The main content: borrowing arrows by zhou Yu intentionally put forward (limited to ten days to make 100,000 arrows), the wisdom of zhuge Liang recognized at once is a harmful plan, but calmly said "only need three days". Later, a foggy day to help, Zhuge Liang and then take advantage of Cao Cao's suspicious character, transferred a few grass boats to lure the enemy, and finally borrowed more than 100,000 arrows, a miraculous achievement.

But the straw boat borrowed arrows, history or indeed happened, but the main character is not Zhuge Liang, but Sun Quan. Sun Quan did not take a light boat, but a large one. Cao Cao also did not say that bows and crossbows should not be fired, but ordered arrows to be fired. As a result, all the arrows hit Sun Quan's boat, and the boat tilted to one side. Sun Quan ordered the boat to turn around, so that "the arrows would even out the boat," and then went back to the ship.

Expanded:

According to the relevant records of Pei Songzhi's note in the "Three Kingdoms Chronicle - The Biography of Lord Wu," in the 18th year of Jian'an (213), i.e., five years after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao pacified Guanzhong, and led his army Cao Cao led his army southward to attack Sun Wu. Sun Quan led his troops to meet the battle, and the two armies met at the mouth of Moo Shu, where the water of the Yangtze River enters Chaohu Lake.

Cao Cao, frustrated, defended his camp and waited for an opportunity to fight. One day, Sun Quan took advantage of the mist on the river to enter the front line of Cao Cao's army from the mouth of the Moo Shu River on a light warship and observe Cao Cao's deployment. Cao Cao was suspicious, and when he saw the mist on the river and the solemnity of Sun's army, he was afraid that he might be deceived and did not dare to go to war, so he ordered his bows and crossbows to shoot at Wu's ships.

Sun Quan's ship was soon filled with arrows, and the ship was tilting and sinking as one side of the ship was heavily loaded with arrows. Sun Quan ordered the ship to turn around and let the other side receive arrows. After the ship was stabilized, Sun Quan commanded the ships to form up and slowly leave, and only then did Cao Cao realize that he had been fooled.

This is just one of the stories that happened to Sun Quan, who initially did not realize that the ship would be hit by so many arrows that it would capsize, but was just trying to think of something clever to do in the heat of the moment. He didn't plan to "borrow arrows", and the history books don't say it was a straw boat.

Since Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", people use it as a standard to measure and evaluate the characters of the Three Kingdoms, most people only know that there is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so the "straw boat to borrow arrows" protagonist became Zhuge Liang.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Borrowing Arrows in a Grass Boat (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms)

Phoenix - "Borrowing Arrows in a Grass Boat" is a borrowed story, and "Born of Yoga, Born of Brightness" is an injustice