This article is based on Luo Guanzhong's novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the fortieth time (part 2) Zhuge Liang burned Xinye, and has nothing to do with the main history.
After Xiahou Huan's army defeated Bowangpo, Cao Cao raised an army of 500,000 to kill BenjingZhou. Half a million troops were one team per 100,000, with a total of five teams: Cao Ren and Cao Hong were one team, and Cao Ren had led 30,000 troops to attack Xinye and was defeated by Xu Shu; Zhang Liao and Zhang Guo were the second team; Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Huan were the third team, Xiahou Huan had led 100,000 troops to attack Xinye and defeated by Zhuge Liang's hands; Yu Ban and Li Dian were the fourth team, these two benevolent brothers had fought with Cao Ren and Xiahou Huan, and their wisdom was higher than that of Cao Ren and Xiahou, but unfortunately they were not Cao Ren's clan relatives, and they could only follow Cao Ren and Xiahou Huan to fight their deputies; Cao Cao himself came out to lead a team. He also ordered Xu Chu to lead three thousand troops as the vanguard of the road, and Cao Cao came out of the nest this time, and he not only wanted to hold Liu Bei, but also to clear the south with the trend.
Before the army reached Xinye, Liu Chun behind Xinye had already surrendered. Sandwiched between Cao Cao and Liu Chun, Liu Bei was caught in a situation of being attacked from both sides, and the situation was very critical, so he quickly summoned the generals to a meeting to discuss countermeasures. Yi Yuan, as Liu Qi's special envoy, actually had long been devoted to Liu Bei, and he suggested that Liu Bei go to Xiangyang in the name of mourning, lure Liu Chun out of the city, and then directly take it, then Jingzhou would be owned by Liu Bei.
Liu Bei naturally wanted to take Jingzhou very much, but he couldn't take it with this method. The nominal reason is that "my brother is alone with me in danger, and if he clings to his son and seizes his land, and dies under the Nine Springs one day, how can he see my brother again?" "Actually, it's because I can't get it." If Liu Bei came to mourn, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, and others would not let them into the city, so how could they let Liu Chun go out of the city to greet him? Liu Bei refused this plan and planned to retreat to Fancheng, but before he could leave, Cao Cao's vanguard Xu Chu had already killed Bowang.
Xiahou Huan's 100,000-strong army was once defeated by Zhuge Liang with fire in Bowang, and now that Cao Jun had killed Bowang, he was naturally very careful. After the Battle of Bowang, Cao Cao said to Xiahou Huan: "Ru has used soldiers since childhood, don't you know that narrow places must be fireproof and attacked?" "This time can be regarded as remembering, the "narrow place" must be fireproof, and the "wide place" should be fine... wrong! Zhuge Liang changed this time to attack in a wide place!
The location of the fire attack was also changed, not in Bowang, but in Shinno. And this time there was not only a fire attack, but also a water attack. Zhuge Liang ordered Guan Yu to block the river, ordered Zhang Fei to ambush his troops at the slow water, ordered Zhao Yun to ambush the four gates of Xinye, east, west, south and north, and set fire to the four gates, and the best thing was to make Mi Fang and Liu Feng, two teams of Spartan warriors, go to intercept Cao Cao's vanguard officer Xu Chu.
Mi Fang and Liu Feng were Xu Chu's opponents, but Xu Chu saw that the two of them were each leading their men and horses, divided into green and red flags, dangling in front of him, and he was suspicious in his heart and did not dare to act rashly. It was not until Cao Ren's army arrived that he dared to give it a go, but at that time, the two had long disappeared. Cao Ren didn't give a crap, and directly killed Ben Xinye, but when he arrived, he found that it was an empty city, and even the people didn't have it.
Cao Hong judged that Liu Bei had fled with the people, so he was relieved to enter the houses of the people to cook pots and make rice. After a while, the wind was fierce, and as soon as the wind came, someone began to light a fire, which Zhuge Liang had already calculated. People know that Zhuge Liang borrowed the East Wind at the Battle of Chibi, and who can remember that Zhuge Liang was already "borrowing" the Wind at the Battle of Xinye?
Under the fierce wind, Xinye instantly became a fire city, Cao Ren led the troops to flee, was chased and killed by Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and others, went to the river to drink water, and was drowned by Guan Yu, Cao Ren's army collapsed, Liu Bei's army continued to pursue, even Mi Fang, Liu Feng, these two Spartans, gained a lot of battle achievements.
After Cao Ren failed, he did not dare to meet Cao Cao, so Cao Hong went to report the letter, and after Cao Cao received the letter, he angrily said: "Zhuge Cunfu, An Dare to do so!" So he urged the army to rush forward, wanting to know whether Zhuge Liang could withstand Cao Cao's half a million troops, and see if it would decompose next time.