Chapter 083: The grass boat borrows arrows

The world not only portrayed Zhuge Liang as the embodiment of wisdom, but also deified Zhuge Liang. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info said that Zhuge Liang's dress wears gossip clothes and Taoist scarves, and he looks different from mortals, a bit of a fairy style and bones, and a half-immortal body.

In fact, Zhuge Liang is good at understanding the situation, paying attention to investigation and research, and recording his experience at any time. This record book is not big, he always pretends to be in his sleeve, and when something happens, he takes out a small book from his sleeve to check the record. Zhuge Liang is also a person, but people are different from others, Zhuge Liang is a very smart person, well-read, well-versed in the present and the ancient, and knowledgeable.

Zhuge Liang, what does he learn?

First of all, Zhuge Liang was a politician, he decided to divide the world into three parts before he came out, and analyzed the political situation of Wei, Shu, and Wu at that time. He was a military strategist, he assisted Liu Bei, burned Bowangpo, burned Xinye, and won the battle with Cao's army.

Zhuge Liang is also an orator, he is good at speaking, his tongue is like a sword, his mouth is like a river, the most outstanding is the tongue battle group Confucianism, a bunch of Confucian scholars in Eastern Wu were speechless by him. Zhuge Liang is also a literary scholar, how well he wrote "The Former Teacher's Table" and "The Later Teacher's Table", in which the sentence was exhausted and died, it made people cry bitterly.

Zhuge Liang is also an inventor, he made wooden oxen and horses, also known as rollers, used to transport grain and grass, over the mountains and mountains, which is quite convenient.

All in all, Zhuge Liang's ability is big enough, and among the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu, no one can compare to him. Take the straw boat borrowing arrows as an example, Cao Cao and Zhou Yu let him be blinded. Although Sun Quan and Liu Bei jointly broke Cao, Zhou Yu saw that Zhuge Liang was quite capable, and wanted to test his ability, so he deliberately gave him a problem.

Zhou Yu invited Zhuge Liang to discuss the matter, asked him to supervise the construction of 100,000 arrows, and asked him if he could make them in ten days. Zhuge Liang said: "The big war is imminent, ten days to make arrows is too long, I'm afraid I can't deal with Cao Cao, I Kong Ming only need three days is enough, I will make 100,000 arrows within three days." ”

"What? Three days? Make 100,000 arrows in three days?" Zhou Yu thought to himself: This Zhuge Liang is really a big breath, how can he make 100,000 arrows in three days? Even if Lu Ban is alive, he can't do it.

Zhou Yu called the Department of Military Affairs and asked Zhuge Liang to write a military order in person, if he made less than 100,000 arrows within three days, but he had to deal with it by military law, Zhuge Liang's life would be lost.

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "From tomorrow, in three days, you can send five hundred soldiers to the river to carry arrows." ”

Zhuge Liang thought to himself: This is not for me to make arrows, but for me to change spells, and I want my head? There are not enough workers and materials, how can I make arrows? Zhuge Liang pondered: Come on, why don't I borrow arrows.

Who are you looking for to borrow arrows? Ask Cao Cao to borrow it, borrow it, borrow it for a while, but don't pay it back for a while.

Zhuge Liang cried to Lu Su and asked Lu Su to help him get twenty boats, six hundred sergeants, green cloth, straw and other things, waiting to be called. Lu Su privately gave Zhuge Liang all the sergeants and boats, and ordered the ships to be tied with green cloths, and many scarecrows were tied on both sides, and thirty sergeants were assigned to each boat, ready to be called.

The knowledge of borrowing arrows from grass boats is very big, including meteorology, geography, psychology, and mathematics, and 100,000 arrows cannot be borrowed.

Zhuge Liang pondered for a while, the weather was a little stuffy in the past two days, the temperature of the river rose, and at night, the temperature dropped suddenly, and there must have been heavy fog, which is meteorology.

If you are not familiar with geography, you can't do it, you have to know how to walk from the Dongwu camp to Cao Cao's water village, how long to walk, and how far the distance is. If you are far away from Cao's camp, you can't shoot arrows, and you will all fall into the river, so won't it be in vain? If you are close, you can't get close, and they have sentinel boats patrolling the camp, and they have discovered a siege, and they are all taken prisoner.

In terms of the range of the arrow, the effective range of a hundred steps is 100 steps, and if it exceeds 100 steps, the arrow will be bored and will not be able to pierce the straw man. Twenty large boats lined up, the soldiers beat drums and shouted, and the boats were surrounded by straw men on all sides, and the sound was muffled. In fact, it was only a hundred steps away from Cao Ying, but it sounded like it was four or five hundred meters away.

Cao Cao was frightened, and when he saw the fog and the river, he didn't know how many enemy troops had come. Bring out all the archers in the two villages, and release the arrows vigorously in the direction from which the sound came. Cao Bing shot violently in one breath, to see who could shoot fast, to see who shot more, and it was a big archery competition. Zhuge Liang has a clear grasp of the other party's psychological state, this is psychology.

The most important thing is mathematics, if you don't know mathematics, you will be in trouble, not only will you not be able to borrow arrows, but you may also be wiped out. First of all, we have to calculate how much an arrow weighs? An arrow is about four taels, 100,000 arrows are 25,000 catties, and 20 large ships, each ship carries an average load of 1,250 catties. Is it just that coincidentally, a whole 100,000 arrows? I need to borrow a little more, except for the folded ones that cannot be used, and there must be more than 100,000 arrows in the light of the good ones.

Each boat has to bear a weight of 1,500 catties, and Cao Ying's arrows are not distributed according to the ship. There must be more ships and fewer boats, and each boat must be able to bear two thousand catties. It's not just the weight, it's the area, so how big a boat you want to be, how many straw men you want to tie, how many arrows you can bear, how much weight you have?

There are also ships lined up, and they have to receive arrows on both sides, and if they receive arrows on one side, and all 100,000 arrows are shot on one side, then ...... And the ship capsized. When will the ship turn around? How can we keep track of the time and weight? Zhuge Liang prepared a level. Were there levels in those days? No.

Zhuge Liang's level is very simple, when Zhuge Liang got on the boat, didn't he drag Lu Su here, and the two of them drank in the cabin. The key is in this wine glass, this glass of wine is a level, the wine glass is seventy percent full, and the straw man receives more and more arrows, and the ship is getting more and more deviated. As soon as the ship deviated, the wine in the cup also deviated, and as much as the ship deviated, the wine deviated, and the weight of the arrows on both sides of the ship was balanced, and the wine in the cup was also stable.

This is called sitting in the boat and knowing the outside of the boat. How much knowledge Zhuge Liang has, if he doesn't use this glass of wine as a standard of measurement to grasp the balance, it must be a bad thing, how can he master it? Observing it personally, he felt that the boat was a little off, he looked outside, and as soon as he went out, an arrow was shot on the head, and it was not called a grass boat borrowing arrows, and it became a living person with arrows.

Zhuge Liang invited Lu Su to board the boat together, and Zhuge Liang asked the sergeant to tie the twenty boats together with ropes and march to the north shore. At this time, the fog was thick, and the fog on the river was thicker, and no one could be seen on the other side.

Zhuge Liang ordered the ship to speed up, while drinking with Lu Su in the cabin. Lu Su was worried, he didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, and the boat had approached Cao Cao's water village at nearly five o'clock. Zhuge Liang lined up twenty boats, with their heads facing west and tails facing east, and called the soldiers to beat drums and shout.

Cao Bing heard the drums and shouts on the river, and flew to report to Cao Cao. When Cao Cao heard that the Wu army was attacking in the fog, he expected that there must be an ambush, and ordered that he should not act rashly, and only asked the archers of the land and water armies to shoot arrows into the river, and the arrows rained down on the scarecrows. Zhuge Liang waited for the arrows next to the boat to be full, and ordered the twenty boats to turn around and let the other side receive arrows.

When the sky was getting brighter and the fog was about to disperse, Zhuge Liang ordered to return, and Lu Su was very impressed and asked him why he knew that there was fog today. Zhuge Liang said: "How can a general not know astronomy and geography?"

When the ship arrived on the south bank, Zhou Yu had already sent 500 soldiers to wait, and Zhuge Liang asked them to get on the ship and move arrows, which were more than 100,000. Lu Su went to the big tent first and told Zhou Yu about Zhuge Liang's straw boat borrowing arrows, Zhou Yu was very surprised, Zhuge Liang's intelligence was really extraordinary.

In the evening, Zhou Yu set up a banquet for Zhuge Liang to celebrate his achievements, and Zhou Yu said: "Yesterday, Wu Hou sent someone to urge me to hurry up and enter the army, I saw that Cao's army was well guarded, and it was not easy to attack, I thought of a strategy, I don't know if I can make it, please make a decision for me." ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Okay, but don't say it first, the two of us write it in the palm of our hands to see if it's the same or not?"

Zhou Yu nodded yes, then asked someone to bring pen and ink, and wrote in the palm of his hand with Zhuge Liang. The two of them got together, stretched out their hands at the same time, looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing, and the word "fire" was written in the palms of both of them.

Zhou Yu said: "Since the two of us have the same opinion, there is no need to doubt it, but we must not leak it out." ”

Zhuge Liang said: "This is a major event of military aircraft, how can there be any reason to leak the news?"