Bitka kod Crvenih stijena

Segment ratova Tri kraljevstva

Natpisi (najmanje hiljadu godina stari) na mjestu koje se drži poprištem bitke, kraj suvremenog Chibi Cityja u provinciji Hubei.

Datum	zima 208/9
Lokacija	blizina rijeke Yangtze u Kini. Precizna lokacija predmet rasprave.
Ishod	odlučna pobjeda Sun Quana i Liu Beija

Sukobljene strane

Sun Quan (Sun Chuan),
Liu Bei (Liu Pei)

Komandanti i vođe

Zhou Yu (Chou Yü),
Cheng Pu,
Liu Bei

Cao Cao

Snage

50.000

800,000 (Cao Caove tvrdnje) to
220.000–240.000+ ( Zhou Yuove procjene)^[1]^[2] )

Žrtve i gubici

nepoznati

nepoznati, iako značajni

Bitka kod Crvenih stijena, također poznata i kao Bitka kod Chibija, (pojednostavljeni kineski: 赤壁之战; tradicionalni kineski: 赤壁之戰; pinyin: Chì bì zhī zhàn) se odigrala na rijeci Yangtze zimi 208/09.^[3] između snaga sjevernog kineskog gospodara rata Cao Caoa na jednoj, i saveza južnih gospodara rata Liu Beija i Sun Quana na drugoj strani. Predstavljala je po angažiranim snagama najveći i po posljedicama najvažniji okršaj u periodu kraja dinastije Han. Iako je Cao Cao raspolagao sa više nego uvjerljivom brojčanom nadmoći u ljudstvu, saveznici su mu, koristeći superiorne pomorske vještine, nanijeli težak poraz i tako trajno zaustavili njegove pokušaje da ponovno ujedini Kinu pod svojom vlašću, koja se nakon toga permanentno podijelila na Tri kraljevstva

Opisi same bitke se razlikuju u detaljima, a njena precizna lokacija je već vijekovima predmet rasprava među historičarima (de Crespigny 2004:256 78n), pri čemu se kao najozbiljniji kandidati spominju južna obala Yangtzea, jugozapadno od današnjeg Wuhana i sjeveroistočno od Baqiua (suvremeni grad Yueyang u provinciji Hunan). Najdetaljniji opis bitke sadrži biografija Zhou Yua iz 3. vijeka u Zapisima Tri kraljevstva (Sanguo Zhi). Bitka, značajno romantizirana i "začinjena" fikcijom, predstavlja jedan od najvažnijih dijelova radnje znamenitog romana Romansa Tri kraljevstva. Zapadnoj javnosti je, pak, poznata i po prikazu u kineskom filmskom spektaklu Crvena stijena koga je 2008. režirao John Woo.

Napomene

↑ "「彼所將中國人不過十五六萬，且已久疲；所得表眾亦極七八萬耳，尚懷狐疑。」" Zhou Yu only included two groups of Cao Cao's forces in his estimation: According to the head of the Social Sciences Department of Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Di Yongjun (邸永君), the phrase "中國人" were referring to the troops from the capital and surrounding area. See The origin of the word "中國" and look at the line "指天子直接統治地區，即京畿。如諸葛亮曾對吳主孫權雲：“若能以吳越之眾與中國抗衡，不如早與之絕”。", which quotes Zhuge Liang's speech intended to persuade Sun to battle Cao. The other group was the newly surrendered Chu region navy.
↑ 「諸人徒見操書言水步八十萬而各恐懾，不復料其虛實」Most people's estimation was quite different to that of Zhou Yu, but the latter claimed the former "did not saw through Cao's exaggeration."
↑ "The engagement at the Red Cliffs took place in the winter of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, probably about the end of Western 208."(de Crespigny 2004:264)

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