Speaking of Cao Cao's strategists, many people will naturally think of xun yu, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, and Xun You, and when it comes to cao cao's strategists, many people will naturally think of Xun Yu, after all, Xun Yu has the highest status on Cao Cao's side. Of course, in addition to Xun Yu, many people also believe that Cao Cao's mastermind is Guo Jia, after all, "Guo Jia does not die, and the Dragon does not come out". However, in fact, Cao Cao's mastermind was neither Guo Jia nor Xun Yu, but Xun You!
Guo Jia
With the rise of the Internet in the past ten years, Guo Jia's reputation has become bigger and bigger, more and more people believe that Guo Jia is the first counselor of Cao Ying, and even many people say that "Guo Jia does not die, Wolong does not come out", putting Guo Jia in the same position as Zhuge Liang, in the discussion of the Internet, many people really think that Guo Jia's talent is more than Zhuge Liang, and he is the first counselor of the Three Kingdoms. In fact, however, these assertions are all wrong!
Guo Jia's ability as a person is indeed good, but his status in cao camp is far from being so high, and he is only a military master sacrificial wine until his death! In terms of official position, it is far from being comparable to figures like Xun Yu and Zhuge Liang!
In addition to the gap in official positions, Guo Jia's ability is not as good as that of several other people! When many people mention Guo Jia's achievements, they always argue with his ten victories and ten defeats, the conclusion that Sun Ce must die, and the suggestion that Cao Cao attack Wuhuan lightly. However, in fact, these three major achievements have a lot of moisture!
First of all, the theory of ten victories and ten defeats, which is completely a psychological warfare method, has been devaluing Yuan Shao's strength and boasting about the strength of Cao Jun, in order to stimulate the morale of Cao Jun, I have to admit that this is indeed effective! But from the perspective of the top strategists, this kind of behavior is actually similar to the behavior of the cheerleaders, which is just cheering for their own camp. As for the specific implementation measures, Guo Jia did not involve it at all! It's like two companies competing, the boss asks you how to win, you tell the boss, rest assured to fight, we are strong, we must be able to fight, but we do not tell the boss how to fight, this is not fooling people? Do you think your boss will look at you differently?
Second, predict sun ce's death. At that time, Cao Cao was worried about Sun Ce's sneak attack, so he gathered everyone to discuss, everyone was trying to find a way, and as a result, Guo Jia directly concluded that Sun Ce would not live long, and there was no need to worry about his sneak attack, and finally Sun Ce died violently, so everyone cheered again, Guo Jia is a good god! However, if you look at it from the perspective of the boss, is guo Jia's behavior another cheerleading behavior? He did not give a specific method of how to prevent Sun Ce from sneaking attacks, but directly said that Sun Ce would not live long, just in case Sun Ce did not die? Cao Cao was likely to be successfully attacked and completely destroyed.
In the end, Guo Jia suggested that He attack Wuhuan lightly, and on the surface, it seemed that Cao Cao did win the battle, but the battle was too risky, and even Cao Cao himself admitted that he would not dare to do so next time.
In general, Guo Jia's ability is indeed good, but it is far from the point of mastermind, he is just an ordinary top strategist! Don't exaggerate his talents!
In fact, among the strategists in the entire Cao camp, the highest status was Xun Yu, but Xun Yu was actually mainly good at strategic planning, and Cao Cao's combat needed tactical guidance, so Xun Yu was not Cao Cao's mastermind, and Cao Cao's real mastermind was Xun Yu's nephew Xun You! The relevant record of the "Biography of Xun You" says: "It was when Xun You was often the mastermind. "Let's introduce Xun You's main achievements!
First, defeat Lü Bu
Cao Cao attacked Lü Bu, although he had the upper hand, but Lü Bu insisted on holding the city of Pi, Cao Cao could not break the city for a short time, and soon after the stalemate between the two sides, Cao Cao was ready to withdraw his troops, after all, the logistical pressure was great. However, Xun You urged Cao Cao not to return to the mountains, otherwise there would be endless troubles in the future, and he came up with a practical strategy to defeat Lü Bu, that is, to flood Picheng and eventually capture Lü Bu alive!
Second, the plan is ugly
In everyone's cognition, Yan Liangwen was killed by Guan Yu, but in fact, the planners behind this were all Xun You! Xun You deceived Yuan Shao's generals with a ruse, making everyone think that Cao Cao had led an army to attack Yuan Shao's rear, causing Yuan Shao to divide his troops to intercept, and then Xun You commanded Cao You to attack Baima, hitting Yan Liang by surprise, and finally killing Yan Liang.
3. Meritorious service to guandu
In the Battle of Guandu, Xun You first suggested that a surprise soldier be sent to send Xu Huang to burn Yuan Shao's grain and grass, and then urged Cao Cao to adopt Xu You's plan to attack Wuchao, and finally urged Cao Hong to accept the surrender of Zhang Hao and Gao Lan, and made a great contribution to defeating Yuan Shao.
It can be said that in the whole Cao camp, the person Cao Cao attaches the most importance to is Xun Yu, Xun Yu is the same strategic master as Zhuge Liang, which has a very important significance for the development of a group, but the art industry has a specialty, the strategic master is often good at strategic planning, weaker than tactical implementation, so to the specific tactics, Cao Cao also needs another person, this person is Xun You, and it is precisely for this reason that Xun You is rated as Cao Cao's mastermind!
epilogue
From a comprehensive point of view, among Cao Cao's five great strategists, the mastermind was neither Guo Jia nor Xun Yu, but Xun You! Although Xun Yu has the highest status among the strategists, he is good at strategic planning, and the strategists need to often carry out tactical guidance, so Xun Yu is not suitable for the strategists, and although Guo Jia is also a top strategist, he still lacks a little skill and still needs to grow, so the real strategist can only be Xun You!
(This article mainly refers to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms)