The Battle of Guandu was one of the three major battles in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was also one of the famous battles in Chinese history in which the weak defeated the strong. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Cao Cao's army and Yuan Shao's army, the two major forces in the north, held each other in Guandu, and launched a strategic decisive battle here. Later, Cao Cao attacked Yuan's granary at Wuchao, and then defeated the main force of Yuan's army, which laid the foundation for Cao Cao's unification of northern China.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although the vigorous Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed, it dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the landlord class of the Han Dynasty, and caused the already rotten Eastern Han Dynasty regime to fall apart and exist in name only. In the process of suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising, the state and county officials in various prefectures and counties monopolized the military and political power, and the landlords and powerful also organized private armed forces one after another, occupied the territory, formed large and small separatist forces, and turned into a long-term war of power and profit and mutual annexation.

The separatist forces at that time mainly included Yuan Shao in Hebei, Zhang Yang in Hanoi, Cao Cao in Yanyu, Lu Bu in Xuzhou, Yuan Shu in Yangzhou, Sun Ce in Jiangdong, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, Zhang Xiu in Nanyang, etc. In the successive battles of these separatist forces, the two major groups of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao gradually grew.

Cao Cao welcomed the Han Dynasty and offered the emperor, moved the capital to Xu County, and coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and conquered the Quartet at the order of the Son of Heaven, and his prestige increased greatly. He successively defeated Lü Bu and Yuan Shu, and occupied Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and part of Yuzhou and Sili.

Yuan Shao's family was a nobleman of the Han Dynasty, and Yuan Shao was a son-in-law since he was a child, living a comfortable and happy life. Cao Cao was originally a son of the Xiahou family, but because his grandfather's surname was Cao and he was a great eunuch, he adopted the children of the Xiahou family, that is, Cao Cao's father-in-law. Even Sima Yi, the young son of Sima Fang, who promoted him to be the lieutenant of Luoyang North at the beginning, would rather pretend to be in the middle of a stroke than come out to be an official at his request.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are from a powerful family, and the other is from a eunuch family, but the two are buddies who play together. Both of them like to be chivalrous, that is, to be hooligans and old boys, they once planned to rob their relatives and wanted to flirt with the bride, but they were discovered and hurriedly fled. Yuan Shao was too nervous, fell into the courtyard of the house and was trapped by the branches, unable to move for a while, Cao Cao immediately shouted: "There is a thief here!" Yuan Shao's kidney line was excited, and he immediately jumped up and fled the scene.

Friendship comes from similarity and intimacy, and it can transcend age and race, family and origin.

Cao Cao's Ren Xia is debauched, and Yuan Shao's good ranger is such a ranger character, which is the foundation of their friendship. As early as in Luoyang, the two like-minded rangers formed a deep friendship.

Ranger, patriotic, and against eunuchs, the common ideal allowed Yuan Cao to lead the other five partners to establish a small faction in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Yuan Cao's seven-member group, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, Xu You, Wu Qiang, He Yupage, and Wu Ziqing.

As hot-blooded young people of that era, in order to save the Eastern Han Dynasty from dire straits, they threw themselves into the struggle against the powerful eunuch forces with their relatively weak forces.

Although Yuan Shao is a concubine, after all, he was born in the family of the third prince of the fourth world, and Yuan Shao is still the well-deserved leader of this political group. The character of the Corporal allowed him to attract many celebrities and gentlemen to defect, and the talents of the good men were supported by the heroes. Although Cao Cao was born badly, he gained prestige and status with his outstanding talents and Yuan Shao's help.

Years of friendship, common political ideals, and power in their hands, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao at this time rose from simple friendship and political resonance to tacit understanding of political interests, and an era of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao is coming.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the eunuchs were in chaos, and Yuan Shao and others exterminated the eunuchs in one fell swoop, which was the first victory of the Yuan Cao group. However, due to a lack of political experience and many other factors, the regime still fell into the hands of Dong Zhuo. With Yuan Shao's ranger character, he would never be reconciled, and he resolutely went to Jizhou with Xu You to develop his own career.

Cao Cao was made a lieutenant by Dong Zhuo, and everyone knew that Dong Zhuo was using his prestige to build momentum. Of course, Cao Cao himself understood all this, he changed his name, and returned to his friend Zhang Miao, who was in Chen Liudang at the time. With the help of Zhang Miao and Wei Zi, Cao Cao had his own arms.

At this time, although Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were in Hebei and the other in Chenliu, they had a new common goal, to defeat Dong Zhuo, who had stolen the fruits of their victory. The battle with Dong Zhuo's forces was difficult, and although Yuan Shao was the leader of the alliance, it was difficult to control the Kwantung coalition army, which was constantly divided internally.

But the two still supported each other, in the battle of Xingyang, Cao Cao was defeated by Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong, the soldiers were killed and wounded, and Cao Cao himself was also hit by a stray arrow. At this most critical time, his friend Yuan Shao gave Cao Cao the greatest support and won a base for Cao Cao in name.

Cao Cao's adviser Xun Yu said: "Yanzhou is a place, if you take it, you can take the world." "And who was the person who helped Cao Cao win Yanzhou the most?

Yuan Shao's base was in Hebei, but he took his wife as a hostage to curry favor with Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou at that time, in order to vigorously support Cao Cao's development in Yanzhou. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are both chivalrous spirits, and it is precisely because of this chivalry that the two can attract a large number of talents.

Yuan Shao fully trusted Cao Cao, and Cao Cao's occupation of Yanzhou was equivalent to his own occupation of Yanzhou, so that everyone could take care of each other and contain the common enemy. Yuan Shao, who had a certain prestige in the imperial court, made Cao Cao the governor of Yanzhou after the central government made Cao Cao the Taishou of Dongjun. In this way, with Yuan Shao's strong appeal and military support, Cao Cao got his most important base.

It is easy to start a business and difficult to keep a business, Yanzhou is like a piece of fat, everyone is watching and coveting, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao must join forces to defend Yanzhou.

The first thing to snatch is Yuan Shao's younger brother Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu is much more cunning than his brother, and the relatives and friends of the Yuan family are also on their side, so that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu have no brotherly feelings. In Yuan Shu's view, the capture of Cao Cao's Yanzhou was to say to his brother: "Look, your adopted child is a cow who is not as authentic as me." ”

This is the Battle of Fengqiu, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao attacked together and broke Yuan Shu's army.

Yuan Shao's northern enemy, Gongsun Zhan, saw his brothers killing each other, so he naturally would not stand idly by. He established an alliance with Yuan Shu and cooperated with each other, and Tao Qian of Xuzhou also came to intervene and sent troops to Yanzhou. Whether it is friendship or interest considerations, Yuan Shao continued to support Cao Cao at the critical juncture of his crisis.

When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Yuan Shao sent troops to support him. When Cao Cao was attacked by Lu Bu and caught fire in the backyard, Yuan Shao personally conquered Lu Bu for Cao Cao and recovered Yanzhou.

Cao Cao was defeated by Tao Qian in Xuzhou, and the land was seized by Lu Bu, wandering on the eastern border, and there was no place to settle down. However, Yuan Shao knew the truth of the strong and the weak, and was unwilling to help the traitorous party. Therefore, he once again held the handsome banner, wore armor, mobilized the whole army to fight against him, the golden cymbal war drums sounded thunderously, and Lu Bu's people fled and were defeated, saving Cao Cao from the disaster of dying, and restoring Cao Cao's position as the governor of Cao Cao's side.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, a pair of close friends, finally reached the pinnacle of their respective careers after years of hard struggle.

Contradiction is the magic hand that pushes things forward, and only contradiction is eternal among all things. The old contradictions are not far away, the new contradictions have crept in, and history has pulled out its contradiction hand, turning a pair of best friends into a pair of enemies.

The wood of the hug is born at the end of the millennium. The same is true of the contradiction between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, during the crusade against Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao expressed disagreement with Yuan Shao's words and deeds because of the issue of establishing the emperor. The contradiction is minor and repairable, but it is also scarring.

Cao Cao was a wise man, and he understood that the objective situation at that time required him to be different from Yuan Shao and seek great similarity. Cao Cao was forbearing, and at the same time, his power was growing rapidly with the support of his friends. He needs Yuan Shao, he knows, Yuan Shao also needs him. When friendship begins to smell of power and profit, the latent contradictions swell and spread like a catalyst until people smell the truth and start to mold.

Yuan Shao helped Cao Cao, for love, it was more beneficial. Total control over Cao Cao has flooded his brain from the first day he helped Cao Cao. But Yuan Shao is unlucky, he has made the wrong friend, Cao Cao is not Han Xin, he will not be willing to be the second in command. He has the same great ambition as Yuan Shao, which is called ambition.

One goes south, the other goes north, and both want to unify the north. Thinking of the same thing together is a tacit understanding that can bring happiness to small things. But in matters related to one's own interests, it is a bomb that can subvert all friendships.

When Cao Cao was homeless, Yuan Shao smiled, he knew that this was the best time for him to control his old friend. He wrote a letter asking Cao Cao to send his family to Yecheng, ostensibly for protection, but in essence for coercion. Cao Cao agreed to Yuan Shao's request, but was persuaded by Cheng Yu.

From the moment Cao Cao rejected Yuan Shao, the contradiction between the two began to surface, and suspicion and complaint began to erode friendship. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, one desperately wants to control, the other desperately wants to counter-control, just like the Go game between two masters, no one can predict who will win until the end, after all, encirclement and being surrounded are only a thought.

Cao Cao, who had just occupied Xuchang, received a secret letter from Dong Cheng, and he knew that his opportunity had come. This is Cao Cao's declaration of independence, and from that day on, he was finally liberated, he was finally free, and he could finally make his own decisions. For Yuan Shao, this matter is a double whammy.

Yuan Shao scolded: "Cao Cao, you are a good boy, if it wasn't for me, you would have died hundreds of times, and now you betray me, and you want to use the Son of Heaven to blackmail me!"

Cao Cao's beautiful anti-encirclement intensified the contradiction between the two, and since then the allies have become fierce enemies, and hatred rides on the head of friendship, and together with interests, it sways the puppet's shell. Yuan Shao, who was in Hebei, and Cao Cao, who dominated Henan, forced the two long-time best friends to meet each other in arms, and this was the Battle of Guandu.