Cao Cao s mastermind is Xun You, who is Yuan Shao s mastermind?

Yuan Shao's chief strategist is frustrated, few ambitions are good at strategy, before going out of the mountain to formulate a Hebei strategy plan, mostly for Yuan Shao to give advice, but most of them are not, it is recommended that Yuan Shao's sons do not serve as state ministers, welcome the emperor to order the princes, carry out a protracted war against Cao Cao, do not approve of the battle of Guandu, as a result, Yuan Shao did not listen, the battle of Guandu was defeated, frustrated was captured by Cao Cao, and was executed for not surrendering to Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao's mastermind was Xu You. Yuan Shao would ask Xu You for advice in big and small battles, but because Yuan Shao was indecisive and angry, Xu You was angry, which led to the defeat of Guandu.

There are many strategists under Yuan Shao's command, among which Fu Zhu and Tian Feng are the most outstanding, and both of them are very powerful in giving advice to Yuan Shao, which can be said to be comparable, but Tian Feng is just easy to commit the above, causing Yuan Shao to finally alienate him.

Xun You was one of the five great strategists in Cao Cao's life, and Xun You defected to Cao Cao when Cao Cao was still very weak. Xun You didn't talk a lot among all Cao Cao's strategists, but he could always use a few words at a critical moment to offer Cao Cao a strategy to change the situation of the battle. During the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were at loggerheads, and Cao Cao once wanted to withdraw his troops.

During the southern expedition to Zhang Xiu, Cao Cao ordered the army to attack in an all-out way, but Xun You's opinion was the opposite, believing that only by postponing the march would Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao's reinforcements be separated from Germany, Cao Cao changed his strategy and succeeded.

1. The Battle of Guandu analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the two armies for Cao Cao

At the time of the Guandu War, Cao Cao had only 20,000 troops, while Yuan Shao had 100,000 troops and plenty of food and grass. When Cao Cao wanted to withdraw his troops, Xun You immediately analyzed for Cao Cao the current advantages and disadvantages of the two armies, as well as the shortcomings of Yuan Shao's own personality. So Cao Cao started from the weakness of Yuan Shao and Yuan Jun, and finally defeated Yuan Shao completely.

2. Help Cao Cao defeat Lu Bu

Lu Bu is a fierce general, but he is only brave and strategic, although there is a Chen Palace by his side, Lu Bu always does not listen to his opinions. Cao Cao and Lü Bu defeated Lü Bu in three major battles, so Lü Bu retreated into the city and refused to fight, and Cao Cao originally wanted to let the army withdraw to rest. However, Xun You believed that Lü Bu's army was demoralized and had to continue to attack, and asked Cao Cao to lead the river outside the city to flood the city, and finally Lü Bu was defeated and surrendered.

3. Zhang Xiu's plan for the southern expedition

When Cao Cao crusaded against Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu immediately formed an alliance with Liu Biao, and Liu Biao provided him with food and grass. In this case, Cao Cao ordered the army to carry out a fierce attack, and Xun You's opinion was the opposite. It was believed that if the onslaught was carried out, the two armies of Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao would be of one heart and one mind, and if the offensive was suspended, there would inevitably be contradictions between the two armies.

Cao Cao disagreed and defeated Zhang Xiu.

In history, Xun You once offered twelve strange strategies to Cao Cao to help Cao Cao pacify the north, and there is a record in the "Three Kingdoms Wei Book Ten Xun You Biography" that "Gongda before and after the painting of twelve strange strategies", but these strange strategies were not handed down in the end for some reasons, but from Cao Cao's reliance on Xun You, it can be seen that Xun You's contribution is very large.

Guandu won a great victory, captured Lu Bu alive, beheaded Yan Liang, killed Wen Chou, and Xun You's contribution was indispensable; Assassinate Dong Zhuo, eradicate Dong Zhuo and his henchmen, follow Cao Cao, and fight for the rest of his life.

For example, he asked Cao Cao to crusade against Sun Quan first, and then Liu Bei at the end. said that Zhuge Liang's time was not long. Wait until Zhuge Liang is dead before crusading against Shu.

When Xun Yu was young, Nanyang celebrity He Hao praised him as "Wang Zuo's talent". Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, Xun Yu knew that Kyoto would be in chaos, so he pretended to ask for release, took the opportunity to flee back to his hometown Yingchuan, and told the villagers that Yingchuan was located in the land of four wars and would be affected by the war, and suggested that the villagers leave Yingchuan for refuge. The villagers were nostalgic for their homeland and were unwilling to leave, so Xun Yu left with his own people.

Later, Yingchuan was indeed plundered, and those villagers who did not listen to Xun Yu's advice were almost wiped out.

Xun Yu and Xun Yu assisted Cao Cao, originally to revive the Han dynasty. And when Cao Cao later wanted to be the king of Wei, and even the idea of replacing Han appeared, it was Xun Yu who really stood up to stop Cao Cao, not Xun You.

In the seventeenth year of Jian'an, on the eve of Cao Cao's troops in Eastern Wu, Dong Zhao and others believed that Cao Cao should be crowned as the Duke of Wei because of his dedication to the Kuangfu Han Dynasty.

Xun Yu clearly raised his objections, saying that Cao Gong had the sincerity of loyalty and strict admissibility, and the reason why he raised troops was originally to save the Han family and stabilize the world.

Cao Cao was very unhappy when he heard that Xun Yu opposed his entry into the Duke of Yunjue, so he asked Xun Yu to go to Qian County to comfort the army, and then took the opportunity to leave Xun Yu and let Xun Xiangfu be military. In Shouchun, Xun Yu fell ill, and Cao Cao sent someone to send Xun Yu an empty food box. Xun Yu knew that Cao Cao had an opinion about him, so he committed suicide.

In other words, in order to adhere to the principle and not forget the original intention, Xun Yu did not hesitate to offend Cao Cao and cause death, and resolutely opposed Cao Cao's plot to seal the country and then usurp the Han family. And in this process, we can't see Xun You's opinion.

In addition, Xun You often gave advice to Cao Cao, but he never easily told others. It is said that he had conspired for Cao Cao twelve strange strategies before and after, and these strange strategies, except for Cao Cao and Xun Yu himself, were only known to Zhong Xuan. Zhong Xuan originally wanted to write down these strange strategies of Xun You, but unfortunately he could not complete them until his death.