Wupin Wenshi | Wen
Straw boat borrowing arrows is a very famous bridge section in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", showing Zhuge Liang's ability to be good at scheming and understanding astronomical geography, the author always sees this place when he is young, he will imagine, Zhuge Liang brought straw boats, why cao Cao did not use rockets?
Even if it is because the fog on the river surface can not see the straw on the ship, the ship is always made of wood, using rockets to attack, is not the same as the purpose of driving away the enemy? Maybe you can also burn the warship on the other side, isn't it better to kill two birds with one stone? But after a closer look, it turned out that things were not so simple.
When Cao Chuan borrowed arrows from Sun Liu to unite against Cao, Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent, so he came up with a plan, the purpose of which was to put Zhuge Liang to death, that is, to let Zhuge Liang build 100,000 arrows within the time limit, and Zhuge Liang held out three fingers, indicating that it could be completed in three days.
Everyone knew that this was an impossible thing to accomplish, so everyone was quietly waiting to see Zhuge Liang's good play.
The famous eastern Wu minister Lu Su was very worried about this, and he advised Zhuge Liang to be too hasty and take on this kind of unfinished task, while Zhuge Liang would smile and say that he had already made up his mind, and asked Lu Su to help find 20 boats, and put up straw people on both sides, and the rest of the things were left to himself.
When everything was ready, Zhuge Liang invited Lu Su to board the ship and ordered all the ships to sail to Cao Jun's water village, which made Lu Su, who was sitting on the boat, very worried.
However, his worries were superfluous, he went to Cao Jun's water village, and after returning, there were about 5,000 arrows on each ship, that is, Zhuge Liang did come back with 100,000 arrows, which surprised everyone.
Cao Cao's side would rather lose more than 100,000 arrows rather than use rockets, mainly because of the following positive and negative views: 1. From the perspective of history, rockets did appear as early as the Three Kingdoms period, but the time was 20 years later.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, in 228 AD, when Zhuge Liang attacked Chen Cang of the State of Wei, the State of Wei used this rocket, so that the ladder of Zhuge Liang's siege of the city was completely burned, which eventually led to the failure of Zhuge Liang's siege of the city.
In addition, the original version of the story of "grass boat borrowing arrows" is Sun Quan, but the author "moved the palace to change feathers" to Zhuge Liang, even so, when Sun Quan's real version of "grass boat borrowing arrows", rockets have not been widely used, so Cao Cao did not use rockets, but did not have them at all.
2, the perspective of the novel, Cao Cao did not dare to release the rocket, because the enemy warship is suddenly appearing, and the fog on the river surface can not be distinguished, even if you know that the ship is a little straw, you can not use the rocket. Because once the straw boat catches fire, it can directly crash into its own water village, at that time you may lose the entire water village, and even the warships in the water village may be burned.
And the other party only lost some grass boats, this kind of gain is not worth the loss, Cao Cao will not do it, so he just uses the bow and arrow to force the ship back.
But Lu Su did not understand, he was still asking Zhuge Liang, if Cao Cao used rockets how to be good, Zhuge Liang explained, Lu Su listened to it, and praised it one after another: "It seems that this is Cao Cao's clever move." ”
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by the author reveals mysteries everywhere, and a "straw boat borrowing arrows" can not only see Zhuge Liang's wisdom, but also understand Cao Cao's sinister cunning, no wonder this book can be listed as one of the four famous works.