Battle of Red Cliffs's classic story

Battle of Red Cliffs refers to the battle in which Sun Quan and Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao's army in Chibi area of the Yangtze River in the 13th year of Jian 'an. This is one of the famous battles in the history of China, in which the few win the many and the weak win the strong. It was the most famous of the "three major battles" in the Three Kingdoms period, and it was also the first large-scale battle in the Yangtze River basin in the history of China.

In 208 AD, Cao Cao led an army of 200,000 troops south, and Liu Bei returned to Wuchang, Hubei. However, the army was just over 20,000 people, so it was impossible to confront Cao Jun. After deliberation, he planned to join hands with Sun Quan to resist Cao Cao.

At the beginning of the war, Cao Cao's army first went down the river from Jiangling to the east and joined forces with Sun Liu in Chibi. In the first battle, Cao Jun lost and had to retreat to the north bank of the Yangtze River, while the allies led by Zhou Yu were stationed in the south bank.

At this time, it is already cold winter and the north wind is cold. There is an epidemic in Cao Cao's army. Soldiers are not good at water warfare, and it is even more difficult to adapt to the surging river after illness. There are cries everywhere. In order to solve this problem, Cao Cao didn't know what he was thinking, but he listened to other people's suggestions and ordered all ships, large and small, to be chained together in an attempt to build an aircraft carrier on the river.

Zhou Yu saw that Huang Gai had an opportunity and proposed a fire attack. In the middle of the week, Huang Gai pretended to surrender to Cao Cao and led the ship 10, riding a strong southeast wind. Less than two miles away from Cao Cao, Huang Gai and others suddenly lit the firewood on the boat and rushed into Cao Cao's fleet.

For a time, Cao Cao's camp was in flames, and Cao Cao's warships were too late to escape because they were connected together, and they were reduced to ashes in this raging fire. Then, Zhou Yu took the opportunity to lead the troops into Cao Cao's camp. Cao Jun was burned to death, drowned, killed and collapsed. Cao Cao was forced to return to the north, and Sun and Liu each took Jingzhou, which laid the foundation for the tripartite confrontation among the three countries.