Looking back at the history of the Three Kingdoms period, we have the privilege of witnessing the ups and downs of power in the Three Kingdoms period, the Three Kingdoms period has never lacked strategic politicians, about the political ambition to unify the world, not only pay attention to the talent of the leader, but also pay attention to some opportunities, today we are going to talk about why Liu Bang only spent a few years to basically complete the great ambition of national reunification, and for Cao Cao, why did it take decades, but it is still difficult to unify the world, what are the reasons for this?
First of all, let's first introduce the character of Liu Bang, Liu Bang is not a descendant of a high-ranking official who went straight to Qingyun, but an ordinary person with a relatively humble origin, who became the local pavilion chief with his own efforts. For Liu Bang, it took less than seven years to take the lead in completing the great cause of reunification, and his own luck was inseparable, at that time for Liu Bang, the main opponent was Xiang Yu, although Liu Bang was far less courageous than Xiang Yu in martial arts and battles, but Liu Bang was fortunate that behind him stood many outstanding descendants, who loyally served Liu Bang and worked together to help Liu Bang complete the great cause of reunification.
For Xiang Yu, he may not be very good at seizing some opportunities that can be used, and the main strategist around Xiang Yu is his own righteous father Fan Zeng, who is also a more stubborn person who does not know how to be flexible. Therefore, in many moments when decisions were needed, Xiang Yu relied too much on Fan Zeng, was not decisive enough, and finally ended up with a tragic end of self-destruction, Liu Bang's success was inseparable from the supply of talents on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was inseparable from the gift of timing.
Now let's look at Cao Cao, Cao Cao may not be as lucky as Liu Bang, facing three enemies, namely Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan. In the early stage, Cao Cao successfully defeated Yuan Shao under his own efforts, but it took up to ten years to defeat Yuan Shao. At this point, we cannot bear to marvel that a war that takes too long is bound to drag down the development of the entire regime. Even after Yuan Shao was successfully solved, Cao Cao still had to face two powerful enemies, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and the strength of the opponent became an obstacle on the way to Cao Cao's great cause of unification.
Take the Battle of Chibi, under the command of Zhuge Liang, the Cao Wei army suffered heavy losses, and the cost of a war on the army was very huge, and it was bound to be difficult to ensure normal operation in the long run. Losses must mean that it will take a long time to adjust later, and if this rate of attrition continues in the long run, the army's combat effectiveness will certainly continue to decline, and to a certain extent, the possibility of unifying the world will be greatly reduced.
In this case, the situation was very unfavorable for Cao Cao's side. In addition, we need to face up to the reality that Cao Cao wants to fight against the powerful Han Dynasty, although the Han Dynasty did not maintain sustained and stable development, but within a period of time, it also experienced prosperity in development, and its reputation in the world is also good, and it is not easy to overthrow the Han Dynasty. From the above, we can see how difficult Cao Cao's road to reunification was.