Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Win the Western Expedition with wisdom, Cao Cao's clever plan to break the enemy!Text|Listen to the wind at night, taste the Three Kingdoms, and taste the history of the myriad forms. After the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao embarked on the road of territorial expansion, and in the face of strong enemies Ma Chao and Han Sui, Cao Cao used clever tactics to make the enemy army chaotic and easily victorious.
Cao Cao encountered some obstacles in his attack on Ma Chao and Han Sui, but with his ingenuity, he devised a strategy that would effortlessly destroy the enemy's army. The implementation of this ploy involved the rebel forces led by Ma Chao and Han Sui.
Although this army is known as the Ten Ways and has a huge army of 100,000, it is actually a disorganized group of troops. There is a lack of tacit understanding between commanders, and there is a lack of coordinated strategies between various armies. And the relationship between Ma Chao and Han Sui is also difficult to explain, they used to be old friends, but they became enemies because of Ma Teng's affairs. Cao Cao took advantage of this situation to ease the relationship between the two through mediation, and then provoked an incident in the middle, creating contradictions, making the two suspicious of each other.
Cao Cao wrote a letter in front of Han Sui, deliberately smearing the contents of the letter, and the handwriting was confusing. Although the contents of the letter could not be verified, Cao Cao expected that Ma Chao would see the letter. Ma Chao saw that the words in the letter were incomprehensible and full of errors, and suspected that Han Sui had deliberately changed it, so he became suspicious of Han Sui. Han Sui's previous betrayal of Ma Chao's father made Ma Chao even more distrustful. As a result, Cao Cao successfully created Ma Chao's suspicion of Han Sui, making the relationship between the two change from superficial brothers to mutual suspicion.
On the battlefield, the coalition forces are most afraid of discord with their commanders. The suspicions of Ma Chao and Han Sui made the morale of the coalition unstable, which eventually led to defeat. Cao Cao seized the opportunity and defeated the combined forces of Ma Chao and Han Sui in one fell swoop, causing the two to go their separate ways. Han Sui was later killed by the generals of Xiping, while Ma Chao joined Liu Bei. Cao Cao succeeded in disintegrating this force with a discordant strategy.
In short, Cao Cao successfully sowed discord with the divisive, causing discord among the commanders, intensifying the internal contradictions of the coalition forces, and finally Cao Cao won easily and achieved an effective blow to Ma Chao and Han Sui.