In 200, Yuan Shao amassed more than 100,000 troops and marched southwards on Xuchang in the name of rescuing the emperor. Cao Cao gathered 20,000 men in Guandu, a strategic point on the shore of the ...
However, the influential family, surnamed Cao, eventually saw their good fortune take a turn for the worse, losing everything. This story, both the rise and fall of the Cao family, was thought to ...