Battle of Guandu 200 - Three Kingdoms DOCUMENTARY

[Music] the Han Dynasty of China had endured for over four centuries yet as time progressed its monarchs became more apathetic while its officials ever more self-serving and corrupt thus by the end of the second century the Han was only a shell of its former self though all still claimed nominal allegiance to the emperor true power now lay in the regional warlords capable of taking advantage of an ever weakening central government this video is brought to you by total war three kingdoms a brand new strategy game that combines a gripping turn-based campaign of empire building statecraft and conquest with stunning real-time battles choose from a cast of legendary warlords and conquer the realm unites China under your rule forge the next great dynasty and build a legacy that will last through the ages recruit heroic characters to aid your cause and dominate your enemies on military technological political and economic fronts will you build powerful friendships form brotherly alliances and earn the respect of your many foes or would you rather commit acts of treachery inflict heart-wrenching betrayals and become a master of grand political intrigue your legend is yet to be written but one thing is certain glorious conquest awaits buy the game on Steam by clicking the link in the description the ongoing rebellions had resulted in the empowerment of general dong zhuo in 184 he was charged with restoring order to the realm and by 189 his task was complete yet with the army at his bank don't whoa did not stand down and marched on the two capitals of the Empire initially dong burned the eastern capital y ou yang to the ground and then situated himself within the walled western capital Chang'an thus seizing power for himself deposing the sitting Emperor and placing a child in his stead dong Zhuo initiated a reign of terror as cruel as it was short-lived after little more than two years his second-in-command lubu finally turned on him and assassinated him in 192 dong zhuo's tyranny had forged an unlikely alliance of regional warlords to oppose him but they were united only in their hatred of the mad general thus with his execution the coalition fragmented in the northeast of China were yuan shao and sow sow two of the region's most powerful warlords both of these men held sufficient forces to be able to offer protection to the underaged emperor shan of Han thereby ensuring their own ability to rule in the boy Kings name while yuan shao debated the wisdom of such an action Sal Sal moved first spiriting the young Emperor away from his place of refuge in the ruins of Luo yang to his own fortress at shoe-in Yan province safely ensconced within Shu and using edicts stamped with the Emperor's own seal south-south spent much of 196 to 200 bringing the other northern warlords to heel this process was greatly aided in 197 when southern China splintered into multiple warring States yuan shao had meanwhile realized that his slowness to act had likely cost him the empire first he began to plot how he could reclaim it from his former align both clearly understood that there wasn't enough room in the north for too ambitious warlords with dreams of empire it was in the year 200 that the building friction between the two former comrades erupted into full-scale conflict the location of the primary battle one do was significant because it was situated near the yarn Ford of the Yellow River and on the road to South sales capital shoe this made it a key staging point for both militaries to control in order to further their objectives as early as August of 199 thoughts I realized the critical importance of holding thought douchy on the southern bank of the Maine crossing of the Yellow River thus he stationed a garrison there to expand and improve its defenses in preparation for the inevitable conflict with you and Shou there was a clear difference in the strengths of each side South South fielded a respectable force of some 40,000 but was doffed by yuan Shao's coalition of more than 110,000 including 10,000 heavy cavalry the moment for yuan shao to strike came in the first month of 200 with an unexpected turn of events the governor of Xu province in the south Liu Bei rebelled against his Lord southouse control and pledged himself to yuan Shao's half-brother as sow sow hurried to redeploy his armies and deal with this betrayal he gambled that yuan child was not yet ready to attack therefore he personally led the expedition against the obey leaving his lieutenant nieuwegein in command of DU shi this left the northern border of yan exposed an opportunity yuan shao could scarcely afford to ignore with sow sow absent you an felt he could easily seize control of yon province along with the Emperor himself he immediately mobilized his massive army to the crossing at Yan Ford here hoping to establish a beachhead on the southern bank he dispatched a vanguard of 4,000 infantry and cavalry to seize the river crossing it was here that South South early preparations in reinforcing fortune sheep were rewarded in spite of south-south absence the entrenched forces of guandu repeatedly rebuffed yuan Shao's initial attempts though they were vastly outnumbered with only 2,000 defenders in all the narrow confines of the Ford negated yuan Shao's numerical advantage the commander of fort douchy though knew that their luck would not hold if you are launched his full strength against them reinforcements arrived under command of you-jin with a detachment of 2,000 men Liu Bey's rebellion against south-south disintegrated almost immediately with the traitorous warlord fleeing first south and ultimately into the protection and employ of you and Chou despite his surprise-attack failing to achieve the desired quick victory and sows are once again personally leading the defense of yon you are an ignored advice to end his campaign instead he and his army crossed the Yellow River downstream of Yan Ford and laid siege to Fort Bomar rather than directly aiding he besieged fort Sansa led his armies in a feint up River toward Yan Ford this fooled yuan shao into believing sows intent was to cross the river and attack his main camp to defend against this yuan was forced to divert reinforcements bound for the siege of Bomar and instead counter at South sales purported river crossing shouts out however had doubled back to strike at the enemy forces outside Bomar and lift the siege of the fortress sad sows army utterly routed the besiegers at Bomar and in the course of the battle you and Chows general in charge of the siege was killed nevertheless chaozhou having decided that the fortress was no longer defensible ordered his forces to withdraw southwest and take up their prepared positions at Guan do again trying to seize the initiative Yun Chao ordered a force of 6,000 cavalry to attack the retreating enemy and take them by surprise having been yuan Shao's battlefield Ally for many years however South I'll had anticipated such a maneuver he thus ordered many of his soldiers to dismount and drop their weapons and valuables along the way as expected the attacking cavalry were lured by the scattered roadside goods and they halted their pursuit to collect the bounty at that point South South own force of 600 elite cavalry ambushed them killing hundreds including their force commander and routing the rest kwon do and its fortress not only lay on the southern bank of the EON River south of the Yellow River but was also ringed by a series of massive earthwork fortifications these functions as trenches holding defenders within each concentric ring despite these formidable barriers you and Xiao decided not to set up siege lines and staff the defenders out but to commit his army to storming one to his soldiers constructed massive siege platforms taller than the earthwork barriers from which archers would fire arrows down into the enemy but south out now revealed his own counter siege weapon his manga Nell's also known as traction trebuchet z' capable of shattering the wooden platforms with ease you and Charles attempt to storm Guan dus defenses was a failure as sau sau counted yuan Shao's every move the Battle of Guan do devolved into a stalemate this was not however to South hours advantage as his province was rapidly running low on food and supplies without Swift relief starvation would force his defeat word reached Southall that his means of salvation may have been found he received a report that a mere 20 kilometers away yuan Shao's army had been stockpiling its own stores of grain at the knee by village of gooshie yet rather than attempting to seize the grain for his own soldiers shouts out dispatched a small force of light cavalry to surround the village and incinerate it grain and all this certainly did not help his own situation but Sal Sal had wagered that it would cost you and showers army even more especially given that his own supply lines had been extended deep within South territory shortly thereafter you are known emergency reserves of supplies where indeed calls to the front and stored at whoo-chow near gooshie yet it was lightly defended and when one of you one's subordinates attempted to alert the warlord to that oversight he was brushed aside resulting in the miffed officers defection to Sal Sal where he informed him of this new supply cache though suspicious of this conveniently timed information sour sauce army was nonetheless at a critical point and could not afford to ignore the opportunity shouts out personally led a nighttime raid with 5000 infantry and cavalry to capture or failing that destroyed the Wu chow Depot using the darkness and the expectation of an incoming relief force to their advantage shouts ow and his men quickly over and the defenders and when recovery proved impractical again set fire to the supplies [Music] when word reached yuanchao that his granary had again being destroyed rather than attempting to save his supplies he committed almost his entire army to storming the defense's at guandu and achieving an immediate breakthrough the battle raged on through the night at tremendous human cost but as before no significant gains were made against the fortress when dawn broke the next morning you enshou soldiers already thoroughly demoralized by the loss of the last of their food were horrified to discover that sow sow had ordered the lips and noses of the enemy dead removed mixed with pig entrails and scattered on the outskirts of their comrades camps as hopelessness swept the camps two more commanders defected to south and confusion it was at this moment that south south counter assault came launching his full strength and the exhausted and unsuspecting enemy camps 20,000 young soldiers plowed into yuan Shao's disorganized ranks broke their lines and caused the panicked soldiers to rout by the end of the day by tantowel's own perhaps overblown estimation to Emperor Shang more than 70,000 of yuan's 110,000 strong army lay dead and the rest had been captured the majority of these captives would subsequently be buried alive by its Ouse Ouse order though you're on Shou himself had managed to slip away in the retreat with a force of 800 cavalry his power across the north was broken he would die two years later and his sons would quickly tear the remnants of his realm apart making them easy targets for the armies of South South in little more than five years time South sow had gone from just one of many regional northern warlords to absolute ruler of the entire north [Music] our series on the conflicts of the three kingdoms will continue so make sure you are subscribed to our channel and have pressed the bell button we would like to express our gratitude to our patreon supporters and channel members who make the creation of our videos possible now you can also support us by buying our merchandise via the link in the description this is the kings and Generals channel and we will catch you on the next 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Channel: Kings and Generals

Views: 758,821

Rating: 4.9292035 out of 5

Keywords: Three Kingdoms, Guandu, liu bei, liu bang, cao cao, yuan shao, total war, romance of the three kingdoms, total war three kingdoms, Dong Zhuo, han dynasty, china, history of china, chinese history, dynasty warriors, chinese history documentary, zhuge liang, zhang fei, guan yu, lu bu, zhao yun, kings and generals, three kingdoms period, sun quan, history lesson, animated documentary, documentary film, decisive battles, full documentary, historia civilis, world history

Id: YOGkH_8K_xg

Length: 14min 45sec (885 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 05 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Dragoonity]

It's Lunar New Years right now. What better way to start it off but with a video by Kings&Generals.

[u/SIRUNKLYDUNK]

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Cao Cao was a great commander, bu this whole video just made it seem like Yuan Shao was really fucking stupid.

[u/[deleted]]

Now do one on the Battle of Red Cliff.

[u/joepetts96]

Yuan Shao honey what is you doin

[u/Kuuann]

Yeah thanks a lot C&A and K&G for hyping my hype levels to 9.000 :). On a serious note this (and other contents out there) are super interesting for us westerners not educated enough on Chinese warfare (a non issue for previous TW titles).

[u/Ausstig]

Cao Cao "that's some nice grain you got there. Be a shame if someone... burnt it all"

[u/Bonerific7]

Hey, you, what ya Guandu?

[u/Sennius]

I love these guys.

[u/The_Quial]

Brilliant!

Thoroughly enjoyed the video :)

Looking forward to more