During the Three Kingdoms period, every general needed a great general who could fight a good war, but the top strategists who planned well were the talents that many generals wanted. Many people will think that the wisest strategist in the Three Kingdoms is naturally Zhuge Liang. But unfortunately, Zhuge Liang can only be counted as the fourth from the bottom among the Seven Great Strategists of the Three Kingdoms, so who are the three strategists in front of Zhuge Liang? What are their great qualities?
Counselors are naturally praised by posterity for their talents, and there are many counselors in the Three Kingdoms, most of whom are strategists who can only play small wisdom and have no great wisdom at all. For example, Li Ru and Jiang Gan. These two strategists are nothing more than relying on the general's side to refresh their sense of existence, and when they really encounter major events in the army, they can't play any role at all, at best, they are just eating around the general.
1. The strategist's strategy
To say that the first of the seven top strategists is a strategist named Guo Jia, Guo Jia has always been commented as a ghost talent by outsiders, Guo Jia is a strategist around Cao Cao, and at first Cao Cao did not trust Guo Jia. In his opinion, a Confucian student can only talk on paper and has no role in the military. Cao Cao was defeated every time in the battle with Yuan Shao, but if he did not defeat Yuan Shao, Cao Cao would not be able to conquer the Central Plains, so Cao Cao was always anxious.
The generals around Cao Cao were naturally good at fighting, but in the army, they only knew that killing the enemy head-on would inevitably be plotted by the enemy. Just when Cao Cao was at a loss, Guo Jia put forward the strategic idea of "Ten Victories and Ten Defeats". This argument made Cao Cao feel very novel, but Cao Cao never believed that Guo Jia could make him defeat Yuan Shao. Guo Jia first used the method of encouragement to convince Cao Cao that he could defeat Yuan Shao, and then asked Cao Cao to use changeable tactics, so that Yuan Shao did not know what Cao Cao's generals were going to do next. Then he led Yuan Shao's troops away and annihilated them one by one.
Cao Cao thought about it and used Guo Jia's method, and later did defeat Yuan Shao, Cao Cao was very excited, so he asked Guo Jia how to destroy Yuan Shao. Guo Jia told Cao Cao that Yuan Shao was seriously injured, and many generals must have complained, so they were only allowed to send people into Yuan Shao's military camp and stir up the relationship between Yuan Shao and his subordinates, so that they could not attack themselves. Cao Cao listened to Guo Jia's words and completely annihilated Yuan Shao. From then on, Cao Cao regarded Guo Jia as the first strategist around him.
The second strategist in the ranking was called Jia Xu, at first Jia Xu worked as a strategist under Zhang Xiu's door, and it is reasonable to say that Zhang Xiu's power can be compared with Cao Cao' where, in the Battle of Wanping, one of Cao Cao's generals Dianwei was killed, and there were no generals around him. In addition, Zhang Xiu used Jia Xu's method to deceive and seduce, almost causing Cao Cao to die at Zhang Xiu's hands. As for how Dianwei died, it is very ridiculous to say.
Jia Xu knew that Dianwei was willing to drink, so he asked Dianwei's friends to drunk Dianwei and secretly take away his weapons, and when Dianwei woke up and found that the weapons were gone, dozens of creeps could easily take him down. In the end, Jia Xu helped Zhang Xiu to surrender to Cao Cao's men, and Jia Xu took the initiative to be captured alive by Cao Cao, saying only a few words: "If Xiangguo can have Zhang Xiu, it can become a big thing, and if zhang Xiu is killed, it will be defeated." ”
Cao Cao was a man who understood the great righteousness, and he accepted Zhang Xiu and left Jia Xu with him as a counselor, and the third counselor was Chen Gong, who was Lü Bu's side. Lü Bu was still very jealous of Cao Cao, and at that time Cao Cao led many generals and Guo Jia and other strategists to come to attack Lü Bu, and Lü Bu did not know how to face it. Chen Gong then put forward his own opinion, and he asked Lü Bu to withdraw one of the troops in the army.
Second, give advice
Lü Bu did not quite understand what Chen Gong really meant, and Chen Gong told Lü Bu that this team could play a role in receiving. He asked Lü Bu to confront Cao Cao head-on, and even if he failed, he would lead Cao Cao to this army outside the city, which would weaken Cao Cao's combat effectiveness. Lü Bu did not listen to Chen Gong in the end, and was eventually captured alive by Cao Cao, and before dying, Lü Bu regretted that he had not listened to Chen Gong's words.
The fourth counselor was Zhuge Liang, who said that Zhuge Liang was resourceful, but in fact, when he followed Liu Bei, he first joined forces with Sun Quan to defeat Cao Cao. At that time, Guan Yu asked Zhuge Liang how to break the enemy. As a result, Zhuge Liang only roughly told Guan Yu how to conquer the enemy, but did not say so finely, to put it bluntly, guan Yu is very brave, everything depends on your own creation, so where is this called strategy.
There is also the fact that after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang failed to destroy the State of Wei in four Northern Expeditions, and after encountering Sima Yi, he was even more seen through by the cunning Sima Yi. There was a general named Wei Yan by his side, and he had long proposed that he could cut a small road into the capital of the Wei state and capture the emperor. However, Zhuge Liang refused when he knew that it was feasible.
The fifth strategist was Sima Yi, many people know that Sima Yi is a very slippery guy, but his strategy is very general, in the early years of following Cao Cao, to put forward several strategies, some were accepted by Cao Cao, and some were directly removed by Cao Cao.
You know, in the Wuzhangyuan, Zhuge Liang deliberately set a trap, Sima Yi, as a great general, should be able to see that it was a trap, but he still drilled into it and was almost burned to death by Zhuge Liang with fire. In the face of the raging fire, he couldn't think of any strategy at all, if it wasn't for god's rain to help him, I'm afraid he would have been burned to death by the fire a long time ago.
The sixth strategist was Xun You, when Cao Cao attacked Liu Xiu, he sent a lot of elite soldiers, Xun You has been following Cao Cao around, but he found that Cao Cao would lose this battle, because Liu Xiu and Liu Biao were friends, once the two joined forces, even Cao Cao's tens of thousands of elite soldiers could not resist, so he suggested that Cao Cao withdraw first. Cao Cao was willing to listen to Xun You's words and sent troops to attack Liu Xiu, but Liu Biao sent troops to defeat Cao Cao.
Back in the army, Cao Cao lamented that he had not listened to Xun You, a strategist, and almost destroyed the entire army. When Cao Cao attacked Yuan Shao, Xun You used a counter-plot to disperse Yuan Shao's forces, and then let Cao Cao meet Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao divided his troops to the west. Xun You told Zhang Liao and Guan Yu to pretend to be defeated, and eliminated Yuan Shao's two generals, causing Yuan Shao to be defeated! From this point, it is not difficult to see that Xun You is still very strategic.
Third, the importance of the counselor
The seventh strategist was Liu Ye, who attacked Zhang Lu, and Liu Ye, as Cao Cao's strategist, naturally followed him. Cao Cao was a very cautious man, he saw that the terrain in the mountains was very bad, and he had the feeling that the enemy army was ambushed in the mountains, so he asked the army to retreat. Liu Ye told Cao Cao that Zhang Lulun's wisdom and force were not enough, even if he was ambushed.
Cao Cao listened to Liu Ye's words and attacked Zhang Lu's army, where Zhang Lu was Cao Cao's opponent was soon crushed. Later, during the battle between Wu and Shu, Liu Ye proposed to Cao Cao how to destroy Wu Shu, how to make Wu Shu lose both, and Wei Guo sat on the profits of the fisherman. Cao Cao accepted Liu Ye's plan this time, not only preserving the State of Wei, but also making the State of Wei fearful for a long time.
4. Summary
In the Three Kingdoms, there were many warriors who could fight, such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Cao Cao. However, as the commander of the rebel army, he naturally had to have a counselor around him. And Cao Cao not only has many generals around him, but also many strategists around him, and they are basically top strategists, so Cao Cao can chase after the Central Plains. You must know that among the Three Kingdoms, only Cao Cao's territory is the largest, where shu and Wu can be compared.
Each of these seven strategists is a genius in the Three Kingdoms, and their strategy can make the generals around them win, and they don't need to know how to charge and kill the enemy like those fierce generals, and once they are ambushed, they will only destroy the entire army. If the counselor is not reused by one overlord, he will advise another overlord, so in the Three Kingdoms, many overlords must be competing for the counselor.