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[Edit this paragraph] Historical story

"Zhuge Liang wisely calculated Huarong, Guan Yun interpreted Cao Cao with great justice" is a story well known to the world and a key chapter in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The novel writes that before the Battle of Chibi, Zhuge Liang calculated that Cao Cao would be defeated and fled to Huarong. He watched the sky at night and Cao Cao died undeservedly. Considering that Cao Cao had a grudge against Guan Yu, he sent Guan Yunchang to guard Huarong Road and left a favor with Guan Yu. The novel also writes that Cao Cao was indeed defeated from Wulin to Huarong Road, and laughed three times on the way that Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu were not resourceful and did not set up an ambush in a dangerous place. However, the first smile brought out Zhao Zilong, thanks to Xu Huang and Zhang He who both fought against Zhao Yun, Cao Cao was able to escape; the second smile brought out Zhang Yide, and Zhang Liao and Xu Huang resisted Zhang Fei, allowing Cao Cao to escape again; the third smile was no small matter, Guan Yunchang laughed out loud, and he was on the narrow road of Huarong where there was a man guarding the pass. In addition, Cao Cao's army had been attacked several times. At this time, he was unable to fight anymore. With no choice, Cao Cao had no choice but to personally beg Guan Yu to let him go. Guan Yu remembered his old kindness and released Cao Cao. Cao Cao was able to return to Jiangling.

The above descriptions in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are not entirely based on thin air. Cao Cao's retreat from Chibi was indeed along the Huarong Road, but Guan Yu was not there; Cao Cao did laugh on the way, but not three times, but once; Cao Cao was not laughing at Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu's lack of resourcefulness, but at Liu Bei's The strategy was slow; after Cao Cao laughed, the enemy did appear, but there was no danger.

According to "Three Kingdoms" records, Cao Cao fell into Zhou Yu's fire attack plan in Chibi, so he simply burned the remaining warships with fire, and led his army to retreat all the way to Jiangling via Huarong. The allied forces of Sun and Liu advanced by land and water, following Cao's army in hot pursuit.

In fact, although Cao Cao was defeated at that time, the situation he faced was not very serious. Because before the battle in Chibi, Cao Cao was strong and Sun Liu was weak. Sun Quan and Liu Bei's first consideration was how to defeat Cao Cao's powerful offensive and prevent Cao Cao from crossing the Yangtze River to preserve their own sphere of influence or ensure that they would not be wiped out by Cao Cao. , with the outcome uncertain, they did not and were unable to spare part of their troops to set up an ambush on Cao Cao's possible retreat route. Therefore, when Cao Cao was defeated, although there were pursuers behind him, there was no ambush in front of him. However, on the road to Huarong, they encountered unimaginable difficulties.

"Three Kingdoms·Wudi Ji" Pei Songzhi annotated "Shan Yang Gong Zai Ji" and said: Cao Cao's warship was burned and he led his army back on foot from Huarong Road. Huarong Road was completely muddy and impassable. In addition, there was a strong wind that day, making walking even more difficult. So Cao Cao ordered the weak soldiers to cut grass and pave the way so that the army could pass. However, the weak soldiers were trampled by horses and men, fell deep into the mud, and died countless times. Seeing that the entire army was about to pass through Huarong Road, Cao Cao couldn't help laughing. The generals were already in a state of embarrassment. When they saw Cao Cao laughing, they were very puzzled and asked Cao Cao why he was laughing. Cao Cao said: "Liu Bei's intelligence is as good as mine, but his plans are always one step behind mine. If he had sent his fast horses to Huarong Road to set fire to it, our entire army would have been wiped out." As soon as Cao Cao finished speaking, he picked up the detective horse. It was reported that Liu Bei's pursuers were starting to light fire along the wind. But Cao Cao's army had passed through Huarong Road and headed for Jiangling.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" writes about Cao Cao laughing three times and laughing out three heroes, in order to show that although Cao Cao is treacherous, he is not as clever as Zhuge Liang; in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it writes about Guan Yu's moral explanation of Cao Cao in Huarong, in order to show that Guan Yu appreciates his kindness. The characters of retribution and righteousness are all written by the author to deify Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu, and are not historical facts.

After Cao Cao captured Jingzhou, he led more than 200,000 land and water troops down the river eastward without stopping. He planned to eliminate Liu Bei and Sun Quan in one fell swoop and realize his ambition to unify the country. However, he was dazzled by the victory and underestimated the enemy with pride. As a result, he was burned by the Sun and Liu coalition forces in Chibi. He fled in panic and fled along Huarong Road. (There is no history of this matter, only "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is discussed)

It seems that Huarong Dao talked about Guan Yu letting Cao Cao go. Keep it simple