During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao was the most powerful and the most likely person to unify the world, but due to his mistakes, he eventually lost the opportunity to unify the world and achieved a situation of three divisions of the world! Among these mistakes of Cao Cao, the biggest mistake should be the missing of the 4 top strategists, each of whom is not inferior to Zhuge Wuhou, if Cao Cao has their help, he is entirely likely to dominate the world!
Chen Palace
Chen Gong was originally sincere in helping Cao Cao, but as a result, Cao Cao was too fierce, killed Lü Bohao's family, and declared that I would rather bear the people of the world than the people of the world, which made Chen Gong feel very inappropriate, so Chen Gong finally chose to leave Cao Cao and turn to Lü Bu! With the help of Chen Gong, Lü Bu successfully captured Yanzhou, beating Cao Cao to only three counties, and if he acted exactly according to Chen Gong's plan, Cao Cao would most likely be killed. Unfortunately, Lü Bu had a high opinion of himself and did not fully obey Chen Gong's wishes, and was eventually defeated by Cao Cao and retreated to Xuzhou.
After arriving in Xuzhou, Lü Bu snatched Liu Bei's power, and then wanted to win Liu Bei over for his own use, this matter was not favored by Chen Gong, according to Chen Gong's meaning, they and Liu Bei had formed a sworn vendetta, it was impossible to reconcile, he wanted to kill Liu Bei, but Lü Bu hesitated to agree, and finally Liu Bei united to Cao Cao's side and attacked Lü Bu with Cao Cao. Seeing that Cao Cao and Liu Bei were united and powerful, Chen Gong offered a plan to defend the city, and Lü Bu was responsible for leading the cavalry outside the city to attack Cao's army. The tactic itself was very good, but Lü Bu disagreed, and was eventually defeated and captured by Cao Cao.
As far as the battle between Lü Bu and Cao Cao was concerned, in fact, the plans given by Chen Gong were very in place, and if he acted according to his plan, Lü Bu would never be defeated quickly, and even had the possibility of defeating Cao Cao. Chen Gong was so talented, and at first he assisted Cao Cao, but Cao Cao took it away, which had to be said to be Cao Cao's mistake, if Chen Gong assisted Cao Cao, how could Lü Bu succeed?
Xu You
Xu You was a very famous strategist under Yuan Shao, during the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fell into a confrontation, Xu You suggested that Yuan Shao surprise troops attack Xu Du, which would be able to defeat Cao Cao in one battle, but Yuan Shao did not agree, so Xu You angrily surrendered to Cao Cao, and suggested that Cao Cao attack Yuan Shao's Wuchao granary and defeat Yuan Shao! It can be said that the reason why Cao Cao won the Battle of Guandu was that Xu Youju was the greatest! Unfortunately, after obtaining great merit, Cao Cao drifted away and was not as tolerant of his subordinates as before, and because Xu You was too indulgent, Cao Cao found a reason to kill Xu You. And if Xu You had not died, with his help, perhaps in the Battle of Chibi he would have seen through the plan of fire attack, Cao Cao would not have been defeated, and it might even be possible to unify the world!
Frustrated
Frustrated Zhi was a very powerful strategist under Yuan Shao, and he had proposed the same strategy as Xun Yu, giving the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but Yuan Shao did not agree, if Yuan Shao acted according to the strategy of Frustrated Grant, where would Cao Cao do anything? The person who unifies the world must be Yuan Shao!
Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fought a great battle, and in the end Yuan Shao was defeated, and Frustrated Zhi was also captured by Cao Cao, frustrated, unwilling to surrender to Cao Cao, but wanted to escape and return to Yuan Shao. Cao Cao saw that Frustrated Zhi had such a tough attitude, and could only kill Frustrated Grant.
For the talent of the frustrated teaching, Cao Cao once had such an evaluation: "Lonely and early, the world is not enough to worry about"! It can be seen that Cao Cao attaches great importance to Frustrated Grant, because the talent shown by Frustrated Grant is the top level in the world, and as a result, Frustrated Grant is unwilling to surrender, and eventually he is killed, which is really very regrettable! If Cao Cao didn't kill Frustrated Zhi, and when he wiped out all of Yuan Shao's clan, then Frustrated Zhi would have to surrender, and Cao Cao's men would have an extra existence comparable to Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu!
Zhang Song
Zhang Song wanted to take the initiative to defect to Cao Cao, and the people also brought the map of Yizhou with them, wanting to dedicate it to Cao Cao and help Cao Cao capture Yizhou, but Cao Cao hated Zhang Song's appearance, was unwilling to entrust Zhang Song with heavy responsibilities, and even looked down on Zhang Song, which made Zhang Song very distressed. So in the end, Zhang Song found Liu Bei and cooperated with Liu Bei to help Liu Bei conquer Yizhou and achieve Liu Bei's hegemony!
Just imagine, if Cao Cao had looked at people at that time and reused Zhang Song, wouldn't the person who got Yizhou be Cao Cao? Where will Liu Bei still have a chance? After Cao Cao had Yizhou, he almost completely occupied the north and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and when his water army was well trained, he only needed to drum up his breath and go down the river, and he could overthrow Sun Quan's Liu Bei forces and completely unify the world!
epilogue
From a comprehensive point of view, Cao Cao missed 4 top strategists in this life, each of whom was not inferior to Zhuge Wuhou! These four people are Chen Gong, Xu You, Frustrated Zhi, and Zhang Song! With the help of these four people, Cao Cao could completely dominate the world, and there would be no situation of three worlds at all!
(This article mainly refers to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms)