People who have read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms will not fail to know the famous battle of Battle of Red Cliffs. In the story, this battle is magically described as a classic battle of defeating the strong with the weak and defeating the many with the few. However, in Battle of Red Cliffs described in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many people say that only the result of the war is true when Cao Cao was defeated, and everything else is fictitious. So there is some evidence. From the historical analysis, there is fiction in strength, place and plot.

First of all, the number of troops at war between the two sides is somewhat fictitious. According to historical analysis, Cao Cao conquered Jingzhou with 80,000 infantry and 1 10,000 cavalry. And this part of the hanged people did not all participate in the war, but some were assigned to transportation logistics. However, Cao Cao's army, which was banned by Zhang Liao after Zhang, did not invest in the Chibi battlefield in the short term. Cao Cao Can only used more than 20,000 people gathered in Xiangyang, as well as the northern soldiers and the newly attached Jingzhou soldiers, adding up to about 80,000 people, but later Cao persuaded Jiangling, Changsha and other counties to send troops to guard. Counting down, the number of Cao Cao Can who led troops to Chibi was only about 70,000. Together, the Sun and Liu armies are only about 50,000 people, and the gap between the two sides is not big, which is not the gap between the two sides recorded in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the end, Sun and Liu defeated Cao Cao with weak strength. Secondly, the location of the Battle of Red Cliffs outbreak is also open to question. Because Battle of Red Cliffs is not a battle, it is divided into several stages. After losing the battle in Chibi, Cao Cao ordered all ships to go to Wulin on the north bank of the Yangtze River, opposite Chibi on the south bank. At this time, the form of war changed from Cao Cao's attack to defense, and Zhou Yu's side turned to wanton attack. So the real decisive battle was launched in Wulin, not Chibi in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Some processes in Battle of Red Cliffs also involve falsehood. In fact, the classic story in Battle of Red Cliffs, the grass boat borrows an arrow, did not happen. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, it happened in Battle of Red Cliffs five years later. It's none of Zhuge Liang's business for both sides to play against Cao Cao and Sun Quan. The straw boat borrowed an arrow only for Sun Quan's quick wits, not on purpose. There is no such thing as Zhou Yu hitting Huang Gai in the history of the Three Kingdoms. But Huang Gai did pretend to surrender to Cao Cao. There are many suspicious details about Battle of Red Cliffs in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Therefore, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, only the result of the war, Cao Cao's defeat, is credible, and the rest are open to question.