When Cao Cao Gang started his army, Cao Zhen's father was killed while helping Cao to recruit troops. Cao Cao adopted Cao Zhen as his own son. When Cao Zhen was young, he was strong and brave. Once Cao Zhen was chased by a tiger while hunting, and Ye Zhen shot the tiger with an arrow. Cao Cao appreciated his bravery very much and let him ride with Tiger and Leopard.
During the period of Cao Cao and Cao Pi, Cao Zhen repeatedly made meritorious military service, breaking Liu Bei's Ulan and Gao Xiang in the west, and attacking Sun Quan's Sun Sheng and Zhu Gejin in the south, and repeatedly rebelled against Cao Cao's internal turmoil. After xelloss's death, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Chen Qun and Sima Yi assisted Cao Rui and wrote a letter to Wei Mingdi.
In 228 A.D., Zhuge Liang attacked Wei, and Cao Zhen took command of the army, deployed it closely, and sent Zhang He to defeat Ma Su, which drove Zhuge Liang to retreat. In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zhen's contribution is recorded in Sima Yi, and Cao Zhen's stupidity and short-sightedness set off Sima Yi's cunning everywhere. The following year, Zhuge Liang attacked Chen Cang. Unexpectedly, Cao Zhen has already sent Zhao He and others to build a city here for a rainy day. Zhuge Liang couldn't attack for a long time and returned in vain. In the novel, he once again recorded this credit on Sima Yi's head.
In 23 1 year, Cao Zhen died of illness. In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a long passage is used to describe that Cao Zhen and Sima Yi failed in a bet, and were beaten by Zhuge Liang, and then satirized and humiliated by Zhuge Liang. After that, they survived in the army. These fictional contents are wonderful as novel plots, but as generals with outstanding military achievements in the history, it is undoubtedly too bad to be hacked.