When the Battle of Chibi was fought, why did you tie a small boat behind a big ship? Why is the tooth flag dragon flag planted on the ship? Why raise the sails in the middle of the river? Why did you ignite the fire when you were two miles away from Cao Jun? The success of major events is often inseparable from the perfect handling of many details, and we look at the fire of Chibi from the perspective of details.
(Burning Chibi)
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The previous article mentioned that Huang Gai chose to set off in a windy southeast weather, why did he know? Bury a foreshadowing.
Huang Gai led a fleet of dozens of Meng chong dou warships to set off, and the first ten brisk large ships were filled with dry firewood, poured with fish oil, and then covered with red cloth.
Why cover the "red" cloth? (Detail 1) When the ship is ignited, before the smoke rises, the red color can make the enemy find the anomaly a little later.
Each of the ten large ships is led by a small boat with a rope (Detail 2). Its role is that when the big ship rushes to the Cao ship, the people on board can move to the small boat and cut the rope to escape.
(Tooth Banner Dragon Banner)
The main ship of the yellow cover is planted with a tooth flag dragon flag (detail 3). Neither of these things was inserted casually, because the soldier knew where his commander was when he saw where they were, that is, both things were unique on the battlefield.
But how did the people in Cao Ying know whether Huang Gai or Zhou Yu was in the flagship? It was only known that the Wu army had only sent a few dozen ships, the threat was not large, and it could calmly cope with the battle, and it was still carefully observing which troops might be Huang Gai, diverting attention.
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When the Wu army's fleet reached the middle of the river, they all raised their sails (detail 4), and they came from the southeast, which explained the problem ahead, and it was the southeast wind that blew that day.
(Zhongjiang raises the sail)
With the blessing of the southeast wind, the fleet of ships with raised sails rushed towards Cao Ying, and this speed would definitely arouse the vigilance of Cao Jun.
At this time, Huang Gai raised a fire as a trumpet, and when the captains of the ships saw it, they made the soldiers shout at the same time: "Descend! Down! (Detail 5)
The southeast wind spread the sound far into the ears of cao jun on the north bank, and the soldiers ran out of the camp to the shore to watch the liveliness.
At this time, the Yaqi Dragon Banner and Zhongjiang Qifan both had an explanation in Cao Cao's mind:
It turned out that Huang Gai was the main general of the Wu Army who was fighting this battle, and he originally thought that he was just a forward, which was a surprise! Such a unit went straight to the battlefield and came straight to surrender, and the blow to the morale of the Wu army would undoubtedly be huge, and it would be much easier to defeat them in the future!
(Cao Cao, who was driven by emotions)
Wu Jun also had a layer of consideration for the design of Huang Gai as the main general, that is, the previous surrender letter had written that it was necessary to surrender according to the situation on the battlefield. If Huang Gai was not the main general, did not fight back against the main general and friendly forces, or could not be in position, it was easy for Cao Cao to be suspicious. Letting him be the main general will not have this trouble, and it will also make Cao Cao have a sense of surprise, which can make him lose his sanity for a while.
And Zhongjiang's raising of the sails, coupled with Huang Gaijun's shouts of surrender, just reflected Huang Gai's excitement of not being eager to surrender. Seeing that he had broken away from the shackles of the Wu Army's base camp, when he was about to reach the side of Cao Camp, he rushed to this side with full horsepower and desperately.
At this time, Cao Cao was in a very good mood, watching the bustle with Wen Wu and the soldiers happily, immersed in an incomparably comfortable feeling.
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At the first sight of the incoming ship, the fleet on the outskirts of the Cao Army must have untied the rope, ready to accept the order to attack at any time. Before Huang Gaijun shouted surrender, Cao Cao was looking for Huang Gai, and when it was confirmed that the incoming ship was Huang Gai, he then sent a warship to greet him, fearing that Huang Gai would mistakenly think that he was stopping them, and thus change. As a result, the vast majority of these ships remained on standby.
Huang Gai's fleet came to a distance of two miles from Cao Jun (detail 6), which fully demonstrated Huang Gai's grasp and experience of wind speed and ship speed. The ships lit fire at the same time, and the fire took advantage of the wind, and by the time Cao Jun found the smoke of the fire, the ship was already hundreds of meters away from them. At that time, the speed of the ship was as fast as an arrow, and Cao Jun's ship was already too late to react.
(The fire boat rushed towards Cao Jun)
When Cao Cao and the others realized that there had been a change, and before they could ease their minds, they heard a series of loud noises, a raging fire, and thick smoke obscuring the sun. At this time, the southeast wind was very strong, the fire spread quickly, and countless ships collapsed in the fire and disappeared. The fire took advantage of the wind, and the fire even burned to the cao army's land camp.
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When Sun Liu's coalition forces on the south bank, which were already ready to attack, saw the fire in Cao's camp, Zhou Yu commanded the elite light ships to rush in front, beat the drum and marched forward, and quickly killed The Cao army.
The Cao army was burned to death and drowned countless times, the epidemic in the army was originally epidemic, coupled with the chaos and morale of the whole army now, this battle cannot be fought, "the good and the losers do not die", and the losses must be minimized! Cao Cao immediately decided to burn the unburned warships and leave them to the Wu army, and the whole army returned to Jiangling from land.
(Sun Liu's combined forces general attack)
Sun Liu's coalition forces are victorious!
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However, Huang Gai, the first hero of this battle, died nine times. Although a small boat was prepared to escape, the life of this death squad was too risky.
The fire was too strong, Huang Gai was seriously burned on his body, and he was shot by a stray arrow and fell into the water, which was a severe winter moon and the river was cold. When Huang Gai was rescued by the soldiers of the Wu Army, he was left with a breath of breath when he was dying, and his face was completely different, just a piece of black charcoal, and he couldn't recognize who it was.
The soldier then put him in a chair-shaped groove (next to) the side of the ship (the toilet bed) and left him alone. This "toilet bed" is not a toilet stool, and the soldiers are not so perverted, they do not put it everywhere, and they put it on top of it.
(Nine Dead Yellow Covers)
Hearing Han Dang's voice, Huang Gai desperately called out his name. Han Dang heard that it was huang gai's voice, and only then did he know that this cold black charcoal was huang gai.
When Han Dang saw Huang Gai's miserable appearance, the big masters all cried out. Unbuttoning the yellow cover of his soaked armor and changing into dry clothes saved his life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > summary</h1>
The reason why Chibi's fire can be lit smoothly and Huang Gai can still retrieve a life is inseparable from his perfect handling of all details.
If there is a flaw in any of the links in the middle, it may arouse the vigilance of the suspicious Cao Cao and make a mistake. It was precisely the precise control of Zhou Yu, Huang Gai and other Jiangdong generals over Cao Jun's psychology and all aspects of the process of sailing, as well as Huang Gai's calmness in doing great things, that made this great victory!
When we are faced with big things, can we learn a lot from it?
(Ideal Nation 32)
Part I: The Southeast Wind of the Battle of Chibi: The Battle of Shaxian and the Battle of Chibi also took place in December and within the territory of Shaxian County