Three Kingdoms

Chapter 14

Cao Cao was deceived by Zhuge Liang to take away [-] to [-] arrows for no reason, and he was always aggrieved in his heart.Xun You, a counselor, came up with a plan for him, which was to send Cai Mao's cousins ​​Cai Zhong and Cai He to Soochow to pretend to surrender to Zhou Yu as internal support.

Zhou Yu knew that they were pretending to surrender, so he used his plan and took Cai Zhong and Cai He in.

Zhou Yu also secretly discussed with the generals in the army.The veteran Huang Gai was willing to pretend to surrender to Cao Cao.Therefore, Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai seriously and deceived Cai Zhong and Cai He by using a bitter trick.Huang Gai sent his friend Kan Ze to inform Cao Cao that he wanted to surrender to him.Kan Ze went to Cao Ying.

At first Cao Cao didn't believe that Kan Ze had come to surrender, and wanted to kill Kan Ze.Kan Ze cheated Cao Cao's trust with his perfect tongue.At this time, Cai Zhong and Cai He returned with a secret letter sent by someone.Cao Cao saw that the content of the letter was exactly the same as what Kan Ze said, so he believed even more that Huang Gai would surrender to him.

Gan Ning pretended to be plotting to surrender to Cao Cao in the army, and happened to be known by Cai Zhong and Cai He.So Gan Ning pretended to kill Cai He and Cai Zhong, for fear that they would tell Zhou Yu.At this time, Cai Zhong and Cai He revealed their true identities. They were sent by Cao Cao to pretend to surrender; they were Cao Jun's internal response hidden in Zhou Yu's army.The Cai brothers were willing to introduce Cao Junzhong for Gan Ning and others.Gan Ning and others pretended to thank the Cai brothers.The Cai brothers still don't know that this is a plot against them.

Cai Zhong and Cai He wrote a secret letter overnight to tell Cao Cao that Eastern Wu generals Gan Ning, Huang Gai and counselor Kan Ze were willing to surrender.

Cao Cao was skeptical and didn't know what to do.At this time, Jiang Gan stood up again and said that he was willing to go to the Soochow Army to find out the truth.Cao Cao approved him.

Knowing the purpose of Jiang Gan's arrival, Zhou Yu discussed a plan with Pang Tong, Mr. Fengchu.As soon as Jiang Gan came, Zhou Yu locked him up.Jiang Gan was walking at night and met Pang Tong who lived in the West Mountain. Jiang Gan persuaded Pang Tong to surrender to Cao Cao.Pang Tong pretended to agree to Jiang Gan.So Jiang Gan hurriedly brought Pang Tong to see Cao Cao.Pang Tong came up with a strategy for Cao Cao called Lianhuanji.In this way, Cao Cao was convinced that he would win without a doubt, because he locked all the boats tightly with iron chains, and walking on the big river was stable, and war horses could run on the warships.Cao Cao was fooled by Pang Tong invisibly.

Zhou Yu worried that there was no east wind to help him attack Cao Jun with fire.Zhuge Liang was willing to help Zhou Yu.Zhuge Liang sacrificed to the southeast wind at the Seven Star Altar.As soon as Zhou Yu got Zhuge Liang's help, he immediately dispatched troops to prepare gunpowder and horses to attack Cao Ying. Everything was ready, and he only owed Dongfeng.

Zhuge Liang worshiped the wind for three days and three nights, and finally at midnight on the third day, the southeast wind blowing towards Cao Jun's water village came.Zhou Yu immediately ordered an attack.Huang Gai first set off with his cao convoy.The boats commanded by Huang Gai were all loaded with gunpowder, and they rushed towards Cao Ying smoothly.The other Soochow generals took their own men and horses to act according to Zhou Yu's order.

Zhuge Liang calculated that Zhou Yu would harm him, so as soon as Dongfeng finished offering sacrifices, he immediately asked Zhao Yun to escort him all the way back to Liu Bei's army.

Zhuge Liang also mobilized troops and generals. He expected that Cao Cao would be defeated by Zhou Yu. Once Cao Cao was defeated, he would flee to Huarong Road, so he ambushed soldiers and horses along the way, and he sent Guan Yu to wait at the Huarong Road.

Sure enough, most of Cao Cao's more than 80 troops were burned to death in Chibi, and he led the remaining troops to flee to the north in embarrassment.

When Cao Cao fled to Wulinkou, he was intercepted and killed by Zhao Yun.Cao Cao threw away his helmet and armor, and just ran for his life.Along the way, he was ambushed by Zhang Fei again, and was defeated again.At the Huarong crossing, he ran into Guan Yu again.Guan Yu thought of Cao Cao's kindness back then, so he released Cao Cao privately.Cao Cao took half his life and returned to Xuchang.

Zhuge Liang asked Guan Yu why he didn't kill Cao Cao?Guan Yu said that Cao Cao was so kind to him back then, and he couldn't bear to kill him, so he let him go.Zhuge Liang wanted to deal with Guan Yu according to the military law, and all the generals knelt down to intercede for Guan Yu, but Zhuge Liang refused, and Liu Bei also knelt down to intercede for Guan Yu.Zhuge Liang spared Guan Yu.

(End of this chapter)