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The Battle of Red Cliffs.

In the thirteenth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (208 AD), the combined forces of Sun Quan and Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao's army in a decisive battle in the area of Chibi on the Yangtze River (Chibi Mountain in the northwest of Puqi City, Hubei, and in West Chiji Mountain, Wuchang County, Hubei). After Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and broke Wuhuan, and basically unified the north, in July of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, he waved his army south from Wan (now Nanyang, Henan), intending to destroy Liu Biao first, and then march eastward along the Yangtze River, defeating Sun Quan to unify the world. In September, Cao's army entered Xinye (now Henan), when Liu Biao was dead, and his son Liu Cong surrendered without a fight.

Liu Bei, who was attached to Liu Biaotun's army in Fancheng (now Hubei), hastily led his army and civilians to retreat south. Cao Cao incorporated Liu Biao's troops, claiming that an army of 800,000 advanced to the Yangtze River. After Liu Bei was defeated by Cao's army at Chang (present-day Dangyangjing, Hubei), he sent Zhuge Liang to meet with Sun Quan in Chaisang (present-day southwest of Jiujiang, Jiangxi) on the way out of the army and persuade Sun Quan to form an alliance against Cao.

Sun Quan ordered Zhou Yu to be the main general, Cheng Pu as the deputy, led 30,000 elite sailors, and united with Liu Bei's army stationed in Fankou (now Ezhou, Hubei), a total of about 50,000 people marched west to the Yangtze River to meet Cao's army. In November, the Sun-Liu coalition and Cao's army confronted Chibi. Cao Cao connected the warships end to end and formed them as a whole, so as to facilitate the training of the naval army and wait for the opportunity to attack.

Zhou Yu adopted the fire attack plan offered by Huang Gai, and ordered him to write to Cao Cao to surrender, and Cao Cao was in the plan. Huang Gai chose the time to lead the Meng Chong fighting ship to sail into the Cao Jun Water Village and set it on fire. Cao's ship array was burned, the fire extended to the shore camp, Sun and Liu's combined army took advantage of the situation to attack, Cao's army was killed and wounded, so he led his troops to retreat north, leaving the southern general Cao Ren to defend Jiangling.

The coalition forces took advantage of the victory to expand the results of the war, and the two armies of Sun and Liu occupied important places in Jingzhou. In the decisive battle of Chibi, Cao Cao underestimated the enemy's conceit and made mistakes in command under a favorable situation, and finally was defeated. Sun Quan and Liu Bei formed an alliance to resist the war when the strong enemy was approaching, raised the length of the water war, skillfully used fire to attack, and finally defeated the strong with the weak.

This battle laid the foundation for the future establishment of the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu.

The king of Chu knew that the envoy sent by Qi Pai Chi Guo this time was called Yan Zi, a man of short stature, so he wanted to test his ability, and deliberately opened a small door next to the gate, asking him to enter the city from here. After Yan Zi knew the intention of the king of Chu, he refused to attack from the small gate or enter the city from Li, and said: "The envoy only entered the city through the dog gate when he went to the dog country; Today I am an envoy to the state of Chu for reunion, and I should not enter the city through this gate.

The receptionist had no choice but to open the gate and let Yanzi enter the city. When the king of Chu met with Yan Zi, he deliberately asked: "Is there no one in the Qi country, so he sent you as an envoy!"

Yan Zi said: "There are many people in the capital of Qi State, you can cover the sun by opening your sleeves, and the sweat that comes down is like rain, and the streets are crowded, how can you say that there is no one?" "Then why did you send you as a messenger?

The king of Chu asked him without relaxation. "The state of Qi sent an envoy to see what country to send to determine the people. Yan Zi said:

The virtuous make the virtuous the virtuous king, and the unvirtuous make the unvirtuous the unwise, and I am the worst so I have sent them to your country. ”