In Fiction
The battle was dramatized in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with the inclusion of some fictional events and modifications to actual ones. In the novel, the battle was divided into two stages, with the first at Xiaopei (present-day Pei County, Jiangsu) and the second at Xiapi (present-day Pizhou, Jiangsu).
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