Ch'ih-pi

English Etymology From en cmn 赤壁, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chʻih⁴-pi⁴. Proper noun 1 1 en Chibi. en 1977 Dennis Bloodworth; Ching Ping Bloodworth The Chinese Machiavelli: 3,000 Years of Chinese Statecraft https://archive.org/details/chinesemachiavel00bloo/ Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 0-440-31267-1 3215573 172 https://archive.org/details/chinesemachiavel00bloo/page/172/ At Ch’ih-pi* on the Yangtse, the van of Ts’ao Ts’ao’s army met Lustrous Jade at the head of a combined force of 40,000 men—and was defeated on contact. *Near modern Hankow (Wuhan). en 1984 Witold Rodzinksi The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from 2000 BC to the Present https://archive.org/details/walledkingdomhi00rodz/ London Fontana Paperbacks 0-00-654043-0 702499063 22172591M 69 https://archive.org/details/walledkingdomhi00rodz/page/69/ His attempt in 208 to cross the Yangtse was frustrated in the famous battle of Ch'ih-pi, in which his immense fleet was destroyed by his enemies' fireships, and most of his army slain. en 1996 w:Jacques Gernet J. R. Foster; Charles Hartman A History of Chinese Civilization https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern_0/ 2nd w:Cambridge University Press 0-521-49781-7 248590749 176–177 https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern_0/page/177/ His ambitions had extended to the conquest of the Yangtze valley, but the famous battle of the Red Cliff (Ch’ih-pi), on the course of the great river in Hupei, had put a stop to this policy of expansion. Translations Chibi