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The romance of the Three Kingdoms is really a three-point holiday. It is almost indisputable that seven minutes really tells the true history, and three minutes' rest enhances the charm of history. After all, compared with history, the novel has more wonderful one-on-one fights, which makes people excited, and the mutual calculation between counselors is even more amazing. For example, after Liu Bei was defeated by Changbanpo, Zhuge Liang sent messengers to Jiangdong to persuade Sun Quanlian to resist Cao Liu and design Battle of Red Cliffs with Zhou Yu. In this process, he and Zhou Yu were allies, but because of their high talent, they refused to join the Jiangdong camp, which aroused Zhou Yu's fear and caused Zhou Yu to always want to kill him.

Although Zhou Yu is both civil and military, Zhuge Liang is just a weak scholar. It is very simple for Zhou Yu to kill Zhuge Liang. However, due to the alliance between the two sides, he could not directly start work, so he thought of a despicable means-let Zhuge Liang make a written pledge to fulfill a military order, build 100 thousand arrows in ten days, and plan to slay Zhuge Liang after the mission failed. However, Zhuge Liang took the initiative to shorten the time limit to three days, so he had a later straw boat to borrow arrows.

Most people can't help admiring such a wonderful battle of wits, but some friends, with more consideration, raised the question, that is, what would Zhuge Liang do if Cao Cao ordered the release of rockets instead of ordinary arrows? After all, in that situation at that time, shooting rockets can not only see the number and position of the enemy clearly, but also produce stronger lethality. In addition, it was winter, and Zhuge Liang didn't take advantage of the east wind, so it was about the north wind, so Cao Cao didn't have to worry. The other party let the boat drift to his camp independently, so that people were burned to death.

Then why didn't Cao Cao order the rocket to be released? Is it because the author deliberately gave Zhuge Liang a halo in order to highlight his wisdom? Bian Xiao thinks the answer is no. There is a reason why Cao Cao didn't order the rocket to be released. First of all, because of technical limitations, rockets are not as easy to store as ordinary arrows, and they are easy to fail because of moisture or fire, so in most cases they are specially prepared when needed. At this time, Zhuge Liang's ship suddenly arrived, making a noise and creating the momentum of the army's attack. For Cao Jun, it is obviously too late to prepare the rocket.

In fact, it is clearly mentioned in the novel that there was fog at that time, otherwise Zhuge Liang would not dare to bluff and borrow an arrow from the straw boat. In this weather, the air is very humid, so even if Cao Ying has a rocket reserve, it is not easy to ignite, and it does not play much role at all, so it is not as practical as ordinary arrows. So you don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Moreover, since Zhuge Liang dared to do so, it showed that he had long expected that Cao Cao did not dare to launch rockets or attack with fire. In addition to the above two reasons, it also has a certain relationship with Cao Cao's psychological shadow. What's going on here? After reading the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is not difficult to find that Cao Cao's several defeats were mostly related to fire-for example, he was surrounded by Lu Bu's army in Puyang War and almost died in flames; In the battle of Wancheng, Zhang Xiu's rebellion began with "the fire on the grass cart"; Later, Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain and burned Bowangpo first and then Xinye, which dealt a great blow to Cao Jun again.

Perhaps these wars left a deep psychological shadow on Cao Cao. He has been a soldier for more than 30 years and has hardly used fire. Zhuge Liang may have realized this long ago, expecting that Cao Cao wouldn't dare and wouldn't use rockets to make arrows, so he made a plan to borrow arrows from grass boats.

After the overall analysis, it is not difficult to know that although it is not mentioned in the novel, Zhuge Liang has long realized that his plan to release arrows by borrowing straw boats will be successful and will never be attacked by rockets, thus falling short.