Zhou Yu, commander-in-chief of Wu Jun, and Zhuge Liang, a strategist of Shu army, studied the plan to attack Cao Cao together. They decided to take advantage of Cao Cao's arrogance of underestimating the enemy and adopt a battle plan of fire attack. Zhou Yuxian used double agents to induce Cao Cao to kill Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, effective generals who were familiar with water warfare and could resist them. Then let Pang Tong make a false contribution to trick Jun into connecting the warships.
In this way, if there is a fire and the warships are inseparable, Cao Cao's army will be wiped out. Zhou Yu also used a "bitter plan": beating veteran Huang Gai in front of everyone, and then letting Huang Gai cheat Cao Cao.
In fact, Huang Gai's ship was full of flammable materials, all of which were arranged when he was ready to make a fake surrender, so as to get to Cao Ying to launch a fire attack. Zhou Yu was not happy, but worried about becoming ill and bedridden.
It turns out that to achieve the purpose of fire attack, we also need a very important condition-we must rely on the southeast wind to ignite the Cao Jun on the north shore.
It was the middle of winter, and Zhuge Liang went to visit Zhou Yu every day. Zhou Yu eagerly asked Zhuge Liang what he could do. Zhuge Liang told Zhou Yu that he could call the shots and help Zhou Yu set fire with the southeast wind for three days and three nights. Zhou Yu immediately ordered people to build an earthen platform called "Seven Star Altar".
Zhuge Liang prayed on the "Seven Star Altar" that Zhuge Liang in the southeast wind knew astronomy above and geography below. Through meteorological observation, he predicted the date when the southeast wind blew. On the scheduled date, the southeast wind was blowing, and Zhou Yu successfully completed his fire attack plan.
To sum up briefly:
On the eve of Battle of Red Cliffs, Zhou Yu prepared to launch a fire attack, burn Cao Jun's warships and defeat Cao Cao. However, Zhou Yu made a mistake in his busy schedule. He didn't expect that the fire attack had high requirements for the wind direction, and in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in the middle of winter, there were many northwest winds and no southeast winds.
If you light the northwest wind, Cao Jun is in the limelight, but he just burns himself, and he can't burn Cao Jun at all. Zhou Yu couldn't figure out a way and fell ill at once.
Zhuge Liang was in Zhou Yu's army, helping to make plans. After learning the cause of Zhou Yu, he gave Zhou Yu a "prescription": "If you want to break through Cao Jun, you must attack with fire. Everything is ready, only the east wind. "
Zhou Yu asked Zhuge Liang to find a way to "engage in" Dongfeng, and Zhuge Liang immediately promised: "You can borrow it." So Zhou Yu had a seven-star altar built, and Zhuge Liang pretended to go to the altar to "borrow the east wind." On the day of the battle, the southeast wind was strong, and Zhou Yu took the opportunity to attack and captured Cao Jun at one stroke.
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(1) Zhuge Liang:
Zhuge Liang (181-23410-8) was born in Xuzhou (now yinan county, Linyi City, Shandong Province) and was an outstanding politician, strategist, diplomat, writer, calligrapher and inventor during the Three Kingdoms period.
In his early years, he went to Jingzhou with his uncle Zhuge Xuan. After Zhuge Xuan's death, Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion in Longzhong, Xiangyang.
After Liu Bei arrived at the thatched cottage, Zhuge Liang was invited to come out, but Sun Lian resisted Cao and was defeated by Battle of Red Cliffs. Formed the trend of the Three Kingdoms and captured Jingzhou. In the 16th year of Jian 'an (2 1 1), Yizhou was captured. Then he defeated Cao Jun and won Hanzhong.
In the first year of Shu Zhangwu (22 1), Liu Bei established the Shu-Han regime in Chengdu, and Zhuge Liang was appointed as the prime minister to preside over state affairs. Liu Chan, the ruler in the last years of Shu and Han Dynasties, succeeded to the throne, and Zhuge Liang was made the marquis of Wuxiang, leading Yizhou as a shepherd. Diligent and prudent, big and small political affairs must be personally done, and rewards and punishments are strict; Make an alliance with Wu Dong to improve relations with all ethnic groups in southwest China; Carry out the reclamation policy and strengthen combat readiness.
Most of the six northern expeditions to the Central Plains were based on grain. Eventually, due to overwork, he died in Wuzhangyuan (now Qishan, Baoji, Shaanxi) in the twelfth year of Jianxing in Shu at the age of 54. Liu Chan made him a loyal minister, and later generations often called him Zhuge Liang by Wuhou. Because of his military ability, the Eastern Jin regime named him King Wuxing.
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