"Battle of Red Cliffs" is the most expensive and detailed war in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so it has the most fictional elements. From Chapter 35 "Xuande Nanzhang went into seclusion, Fu Shan Xinye met the British master" to Chapter 50 "Zhuge Liang calculated Huarong, and Guan Yunchang released Cao Cao", a total of 16 chapters, in which Cao Cao was taken to Jingzhou and Yangzhou, but under the resistance of Sun Liu's allied forces, the whole process of the final defeat was described in great detail, which made readers all excited. So, first of all, let's review the whole process of this war in the novel.

First, Lv Kuang and Lv Xiang, the generals of Jun stationed in Fancheng, ordered five thousand troops to attack Xinye City defended by Liu Bei. As a result, they were all killed by Fu Shan. General Fan Cheng Coss was furious. Despite Li Dian's dissuasion, he organized an army of 25,000 men to attack a new project. Fu Shan not only defeated Coss, but also captured Fan Cheng. Coss fled to Xuchang.

Cao Caoji's single blessing is that Xu Shu and Xu Shu recommended Zhuge. Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage and finally asked Kong Ming to come out to help. The story of Jiangdong is narrated in the middle: Cao Cao, who attacked the Huangzuling, died in battle, killed Gui and Dai Xu's family for revenge, Gan Ning, a robber of brocade sails, went to Wu, and Huang Zu died in Jiangxia. Then Liu Qi consulted and went out to guard Jiangxia.

Cao Cao sent Xia Houdun and others to attack Xinye with hundreds of troops. Zhuge Liang, a fledgling, set Bowangpo on fire. Cao Cao then lit up 500,000 soldiers and horses, took Jingzhou in the south, and sent troops to kill Kong Rong who resisted the suggestion. Liu Biao was shocked to death. Zhang Cai played politics, let Liu Cong succeed to the throne and sent Zhong Song to surrender to Cao Cao. Zhuge Liang found another way and defeated Cao Jun pioneers Coss and Cao Hong. ..

Xu Shu was ordered to surrender to Liu Bei and failed. Liu Bei was stuck in Xiangyang and went to Jiangling. Cao Cao entered Fancheng and Cai presented Jingzhou Army with "50,000 Ma Army, 150,000 Bu Army and 80,000 Shui Army, a total of 280,000". Zhao Yun, a famous Hanbo player, saved Adou again. Zhang Fei at Dangyang Bridge drank Jun, and Liu Qi came from Jiangxia to meet him. Liu Beijun held his ground for the time being.

Lu Su led Kong Ming to cross the river and contend with Confucianism; Sun Quan decided to resist Cao and recalled Zhou Yu from Chai Sang. Zhuge Liang inspired Zhou Yu, who asked Zhu Gejin to persuade Zhuge Liang to return to Wu, but was rejected. Zhou Yu was caught trying to get Kong Ming to rob Cao Jun of grain and grass, and then tried to kill Liu Bei. Fortunately, Guan Yu was around to protect him, but he also failed. The war is imminent, and it is extremely wonderful for the allies to start a war within themselves first.

Ganxing Bafenwei Sanjiangkou, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun built water towns. Jiang Gan said that Zhou Yu crossed the river, and the recruit ordered Cao Cao to kill Cai and Zhang. Zhuge Liang borrowed an arrow from a straw boat, Cao Cao sent two talents to use the house, and Huang Gai offered a bitter plan and sent a false surrender. Jiang Gan crossed Jiangdong for the second time, and Pang Tong offered a series of tricks. Cao Cao wrote poems and sang "short songs" and got drunk and killed Liu Fu by mistake. The two armies met for the second time, touched and died.

Zhuge Liang asked for the east wind, and Zhou Yu built a seven-star altar on Nanping Mountain. A great war broke out here, but the author didn't write the war closely, but turned away again-Ding Feng and Xu Sheng went to the Seven Star Altar to catch Kong Ming, but Kong Ming had to leave with Zhao Yun, and Zhou Yu killed two people before raising the flag and ambushing in Huarong Road. The more urgent the plot is, the more leisurely it will unfold. What a big deal!

The war has finally begun. Zhou Yu's Releasing Three Rivers Mouth and Guan Yunchang's Releasing Cao Cao took more than one chapter. Sure enough, the real war was won or lost before the war, and the two armies confronted each other, but a lively martial arts drama no longer needed much pen and ink.

This is the "Red Cliff War" in the novel, and the historical novels of China in the past dynasties describe the war, taking this passage in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as the head. In the history of Battle of Red Cliffs, it is also a famous battle to win more with less. What kind of scene is it? Listen to us slowly.

Shu Wei? In the records of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the description of Battle of Red Cliffs was very brief, only saying: "In December (2008), Sun Quan was going to attack Hefei. Starting from Jiangling, Gong went to Baqiu and sent Zhang Yi to save Hefei. I really wanted to go, but I left anyway. Going to Chibi is not conducive to preparing for war. So there was a great epidemic, many officials died, and they led the troops back. " This is not surprising. The so-called "honour person's taboo" is also a common practice for old historians to ignore Cao Cao's rare defeat in his life, big and small, and detailed. But the point is that this record is a bit deliberately confusing. It seems that Cao Cao was not defeated at all. It was only because of the plague in the army that he took the initiative to withdraw his troops. It seems that Liu Beijun fought Cao Cao in Chibi, not Sun Quan.

Shu Shu? In the Biography of the Former Yuan Jun, Liu Bei gave a detailed description, saying: "The former Yuan Jun sent Zhuge Liang to tie himself to Sun Quan, and authorized tens of thousands of water troops such as Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu to join forces with the former Yuan Jun to fight Cao Gong in Chibi, break it and burn his boat. Ancestors and Wujun went hand in hand, catching up with Nanjun. Sometimes, when he fell ill and the northern army died, Tsao Gong brought him back. " This also has something to do with Wu Shu? Wu's records are basically the same. "Yu and Pu are the left and right governors, each with 10,000 people, neck and neck, ready to go out. When they met Chibi, they defeated Cao Gongjun. Gong burned the rest of the ships to retreat, and the foot soldiers were hungry, and most of the dead. North, Zhou Yu and others chased Nanjun, and Cao Gong returned to the north. " In contrast, this is more credible.

Let's start from the beginning. First of all, killing the Lu brothers and burning a new field are fiction of novelists, but burning may be true. In the eighth year of Jian 'an (203), when Cao Cao was committed to solving the Yuan brothers, Liu Biao ordered him to attack Ye County in the southwest of Xuchang. Cao Cao sent Xia Houdun and Yu Jin to fight, but Liu Bei cheated and lost. Xia Houdun refused to listen to Li Dian's dissuasion and pursued Zhongfu. Fortunately, he was saved by Li Dian. Another way of saying this is that Xia Houdun was ordered to attack Liu Bei, and Liu Bei tricked him out of Wang Bo (didn't say whether he was on fire)-if there was a fire in Bowangpo, it was not Zhuge Liang who designed it, but Liu Bei. After that, there was basically no contact between the two armies until Cao Cao's pro-unification army took Jingzhou south.

After Liu Biao's death, Liu Bei's power in Jingzhou expanded rapidly. When Cao Jun went south, Liu Bei had occupied Fancheng. Take this place as the base camp, abandon Fan Chengnan and flee, not Xinye. "The late Lord (Liu Bei) turned to fan, and I don't know that Tsao Gong is dead. When Wan heard about it, he sent them all away. After Xiangyang, Zhuge Liang said that the first attack (Liu) was from Jingzhou. The late Lord said,' I can't stand it.' I'm stationed in Ma Hucong, and I'm afraid I can't get up. Many people in Cong and Jingzhou have returned to their ancestors. "In this way, Liu Bei fled with a large number of ordinary people." Compared with Dangyang, there are more than 100 thousand people, and the trench is 200, and the daily trip is more than ten miles. "Besides, Cao Cao" had a solid army in Jiangling, and he was afraid that his ancestors would follow him. Instead, he released the trench and lightly moved to Xiangyang. Hearing that the late Lord had passed, Tso followed him with 5,000 troops and traveled more than 300 miles day and night to reach Osaka, the leader of Dangyang. "

Before Liu Bei fled Fancheng, Xu Shu did not surrender to Cao Cao. The so-called plots of Cheng Yu's fake books earning Xu Shu and Xu Mu's suicide are all fictitious. After Zhuge Liang left Longzhong, Xu Shu and the two of them also assisted Liu Bei for a period of time. It was not until he escaped from Fancheng that he offered to break up because of an accident. Liu Bei fled, "(Zhuge Liang) joined forces with Xu Shu, was chased by Tsao Kung, and got a concubine. I said to my predecessor, pointing to his heart, "I wanted to work with the general for Wang Ba's business, so I took this square inch of land. Now that I have lost my mother, I am in a mess. It's no use. Please say goodbye from now on. "So, Cao Gong."

About Shu Shu's battle of Chang Han Bo? "Biography of the Later Master" said: "The later master abandoned his wife and rode away with Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others, and Cao Gong was highly valued by the people." As for Zhao Yun's riding alone as a savior, the history records that "the former Lord was chased by Tsao Gong in Changban, Dangyang, leaving his wife to go south, and the weak son was the latter Lord to protect Mrs. Gan, that is, the latter Lord." It is really heroic, but it is exaggerated in the novel. Love said: "Zhao Yun embraced the first master, went straight out of the encirclement, cut down two banners and won three pieces;" Back and forth, the spear stabbed the sword and killed more than 50 general Cao Ying. " The previous words are reliable, but "killing more than 50 Cao Ying famous soldiers", not to mention Cao Cao's pursuit of Liu Bei, there are only 5,000 elite cavalry, which is equal to one famous soldier for every 100 people on average ... Let's say that romance was killed by Zhao Yun in this battle: Chunyudao, Xia Houen, Yan Ming, Zhong You and Zhong Shen. Who hasn't seen it?

Zhang refused to go to Osaka Bridge and drank Cao Bing back. It sounds like fiction, but it really happened. The description in the history books is very brief, but it is full of heroic spirit. It is forced to come, and look-"My late master heard that Tso died and abandoned his wife, making General Fei refuse to ride after twenty. Climbing over the eaves and breaking the bridge according to the water, he glared and said,' I am Zhang Yide, but I can die together!' No enemy dared to approach, so it was exempted. "

As for Cao's army in Battle of Red Cliffs, it is said in the romance that "there are 830,000 water troops, posing as millions", which is of course fiction. History books are vague about this, and later generations have done statistical research. In fact, Cao Jun's troops are about 230,000, not including Cao Cao's own team, including the Northern Route Army under the command of Zhao Yan, commander-in-chief of the Guards, and generals Cheng Yu, Yu Jin, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Zhao Lu, Feng Jie, Wen Pin, and Xiahou Yuan's grain transport troops. Therefore, there will not be more than 200,000 people in Chibi against Sun and Liu Lianjun.

Back in Dongwu, Lu Su heard that Liu Biao died in Jiangdong and asked for condolences-how many years of hatred, what condolences, in fact, he had ulterior motives. He suggested that Sun Quan check the situation. If Liu Bei and Liu Biao's two sons can unite as one, they will temporarily put aside their grievances and unite with Cao. Otherwise, they are ready to take advantage of the chaos to rob. Unexpectedly, he just heard that Liu Cong had surrendered halfway, so he asked around and finally met Liu Bei. In fact, Liu Bei also wants to unite with Sun Quan, just pretending to take refuge in Wu Ju. Wu Ju is a warlord in some parts of Guangdong Province today. Liu Bei said that he would take refuge in him all the way, and made it clear that he was ready to quit the stage of competing for the Central Plains. Lu Su hurriedly persuaded Liu Bei, so he sent Zhuge Liang across the river to lobby Sun Quan.

The plot of The Scholars is fictional in romantic novels, but it is very wonderful. Zhuge Liang's clever image and Wu Dong's ambivalence are vividly on the paper. According to biographies of Jiang Biao, Cao Cao wrote a letter to Sun Quan?