The Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Guandu are both epic battles in history, both famous for the defeat of the weaker side over the strong. Guandu began in April 200 with Cao Cao personally leading his troops to the first confrontation with Yuan Shao, to October when Cao Boss surprised Wuchao and won the Battle of Guandu, during which there were various skirmishes and took a full six months (counting from the first formal confrontation).?
Burn the black nest
Looking at the Battle of Chibi, Remnant Found a fact that few people talked about, that is, the Battle of Chibi was only one war and lasted only a few hours. In the first formal confrontation with Zhou Yu, Cao Cao won the Fire Ship Chronicle, followed by the well-known "Burning Chibi". Some people will say that Zhuge Liang's strategy determined the direction of the situation, and some netizens said that thanks to Zhou Yu's command, the most critical figure in this battle seems to be a person who is not famous in history.
Burning Chibi
He was Jiang Gan (Zi Yi), a debater at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he was rarely mentioned in history. Jiang Gan was originally an unknown person, and Luo Guanzhong let him stage a very interesting story in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "Jiang Gan's Theft of Books", which made him a well-known figure. However, the clown image of Jiang Gan portrayed by the author is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that everyone does not care much about him, ignoring that Jiang Gan is the key factor in the success of the "iron cable chain" and other strategies.
Jiang Gan
Everyone knows that Cao Cao's "million" army came from the north, and while he was not used to water warfare, Boss Cao had not yet brought his top military generals to Chibi, surrounded by some strategists. Unlike the straight-forward way of talking with military generals, literati often choose to come up with plans for the next step through debate, and Jiang Gan, as a debater, undoubtedly has a huge advantage.
Jiang Gan used his eloquence to persuade Cao Cao to persuade Him to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender as a friend, but his intelligence was far inferior to that of Zhou Yu, making Zhou Yu's counter-plot easily successful, and causing Cao Yu's only two generals to fight water battles, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, to be beheaded, which was the famous "Jiang Gan book theft" incident in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Without the knowledge of water warfare, the Cao Army's combat ability declined, and those strategies based on common sense of water warfare would be easier to succeed.
On the left is Zhou Yu
However, Jiang Gan's "pit teammates" are more than that, everyone knows that the "Phoenix Chick" Pang Tong's iron cable conspiracy is one of the key points to achieve the burning of Chibi, but do you know how Pang Tong joined Cao Ying? Jiang Gan stood up again at this time, and with his eloquence once again made the suspicious Cao Cao agree to Pang Tong's joining, and the strategists around Boss Cao, including Jiang Gan, had no experience in water warfare, which undoubtedly improved the success rate of Pang Tong's iron cable series.
The next is to borrow the East Wind, bitter meat, burn Chibi, Cao Cao defeat Huarong Road and three points of the world and other extremely classic plots, if there is no Jiang Gan this character, then the Battle of Chibi may also be fought for several months, Boss Cao can also be regarded as a "pig teammate" pit.