Lu Xun burns even the camp

loudly to lure us to fight, we can't fall for their trick."

The generals were still not convinced. After a few days, Liu Bei saw that the Eastern Wu soldiers refused to fight, and knew that Lu Xun had seen through his ploy, so he withdrew the 8,000 Shu troops from the valley one after another. Only then did the Eastern Wu generals know that Lu Xun was right.

One day, Lu Xun suddenly summoned his generals and announced that he would attack the Shu army. The generals said, "If we want to fight Liu Bei, we should have done it long ago. Now we have let him in for five or six hundred miles, and the main passages are all occupied by him. We won't be able to gain anything by fighting through."

Lu Xun explained to them, "When Liu Bei first came in, his morale was so high that we could not win easily. Now, they have been here for this many days and have not been able to take advantage of the situation, the soldiers are already fatigued. It is time for us to win the battle."

He sent a small force to attack one of Shu's battalions first, and just as they approached the wooden fence of Shu's camp, Shu soldiers rushed out from the left and right to fight; then soldiers from several nearby company battalions also came out to reinforce them. The Eastern Wu soldiers could not resist and retreated quickly, having lost many men and horses.

When the generals complained about Lu Xun, Lu Xun said, "This is my way to test their reality.

Now I have a way to break the Shu camp."That night, Lu Xun ordered his generals to bring a bunch of thatch and kindling each, and ambushed them in the dense forest on the south shore, waiting for the third night to go straight to the river and set fire to the camp.

On the third night, four generals of the Eastern Wu led tens of thousands of soldiers to rush close to the Shu camp, lit torches with thatch, and set fire to the wooden fence of the camp. That night, the wind was blowing very hard, and the camps of the Shu army were all connected, so when one camp was set on fire, the nearby camps also burned together. In one fell swoop, more than forty of Liu Bei's camps were broken.

By the time Liu Bei discovered the fire, he was unable to resist. Under the protection of Shu soldiers, Liu Bei finally broke out of the fire net and escaped to Maanshan.

Lu Xun ordered all the Wu troops to surround Ma'anshan and launched a fierce attack. The tens of thousands of Shu troops who remained on Ma'anshan were all scattered at once, with countless dead and wounded. Liu Bei fled with the remnants of his army until nightfall. The Wu army found out and chased after him. Thanks to the post stations along the way, Liu Bei was able to escape to Baidi City (on Baidi Mountain in Fengjie County, Sichuan) by blocking the mountain pass with the provisions and armor he had left behind.

In this battle, almost all of Shu's army was wiped out, and all ships, instruments, and military supplies were seized by the Wu army. History calls this battle the "Battle of Yiling" or the "Battle of Yiling".

After his defeat, Liu Bei regretted and hated it, saying, "Is it not the will of God that I should be defeated by Lu Xun?" After a year, he fell ill in Yong'an (present-day Fengjie, Sichuan).