The story of the grass boat borrowing arrows is very popular, and everyone admires Zhuge Liang so much that he throws himself to the ground, but what the little rabbit wants to tell everyone is that this story is actually Installed by Luo Guanzhong in order to highlight Zhuge Liang's divine ingenuity, in fact, the person who really borrowed the arrow is Sun Quan, which is recorded as follows in "Wei Luo":
Quan came to watch the army on a large ship, the minister fired crossbows randomly, the arrows hit his ship, the ship was heavy and overturned, Quan returned to the ship, and received arrows on one side, and the arrows were flattened, but they were returned.
This is the prototype of the straw boat borrowing arrows, "Wei Luo" is a history book that records the State of Wei in the Three Kingdoms Era of China, and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel written by Mr. Luo Guanzhong, in terms of credibility, "Wei Luo" is much more real than "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". So let's review the background of the real version of the grass boat borrowing arrows.
The Battle of Chibi took place in the 13th year of Jian'an, sun and Liu's army defeated Cao Cao, but at that time, Cao Cao was not as bad as in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, according to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", after his army was caught in Zhou Yu's fire attack, some of the warships were burned, and Cao Cao simply burned the remaining warships and led his army to Jiangling through Huarong. Sun Liu's combined forces advanced on land and water, trailing the Cao army and pursuing them closely. Because before the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was very strong, and Sun Liu's coalition army was too weak, and it was a fluke that Sun Liu's strength could win the battle, and there was no spare strength to set up an ambush on the road of Cao Cao's defeat and retreat, so when Cao Cao was defeated, there was no ambush, and he actually retreated very safely.
When returning to the base camp, Cao Cao did not panic to take revenge, but stabilized the rear, the most beautiful thing he did was to crush Han Sui and Ma Chao, completely stabilizing the rear, so that when he made any more moves, he would not be involved in the rear, so that in the 18th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao's entire army attacked Sun Quan again, and Sun Quan took a big boat to see Cao Cao's camp, because of the long distance, Cao Cao was afraid of ambush, so he ordered to shoot arrows at Sun Quan's ships, so there was a scene of "grass boat borrowing arrows".
And we know that Luo Guanzhong, the author of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", has a preference for the Shu kingdom, so when writing the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the Shu kingdom is the party that represents justice, when describing the characters of the Shu kingdom, he does everything to the extreme, even if the Shu kingdom loses a big battle, he can also use the magic pen to circle it, when shaping the image of Zhuge Liang, put a lot of things that are not what he did, all installed on him, as a result, Sun Quan's "grass boat borrowing arrows" became Zhuge Liang's, and the time was not right, Zhuge Liang's was during the Chibi War, The real events took place after the Battle of Chibi.
There are still many similar plots, this Battle of Chibi has nothing to do with Zhuge Liang, and why should the grass boat borrow arrows? When you read the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", you still look at it according to the novel, and if you really want to understand the historical facts in this regard, you should still look at the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty", "Zizhi Tongjian" and other historical books, so as not to be misleading.