Is “Elected as the leader of the coalition against Dong Zhuo” true?
attested in history
According to Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Biography of Yuan Shao, in the first year of Chuping, the warlords of Guandong rose against Dong Zhuo and elected Yuan Shao, who came from a family with four generations of three dukes, as their leader.
Yuan Shao
In official history, he was a northern hegemon who was indecisive in strategy, while in fiction he is often portrayed as a stubborn and fatuous ruler.