Zhuge Liang used a straw boat to shoot arrows. Why didn't Cao Cao use rockets?

As we all know, among the three countries, borrowing arrows from grass boats is one of the famous bridges. In order to make things difficult for Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu put forward the requirement of 10 to build 65438+ ten thousand arrows a day. Knowing the level of science and technology at that time, it was almost impossible to complete this task, but Zhuge Liang was very calm. He said that he could make 65,438+10,000 arrows in three days, and Zhou Yu could only give himself 20 straw boats. Zhou Yu seemed to believe it or not, and immediately arranged for 20 straw boats to be lent to Zhuge Liang. The next day, Zhuge Liang took advantage of Cao Cao's suspicious character in foggy days and sent 20 straw boats to borrow 65.438+10,000 arrows by the river.

Of course, the story of this bridge in Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not true history. But many people will ask, if this kind of thing really happened in history, would Cao Cao ignite the straw boat with a rocket when he saw it? In that case, what is the ending?

In fact, this question is not unheard of by Cao Cao himself, but you should know that Cao Cao is facing Zhuge Liang, who is ingenious, and Zhuge Liang certainly will not put himself in such a dangerous desperate situation. Because fire attack still needs four important factors: first, we must have a clear goal. If there is no clear goal, launching more rockets will not help. Second, the weather is dry; If the weather is wet, the torch will not burn at all; Third, there are combustible substances to support combustion, and each arrow must have enough substances to provide combustion; Fourth, there is strong wind to support combustion.

Zhuge Liang, on the other hand, took advantage of the right time and the right place to get off the boat in foggy weather. Cao Cao doesn't even know where Zhuge Liang is. The weather is wet, and this is a water war. Warships are less likely to catch fire, and Cao Cao doesn't know that the other ship is a straw boat. How can he fly a rocket? And there is fog as a bunker. If the straw boat catches fire, Zhuge Liang can put out the fire while retreating. But Battle of Red Cliffs Cao Cao's warships are different. Their ships are one after another.

In fact, it is true that grass boats borrowed arrows in history, but it was not Zhuge Liang who borrowed arrows, but Sun Quan of the State of Wu. There was a battle between Cao Cao and Sun Quan's army. Cao Cao's swords were all shot on the ship, but Sun Quan turned the bow to prevent the ship from tilting, so that the arrows were aligned and the ship was flat. Finally, Sun Quan also went back. Unexpectedly, this story was changed to Luo Guanzhong, and Zhuge Liang borrowed an arrow from a straw boat. But looking back, in that chaotic era, there were indeed many talents. Finally, it is also famous for thousands of years and has always been praised by everyone.