The hill where Shen Chen was sitting was only a hundred meters above the ground, and the building ship was twenty or thirty meters high, so the distance between the two sides was not that far.
The bow of the ship was densely covered with soldiers, who raised their shields to prevent arrows from being fired down from the mountains.
Among the crowd, someone stood out. Shen Chen looked carefully, and to his great surprise, that person turned out to be "Zhang Xuan" who he had let go.
"Chen Chen!"
"Zhang Xuan" was about a hundred meters away from them. He could only vaguely see that he was dressed very gorgeously and his voice echoed in the mountains.
Shen Chen walked to the edge of the cliff, looked at the river below the mountain from the top of the mountain, and shouted: "Xuan Zhang!"
"This is not Zhang Xuan, but the Lord of Jiangdong, Wuhou Sun Quan!"
Sun Quan stood solemnly, looking up at the top of the mountain.
Sun Quan?
Is this guy Sun Quan?
Shen Chen was quite surprised. He never expected that he would let Sun Quan go.
"Why, are you surprised by Gu's identity?"
Seeing Shen Chen's silence, Sun Quan smiled and mocked: "If you had known that he was alone, your defense would not have been so lax."
Shen Chen scratched his head and said, "So you are Sun Quan. I really didn't expect it to be you. No wonder you wanted to shoot General Huang after the hostage exchange. It turns out it was you who gave the order."
"Yes, it's Gu. Although Gu was in prison, he still found a chance to escape. How about it? Do you regret it?" Sun Quan said with a smile on his face.
"You seem very proud of your ability to escape?"
Shen Chen was speechless.
Sun Quan laughed and said, "You didn't recognize me and let me run away. Can't you be proud of that?"
"You are thinking too much."
Shen Chen waved his hand: "This is just a way for me to deceive Zhou Yu and Lu Su. If I hadn't deliberately sent someone to put a dagger in your room and let the soldiers relax their vigilance, how could you have escaped?"
"ah?"
The smile on Sun Quan's face froze. He didn't escape by relying on his own wisdom and courage, but was let go on purpose?
Zhou Yu emerged from the cabin, stood on the top deck and shouted loudly: "Even so, it is a ridiculous thing to let my Lord escape from the enemy camp without knowing him."
Shen Chen smiled and said: "If you don't know, then you don't know. You will know each other in the future. Besides, you have fallen into the trap now. Do you still want to put money on your face?"
"snort."
Zhou Yu snorted from his nose, stood with his hands behind his hands and said loudly: "What can you do even if you deceive Lu Meng and Xu Sheng away? You are not surrounded by us now."
Shen Chen said calmly: "You came here to gossip with me, right?"
"Chen Chen!"
Sun Quan said loudly: "Today you have been besieged by us. Even if you can escape, you will definitely suffer heavy losses. If you are willing to hand over Huang Zu and surrender to Jiangdong, I will treat you with the courtesy of a high official."
"Persuade to surrender?"
Shen Chen smiled and said: "General Huang was kind to me in the early years. You want me to hand over General Huang, but you are dreaming. As for surrendering to Jiangdong, it is even more impossible. Although I have some differences with the King of Chu, Chu The king has treated me with as much kindness as a mountain, how can I betray the Lord?"
Sun Quan rolled his eyes and said, "It's okay if you don't surrender. The hatred between me and Old Thief Huang is as deep as the sea. As long as you hand Old Thief Huang over to me, I will let you go."
"I think too much. I don't even let you leave because it depends on my mood."
Shen Chen smiled slightly.
I still don’t know what Sun Quan is up to?
If he agrees to this matter, I am afraid that his reputation and popularity will be lost immediately, and he may even be charged.
Although Huang Zu was captured, he was the commander of the Jiangxia navy and was second only to Liu Biao in rank. Even Liu Qi was lower than Huang Zu in terms of official position.
So to a certain extent, Huang Zu is the highest-ranking general in the current Jingzhou army, and Liu Qi and Liu Pan must obey his orders.
My general was captured before, but he was finally exchanged for it, and then sent out. How did the morale of the soldiers drop?
What's more, Shen Chen himself didn't have the power to deal with it like this, not even Liu Qi and Liu Pan.
Therefore, Sun Quan was just using psychological tactics to divide his soldiers.
"Does it depend on your mood to let us go?"
Sun Quan seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world. He grinned from ear to ear and said, "You are surrounded by us now. Are you still talking about these big words?"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
At this moment, a fierce horn sound came from the direction of the back mountain.
Shen Chen's face darkened and he said, "I asked you why you suddenly came over to chat with me. It turns out that you deliberately restrained me and planned to make a surprise attack from the back hill."
"good."
Sun Quan put his hands on his hips and said loudly: "Those soldiers at the foot of the mountain are just there to deceive you. I have already sent people up from the back mountain in a surprise attack."
Shen Chen shrugged: "Then their luck is not very good. You will be drowned, and they will be shot or hacked to death by us."
Drown?
Rumble!
At this moment, the heaven and earth seemed to begin to vibrate.
Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and others were on the building boat, and they could see with the naked eye more than ten miles upstream of Shu River, countless river waves rolling towards the downstream.
The entire river surface seemed to be more than ten or twenty feet taller in an instant, as if water from the West Lake had been poured into the river in a short period of time.
"How is that possible!"
Zhou Yu was so shocked that he lost his voice: "There is obviously no dam in the upper reaches of Shushui River."
"Hahahahaha."
Shen Chen stood on the cliff and laughed wildly.
Countless Jiangxia navy troops on the surrounding cliffs were watching this scene from a distance.
The terrifying noise from the huge waves almost shook the world to pieces. The sound came from far to near, roaring in only a short period of time.
Jiang Dongjun at the bottom of the cliff didn't even know what was happening. He only heard loud sounds dozens of times more exaggerated than the waves coming one after another. The sounds became louder and louder, and the ground even began to tremble.
Jiangdong Army, who had not received the order, stood at the foot of Wuling Mountain in a daze. Many people thought there was an earthquake and ran around with their heads in their arms. Some were at a loss, some were running away, and some were looking around waiting for instructions from superior officers. .
But unfortunately, even the officers could not figure out what was going on, and many of them were even running around like headless flies like the soldiers, causing chaos in the Jiangdong Army camp at the foot of the mountain, without unified command at all.
The Jiangxia naval forces on the mountain saw that after less than a quarter of an hour after the smoke was released, countless terrifying currents seemed to emerge from the end of Shushui River, flooding the entire river in a short period of time. It began to rise, submerging both sides of the bank.
Immediately afterwards, the river began to spread at the foot of the mountain, and at the same time, accompanied by a loud noise, the waves crashed, and a huge wave twenty or thirty meters high swept towards the Jiangdong Army's fleet, like a giant beast opening its mouth, trying to swallow everything up. Devour.
Sun Quan's large ship was almost the first to bear the brunt. Although the huge wave was still several miles away, the water speed had already surged in just a minute or two. The terrifying wave directly engulfed the ship, and Continue heading downstream.
The people on the boat couldn't even complete the action of turning the bow of the boat in a short time, because the tide came so fast, faster than lightning. At first glance, it was still far away, but in a flash of lightning, it was already in front of them.
After the wave reached the bottom of Wuling, the water level in the forest at the foot of the mountain suddenly rose sharply, the wind and clouds in the sky changed color, the ground shook, and the mountains shook, as if the sky was filled with dark clouds.
Shen Chen wiped the water droplets splashing on his face. Even standing on the top of a hundred-meter-high mountain, it was as scary as a wave lapping at the river bank. The rolling floods carried a huge force, and the roar from nature rolled and rumbled. Stormy waves swept in all directions.
In just a few minutes, after the huge wave passed, the forest was submerged, many low hills turned into islands, the originally clean and clear Shushui River turned into a turbid yellow flood, the trees collapsed, and the campground Being submerged, the jungle at the foot of the mountain was now densely covered with black spots.
Those things were debris in the forest, dead leaves and branches, broken wood, shipwrecks, and many Jiangdong Army soldiers floating in the water. The foot of the mountain a hundred meters away instantly turned into an artificial lake, with all kinds of things on the lake. Wails, cries for help, and shouts are endless.
The river is still flowing rapidly. Many Jiangdong soldiers can only hold on to wood and struggle to survive in the flood. The terrifying upstream embankment is still pouring water in. It is clear that the weather is sunny and it is not raining, but the world has become a piece of water. The terrifying hell makes people tremble.
"General, can this water hold that much?"
Zhang Nan was soaked all over. He was standing on the edge of the cliff just now and was hit by a wave. Fortunately, the people around him reacted quickly and caught him. At this time, he was wiping his face like a drowned rat. sewage.
Shen Chen shook his head and said, "It rained heavily a few days ago and flash floods broke out in the south. Do you know why Shushui didn't surge due to this?"
Zhang Nan was surprised and said: "General, did you store up those mountain torrents?"
"yes."
Shen Chen smiled and said: "And it's not just mountain floods, there are also several small rivers, and a large number of water storage dams have also been dug and built."
The secret of the water attack is to dig and build a reservoir. Of course, an ordinary reservoir the size of a fish pond cannot store much water. If you want to think of the effect of causing the river water to surge twenty or thirty meters in an instant like now, it would take at least two square kilometers. Only large and small lakes will do.
However, if you want to dig and build such a large lake in the mountains, it is almost impossible to complete a series of operations such as storing water, strengthening the embankment, opening the gate and releasing water within the specified time.
Let’s not talk about whether manpower and material resources can do it. Simply speaking, if you want to build such a large water storage lake, you need strong craftsman skills, and it can only be built upstream.
Therefore, Zhou Yu and Lu Su did not believe that Shen Chen could attack with water.
But they ignored several things.
First, it was still raining in the southeastern hills a few days ago, flash floods continued to break out, and the water resources were extremely abundant. There was no need to use the water in Shushui for water storage.
Second, Shen Chen was originally engaged in design work and was once an architectural designer. It is not difficult to design and build lakes in the mountains.
Third and most importantly, he does not need to build a huge lake.
Since there were flash floods and tributary rivers everywhere in the mountains and forests, Shen Chen only had to send people to build interception dams on small rivers that were no more than 20 to 30 meters wide, and then dig reservoirs on both sides.
As long as there are enough flash floods and creeks, more than a dozen small water storage lakes will open their gates and release water at the same time, and a huge flow of water will pour into Shu Shui in a short period of time, which can cause the effect of a large lake bursting its banks and lowering the water level of Shu Shui. skyrocketing.
People walk to higher places and water flows to lower places. This can be achieved by making good use of the terrain of the mountains, the flow of the river and the recent heavy rain.
Another problem is labor.
Although there is no need to dig and build large water storage lakes, only a dozen small water storage lakes need to be dug, which is impossible for people like them.
But Shanyue people can.
According to historical records, Chen Pu and Zu Shan tribe each had tens of thousands of people, and the combined number was more than 100,000.
With their help, Shen Chen dug about sixteen water storage lakes within a month to carry water from mountain torrents and streams in the upper reaches of Shushui.
These water storage lakes are not large. The water volume of each water storage lake is between tens of thousands of cubic meters to more than 100,000 cubic meters. The total water storage capacity may be more than 2 million cubic meters, which is about one-seventh of the West Lake. Water storage capacity.
It may seem like a lot, but as a small and medium-sized river, Shushui has a daily water flow of more than 10 million cubic meters, which can fill the entire West Lake in one day.
Super-large rivers like the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers have a daily water flow of billions to tens of billions. If they did not flow into the East China Sea, it would be a disaster for mankind.
So to a certain extent, Shen Chen only intercepted one-fifth of Shu Shui's daily water flow and released it in an instant.
Just like if it rains for a few hours every day for a month, it will not have any impact, but if it rains for a month in one day, it will cause floods.
Shen Chen also took advantage of this and built scattered water storage lakes to prevent Jiangdong's scouts from going south along the river at night to check if there were any water storage dams.
Even because these water storage lakes are too small, the intercepting dams are entirely made of wood and stones. After completing the water storage function, they spread out, causing the water level of Shushui to not drop, and successfully confused Jiangdong Army. .
The effect now is also very significant.
Two million cubic meters of flood water was released in a short period of time, which was almost one-fifth of the Shushui river. It directly flooded both sides of Wuling and Shiling, and stretched for dozens of miles. With the drainage volume of Shushui, It is simply not enough to release so much water, causing the entire mountain forest to be submerged.
The foot of the mountain was already covered with turbulent waves. All kinds of people, animals, leaves, wood, and ship fragments were floating on the muddy yellow flood. Many people sank to the bottom of the water and were submerged by the flood. Many more people were barely able to stay afloat and were drowned by the current. Roll downstream.
All the Jiangxia naval forces above Wuling stared blankly at this scene. The horror of nature gave them a strong visual impact and shock, so much so that many people felt their legs trembling.
At this time, a continuous sound of horns came from the back mountain, causing the surrounding Jingzhou soldiers to frequently look in the direction of the back mountain.
"Almost forgot."
Shen Chen slapped his forehead, picked up the quiver on the ground and carried it on his back. He hung a ring-headed sword on his left waist and held a bow in his right hand. He roared to the hundreds of soldiers who were directly beside him and said: " Come with me."
The soldiers shouted in twos and threes and followed him towards the back mountain. In an instant, the team numbered two to three thousand people, and more soldiers were joining them.
For them, this battle was also full of ups and downs. It was only then that they realized that there seemed to be an enemy in the back mountain.