Main Contents of Romance of the Three Kingdoms Burning Red Cliff

Zhou Yu asked Huang Gai to send a letter to Cao Cao, saying that he would leave Soochow and surrender to Cao Cao. Cao Cao thought that Wu Dong's generals were afraid of him and had no doubt about Huang Gai's fake surrender.

Huang Gai told the soldiers to secretly prepare ten big ships, each of which was loaded with dead branches, filled with oil, hung with curtains and flags, and prepared several light boats tied to the stern of the big ship, ready to move when the big ship caught fire.

1 1 In the middle of winter, the weather suddenly turned warm and a southeast wind blew. That night, Huang Gai led a group of soldiers to sail in front of ten big ships, followed by a group of ships. The fleet reached the middle of the river, full of sails and headed for Jiangbei.

When the soldiers in Cao Jun Shuizhai heard that Wu Dong would surrender in the future, they all ran to the bow to watch the fun. Unexpectedly, the Wu Dong fleet left the north shore about two miles, and ten big ships in front suddenly caught fire at the same time. Fire borrows wind, and wind helps fire.

Ten fireboats, like ten fire dragons, broke into the water town of Cao Jun. The boats there, all crowded together, couldn't hide, and soon they all burned. Blink of an eye, it has burned into a sea of fire.

The water village burned, the camp on the shore caught fire, and a large number of soldiers in Cao Jun were burned to death. Many people were pushed into the river, unable to swim, and drowned immediately.

As soon as Zhou Yu saw the flames on the north shore, he immediately led the elite soldiers to cross the river to attack. They drummed the drums into the sky. Jun on the north shore didn't know how many people and horses were attacking behind him, and all of them were paralyzed with fear.

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Battle of Red Cliffs's failure reason:

1, the problem of food and grass, the so-called three armed forces have not moved, food and grass first. No matter how many troops there are without food and grass, they are all burdens. At the beginning of Jingzhou War, Sun Quan made up his mind to attack Jingzhou because Guan Yu moved Sun Quan's granary without saying hello. Guan Yu's idea of allies' food and grass is also because there is really no food. At that time, Guan Yu had just received tens of thousands of soldiers from Wei.

Cao Cao's situation at this time is very similar to Guan Yu's. The only difference is that there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Jingzhou, which completely surprised Cao Cao. Although Cao Jun will certainly prepare food and grass for the war, he will not prepare twice as much food and grass, so the lack of food and grass is one of the main reasons for Cao Cao's failure.

2. The problem that the north attacked the south was that the northerners were not familiar with the water war and could not compete with the soldiers in the south. Although Cao Cao trained the water army, he was far from the water army in Jiangdong. Before Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao's water army met Zhou Yu's, but was defeated. So Cao Cao took a stupid way to connect the boats together.

3. At that time, an epidemic broke out in Cao Cao's army, and many soldiers were infected with the disease, and its scope was extremely wide, which led to a sharp decline in the fighting capacity of Cao Jun, which was already acclimatized.

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