Briefly describe a story about Zhuge Liang's "wise man approaching the devil"

After Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao to unify the north, in 208 AD, Cao Cao led 800,000 troops stationed in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, ready to attack Liu Biao, and then moved eastward along the river to defeat Sun Quan and unify the world. Liu Cong, the son of Liu Biao, was weak and incompetent and surrendered without a fight.

In 208 AD, Cao Cao incorporated Liu Biao's army, claiming that 800,000 troops were advancing toward the Yangtze River, stationed in Chibi in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in an attempt to defeat Liu Bei and then attack Sun Quan.

Liu Bei was stationed in Fancheng at that time. He heard that Cao Cao's army was heading south and decided to retreat to Jiangling. Cao Cao rushed to Xiangyang, heard that Liu Bei was retreating to Jiangling, and learned that Liu Biao had hoarded a large amount of rations in Jiangling, fearing that Liu Bei would take it, so he personally led five thousand light cavalry to chase Liu Bei. Liu Bei's men were killed by cavalry chasing Cao Cao.

After being defeated by Cao Jun, Liu Bei sent Zhuge Liang to Chai Sang and met with Sun Quan on his way back, trying to persuade Sun Quan to resist Cao Cao together. It happened that Sun Quan was afraid that Jingzhou would be occupied by Cao Cao, and he also wanted to fight Cao with Liu Bei.

Zhuge Liang said to Sun Quan, "Although General Liu was defeated for a while, there are still 20,000 water troops. Although Cao Cao had many soldiers and horses, the soldiers came from far away and were exhausted. Besides, northerners are not used to water warfare, and Jingzhou people are not satisfied.

As long as Qi Xin works together, we will be able to defeat Jun. "Sun Quan listened to the exultation, so he appointed Zhou Yu as the general commander and Cheng Pu as the lieutenant, and led thirty thousand elite water troops to meet Liu Beijun at Fankou. * * * About 50,000 people marched westward along the river to meet Jun ..

At that time, Sun Quan and Liu Bei had few troops, while Cao Cao's troops were huge and unstoppable. Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei's strategist, and Zhou Yu, Sun Quan's general, discussed the strategy of breaking the enemy. They all think that only fire attack can defeat Cao Cao.

Zhou Yu used double agents to get Cao Cao to kill Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, generals who were familiar with water warfare and could resist it. Zhou Yu also asked Pang Tong to make a false contribution to trick Jun into connecting the warships. Zhou Yu hit Huang Gai again and let the veteran cheat Cao Cao with a "bitter plan".

But when everything was ready, Zhou Yu found that Cao Cao's ship was parked in the northwest of the river, while his own ship was on the south bank. It's winter, only the northwest wind. Attack with fire, it is not Cao Cao who burns, but himself. Only when the southeast wind blows can you launch a fire attack on Cao Jun.

Zhou Yu was so anxious that he fell ill and was bedridden. Only Zhuge Liang, a military strategist, knows fairly well. He claimed that there was a secret recipe that could cure Zhou Yu's illness. Zhuge Liang visited Zhou Yu and prescribed a prescription: if you want to break Cao Gong, attack him with fire, and everything is ready except the east wind.

When Zhou Yu saw it, he was surprised and thought, Zhuge Liang is really a man of god. Now that his mind has been guessed by Zhuge Liang, he asked how to break the enemy.

Zhuge Liang has rich knowledge of astronomy and meteorology. He predicted that there would be a southeast wind for a few days in the near future, so he said to Zhou Yu, I have a magic trick to call the wind and rain, and I will lend you a southeast wind for three days and three nights. what do you think?

Zhou Yu said happily: "Don't say three days and three nights, just a southeast wind for one night, and the big event will be achieved."

Zhou Yu ordered his men to make all preparations for fire attack, waiting for Zhuge Liang to borrow the east wind and join the army immediately. Zhuge Liang asked Zhou Yu to build a seven-star altar in Nanping Mountain, and then went to burn incense on the altar, saying something and pretending to call the wind and rain.

In the middle of the night, suddenly listening to the wind blowing the flag, Zhou Yu hurried out of the military account to watch, and sure enough, a strong southeast wind blew. He quickly ordered a fire attack. Huang Gai braved the wind to break the boat and rushed into the water town of Cao Jun to set fire to it.

Cao Jun's fleet soon burned down. Blink of an eye, it has burned into a sea of fire. Not to mention that the water village was burned, the camp on the shore was also on fire. Sun Liu's allied troops took advantage of the situation and attacked, killing more than half of Cao Jun.

Battle of Red Cliffs and Cao Cao suffered heavy losses. At this point, the situation of tripartite confrontation between the three countries has basically taken shape.

Extended data:

Zhuge Liang in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms lived in seclusion in Longzhong, Xiangyang, and was led to Liu Bei by Xu Shu. Then Liu Beisan came out of the mountain. At first, he was not favored by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. After burning Bowangpo, he believed in Zhuge Liang's wisdom.

Cao Cao's army went south, and Liu Beijun retreated to Jiangxia. When he left, Zhuge Liang set an ambush, submerged Cao Cao's army and set it on fire. Then, as an emissary, he went to Jiangdong to discuss with the Confucians and persuaded Sun Quan to unite with Liu Bei against Cao Cao.

He cooperated with Zhou Yu, but burned Chibi with cleverness, and expected that Zhou Yu wanted to harm himself and let Zhao Yun sail to meet him in advance. After returning to Liu Beiying, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were sent to pursue Cao Cao and plan the story of Guan Yu's Huarong Road.

After Cao Cao's defeat, Zhuge Liang captured Jiangling with one move, and Zhou Yu immediately captured Jiangling. After he counterattacked Jingzhou, he saw through Zhou Yu's false plan to destroy the enemy, and Zhou Yu was so angry that Zhou Yu said, "Why should I be born?"

Liu Bei went to Sichuan and lost Pang Tong. Zhuge Liang, who was stationed in Jingzhou, told Guan Yu that "Sun Wu was allied in the east and Cao Cao was resisted in the north", and Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun supported him to enter Sichuan, and then he took the opportunity to win Chengdu. Then he took part in the battle of Hanzhong and persuaded Liu Bei to be king with his ministers.

After Guan Yu lost Jingzhou, he pretended to be ill and advised Liu Bei to be the emperor. After Liu Bei failed to attack Wu, he trusted Zhuge Liang and made his two younger brothers Liu Yong and Liu Li recognize Zhuge Liang as his father.

Shortly after Liu Chan proclaimed himself emperor, Sima Yi of Cao Wei arranged a plan to attack Shu Han, and Zhuge Liang shot down all five armies without leaving the Prime Minister's office. After that, Meng Huo, the seven captors, was sent to pacify Nanzhong, but when he burned his protruding bones, he consciously killed himself too much.

After accumulating enough strength, Zhuge Liang led the army to the northern expedition and left Qishan in six ways. Although it was quite successful, it failed to achieve the goal of pacifying the Central Plains and reviving the Han Dynasty. Before the end of his life, he put on a seven-star light array to continue his life, but Wei Yan accidentally put out the light, taught Jiang Wei what he had learned all his life and made a plan, and then died.

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