During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan and Liu Bei once used 50,000 troops to fight against Cao Cao's 800,000 troops in Chibi, and such a huge disparity in strength made everyone think that Cao Cao had won, but Cao Cao forgot that they had two great strategists, Zhuge and Zhou Yu, and after discussing the two plots, they decided to use the method of burning, and then cooperated with Pang Tong's serial strategy, and finally let Cao Cao's nearly one million troops die in the sea of fire in an instant. This is the famous "Battle of Chibi".
In ancient times, whether a person could stand firmly, only by winning the battle, but Cao Cao was defeated this time, the Jiangshan that had been desperately laid down ceased to exist overnight, and only some remnants of the army were defeated, so the party protected Cao Cao and fled to the north in a hurry, that battle made Cao Cao's vitality seriously injured, from then on, for a long time Cao Cao was unable to fight against other countries, and from that time, a political situation of Wei, Shu, and Wu was formed.
The Battle of Chibi is also famous for Liu Bei and Sun Quan for winning fewer victories and more victories, and the opponents defeated are fierce generals like Cao Cao, so they are recorded in historical records, become classics, and praised by the world, and countless poets have also written poems for this war to show their admiration.
Fighting is not only a confrontation between people, the weather factor is more important, Liu Bei and Sun Quan were able to defeat Cao Cao, the weather played a crucial role, Zhuge has always understood the celestial phenomenon, he just calculated that there must be a strong wind blowing over, so he decided to use fire, and then sure enough, there was a east wind, the fire became very rapid, giving Cao Cao's generals a surprise, so there is also the saying of "borrowing the east wind".
In fact, before Dongfeng borrowed it, a very interesting thing happened. Before the war, a veteran general of Eastern Wu, Huang Gai, had proposed the idea of attacking with fire, and then falsely surrendered to let Cao Wipe it lightly, and finally broke the Cao army in one fell swoop. After Zhou Yu listened, he felt that this method was very good.
This battle was crucial to the survival of both sides, so in order to ensure that things were foolproof, Zhou Yu also applied a counter-plan to Cao Cao, successfully destroying Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, who were good at water warfare, and Cao Cao's side was not idle, even if he had absolute superiority in troops, he did not take this big battle lightly, and his subordinates also had clever tricks, among which Cao Cao adopted the serial plan proposed by Pang Tong.
At this time, everything was ready, but Zhou Yu suddenly fell ill and was bedridden. Zhuge Liang has always been known as a god, as if he knew everything, why Zhou Yu suddenly fell ill, he also knew it, and then he went to Zhou Yu's bed, wrote a line for him, and said to him, I know the reason why you are sick, so I prescribed you a prescription, if this formula does not work, I will definitely not want anything. After Zhou Yu saw this so-called "prescription", he was first shocked into a cold sweat, and then there was a sudden ecstasy, after this surprise and joy, Zhou Yu's body was so good. Presumably everyone wants to know what is written on this "prescription" so magical, in fact, the "prescription" is just a simple sentence written, if you want to defeat Cao Cao, you can only use fire to attack, we are all ready now, only God can give a dongfeng.
This simple line really spoke to Zhou Yu's heart, and from then on Zhou Yu admired Zhuge even more, and Zhuge was nearly ten years younger than Zhou Yu, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhuge was the first strategist of the Three Kingdoms. Zhuge said that it was the reason for Zhou Yu's illness, everyone knew that there was only a northwest wind in winter, and where there would be an east wind, so this only hope of victory became very slim, and it was also because of too much worry that Zhou Yu would fall ill.
Zhuge laughed after listening to Zhou Yu's words, and in order to reassure Zhou Yu, he patted his chest and said to Zhou Yu, I don't have any great talent, the only thing I can be proud of is to be able to call the wind and rain, so in the time of the great war, I will definitely borrow this east wind and defeat Cao Cao. Hearing this, Zhou Yu was much more relaxed for a while, but Zhuge was also very modest. Later, under zhou Yu's arrangement, Zhuge Liang climbed the altar of the "Seven Stars Altar" on Nanping Mountain to ask for the wind.
Zhou Yu was a military man, and he was also a politician, and he understood very well that this time Sun Liu united with Cao Cao, but only temporarily, just like the later cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, once Cao Cao was defeated, there would definitely be a big war between Sun Liu, because Sun Quan and Liu Bei both had the ambition to dominate the world.
Zhuge served Liu Bang, and he served Sun Quan, so Zhuge would definitely become a stumbling block for them to reach the peak of their power, and he must take this opportunity to get rid of him. Therefore, when Zhuge Liang was asking for wind at the "Seven Star Altar", Zhou Yu sent spies to inquire about the news.
The first spy came to the news that Zhuge was burning incense in the incense burner and was facing the sky on his back, and as for what he was muttering in his mouth, he could not understand it at all. The second time the spies came back, they said that they didn't know why Zhuge went up and down again when he was asking for the wind, and repeated it three times. Zhou Yu was less and less ignorant of the news brought back by the spies, and at this time he couldn't wait, so he asked his subordinates how could there be an east wind in this big winter, and Zhuge This boy would not be lying to me. The man under him was a very honest person, so Mr. Zhuge would certainly not deceive people, so let's wait patiently.
In the middle of the night, a fierce wind suddenly blew outside, and Zhou Yu came out to see that the military flag was actually flying to the northwest! The east wind did come. Zhou Yu was overjoyed, ordered the whole army to immediately enter the state of battle, and asked two of his generals to immediately go to the "Seven Star Altar" to take Zhuge Liang down, and he wanted to sacrifice Zhuge Liang's human head to send troops to the sky. I have to say that Zhou Yu is really a villain.
But Zhuge must have already calculated that he would do this, so he had already ordered Zhao Yun to pick himself up, and when Zhou Yu's men arrived, Zhuge had already left Nanping Mountain in a small boat. This was something that Zhou Yu had never thought of. What surprised Zhou Yu even more was that as soon as the East Wind came, he sent someone to arrest Zhuge Zhuge and why Zhuge would disappear so quickly, he still did not believe that this was a coincidence, but he couldn't figure it out.
It wasn't until Zhou Yu remembered what the spies had said when he came back to report to him a second time before he died that he suddenly realized. It turned out that Zhuge was not only proficient in meteorology, but also made a deep investigation of the terrain around Chibi, and he had actually expected that in the middle of the night he would definitely change the direction of the wind and blow the southeast wind. As for Zhuge at that time, what he was talking about was only what he used to deter others, so that everyone thought that he had the ability to reach the heavens, so that others did not dare to move him easily.
So why did Zhuge run up and down, and also ran three times, he was so old, not too tired, the reason is actually very simple, he was not originally to ask for the wind, but just deliberately delay time, the purpose is just to wait for a person, this person is Zhao Yun who took him away.
Thinking about it carefully, Zhuge must have been very afraid at that time, he was a big gamble, once the bet was lost, he would die, so he went up and down the altar three times, just to see if Zhao Yun came, as long as Zhao Yun came, he was relieved, just wait until the wind sounded, he could immediately evacuate.
Zhou Yu, who was wise, did not understand this at that time, missed the best time to kill Zhuge And did not understand what was going on until temporarily, but it was already too late.