Let's start with history.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is no Pang Tongxian "serial plan" (the end of the ship is connected by an iron ring), and it is true that the ships of Cao Cao's army are connected end to end, but it is not known who came up with the idea, it is likely to be the conventional configuration of Cao Cao's water army.
In view of the situation of Cao Cao's water army, it was Huang Gai who proposed a plan to attack with fire.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms zhou yu :( zhou) Yubu will huang gaiyi: "Now that the people are widowed, it is difficult and lasting. Ranguan (Cao) cao warships are connected end to end, and can be burned and walked away. ”
Xun Yu was sitting in Xudu at that time, and did not go to Jingzhou with the army, but Cheng Yu went with Cao Cao.
On the eve of Chibi, Cao Cao's aides believed that Sun Quan would inevitably surrender, or that he would not dare to take Liu Bei in, and would kill Liu Bei and offer it to Cao Cao, but Cheng Yu believed that Sun Quan and Liu Bei would inevitably unite.
——The aftermath was exactly as Cheng Yu expected.
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Let's talk about the interpretation.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the plots before the Battle of Chibi are indeed the most wonderful stories in this book, and the author lists the plans as follows:
Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu set up a plan for a fire attack.
Zhou Yu tricked Jiang Gan into getting rid of Zhang Yun and Cai Mao.
Zhou Yu and Huang Gai used bitter meat.
Kan Ze offered a book to trick Cao Cao.
Kan Ze and Gan Ning played the double reed and cajoled Cai Zhong, Cai Zhong, and his brothers.
Pang Tong offered a series of plans, and asked Cao Cao to connect the ship from head to tail.
Zhuge Liang borrowed the East Wind.
Huang Gai deceived Cao Cao into trusting him and set fire to the boat in the river.
Thus, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms,
Wolong Zhuge Liang borrowed the East Wind, Feng Chi Pang Tong offered a serial plan, and Zhou Yu and Huang Gai used a bitter meat meter, a deceitful surrender meter, and a fire attack meter
And so on, interlocking, and finally turning the tide of the war and defeating Cao Cao's army, which was absolutely superior in numbers.
Among them, in order to assist the success of the fire attack plan, Pang Tong entered Cao Cao's military camp alone, presented a serial plan to Cao Cao, and coaxed the deception to leak, and after Cao Cao adopted it, Pang Tong retreated completely. However, there were still people in Cao Cao's military camp who saw through Pang Tong's plan, and this person was Xu Shu.
At that time, after Pang Tong left Cao Cao's military camp, he had just disembarked from the ship after returning from the river, and was pulled from behind by Xu Shu, who appeared on the side, and Xu Shu was frightened:
"Hello bold. Huang Gai used a bitter meat meter, Kan Ze sent a fraudulent book, and you came to offer a serial plan, only to be burned endlessly. If you bring out such a poisonous hand, you have to hide from Cao Cao, and you must also hide it from me! ”
At that time, Pang Tong was frightened and scattered, and when he turned his head to look, he recognized that it was Xu Shu.
Xu Shu had previously been loyal to Liu Bei, and Cao Cao used a ploy to forge Xu Shu's mother's letters to trick Xu Shu into leaving Liu Bei, and Xu Shu's mother, when she learned of this, was so angry that she committed suicide, and Xu Shu swore that she would never give a plan for Cao Cao. So the folk have"
Xu Shu entered Cao's camp and did not say a word
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Therefore, Xu Shu's meeting with Pang Tong was only to scare Pang Tong, he would never tell Cao Cao the truth, and then, Pang Tong repaid Xu Shu for seeing through and not exposing his kindness, and taught Xu Shu how to escape Cao Cao's plan.
——The above plots are all stories made up by Luo Guanzhong to increase the dramatic effect.
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Since everyone knows that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a story made up, it is also normal that Xun Yu and Cheng Yu cannot see through Pang Tong's serial plan in the rendition. Otherwise, if Zhou Yu's fire attack fails and Cao Cao wins, how will the story be written later?
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In the rendition, Xun Yu did not go to Jingzhou with the army.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guo Jia's Biography", after Cao Cao's defeat in Chibi, he once sighed: "If Guo Jia is still by my side, I will definitely not fail." This passage was also recorded in the rendition.
Therefore, later generations also had reverie based on this record of Guo Jia: If Guo Jia did not die, would he be able to see through the schemes of Zhou Yu and Huang Gai and others?
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