In 208 BC, on the eve of the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao's State of Wei ranked first among the Three Kingdoms with millions of strong soldiers and a vast territory, while Liu Bei and Sun Quan could only take care of themselves with their own strength, facing the tiger-wolf Cao army, annexation was sooner or later, if they wanted to survive, they could only huddle together for warmth, but the State of Shu was a political enemy, and if they wanted to cooperate with each other with confidence, they must go through a test, so the State of Shu sent Zhuge Liang to Eastern Wu in the name of Wolong to lobby for cooperation.
Zhuge Liangcao borrowed arrows from the grass boat, why didn't Cao Cao release the rocket?
Like Zhou Yu, the commander of the three armies of the State of Wu, who was born in 175 AD, among the teenagers whose fame was unknown to everyone in Eastern Wu, in the face of Zhou Lang whose fame overshadowed him, his heart was very unhappy, and being able to compete with Zhuge Liang was also the obsession in Zhou Yu's heart, so after Zhuge Liang arrived in Eastern Wu, facing Zhou Yu's prestige, he asked Zhuge Liang to build 100,000 arrows in ten days in the name of cooperation to show the sincerity of cooperation, and Zhuge Liang faced this impossible task, indifferently waving a fan, saying that it could be completed in as long as there were three days. And also made a military order, the punishment of Zhou Yu will not be too good, at this time Zhou Yu was full of joy, concluding that this Zhuge Liang is a braggart with no real talent.
After Zhuge Liang agreed to the task of making arrows, he did not ask the soldiers of Eastern Wu to do the materials and work of making arrows, because he had long expected that Zhou Yu would do the work of making arrows, and there would be stumbling blocks in these processes, but he just found his friend Lu Su at that time to borrow some fast boats, scarecrows, pawns and drums in charge of the boat, and after getting ready, he went to Eastern Wu to play in the mountains and enjoy himself, Zhou Yu saw this scene, and concluded that Zhuge Liang would not be able to create 100,000 arrows within three days, and even thought about how to punish Zhuge Liang.
Early in the morning of the last day of the mission, taking advantage of the hazy fog by the river, Zhuge Liang ordered the ship to sail directly to Cao Cao's naval camp, and when it was close, the fleet swung open word by word, and let all the non-commissioned officers beat the drum and shout, Cao Cao saw the situation and thought that someone was attacking, and immediately ordered the arrows to expel the attackers, which was exactly the effect that Zhuge Liang hoped, facing the rain of arrows in the sky, facing the full ship of arrows that were shot back, Zhuge Liang was dumbfounded, and when Lu Su informed him of the process of "making arrows", Zhou Yu sighed: "Zhuge Liang's divine calculations, I'm not as good as him. ”
And in the face of Zhuge Liang's army of grass people, why didn't Cao Cao directly order the launch of rockets? In fact, the reason is also very simple, in ancient times, rockets are wrapped in oil to launch, these incendiary materials themselves are not easy to store, if prepared in advance, it is likely to cause a fire, basically are prepared before the siege or war, and Zhuge Liang is before the raid, Cao Jun is not prepared at all, plus the fog of the day, can not see Zhuge Liang's situation, rushing to use rockets is also easy to cause accidental injuries, and Cao Jun is not familiar with water warfare, their own naval camps are connected with their own ships in a row, if the use of rockets, Even if it could destroy the enemy, the ships that were on fire, if they drifted to their own camps, would have disastrous consequences for their own army, and Zhuge Liang only saw through these points before going to Cao Cao to borrow arrows.