Dong Zhou wrote:I seriously doubt Cao Cao outnumbered Yuan Shao given the way the camapign went, just wasn't horribly outnumbered himself. The infighting of his sons hadn't particularly started at that point but they clearly fell out after his death, they tried to kill each other after all.
the hidden dragon wrote:the things abt people is, esp in war tactic, mind games etc, human like to use scare tactic to give fear factor. yuan shao might have spread the words saying that he gonna march down200k or 300k army to guan du to fight cao cao etc. so as to use this physcological factor to affect the enemy first. But of cos the actual army that went to the battle field, well, who really knows? cao cao might not know also, unless he got spies within yuan shao's camp to really count one by one. but to count one by one if really got 300k soldier, that would be like a tedious process.
Dong Zhou wrote:I think poor luck and failing leadership didn't help, neither did the loss of his best performing general Qu Yi before the war began. A number of factors really and a lot of credit must go to Cao Cao and Wei
Yuan Shao was part of those that killed the eunuchs after He Jin was murdered, Yuan Shu helped burn the gates to get into the imperial compound.
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