Around the 17th year of King Zhuang of Chu (597 BC), the Chu State’s magistrate Yin Sun Shuao took charge of the construction of one of the earliest water storage and irrigation projects in China - Shaopi.

Shaopi is named after the water flowing through Shaoting.

The reason why Sun Shuao wanted to build this water conservancy project was because the place called Anfeng City at that time was already an agricultural area in the northern border of Chu State.

It's just that Anfeng City is located at the northern foothills of the Dabie Mountains. The terrain on the east, south and west sides is higher, while the terrain on the north side is low-lying, sloping towards the Huaihe River.

During the summer and autumn rainy seasons, flash floods occur, causing waterlogging, and droughts often occur when there is little rain.

According to the local terrain characteristics, Sun Shuao organized local people to build projects and dug the low-lying Shaopei area wider and deeper to form a huge reservoir.

Then six water gates were built in Shaopi, using stone gates to control the amount of water. "When the water rises, the doors are opened to drain it, and when the water disappears, the doors are closed to store it."

In fact, it is a semi-artificial large reservoir.

After the construction of Shaopi, thousands of hectares of farmland were irrigated, allowing the Anfeng area to produce a large amount of grain every year, and it soon became an important economic area of ​​the Chu State.

The state of Chu was able to become one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, and Shaopi played an indispensable role.

After more than 800 years, in the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Wei implemented the policy of farming. Cao Cao personally visited Hefei, collected the refugees, and started farming in Shaopi.

Anfeng City back then has now become Shouchun City.

Therefore, it is not without reason that Shouchun is an important population town in the Jianghuai area and is also the seat of Cao Wei's Yangzhou Dudufu.

If the Wu army could really succeed in the sneak attack and capture Shouchun, it would be equivalent to cutting off the economic and food lifeline of Yangzhou in the Wei state.

Wei almost had to obediently hand over the Jianghuai land in the south.

Although Wei Jun finally closed the city gate at the last moment.

But Yang Hong at the top of the city was still breaking out in a cold sweat.

The sun rises in early summer and is already slightly scorching.

But Yang Hong still felt a chill on his back.

Quan Cong asked the entire army to set up camp, but he did not dismount, but said:

"Take someone with you and follow me!"

Both Your Majesty and Zhuge Ke are trying their best to delay and mobilize the Wei thieves. They must race against time to break the city.

Quan Xu and Quan Duan stood up quickly, followed Quan Cong's horse with their personal guards, and headed towards Shouchun City again.

"Sir, be careful!"

Seeing that his master was about to enter the shooting range of the bow, but still had no intention of stopping, Quan Xu quickly reminded him.

"It doesn't matter, I know it well."

Quan Cong is also a veteran in the army, so he naturally knows where the safe zone is.

Yang Hong saw some people under the city, supported by soldiers, riding horses and circling around Shouchun.

Knowing that this is the opponent's general observing the city.

This is also normal.

After all, there are few soldiers in the city and they cannot go out to fight the thieves.

But seeing that the other party was always wandering around the edge of the bow's missing range, which was quite arrogant, made him really angry:

"You're trying to bully us into thinking that we don't have any good archers in our army?"

"Come here, take a strong bow and call for an archer!"

Archers who can draw strong bows will soon come.

Yang Hong pointed at Quan Cong and the others below the city and asked:

"Can you cum?"

The shooter visually measured the approximate distance, but in the end he was still a little embarrassed:

"General, it's too far. Even if I could barely hit it, the accuracy would be too low. And even if I could hit someone, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to hurt anyone."

"As long as it can be shot, it will be fine." Yang Hong said nonchalantly, "With such a long distance, I don't expect to be able to hurt anyone."

Riding a horse, with support from the front and back, you can see that you are an important person.

If it can be hurt, then God is taking care of it, but even if it can't be hurt, you still have to scare the other person so that they don't dare to get so close.

Before the battle, if you can do anything that can dampen the morale of the thieves, no matter how small it is, you should try your best to do it.

The shooter nodded, understanding what the general meant.

To put it bluntly, the purpose is to give the people in the city a show of strength.

Quan Cong, who was at the foot of the city, was looking intently at the Shouchun city wall when he suddenly heard the sound of breaking through the air!

"General, be careful!"

Always pay attention to Quan Xu and Quan Duan at the top of the city. If they find something is wrong, they immediately raise their shields to protect them in front of their horses.

The shield blocked it in time, but it wasn't necessary.

Quan Cong stood still, watching the arrow feathers finally fall softly to the surface of the large frame, and then slide to the ground, with an unruffled expression on his face.

"Sir, should we stay farther away?"

Although the arrow feathers were weak, Quan Xu was still worried. When he saw that there was no movement at the top of Shouchun City, he couldn't help but turn around to persuade Quan Cong.

This time, I don’t know if Quan Cong listened, or if he had already finished his observation, he nodded and jerked his horse’s head: “Let’s go.”

Seeing the group of Wu troops leaving the city, Yang Hong breathed a sigh of relief, and then laughed:

"The thief is too timid!"

Everyone on the left and right burst out laughing.

But what Yang Hong didn't know was that after Quan Cong left Shouchun City, he didn't return to the camp. Instead, he turned south without stopping and walked along the Feishui River next to Shouchun City.

If you follow Feishui all the way to the end, its source is from Jiming Mountain.

Hefei New City is built on Jiming Mountain.

Of course, Quan Cong was not planning to go to Hefei Xincheng this time and team up with Sun Quan to team up with Wang Ling.

His destination is another source of Feishui - Shaopi.

As mentioned before, when Sun Shuao built Shaopi, he did so because of the terrain:

The terrain on the east, west and south sides is high, but the terrain on the north side is low.

Therefore, many water flows near Shaopi will flow from south to north into the Huaihe River.

And Shouchun is right at the intersection of Feishui and Huaihe Rivers.

Quan Cong arrived at Shapi and finally got off his horse. He walked to the embankment of Shapi and looked north.

Although Shouchun is far away, it is still clearly visible.

He walked along the dam embankment again, suddenly holding a riding crop in his hand, he ordered:

"Starting from tomorrow, you and two others will each lead five hundred soldiers. One person will block the sluice gates in Shaopi, and the other will cut off the fat water."

It is late spring and early summer, and there is plenty of rain.

Looking at the rolling fat water, Quan Cong added another sentence:

"Even if the fertilizer water cannot be cut off, the flow of fertilizer water into Shaopei must be cut off."

Quan Xu and Quan Duan followed Quan Cong for such a trip, and after hearing Quan Cong's instructions, they still didn't understand the intention.

The two of them thought that their sneak attack had failed and that the army that had come all the way from Lu'an would be in an embarrassing situation.

After all, it would take a lot of time to build siege equipment.

What the army lacks most is time.

Unexpectedly, the Governor had already made plans.

At this thought, the two of them were overjoyed and quickly clasped their fists:

"Here!"

…

Just when Quan Cong sent people to block the water flows south of Shaopi, preparing to flood Shouchun City.

Sun Quan, who was fighting fiercely with Wang Ling far away in Hefei, was gradually falling into a disadvantage.

Relying on the sharp swords and thick armor supported by the Han State, the imperial army led by Sun Quan did gain some advantages when the Wei army was unprepared.

However, the situation that Wei Jun was good at land battles and Wu Jun was good at water battles could not be completely changed by relying on weapons.

If not, why couldn't Cao Cao and Cao Pi build so many warships to cross the river?

But this time, the Wu army abandoned their ships and went ashore, fighting the Wei army on land. The same problem also existed.

Although Wu Jun had the upper hand in the previous confrontations, at critical moments, Wei Jun's elite cavalry always rushed out to the rescue.

Wu Jun's infantry had no ability to take advantage of the opportunity to expand the victory.
To be continued...