The straw boat borrowed arrows is a story from the classic literary masterpiece "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which takes place inThe Battle of Red CliffsAgainst this historical background. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the author Luo Guanzhong depicts the scene where Zhuge Liang used his wits to skillfully "borrow" a large number of arrows from the enemy Cao Cao through rich imagination and artistic processing.
The specific plot is as follows: The Battle of Chibi took place in 208 AD (the thirteenth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty), and the Eastern Wu led by Sun Quan allied with Liu Bei against the Cao Wei army led by Cao Cao. In the preparation stage of the campaign, Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang and deliberately proposed an almost impossible task - asking Zhuge Liang to make 100,000 arrows within a limited time to fight on the front line. Zhuge Liang calmly dealt with it, confidently saying that it would only take three days, and made a military order.
In the early morning of the third day, there was a heavy fog on the river, and Zhuge Liang ordered people to connect the grass boats prepared in advance into a row and sail to the waters of Caoying. Due to the thick fog, Cao Cao's army could not see who was coming, and only listened to the sound of drums that shook the sky, so they mistakenly judged that the enemy was coming, so they ordered to shoot arrows to defend against the enemy. As a result, the straw boat was loaded with soldiers beating drums and shouting to create momentum, and on the other hand, with the help of fog, it successfully "borrowed" tens of thousands of arrows, which not only exceeded the task, but also showed its extraordinary wisdom and courage.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a literary work, and many of its events have been artfully fictionalized and exaggerated. According to historical records, there is no record of "straw boats borrowing arrows" in the real Battle of Chibi in history. The protagonist of similar events mentioned in historical books such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is Sun Quan and not Zhuge Liang, and the situation is different from the description of **. Sun Quan did have the experience of using ships to lure the other party to shoot arrows in a water battle with Cao Cao, but there is no such detail as "borrowing arrows".
Straw boats borrow arrows