As one of the four famous works, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has been loved by many readers, which has also given birth to many famous classic stories, such as the chapter of "Grass Boat Borrowing Arrows", Zhou Yu in order to frame Zhuge Liang, ordered him to make 100,000 arrows in ten days, but the witty Zhuge Liang calmly said "only three days can be", with the help of Lu Su, Zhuge Liang took advantage of Cao Cao's suspicious personality, adjusted several grass boats to lure the enemy, and finally borrowed more than 100,000 arrows, so angry that Cao Cao's head smoked, Perhaps some readers who understand weapons will wonder why Cao Cao would rather shoot 100,000 arrows than rockets at that time. What is he worried about?
If he adopts the method of fire attack, then the outcome of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms may have to be rewritten, so let us analyze it well. As we all know, in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao lost because of the fire attack, first Pang Tong used a serial meter, and then Huang Gai surrendered, but Cao Cao was born in the north, and there was no such thing as not using fire attack.
First of all, the rocket is not a cheap item, sulfur, fire oil are rare materials, and it was a foggy day, the exact location of the enemy, how many people are not clear, how can you easily release arrows? In addition, Zhuge Liang was a surprise attack, and there were certain reasons for insufficient preparation.
Let's look at Zhuge Liang's side again, how did he prepare to borrow arrows? "So he ordered twenty boats to be connected with a long rope, looking straight ahead on the north shore", Cao Cao's ships were connected, and here Zhuge Liang was also connected by boats. Cao Cao was not a fool, in the Battle of Chibi, did he really not mention fire attack at all? Of course not, when some of his subordinates were worried about the fire attack of Eastern Wu, Cao Cao once smiled and said, "Whoever attacks with fire will rely on the power of the wind." Fang this is the middle of winter, but there is a west wind and a north wind, and ann has an east wind and a south wind? I dwell in the northwest, and his soldiers are on the south shore, and if he uses fire, he burns his own soldiers, so why should I be afraid? ”
To put it bluntly, he also realized the terrible point of the opposite fire attack, just thinking that it would not happen to him, but when Zhuge Liang's iron cable-connected ships were swung open, and there were flammable grass stacks on them, at this time it was close to cao's camp, and when the time came to put a rocket to ignite it, Zhuge Liang let these ships rush over and ignite Dazhai, how should it be good?
This became the reason why Cao Cao resolutely refused to release the rocket.
After all, Zhuge Liang's old rival Sima Yi also said: Liang Ping was cautious in life, and Zhuge Liang could not put himself in such a dangerous environment, so after he sent sun quan to persuade him to unite against Cao, he returned to Liu Bei's camp and did not stay in Eastern Wu, at this time Zhou Yu was still training troops at Poyang Lake, and Kong Ming and Zhou Yu were likely not to see each other.
So who is the protagonist of the real straw boat borrowing arrows? In fact, Sun Quan, according to the Wei Luo, mentioned: "Quan came to watch the army on a large ship, the minister's bow and crossbow were fired randomly, the arrow was on his ship, the ship was heavy and overturned, Quan returned to the ship, and the arrow was flat on one side, but it was returned." However, in this story, Sun Quan did not have the intention of borrowing arrows, he took a boat to peek at Cao Cao's camp, because Cao Jun's arrows shot on the ship, so that the ship was unevenly forced, so he tilted the other side over, the arrows were flat, and left safely, and Luo Guanzhong should also be inspired by this example to write the story of Kong Ming borrowing arrows.