In 208 AD, the Allied Forces of and Liu Liu defeated Chibi in one fell swoop and defeated Cao Cao . The history textbook tells us that Chibi Battle Cao Cao failed because of the fire attack, but is the power of a fire really so powerful?
According to historical records, the number of Cao's army is 4 to 5 times that of Sun Liu's coalition army. So is there any other reason why Cao Jun was defeated?
Of course there is, that is-the plague, Chen Shou in " Three Kingdoms " when he described the battle of Chibi, he did not mention the fire attack. He said: Cao Cao arrived in Chibi. Most of the soldiers died due to the plague, so he led the troops back.
in Cao Zhi ’s article "Speaking of the Epidemic Qi" is also enough to understand the situation at that time, "Every family has the pain of a dead body, and the room has wailing and weeping." It shows the severity of the plague at that time.
Modern statistics have also confirmed this point. From 157 AD, the population of the country was more than 50 million, and by AD 280, there were only more than 16 million remaining. Therefore, the root cause of Cao Cao's failure in the Battle of Chibi was not the fire attack, but the large-scale plague, which caused serious lethality. After that, China missed the opportunity to reunify the world, and the situation of the three kingdoms was formally established.
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