Chapter 8: The defeat of Red Cliff

November 13th year of Jian'an

Cao Cao led his army to the river and went straight to Chibi, and met the coalition forces of Sun and Liu unexpectedly!

Standing at the bow of the boat, Cao Cao looked at the chaotic and noisy scene on the south bank of the Yangtze River, calm and unconventional, and ordered the fleet on the south bank to carry the ground troops as much as possible to move closer to the fleet on the north bank.

This time, the Sun-Liu Alliance was dominated by Jiangdong, the Liu Bei Group was subordinate, the person who led the overall situation was Sun Quan, and the specific combat commander was Zhou Yu.

Zhou Lang from Jiangdong was extremely heroic and brave. He led his army calmly and well-organized. The soldiers and horses of Jiangdong gathered with Liu Bei's troops and gathered in advance on the south bank to wait for his work. As soon as he met the ground troops of Cao's army, he started a slaughter and achieved brilliant results.

Here is the south bank of the Yangtze River, the north bank is the Red Cliff, and the north bank is Wulin.

The bodies of Cao soldiers were all over the ground. The Sun and Liu coalition forces stood by the Red Cliff River. Looking at the north shore, you can vaguely see the hero Cao Cao standing proudly on the warship and looking at the world.

Cao Cao's military orders had been conveyed, and the fleets on the south side of the Yangtze River began to move closer to the north shore, and the subsequent troops were also taken to the north shore by the ships that were receiving them in the upstream area.

Looking around, the south bank of the river was crowded with people, and the generals riding on horseback with cloaks made Cao Cao sneer.

"The mantis arm is a chariot, overestimating one's own abilities."

The warships moved closer and the troops went downstairs to camp on the shore of Wulin. However, the nearly 300,000 troops were not enough to accommodate the small area on the shore, so more troops camped in the woods.

Seeing Cao's army camping on the north bank calmly and orderly, Zhou Yu sighed softly.

There are many corpses around, but there are still too few!

"Congratulations to the Governor, for winning the first battle, our army will be in a high momentum, and breaking Cao will add a chance of winning."

On the battlefield, there was only one man with wide clothes and wide sleeves, and a scholarly dressed as a scholar. Zhuge Liang.

Zhou Yu looked at him and said lightly without any smugness: "We can win this battle because our army is waiting for labor. Cao's army is exhausted and horses are exhausted and the disease breaks out in the army. Moreover, if our army does not fight, we will die. This is to mourn the soldiers, and we will win if we fight."

Liu Bei, who was already middle-aged, stared blankly at the bodies of Cao's army in front of him. He had fought all his life and was the person he feared the most was Cao Cao. Unexpectedly, he won in a desperate situation!

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Lu Meng, Lu Fan and Ding Feng and others were naturally happy with this small victory in front of them and their momentum was high!

But Liu Bei was still unsure of the scene of Cao's army's vast warships and the camp covering the sky, so he turned his head and asked the heroic Zhuge Liang: "Military advisor, how should we fight next?"

Zhuge Liang smiled in his chest, glanced at Zhou Yu who was riding on the horse and watching the north bank, and said, "The Grand Governor has already made a plan to defeat Cao, so don't worry, lord."

Zhou Yu turned his gaze to Zhuge Liang and said coldly: "Three days later, the death of Cao Zhe!"

After saying that, Zhou Yu led his army back to Chibi Camp with Jiangdong.

When Liu Bei saw Zhou Yu return to the camp, he followed him with his soldiers, but Zhuge Liang stayed by the river and stopped to look northwest.

As the dark curtain fell, Zhuge Liang whispered to himself.

"Cao Cao, you can't die. Guo Jia, you should be in Hangu Pass at this moment, intending to sweep the Central Plains."

Close your eyes and think, Zhuge Liang calculated that Guo Jia could not transfer the Western Liang Iron Cavalry and all the elites under Zhang Liao to the south. If the troops and horses were unable to equal the strength of Cao Cao, it was obvious that Guo Jia would send troops from the north more reasonable and invincible!

Children can do the simplest arithmetic problems. Guo Jia is in Yizhou and cannot draw 200,000 troops, while Cao Cao has 400,000 troops in Jingzhou. However, Guo Jia can gather 300,000 troops in Guanzhong. Sili only has 200,000 troops. From the south or the north, do you still need to choose?

Turning around and hiking back to the camp, a smile appeared on Zhuge Liang's handsome face.

Imaginary scenes flashed through my mind.

Cao Cao defeated Chibi, Guo Jia defeated Luoyang, Cao Cao led his troops to return to the rescue, and fought to the death with Guo Jia in the Central Plains!

Jingzhou has no master, and Liu Bei takes advantage of the situation to rise!

After the decisive battle between Guo and Cao, one of the strength of one side will be greatly reduced! If Guo Jia is defeated, Liu Bei will attack Yizhou! If Cao Cao is defeated, Liu Bei will enter the Central Plains!

The Yangtze River has a landscape of three feet of wind and waves. The cold winter is approaching, and the north wind is howling. On the shore of Wulin, which is separated from the Red Cliff, warships are swaying and shaking with the wind.

There were not enough wooden bolts on the shore to stabilize the warship tethers, so Cao Cao ordered that the iron chains of warships be linked together one by one, so that the warship could sway and also be docked and berthed.

Three days later, midnight is coming.

Cao Cao stood at one end of the warship and looked at the other side. Suddenly, ten large warships sailed down the south shore, which were warships from Jiangdong.

When the cold wind blew, Cao Cao unconsciously smiled.

Huang Gai comes to surrender!

Zhou Yu’s plan is very simple, it is fire attack!

And does fire attack require east wind? The answer is that it does not necessarily require it.

Ten huge warships were filled with firewood, hay, coke, and tinder oil, and then covered with black cloth to drive upstream from the south bank where the Red Cliff was located to the north bank.

Cao Cao was proud and confident of victory.

The warships in Jiangdong were getting closer and closer. They saw less than half a mile away. The other party used a torch to pose a promised banner, and Cao Cao almost wanted to laugh to the sky.

Behind these ten warships, there were many small boats. Seeing that Cao's army had no doubts, Huang Gai immediately ordered the sails to be raised!

Because it was down from the upstream, with hydraulic advancement and sailing support, the ten warships suddenly accelerated their speed.

Standing at the stern of the boat, Huang Gai held the torch with a fierce look. After throwing the torch onto the boat, he immediately ordered the soldiers to jump to the boat behind.

In the dark night, the lights of the bonfires camped in the north bank could not be compared with the sky-sky fires that broke out from these ten huge warships!

Cao Cao stood on the boss and was stunned, as if ten big fireballs were rolling in. In the blink of an eye, he bumped into Cao's fleet on the Wulin River on the north bank!

Screams, screams, killing sounds, drumbeats, and resounded through the midnight sky!

"King of Wei! This is dangerous!"

Someone from left and right pulled Cao Cao and immediately walked off the warship that had not been lit, and the fire spread rapidly, igniting the warships one by one.

On the riverside, soldiers who were burned by fire on the boat ran around and ran into the camp tent on the shore, and the fire rose again!

The scene was chaotic and sparks were splashing everywhere. Not only was the Cao army's camp on the shore ignited, but the fire ignited the woods in the Wulin in an instant. Cao army screamed in the forest. The 300,000 army was defeated in just a moment!

Red Cliff

Before Huang Gai set off, Zhou Yu ordered people to prepare large and small clutches. When the fire broke out, the Sun and Liu coalition forces took the clutches to attack Wulin on the other side. In the thick smoke of the fire, facing the defeated Cao army, Zhou Yu led the army and rushed to the death, which was unstoppable.

Cao Cao rode his horse and led his troops to escape under the cover of Cao Chunlejin Li Tong.

Cao Cao, who was riding on his horse, looked back and saw that under the night sky, the fire covered the sky. The screams of fighting in the sea of ​​fire made him feel the bone-broken pain!

"I'm not ashamed to leave!"

Cao Cao rarely lost his life, but today's defeat was unexpected, but also made him feel a sense of fear.

He was fleeing in a panic at this moment, so similar to Yuan Benchu ​​in the past!!!

The coalition of Sun and Liu found that Cao Cao was running away, so Zhou Yu ordered Lu Fanding and Han Dang to command 50,000 troops to continue to kill the enemy in Wulin, where the fire was soaring. He personally led 50,000 troops to pursue Cao Cao. At the suggestion of Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei also brought all 20,000 troops to pursue Cao Cao with Zhou Yu.

At first, there were tens of thousands of soldiers who fled with Cao Cao, but on the way westward, there were constant people falling behind.

Cao Cao's escape route was clear at a glance, a straight line, that is, a shortcut, headed straight to Jiangling!

After escaping for a night, when dawn was approaching, Cao Cao looked at the path in front of him with panting: Huarong Road!

There are pursuers behind him, and Cao Cao could not take the risk and took a long way to the road. He walked the Huarong Road nearest and went straight to Jiangling. The reason why Cao Cao stopped was that the road was muddy and difficult to walk, which was caused by rain in recent days.

Fortunately, it is located in Huarong and there are residential houses nearby, so Cao Cao immediately ordered people to collect fodders, and then asked the soldiers to carry fodders and start paving the road.

Cao Cao was eager to escape, so he paved a section of the road ahead and rode a horse forward. As a result, the people who rushed up behind blocked the road, and the soldiers who paved the road died under the horse's hooves of their own people.

With a cold sweat on his face, Cao Cao's eyes were gloomy. At this moment, he had only one idea in his mind, first escape back to Jiangling, and then regroup!

Most of the ones burned in the Wulin fire were the surrendered soldiers in Jingzhou. The 200,000 soldiers and horses he brought south, of which 100,000 were left in Jiangling and led by Cao Ren. This defeat was the only major defeat in his life, but the ones that were lost, neither strategic materials nor soldiers would cause him any damage.

Sun Quan’s son, Liu Bei’s dog thief! And that Zhou Yu!

Cao Cao was ruthless in his heart, and he lowered his head and ran wildly, but suddenly, Cao Chun and Le Jin, who were on the side of Cao Cao, stopped Cao Cao's war horses, and the troops with only a few thousand people left in the defeated general stopped again.

Huarong Road is about to reach its end, and the intersection is becoming wide open.

When Cao Cao looked up, his face was scared to death.

The sun rises eastward and the dawn is bright.

At the end of Huarong Road, a dark army blocked the intersection. Because of the dim vision, it was impossible to see whose troops the other party was.

Cao Cao was like falling into an ice cellar.

Suddenly, my eyes widened, and I was shocked.

The sun is bright, and the rising red sun brings light to the world, like a dividing line between day and night, and the dim scene in front of Cao Cao is gradually becoming brighter.

The bright line gradually spread from Cao Cao, as if devouring darkness.

The light moved away and just shone on the army that blocked the road.

There was a man riding a horse in front of the formation, and the light illuminated him, slowly reflecting his appearance.

The war horse under his crotch seemed to roar irritably due to the alternation of darkness and light.

The man was not strong and straight, with his head held high and his chest held high.

A quiet and indifferent face, gentle and handsome, but his expression was extremely cold.

Cao Cao was shocked and could not speak. Under the light, the large military and horse flags fluttered in the wind, and the word "Guo" with dragons and phoenixes dancing made him feel terrified!

A pair of eyes emitting sharp light, and Guo Jia suddenly stared at Cao Cao with a ferocious expression.

Behind him, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Gao Shun, Gan Ning, Guo Ye, Zhang Ren, Deng Zhi, and Zhang Yan stood side by side. Zhang Yan waved his hand, and the soldiers stepped forward in an orderly manner, making a shocking shout.

The orderly crossbows aimed at Cao's army!

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Chapter completed!