For Cao Cao, it can be said that the Battle of Chibi is a copy of the Battle of Wancheng, which means how strong and strong the visual sense is, Cao Cao almost completely repeats what happened in Wancheng at that time.

The surrender of the other side, the complacency of oneself, and the subsequent fiasco, history only repeats itself.

【Battle of Red Cliff and Battle of Wancheng】

In the second year of Jian'an (197), Cao Cao led the army to crusade against Zhang Xiu, the army did not arrive, Zhang Xiu led his troops to surrender without a fight, Cao Cao was very happy, and then accepted the widow of Zhang Xiu's uncle Zhang Ji as a concubine, Zhang Xiu felt annoyed. At the same time, Cao Cao sent gold and silver to Zhang Xiu's subordinates, Hu Che'er, and when Zhang Xiu learned about it, he was uneasy and decided to turn back after discussing with Jia Xu.

Zhang Xiu suddenly rebelled at the suggestion of Jia Xu, and attacked Cao Cao's camp by surprise, Cao Cao was killed by surprise, and his eldest son Cao Ang, Ai General Dian Wei, nephew Cao Anmin and even Ai Ma Jue Ying all died in this battle, Cao Cao escaped from Ascension with Cao Ang's horse.

It can be said that the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Wancheng are extremely similar.

First of all, Cao Cao won without a fight when he invaded Nanyang and Jingzhou, happiness came too suddenly, too easily, and then Cao Cao didn't know the southeast and northwest, and his ability level plummeted, and he began to be arrogant, blind command, and sperm worms. When Wancheng was in trouble, he began to dig up other people's favorite generals, and even infected the widow of his uncle, and finally forced Zhang Xiu, who was sincere, and killed his eldest son and many subordinates.

At that time, he saw that Sun Liu was weak, so he despised the opponent too much, and he led the army to fight even more blindly, and was defeated by the opponent with a small amount of military strength.

Afterwards, Cao Cao said to the others: "Guo Fengxiao is here, don't let the lonely come here." But Cao Cao's words seem to me to be more like shirking responsibility, I was thinking about how Cao Cao didn't say to Xun You and Guo Jia around him after the Battle of Wancheng: "Xi Zhicai is here, don't make you lonely." ”

Cao Cao also wrote a letter to Sun Quan, which read: "The Battle of Chibi, worth the disease, the lonely burning ship retreated, and Zhou Yu was falsely given this name." And what did Cao Cao say after the Battle of Wan, "I descended Zhang Xiu and others, and it was inconvenient to take its quality, so that it was so." I know why I lost. Zhu Qing looked at it, and it will not be defeated from now on. Although Cao Cao did not mention that he abducted a widow and took a general, he at least admitted his mistake and showed repentance.

The defeat of Wancheng was because of Cao Cao himself, and so was the defeat of Chibi. In the battle of Chibi, Cao Cao did not do a good job of preventing the epidemic, chose the wrong time and the wrong place to start a war with the other party, and attacked the enemy's strength with his own shortcomings.

However, Cao Cao did not regret his mistake at all, thinking about the reason for the defeat, he attributed the cause of this defeat to the people who had died, to the epidemic, and said as if Jia Xu was not there in the Battle of Chibi and did not raise objections to Cao Cao, as if Guo Jia did not take refuge in Cao Cao in the defeat of Wancheng, and said as if Guo Jia did not mention the disease in the south.

Cao Cao had a good time before the Battle of Chibi, since Guandu defeated Yuan Shao, Cao Cao did not meet a decent opponent, before defeating Yuan Shao, although Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven and ordered the princes, but not only Yuan Shao dared to throw him face, Yuan Shu also took the initiative to attack Yuzhou, Lu Bu also dared to betray the alliance against Cao Cao after not getting a response, Cao Cao's group was four crusades against Zhang Xiu at that time, and its external situation was close to the enemy on all sides.

And after the victory of Guandu, Yuan Shao soon fell ill and died, his sons Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang fought fiercely, giving Cao Cao an opportunity, Gao Gan and Yuan Xi were basically waste, and the northern Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou were easy for Cao Cao to capture, and then the obstacle to the crusade against Wuheng was mainly due to Cao Cao's unfamiliarity with the outside of the Saiwai, but this was finally changed under the help and guidance of Tian Chou. As for going south to Jingzhou, not to mention, Liu Cong surrendered without a fight, and Liu Bei was defeated in Dangyang, neither of which posed any threat to Cao Cao.

After Guandu, Cao Cao's group power ushered in another period of rapid development, Cao Cao himself has changed a lot in the extreme expansion of his power, there is never a shortage of top strategists around him, but his attitude towards those strategists has begun to change a little, Cao Cao no longer values other people's opinions.

At the beginning, when he was besieged by Xiapi, Cao Cao listened to the advice of Xun You, Guo Jia and others and did not retreat, and finally flooded Xiapi and eliminated Lu Bu, and in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was connected with his military advisor Xun You, and finally defeated Yuan Shao. The Battle of Chibi was basically the result of Cao Cao's arbitrariness.

Of course, the Battle of Chibi may also be because Jingzhou came too easily, so Cao Cao made the old mistake of getting carried away again, just like the Battle of Wancheng that year, Wancheng was defeated Cao Cao had to spit out the Nanyang that had just arrived, and the final result of the Battle of Chibi was so similar, Cao Cao eventually lost most of the territory he gained from the south, and history has been repeating.

【Impact of the Battle of Red Cliffs】

First of all, the Battle of Chibi was Cao Cao's second fiasco after the Battle of Wancheng in more than ten years, and the defeat of this battle directly interrupted the momentum of Cao Cao's group's rapid development, severely damaged Cao Cao's army, and made it a major twist and turn in the trend of dominating the world, and also gave Sun Quan and Liu Bei the opportunity to develop, and also laid the initial foundation for the later generations of the three-point world.

However, although the Battle of Chibi suspended Cao Cao's offensive, it failed to end the crisis of Liu Bei and Sun Quan, after this war, Cao Cao's forces still occupied Jingzhou, still crossed the Yangtze River, as long as Cao Cao kept the southern part of Jingzhou, then Sun Quan and Liu Bei were still in crisis, because their external environment has not been critically changed, they blocked Cao Cao's action, does not mean that the next time can be successful.

Therefore, the victory of the Battle of Chibi does not mark the end of the war, the Battle of Chibi is only one of the key battles in a large-scale war between the Sun-Liu Alliance and the Cao Cao group, they repelled Cao Cao but are not yet eligible to rest, the goal of the Sun-Liu coalition is not only to defeat Cao Cao, but they also have to expel Cao Cao's forces from the south of the Yangtze River, only in this way can it be regarded as a victory in the true sense, the victory of the Battle of Chibi is very critical, very important, but it is never the end.

And the final accomplishment of this goal is the next "Battle of Gangneung". Jiangling is one of the main cities of Nanjun, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, connecting the four southern counties of Jingzhou, Cao Cao left a heavy guard here after retreating, so as long as Jiangling is captured, Cao Cao's hands and feet stretched out to the south can be completely cut off.

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