Chapter 123

In the Three Kingdoms Plane, on the very eve of the Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao's camp was a scene of song and dance. He had recently acquired the Fledgling Phoenix. Master Shui Jing had once said that with either the Crouching Dragon or the Fledgling Phoenix, one could secure the realm. True to these words, the Fledgling Phoenix, Pang Tong, had just scored a major merit by presenting the strategy of chaining the warships together with iron planks. This completely resolved the fatal weakness of the Cao Army's northern soldiers, who were unaccustomed to naval warfare and vulnerable to the tossing waves. Seeing that victory in the Battle of Red Cliffs was now firmly within his grasp, Cao Cao ordered the court musicians to host a banquet with singing and dancing. Seized by a sudden surge of poetic inspiration, he desired to compose a verse.