[permalink] [id link]
Cao Cao's force feared an ambush in the camp and hastily retreated.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Cao and Cao's
The Tianshi school was officially recognized by ruler Cao Cao in 215, legitimizing Cao Cao's rise to power in return.
* Empress Dowager Bian, Cao Cao's wife ( b. 159 )
After Cao Cao's death in AD 220, his son Cao Pi became emperor of Wei.
In 194, Cao Cao went to war with Tao Qian of Xu Province, because Tao's subordinate Zhang Kai had murdered Cao Cao's father Cao Song.
Tao Qian received the support of Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, but even then it seemed as if Cao Cao's superior forces would overrun Xu Province entirely.
Lü Bu's men deserted him, Yuan Shu's forces never arrived as reinforcements, and he was bound by his own subordinates Song Xian and Wei Xu and executed on Cao Cao's order.
After Cao's defeat at the naval Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 CE, China was divided into three spheres of influence, with Cao Cao dominating the north, Sun Quan ( 182 – 252 CE ) dominating the south, and Liu Bei ( 161 – 223 CE ) dominating the west.
Zhang Hong, whom Sun Ce had earlier sent as a liaison to the warlord Cao Cao, also returned from Cao's domain to assist Sun Quan.
Sun Quan was well aware of Cao Cao's intentions, and he quickly entered into an alliance with Liu Bei and Liu Qi to prepare for an attack by Cao.
Cao Cao wrote Sun Quan with a letter intending to intimidate, and in face of Cao's overwhelming force ( estimated to be about 220, 000 men, although Cao claimed 800, 000, against Sun's 30, 000 and the Lius ' combined force of 10, 000 ), many of Sun's subordinates, including Zhang Zhao, advocated surrender.
About this time, there was a plague developing in Cao Cao's forces which significantly weakened it.
Zhou Yu then sent ships under Huang Gai's command to pretend to surrender and, as Huang's ships approached Cao Cao's fleet, they were set aflame to assault Cao's fleet, and Cao's fleet was largely destroyed by fire.
Cao and force
This was an extremely important move for Cao Cao following the suggestion from his primary advisor, Xun Yu, commenting that by supporting the authentic emperor, Cao Cao would have the formal legal authority to control the other warlords and force them to comply in order to restore the Han Dynasty.
Cao Cao led his forces to escape on land, but much of the force was destroyed by Sun Quan and Liu Bei's land forces.
Using a diversionary tactic, Cao Cao moved his main force westward towards Yan Ford along the river.
As a result, the allied force pursued Cao Cao's forces to Jiangling.
Xiahou Dun immediately drew on a light cavalry force and headed for Juancheng ( 涓城 ), where Cao Cao's family resided.
Yuan Shao did not send any detached force into Cao Cao's territory after this.
With incredible bravado, Cao Cao ignored pleas to split off his force to deal with the reinforcements, thus his men were prepared to fight to the death.
From such a perspective, Yuan Shao, faced with the ever-growing threat of his former ally Cao Cao, concentrated his force in a direct approach to Cao Cao's headquarters in hope that such a strike would overwhelm his enemy.
Cao Cao named Cao Zhi to lead a relief force to the rescue, in the hope that the task would instill into the latter a sense of responsibility.
Cao and feared
His cousin Yuan Yin feared Cao Cao and gave up Shouchun.
Most officials were more concerned about the Xianbei and Qiang rebellions and also with another non-Han people — the Xiongnu, who had settled down in modern Shanxi after the dissolution of their state by Cao Cao in 216 under the watchful eyes of Chinese officials, and were feared for their military abilities.
In the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Taishi Ci is instead slain by one of Cao Cao's most feared and talented generals, Zhang Liao, during the Battle of Hefei in 208.
At this time, Cao Cao intended to launch an expedition deep into the north to eradicate Yuan Shang and the Wuhuan tribes, but many feared that Liu Biao would attack from the south.
Cao Cao was angered, but feared killing him for the reprobation it might bring, and instead sent him away to Jingzhou to serve under Liu Biao.
Cao and ambush
It was under his leadership that Cao Cao's forces fell to an ambush at the Battle of Bowang, costing thousands of men their lives when he pursued Liu Bei's forces into a nearby gulley.
Cao Cao then led his army across the river to cut off Ma Chao's supply lines, but Ma anticipated the assault and was lying in ambush.
Just as they were grabbing valuables, Cao Cao's 600 elite cavalry, which had been lying in ambush, attacked.
Lu Xun laid an ambush and destroyed most of the enemy army, while the rest were rescued by Jia Kui, who predicted the ambush and tried to convince Cao Xiu beforehand, but was rejected.
Xiahou pursued Gao and encountered Cao Xing, who was lying in ambush.
Cao and camp
Back in camp, Cao Cao praised Xu Chu as a true mighty warrior, whose fighting ability befitted his nickname of " Tiger Craze ".
Heeding his advisor Xun You's advice, Cao Cao led a battalion toward Yan Ford as a feint to trick Yuan Shao into believing that Cao Cao would attack his camp on the other side of the river.
Thus at night, Cao Cao led 5, 000 infantry and cavalry to attack Wuchao after leaving Cao Hong and Xun You in charge of his main camp at Guandu.
Yuan Shao used Guo Tu's idea and sent Zhang He and Gao Lan to lead his main army to attack Cao Cao's main camp at Guandu, while only sending a small cavalry unit to reinforce Wuchao.
In the seventh installment, the battle clearly focuses on Cao Pi's point of view, where he leads the attack on Wuchao, defeating and recruiting Zhang He ( who'd been its defender instead of attacking Cao Cao's camp as in history ).
Cao fortified many of the key crossing points on the Yellow River which divided his territory from Yuan's ; he personally made camp at Guandu with his main army.
However, Cao Cao's troops soon regrouped and surrounded Zhao Yun, so Zhao fought his way towards his own camp.
Cao Cao's army pursued Zhao Yun back to his camp.
However, Yuan Shao eventually took the counsel of advisor Guo Tu, who suggested concentrating forces on the base camp of Cao Cao should the latter decide to attack Wuchao.
Huang Gai proposed a plan in which he pretended to surrender to Cao Cao and infiltrated the enemy camp.
Cao Ren, the defending general, heard of Zhou Yu's injury and ordered his soldiers to yell insults outside Zhou's camp in an attempt to dishearten his army.
In one occasion, the enemy commander, Zhou Yu, left the defense of his main camp to his subordinate, Ling Tong, and led most of the troops to rescue another subject, Gan Ning, who was surrounded by Cao Ren's cavalry in a distant castle.
Even Ling Tong was only left with a wee fraction of the army to guard the camp, the numerically superior Xu Huang and Cao Ren were defeated by the former and the enemy camps remained intact.
Accounts on how Sima joined the service of Cao differ, but he accepted his first position in Cao's camp at the age of 30.
Given 70, 000 troops, Wen crossed the Yellow River and came for Cao Cao's camp.
2.051 seconds.