During the Battle of Yiling, Cao Pi had the opportunity to dominate the world, but he was played by

Liu Bei raised troops to attack Wu, and finally defeated Yiling, which has always been a hot topic, some people feel sorry for Liu Bei, some people criticize, and some people review this battle.

Many times, our focus is often on the whole process of the battle of Yiling between Wu and Shu, but this is actually a three-way game.

There is not only the military contest between Liu Bei and Sun Quan, but also the political game between Sun Quan and Cao Pi.

I've seen a hot question on the Internet before: During the Battle of Yiling, why didn't Cao Pi take the opportunity to attack Eastern Wu?

Obviously, many netizens still discovered this problem and paid attention to Cao Pi's attitude during this period.

In fact, during Liu Bei's invasion of Wu, Sun Quan once played Cao Pi around, until the end of the Battle of Yiling, Cao Pi did not know that he had been tricked, and after missing the best time to attack, Cao Pi made a big crusade against Eastern Wu, and returned defeated.

In the whole process, when the Battle of Yiling broke out, it was actually a godsend, as long as he took this opportunity to attack Eastern Wu on a large scale, Sun Quan's side would definitely be destroyed in a few months, and the remaining Liu Bei would not be able to set off the wind and waves, and Cao Wei could completely dominate the world.

However, compared to his father Cao Cao, Cao Pi is almost not a star and a half!

He was not only played by Sun Quan, but also short-sighted, and even top strategists like Liu Ye, a famous strategist of the Wei State, could not take Cao Pi into the sinkhole.

Before the Battle of Yiling broke out, Sun Quan had already made preparations with both hands, but Cao Pi's IQ went offline.

First of all, Sun and Liu's thoughts, Liu Bei and Wu did not actually come out of the nest, let alone fight with Sun Quan, his goal was to try to force Sun Quan to return to the negotiating table with force as the backing, and then make concessions on the Jingzhou issue.

In other words, if the negotiation fails, recapture Jingzhou by force is nothing more, and there is no intention to take this opportunity to destroy Eastern Wu in one fell swoop.

This can be seen from Liu Bei's military deployment and subsequent military operations.

When Liu Bei sent troops, he put Wei Yan in Hanzhong to guard, and did not let him participate, because it was to guard against the possibility of Cao Wei taking the opportunity to attack, and then put Zhao Yun in Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou during the Three Kingdoms period is now Chongqing, and Hubei is at the junction, and the location of the junction is the Wushan line.

The intention of putting Zhao Yun here is obvious, that is, in order to prevent that in case of unfavorable war, Zhao Yun can send troops in time to respond, and later Liu Bei was defeated, and it was Zhao Yun who entered Yong'an City in time to defend Eastern Wu.

Before the war started, Liu Bei had already considered the way back, which shows that Liu Bei's attack on Wu was with a plan to fight if he won the battle, and withdraw his troops in time if he couldn't win.

In the later military operations, Liu Bei dispatched a large army to attack Wu in July 221, and it was in this month that Liu Bei defeated the defenders along the line of Eastern Wu at Wushan and Zigui, and won the first battle.

But that's where the doubts lie.

Since Liu Bei's victory in the first battle in July, he has stopped the pace of attack, and even Liu Bei himself has left the battlefield, and it was not until January 222 that he returned to the Zigui front, and then the Battle of Yiling broke out.

For five months, there was no military action between the two sides.

It stands to reason that Liu Bei won the first battle, just warmed up, and should take advantage of the situation to capture Jingzhou in one fell swoop, but he stopped military operations for five months, and in these five months, the Eastern Wu side did not send the main force to the front line, and it seems that the Eastern Wu is not worried that Liu Bei will continue to attack.

But if you look at the operation of the Soochow side during this period, you can understand.

Sun Quan also sent Zhuge Jin to Liu Bei to sue for peace in the early stage, but Liu Bei sternly refused, and then Liu Bei's first victory was in July, and Sun Quan sent envoys to Cao Wei in August.

Cao Wei finally accepted Sun Quan's title and sent an envoy to crown Sun Quan as King of Wu in November, and Sun Quan also accepted the canonization in November and immediately sent Lu Xun to lead the main force of Eastern Wu to the front.

From this, we can draw a conclusion:

Before the official outbreak of the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei still hoped to negotiate a settlement of the dispute, Sun Quan ate the meat in his mouth, obviously did not want to spit it out, but he was worried that once the war started, Cao Pi would take the opportunity to attack Eastern Wu.

Therefore, Sun Quan made two preparations, on the one hand, he sent someone to negotiate with Liu Bei, and in the five months after Liu Bei stopped attacking, the two sides actually returned to the negotiating table, but Liu Bei did not know that Sun Quan was pretending to negotiate peace.

On the other hand, Sun Quan sent envoys to Cao Wei to claim his vassal status, in order to exchange for Cao Wei's side not taking the opportunity to attack Eastern Wu through surrender actions.

Sun Quan's mind is very simple, being a minister is also a temptation, if Cao Wei accepts him as a minister, he will not take the opportunity to attack Eastern Wu, if Cao Wei does not accept, or obviously shows that he wants to attack Eastern Wu, then he will make concessions to Liu Bei at the negotiation table, so as not to fall into a two-front battle and lead to the fall of Eastern Wu.

Therefore, the only person who could determine the direction of the world at that time was Cao Pi.

But his IQ was obviously offline, not only did he not understand it, but he was also tricked by Sun Quan.

In fact, long before Liu Bei attacked Wu, Cao Pi held a special court meeting to discuss whether Liu Bei would attack Wu.

At that time, most of the ministers of Wei believed that Shu Han only had one famous general Guan Yu, and as soon as Guan Yu died, Shu Han would be frightened and dare to start another war.

But Liu Ye, a famous strategist of Wei, came to the exact opposite conclusion.

It was precisely because Shu Han was stabbed in the back by Dongwu that it led to a series of chain reactions, Shu Han not only lost Jingzhou, but even the three counties of Shangyong, Xicheng and Fangling also fell into the hands of Cao Wei, and the morale of Shu Han plummeted.

In order to boost the morale of Shu Han, reinvigorate his prestige, and show his strength to the outside world, Liu Bei will also kill Wu, Guan Yu is his brother who was born and died, if he does not avenge Guan Yu, then what will the other generals of Shu Han think, who will die for Liu Bei, so in order to avenge Guan Yu, Liu Bei will also kill Wu.

Based on these judgments, Liu Ye's conclusion is that Liu Bei will definitely raise troops to attack Wu, and less than a year after the incident, Liu Bei really attacked Wu, I have to say that Liu Ye's judgment is accurate and worthy of being a strategist.

When Sun Quan sent an envoy to become a minister, Cao Pi suddenly fell into a state of feeling good about himself, as soon as he ascended the throne, Sun Quan came to ask for surrender, and it seemed that he was very powerful as an emperor.

However, just as Cao Pi was about to accept Sun Quan, Liu Ye appeared, because he saw through the little Jiujiu in Sun Quan's heart.

I only heard Liu Ye say:

Sun Quan asked to surrender because Eastern Wu was currently in a crisis, because there were more Jingzhou in Eastern Wu and Guan Yu was killed, and now Liu Bei Xing was crusading, Sun Quan had a strong enemy outside him, and he was worried that our side would take the opportunity to attack, so he came to pretend to surrender.

Sun Quan's purpose was to avoid being attacked by our dynasty through the action of being a minister, and second, he was trying to tie our court and Eastern Wu to a battle line through the title of minister, and demonstrate to Liu Bei to be emboldened for himself.

Although the world is now divided into three, our Wei State has owned eight-tenths of the world, Liu Bei and Sun Quan only have a state of land, and their self-preservation skills are nothing more than relying on mountains and rivers and mutual support.

Now that they are attacking each other, we can take advantage of this perfect opportunity to attack the hinterland of Soochow in a big way.

In this way, Liu Bei attacked the border of Dongwu, and our side could take advantage of the situation to break through the Yangtze River, as long as the Yangtze River was crossed, the hinterland of Dongwu was a flat river, and there was no danger to defend, and it only took ten months to defeat Dongwu in one fell swoop.

At that time, there will only be one Liu Bei left, and it will be difficult to support him alone, and all he will get is the border area of Dongwu, while our side will be able to obtain most of the land and heart of Dongwu, and he can pack up with Liu Bei at any time.

Sun Quan sent an envoy to ask for surrender, and the emperor asked Ye. Ye said: "The right to surrender for no reason, there must be an emergency." Attack and kill Guan Yu in front of the right, take the four counties of Jingzhou, prepare for anger, and will greatly promote the army to destroy it. There are strong men outside, and the people are uneasy, and they are afraid that China will accept their provocation and attack them, so they ask for surrender, one is to resist China's troops, and the other is to fake China's aid, so as to strengthen the people and suspect the enemy. The right to make good use of soldiers, see the strategy and know the change, and its plan must come from this. Today, China has eight out of ten points. Wu and Shu each protect a state, block the mountains and rivers, and rescue each other in an emergency, which is also the benefit of this small country. Now it is still attacking itself, and the sky is also dead. It is advisable to rejuvenate the division and cross the river to attack it. Shu attacked outside, I attacked inside, and Wu's death was not out of the moon. If Wu dies, Shu is lonely. If you cut Wu half, Shu Gu can't survive for a long time, and Shu has to be outside, and I have to be inside! —Fu Zi

However, Cao Pi is too far behind his father Cao Cao.

I only heard Cao Pi respond:

People came to me to ask for surrender, but I sent troops to attack them, what will the people of the world think, who will dare to come to Wei to ask for surrender in the future?

The emperor said: "People call their ministers to descend and cut them down, and those who doubt the world want to descend will be afraid, and they will not be killed!" Why don't you accept Wu's surrender and attack Shu? —Fu Zi

When I first saw Cao Pi's response in the history books, Cao Pi's impression in my heart was instantly lowered by several notches!

In fact, if it was in the early days of the Three Kingdoms, when there were countless warlords of all kinds in the world, Cao Pi's words would be valuable.

At that time, it was precisely because there were too many warlords that if one of them surrendered to you, and you didn't accept it, and in turn went to beat others, it would make everyone who wanted to surrender endanger themselves, and if they lost the war in the future, everyone would not dare to surrender, because if they surrendered, they would have to be beaten, and if they didn't surrender, they would still have to be beaten, so it would be better to fight to the death.

But the current situation is completely different, it has long passed the era of separation, and now it is the Three Kingdoms, and only Wei, Shu and Wu are still playing at the table, and there is no one else.

What is the demonstration effect at this time, and who will see it? There is only Wei, Shu and Wu in the world, is it for Liu Bei to see? Do you expect Liu Bei to surrender to Wei if he loses?

Obviously, Cao Pi's idea is completely IQ offline, to put it mildly, it is brainless.

Liu Ye's strategy is actually very simple to implement.

When Sun Quan sent an envoy to ask for surrender, as long as he pretended to accept Sun Quan's request to surrender, and deliberately revealed the signal that Cao Wei would not take the opportunity to attack Eastern Wu, and then did enough tricks, he still generously sent envoys to canonize Sun Quan as the king of Wu.

In order to paralyze Sun Quan, he thought that Cao Wei would definitely not take the opportunity to attack Eastern Wu.

Cao Wei had already deployed heavy troops on the border of Eastern Wu, so he could operate secretly at this time, and secretly ordered the heavy troops on the front line to begin to assemble to key positions.

As long as Lu Xun marched west with the Eastern Wu army and fought with Liu Bei, the eastern front could attack in a big way.

At that time, the main army of Eastern Wu was fighting with Liu Bei on the Western Front, and it was difficult to withdraw in a short time, even if Sun Quan wanted to negotiate peace with Liu Bei at this time, it would take time, and it was too late to return to help.

Cao Wei itself was the strongest of the three parties, and if he attacked in a big way at this time, he would inevitably be able to take advantage of the situation to break through the Yangtze River defense line of Eastern Wu and directly attack the hinterland of Eastern Wu.

At that time, the Eastern Wu will be attacked from both sides, and it will inevitably be the end of destruction.

And Liu Bei will also get the benefits, but at most he will take back Jingzhou and occupy part of the territory along the border of Eastern Wu.

After the fall of Eastern Wu, only Shu Han and Cao Wei remained, and Cao Wei won Jiangdong and his power increased greatly, Liu Bei was unable to support it alone, and it was only a matter of time before he was destroyed.

If Cao Wei did this, could it be regarded as stabbing Dongwu in the back? Of course it is, but it's normal, and there's nothing that can't be done.

You must know that when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were fighting for the world, the two sides clearly signed a peace agreement and stipulated the Chu River and Han boundaries.

In order to compete for the world, there is no problem at all to play some trickery and engage in some conspiracy, and there is no need to carry baggage.

Cao Pi obviously didn't understand this, and he didn't even understand the situation in the world at that time, so he wasted such a great opportunity.

In this way, Cao Pi accepted Sun Quan's request to surrender and sent an envoy to canonize Sun Quan as the king of Wu.

Cao Pi's envoy arrived in Soochow in November 221 and read out the edict of canonization, and Sun Quan also confirmed in November that Cao Pi would not take the opportunity to attack Soochow, so he immediately sent Lu Xun to lead the main force of Soochow to the front.

As for the negotiation with Liu Bei, since Sun Quan didn't want to spit out the meat that he had eaten in his mouth, he would start fighting, and there was no need to continue to pretend in negotiations.

After the negotiations between the two sides broke down, Liu Bei also rushed to the front line, arriving at the Zigui front line in January 222, and the two sides officially went to war in February, and then the Battle of Yiling broke out, and Liu Bei's entire army was annihilated.

It is worth noting that in this whole process, after Sun Quan and Liu Bei went to war, he has been trying to stabilize Cao Pi.

Cao Pi first sent someone to ask Sun Quan to pay him tribute to the treasures of Eastern Wu, and the price was very high, and Sun Quan fully complied in order to show his surrender to Cao Pi.

Then, Cao Pi asked Sun Quan to send the prince of Wu to Cao Wei as a hostage, which touched Sun Quan's pain point.

But in order to stabilize Cao Pi, Sun Quan did not dare to refuse directly, but found various reasons to shirk.

Until after the Battle of Yiling, in order to prevent Eastern Wu from attacking the Sichuan and Shu base camps, and in order to protect Liu Bei's safety, Zhao Yunqin led an army to Yong'an City.

But at this time, Zhao Yun found that the army of Eastern Wu had withdrawn.

In fact, the reason behind it was because Sun Quan planned to have a showdown with Cao Pi, and he immediately transferred the main force to the eastern front line to prevent Cao Pi from attacking.

Because Sun Quan knew that once Cao Pi found out that he had been tricked, he would definitely be angry and raise troops to attack.

Cao Pi has sent envoys one after another, asking Sun Quan to send the crown prince to Wei as a hostage, and Sun Quan really can't find a reason to shirk it, so he can only have a showdown.

So, after the completion of the Eastern Wu army, Sun Quan rejected Cao Pi's request with a tough attitude.

According to normal logic, if Sun Quan sincerely asked for surrender, then it was normal to send his son to Wei as a hostage, and he would do so, this kind of thing is very common in history.

When Cao Pi was strongly rejected by Sun Quan, he found out that Sun Quan was pretending to surrender, and for so long, this kid has been playing with himself as a monkey.

Cao Pi, who was embarrassed and angry, immediately decided to make a big crusade against Soochow!

At the critical moment, the strategist Liu Ye appeared again, but this time he wanted to stop Cao Pi from crusading against Eastern Wu.

Liu Ye believes that Eastern Wu has just defeated Liu Bei in Yiling, and the Wu army is holding the power of victory, and they are united in their hearts, so they go to attack at this time, purely looking for death.

As the saying goes, once the fighter misses, you go to attack again, and that's another situation.

It's a pity that Cao Pi still didn't listen to Liu Ye's advice and insisted on sending the three-way army to attack Eastern Wu, but the three-way army was defeated by Eastern Wu, and Cao Wei directly lost his troops and returned defeated.

Liu Ye was worthy of being the top strategist and strategist at that time, his judgment of the current situation was very accurate, and he could predict the development direction of the situation in advance every time and give the best plan.

It's just that such a top-level talent, when he encounters a pit like Cao Pi, he can't take it, except for making some conspiracy to defeat Cao Zhi and seize the position of the prince, there seems to be nothing else that can be done.