Romance of the Three Kingdoms

China faced a most turbulent situation once the majestic Han 

dynasty fell.The "Middle kingdom" was now separated as 

"North","South west" and "South east".These three kingdoms 

fought for their internal power,survival and warfare that are 

captured in numerous historical and fictional works.

Among all these "Romance of three kingdoms" is very famous and 

worth mentioning.The Main character of this story is the most 

eminent and brilliant military strategist from south western state 

shu han.He was Zhuge Liang,chancellor of Shu Han state.

The year is 208 C.E and the army of northern china's wei state is on its way to capture the southern part of china to make the middle kingdom again with this empire.When it reached the mighty yangtze river it camped there and awaited for the battle to happen.


Across this yangtze massive river lays the shu and Wu states.Sensing the threat from northern empire,being outnumbered by the north these two states made a temporary coalition to counter attack them.

Zhuge Liang was given a task of coming up with the strategy to save the south landers of china.Generals of Shu and Wu were waiting for him to formulate a plan.

The Wu army asked zhuge to arrange for 100,000 arrows to attack the northern army.They told him that since it seems like impossible task we give you 10 days to come up with a plan of getting 100,000 arrows.zhuge calmly said just give me three days and no more.

He spent 2 days in preparing 20 swift boats with 30 soldiers in each boat.He surrounds the group of soldiers with dummy soldiers like scarecrows.

Third day he went with these boats towards Yangtze river.Heavy fog was near the enemy side and it seemed like blanket on the river.Zhuge asked his soldiers to make a noise by beating battle drums.Frightened by this ruckus and blinded by fog,enemies started firing arrows endlessly towards the direction of noise.

Finally loaded with 100,000 arrows the boats headed towards their home shore.Upon asking how he came up with this brilliant plan he answered as:
“A good general must be well versed not only in battle strategy, but also in astronomy, geography, divination, and the principles of yin and yang,” Zhuge replied. “I foresaw the heavy fog three days in advance, and so formulated my plan.”