Cao Cao's adviser Guo Jia was a genius. Not only did Cao Cao think so, but so did the great men of later generations. It is said that Guo Jia has been very smart since she was a child. Legend has it that he was the reincarnation of Jiang Taigong. People around him called him "Little Taigong".
As the saying goes, three years old to see big, seven years old to see old, from which you can see how high Guo Jia's starting point, Guo Jia's many abilities are talented, and is an innate strength, there is no way, a person who wants to be low-key everywhere, but his own strength is not allowed. And then, such a cattle person is, let me summarize: the first Guo refueling politician, the global total outlook for the future, for the analysis of the political ills of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he put the first, and later found out that not democracy, he was looking for a rest in a woman because the renminbi did not cut steel, and then made up his mind to leave.
Although Yuan Shao's career at that time was in heaven, Guo Jia stubbornly gave up on him and returned to his hometown to quietly observe the situation, but did not leave, until a few years later, when Xun Yu introduced him to Cao Cao, guo Jia came out and returned to his historical stage. Guo Jia knew that war was the continuation of politics, the ultimate goal of war must serve politics, war was the means, politics was the end, and he saw that in the most difficult period of chaos, only Cao Cao had all the skills of politics and martial arts. Also a person who can achieve great things. Therefore, he will assist Cao Cao in accomplishing a great cause and achieving Cao Cao's hegemony, which is equivalent to achieving him Guo Jia himself.
Because the Guo family did not have any family foundation, he had no worries or retreat, there was only one way, that is, to tie himself to Cao Cao's big boat and help Cao Cao go to the other side of the shore to win the victory. Who Cao Cao was, that was great wisdom, and why he and Guo Jia were so close, this was one of the reasons. Personally, I think Guo Jia has really done hard in some places. Not up to the level of top strategists. Wolong followed Liu Bei, which was really nothing at first, but Wolong had the ability to turn the situation around and did. I think this is an ability that Guo Jia and the two people can't have.
In fact, it is difficult to say that resourcefulness is difficult to say, because the war environment is different, the opponents are different, and the strategic intentions are different, so it is not easy to compare. Therefore, Guo Jia can play a draw than Wolong or some bow downwind, after all, Guo Jiaren died early, but some people continue to blow how to live how cattle. But Jia Xu is not good, and there is no grand strategy worth bragging about in the end. There are always people who say that Jia Xu is intelligent and wise, but he takes himself too seriously, that is, to look at ancient behavior with modern eyes. This is self-preservation. Wouldn't Wolong not be used? Sure, but Wolong knew it too but it didn't work.
Guo Jia is not strong in military ability, but strong in strategic decision-making ability, that is to say, Guo Jia is mainly a strategist and is an indispensable brain around the general, but military ability, sorry, did not see. Zhuge Liang is a true military expert, if Guo Jia is a military man, Zhuge Liang is a general, and a military man is a prodigy in the strategist. Why? Zhuge Liang stayed in Jingzhou and led his troops to Yizhou. After five expeditions to the Central Plains, I always led the troops on the front line and advanced and retreated with the troops.
Guo Jia did not lead an army alone in his life. He had been following Cao Cao for more than a decade. He never led the army alone. He is more like a low-key version of Zhang Liang, providing decision support to leaders. For example, the fierce attack on Lü Bu and the Battle of Guandu ignored Sun Ce. The most famous of these was the "ten victories and ten defeats" strategy before the decisive battle with Yuan Shao, which gave Cao Cao more confidence in sending troops to attack Yuan Shao. These are all strategic planning, and Guo Jia's ten wins and ten losses seem to stand on a higher perspective.