The Song of Chu on All Sides (Xiang Yu), The First Time Out (Zhuge Liang), Cooking Beans and Burning Beans (Cao Zhi), Pointing a Deer for a Horse (Zhao Gao), Borrowing an Arrow on a Grass Boat (Zhuge Liang), Dancing at the Smell of a Rooster (Zu Ti), and Breaking the Sinking of a Boat (Xiang Yu).
1. Chorus of Chu on All Sides
It was originally agreed between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang that they would take the east and west sides of the Honggou (Jialu River in present-day Rongxian County, Henan Province) as the boundary, and would not encroach on each other. Later, Liu Bang listened to the advice of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping and felt that he should take advantage of Xiang Yu's weakening to destroy him, so he joined forces with Han Xin, Peng Yue and Liu Jia to pursue Xiang Yu's troops who were driving eastward to Pengcheng (i.e., present-day Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province).
Finally, they arranged several layers of troops and tightly surrounded Xiang Yu in Gaixia (in the southeast of Lingbi County, Anhui Province, today). By this time, Xiang Yu had very few soldiers under his command and ran out of food.
When he heard the troops surrounding him on all sides singing the folk songs of Chu at night, he couldn't help but be very surprised and said, "Has Liu Bang already got the Chu land? Why are there so many Chu people inside his troops?"
Saying that, he had lost his fighting spirit in his heart, so he got up from his bed and drank wine inside his tent; and sang with his favorite concubine Yu Ji. When he had finished singing, he shed tears, and those who were with him were so sad that they could not lift up their heads.
A little while later, Xiang Yu mounted his horse, took the only remaining 800 cavalrymen, and fled from the south. Fighting as he fled, he went to the bank of the Wu River and killed himself.
Because Xiang Yu was surprised to hear the Chu song being sung around him, and then he failed to commit suicide, people later used the phrase "Chu song on all sides" to describe the situation of people being attacked or pressed from all sides, resulting in isolation and embarrassment.
2, the first fledgling
The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei three times to ask Zhuge Liang and worship as a military adviser. And Guan Yu and Zhang Fei did not think much of him. Not long after, Cao Cao sent general Xiahou Dun to lead 100,000 troops to attack Xin Ye, Liu Bei to find Zhuge Liang to discuss, Zhuge Liang said, "I'm afraid that all the generals do not listen to my orders, I would like to borrow the Lord's seal and sword a use." Liu Bei busy seal sword to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang began to gather the crowd of generals.
Ordered Guan Yu to take a thousand men to ambush in Yu Mountain, spare the enemy's vanguard, and when he saw the fire, he quickly attacked. Zhang Fei took 1,000 men and horses and ambushed them in the valley, and when the fire started, killed them on the slope of Bowang. Guan Ping and Liu Feng took 500 men and waited behind the Beiwang slope in two directions, and as soon as the enemy arrived, they immediately set fire to it. Zhao Yun was transferred from Fancheng to be the vanguard, and he was only allowed to lose but not to win. Liu Bei will bring 1,000 men as backup.
Guan Yu couldn't help but ask: "We're all going to war, what's Mr. doing?" Zhuge Liang said, "I'm sitting and waiting in the city." Zhang Fei laughed and said, "We all go to fight for our lives, sir you are free!" Zhuge Liang said, "The seal sword is here, those who disobey the order will be killed!" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were speechless, sneering and walking away.
In the battle, the generals acted according to Zhuge Liang's instructions, and killed Cao's soldiers to lose their armor. Zhuge Liang's first use of the army, God's plan, a great victory. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other admiration.
3, boiling beanstalks
Cao Pi after the throne, jealous of Cao Zhi's talent, Cao Zhi from a pampered noble son, into a restricted and hit everywhere. Once, Cao Pi ordered Cao Zhi to compose a poem within seven paces, and if he failed to do so, he would be executed.
Cao Zhi was a very talented man, and without waiting for his words to fall, he responded by reciting a poem called "Seven Steps to the Poem of the Beanstalk", which is a poem about boiling beans and burning beanstalks. Cao Pi, after hearing the poem, was y ashamed and did not harm Cao Zhi.
This is how the later generations praised a person with a quick mind as a "talented person with seven steps". However, the story of "burning beanstalks" between Cao Zhi and his brother Cao Pi continues to play out in the sky of history, leaving the world with a heavy burden of thought.
4. The Deer for a Horse
Zhao Gao wanted to rebel (usurp the power of the Qin dynasty), and was afraid that his ministers would not listen to him, so he first set up a trap to try to test it. So he brought a deer and offered it to the Second Emperor, saying, "This is a horse." The Second King laughed and said, "The Prime Minister is wrong, isn't he? You have described the deer as a horse."
Asked the ministers around him, and some of the ministers on the right and left were silent, while some deliberately catered to Zhao Gao's claim that it was a horse, and some said it was a deer, and Zhao Gao secretly pretended that the law had been used to vilify or frame those who said it was a deer. Afterward, the ministers all feared Zhao Gao.
5. Borrowing Arrows from a Straw Boat
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao led an army of 800,000 men who wanted to conquer Eastern Wu. Sun Quan and Liu Bei then planned to join forces to fend off Wei. One of Sun Quan's generals, Zhou Yu, was a man of great intelligence and courage, but he was a bit narrow-minded and jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent.
Because of the arrows needed for the battle in the water, Zhou Yu wants Zhuge Liang to be responsible for building 100,000 arrows in ten days, but Zhuge Liang only needs three days, and is willing to make a military order, and will be punished for failing to complete the task.
Zhou Yu thought, three days can not make 100,000 arrows, just use this opportunity to get rid of Zhuge Liang. So he told the military craftsmen not to prepare all the materials for making arrows, and on the other hand, he asked his minister Lu Su to find out the truth of Zhuge Liang.
Lu Su met Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang said, "I have to ask you to do me a favor in this matter. I hope you can lend me 20 boats with 30 soldiers on each, the boats should be covered with green cloth mantles, and there should be more than a thousand grass targets lined up on both sides of the boats. However, this must not be known to the governor of your house, or it will not work." ?
Lu Su reported to Zhou Yu, saying only that he did not need to prepare the material, and never mentioned Zhuge Liang's plan. Two days passed, not a bit of movement. Zhou Yu thought: he must not be built well.
On the third day at four o'clock, Zhuge Liang secretly asked Lu Su to go to the boat with him, saying that they were going to fetch arrows together. Zhuge Liang ordered the boat to be connected with ropes and sailed toward the opposite shore.
That day the river was so foggy that no one could be seen on the other side. When the boat approached Cao Cao's water fortress, Zhuge Liang ordered the boats to be set out in single file and told the soldiers to beat their drums and shout. Cao Cao thought that the other side to attack, and because of the fog for fear of ambush, from the dry fortress sent six thousand archers toward the river to shoot arrows, rain arrows have shot on the grass target.
After a while, Zhuge Liang ordered the ship to turn around and let the other side receive arrows. The sun came out, the fog was about to lift, Zhuge Liang ordered the ship to hurry back. At this point, the wind was blowing smoothly, and it was too late for Cao Cao to give chase.
This time the boat on both sides of the grass target densely filled with arrows, each boat at least five, six thousand, the total **** there are 20 boats, the total is far more than 100,000. When Lu Su told Zhou Yu about the borrowing of the arrows, Zhou Yu exclaimed, "Zhuge Liang is so skillful that I am not as good as him."
6, heard the chicken dance
Zu Ti and Liu Kun together as the Secretary of the state, deep feelings, often lie in bed with the same bed, sleep with the blanket. Once, Zu Ti heard a chicken crowing in the middle of the night, thinking that it was the heaven to inspire him to advance, he woke up Liu Kun and said, "This is not an evil sound."
Then he and Liu Kun went outside the house to dance and practice martial arts. Later, people used the saying "Wake up at the sound of the rooster" as a metaphor to describe a person who has the will to serve his country and rises up instantly.
7, break the kettle and sink the boat
209 BC, China's history broke out in the peasant revolt led by Chen Sheng Wu Guang. After the sacrifice of Chen Sheng Wu Guang, two armies led by Liu Bang and Xiang Yu gradually grew stronger.
In 207 B.C., Xiang Yu's rebel army fought against the main force of the Qin army led by Qin general Zhang Han at Julu (present-day Xingtai, Hebei province); Xiang Yu defied the enemy and led his troops to cross the Zhangshui (a river flowing southeast from northeast of Julu).
After crossing the river, Xiang Yu ordered his entire army to "all sink their boats, break the kettle and cauldron, burn their huts, and hold their food for three days to show that their soldiers will die, and none of them will return to their hearts." The battle of Julu was a great victory over the Qin army, and Xiang Yu's soldiers shook the vassals with their might.
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