Late at night, Huainan County.

The moon is bright and the stars are scarce, the evening breeze is blowing, and a village in the south of Shouchun is quiet, and the people have already entered a heavy dream. Suddenly, there was a faint rumbling sound from the northwest, and dozens of hunting dogs in the village were awakened by the sound, and they rushed out of the chaimen in horror, barking wildly towards the northwest, and the pigs, cows, sheep and other animals raised by the villagers also began to be restless.

The whole village boiled like a frying pan in an instant.

The people who have lived on both sides of the Huai River for generations are all too familiar with this sound, flood, flood!

The villagers put on their clothes as fast as they could, lit torches, carried children on their backs, and carried the old people on their backs, and there was a rich man who was reluctant to raise a pig at home, so he simply carried it on his back and ran, mixed with the sound of children calling for their fathers and mothers, parents calling for their children, and the barking of dogs and the howling of chickens, ducks, cows and sheep, and the air was filled with endless despair and endless fear, as if the end of the world had come.

However.

Before the villagers could get too far, a raging flood swept in.

"Boom ......"

A huge wave crashed and knocked over a dozen shacks to the ground, and a young mother struggled out of the shack with her young son in her arms, who was not yet full moon, and was just swept out of the shack when it was swept to the ground by the floodwater. In the raging flood, a broken wooden stake stabbed at the mother and son like a sharp wooden sword, and the young mother instinctively turned over, turning her back to the sharp stake, but protecting the young child in her arms.

"me, be careful!"

In a terrible shout, a young strong man rushed to the scene, and Shen Wang knocked the stake open, and at this moment another huge wave rushed in, knocking the man to the ground, and the man's head slammed on a stone, and the blood flowed like a pour.

"Daddy, kid!"

The young woman let out a heart-rending scream and threw herself back on the young man.

Another huge wave slammed into the young woman and the child in his arms to the ground, and was immediately mercilessly submerged by the rolling muddy water, and not far away, two fat pigs were struggling and howling in the turbid waves...... Farther away, rows of shacks were swept down and submerged by the raging floods, and villagers were constantly wiped out in the floods, and the power of individuals was so insignificant in front of the power of nature.

But this is not a natural disaster, this is clearly [***].

……

In the night, Zhou Yu climbed to the head of Shouchun City under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers, and looked at it through the faint moonlight, only to see that the outside of Shouchun City had become a vast sea, and the small Shouchun City was like an island in the sea, which could sink in the sea at any time!

The strong 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 by the Wu army outside the city and hundreds of thousands of villagers within a radius of 50 miles of Shouchun were tragically wiped out in this monstrous flood, and this flood will continue to spread, and will eventually inundate most of Huainan County.

In the end, more than 4 million people living in Huainan County will fall into a desperate situation without 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 swollen bellies and pale faces surrounding him from all directions, opening their arms one by one, opening their hollow eyes, and shouting hoarsely at him: "Give me back my life, give me back my life......

"No ......"

Zhou Yu screamed and woke up from his sleep.

The soldiers guarding outside the tent hurriedly broke into the tent, and under the faint firelight, I saw Zhou Yu sweating profusely, his face was pale, he had always been calm and composed, and the governor of the three armies of Eastern Wu who collapsed in front of Mount Tai and did not change color looked frightened at this time.

"Governor, what's wrong with you?"

"Whew......" Zhou Yu let out a long sigh of relief, and the whole person was paralyzed as if he had fallen apart, "It turned out that it was just a dream......

"Boom ......"

Zhou Yu's voice fell, and a roar suddenly sounded outside the tent, faintly, it seemed that even the ground under his feet trembled slightly, Zhou Yu's face became more and more pale in an instant, and the captain of the pro-soldiers standing in the tent also changed his face, and said in a deep voice: "Governor, the villain went outside to take a look, what happened?" ”

……

Fifty miles north of Shouchun, on an unnamed hill.

Through the bleak moonlight, looking at the monstrous turbid waves sweeping past the foot of the mountain, Ma Yue looked up to the sky and sighed, and his face couldn't help but float a little hatred, regret, and self-blame.

Jia Xu's figure quietly appeared behind Ma Yue.

In this world, there is no one better than Jia Xu to understand Ma Yue's mood at this moment, Ma Yue not only hates Zhou Yu's ruthlessness, but also deploits the millions of innocent people in Huainan, and at the same time blames himself for not going south, maybe he will not bring this catastrophe to the people of Huainan.

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

But for the people of the Han Dynasty, the real butcher is not Ma Yue, never has been.

The real butcher is precisely Sun Quan, Cao Ying, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Lu Bu these pretentious warlords, these careerists have never taken the life and death of the people to heart, only Ma Yue, this rebel who has been criticized by the world's corporal clans, this butcher who has never spared no effort to kill and poke foreign tribes, will really take the life and death of the Han people to heart.

"My lord, it's not your fault." Jia Xu persuaded, "This is all done by the crazy Zhou Yu, and it has nothing to do with you, the lord." ”

"Ugh." Ma Yue shook his head and sighed gloomily, "Lone underestimated Zhou Yu's insidiousness and cunning, I never thought that this guy would really choose to burn jade in order to destroy Lone's hundreds of thousands of troops, turning the entire Huainan County into a vast ocean, and causing millions of innocent people to be wiped out, Lone should have thought of it a long time ago, and he should have thought of it a long time ago......"

"Speaking of which, it's a mistake." Jia Xu saw that Ma Yue blamed himself more and more, so he took the fault on himself, "As a military advisor, he failed to fulfill his duties as a military advisor, failed to see the opportunity, and resolved this catastrophe invisibly, which is really an unforgivable sin!" ”

Seeing Jia Xu like this, Ma Yue couldn't help but have a wry smile on his face, turned around and patted Jia Xu's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Wen He, 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 is better to find a way to relieve the disaster as soon as possible, the drowned should be buried in time, and the injured should be treated in time, especially the children." ”

"Disaster relief is important, but we must find a way to repel the Soochow naval army." Jia Xu said worriedly, "If the Dongwu Navy has been staying in Huainan to fight to the death, it will be difficult for our army to carry out disaster relief work, and Xu is very worried that there is a last link in Zhou Yu's serial plan, and it is also the most vicious one!" ”

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

Jia Xu said: "Zhou Yu is likely to order the Eastern Wu Navy to try its best to harass our army, so that our army can not treat the affected people in time, so that millions of victims in Huainan will die of hunger in large numbers, and in a few months, the weather will enter the middle of summer, when a large number of exposed corpses can easily induce plague, once the plague breaks out, it will spread to Huainan, Xuzhou, the Central Plains, and even Guanzhong, Hebei and other places under the rule of the lord, and the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

"Oops!" Ma Yue was taken aback and lost his voice, "How should this be?" ”

"If Zhou Yu really wants to kill them all and sacrifice such a cruel and inhumane poisonous plan, then he can only let General Gao Shun's 100,000 army withdraw to the north of the Huai River first, and then defend the Huai River, try 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......"

When Jia Xu said this, a trace of indescribable helplessness flashed in his eyes, and he sighed: "They can only be left to fend for themselves." ”

"No!" Ma Yue said flatly, "This won't work, absolutely not!" We must not watch the millions of people south of the Huai River die of starvation instead of floods. ”

"Ugh." Jia Xu sighed and said gloomily, "I hope it's too much." ”

……

It was finally dawn.

The longest and most difficult night was finally over, and when the people who had survived the robbery stood on the rooftops of their homes, climbed on the treetops, climbed the wooden basins and floated on the water to look around, all they saw was an ocean, and the muddy flood had completely submerged their homes, and they had lost their crops, their livestock, their houses, and even their loved ones!

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

Lu Meng is fully dressed and customary, standing on the bow of the ship according to the sword, the cold morning breeze blows the cloak behind him high, flying in the air, behind Lu Meng, there is a big flag on the main mast is hunting and fluttering in the wind, embroidered with the big "Wu" word!

"Help!"

"Help me......"

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

The mourning of the refugees was endless, and the sailors and soldiers on the solemn deck turned their heads to look at Lu Meng, who had a trace of imperceptible pain in his eyes, turned a blind eye to the expectant eyes of the soldiers, and shouted coldly: "Order all ships to move forward at full speed, no one is allowed to save people, and those who violate the order are ...... Chop! ”

"Alas!" Xu Sheng, who was standing behind Lu Meng, sighed softly, turned around and shouted to the herald behind him, "Don't go yet!" ”

The herald did not dare to hesitate, quickly climbed the main mast, and waved a blood-red pennant towards the sky twice, and the rest of the warships received the military order from Lu Meng, so they no longer hesitated, and under the full strength of the oarsmen, they galloped forward, and after the warship, only a mess of turbid water was left, and there were dying refugees.

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

As far as the eye can see, the flood that is two feet deep has completely submerged the entire Liangjun camp, and there are broken fences and fragments of cowhide tents floating on the water, but not a single corpse of a Xiliang soldier was found, nor the remains of a Xiliang war horse! Lu Meng originally thought that the water would be covered with the corpses of the soldiers of the Liang Army and the Xiliang War Horse, but this was not the case at all, which was a bit unexpected by Lu Meng.

"Governor, what's going on?" Xu Sheng looked at the turbid water surface in disbelief and said to Lu Meng, "Didn't you find a single corpse of the Liang Army coyote on the water?" ”

Lu Meng's eyebrows tightened for a moment, and the most worrying thing happened.

It seems that the Xiliang army has been prepared for a long time, and this flood has not brought disaster to the hundreds of thousands of troops of the horse butcher.

"Governor!" Colonel Wu Jun, who was climbing on the mast to lookout, suddenly shouted, "There are several isolated islands ten miles ahead, and there seems to be a Liang army moving on the island!" ”

"Huh?" Lu Meng's face sank, and he shouted, "Order Zhu Ran, lead the left army to move forward in battle formation!" ”

Colonel Wu Jun on the mast quickly raised a pennant and waved it vigorously twice to the left front, not far from the left front, Zhu Ran, who was standing solemnly on the bow of the warship, pulled out his sword and shouted: "The officers and men of the whole army obey the order and form a battle formation...... Kill! ”

Almost at the same time that Lü Meng led the main force of 20,000 sailors to the Liangjun camp in the north of the city, Zhou Tai led another 10,000 Dongwu sailors to the Gaoshun camp in the south of the city.

When Zhou Taizheng was stunned, Colonel Wu Jun on the mast suddenly shouted: "General, the Xiliang Water Army is found in the left rear!" ”

"The Xiliang army? That's impossible! ”

Zhou Tai shouted loudly, the scar on his face became more and more hideous and terrifying, Huo Ran looked back, and sure enough, he saw more than 100 small boats rushing out of the thin morning light, and rushed towards the Dongwu Navy in a long snake formation.

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

"Sail thief! Gan Ning? Zhou Tai's heart froze, and immediately a scorching killing intent ignited from his eyes, and he slashed the heavy machete in his hand viciously back and forth in the air twice, roaring like a beast, "Gan Ning, I've been waiting for you for a long time, and today I finally let Lao Tzu bump into me!" After today, there will be no more sail thieves in the world, haha! ”

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

"General." Vice Admiral Ding Feng cautiously reminded, "Gan Ning's Jinfan thieves only have hundreds of people, and there are only more than a hundred boats, and they are simply vulnerable in front of our army's shipwreck, and they will be sunk casually!" The general should hurry up and lead the main force of the navy to find Gao Shun's Xiliang army, and these hundreds of brocade thieves will be handed over to the last general. ”

"What's the hurry!?" Zhou Tai turned his head and glared at Ding Feng viciously, and shouted, "It's not too late to kill Gan Ning's hundreds of Jinfan thieves before chasing and killing Gao Shun's Xiliang army, anyway, now that the entire Huainan has become Zeguo, are you still afraid that Gao Shun's 100,000 horses will run into the sky?" Command the whole army to immediately advance at the speed of attack ......"

Hundreds of steps away.

Seeing that the Dongwu Navy launched a formation and rushed over with great momentum, Gan Ning couldn't help but have a sneer on his face, and shouted in a deep voice: "Order, turn the bow of the ship and retreat at full speed!" ”

Gan Ning gave an order, and more than 100 small boats turned their bows 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?" There are no doors! Command the whole army to pursue with all their strength at a sprint speed, hahaha......"

……

Shou Chun.

Although the strong city walls blocked the raging floods, the gates of the four cities could not stop the flood penetration, and by dawn, the water in the city had reached several feet deep, and more than 20,000 Dongwu infantry in Shouchun City were forced to withdraw to the ships. A super-large five-story ship slowly sailed out of the Shouchun Water Gate, and on the top deck, Sun Quan stood behind the women's wall surrounded by 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 uncertain.

The air on the deck was a little oppressive, except for the morning breeze blowing the flags and hunting.

Zhang Hong suddenly said to Zhou Yu: "Metropolitan Governor, after this flood, the entire Huainan will become Zeguo, and our army will not hesitate to pay for the entire Huainan trip to burn the jade, and the destruction of the Xiliang army should be no problem, right?" ”

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

Zhou Yu was silent, speechless.

Zhou Yu certainly hoped that the hundreds of thousands of Xiliang army of the horse butcher would be wiped out in this monstrous flood, but reason told him that the final result might not be satisfactory, and the main purpose of Zhou Yu's act of burning jade was only to delay and disintegrate the Liang army's southward movement and ensure that the main force of the Wu army could safely withdraw to Jiangdong by water.

Flooding Huainan is a burning of jade, and it is a dove to quench thirst!

Although this flood could stop the Liang army from moving south in the short term, it also extinguished the fire of the Wu army's northern expedition. Of course, this is not a good result, let alone what Zhou Yu wants to see, but he has no choice!

Releasing water to flood Huainan can at least ensure that the Liang army will not be able to crusade against Jiangdong within ten years.

But if this flood does not occur, perhaps in less than three years, the horse butcher will be able to build a huge water army with the manpower of Lujiang and Huainan counties (some of them are young and strong people who are familiar with the surname of Shui) in Jianghuai, as well as the abundant material and financial resources of the twelve states under his rule.

With Zhou Yu's understanding of the horse butcher, he is convinced that the size of this water army will be beyond anyone's imagination!

Even if this Western Liang Water Army is not as elite as the Eastern Wu Water Army, and it is not as good as the Eastern Wu Water Army to fight well, but the ants bite the elephant to death! Taking 10,000 steps back, even if this huge Xiliang Naval Army can't defeat the Eastern Wu Naval Army, it is more than enough to escort hundreds of thousands of Xiliang Iron Armor across the Yangtze River, once hundreds of thousands of Western Liang Iron Armor cross the Yangtze River, what should the Wu Army use to resist?

"Report ......"

Zhou Yu was about to look at the turbid water and think about it, when suddenly a general hurried up the stairs to the deck, knelt down and shouted to Sun Quan: "Lord, General Lu Meng is urgent!" ”

Zhou Yu's heart jumped, and the right hand holding the female wall suddenly clenched.

Sun Quan couldn't help but glance sideways at Zhou Yu, and then shouted without looking back: "Speak!" ”

The general gasped and said: "The Liang army in the north of the city has long been prepared, and the 200,000 cavalry troops have all been transferred to the high places in advance, and they have hardly suffered any losses!" ”

The general's voice fell, the civil and military generals on the deck changed color, and Sun Quan's face became extremely embarrassed.

At this moment, another general hurried onto the deck, knelt on the ground and said urgently: "Lord, General Zhou Tai is in a hurry!" ”

Sun Quan slapped his palm on the female wall and said angrily: "Speak! ”

The general said in a panic: "General Zhou Tai was killed by the Liang army, and when he chased the Jinfan thieves to a canyon, he was ambushed, more than 30 ships rushed, more than 40 fighting ships were burned, and more than 100 ships were taken away by the Jinfan thieves, and more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the navy were killed and wounded, including more than 800 killed, Ding Feng was killed, and General Zhou Tai was also wounded by Gan Ning. ”

"Huh?"

"What?"

"How so?"

The civilian and military generals on the deck were in an uproar, obviously no one expected such an outcome.

originally thought that after the flood, the Dongwu Navy would be able to kill all the remnants of the Xiliang Army who had died without much effort, but they never expected to be caught off guard by the Liang Army.

Zhou Yu's face became more and more embarrassed in an instant, a suffocating disgust suddenly surged from his chest, Zhou Yu opened his mouth suddenly, and spurted out a bloody arrow, and then his eyes fell backwards as soon as he was black, Sun Quan was close at hand, but he watched Zhou Yu fall to the ground, and he didn't reach out to help him! only looked at Zhou Yu's eyes, but he showed extreme indifference.

"The Grand Duke?"

"The Grand Duke!"

Tai Shici, Zu Lang, He Qi, Quan Cong and other Eastern Wu warriors hurriedly surrounded Zhou Yu and rescued Zhou Yu, and Sun Quan shouted loudly: "Sun Kuang, Sun Yu, what are you still doing in a daze?" Don't hurry up and help the Metropolitan Governor back to the lonely cabin, Sun Jiao, go and find Lang Zhong with the army, and tell Lang Zhong that you must use the best medicinal materials, go quickly! ”

It's night.

Zhou Yu woke up from a coma, only to see Sun Quan and Xu Shu standing in front of the couch with anxious faces, seeing Zhou Yu wake up, Sun Quan couldn't help but show joy on his face, and asked with concern: "Gongjin, do you feel better?" ”

"It's not in the way, it's just an old injury, but it worries the lord."

Zhou Yu said that, and when he was about to sit up with his hands in courtesy, he was gently pressed back to the couch by Sun Quan and persuaded: "Don't move, don't move, let's lie down on the couch and talk." ”

A wry smile appeared on Zhou Yu's face, and he was no longer reluctant, and lay back on the couch.

"Ugh." Sun Quan suddenly sighed and said, "Gongjin, the Liang army has already prepared, and the flooding flood will also fade within two days, and our army has no chance to take advantage of it, now that the water armies of Lu Meng and Zhou Tai have returned, and the whole army is retreating to the waterway of Jiangdong, Gu Wan never thought that the battle of Huainan would be such an ending." ”

After saying this, Sun Quan suddenly looked down at Zhou Yu and asked, "Gongjin, is the battle of Huainan really over like this?" ”

Zhou Yu looked at him sideways, and said gloomily: "Yu is incompetent, so you have disappointed your lord." ”

"No, you know that you have done your best." Sun Quan's eyes suddenly had a faint haze, and he said in a deep voice, "The defeat in this battle is really caused by the poor strength of our army, but if you want to say it well, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, our army lost the battle of Huainan, and it may not always be lost, so don't blame yourself too much." ”

Zhou Yu said: "Thank you for your magnanimity. ”

"Take care of your wounds." Sun Quan smiled at Zhou Yu and said loudly, "When you arrive in Jiangdong, there are still many places where you have to rely on Gongjin, and the Wu army can't do without their three military governors, hehe, then Gu won't disturb Gongjin to rest." ”

With that, Sun Quan turned around and walked away.

……

ps: The swordsman calculated, the following word count is not charged, in addition, strive to update another chapter tonight.

[On the question of Zhou Yu's relocation of more than 3 million people in Xuzhou and the Central Plains: First, the Central Plains and Xuzhou are actually not far from Huainan; Second, it took Zhou Yu nearly a year to complete the migration, and it was done in batches, not in one step; Third, Xuzhou is already rich, and the people go with surplus grain. ]

[Regarding the number of migratory population: Xuzhou's original population was 2.79 million, and there were three wars of Cao Ying to avenge his father's crusade against Xuzhou, Cao Ying's crusade against Lu Bu, and Zhou Yu's crusade against Xuzhou, but the time was very short, and the turmoil caused was small, so the population loss should not be too large, the population of Runan County near Huainan was originally 2.1 million, and the population of Runan County was originally 1.25 million, Runan and Qianjun After years of war, the population loss was a lot, but there should be 500,000 left, so the total population of these three places should add up to more than 3 million, As for why Zhou Yu let the people of the three places go to Huainan obediently, I believe that there are many ways, and there is enough time, but the book is not expanded to write. ]

[About the current population in the book: Yongzhou, Sizhou, Shuozhou, Liangzhou, Mobei population of about 500 million, Yizhou population of more than 500 million, Qingzhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou population of more than 400 million, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou population of more than 5000000, Huainan population of more than 300 (after the disaster), the total population under Ma Yue's rule is about 1750000000. The population of Jingzhou under Cao Ying was about 3.5 million, and the population of the four counties of Jiangdong under Sun Quan was about 2 million. ]

[In addition, at the end of the Han Dynasty, there was a total population of more than 5,000,000, but in the early days of the Three Kingdoms, the total population dropped sharply to only more than 50000000, and the swordsman thought that this statement was inaccurate.] These 5 million people should only be the population base for paying taxes to the central political axes of Wei, Wu, and Shu, not the real total population!

Because in the early days of the Three Kingdoms, a large number of founding heroes were awarded knighthoods, and we know that the titles are for food, and the so-called food is to classify tens of thousands, thousands or hundreds of families under the rule of meritorious officials, and these people will belong to those meritorious ministers from now on, and they will no longer have to pay taxes to the central government, and they will no longer be counted in the population base.

It is precisely because of this that Zhuge Liang has been operating miserably in Shu for decades, and finally died of exhaustion in office, but the population base that pays taxes to the central government of Shu Han has never grown. In fact, the swordsman believed that the total population of Shu Han at that time must have increased, and it should have increased a lot, because the wars at that time were fought outside Xichuan, and Yizhou was stable for decades, even if the Shu army had casualties, it would only lose tens of thousands of young adults in the past few decades, and it was difficult to affect the total population of the entire Xichuan. ]

(To be continued)