The Three Kingdoms is an era of heroes, but countless people have competed in resourcefulness and bravery for decades, and finally made a wedding dress for the Sima family, which is inevitably regrettable. In addition, the Jin Dynasty had a bad reputation in history, so it also caused countless infamy on the Sima family of that era.
However, Sima Yi, who laid the foundation of the Sima family, was indeed not an ordinary person, and he relied on his resourcefulness and cautious character to successfully survive the three generations of monarchs Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Rui. Later, no one could really compete with it. Therefore, it is indeed common sense that the world was finally taken away by the Sima family.
In fact, Sima Yi's character has long been seen through by Cao Cao, who has reminded Cao Pi many times that the emperor of Cao Wei trusts and reuses Sima Yi on the surface, but in fact he has always been defensive against him, and he likes to let his clan rival him.
However, Sima Yi lived too long, not only to death of three generations of monarchs, but also to the death of many of Cao Cao's vassals who were left behind to restrain Sima Yi. So who did Cao Cao leave behind for future generations?
As Cao Cao's adopted son, Cao Zhen can be said to be experienced in a hundred battles and deeply loved and trusted by Cao Cao, so he can be called the leader of Cao Wei's second-generation generals. This is the general that Cao Cao left to Cao Pi.
After Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi directly promoted Cao Zhen to be in charge of Yongliang's military affairs. During this period, he helped Cao Pi to quell the rebellion many times, and he was a rare handsome talent.
When Cao Pi was dying, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Chen Qun, and Sima Yi were all important ministers.
During Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, he repelled the opponent's attacks many times and stayed to the west of Cao Wei.
It's a pity that the day is not a holiday, and Yu Cao Wei Taihe died in the fifth year.
It was precisely because of Cao Zhen's death that in order to deal with Zhuge Liang's attack, Sima Yi was sent to Yongliang to garrison, and officially began the road to rise.
Cao Xiu is Cao Cao's clan, who became famous at a young age and was called "the Cao family's thousand-mile horse" by Cao Cao. Therefore, Cao Cao treated Cao Xiu as if he were his own son, and let him grow up with Cao Pi. Later, he was the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry with Cao Zhen. After that, he accompanied Cao Cao to fight in the south and north.
After Cao Pi became emperor, he appointed Cao Xiu as the general of Zhennan, replacing Xiahoudun in charge of guarding against Sun Quan. After he came to the south, he defeated Sun Quan's army many times. Later, he was also promoted to the general of Zhengdong for his merits.
Cao Xiu and Cao Zhen, one is in charge of the south and the other is in charge of the west, which can be called Cao Wei's Dinghai Divine Needle.
In the third year of the early Huang Dynasty, Cao Pi drove his own expedition, and the troops were divided into three ways to crusade against Sun Quan, and Cao Xiu was the commander of the East Road. On this battlefield, Cao Xiu faced Jiangdong veteran Lu Fan.
In Cao Pi's southern expedition, only Cao Xiu achieved a great victory, and the other two roads did not have much success.
In the seventh year of the early Huang Dynasty, Cao Pi died, and Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen and others were both ministers of Tuogu, and continued to guard the Huainan area, so that Eastern Wu could not advance an inch.
In the second year of Taihe, Eastern Wu set up a plan and sent Zhou Yi to surrender by fraud, Cao Xiu believed that it was true, but as a result, he was ambushed by the Wu army and suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, he was rescued by Jia Kui and others, so that Cao Xiu was not completely wiped out.
Because of this failure, Cao Xiu was depressed, and then he had a carbuncle attack and died soon after.
As soon as Cao Xiu died, there was one less person to restrain Sima Yi from then on.
Zhang He is a famous general of Cao Wei, since the surrender of Cao Cao, he has won his trust, and has made countless contributions with Cao Cao's southern and northern wars, but because of the famous generals of the Cao army at that time, Zhang He has never had the opportunity to lead an army alone.
In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Xiahou Yuan, the defender of Hanzhong, was beheaded by Huang Zhong, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Zhang He stood up and became the temporary commander of the army to continue to defend Liu Bei. At that time, Liu Bei once said: "If you want to kill, kill Zhang He, what's the use of killing Xiahou Yuan." ”
It can be seen that Liu Bei is even more jealous of Zhang He.
With the death of the older generation of generals one after another, Zhang He, as the only remaining fruit, is naturally more reused. During the Cao Pi period and the Cao Rui period, he continued to fight for the south and north of the Cao family. Later, in Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, he defeated Ma Yan, reversed the situation of Longyou in one fell swoop, and forced Zhuge Liang to retreat to Hanzhong.
In the later Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang has always had a deep fear of Zhang He.
In the fifth year of Cao Wei's Taihe, Zhuge Liang's fourth northern expedition, Cao Wei sent Sima Yi as the supreme commander to lead Zhang He, Guo Huai and others to meet Zhuge Liang. Sima Yi's way of dealing with Zhuge Liang was to choose to avoid the war, which caused Zhang He's dissatisfaction.
After Zhuge Liang ran out of food and retreated, Sima Yi ordered Zhang He to go in pursuit, but Zhang He was hindered by the military order and had to go to pursue. As a result, he was chased to Mumen Valley and was ambushed by the Shu army, and Zhang He was shot and killed by random arrows. A generation of famous generals died in battle.
And Zhang He's death also directly led to the fact that no one in the Cao Wei court could restrain Sima Yi.
These three fierce generals left by Cao Cao all passed away one step ahead of Sima Yi, which led to no one being able to restrain Sima Yi, but if there is one person or this world, how can this world fall into the hands of the Sima family.