Furthermore, the northern soldiers were not good at battle on the water, and many fell into a bad illness after their long-distance advance.
This analysis caused Sun Quan to clearly see the situation, and he agreed to send his senior general Zhou Yu to lead 30 000 sergeants นายทหาร to fight against Cao Cao together with Liu Bei.
Cao Cao anchored ทอดสมอ at a place called the Red Cliff (in today's Chibi City, Hubei Province, although it has been alternately located in the northeast of today's Jiayu County in Hubei).
He chained his ships together so that the northern soldiers could walk steadily on them. Both Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu decided to attack Cao Cao with fire.