It is difficult to explain this great battle in normal language.

This battle occupies a large part of the history of the Three Kingdoms. The Battle of Chibi can be said to be the most famous battle in the entire history of the Three Kingdoms. Its influence even surpassed the previous Battle of Guandu and the later Battle of Yiling.

It was a famous battle where less won more.

Back to the point. Since Zhou Yu and Huang Gai acted in a "bitter meat trick". Zhou Yu and Huang Gai formally conspired to arrange the deception.

This deception was a letter of surrender written by Huang Gai to Cao Cao. Let Kan Ze (in the romance, there is no record in the official history) send the letter to Cao Cao's camp.

It is written in the book: "Huang Gai was reused by the Sun family in Jiangdong as a general, and the Sun family treated me well, but from the perspective of the general trend of the world, using the limited strength of the six counties in Jiangdong to resist the million-strong army of the Central Plains is equivalent to hitting a stone with an egg." Therefore, the generals in Jiangdong all think that they can't fight with you, only Zhou Yu'er is stubborn and prejudiced, and he doesn't know how thick the sky is. Now I sincerely submit to Cao Gong, and when the two armies are fighting, I am willing to serve as the vanguard, and I will not hesitate to do so. ”

Cao Cao initially suspected that there was fraud after receiving the fraudulent surrender letter, but when he saw that the letter was reasonable, he believed it, and agreed with Huang Gai on the surrender time and signal.

In fact, this plan of deception is said to be the first proposed by Huang Gai in history. This strategy was to use Huang Gai to pretend to lead the fleet to surrender to Cao Cao, and when he rushed to Cao's ship, he used his own ship to set Cao's ships on fire. Zhou Yu agreed to his plan.

Now it doesn't matter if it's Zhou Yu or Huang Gai. The entire Soochow military community is waiting for that day.

The day has finally arrived.

November 13, 208 A.D. was the agreed date for surrender.

This morning. Dozens of warships were filled with firewood and grass, poured with oil, covered with curtains, and planted flags.

Huang Gai had already ordered these dozens of warships to line up, and then marched towards Cao Cao's camp under his leadership.

The fleet sailed mightily to the north shore.

A good show is about to be staged.

Huang Gai commanded dozens of warships to advance, and when they reached the center of the river, they raised their sails.

First of all, the officers and soldiers of Cao Cao's troops all ran out and pointed, ready to stretch their necks to watch Huang Gai descend.

Later, Cao Cao also came out to watch. Cao Cao was overjoyed when he saw this, thinking that even the backbone of Eastern Wu like Huang Gai would come to surrender, and it seemed that Eastern Wu was really not far from destruction.

When there were still two miles left from Cao's camp, Huang Gai ordered ten warships to be ignited at the same time. At this time, the southeast wind was strong, the fire borrowed the wind, the wind was strong, and in the blink of an eye, the big ship that caught fire collided with Cao Jun's ship, and the fire was instantly connected. Because of the fierce fire and wind, the camp on the shore was also burned, and it became a sea of fire.

Moreover, Gan Ning also led an army, under the banner of Cao's army, and set fire to Cao Cao's grain depot in Wulin. Suddenly, on the water, the shore was in flames.

At this time, Cao's army was in chaos. Running desperately, many soldiers were either burned to death by fire or fell into the river and drowned.

When Zhou Yu saw that Cao Cao's army camp was on fire, he immediately led the coalition army to attack Cao's army, which made Cao's army even more chaotic, and it was unable to resist the attack of Zhou Yu's army, and the defense line collapsed in an instant.

Among them, Cao Cao rushed left and right in the fire array, and it was difficult to get out, and Zhang Liao arrived in time in a small boat to protect Cao Cao to abandon the ship and go ashore and rush to Wulin.

Later, Cao Cao had an allusion to "Huarong Dao".

In "Romance", it is said that Cao Cao fled to Wulin. met Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei successively. Finally, I arrived at Huarong Road.

Cao Cao asked his generals Xu Huang and Zhang He to drag Zhao Yun. When he met Zhang Fei, Xu Chufei immediately stepped forward to fight. Later, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang also stepped forward to attack.

Finally, Cao Cao walked to the intersection and took the path to Huarong Road.

Who designed Huarong Dao and the previous two levels? The answer is Zhuge Liang.

When Zhuge Liang returned to Xiakou from Eastern Wu, he dispatched troops to block Cao's army. Needless to say, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei in the first two levels. It was the task assigned by Zhuge Liang to the two of them.

The last Huarong Road. It is also the last level that is the most heart-wrenching. Who should guard it? This gave Zhuge Liang a headache.

In the end, Guan Yu took the initiative to ask Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang was afraid that Guan Yu would see Cao Cao "thinking of his old kindness, and he would definitely let him go". Guan Yu was also anxious at this time. In order to make meritorious service, he made a military order, and Zhuge Liang sent him to Huarong Road to ambush.

Cao Cao has passed two levels, can the last "door of life and death" Huarong Dao pass it?

Presumably most readers already know the results.

Guan Yu let Cao Cao go.

But how, exactly?

Let's say that Cao Cao and the others came to the crossroads and saw that the road was flat. There was no movement, and there were a few places on the trail that smoked. Cao Cao thought to himself: This is Zhuge Liang's ploy, deliberately burning smoke on the path, so that he thinks there is an ambush, so that he can take the main road instead.

So, Cao Cao ordered to take a small road to Huarong Road. The trail is muddy and difficult to walk. It was a cold winter again, and the soldiers were miserable. After walking for a long time, Cao Cao laughed again and said: "Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu is still incompetent in the end, if we set up people here, we can only be arrested." ”

As soon as Cao Cao finished speaking, he heard a cannon shot, and Guan Yu led the troops to block the way. Cao's soldiers were sleepy and could no longer fight, and the strategist Cheng Yu suggested that Cao Cao personally go to intercede with Guan Yu, maybe he would remember the old feelings and open up the net. Cao Cao thought that this was the only way to save his life, so he stepped forward to intercede.

At this time, Guan Yu remembered Cao Cao's many kindnesses in the past, and felt that Cao Cao was not thin on Guan Yu before.

Seeing that Cao Jun was all in incomplete armor and covered in mud, he sighed, turned around, and ordered his soldiers to get out of the way. Seeing this, Cao Cao did not dare to delay. Hurriedly rushed over with all the generals.

Guan Yu suddenly remembered the military order he had made at the beginning, and the military order was not something that was said casually. Sometimes it is subject to military justice. If you don't get it right, you'll have to cut off your head.

Guan Yu hurriedly turned around at this time and shouted: "Stop!" When Cao Jun heard this, he was so frightened that he rolled off the saddle and fell to the ground crying. Guan Yu couldn't bear it even more, and while he was hesitating, Zhang Liao came on horseback. Guan Yu saw the old people and remembered the old feelings, and finally let them go.

In this way, Guan Yu let go of Cao Cao and his remnants in Huarong Road.

So how can Guan Yu go back? How will Cao Cao deploy when he goes back?

According to the official history, after Cao Cao escaped from Huarong Road. Due to the mud on the way, Cao's march was very difficult, and many soldiers died of starvation and exhaustion on the side of the road. In the end, Cao Cao staggered back to Nanjun.

There is also a record in the following "Romance".

Cao Cao walked out of Huarong Road, and when Cao Ren came to the rescue, there were only twenty-seven horsemen left. Back in Nanjun City, Cao Ren put wine to relieve Cao Cao's boredom, but Cao Cao cried loudly. The generals were puzzled, Cao Cao beat his chest and said: "I'm crying for the dead Guo Jia!" If Guo Jia didn't die, how could I have such a big disaster? ”

Cao Cao was also right. There is no Guo Jia to give advice. It was difficult for Cao Cao to win this battle. With Cheng Yu alone, Xun Yu is not good.

Later, after Cao Cao fled back to Nanjun. Cao Cao had just suffered defeat. Cao Cao himself realized that there was no hope of attacking the south. Cao Cao may not be able to lead his army south on a large scale again in the short term.

As a result, Cao Cao left the general Cao Ren and the general Xu Huang to guard Nanjun and Jiangling. The general Le Jin defended Xiangyang, and Cao Cao himself retreated to the north with the remnants of the defeated army.

Cao Cao's battle was really a complete defeat.

According to the "Romance", Cao Cao retired before returning to the north. When Cao Ren was stationed in Nanjun. gave Cao Ren a tip. And said that if South County is in danger. It can make Cao Ren open the bag. If he acted according to the plan, Soochow would not be able to occupy Nanjun. ”

This matter, and later Cao Ren also did it. As for the latter matter. We'll get to that in a later section.

Since Guan Yu let Cao Cao go, he returned to the camp, and at this time Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei were ready to celebrate. The celebration feast has been set up. After all, Liu Bei and Dongwu had finally won a big victory.

Just when the generals were waiting for Guan Yu to return triumphantly. At this time, Guan Yu came back empty-handed. Zhuge Liang also found a problem.

Guan Yu didn't say a word at this time. Zhuge Liang lowered his head, and then asked Guan Yu why he wanted to let Cao Cao and them go.

At this time, Guan Yu still didn't speak.

Well, let's deal with it by military law.

So, Zhuge Liang knew that Guan Yu let Cao Cao go in Huarong Dao. And ordered the samurai to take it down and push it out to be beheaded.

At this time, Liu Bei also panicked. After all, Liu Bei and Guan Yu are also brothers, and he can't watch Guan Yu fall first.

So, Liu Bei hurriedly pleaded with Zhuge Liang.

Liu Bei said to the military advisor: "When the three of us formed a rebellion, we had sworn to live and die together, how could we betray the alliance? "I also asked the military advisor to spare him for the time being, so that he could make up for his mistakes." After Zhuge Liang heard this, he was lenient and spared Guan Yu's death.

Guan Yu let go of Cao Cao. That's it.

Well, that's all for the content of the Red Cliff War.

Let's conclude with a summary.

Cao Cao's defeat in the Battle of Chibi gave Sun Quan and Liu Bei a respite, especially Liu Bei. If the Sun-Liu alliance loses to Cao Cao at Chibi. The consequences are unimaginable.

At this time, Sun Quan not only consolidated his rule, but also began to expand his power outward. And Liu Bei also seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and began to fight Jingzhou's idea.

It was also after the Battle of Chibi that the pattern of the Three Kingdoms was formally formed. Cao Cao is retreating to the north, and he cannot go south on a large scale in the short term. Sun Quan consolidated the power of Eastern Wu. Liu Bei took advantage of the situation to obtain most of Jingzhou. And began to play Yizhou's abacus.

At this time, Zhou Yu of Eastern Wu also began to point the finger at Nanjun.

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