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He also sent orders to the ground camps to dispatch six thousand of archers and crossbowmen to aid the
The naval forces were then lined up shooting on the bank to prevent a landing. Presently the soldiers
arrived, and ten thousand and more soldiers were shooting down into the river, where the arrows fell
like rain. By and bye Zhuge Liang ordered the boats
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to go closer in so that many arrows might hit them.
Zhuge Liang ordered the drums to be kept beating till the sun was high and the fog began to disperse,
when the boats got under way and sailed down stream. The whole twenty boats were bristling with arrows
on both sides.
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for the arrows!"
They told Cao Cao, but by the time he came, the light boats helped by the swift current were seven miles
long down the river and pursuit was impossible. Cao Cao saw that he had been duped and was very sorry,
but there was no help for it.
On the way down Zhuge Liang said to his companion, "Every boat must have five
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so, without the expenditure of an ounce of energy, we must have more than ten myriad arrows, which
tomorrow can be shot back again at Cao Cao's army to his great inconvenience."
"You are really superhuman," said Lu Su. "But how did you know there would be a thick fog today?"
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understand the secret gates and the interdependence of the elements, the mysteries of tactics and the
value of forces. It is but an ordinary talent. I calculated three days ago that there would be a fog
today, and so I set the limit at three days. Zhou Yu would give me ten days, but neither artificers nor