuan Zhi knew that his mother died, so he would avenge his mother and attack Cao Cao.Xuande said: "You can't: let someone kill his mother, and I use his son, it is not benevolent; it is unrighteous to keep him and not let him go, so as to cut off the way of his son and mother."I would rather die than do something unkind or unrighteous.Everyone sighed.

Xuande invited Xu Shu to drink, and Shu said: "I heard that my mother is imprisoned, although Jinboyu liquid can't be swallowed."Xuande said: "Mr. Beiwen will go. If he loses his left and right hands, even though he has a dragon's liver and a phoenix's marrow, he will not be reconciled to it."The two wept at each other and sat and waited.The generals have arranged a farewell banquet outside Guo.Xuande and Xu Shu rode out of the city together, and dismounted to say goodbye to Changting.Xuande raised his glass to Xu Shu and said: "Because I have a shallow relationship, I can't get together with my husband. I hope that my husband will do good deeds and become the new master, and he will be famous for success."The commoner cried and said: "A certain talent has little intelligence, but the deep load makes you reuse it."Today, unfortunately, we left halfway, which is really because of my mother.Even if Cao Cao forced each other, the concubine would never plan for life.Xuande said: "Sir, if you go, Liu Bei will also flee to the mountains and forests."The concubine said: "The reason why a certain person is working with the envoy to seek the king's hegemony is to rely on this square inch ear; now because of the old mother, the square inch is chaotic; even if it is here, it is useless."So you don't need to ask for the help of Gao Xian, so why should you be so discouraged?Xuande said: "There is no one who is worthy of the right in the world."The concubine said: "A certain Quercus ivory is a mediocre material, how dare you take this honor."Parting, and Gu said to the generals, said: "May all the gentlemen do good deeds to envoy the king, hang the bamboo and silk with the name of the picture, and mark the history of the merits, and don't follow the infinity of the common people."The generals are all sad.Xuande couldn't bear to leave, so he sent him off once and then again.The concubine's speech said: "If you don't work, you will send the king far away, and the concubine will say goodbye."Xuande immediately took the hand of the concubine and said, "Sir, let's go, we are on different sides of the world. I don't know when we will meet!"After all, tears fell like rain.Shu also wept and said goodbye.Xuande immediately stood by the forest, watching Xu Shu hurry away on horseback with his followers.Xuande cried and said, "Yuanzhi is gone!"What will I do?Looking at it with tears, but was cut off by a forest.Xuande pointed with a whip and said, "I want to cut down all the trees here."Everyone asked why.Xuande said: "Because it prevents me from seeing Xu Yuanzhi's eyes."

Just looking at it, I suddenly saw Xu Shu clapping his horse back.Xuande said: "Is it possible that Yuanzhi has no intention of going back when he returns?"So he happily patted his horse forward and asked, "Mr. must have an idea this time."Shu Lema said to Xuande: "Because my mind is numb, I forgot to say: There is a strange man here, only in Longzhong twenty miles outside Xiangyang City."Why don't you ask for it?Xuande said: "Dare to bother Yuan Zhi, please come and meet me for preparation."The concubine said: "This person should not be subdued, so that the king can ask for it in person."If you get this person, it is no different from Zhou getting Lu Wang⑤ and Han getting Zhang Liang⑥.Xuande said, "how is this man more talented and virtuous than my husband?"The concubine said: Comparing it with someone, it's like a nasty horse with a unicorn, and a jackdaw with a luan and a phoenix ear.Every time this person compares himself to Guan Zhong⑦ and Le Yi⑧; from my point of view, Guan and Le Yi are almost inferior to this person.This person has the talent of latitude and longitude, and he is the only one in the world.Xuande said happily, "I would like to hear the name of this person."The concubine said: "This man is from Yangdu, Langya: Fu's surname is Zhuge, his name is Liang, and his style name is Kongming."It is the descendant of Zhuge Feng, the captain of the Sili school of the Han Dynasty.His father's name was Gui, and his style name was Zigong. He was the prefect of Taishan County and died early.Liang follows his uncle Xuan.Xuan and Liu Jingsheng of Jingzhou had an old relationship, so they lived in Xiangyang because of their past.After Xuan died, Liang and his younger brother Zhuge both worked hard in Nanyang.The best taste is "Liang Fu Yin" ⑨.There is a hill where he lives, named Wolonggang, because he called himself Mr. Wolong.This person is a peerless genius.You should see it in vain if you are in a hurry.If this person is willing to help each other, why worry about the uncertainty of the world?Xuande said: Mr. Xi Shuijing once prepared for me: Fulong and Fengchu, if they get one, they will be safe in the world.Could it be that what is said today is Fulong and phoenix chicks?The concubine said: "The young phoenix is ​​Pang Tong of Xiangyang."Fulong is exactly Zhuge Kongming.Xuande said enthusiastically, "I only know the words of Fulong and Phoenix today."He Qi Daxian is only in the present.As Mr. Fei said, having eyes is like being blind!Later generations praised Xu Shu for walking on a horse and recommending Zhuge's poems, saying:

I hate Gao Xian for not seeing each other anymore, and Lin Qi weeps farewell.A few words are like spring thunder, which can make Nanyang rise from a crouching dragon. Xu Shu recommended Kong Ming, said goodbye to Xuande, and rode away on horseback.When Xuande heard Xu Shu's words, he realized Sima Decao's words. It was like waking up after being drunk, like waking up from a dream.When the generals will return to Xinye, they will have thick coins. Tong Guan and Zhang will go to Nanyang to invite Kong Ming. In addition, Xu Shu said goodbye to Xuande, feeling his nostalgia, fearing that Kongming would not go out of the mountain to help him, so he rode a horse until the foot of Wolonggang, and went into the thatched cottage to see Kongming.Kong Ming asked him why he came.The concubine said: "The concubine wanted to serve Liu Yuzhou, but Nai's mother was imprisoned by Cao Cao. She wrote a letter to call her, so she had to give up and go."Before leaving, he will be recommended to Xuande.Xuande will pay homage in the future, and hope that the public will not push back, and he will show his great talents in his life to supplement him. Fortunately, it is very fortunate!Kongming heard the words and said, "Do you think I am a sacrifice for the sacrificial offering?"After all, walk in.The concubine retreated in shame, got on the horse and went to Xuchang to meet her mother.Exactly: Tell your friends to go home thousands of miles to miss relatives because of love for the Lord.I don't know what happened next, see below.

① Bollworm mulberry.The gnat catches the bollworm and feeds its larvae. The ancients misunderstood that it raised the bollworm as its offspring, so they called the adopted son the bollworm. ② Zhe Jie Zhe means to bend, to change; Jie means Chi Jie.节节, here is the meaning of changing the usual behavior and style. ③ The meaning of hard work; it mostly refers to the upbringing of children by parents. ④ The names of two kinds of woods, Quercus chinensis; these two kinds of woods are not very useful, and they are used to compare people without talents. ⑤ Lu Wang was born in the Western Zhou Dynasty. His original surname was Jiang, and his style name was Ziya. He was old and lived in seclusion beside the Wei River.When he met King Wen of Zhou, he was respected as his teacher; later he assisted King Wu of Zhou to destroy Shang. ⑥ Zhang Liang, the counselor of the founding of the Han Dynasty. ⑦ Guan Zhong, a statesman in the Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period.Assist Duke Huan of Qi, the princes of Jiuhe, and dominate the world. ⑧ Le Yi, the general of Yan State during the Warring States Period.Once led Zhao, Chu, Han, Wei, and Yan to attack Qi, and defeated Qi. ⑨ "Liang Fu Yin" Yuefu title.