In the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were many major battles with fewer victories, among which the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi were the most famous.

【Battle of Chencang】

In the winter of the sixth year of Shu Han Jianxing (228), Zhuge Liang launched the second Northern Expedition, sent troops to disperse the pass to surround Chencang, which was rejected by the Wei general Hao Zhao, it is said that the Wei army was only more than 1,000 people at that time, and the Shu Han army led by Zhuge Liang was as many as tens of thousands, and the battle ended with Zhuge Liang attacking the city and taking the initiative to retreat.

Although there was a great disparity in the strength of the two sides in this battle in history, it was not famous in later generations, and not many people regarded it as Zhuge Liang's bad deeds. First of all, because the data record at that time may not be correct, because the position of Chen Cang is very important, Cao Zhen, the commander of Cao Wei's Western Front, had already foreseen this, and he directly sent Hao Zhao to focus on the defense of Chen Cang, there are only more than 1,000 troops here, which is actually a little unreasonable, and Hao Zhao is stationed in Chen Cang There are reinforcements, he himself actually only needs to block for a period of time, and there will naturally be a large army to come to help, not really as long as he is alone to block Zhuge Liang, and secondly, Zhuge Liang's operation was also launched temporarily, the preliminary preparations were not sufficient, and the grain and grass were not completeIn the end, after Zhuge Liang retreated, Cao Wei's general Wang Shuang led his troops to pursue, but he was defeated and killed, Zhuge Liang was not without military achievements.

On the whole, although the difference in strength between the two sides in the Battle of Chencang is relatively large, Hao Zhao's troops are enough to wait for support, and Cao Wei also has enough backup, so this battle is not very obvious to win more battles with less.

【Battle of Kuangqi】

In history, the battle of Kuangqi was Sun Quan's first battle out of the mountain, when Sun Ce sent Sun Quan to lead his troops to crusade against Guangling Taishou Chen Deng, in an attempt to expand the territory of Jiangdong to Xuzhou, Sun Quan's troops are said to be ten times as much as Chen Deng, but Sun Quan finally fell under the city and sank into the sand, and the army was defeated and returned.

However, Sun Quan's age was actually young at that time, so it was normal to feel lost.

【The first two battles of Hefei】

Sun Quan attacked Hefei many times in history, and there were as many as five times in only definite records, of which the first and second crusades against Hefei, Sun Quan occupied an absolute advantage in troops.

Sun Quan's first crusade against Hefei was after the Battle of Chibi, when Sun Quan sent Zhou Yu to lead the vanguard army up the river to unite Liu Bei to resist Cao Cao, delaying time, and he continued to assemble troops, as a result, Cao Cao was defeated in Chibi, so Sun Quan turned to lead these already assembled troops to attack Hefei City in the north, and beat Hefei City to the ground, and Cao Cao was temporarily unable to send a large army to support because of the defeat of Chibi, and could only send a small number of soldiers to support, but Jiang Ji falsely said that Cao Cao sent a large army to help, Sun Quan believed it, so he retreated.

In the second battle of Hefei, Sun Quan led 100,000 troops, and Zhang Liao, Le Jin and others stationed in Hefei at that time had a total of more than 7,000 defenders, and the gap between the two sides was huge.

【Liu Yu's Crusade against Gongsun Zhan】

After many failures in direct crusades against Jizhou, Gongsun Chan turned his attention to Qingzhou, and he sent Tian Kai and Liu Bei to lead troops to attack Qingzhou, Yuan Shao's troops were defeated and retreated, but this also led to the emptiness of Gongsun Zhan's forces in Youzhou.

Youzhou Mu Liu Yu has long seen Gongsun Chan unpleasant, he invited Gongsun Chan many times, Gongsun Chan said that he was sick and could not come, so Liu Yu gathered an army of 100,000 to personally crusade against Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Chan got Liu Yu's report that Gongsun Zhan was engaged in Gongsun Ji, and was ready to escape, but later found that Liu Yu's troops were shrinking, so he led hundreds of warriors to rush and defeat Liu Yu in one fell swoop.

【Battle of the Flooded Seven Armies】

In the twenty-third year of Jian'an (218), Cao Cao sent Cao Ren to crusade against Guan Yu in order to reduce the pressure of the Hanzhong War, in an attempt to put pressure on Liu Bei on both sides. After Cao Ren arrived in Fancheng, he was not ready to crusade against Guan Yu The Hou Yin Rebellion occurred in Wancheng, and Cao Ren had to put down the Wancheng rebellion first, so the time for his crusade against Guan Yu was delayed and his preparations were interrupted.

What people didn't expect was that Guan Yu took the initiative to send troops across Xiangyang in the second year to attack Fancheng directly, at that time Cao Ren had a lot of troops, Cao Cao also sent Yu Ban to support, and Guan Yu had to leave troops to focus on defending Sun Wu, the result was that Guan Yu took the initiative to attack, but it was to fight more with less, it is estimated that Guan Yu's total strength in the early stage should be about 30,000, of which a considerable part is the navy, and Cao Ren's total strength is at least 60,000 or more, should be below 100,000.

But Guan Yu had been in Fancheng for a long time before, and his career was very familiar with the local geography, and Cao Ren had just arrived, but he did not understand Guan Yu, and as a result, Cao Ren normally left the main force outside the city and confronted Guan Yu directly, which happened to fall into Guan Yu's trap, Guan Yu took advantage of Cao Wei's poor water warfare and lack of water army, and took advantage of the Han River to skyrocket, directly drowning Cao Jun, and capturing at least more than 30,000 prisoners, reversing the situation in one fell swoop, surrounding Fancheng, and occupying the absolute upper hand.

【Battle of Guandu】

The battle of Guandu in history is a very decisive battle, according to the "Three Kingdoms" record, when Yuan Shao dispatched more than 100,000 elite troops, and Cao Cao's troops were less than 10,000, but this record in the "Three Kingdoms" is not recognized, Cao Cao's power was indeed weaker than Yuan Shao at that time, but this weakness is weak and weak, not weak and weak, at that time Cao Cao also occupied the territory of almost four states, divided the Central Plains, is the second largest prince, the enemy has hit home, but he only has 10,000 troops to fight, How can it be!

Therefore, Cao Cao's troops, even if they are scattered because of the dispersion of the territory, are at least tens of thousands, which is indeed much less than Yuan Shao, but not as disparity as ten to one. In this battle, Cao Cao's internal generals were single-minded, strategists made strategies, and generals contributed, while Yuan Shao's army was infighting, Yuan Shao listened to Guo Tu's villain's advice, that is, he did not adopt the words of loyalty to the frustrated teaching, which eventually led to the defeat of Wuchao, the grain and grass were burned, and the front-line troops Zhang He and others jumped back, Yuan Shao could only reluctantly lead hundreds of cavalry to flee back to the north, and nearly 100,000 troops were killed by Cao Cao.

【Battle of Red Cliffs】

Compared with the Battle of Guandu, the strength comparison between the two sides in the Battle of Chibi is really extremely different, at that time, what was the disparity between the strength of Cao Cao's forces and the forces of Sun Liu's coalition army? Sun Quan and Liu Bei's territory together does not have as many counties as Cao Cao's state, and the direct comparison of troops is extremely exaggerated, Cao's army is estimated to have more than 200,000, and Zhou Yu and Liu Bei's troops add up to 50,000 at most.

And Cao Cao couldn't win the water war, and it was impossible to lose so badly, but nothing could stop the boss from fooling around, at that time, Cao Cao didn't prepare at all when he knew that Huang Gai might be a fraudulent surrender, and as a result, the story of the Battle of Wancheng was repeated, so that Zhou Yu and others easily won the victory, and the losses of the Sun-Liu coalition army were even few.

To sum up: under normal circumstances, to win the big war with fewer victories, it is basically based on the premise of the superior coach's super ghost.