Battle of Guandu 200 - Three Kingdoms DOCUMENTARY 

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Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are actually childhood friends , there are some stories of their banters together.

MYTH: Yuan Shao was arrogant and did not enjoy those who were not from aristocratic background like himself. TRUTH: Yuan Shao was handsome and respectable to everyone regardless of their background. Yuan Shao was very popular(he didnt become coalition leader by talking down to everyone) and was just as capable of recruiting capable people as Cao Cao, I would dare to say that Cao Cao probably learned this trait from Yuan Shao as a teenager. The arrogant aristocrat who felt like he deserve to rule due to his background better describes his half-brother/cousin Yuan Shu. Yuan Shao's biggest weakness was rather indecisiveness and lack of initiative.

After crashing Yuan Shao, Cao Cao found many letters sent to Yuan Shao by many of his subordinates, trying to surrender. Then Cao Cao burned all letters and said: "even I believed I would lose in the difficult times."

That's a nice pile of food. Would be a shame if it caught fire.

"Yuan Shao may be strong, but he is not to be feared. He is too undeciding to act." Cao Cao, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

According to the Romance chapter and opera "Riding alone for thousands of miles," Guan Yu served Cao Cao during the Battle of Guandu and was an integral part of his victory. After Liu Bei's defeat, Guan Yu was separated from his lord and no news came of whether or not Liu had survived. Guan then offered his service to Cao on the condition that if and when Liu ever appeared he would have to leave Cao to return to his sworn brother. Liu Bei did re-emerge after the Guandu and Guan thus took his leave from Cao Cao's forces. Along the way back, many of Cao's officers tried to stop Guan Yu, fearing his prowess in the inevitable battles he would fight against them, but none were successful. Cao Cao himself scolded them for trying to stop Guan, saying that they could all learn a lesson from his loyalty and virtue.

"The Battle of Guandu" or "how can a military commander miscalculate every single one of his moves".

"Domains under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity." Those are first words of the great Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I think they describe that era very well.

The thing is Cao Cao had all the talented advisors standing beside him such as Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu and Liu Ye and he constantly consulted for their opinions, Yuan Shao had bunch of advisors who were just as equally talented as Cao Cao's side such as Tian Feng, Guo Tu, Xu You, but he always failed to listen to their advices.

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For those who confuse about the story, especially if you watch Three Kingdom TV Series .. Here's the summary, Record of the Three Kingdom = made by Chen Shou (233-297), An official historian from Jin dynasty (found by Sima Yan, he's Sima Yi decedent). Consider historical version of Han - Three Kingdom Era. Romance of the Three kingdom = Romantic-novel version from Three Kingdom era, heavily influenced by Chen Shou work. RTK was made by Luo Guanzhong (1330-1400), a writer from Ming Dynasty. He's Chinese Version of Shakespeare.

Woah historical Cao Cao is even more badass and smarter than his fictional character in Romance of Three Kingdoms novel

The early careers of Cao Cao's was perhaps one of the most interesting profiles to study. Having started out as merely one of the many bit player warlords, he was able to repeatedly get an advantage on much bigger, tougher foes by fully utilizing talented individuals and having high initiative to balance the odds. \(இдஇ )/ His dynamism and cunning makes him a very interesting figure to read, combining elements of a ruthless CEO and a battle hungry general. But best of all? His ultimate goal is not that bad either, to unite the land under one banner again and this time under able leadership. This is why he is always portrayed either as a dangerous (but interesting) villain who can always exploit the situation and challenge the protagonists, or a great gray anti-hero, a Byronic rebel reformer ready to to the utmost to accomplish his goals while ruthlessly burning the rotten elements down. He would have been the undisputed master of the post Han world if not for a realm of worthy heroes who opposed him.

You didn't mention that when Cao Cao was leading the raid on Yuan Shao's food depot in Wuchao, he had his men disguised as Yuan's soldiers. The Yuan defenders did not detect the treachery and allowed them passage into the depot. They were surprised when they were suddenly attacked.

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出其不意 攻其不備 《孫子兵法》 Do the unexpected,attack the unprepared. The Art of War By Sun Tzu

"An army marches on its stomach" Cao Cao : Hold my Torch.

NOW THIS, THIS IS LOVE. I basically grew up with the Three Kingdoms and Chinese History and seeing that you're covering one of the most important battles in Cao Cao's rise to power is amazing! Keep it up!

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5:40 Just a small correction, while Yue Jin was a key general at the battle of Dushi Ford, the similar named general Yu Jin was the one actually in charge of the forces.

This was very well made! Thank you for this series on the Three Kingdoms. It's very interesting 🖤

After Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dynasty Warriors, now we have vivid animations and engines from Total War series to display this part of the history. It's exciting to see the reincarnation of one of the three top-notch and most decisive battles during that era from K&G. Keep up the good work!

I remember when you had 10k subs you grow fast and you deserve it good job guys

Man I was very happy to see this notification, been quite the fan of Chinese History. Hope you please also cover the Warring States Period and the Qin Reunification. Lots of thanks from Kenya. This is probably my favorite channel on RU-vid. At least definitely my favorite history channel seconded by others like unknown5, epimetheus, history time and ancient history lover.

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Even after playing the game over the years, seeing this excited me and gave me so much insight on the battle. Thank you so much for this! Please make more videos about this war! 😊

Cao Cao uses throw gil! It's super effective! Yuan Shao's cavalry is confused.

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I've been waiting for you folks to do some more of these. Love three kingdoms. Cheers!

Who learned the story of the Three Kingdoms in the game Dynasty Warriors ?😄

This is amazing! I have read Romance of Three Kingdoms a few times and watched the TV drama renditions produced by China. But one of the biggest frustration I have with reading this novel is that I could never appreciate the tactics used in the battles because its very difficult to picture them in my head if I don't have sufficient military knowledge. Your videos took all of those frustrations away. Please make more videos of various battles that happened in the Three Kingdom era!!!

The over stretch for food supply of Yuan Shao was the key for Cao Cao to win an overwhelmed enemy. This was the first time where raiding the supply become victory factor.

I can't wait to see more videos on this period. As a long time Dynasty Warriors fan, I've always been fascinated by both the original novel and the actual history behind it.

This is a great upload. I can't tell you how popular the Three Kingdoms period is in Eastern society. This is awesome. Keep up the amazing work.

Good job on the pronunciation of Cao Cao as (tsao tsao). It's refreshing to hear a channel that gets Chinese pronunciations right.

Congratulations on a half million subs. While I have no idea how accurate Daven's pronunciation of these names and places actually is, he certainly sounds the part, and does an impressively nice job at it. -Jake

Yes! This is awesome and what I've been hoping for! Amazing videos K&G Thank you for all your hard work! =)

This was very informative and well-articulated. Keep more coming

This is one of the best episodes yet! I always wondered who all of the various characters were when i was playing Dynasty Warriors as a kid. I just never seemed to get around to studying them. Cao Cao, was a clever general indeed.

Thank you for making more videos about China. Chinese history is mostly unexplored among westerners.

as to how rich the history and legacy of the three kingdoms were, the short length of this playlist is a slap to its face.

Oh my I was waiting for this one. Love this episode so much!!

Yuan Shao: So there's the supply compound. How did they find it? Cao's soldier: Yes!

The book Romance of the Three Kingdoms is well know classic novel in whole Far East Asia. It has been translate to Japanese and Korean for hundreds years. It also been translate to English for years, it was call real Far East game of throne. Many Japanese and Chinese game companies develop game base on Three Kingdoms. In Chinese temples you often can see Guan Yu as saint of valiant. To know more about Far East Asia you should read Romance of the Three Kingdoms which billion people on earth read that before.

I loved this video - you always manage to make somewhat complex battles/history easy to understand!

I loved this video, the visuals are really good and I'm so excited for the game! Can't wait to see more of these

Lu Bu is perhaps one of the coolest dudes to ever live. And this video may be one of the best vids on RU-vid I've ever seen.

My favorite history! Please make more videos about the Three Kingdoms!

YES! More 3 kingdoms battles please! I love this era from start to finish!

One of best videos . Videos are getting better

Did you really get sponsored by Total War itself? I'm really happy for you and your channel if so.

finally(: please do more on China. Qin, Jin, Han, continue on Three kingdoms etc. There is so much love your channel man & great work(:

Love this channel and have been super hyped for 3 kingdoms release as well. Long time player of both Rome/Empire TW and Dynasty Warriors so am expecting nothing less than epicness!

Wow! Cao Cao was indeed a clever and a genius general!

This battle reminds me of the battle of red cliff but reversal of positions, where Cao Cao is defending here whilst attempting to invade the latter. It almost appears similar circumstances that occurred to Yuan Shao here occurred to Cao Cao at red cliff but Cao Cao was able to recover

OMG your videos are sooooooooo compelling to watch!! Thank you!!!! Excellent job!!!

I've been hoping you guys would do the Three Kingdoms battles since I discovered this channel! Thank you and as always fantastic job!

8:30 Mo money; mo problems. Will you ever do the Dynasty Warriors staple Hu Lao Gate!?

I meant to mention this in the last video but man these animations are top notch. i love youtube and how its replacing the history channel with quality content!

Great Video as always! Glad to see the mighty clash of two warlords from one of my own personal favorite moments in history.

Hey guys, congrats on a sponer from CA! I'm proud of all the work that has taken you to get noticed.

A bit of inaccuracies/mistakes at around 5:20. . (1) It's a bit inaccurate to say Cao Cao was Liu Bei's "lord" ... in that the commonplace term used to describe someone in a situation like Liu Bei was a "guest general." A defeated lord in China, often tended to seek the hospitality, protection, and patronage of another lord, and while it was possible the "guest" might just end up under the service of the "host", it was also possible that the "host" would actually help the "guest" to rise up again. Both instances happened numerously in China, and Liu Bei was not under the service of Cao Cao around 200 CE. The term "patron" or "host" would have been more proper. . (2) 05:23 narrates " (Liu Bei) pledged himself to Yuan Shao's half-brother" ... which seems to be a major mix-up. Yuan Shao's half-brother Yuan Shu died in 199 CE. I'm guessing it's due to the complicated nature of political events during the time might have caused a bit of a confusion. Initially, Liu Bei was under the service of Gongsun Zahn, and the warlords were divided into two major rivaling coalitions: Yuan Shao/Cao Cao/Liu Biao vs. Gongsun Zahn/Yuan Shu/Tao Qian. However, Liu Bei slipped away from Gongsun Zahn's control and took governorship of Xu province after Tao Qian's death.. and then defected to the Yuan-Cao coalition. He never 'pledged' himself to anyone since then. At 200 CE, after gaining control of Xu province for the second time (after a seriously complicated chain of events) he allied with Yuan Shao when the Yuan-Cao coalition broke up.

WTF is the first half part of the video, it completely misunderstood the series of events that led to the rise of Dong Zhuo. When the video said that Dong was charged in 184 with restoring order to the realm, the map is showing him crushing the yellow turbans in the east. In reality Dong Zhuo was utterly rekt by yellow turbans and demoted, and where he shined was in the western province of Liang(Liangzhou in the video), that means when Emperor Ling died and Grand General He Jin ordered the frontier troops to capital to help him eliminating the enunches ( Notice this point, the reason of Dong's march on Luoyang, is oversimplified by the video into insubordination and a simple lust of power), Dong marched east towards the capital, while the video is showing him marching west. Then the video said that Dong "initially" burned down Luoyang, then got to Chang'an and enthroned a child. How can you mess up the timeline so entirely? Dong Zhuo marched east from Liangzhou to imperial capital Luoyang, then he took the opportunity of a power vacuum left by the assassination of He Jin to dethrone the current emperor and enthrone another child candidate, in Luoyang, not in Chang'an. It was this action that enraged the entire empire and resulted in the anti-Dong Zhuo coalition "Guandong Alliance" which is shown in the video. It was the coaltion forces' closing in on the Imperial capital that caused Dong to abandon and burn the capital Luoyang, and retreated into the western old capital of Chang'an, where is closer to his power base, the forementioned Liangzhou. The lack of research reflected in the first 3 minutes of this video makes me very disappointed because this happened before with the china-related videos of this channel, as i recall the facade of mistaking Western Liao for Western Xia, and the Chinese Jin dynaty for Jurchen Jin dynasty in the Rise of Mongol video.

Great video and thank you so much for all the Chinese history videos lately. Much appreciated! Can I suggest the Battle of Changban (長坂）in a future video? It would be a nice follow up to this video!

Thank you for doing the war of the three kingdoms! I've been hoping for this!

I like how you called Liu Bei treacherous, most of the time people would call him a nice person but he really isn't that much better than the other warlords.

When we will get Phyrric wars, or Punic wars. Thats my favorite era.

The overlaying of the trailer and your intro was perfect!!

Just came to this channel after seeing you comment in another political channel. Not sure what to expect, I clicked in and saw your first recommended playlist was on my favorite era of history, the Three Kingdoms era. I didn't expect this amount of talent and detail into your videos, and also didn't plan on Pre-ordering Total War or even getting it so close to release, but ended up doing so to help your channel.

YEAH!!! Kings and Generals is using Total War Three Kingdoms in videos!!!!

I recommend to watch serial Three Kingdom 2010, before play this Total War game. History of this time period is so great!

Well, this is a veeeeery pleasant surprise for a tuesday, thanks K&G :D I've known bits of the 3 kingdoms history via the Dynasty Warriors games in my childhood, it's great coming back to it this way^^

Excellent animations and beautiful story telling. This is how history should be taught. Thank you so much

like the animation.. makes the story more interesting

No wonder this sounded familiar to me. The movies "Red Cliff" and "The Lost Bladesman" deal with the conflict.

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Happy new year love your videos man keep it up

I love how the narrator called Liu Bei “a traitorous warlord” because that’s exactly what he was. Dude backstabbed everyone he ever allied himself with. I really hate that guy.

Props for saying T'sao T'sao instead of the ridiculous pronunciation of Cow Cow used in some games.

You just took me all the way back to when I was a kid playing Koei games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Lovin this!

Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快乐 Wish your subscribers would be doubled/tripled/quintupled(more and more)in the new coming year and you can complete the series of the Viking, Caesar, Roman Empire, Ottoman, Hundred Years’ War, Italian War, Napoleon, German Unification, American Civil War and others Very glad to see you make videos about the Three kingdoms Period! Premier Cao’s great achievement is preventing the situation- “Around 30 so-called barrack Emperors or soldier Emperors were crowned in the next fifty years” He maintain The unity of the Han Empire-(namely just one emperor in the years of 196-220)

Battle of Chi Bi next please! Oh wait, does Three Kingdoms Total War have naval battles?

This was Brilliant! I will be purchasing 3 Kingdoms in the very near future, Ill do it via the link.

Wonderful showing of the layout of battle and showing Cao's Cao's general significance for the victory and not a certain exaggerated god of war. Look forward to see more.

Definitely looking forward to more Three Kingdoms videos!

Cao Cao is probably the most cunning general this channel has shown me. Every other time cavalry hunts a vanguard, there is either a counter attack or a massacre, but Cao Cao exploited human greed to avoid the situation altogether. Brilliantly simple.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Awesome!!! I knew you were going to do a Three Kingdom era video/series eventually. Cool video K&G. Cao Cao was a badass historical figure of his time.

Started reading Romance of the Three kingdoms a couple weeks ago, so really excited about this series.

Dong Zhuo was actually rather useless against the Yellow Turbans, he only gained power after He Jin's demise. Other than that, Ma Teng was the major hegemon in the west, whereas Han Sui was more of a subordinate ally.

If Cao cao unified the country, Wei would be a lot greater dynasty than Jin. Probably even greater than Han.

Great work one of my favorites till date. Keep up the good work 🤙

This channel is so good. Thanks for the amazing videos . Ps: Make videos about ancient Sparta, specially the Peloponesian War and the hellenistic period, please

Out of the three warlords of the three kingdoms, cao cao is the smartest. Liu Bei and Sun Quan couldn’t think as good as Cao Cao. The other warlords relied on advisors to help them govern their land. An example of this would be the battle of Guandu, where Yuan Shao was destroyed by Cao Cao.

My last name is Cao. Thank you for pronouncing Cao correctly. Everybody in the US speaks Cao as Cow.

Very interesting video, thank you so much for making this!

Yay, finally a video about Three Kingdoms, my fav..a wonderful Chinese New Year gift..cheers guys..