Chunyu Qiong

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Chúnyú Qióng ( Chinese  淳于 瓊  /  淳于 琼 , Pinyin Chúnyú Qióng , W.-G. Ch'unyu Ch'iung ; † 200 ) was a general under the Chinese warlord Yuan Shao towards the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty .

Little is known about his life prior to the Battle of Guandu . He was appointed colonel in the West Garden Army in 188 along with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao . He probably left the capital at the same time as Yuan Shao, when he joined the coalition against Dong Zhuo in 190 . At that time he became one of the most deserving generals of Yuan Shao and is described in a memorandum by Cao Cao as the "great general under Yuan Shao" (紹 大將).

By 200, Yuan Shao had become a dangerous rival for Cao Cao in the struggle for supremacy in the central plains. In the run-up to the Battle of Guandu , he and Guo Tu spoke out in favor of more aggressive action against Cao Cao. Officer Ju Shou opposed this, but Yuan Shao gave Chunyu Qiong and Guo Tu a large army with which they joined Yan Liang in the spring and attacked Baima, who was being defended by Cao Cao's officer Liu Yan .

Later, Chunyu Qiong took over 10,000 men to Wuchao to get new supplies. At dawn, they were attacked by a raid team headed by Cao Cao personally. Yuan Shao's cavalry sending relief was swept away, and Chunyu Qiong fell in battle. With the fall of the Wuchao Camp, Yuan Shao's position collapsed and many of his generals (such as Zhang He and Gao Lan ) defected to Cao Cao. Chunyu Qiong is a popular failure in China because of his defeat.