Three Kingdoms

Chapter 13 Zhuge Liang's Straw Boat Borrowed Arrow
Zhou Yu ordered Gan Ning to fight, and the first battle was very good.Cao Cao ordered Cai Hao and Zhang Yun to drill the water army, and they must not fail again.Jiang Gan, Cao Cao's subordinate, said he could persuade Zhou Yu to surrender.Zhou Yu followed his plan and tricked Cao Cao, who killed Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.For a while, Cao Jun's sailors were unable to drill.Zhou Yu was no longer afraid of Cao Jun.

Because Zhuge Liang had expected that Zhou Yu would use countermeasures, Zhou Yu always hated Zhuge Liang, and always tried every possible means to murder Zhuge Liang.

One day, Zhou Yu asked Zhuge Liang to discuss military affairs again.Zhou Yu said to Zhuge Liang: "Now the army is short of arrows, please make one hundred thousand arrows as soon as possible!" Zhuge Liang knew that Zhou Yu wanted to murder him again, but he was not afraid.Zhuge Liang asked: "When does the general want to use it?" Zhou Yu said: "Is ten days enough?" Zhuge Liang said loudly: "Where does it take ten days, three days is enough." Zhou Yu thought that Zhuge Liang was doomed this time.He hurriedly said: "You should issue a military order! If you violate the military regulations, don't blame me for using military law to deal with you!"

Zhuge Liang laughed, and immediately issued a military order in front of Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu secretly told Lu Su not to help Zhuge Liang.Zhuge Liang invited Lu Su to drink in his tent.While drinking, Zhuge Liang borrowed [-] boats from Lu Su, and arranged [-] soldiers on each boat.Lu Su agreed.

Zhuge Liang took Lu Su to drink and have fun in the camp for three days.Zhou Yu knew, and was very happy in his heart, thinking that Zhuge Liang must surely die.

On the night of the third day, the weather on the river suddenly changed, with fog and strong wind blowing eastward.Zhuge Liang and Lu Su boarded the grass boat together and sailed to Cao Jun's water village.

Cao Cao was afraid and ambushed, and only ordered the archers to shoot arrows in front of the stronghold to resist.In a short while, Zhuge Liang's straw boat was shot full of arrows by Cao Bing, and it returned to the barracks full of more than [-] arrows.

Cao Cao knew he had been tricked, so he regretted it.Seeing that Zhuge Liang had easily tricked Cao Cao into getting [-] or [-] arrows, Zhou Yu was shocked and hated.Zhuge Liang was invited to discuss military matters.Zhou Yu asked, "Sir, what is the best strategy to defeat Cao Cao?" Zhuge Liang said, "I'll write my strategy on my hand, and you can write your own on your hand too!" I found that I thought of attacking Cao Cao with fire to win.Both of them laughed.

(End of this chapter)