Borrowing an arrow from a straw boat is a story in China's classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Borrowing arrows from straw boats is a famous bridge in Battle of Red Cliffs of the Three Kingdoms. Borrowing arrows was deliberately put forward by Zhou Yu (limited to 100 thousand arrows in ten days). The witty Zhuge Liang saw through it at a glance and said calmly that it only took three days.

Later, Zhuge Liang used the foggy days and Cao Cao's suspicious character to lure the enemy with several straw boats, and finally borrowed 100 thousand arrows, which made a great difference.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang was praised by later generations for his courage and wisdom in shooting arrows with straw boats, which resulted in many idioms and drama performances.

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The reason why Zhuge Caochuan borrowed an arrow:

First of all, you can borrow an arrow from Zhuge Liang. Aren't you afraid that Cao Jun will launch warships with rockets? You know, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, rockets did appear and began to be used. At first glance, this does make some sense. It's both a wooden boat and a scarecrow, but they're all flammable!

If Cao Jun launches rockets, let alone100000 rockets, these light grass boats can be completely burned. If so, I'm afraid this poem will praise Cao Cao. However, Cao thinks that Zhuge Liang can do the same. After all, fire attack is still the trump card. But Zhuge Liang decided that Cao Cao could not use rockets.

First, everyone should understand the practicality of rockets. To put it bluntly, a rocket is to wrap a tarpaulin on an ordinary arrow and then ignite it with fuel. But in this way, the penetration of the arrow is greatly reduced, and it is basically impossible to penetrate the board from a long distance. In addition, the weight of the rocket has increased, its shape has changed and its range has been greatly reduced. So rockets often go directly into the water and go out without even entering the board.

You know it was foggy. What does this mean? The high air humidity makes it more difficult for warships to ignite. In this way, the role of rockets is greatly weakened. In fact, rockets are more used to burn enemy granaries, so you can burn them whether you shoot or not. Rockets play little role in water warfare.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will know that if rockets are really useful, you just need to take advantage of the east wind and send thousands of rockets directly. Where do you need Zhou Yu and Huang Gai to try their best to make risks? In the end, you have to make a fireboat to hit people.

Then there is the production of rockets. As I said just now, both tarpaulins and fuel are needed. So the demand for oil and cloth for rockets is huge, and considering that rockets are of little use in water wars, Cao Cao certainly won't carry a lot of oil and cloth for rockets. Moreover, rockets are used now, and it is difficult to store them for a long time. Cao Cao's expedition to the south is also under great pressure, and it is difficult to do it now.

Therefore, it is difficult to see in hard battles, positional wars, mobile wars and encounters. To sum up, even if Cao Cao wanted to shoot a rocket at that time, the objective conditions could not be reached. On the other hand, in the foggy weather at that time, Cao Cao could not see Zhuge Liang's reality, and Zhuge Liang did not know the position of Cao Jun.

At this time, the two sides are fighting like blind people, and no one can see who is who. You can earn it by just hitting it with a turtle fist. However, if Cao Jun releases rockets at this time, the battlefield will show a scene of darkness in the river and flickering flames on the shore. This is equivalent to Cao Jun putting a flare in his position. Cao Jun on the shore felt that he was completely seen by the enemy under the high-power searchlight.

Then the battle becomes a blind man beating the blind. Moreover, this blind man's arrow is not as sharp as the one shot from the opposite side, and it is also lethal. In this way, if someone sneaks up on the river at night, normal commanders will not fire rockets.

In fact, on the other hand, the arrow borrowed by the straw boat is just an arrow borrowed by Luo Guanzhong for Zhuge Liang in the novel, and the real situation has nothing to do with Zhuge Liang. Is there anything about borrowing arrows from grass boats in history? Of course, it happened during the Three Kingdoms period, but the protagonist has nothing to do with Zhuge Liang. It was Cao Cao who said that having children was like his Sun Quan. I think Sun Quan in real history is far more existential than that in romance novels.

In the eighteenth year of Jian 'an, that is, five years after Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao came to ruxu with his army. Wu Dong and Cao Wei confronted each other at the mouth of ruxu for 1 month, during which many well-known allusions happened, including borrowing an arrow from a straw boat. It is said that during the confrontation, Sun Quan personally sailed out of the camp to see the actual situation of Cao Jun. ..

But not wanting to be discovered by Jun, Cao Jun shot thousands of arrows in unison. In a flash, many arrows were inserted on the ship's side, which made the weight on both sides of the ship different and made the ship shake. Seeing that the ship was about to sink slowly, Sun Quan had a flash of light, turned the bow and let the ship on the other side get an arrow.

Then the ship regained its balance. As a result, Sun Quan not only left safely, but also harvested many arrows. This is the prototype of the grass boat borrowing arrows, but when it arrived in Luo Guanzhong, it not only advanced the time by five years, but also turned the object of borrowing arrows into Kongming.

But judging from the plot development of the novel, Zhuge borrowed arrows to make the plot more tortuous and attractive. Although the content has fictional elements, it also makes the characters fuller and more colorful. It also successfully shaped the image of Zhuge Liang as a wise man, and made this figure spread for hundreds of years.

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