Chibi was burned, and no one saw anything fishy except Xu Shu, Cao Cao's counselor?

This matter is divided into romance of the Three Kingdoms and official history.

Let's talk about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms first. Because Cao Cao's army came from the north and Jingzhou soldiers just surrendered, fighting Wu Dong and Liu Bei mainly depended on Cao Cao's own army.

Northerners, on the other hand, are not used to water and get seasick easily. Pang Tong made a series of tricks, and Cao Cao immediately listened to them, linking the chains together, so that the whole ship was stable and the discomfort of the foot soldiers on board could be reduced.

However, this method has a defect, that is, if a ship catches fire, a large number of ships will catch fire together, which is not easy to disperse and will lead to more ships catching fire. Pang Tong was seen by Xu Shu when he gave this plan, so other people's advisers were not as good as Pang Tong and Xu Shu. Can't you see it at all?

Actually, it's not. Cheng Yu saw it. He said to Cao Cao: The ship is really stable when the chains are linked together. However, if the other side attacks with fire, it will be difficult to avoid it, so we have to take this into account. Cao Cao smiled and said, Cheng Yu, you are so prescient. This is commendable, but you have overlooked one thing.

Xun You also said beside, Cheng Yu is right. Why does your master laugh at him? Cao Cao said: if you want to attack with fire, you must borrow wind. It's the middle of winter, only the north wind and the west wind. Where can there be south wind and east wind?

We are on the north bank of the Yangtze River and they are on the south bank. If they attack with fire, won't the wind burn their own ships? What am I afraid of? If it is October, then I really need to be vigilant. Everyone feels very reasonable after listening to it. They all said, Premier, your opinion is very good. We really can't compare with you.

On the other side of the river, Zhou Yu saw that Cao Cao used iron chains and thought of a way to break the enemy, that is, fire attack, but he suddenly remembered one thing, spitting blood and being unconscious. Lu Su was worried about Zhou Yu's illness, and Zhuge Liang told him that he could be cured.

Lu Su sent Zhuge Liang to see Zhou Yu, and Zhuge Liang wrote Zhou Yu a note with only sixteen words on it: To defeat Cao Jun, we must attack by fire, and everything is ready, except the east wind. It turned out that Zhou Yu was worried that there was no southeast wind. Kong Ming promised Zhou Yu that he could set up a seven-star altar and borrow the east wind for three days and three nights.

As you can know, Cao Cao's counselors Cheng Yu and Xun You saw it, and Cao Cao himself saw it, but he didn't expect Zhuge Liang to borrow the east wind.

Then let's talk about the burning of Chibi in the official history. The burning of Chibi did happen. Huang Gai first offered a fake surrender plan, and then he burned Chibi this time, but it was only a relatively small scale. If the owner of Cao Jun burned it himself, the main reason was that Cao Jun got the plague and didn't want to leave the boat to Sun Liu, so he burned the boat and retired.