Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai with 50 sticks, and was beaten to the skin, and Huang Gai secretly gave a book

Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai, one willing to fight, one willing to be beaten.

This widely circulated post-break phrase comes from the forty-sixth episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In a clever way, Kong Ming borrowed arrows to offer secrets, and Huang Gai was punished.

At that time, after Cao Cao won the Battle of Guandu, he unified most of northern China, broke Jingzhou, Xiajiangling, and entered the winter, and led a large army to launch the Battle of Chibi and prepare to unify the world.

Sun Lianjun was in danger, and Huang Gai proposed a fire attack to Zhou Yu and personally wrote a letter.

He approaches Cao Jun through adventure and deception. After that, Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai with 50 sticks, and was beaten to the skin and flesh.

Then Huang Gai secretly sent Cao Cao an auspicious book, which Cao Cao believed to be true. This gave Huang Gai the opportunity to ignite Cao Cao's warships and carry out the plan to burn Chibi.

This story is believed to be familiar to everyone, but in the main history, Huang Gai and Zhou Yu do not have any relevant records. In romance of the Three Kingdoms, Huang Gai's achievements in the Battle of Chibi are nothing more than an arrow strategy to attack and deceive Cao Xun. Therefore, the whole story of Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai should be an imagination made up by Luo Guanzhong.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms uses eight chapters to describe the decisive record of the formation of the Three Kingdoms.

It can be said that the Battle of Chibi is the soul of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the condensation of the charm of the whole book.

In order to highlight the atmosphere of war with Him, Luo Guanzhong used a large number of fictional stories to describe the battle of wits between Cao Cao and Sun and Liu Lianjun. For example, in the description of Cao Cao's army, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms records that 800,000 troops went south, but in fact only 100,000 people in Cao Cao's army could understand it.