In the ancient war environment, the significance of hydraulic power is unquestionable. Especially when the north and south confrontation, the control and utilization of waterways will often dominate the war and even the direction of national destiny!

If the offense and defense of Shouchun land is only obsessed with the victory or defeat of the front battlefield, it will undoubtedly ignore this excellent geographical environment given by heaven. If the geographical conditions are not applied to the limit, then the place will either abandon or guard it, and it will not have its original meaning.

The north is strong and the south is a natural limitation that is insurmountable in this era. Once a powerful military group emerges in the north, it does not even need to form a totally dominant rule over the Central Plains, and it can form a strong suppression of the southern regime.

But even so, once the situation of division and confrontation is formed, if you want to achieve success in the south and achieve unity between the north and the south, you must prepare for the war and coordinate for many years, and you have to wait until the southern regime is extremely corrupt and cannot do it. In addition to manpower, you must rely on the time, because the southern regime has absolute geographical advantages. The Jianghuai is a natural barrier, and it cannot be crossed.

Heaven and earth have their own power, and are often helpless that human power cannot reach. In this chaotic period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the front line of the battle was maintained on the Huai River most of the time. The strategic idea of ​​defending the river must be implemented by knowledgeable people of all dynasties. Even if the towns along the Huai River were lost in a short period of time, they were quickly taken back again, and it was difficult for the north to occupy for a long time.

It was not until the period of the alternation of Qi and Liang, when Pei Shuye, the governor of Yuzhou in the Southern Dynasty surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty with Shouyang, which brought great pressure to the defense of the Southern Dynasty. In the early days of Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, used the North to deal with the matter in the early days of his reign, and most of them revolved around the recovery of Huainan, but they always ended in failure. Being trapped here, Xiao Yan even had the idea of ​​Guangxiuyantai, a land in Huainan, to submerge Hefei, Shouchun and other places in one fell swoop.

However, this conception project cost a lot, and with the strong Northern Wei troops prevented it, it was impossible to accomplish anything. Similar strategies were used by the Emperor Sun Quan of the Wu Lord as early as the Three Kingdoms period and were implemented by the Eastern Wu army.

But in this process, the Southern Liang army did not do nothing. In this war, a group of famous generals in the Southern Dynasty, such as Wei Rui, known as "Wei Hu", used clever soldiers and accumulated small victories. However, because the main generals were afraid to fight and dared to advance bravely, they even escaped at the last minute, the good situation collapsed. The Southern Liang army not only failed to protect the victory, but had to retreat inside, while the Northern Wei took advantage of the situation to attack, with great force to attack the river.

During this pursuit, the Nanliang army was trapped in Zhongli City, Linhuai, and tens of thousands of Northern Wei troops besieged this lonely city. During this siege, various units of the Nanliang army also rushed to help, but they were trapped in the Wei army's strong momentum and difficult to resolve the siege. At that time, heavy rains were pouring, and the Huai River rose by more than seven feet. The Nanliang army advanced greatly due to the situation and defeated the Wei army in Zhongli.

The Battle of Zhongli was a few great victory in the battle between the north and the south after the failure of the Northern Expedition of Yuanjia, the Southern Dynasty. Although the comparison of troops invested by the two sides was not as great as that of the Battle of Feishui, and its reputation in later generations was far less than that of the Battle of Feishui, it had a profound impact on the situation at that time and was not inferior to the Battle of Feishui.

After this war, the internal conflicts of the Northern Wei Dynasty became more acute, rebellions broke out one after another, and eventually triggered the rebellion of the Six Towns. However, the Southern Liang Dynasty was not established for a long time, and it also achieved decades of national destiny through this victory. If it weren't for the excessive use of Buddha, and the rebellion of Hou Jing led to the destruction of mountains and rivers and the destruction of all achievements, Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, would undoubtedly have been more glorious in his life.

Shen Zhezi cannot fully understand these past and later events, but this does not prevent him from using the right strategy at the right time.

Jie Hu Nan came fiercely, and Shi Hu's tyrannical military use was beyond people's imagination. Perhaps in his mind, there was probably no concept of human life at all, and the consumption of life was the worst situation for the Huainan Army. If the already small troops were too damaged to defend Yingkou, then the meaning of defending Yingkou would no longer exist, and it might not be able to be defended in the end.

But even if you give up, Jie Hu will never be able to succeed so easily. Shi Hu obviously has a sense of and guard against floods, and he has formed a camp and scattered to connect the ranger to ensure defense. No matter whether it is used for water and fire, it is difficult to achieve great results. But when Yingkou is about to break through, the man finally paralyzed and underestimated the enemy.

Shen Zhezi never let down his expectations. He fully recognized and utilized the advantages of hydraulic power in Shouchun's defense, and the Huai River soared, and soon broke through the simple embankment in the north that had not been repaired and repaired. The water surged, swept over and rushed directly to the tens of thousands of soldiers gathered inside and outside the camp.

At this time, it was already evening, and the terrain inside and outside the camp was narrow and narrow, and the slave soldiers were woven into groups, and the commands were already chaotic. The stormy waves surged in the darkness, and the soldiers were advancing or retreating, screaming and howling, and the formation was even more chaotic. In addition to the soldiers who were still gathering in the distance and not approaching, there was still time to turn around and flee. Almost all the soldiers gathered inside and outside the camp were destroyed by the waves and fell on the way!

No matter how fierce the army is, it is unstoppable. It is no different from the earth and rocks in the face of the sweeping waves of water, and its situation is even much worse than that of earth and rocks. The soil and gravel just go with the flow, while the fallen soldiers struggle hard, rising and falling in the surging water, and their hands and feet dance to grab all objects that they can grasp.

And in the process of struggle, many slave soldiers who were originally slightly compatible and who might escape the catastrophe were also pulled by their struggling companions, their limbs were entangled and wrestled, and many of them drowned!

The Huai River in midsummer was already rising. Earlier, the Huainan Army built more dams to divert flood discharge. At this time, the dams were completely destroyed, and the water was rolling back, and the river collapsed even more fiercely than thousands of horses galloping. Soon, Yingkou, an area with an already low terrain, was flooded by floods, and the water was still spreading further away!

People and horses were roaring at night, and even with huge waves roaring, it was still difficult to completely submerge. In order to ensure the suddenness of the water attack and achieve the greatest results, even the Huainan defenders in Yingkou were not aware of this. Although many defenders had retreated to board the ship, when the flood came, there were also many boats and ships being overwhelmed by the huge waves, and most of the soldiers fell into the water.

Therefore, when the defenders approached the battlefield, they did not rush to rush forward to kill the defeated people, but gave priority to rescue the robe. Although they only defended for two days, the Yingkou defenders were also seriously injured. Those who fell into the water were rescued one by one, and then transported back to the south bank to gather on an empty ship. There is no time to calculate the specific damage at present.

The response to the Yingkou defenders lasted for nearly two hours, and at this time the original Yingkou battlefield had already become a marsh country. There were many corpses floating on the water, almost covering nearly ten miles of areas. Among them were the corpses that were not too late to collect before the fierce battle, and the large number of slave soldiers who had no time to retreat and drowned in the water.

At the same time, there were also bamboo and wood floating boards on the water surface, and many soldiers hugged the trees and survived. However, although they had been lucky enough to have suffered the destruction, they still could not escape the subsequent clearing of the Huainan Army. At midnight, a large number of soldiers carrying warships and rafts gathered on the water surface and rushed north along the water. Whenever they encountered such surviving slave soldiers along the way, they had no time to capture the alive mouth and stabbed them to death. At most, they threw the body on the raft and waited for them to clean up and pick up the harvest.

During this water attack, almost none of the camps near the waterside of Jiehu were spared. Even if people escaped, the tents of the equipment were not taken away. At this time, they all floated on the water surface and allowed them to collect them. Some camps stationed in the highlands were lucky enough to avoid the impact of the water waves. At this time, they were flooded by floods on all sides, and many soldiers were trapped in an isolated island. When the boats and ships of Huainan were approaching, they were already frightened and had no intention of fighting, so they abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

By the early morning, the world finally returned to silence. The Yingkou Camp where the two armies were fighting for was completely submerged by floods. The Huai River water surface expanded more than ten miles outside this area. Although it was not flooded by the water flow further away, it became muddy due to the impact of the surging water and it was difficult for people to move.

More than 6,000 Huainan troops had been carried by boats and gathered in Jiangbei. Under the leadership of Han Huang and Lu Yong, they broke away from the waterway and rushed to the surviving Nuying. The slave camp was stationed and scattered, and only a few of them were truly destroyed by the flood impact last night, but the psychological impact was undoubtedly huge. At this time, in Huaibei, although there were still a large number of camps survived the flood impact, the soldiers in the inner army had already fled across the camp, leaving only an empty camp to remain in place.

Shi Hu personally took the front line to command the attack on Yingkou camp, but the result was that the accident was the first to be affected. The Jiehu troops almost lost their restraining orders, and a large number of soldiers fled to the north under the leadership of their respective commanders. The Huainan army attacked dozens of miles from a distance. Except for a small number of defeated people in the country, they almost encountered large-scale resistance!

During the process of sweeping northward, the only resistance the Huainan Army encountered was Shi Hu's central army camp, with thousands of soldiers gathered here, and at the command of the slave generals, he kept the Huainan Army out of the camp. However, it was obvious that during the turmoil last night, Shi Hu did not return here in time to take charge, so when the Huainan Army had any reinforcements, these soldiers did not dare to defend and retreat, and finally gave up the camp and fled back. Therefore, Shi Hu's camp and many ritual instruments preserved in it were all captured by the Huainan Army!

In the end, it was because they were too far away from the shore and were worried that they would be counterattacked by Jienu, so the Huainan army stopped sweeping and kept a strict formation and slowly retreated. They had their own boats to respond and returned with great victory.
Chapter completed!