Assassinate Enemy with Assassins
When the enemy is too strong to overcome, getting rid of its leader by sending some highly skilled men to kill him is one of the ways to defeat them. Without a leader to lead them, the enemy forces may fall into disarray. Unless the enemy is united, a power struggle may ensued with internal fighting in a bid to fill the power vacuum. In rtk, Cao Cao sieze advantage of the internal fighting between Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi and crushed these two weakened foes in a single blow later on thereby conquering vast tracts of land north of the Yellow River.
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Depriving the enemy of food supplies is a good way to defeat them since hungry soldiers are weak. Furthermore even if an attack isn't launched at the enemy, the enemy itself may destroy themselves internally through a mutiny among its hungry soldiers. When chaos ensued in the ememy camps, it is highly advantageous to deal a devastating blow to an already weakened foe. Cao Cao's main focus on the burning of Yuan Shao's supplies at Wuchao won him the battle at Guandu even though he was outnumbered 10:1.
Categorized into justified and unjustified executions. In ancient times the decision to execute a person rest on another particular person who wields power. It is not a fair system since whoever has power be it rank or gold has advantages in manupilating the system through bribing and connections.
Rallying is the invigoration of the human fighting spirit against unfavorable conditions and odds. This invisible spirit can be a potent force if well utilised. The willingness to fight for a cause has been reflected many times in history whereby a smaller ill-equiped force triumphs over a bigger and better armed enemy.
When there is a cause worth fighting for, people are willing to risk their lives to achieve their goals and dreams. This cause or spirit if its potential is well harness can be more potent than an adversary with advanced weaponry. History is abound with examples of how this invisible force is more powerful than weapons. eg. the crushing defeat of the well armed government troops by the Yellow Scarves, the triumph of the peasant army under Liu Bei over the Yellow Scarves, the vietnamese over the americans.
The power of water is a double edge sword. If properly harness, it can be used to your advantage to annihilate your enemies. Examples of its usage during the Three Kingdoms era include the flooding of Xiapi by Cao Cao to defeat Lu Bu and Guan Yu's flooding of the seven armies of Wei.
The horse is the most reliable and fastest way to deliver and receive messenges besides messenger pigeons in medieval times. Over bodies of water, the messenger will have to bring his horse onboard the boat for the river or sea crossing or get another horse to continue the journey upon reaching the shore.
With the Han Dynasty falling apart, many ambitious warlords became power hungry and sought to expand their territories but unfortunately many were vanquished in the struggle to expand their domains. Ultimately only three warlords remain in this epic struggle and hence it is popularly known as the Three Kingdoms.