Among the Three Kingdoms, there is a figure that is often talked about, and he is Guo Jia. The main reason why Guo Jia was popular in the Three Kingdoms was that he had too many "idol" factors: born with ghost talent, exhaustive strategy, material like a god, debauchery, untimely death, etc., and even after his death, Cao Cao mourned for him.
Guo Jia's wisdom belongs to the top existence in the three kingdoms, and throughout Cao Cao's life of conquest, Guo Jia can be said to be the watershed of Cao Cao's cause of chasing deer in the world. With Guo Jia present, Cao Cao went all the way, defeating Zhang Xiu, killing Lü Bu, defeating Yuan Shao, and unifying the north in one fell swoop, becoming the most powerful separatist regime at that time. After Guo Jia's early death, Cao Cao began to decline, the biggest of which was the Battle of Chibi, and after that, Cao Cao had no intention of going south to unify the world.
Therefore, some people said that it was precisely because of Guo Jia's early death that there was a situation in which the Three Kingdoms were established later. So there is a saying that "Guo Jia does not die, the Crouching Dragon does not come out, there is no Three Kingdoms", so is Guo Jia really so terrible?
Guo Jia (郭嘉), courtesy name Fengxiao, was a native of Yangzhai,Yingchuan (present-day Yuzhou, Henan). Guo Jia has been very intelligent since childhood and loves to read. At that time, the Yuan Shao family, the fourth and third dukes, was very famous, so many talented people were willing to defect to Yuan Shao. Guo Jia has great ambitions and hopes that the strategies he has studied for many years can be fully utilized to assist an enlightened lord and develop his grand plans. At that time, Cao Cao's power was still very weak, and strictly speaking, Cao Cao at that time was still Yuan Shao's "younger brother", so like other strategists, Guo Jia, who was only twenty-seven years old, defected to Yuan Shao as a strategist.
Under Yuan Shao's account, Guo Jia could not be reused, and Guo Jia found that Yuan Shao was "multi-terminal and indecisive", and took the initiative to choose to leave Yuan Shao, which can actually prove that Guo Jia is still more discerning, and his talent is far beyond ordinary people! Of course, Guo Jia will not deny all bosses because of the inability of one boss, after a period of observation, Guo Jia quickly found another boss, this person is Cao Cao!
After Xun Yu's Guo Jia's introduction, Guo Jia met with Cao Cao, and in a conversation with Cao Cao, Cao Cao found that Guo Jia was well versed in strategy and also very good at his own appetite, Guo Jia also found that Cao Cao had great talent and greatness, and the two admired each other, so Guo Jia naturally became Cao Cao's adviser and became a military master sacrifice wine, which was actually equivalent to Cao Cao's military staff. It can be seen that Cao Cao still appreciates Guo Jiacai.
In the fifth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei occupied Xuzhou, which was a great threat to Xuchang, and Cao Cao knew that Liu Bei had ambitions, and taking advantage of Liu Bei's fledgling wings, he should be suppressed early. So he prepared to lead an army to recruit Liu Bei. However, Cao Cao feared that when he attacked Xuzhou, Yuan Shao would sneak in from behind, so that he would be attacked from the belly and back. Guo Jia stood up to reassure Cao Cao, and Guo Jia said: "Yuan Shao has always been indecisive and will not react quickly. Liu Bei's heart has not returned, his foothold is not stable, and he will undoubtedly lose if he attacks quickly. Then he would return to the division to deal with Yuan Shao, which was the best opportunity to change his belly and back to the enemy, and he must not lose it. Only then did Cao Cao put down the stone in his heart and personally led a large army to conquer Liu Bei. The final result was just as Guo Jia expected, when attacking Liu Bei, Yuan Shao did not move, losing the great opportunity to eliminate Cao Cao. Xuzhou was quickly captured under the repeated attacks of the Cao army, and the Battle of Xuzhou was a complete victory.
Before the Battle of Guandu, the two armies faced off. At this time, news came out that Eastern Wu Sun Ce planned to take this opportunity to attack Cao Cao's rear, and if Xuchang was taken by Eastern Wu, then Cao's army would be defeated. This news caused Cao Yingjun to be distracted. At this critical moment, Guo Jia once stood up and said: "Cexin and Jiangdong, all of them are heroic and heroic, and those who can get people's death power are also." However, although there are millions of people, it is tantamount to walking alone in the Central Plains. If the Assassin rises, one man's enemy ears. From my point of view, he will die at the hands of the puppeteer. As a result, as Guo Jia said, Sun Ce was quickly assassinated by Xu Gong's protégés and died soon after.
After Cao Cao's great victory at the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao was seriously injured and died of anger two years later. Yuan Shao's two sons, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, inherited Yuan Shao's power. The Cao army continued to attack the Yuan brothers, winning many battles, and everyone thought that they should take advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy the Yuan clique. Guo Jia offered a plan and said, "Yuan Shao loves this second son, Mo Shiliye. There are Guo Tu and Feng Ji who are plotting for them, and they will fight each other and still be separated. Those who are anxious are held on to each other, and those who are slow and then compete for their hearts are born. Cao Cao adopted Guo Jia's plan and adopted a divisive strategy to make the Yuan brothers turn against each other, and when both sides were defeated, Cao Cao effortlessly completely eliminated the Yuan clique and successfully took the north.
However, on the eve of Cao Cao's unification of the north, Guo Jia suddenly fell seriously ill due to the unsatisfactory water and soil and the harsh climate, and died soon after, at this time Guo Jia was only thirty-eight years old. Guo Jia's death made Cao Cao very sad. Later, after experiencing the great defeat at the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao wept and lamented alone: "Guo Fengxiao is here, not to be lonely here." "Shame on filial piety!" Pain and filial piety! Woe to filial piety! ”
Indeed, if Guo Jia had not died of illness early, during the Battle of Chibi, with Guo Jia's ingenuity, would not have been able to recognize a series of schemes of Sun Liu's alliance, so that Cao Cao would not have suffered this defeat. If Cao Cao would not be defeated, there would be basically nothing to do with the three kingdoms, and it was only a matter of time before Cao Cao was strong and slowed down other weaknesses. Liu Bei, in particular, probably did not have the opportunity to develop. Therefore, it is very reasonable to say, "Guo Jia does not die, the Dragon does not come out, there will be no Three Kingdoms".
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