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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 will always see here when he is young, he will imagine that Zhuge Liang brought straw boats,
Why didn't Cao Cao 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 careful study, it was found that
It's not that simple.
Straw boats borrow arrows
When Sun Liu united against Cao, Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent, so he thought of 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 extended 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, and he went to Cao Jun's water village,
When they returned, there were about 5,000 arrows on each ship
That is to say, Zhuge Liang did return with 100,000 arrows, and this result surprised everyone.
Cao Cao's side would rather lose more than 100,000 arrows rather than use rockets, for the following positive and negative views:
1、
From the perspective of history,
Rockets did first appear in the Three Kingdoms period,
But it's 20 years late
。
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 universally used.
Therefore, Cao Cao did not use rockets, but did not have them at all.
2、
novel perspective,
Cao Cao did not dare to release the rocket, because the enemy warship appeared suddenly, and the fog on the river surface could not be distinguished, even if he knew that the ship was all straw, he could not use the rocket. Because once the straw boat catches fire, it can directly crash into its own water village,
At that time, he 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.