Nowadays, most people think that the battle of Guandu is the most dangerous moment in the career of Cao Cao's princes, and he was almost forced into a desperate situation by Yuan Shao, but in fact, although the battle of Guandu is higher than the battle of Cao Lu Yanzhou in terms of scale and influence of later generations, but its excitement and its degree of crisis, the battle of Guandu is far less than the battle of Cao Lu Yanzhou, and Cao Cao was really forced into a desperate situation when he faced off with Lu Bu and others in Yanzhou, and this battle was far more exciting than the battle of Guandu.

【Desperate Ratio】

The battle of Guandu was indeed a major crisis in Cao Cao's life, but in fact there was no danger, and in the battle of Cao Lu Yanzhou, Cao Cao almost danced on the tightrope, and if he was not careful, he would be broken.

In the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's base camp was in Xuchang, Yuzhou, while Yuan Shao only crossed the Yellow River in Yanzhou, and did not penetrate too deep into Cao Cao's territory. And Zhang Miao and Chen Gong betrayed Cao Cao and led Lu Bu into Yanzhou, causing most of Yanzhou's territory to fall into the hands of the enemy, and there were only three cities left in the territory that Cao Cao's group could control, and Cao Cao had such a miserable next time? Not at all.

During the decisive battle of Guandu, many of Cao Cao's subordinates secretly wrote to Yuan Shao because of Yuan Shao's strength, leaving a way back for themselves, and were finally burned by Cao Cao. And at the time of the decisive battle in Yanzhou, what kind of letter did you write, Cao Cao's subordinates all left Cao Cao openly and went to join Lu Bu's camp, and even Wei Chong, who Cao Cao thought would never betray, and Bi Chen, who swore to Cao Cao that he was loyal, ran away in the end.

After Cao Cao returned from Xuzhou, he led a large army to attack Lü Bu in Puyang, although Cao Cao occupied the advantage of troops, but he also fought bitterly, and even succumbed to the upper hand. When the two armies were fighting, Cao Cao was once scattered by Lu Bu with cavalry, and even he was wounded, and finally in order to appease the army, he was forced to mount the horse.

Later, Cao Cao defeated Lü Bu's partial army, but was besieged by Lü Bu's reinforcements, and thanks to the lives of the three armies, Lü Bu was finally forced back. But soon Cao Cao fell into a new crisis, when Cao Cao was likely to fall into Lu Bu's counter-strategy, was lured into Puyang, but was beaten by Lu Bu, who had been prepared, a big defeat and loss, Cao Cao himself was even caught by Lu Bu's cavalry, thanks to Cao Cao's cleverness, Lu Bu's subordinates did not know Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao finally escaped.

In order to fight against Lü Bu, Cao Cao finally asked for 5,000 reinforcements from Yuan Shao, and slowly turned the situation around.

And was Cao Cao injured in the Battle of Guandu? Have you ever been captured by enemy troops? Did you borrow reinforcements from other princes? Although Yuan Shao is strong, he is just a paper tiger, although Lu Bu was not strong at that time, he was a real beast!

【Ratio of Duels】

The battle of Guandu is well known because of the excellent description of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", especially the process of Xu You's surrender to Cao is even more impressive to readers, but in fact, due to the stupid play of Yuan Shao's group, the decisive battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao is not very exciting, almost the weak Cao Cao unilaterally hangs the powerful Yuan Shao.

To put it bluntly, Cao Cao played a 100% level, while Yuan Shao was giving away people's heads and selling his subordinates.

Although the battle of Cao Lu Yanzhou was not famous in later generations, and was not described by the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", whether it was within the Cao Cao group or within the Lu Bu group, they all went crazy in this battle, and both sides did their best, and this battle was also extremely exciting, and the strategists, generals, and monarchs on both sides played a hundred and two percent level.

In the early stage, the Lü Bu group hoped to take advantage of Cao Cao's absence to take its base camp Juancheng, so they told the officials of Juancheng that Lü Bu was ready to support Cao Cao in order to confuse them, but they did not expect Xun Yu to see through all this and not be fooled, but urgently summoned Xiahoudun back to guard, and finally stabilized the morale of the army and defended Juancheng.

A plan failed and another plan was born, Lu Bu and others successfully instigated Guo Gong, Guo Gong personally led tens of thousands of troops to attack Juancheng, at this moment of crisis was Xun Yu alone to envoy Guo Gong's camp, with his three-inch tongue to persuade the enemy to retreat tens of thousands of troops.

Lu Bu failed to capture Juancheng, but it was also very rewarding, he took the opportunity to take Puyang when Xiahoudun left Puyang, and sent his subordinates to pretend to surrender to relax Xiahoudun's vigilance, and successfully captured him alive, thanks to Han Hao's decisiveness, it did not make things unending.

At that time, only Dong'e, Fan County and the base camp Juancheng were left in the hands of Cao Cao's group, but although Lu Bu did not let go of these places, Juancheng did not say much, Lu Bu asked Chen Gong to lead troops to capture Dong'e, and also let Bianwei capture Fan County. At that time, Xun Yu couldn't leave Juancheng, so he sent Cheng Yu out on patrol, and Cheng Yu also lived up to expectations, stabilized Jin Yun, the county commander of Fan County, killed Yan Wei, and blocked Chen Gong at the same time.

In this way, Lu Bu, Chen Gong and others relied on their own wisdom and hard work to defeat almost the entire Yanzhou, while Xun Yu and others defended Cao Cao's nest in such a difficult environment, leaving Cao Cao a chance to fight back.

Then the duel between Lu Bu and Cao Cao was also back and forth, comparable, in the face of Cao Cao's superior forces, Lu Bu did not refuse at all, and boldly used the counter-tactics to successfully trick Cao Cao into the city, almost killing Cao Cao.

In the end, because the locust plague ran out of food, the two sides had to temporarily wave their hands.

Cao Cao even had the idea of giving up because of Lu Bu's tenacity, and was ready to take refuge in Yuan Shao, but finally gave up this idea under Cheng Yu's lesson, and strengthened his confidence in competing for the world.

After getting the support of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao regrouped, and Lü Bu's morale began to decline, several battles and several victories eliminated a large number of Lü Bu's army of the living force, in one of the battles, Cao Cao used the empty city strategy, when most of its troops were not there, put out a woman to defend the city, successfully confused Lü Bu, bought time for himself, after the main force returned, Cao Cao lured the enemy with a small number of troops, attracted Lü Bu's attack, and then ambushed the army, and finally defeated Lü Bu.

Lu Bu was also exhausted, and he couldn't support it, so he had to retreat.

Although Lu Bu lost the battle of Cao Lu Yanzhou, Lu Bu had already fought very well, and he had been stalemate for a long time under the weak forces, and there were no obvious mistakes in strategy, and he fought a lot of wonderful battles, and Cao Cao also reversed the situation with the support of Yuan Shao, so Lu Bu lost unjustly.

But Yuan Shao's performance in the decisive battle of Guandu can only be hehe.

Just like a wonderful game is that both teams play well to be called wonderful, a wonderful war can only be said to be beautiful if both sides play their own level, and although the decisive battle of Guandu Yuan Shao is strong, its outcome has been doomed long before the war, and the battle of Cao Lu Yanzhou is quite variable, twists and turns, both sides have tried their best, this is called wonderful.

PS: Two chapters to make up the arrears starting tomorrow