The Battle Of Guan Du (Part 1)

It was the Year 200 AD. Cao Cao And Yuan Shao were childhood friends since young but since the year 196AD, they knew that they had to fight. Yuan Shao, a powerful warlord controlled Northern China, namely the Hebei region and had a large army under his command. However Cao Cao only controlled the capital city Xu Chang. The battle took place at The Yellow River, one of Yuan Shao's powerful general, Yan Liang, crossed the Yellow River to raid Cao Cao's Baima Castle. Cao Cao tricked Yuan Shao into believing that he would attack Yuan Shao' camp on the other side of the river. Yuan Shao quickly retreated his troops from Baima, but Cao Cao's forces struck back eastward to lift the siege of Baima. In the ensuing battle, Yan Liang was killed. Cao Cao decided to abandon Baima Castle. Yuan Shao, took this situation and led 6000 light calvary to set off to pursuit. Cao Cao anticipated this and ordered his troops to lay valuables on the ground as a distraction plan. Yuan Shao troops were greedy and took it. As they were taking it, Cao Cao led 600 elite clavary to crush them.Thus Wen Chou was leading the calavry was killed where else Liu Bei was also leading the calvary but Liu Bei escaped. Yuan Shao lost two powerful general at the start of the campaign. I will stop here for now as this battle is very long. I will write part two later.