The battle of Chibi is actually very simple. After Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei at Changban in Dangyang, Liu Bei fled to Jiangxia County, and Cao Cao continued to lead his army to Jiangling City (today Jingzhou City, Hubei Province), and then Cao Cao rested in Jiangling City. Two months later, in the winter of December 208, Cao Cao set out from Jiangling City and led an army down the Yangtze River to attack Liu Bei in Jiangxia County.
Take a boat down the river from Jiangling. The first to arrive is Jiangxia. This is where Liu Bei and Liu Qi belong. Cao Cao’s first step is obviously to attack Liu Bei, but Cao Cao did not expect that Sun Quan and Liu Bei will be in a short period of time. Within a month, they united, and did not expect that the 50,000 Sun Liu coalition forces had already travelled westward against the Yangtze River by boat, so the Sun Quan coalition forces led by Cao Cao and Zhou Yu met in Chibi.
Therefore, the Battle of Chibi is actually an encounter. There is no preset battlefield, but the two sides happened to meet on the surface of the Yangtze River in Chibi. After the two sides met, they fought a battle. Cao Cao was defeated in this battle. Naturally, the reason was that Cao Jun was not familiar with the navy, and Jingzhou's descending army was not fully loyal to Cao Cao. The army was mostly useless when fighting on the river. Soldiers could only take ships on the river. , And the two sides only had the front row of ships and could only fight each other. The ships and soldiers in the back could only watch. Because the Sun and Liu coalition forces had better naval forces, the Sun and Liu coalition forces won the first battle.
So the two sides began to confront each other. Sun Liu's coalition army camped in Chibi on the south bank of the Yangtze River, while Cao Cao camped in Wulin on the north of the Yangtze River. At the same time, both sides were trying to figure out how to defeat each other. After several days of confrontation, Zhou Yu’s generals were Huang Huang. Gai provided Zhou Yu with a strategy. The content was as follows:
Huang Gai proposed that he pretend to surrender Cao Cao, and agreed on the date of surrender. Then on that day, Huang Gai led the army to surrender and at the same time Tie a Mengchong battleship to the ship, pour oil on the battleship, put dry firewood, and then drive to Cao Ying. When it is about to reach the right place in Cao Ying, light the Mengchong battleship and let the burning battleship charge. Towards Cao Ying, and then Zhou Yu led an army to Jiangbei, and he could defeat Cao Cao.
Huang Gai’s strategy is simply: fraud scheme + fire attack scheme. In fact, it is not complicated, and the process is also very simple. In the end, the Battle of Chibi followed Huang Gai's strategy, defeating the inextricable Cao Cao and blocking the pace of Cao Cao's unification of the world. So the question is, what are the details of burning Chibi? Operational? How could Cao Cao believe in Huang Gai's surrender? Why is there no doubt at all?
First, why did Cao Cao believe in Huang Gai's surrender?
There are two possibilities here. One is that Cao Cao believed Huang Gai’s surrender , because Cao Cao had just taken Jingzhou, and Cao Cao won Jingzhou without a single soldier because Liu Cong did not fight. And drop, since the entire Jingzhou can drop, why can't Huang Gai drop without fighting? The meaning here is: Cao Cao has a hot head and has lost the necessary judgment.
The second possibility is that Cao Cao has never believed in Huang Gai’s surrender , and has always been skeptical to watch Huang Gai’s surrender, but the burning Meng Chong warship rushed towards it. Cao Cao couldn't avoid it at all when he was in Cao Ying, because the north bank of the Yangtze River was all Cao Cao's warships, and there was no place to hide. As long as the fireboat came, it would definitely be burned, but Cao Cao still watched as he was attacked by fire.
Here is one of the most critical conditions: Cao Cao is in Jiangbei and Zhou Yu is in Jiangnan. Looking from Zhou Yu's direction to Cao Cao's direction, it is southeast. When Huang Gai surrendered, the southeast wind was blowing. , Mengchong warships must have wind to rush towards Jiangbei, because the Yangtze River is living water. If there is no wind, the ships will go east and down the river. Because of the southeast wind, Mengchong warships will rush towards Caoying in Jiangbei. , You must know that there is no one on the burning warship. If the warship is operated by manpower, then Cao Jun can shoot arrows and shoot people into hedgehogs. The warship rushes to the north of the Yangtze River and Caoying completely depends on the wind, so the warship must rush from the south bank of the Yangtze River to the north bank of the Yangtze River. There must be a southeast wind .
However, it was December, which was winter,Anyone who knows the weather will understand that in the mid-winter season of December, there is no southeast wind. The southeast wind usually blows in summer or spring. Cao is the commander-in-chief who has been fighting for many years. He obviously knows the weather, at least in winter. Cao Cao believed it was absolutely impossible for a southeast wind to occur.
So I personally prefer the second possibility: Cao Cao didn’t believe in Huang Gai’s surrender. He wanted to see what tricks Huang Gai was playing, so he had always been on guard against Huang Gai, but what Cao Cao didn’t expect was In the winter, a magical southeast wind blew up, and Cao Cao was suddenly overwhelmed. He could only watch the battleship on fire rushing forward. Then Cao Cao's entire battleship was destroyed by fire, and Cao Cao naturally fled in defeat. This is the main reason why Cao Cao failed in the Battle of Chibi, which is the magical southeast wind .
So where does this magical southeast wind come from? Zhuge Liang didn’t borrow it anyway, but Zhou Yu and others had lived on the Yangtze River for a long time. They had mastered the wind direction of the Yangtze River. They knew that there might be a miraculous southeast wind blowing in the winter. Cao Cao never stayed on the Yangtze River before. I don’t understand this magical natural phenomenon. As for why the Yangtze River winds southeast in winter, this is a meteorological problem, and it is also a magical natural phenomenon of nature. You must know that everything can happen in nature.
It is estimated that Cao Cao died and did not want to understand why the southeast wind blows in winter, nor did he expect that the Battle of Chibi would be defeated by a magical natural phenomenon.
