The most famous battle in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was the Battle of Chibi in the North and the South. After the overlord of the North, Cao Cao captured Jingzhou, he directly led Jingzhou’s descendants and the northern army, preparing to defeat Sun Quan in one fell swoop and achieve political unification. The fire burned his ideals and his unified layout.
So why Cao Cao's nearly 800,000 army was directly destroyed by Zhou Yu's fireboat? The reason is not only because of the fire, but also because of various factors. So why did Cao Cao lose to Zhou Yu's navy with so many troops?
After the conquest of Jingzhou, the soldiers did not fully digest
The first battle of Cao Cao’s army was to attack Liu Bei in Jingzhou. Of course, Liu Bei could not beat him, so he had to cast into the city and fled on the road. The cavalry was very embarrassed when pursuing them; later, they managed to escape to the territory of Young Master Liu Qi in Jiangxia, where there were nearly 30,000 soldiers from Jingzhou; therefore, even though Liu Bei was defeated, he still had strength after his escape.
and half of Jingzhou directly surrendered to Cao Cao under the leadership of Liu Cong. At this time, Cao Cao had two choices. The first choice was to cultivate for a period of time and wait until he completely digested the Jingzhou army. Make plans, and during this period can train naval forces.
The second option is to take advantage of the momentum of just victory and continue to march directly into the Jiangdong of Sun Quan, destroying Jiangdong in one fell swoop and realizing the unification of most of the Jiangshan, leaving Yizhou, Hanzhong and Liaodong Keeping the last fight, the first option is more stable and feasible, but the unified deployment will be a bit slower, but as long as you have absolute strength, after the navy training is completed, Cao Cao can easily destroy Jiangdong.
Cao Cao just finished playing Jingzhou, and cut Jiangdong
and the second one is a bit of a gamble. This is to use most of his strength to bet Jiangdong will resist, even if he resists. Is the threat big? After finishing playing Jingzhou, Cao Cao was full of pride at this time. He did not clearly realize that if he continued to fight Jiangdong after finishing Jingzhou, his chances of winning were actually not high.
Which area was attacked and attacked in ancient times will be prepared and deployed in advance. For the combat readiness and strategy of that place, Cao Cao’s army was based on the military deployment to attack Jingzhou before going out. He did not specifically conduct research and deployment on the topography, river currents, and military in the Jiangdong area, so Cao Cao’s attack on Sun Quan actually had some smearing of his eyes, because he did not really understand the strength of Jiangdong’s navy, nor did he understand. What risks will the Yangtze River battle bring?
Northern soldiers are not good at water warfare, and the fighting power on the river surface is low.
This is a common problem of northerners. They believe that fighting in the inland rivers is windless and unimpeded, and thousands of big ships can reach them in one call. Jiangdong Territory, but he was obviously wrong in thinking. Most of the northern soldiers vomited and vomited after getting on the ship, and the soil and water were seriously unacceptable. And what about the Jingzhou navy who can fight this time? Because of Cao Cao’s suspicion, Jingzhou Navy, as the only unit that could destroy Jiangdong Navy, was actually used by him for logistics. Because food supplies need to be guarded, the newly arrived Jingzhou Navy cannot be reused by Cao Cao. , Instead of using it, why use it for logistics.
And at this time, the Jingzhou Navy, many people did not believe in Cao Cao. They surrendered to the full leadership of the above. They followed Liu Biao for so many years, subtly thinking that Jingzhou is the Great Han River. But Cao Cao was a Han thief, not worthy of his service. This kind of thinking prevailed in the Jingzhou army, and Cao Cao never fully spared time to digest the achievements of Jingzhou, nor did he have time to improve the morale of Jingzhou soldiers.
After hitting Jingzhou, he was straightforward and ready to fight Jiangdong. Such pride is nowhere to be found. The result echoed the reality. If the results of the battle were not exhausted completely, he went to use his shortcomings to beat others' strengths. Cao Cao’s northern army was lost, and many of the Jingzhou army ran to Jiangxia Young Master Liu Qi. Liu Qi and Liu Bei had the best profit from the Battle of Chibi, who directly won over half of the Jingzhou army. During the Battle of Chibi, almost all the northern troops were burned to death. The soldiers of JingzhouThe fire immediately scattered and fled.
Cao Cao’s manslaughter can be used by the generals (Zhou Yu’s countermeasures were successful)
If Jingzhou Cai Hao is still there, then the fire in Chibi will definitely not burn the entire Cao Jun It’s a pity that Zhou Yu just used a small plan and asked Jiang Gan to run to encourage Cao Cao to kill Cai Tao, and Cao Cao was also a patient in the late stage of suspicious disease. He was so angry that he immediately sent someone to kill Cai Tao; Once the mainstay of the army, Cai Tao, died, who would train the navy? Should Cao Cao come?
Finally, he called Zhang Liao to come and train, but Zhang Liao only knew a little about naval combat. This kind of ducking was finally trained to the extent that naval forces could barely adapt to surface combat; when naval forces were barely trained, So who will lead soldiers to fight? Cao Yingli was silent for a while, and almost no general understood the water war. Cao Cao fixed his eyes on the old general of Jingzhou.
Cai Hao was killed unjustly, and the navy generals lost their heart.
But because of Cai Hao’s affairs, the Jingzhou generals themselves came to vote because of Cai Hao’s face, Cai Hao. Once he died, thinking of his future experience, it would be better not to do nothing, and let Cao Cao slaughter him if he did a bad thing. If there is someone who will show the limelight. There is no way that Cao Cao can only do it himself, but the layman is a layman, and the series of operations behind Cao Cao completely put Cao Jun in desperation.
First of all, in order to prevent bumps, hold the iron ropes to connect the boats together, so that the army will not vomit up and down; but there are many disadvantages in doing so. Many generals in Jingzhou can see it, but most of them are Needless to say, it can be seen that the chain reaction brought about by Cao Cao's killing of Cai Tao is enormous.
A few generals in Jingzhou told Cao Cao about the disadvantages of chain links, but the number of people was too small and Cao Cao ignored them directly; it was because of these chains that Cao Cao's dream was ruined.
And the last key point, Huang Gai's surrender made Cao Cao happy, who is Huang Gai? A senior navy veteran, but the generals in Jingzhou knew well that Huang Gai would have nothing good to come. This old man likes to be unexpected in battle, and this time it may also be unexpected.
However, their guess is correct. After the yellow capped ship sailed towards the Cao Jun’s warship, it followed the wind of the east wind and ignited Cao Jun’s ship. At this time, the retreat of the navy was a success. No one would retreat. In this chaos, many Cao Jun jumped down to survive. Who knew the depth of the Yangtze River drowned a large number of people and Chibi declared Cao Cao's failure.
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In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao's defeat was really just a fire? In fact, these points are the crux of the problem. There are many factors that led to Cao Cao's defeat in the Battle of Chibi. The northern soldiers led by Cao Cao did not understand water tactics, but Cao Cao was defeated by Zhou Yu's countermeasures and killed the navy general Cai Hao. , Cao Cao's naval forces immediately lost their command and generals, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. After that, they were hit by Huang Gai's swindling plan, which paved the way for the burning of Cao Cao's warship.
In short, the series of tactics in Cao Cao are all related to his self-sufficient personality. Before he can understand the forces of the enemy and us, he rushes to war, and uses his own shortcomings to fight against others' strengths. The end result is only self-inflicted. That's it, so Cao Cao's failure was not just the fire.
