Xu You was a graded top of the army of Yuan Shao. It serves Gongsun Zan first of all. But after the fall of this one, it adopts the Yuan. Shining tactician appreciated of Yuan Xi, it offers to the father of this last fine strategies. However, Yuan Shao has eyes only for its first strategist, Guo You. The conflicts are frequent between the two men and Xu You often thinks of giving up Yuan.

At the time of the Battle of Guandu, in 200, the seat of the castle of CAD CAD lasts for ever and the desertion starts to prevail among the army of Yuan. To put a term at the battle, Xu You proposes to launch a raid since the mobile turns, installed along the ramparts. But Guo You is opposed to this strategy, and rather proposes to dig a gallery to arrive in the court of the enemy base. Yuan Shao accepts this plan immediately, treating Xu You of commander inapt. Courroucé by these insults, Xu You benefits from the absence of its lord to flee and it joined CAD CAD.

This one accommodates it with open arms and, under the councils of Guo Jia, treats it like equal Sima Yi. Flattered, Xu You decides to be avenged for Yuan while revealing with its former enemies that their army stores the totality of its vivres to the deposit of Wuchao, kept by the alcoholic Chunyu Qiong. At once, CAD CAD and Guo Jia implement several plans and manage to set fire to the warehouse. However, during the battle, Yuan Xi is killed. Its death carries a fatal blow to moral and with the health of Xu You, which throws tops of the ramparts of the castle and is impaled on the palisade of lances of the army of CAD CAD.

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