Grass boats borrow arrows - full loaded!
The borrowing of arrows from grass boats is a plot in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, where Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu bet to build 100,000 arrows in three days, and if they did not complete the task, Zhuge Liang was willing to be punished.
Zhuge Liang had already thought of a way to make arrows, that is, to borrow arrows from Cao Cao.
Zhuge Liang took advantage of the fog and drove more than a dozen grass boats to Cao Ying, Cao Cao thought that the Wu army had sneaked into the camp, so he quickly ordered the release of arrows, these arrows were shot on the grass boat, Zhuge Liang packed them all away, and thus gathered 100,000 arrows.
Of course, the story of Zhuge Liang's straw boat borrowing arrows is fictional, it is completely made up, and Zhuge Liang has not done this. Although Zhuge Liang's borrowing of arrows was false, Sun Quan's borrowing of arrows was true, but Sun Quan's original purpose was not to borrow arrows, but to protect himself, and the result was that he accidentally borrowed arrows.
"Wei Liu" said: "Quan came to watch the army by a large ship, the minister fired his crossbow randomly, the arrow 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." ”
Sun Quan came to watch Cao Jun with a large army, and Cao Cao hurriedly released arrows, which were all shot on the side of the ship, and as a result, the hull of the ship was unstable and was about to capsize.
At this time, Sun Quan hurriedly let the other side receive arrows, so as to maintain the balance of the hull, and after the hull was balanced, Sun Quan quickly withdrew his troops. Sun Quan also borrowed a full of arrows to go back, but his original purpose was not to borrow arrows, but to protect himself, and unexpectedly harvested some arrows.
In addition to Zhuge Liang and Sun Quan, there was another one who also borrowed arrows, he was Sun Quan's father, Sun Jian, known as the Tiger of Jiangdong. When Sun Jian attacked Jingzhou, Huang Zu ambushed the archers by the river and prepared to shoot Sun Jian.
Sun Jian knew that Huang Zu was ambushing and preparing to kill himself, so he asked the soldiers to swim around the river in a boat to attract Huang Zu's firepower. When Huang Zu saw that a boat was coming, he quickly ordered the release of arrows, regardless of whether there was anyone inside the ship.
In this way, Sun Jian let dozens of boats swim around in the river, Huang Zu saw the boat and released arrows, three days later, Huang Zu's arrows were shot out, and Sun Jian's arrows were too much to use, he "borrowed" Huang Zu's arrows to him.
Sun Jian borrowed arrows much earlier than Zhuge Liang borrowed arrows and Sun Quan borrowed arrows, and he was the originator of grass boat borrowing arrows!
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Luo, etc