: Falling in Jiangdong

Late at night, Huainan County.

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the evening breeze is silence. The people have already entered a deep dream. Suddenly, a faint rumbling sound came from the northwest. Dozens of hunting dogs in the village were awakened by the sound, and rushed out of the wood gate in horror, barking towards the northwest. The pigs, cattle, sheep and other animals raised by the villagers also began to restlessly.

The whole village suddenly became boiling like a blowout.

People who have lived on both sides of the Huai River for generations are very familiar with this voice. Floods have flooded!

The villagers put on their clothes as fast as possible, set up torches, carried the children on their backs, and supported the elderly. A rich man was reluctant to let go of a pig raised at home, so he simply carried it on his back. There was a mixed bag of children calling for their fathers and mothers, parents calling for their children, and dog barking and howling of chickens, ducks, cows and sheep. The air was filled with endless despair and endless panic, as if the end of the world had arrived.

However.

Before the villagers could run too far, a surging flood swept across.

"boom……"

A huge wave came over and easily knocked over dozens of sheds to the ground. A young mother struggled to rush out of the shed, who was not yet a month old, and was crushed to the ground by the flood. In the surging flood, a piece of broken wooden stake was like a sharp wooden sword, stabbed towards the mother and son. The young mother instinctively turned over, facing the sharp wooden stake, but protected the child tightly in her arms.

"Damn it, be careful!"

With a shrill shout, a young strong man arrived, Chen Wang knocked the piece of wooden stake away, and at this moment another huge wave rushed to the ground, overturning the man's head heavily onto a stone, and blood flowed like a stream.

"The child's father!"

The young woman let out a heart-wrenching scream and turned around and threw herself on the young man.

Another huge wave hit, knocking the young woman and the child in his arms to the ground, and then being ruthlessly submerged by the rolling turbid water. Not far away, two fat pigs were struggling in the turbid waves, howling... Further further, rows of shacks were destroyed by the surging floods, and villagers continued to perish in the flood. In front of the heavenly power of nature, their personal power was so insignificant.

But this is not a natural disaster, it is clearly a man-made disaster.

Under the night, Zhou Yu climbed to the top of Shouchun City under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers. Looking at the faint moonlight, he saw that outside Shouchun City had become a vast ocean. The small Shouchun City was like an isolated island in the sea, which could sink in the sea at any time!

The solid walls of Shouchun City blocked the flood, and the more than 50,000 Eastern Wu troops hiding in the city were safe and sound, but the tens of thousands of Shouchun people who were forcibly expelled from the city by the Wu army and hundreds of thousands of villagers within a radius of 50 miles of Shouchun were tragically destroyed in this surging flood. The flood will continue to spread and eventually flood half of Huainan County.

In the end, more than 4 million people living in Huainan County will fall into a desperate situation of being out of food and clothing, and the initiator of all this is Zhou Yu!

Suddenly, frightened faces appeared in front of Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu seemed to see tens of thousands of victims with a bloated belly and a pale face surrounding him from all directions. He opened his arms one by one, opened his empty eyes and shouted at him at the top of his lungs: "Give me back my life, come back my life..."

"No……"

Zhou Yu shouted and suddenly woke up from his sleep.

The personal soldiers guarding outside the tent rushed into the tent. Under the faint firelight, Zhou Yu was sweating heavily, pale, calm and calm, and the Grand Governor of the Three Eastern Wu Army, who had collapsed in front of Mount Tai but did not change his color, seemed terrified at this time.

"Governor, what's wrong with you?"

"Hu..." Zhou Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, and his whole body collapsed as if he had dispersed. "It turned out that he was just a dream..."

"boom……"

As Zhou Yu finished speaking, a roar suddenly sounded outside the tent. It seemed that even the ground under his feet trembled slightly. Zhou Yu's face became more and more pale in an instant. The personal captain standing in the tent also changed and said in a deep voice: "Grandmaster, go outside and see what happened?"

Fifty miles north of Shouchun, on a nameless hill.

Taking advantage of the bleak moonlight, looking at the turbid waves sweeping past the foot of the mountain, Ma Yue sighed to the sky, and a little hatred, a little regret, and a little self-blame on his face.

Jia Xu's figure quietly appeared behind Ma Yue.

In this world, no one can understand Ma Yue’s mood at this moment better than Jia Xu. Ma Yue hated Zhou Yu’s ruthlessness and regretted the millions of innocent people in Huainan. At the same time, he also blamed himself for not raising troops to move south, he might not have brought this catastrophe to the people of Huainan.

For the gentry and the barbarians who did not accept the kingship of the Han Dynasty, Ma Yue was indeed a butcher.

But for the Han people, the real butcher was not Ma Yue, nor was it.

The real butcher is precisely the pretentious separatist warlords such as Sun Quan, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Lu Bu. These ambitious people never take the lives and deaths of the people. Only Ma Yue, a rebellion that was criticized by the gentry in the world, and this butcher who never spared any effort in killing foreign tribes will truly take the life and death of the Han people.

"Lord, this is not your fault." Jia Xu advised, "This is all done by the crazy Zhou Yu's child, and it has nothing to do with you."

"Oh." Ma Yue shook his head and sighed sadly, "I underestimated Zhou Yu's insidiousness and cunning. I never expected that in order to destroy Gu's army of hundreds of thousands, this guy actually chose to burn all the jade and stones, turning the entire Huainan County into a vast ocean, and causing millions of innocent people to suffer a tragic disaster. Gu should have thought of it, he should have thought of it..."

"Speaking of this, this is Xu's fault." Seeing Ma Yue becoming more and more guilty, Jia Xu took the fault on himself. "As a military advisor, Xu failed to fulfill the duties of the military advisor, failed to see the opportunity and resolved the catastrophe invisibly. It is really unforgivable to forgive!"

Seeing Jia Xu like this, Ma Yue couldn't help but smile on his face. He turned around and patted Jia Xu on the shoulder and smiled and said, "Wenhe, you don't have to rush to share the responsibility with Gu. Since the catastrophe has happened, it is too late to hold the responsibility accountable. Now, it's better to find a way to provide disaster relief as soon as possible. Those who drowned should be buried in time, and those who are injured should be treated in time, especially children."

"Disaster relief is of course important, but you have to find a way to repel the Eastern Wu navy." Jia Xu said worriedly, "If the Eastern Wu navy stayed in Huainan and pestered us, our army's disaster relief work would be difficult to carry out. Moreover, Xu was very worried that Zhou Yu's series of plans would have the last link, and the most vicious link!"

"The last link?" Ma Yue said in a deep voice, "What is it?"

Jia Xu said: "Zhou Yu will very likely order the Eastern Wu navy to harass our army, making it impossible for our army to treat the affected people in time. In this way, millions of victims in Huainan will die in large numbers due to hunger. In a few months, the weather will enter midsummer. At that time, a large number of exposed bodies will easily induce plague. Once the plague breaks out, it will spread to Huainan, Xuzhou, Central Plains, and even Guanzhong, Hebei and other places under the rule of the lord, and the consequences will be unimaginable!"

"Oh no!" Ma Yue was shocked and said in a lost voice, "What should I do?"

"If Zhou Yu really wants to kill all the people and use such an inhumane household poisoning scheme, then he can only let General Gao Shun's 100,000 troops retreat to the north of the Huai River, and then seize the Huai River to protect the people north of the Huai River, and then order the Jinfan Navy to block the Huai River. Even if it is a mouse, it is not allowed to cross the river! As for the people south of the Huai River..."

Jia Xu paused, and a trace of indescribable helplessness flashed through his eyes, and he sighed: "I can only let them die for themselves."

"No!" Ma Yue said decisively, "This won't work, absolutely not! Gu must not watch the millions of victims south of the Huai River not die of floods, but die of hunger, never!"

"Oh." Jia Xu sighed and said sadly, "I hope Xu is too worried."

It's finally dawn.

The longest and most difficult night finally passed. When the people who had survived their lives stood on their roofs, climbed on the treetops, floated on the water and looked around, they saw only a vast ocean. The turbid flood had completely submerged their homes. They had lost their crops, livestock, houses, and even loved ones!

Just as the refugees were feeling desperate, a large group of warships suddenly appeared in the thin morning light in the east.

Lu Meng was wearing a habitual belt and stood on the bow of the ship with his sword. The cold morning breeze blew the cloak behind him high and flew across the sky. Behind Lu Meng, there was a big flag on the main mast that was fluttering in the wind, with the embroidered "Wu" character embroidered!

"Help!"

"Save me..."

"God, please save me on the boat..."

The refugees were crying incessantly, and the navy soldiers standing on the deck turned their heads and looked at Lu Meng. A trace of imperceptible pain flashed leisurely in Lu Meng's eyes, and turned a blind eye to the soldiers' expectant eyes, and shouted coldly: "I ordered all ships to move forward at full speed, and no one is allowed to save people. Those who violate the order... behead them!"

"Oh!" Xu Sheng, who was standing behind Lu Meng, sighed softly, turned around and shouted to the messenger behind him, "I won't go yet!"

The messenger did not dare to hesitate, so he quickly climbed up the main mast and waved a blood-red triangle flag into the sky twice. After receiving Lu Meng's military order, the rest of the warships stopped hesitating. Under the full force of the paddler, they rushed forward through the waves. After the warship, there were only a messy and turbid water surface, and there were refugees struggling dyingly.

The fleet of the Eastern Wu navy advanced rapidly and arrived at the camp of the Xiliang army in less than half an hour.

Looking at it, the flood about two meters deep had completely submerged the entire Liang army camp. There were broken fences and fragments of cowhide tents floating on the water. However, no corpse of a Xiliang soldier was found, nor was there a corpse of a Xiliang war horse! Lu Meng originally thought that the water would be filled with the corpses of Liang army soldiers and Xiliang war horses, but the fact was not the case at all, which was a bit beyond Lu Meng's expectations.

"Governor, what's going on?" Xu Sheng looked at the turbid water with some disbelief and said to Lu Meng, "The body of a Liang army coyote was not found on the water?"

Lu Meng's eyebrows frowned in an instant, and the most worrying thing happened.

It seems that the Xiliang army was prepared for a long time, and this flood did not bring a catastrophe to the hundreds of thousands of troops of Ma Butcher.

"Governor!" The Wu Jun School, who was climbing on the mast, suddenly shouted loudly, "There are several isolated islands ten miles ahead, and there seem to be Liang troops moving on the island!"

"Huh?" Lu Meng's face darkened and he shouted, "Tell Zhu Ran to lead the left army to lean forward in combat formation!"

The Wu Junjiao on the mast quickly raised a triangular flag and waved it twice to the left front. Not far from the left front, Zhu Rankeng, who was standing solemnly rushing to the bow of the warship, pulled out his sword and shouted loudly: "All the soldiers of the army obey the orders and form a battle formation... Kill!"

Almost as Lu Meng led the main force of 20,000 naval forces to the Liang army camp in the north of the city, Zhou Tai led another 10,000 Eastern Wu naval forces to the Gaoshun camp in the south of the city. Looking around, there were indeed many corpses of people and animals floating on the water, but most of these corpses were the bodies of the victims who came from nearby villages, and no corpses of the Xiliang soldiers were found.

When Zhou Tai was shocked, the Wu Jun Clan on the mast suddenly shouted: "General, Xiliang Water Army is found on the left rear!"

"The Xiliang Army? This is impossible!"

Zhou Tai shouted loudly, the scar on his face seemed more and more ferocious and terrifying. He looked back suddenly and saw more than a hundred small boats rushing out from the thin morning light, rushing towards the Eastern Wu navy in a long snake formation. The first boat was proudly standing on the boat. The man was eight feet tall and was wearing a straight body. His exposed skin showed dazzling bronze color. His barefoot stood casually at the bow of the boat. His whole person seemed to have a root. He knew that he was a Jianjiazi who had been making a living on the water for many years.

"General." Suddenly, the sharp-eyed little schoolmate shouted, "It's the Jinfan thief!"

"Jinfan thief! Gan Ning?" Zhou Tai's heart was terrified, and a burning murderous intent immediately ignited from his eyes. He slashed the heavy machete in his hand back and forth twice in the air, roaring like a wild beast. "Gan Ning, I have been waiting for you for a long time, and I finally hit me today! After today, there are no more Jinfan thief in the world, haha!"

"Kill!" Zhou Tai waved the machete in his hand forward and shouted loudly, "Kill kill..."

"General." Deputy General Ding Feng reminded carefully, "There are only hundreds of Jinfan thieves in Ganning, and only more than a hundred boats. They are vulnerable in front of our army's rushing ships, and they will easily sank! The general should hurry up and lead the main force of the navy to find Gao Shun's Xiliang army. The hundreds of Jinfan thieves will be handed over to the last general."

"What's the hurry!" Zhou Tai turned around and glared at Ding Feng fiercely, shouting, "It's not too late to destroy Gan Ning's hundreds of Jinfan thieves before chasing Gao Shun's Xiliang army. Anyway, the entire Huainan has become a country of ​​because of Gao Shun's 100,000 troops running to the sky? He ordered the entire army to advance immediately at the speed of attack..."

Hundreds of steps away.

Seeing the Eastern Wu naval army launching its formation and pounced over with great momentum, Gan Ning couldn't help but sneer, and shouted in a deep voice: "Send the order, turn the bow of the ship and retreat at full speed!"

With the order of Gan Ning, more than a hundred small boats turned the bow of the ship and began to retreat.

Zhou Tai saw it at the bow of the boat and couldn't help laughing: "Gan Ning, this coward, wants to run away? There is no door! He ordered the entire army to chase with all their might at the sprint speed, hahaha..."

Shouchun.

Although the solid city walls blocked the flooding flood, the gates of the four cities could not stop the flooding. By dawn, the water in the city had reached several feet deep, and more than 20,000 Eastern Wu infantry in Shouchun City were forced to retreat to the ship. An extremely large five-story boat slowly sailed out of the Shouchun Water Gate. On the top deck, Sun Quan stood solemnly behind Zhou Yu, Xu Shu, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong and others.

Zhou Yu's face still looked a little pale, while Sun Quan's face looked a little gloomy.

The air on the deck seemed a little depressed, only the morning breeze blew the flags and roared.

Zhang Hong suddenly said to Zhou Yu: "Grandmaster, after this flood, the entire Huainan capital will become a country. Our army will not hesitate to pay for the entire Huainan to burn all the jades. There should be no problem with the destruction of the Xiliang army, right?"

Except for Xu Shu and Sun Quan, everyone's eyes fell on Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu was silent and speechless.

Although Zhou Yu hoped that the hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops of Ma Butcher would be destroyed in this surging flood, he reason told him that the final result would probably be difficult to satisfy. Moreover, Zhou Yu's main purpose of this act of burning both jade and stone was only to delay and dismantle the Liang army to the south, and ensure that the main force of the Wu army could safely withdraw from the water route back to Jiangdong.

When the water floods Huainan, it is like burning both jade and stones, and even drinking can quench thirst!

Although this flood could prevent the Liang army from moving south in a short period of time, it also extinguished the fire of the Wu army's northern expedition. From then on, the Wu army could never step into the north of the Yangtze River. The best result of Sun Wu was to seek self-protection based on the natural danger of the Yangtze River. Of course, this was not a good result, and it was not what Zhou Yu wanted to see, but he had no choice!

Releasing water to flood Huainan can at least ensure that the Liang army is unable to attack Jiangdong within ten years.
To be continued...