Is the Battle of Red Cliff a Tale of Three Kingdoms?

Broadly speaking, the Battle of Red Cliffs refers to the series of battles fought by Prime Minister Cao Cao of the Eastern Han Dynasty after he traveled south, but it can also refer to the battles fought at Red Cliffs on the Yangtze River (northwest of the city of Chibi in present-day Hubei Province, or northeast of present-day Jiayu). It is one of the most famous battles in Chinese history, and one of the most famous of the "Three Battles" of the Three Kingdoms period. It was also the first large-scale river battle fought in the Yangtze River Basin in Chinese history, marking that the military and political center of China was no longer limited to the Yellow River Basin. General Xianghe once exchanged 15 cities with the king of Zhao for the Heshi Bi (和氏璧)