Why is the powerful Yuan Shao always vulnerable in front of Cao Cao?

The ghost genius Guo Jia said: Cao Cao has ten victories, Yuan Shao has ten defeats! The results were verified one by one, so Yuan Shao was vulnerable!

For example: Look at Yuan Shao's "Hebei Siting Pillar", Yan Liangwen Chou was killed by Guan Yu, Zhang He surrendered to Cao Cao, and the drunkard Chun Yuqiong lost his nest. Yuan Shao is weaker than Cao Cao in terms of strategy, generals, etc., although there are many soldiers, but the generals are not wide, there are not many, and it is normal to lose!

Although Yuan Shao has many soldiers, he is not as elite as Cao Cao's soldiers, not to mention that he never estimates how strong his strength is, and Yuan Shao does not listen to the advice of others, but Cao is eager to listen carefully to the opinions of others before making decisions, so vulnerable is also certain!

The biggest one is that the big war is imminent, and no matter whether the military says that the child is sick, whether everyone is messing with you or watching the child, if you were not expected to be sincere at that time, it is unpopular.

Cao Cao has the emperor in hand, and Yuan Shao's name is not right; followed by Cao Cao's first attack on Yuan Shao, who had just destroyed Gongsun Zan not long ago, and his strength had not yet recovered; Yuan Shao's Hebei Haoqiang began to fight for power and infighting before fighting.

Yuan Shao doesn't know how to use people, if it weren't for Guan Yu beheading Yan Liang, punishing Wen Chou, and using Tian Feng, Cao Cao would have been defeated.

Yuan Shao. It used to be Dong Zhuo.

After the rebellion, the leader of the "Eighteen Road Princes" was the most powerful prince at that time. But in 199-200, Yuan Shao provoked the battle of Guandu against Cao Cao.

The attempt to unify the Central Plains ultimately failed, but Cao Cao became a force to unify the north, which can be described as "thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi." "So, why did Yuan Shao declare war on Cao Cao? I'll go into more detail below:

Yuan Shao looked down on Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were born enemies, one had a family background of "the fourth world and three dukes", and the other was after eunuchs. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the phenomenon of eunuch dictatorship was not uncommon, so that people did not have the slightest good impression of eunuchs. On the eve of Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the eunuchs Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and Song Dian launched the "Rebellion of the Ten Standing Servants", which made the government even more miserable.

In addition, since Yuan Shaozu's great-grandfather Yuan An served as Situ, the family has appeared as a talent of "four generations and three dukes", enjoying supreme glory. With such a family background, coupled with Yuan Shao's suspicious and suspicious personality, he looked down on Cao Cao after the eunuch from the bones. After Cao Cao posed a threat to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao would definitely "clean up" Cao Cao, which was reasonable.

Powerful Yuan Shao.

After Yuan Shao was appointed by Dong Zhuo as the Taishou of Bohai, he did not live honestly, but with Yuan Shikai.

Take the opportunity to expand your sphere of influence. Due to his family's reputation and Yuan Shao's personal prestige, his army developed rapidly, and soon occupied the four prefectures of Qinghai, Hebei, You, and You, becoming the largest prince of the time. At this time, Yuan Shao can be said to have a lot of soldiers and enough food, with an army of 100,000 and countless war horses.

In comparison, Cao Cao is very weak, Cao Cao has only one or two hundred thousand people to fight, and his combat effectiveness is worrying. In addition, Yuan Shao wanted to establish his own achievements for a long time, and he believed that now was the best time to unify the world, so he launched the Battle of Guandu (now northeast of Zhongmu, Henan).

Yuan Shao's threat.

As mentioned earlier, Cao Cao is a eunuch, but a great man is a great man, and he has never given up on himself because of his bad background. Cao Cao sided with the scholars very early, reached a good relationship with them, and was known for "daring to fight against the eunuchs", which was well received by the scholar class.

Yellow Turban Revolt. Later, Cao Cao was promoted to Jinan Minister because of his meritorious service. After that, he actively participated in the activities of discussing Dong and was promoted to Yanzhou Mu, at which time Li Dian, Xu Chu and others took refuge in him.

Then, Cao Cao accepted the strategist Xun Yu again.

Mao Jue's suggestion to "coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes" at the same time actively implement the measures of tuntian, and the strength has greatly increased.

After he became stronger, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shu again.

Killed Lu Bu.

defeated Liu Biao, Zhang Xiu, and Liu Bei.

It has become the biggest obstacle to Yuan Shao's unification of the world.

Because in order to unify the north, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are the two largest princes in the north, and sooner or later there will be a war between the two, so in order to fight for the north, Cao Cao must be beaten.

Because Yuan Shao looked down on Cao Cao and wanted to take advantage of this to dominate the world, but before that, Cao Cao was a very big obstacle, so he wanted to fight Cao Cao.

Because Cao Cao's power is growing day by day, it seriously threatens Yuan Shao, so Yuan Shao must destroy Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao grew up together since childhood and know Cao Cao very well.

Maybe he was too confident in himself, but the final outcome was completely opposite, Cao Cao's army defeated Yuan Shao's people, and Cao Cao became the largest prince, so why was Cao Cao able to win against Yuan Shao, there are many problems here, first of all, the problem of soldiers, although Cao Cao's people are not many, only more than 100,000 people, but the discipline is strict, under Cao Cao's jurisdiction, there has been no vice of cannibalism, so everyone still has faith, and Yuan Shao's people and horses are enough to have millions of people, but there is often a vice of cannibalism, The discipline of the team is loose, although the number is huge, but it is all scattered, this is the main reason why Cao Cao was able to defeat Yuan Shao, the number does not represent everything, a person is tall, but it does not mean that this person must be a person who can fight, and it may not be a person who is strong and strong.

I think Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao with his perseverance and courage and his ability to recognize and use people.

Cao Cao also relied on his strong army, and then found Yuan Shao's weakness, and finally defeated Yuan Shao.

01, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses on the two sides is very different, although the number of Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses at that time is indeed relatively large, but it has to be said that Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses are sloppy, just like a plate of loose sand, and there is even a phenomenon of cannibalism in his jurisdiction, so even if the number of this kind of troops is relatively large, the real combat effectiveness will definitely not be particularly strong. But let's look at Cao Cao's troops, although Cao Cao only has 100,000 soldiers and horses, but the military discipline is strict, and the combat effectiveness of this army is quite strong under Cao Cao's governance. <>

02, the use of tactics At that time, Yuan Shaoshu thought that the gap in strength between the two sides was relatively large, so for Yuan Shao at that time, there was no need to use any strategy to attack Cao Cao, because Yuan Shao thought that he could directly crush Cao Cao. So just as Yuan Shao was fantasizing about his dream, Cao Cao slapped him directly. At that time, Cao Cao directly led people to kill his granary, which made Yuan Shao panic, because hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses had no food to eat when they went out, it would definitely not work, and in serious cases, these soldiers would even rebel.

If you think about it, Cao Cao's troops are all very well fed and energetic, so naturally they can beat these soldiers who can't eat enough. <>

03, the mentality of the two sides is not the same, in fact, as we have said above, before the two sides started the war, Yuan Shao's strength was indeed quite strong on paper. So at this time, Yuan Shao didn't take Cao Cao in his eyes at all, and Yuan Shao himself thought that he would definitely win this war. And Cao Cao is different, Cao Cao knew from the beginning that he was the weaker side, so Cao Cao has always been particularly cautious, as the so-called arrogant soldiers will be defeated, it is precisely because of Yuan Shao's special pride that he will be defeated in the hands of Cao Cao.

In fact, Yuan Shao is also a famous hand in the history of the Three Kingdoms, at that time in the north Yuan Shao was absolutely ahead of the ground or generals, or soldiers and horses, but even so, he still lost to Cao Mengde.

Because he is far-sighted, he thinks a lot, knows how to use people, has his own ingenuity, and has a certain amount of time and place, so he can naturally be defeated.

Because Yuan Shaokong has land and talents, but he can't use them, no one will work for him, so he will definitely lose.