Why did Zhuge Liang borrow Dongfeng?
On the eve of Battle of Red Cliffs, Zhou Yu prepared to launch a fire attack, burn Cao Jun's warships and defeat Cao Cao. However, Zhou Yu made a mistake in his busy schedule. He didn't expect that the fire attack had high requirements for the wind direction, and in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in the middle of winter, there were many northwest winds and no southeast winds. If you light the northwest wind, Cao Jun is in the limelight, but he just burns himself, and he can't burn Cao Jun at all. Zhou Yu couldn't figure out a way and fell ill at once. Zhuge Liang was in Zhou Yu's army, helping to make plans. After learning the cause of Zhou Yu, he gave Zhou Yu a "prescription": "If you want to break through Cao Jun, you must attack with fire. Everything is ready, only the east wind. " Zhou Yu asked Zhuge Liang to find a way to "engage in" Dongfeng, and Zhuge Liang immediately promised: "You can borrow it." So Zhou Yu had a seven-star altar built, and Zhuge Liang pretended to go to the altar to "borrow the east wind." On the day of the battle, the southeast wind was strong, and Zhou Yu took the opportunity to attack and captured Cao Jun at one stroke. In fact, Zhuge Liang is good at predicting the weather. He knew through the forecast that there was a southeast wind that day, and there was no "borrowing" at all.
2. Profile of people
Zhuge Liang (181-23410-8), a native of Yang Du, Xuzhou (now yinan county, Linyi City, Shandong Province), was an outstanding politician, strategist, essayist and calligrapher during the Three Kingdoms period. When he was alive, he was named Hou of Wuxiang. After his death, he pursued loyalty to the marquis of Wuxiang. Because of its military ability, the Eastern Jin regime was posthumously named King Wu Xing. Representative prose works include An Example and A Book of Commandments. He once invented the wooden ox, the flying horse, the Kongming lantern and so on, and transformed the crossbow, called Zhuge Lian crossbow, which can hit all targets with one crossbow. In the twelfth year (234), Yu Jianxing died in Wuzhangyuan (now Qishan, Baoji).
Liu Chan regarded him as a loyal minister, so later generations often referred to Zhuge Liang as a loyal minister and Zhuge Wuhou. Zhuge Liang is the representative of loyal ministers and wise men in China traditional culture. He devoted himself to his life and died.