"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a well-known classic, many of which have many allusions, and this straw boat borrowing arrow is known to everyone and everyone. At that time, Liu Bei and Eastern Wu united to resist Cao Cao's army, but because The Governor of Eastern Wu, Zhou Yu, had always been jealous of Zhuge Liang's talents, he used his position advantage to give Zhuge Liang a seemingly impossible task, asking Zhuge Liang to sacrifice 100,000 arrows in three days. However, the result was unexpected by Zhou Yu, and Zhuge Liang actually completed this task!
Of course, everyone also knows that if you only rely on the craftsmanship of Zhuge Liang's craftsmen, this task is naturally impossible to complete, otherwise Zhou Yu would not have used this task to deliberately make Zhuge Liang difficult. Therefore, Zhuge Liang relied on his clever mind, taking advantage of the heavens, the earth, and the people, to "borrow" 100,000 arrows from Cao Cao. Through this story, not only zhuge Liang's resourcefulness is shown, but also Zhou Yu's intolerability is reflected. However, now many people have thought of such a question, what would happen if Cao Cao had fired a rocket at that time? If it is a rocket, Zhuge Liang may be gone, and there will be no liu bei in the future!
So the question is, why did Cao Cao not use rockets at that time? Judging from the analysis of the situation at that time, the reasons why Cao Cao did not use the rocket were mainly as follows: First, in the foggy weather by the river, the rocket may not be useful. At that time, Zhuge Liang took advantage of the weather and seized the opportunity to launch an attack at three o'clock in the morning. At this time, the river is foggy, the humidity is heavy, and the rocket may not be able to produce good results! After all, the use of a rocket must have several elements: dry weather, meet the combustion conditions, and have enough combustible materials to achieve the desired effect. At that time, on the river, the situation of the other party could not be determined, and the air was very humid, which was really not a good opportunity to use rockets.
Second, the cost of using a rocket is relatively large, and if you are not careful, you will hurt yourself, so Cao Cao must use a rocket only when he is protecting his own safety. First of all, the cost of making rockets at that time was more expensive than ordinary arrows. Secondly, in order to adapt his army to life on the water, Cao Cao at that time connected all his big ships together. In such a situation, in case one is not careful, the rocket does not light the other party, may burn itself first, then it is really lifting a stone to drop its own feet! Therefore, from the perspective of his own safety, Cao Cao naturally had to use the least cost to obtain the greatest benefits. Because Cao Cao's main purpose at that time was to expel the enemy, after all, the natural conditions at that time were really not to use combat.
Third, there may be a rush in time. At that time, the battle time was three o'clock in the morning, which was the best time to sleep, when the enemy suddenly attacked, and also beat the gong and drum, in such a situation, the Cao army was naturally a bit of a soldier, and it took a certain amount of time to prepare the rocket. Moreover, one of the most realistic problems is that the borrowing of arrows by grass boats is originally a fictional story written by the author Luo Guanzhong. In this story, the author demeans Zhou Yu's "stinginess" and Cao Cao's "stupidity" on the one hand, and also reflects Zhuge Liang's wit and tolerance on the other hand. So, in such an obviously biased fictional story, why would the author give Cao Cao time to think?
In fact, the protagonists of the real "grass boat borrowing arrows" in history are not Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu at all, but Sun Quan. However, this Sun Quan was not deliberately going to routine Cao Cao's arrows because of insufficient weapons, but when he sneaked up on Cao Cao, he was discovered by Cao Cao, and then Cao Jun fired ten thousand arrows in unison, and Sun Quan who shot quickly fled, and when he fled back, he found that he was not only fine, but also got back a lot of Cao Jun's arrows. As a result, on the basis of the original history, the author has adapted and rendered another different story. I have to say that we all blame this "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for being written too really, causing many people to think that this is the real history of the Three Kingdoms, and ignore that it is just a story written by Luo Guanzhong.