In the ancient war environment, the significance of water power is unquestionable. Especially in the case of confrontation between the north and the south, the control and use of waterways will often dominate the war and even the direction of national fortunes!

The attack and defense of the land of Shouchun, if only obsessed with the victory or defeat of the frontal battlefield, is undoubtedly disregarding this heaven-sent excellent geographical environment. And if the geographical conditions are not used to the limit, then this place will not have the original meaning of abandonment or defense.

Once a powerful military bloc rises in the north, it does not even need to form a completely monopolistic rule over the Central Plains to suppress the southern regime.

However, even if this is the case, once the situation of division and confrontation is formed, if we want to make contributions to the south and complete the reunification of the north and the south, we must wait until the southern regime is rotten to the extreme. In addition to manpower, it still depends on the time of day, which is because the southern regime has an absolute geographical advantage. Jianghuai is a moat, and mediocrity cannot be crossed.

Heaven and earth have their own great power, and many times it is helpless beyond the reach of manpower. In the great turmoil of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the battle front line was maintained on the Huaishui line most of the time, and the strategic idea of defending the river and guarding the Huai River was implemented by people of insight in all dynasties, and the towns along the Huai Dynasty were quickly recovered again even if they were lost in a short period of time, and it was difficult to occupy the north for a long time.

Until the period of the alternation of Qi and Liang, when Pei Shuye, the assassin 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. Trapped here, Xiao Yan even moved to repair the weir in Huaizhong, wanting to drown Hefei, Shouchun and other places in one fell swoop.

However, this conceptual project was costly, and the Northern Wei Dynasty was strong enough to prevent it, so it could not be done in the end. A similar scheme was used as early as the Three Kingdoms period by Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, and was carried out by the Eastern Wu army.

But in the process, the Southern Liang army did not do nothing. In this war, the Southern Dynasty had a group of famous generals such as Wei Rui, known as "Wei Hu", who used troops skillfully and accumulated small victories, but because the main general was afraid to fight, he did not dare to advance bravely, and even fled from the battle, resulting in the collapse of the good situation. The Southern Liang army not only failed to keep the victory, but had to retreat in defeat, while the Northern Wei took advantage of the situation to attack, and there was a great tendency to attack the river all the way.

In the course of this pursuit, the Southern Liang army trapped the Zhongli city of Linhuai, and the Northern Wei Dynasty besieged this isolated city with tens of thousands of troops. In the process of this siege, all units of the Southern Liang army also rushed to help, but they were trapped in the large strength of the Wei army and it was difficult to relieve the siege. At that time, the torrential rain poured, the Huai water rose more than seven feet, and the Southern Liang army advanced greatly due to the situation, breaking the Wei army in Zhongli.

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

After this war, the internal contradictions of the Northern Wei Dynasty became more acute, and rebellions broke out one after another, which eventually led to the Six Towns Rebellion. The Southern Liang was founded not long ago, and it was also through this victory that the internal and external situation was shocked, and the national fortune continued for decades. If it weren't for the fact that the Buddha was too much, and the rebellion of Hou Jing ruined the mountains and rivers and ruined all his achievements, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, would undoubtedly have a more glorious life.

Shen Zhezi can't know everything about these past and future events, but this does not prevent him from using the right strategy at the right time.

The strength of the south of the country is fierce, and the tyranny of Shi Hu's use of soldiers is beyond people's imagination. Probably in his minds, there is probably no concept of human life at all, and the desperate consumption of human lives is the worst situation for the Huainan Army. If the already small number of troops loses too much in order to defend Yingkou, then the point of defending Yingkou will no longer exist, and it may not be able to hold it in the end.

But even if you give up, you can't let Kahu get hold of it so easily. Shi Hu obviously has awareness and vigilance against floods, and he disperses his camps to fortify his defense with rangers. No matter how much water or fire is applied, it is difficult to achieve great results. But when Yingkou was about to be breached, his people finally paralyzed the enemy.

And Shen Zhezi did not disappoint his expectations, fully recognized and took advantage of the water power in the defense of Shouchun, and fought against the four wild weirs, so that the Huai water soared, and soon broke through the humble embankment in the north that had not been repaired much. The water was surging and swept in, and soon it overflowed Yingkou and rushed directly to the tens of thousands of soldiers gathered inside and outside the camp.

At this time, it was already night, and the terrain inside and outside the camp was cramped and narrow, and a large number of slave soldiers were formed into groups, and the order was already chaotic. In the darkness, the stormy waves rushed in, and the soldiers advanced or retreated, screaming and howling, and the formation inevitably became more chaotic. In addition to the soldiers who were still gathering in the distance and did not approach, there was still time to turn around and run away, and almost all the soldiers gathered inside and outside the camp were spared, and they were all wiped out by the waves of water, and they fell on the way!

No matter how fierce the army is, how unstoppable it is, in the face of the sweeping impact of the surging water waves, it is no different from the earth and rocks, and even the situation is much worse than the earth and rocks. The earth and gravel just drifted with the current, and the drowning soldiers struggled as hard as they could, bouncing and stumbling in the surging current, trying to grasp everything they could.

And in the process of this struggle, many slave soldiers who were originally slightly watery and could have escaped the catastrophe were also pulled by their struggling companions, and their limbs were entangled and wrestled, and many of them drowned each other!

In the middle of summer, the Huai water has risen sharply, and the Huainan army has built more weir to divert the flood discharge earlier, at this time the weir is exhausted, the water is reversed, and the river collapse is particularly fierce in the galloping of ten thousand horses. Soon, the already small area of Yingkou was completely flooded, and the water was still spreading farther away!

In the night, people and horses howled, and although there were huge waves roaring, it was still difficult to completely submerge. In order to ensure the suddenness of the water attack to obtain the maximum results, even the defenders of Yingkou Huainan did not know about it, although many defenders had retreated to the ships, but when the flood came, there were also boats and boats that were washed away by the huge waves of the water, and many soldiers fell into the water.

Therefore, when the defenders approached the battlefield, they did not rush up to kill the rout, but gave priority to rescuing the robes. Although it only stubbornly resisted for two days, the damage of the Yingkou defenders was also huge, and the people who fell into the water were rescued one by one, and then transported back to the south bank by empty boat to assemble, but the specific damage was not calculated at the moment.

The response to the defenders of Yingkou lasted for nearly two hours, and at this time, the original Yingkou battlefield had already been completed. There are many floating corpses on the water, almost covering the area of nearly ten miles on the left. Among them were not only the corpses that had not had time to be collected in the previous fierce battle, but also a large number of slave soldiers who had not had time to retreat and drowned alive in the water.

At the same time, there is no shortage of bamboo and wood floating boards on the water surface, and there are many soldiers holding wood to survive. But although they were lucky enough to survive the catastrophe of annihilation, they still couldn't escape the subsequent purging of the Huainan Army. At midnight, a large number of warships and rafts loaded with troops gathered on the surface of the water and rushed north along the water. Whenever such surviving slaves were encountered along the way, they had no time to capture the raw mouths, so they directly stabbed them to death with bows and guns, and at most threw their corpses on the raft, waiting for the follow-up to clean up and pick them up.

Even if a crowd escaped, the tents were too late to be taken away, and they all floated on the water at this time, allowing others to collect them. Other camps on the high ground were lucky enough to avoid the impact of the waves, and at this time they were also flooded on all sides, and many soldiers were trapped on isolated islands. When the Huainan military boat approached, it was already desperate and frightened, and even more had no desire to fight, so they abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

In the early morning, the heavens and the earth finally fell silent. Originally, the Yingkou camp fought by the two armies had been completely submerged by the flood, and the water surface of the Huaishui River had expanded more than ten miles beyond this area, and although it had not been submerged by the current in the distance, it had also become muddy due to the impact of the turbulent water, and it was difficult for people and horses to walk.

The more than 6,000 people of the Huainan army had already been carried by boats, assembled in Jiangbei, and under the leadership of Han Huang and Lu Yong, they broke away from the waterway and rushed to the surviving slave camp. The slave camps were scattered, and only a few were actually submerged in the impact of last night's floods, but the psychological impact was undoubtedly enormous. At this time in Huaibei, although there were still a large number of camps that survived the impact of the flood, the soldiers in the inner middle had already fled beyond the camp, leaving only an empty camp in place.

Shi Hu personally sat on the front line to command the attack on the Yingkou camp, and the result was that when the accident came, he bore the brunt of the change, and the various troops of the Kahu almost lost their restraint orders, and a large number of soldiers scattered and fled to the north under the leadership of their respective commanders. The Huainan army attacked dozens of miles from afar, and except for a small number of routs in the suburbs, they almost did not encounter organized and large-scale resistance!

In the process of sweeping north, the only resistance encountered by the Huainan army was Shihu's Chinese army camp, where thousands of soldiers still gathered to keep the Huainan army out of the camp under the orders of the slave generals. But it is obvious that in the turmoil last night, Shi Hu did not return here in time, so when there were reinforcements from the Huainan Army in the future, these soldiers did not dare to hold on anymore, and fought and retreated, and finally completely abandoned the camp and fled to the rear. Therefore, Shihu's camp and many ceremonial instruments preserved in it were all captured by the Huainan army!

In the end, it was because it was too far from the shore and worried that it would be counterattacked by the slaves, so the Huainan army stopped the pace of the sweep, maintained a strict formation and slowly retreated, and its own boats and ships responded and returned with a great victory.

So far, the original slave army in Huaibei set up the camp was mostly uprooted, hundreds of thousands of troops hurriedly came, retreated in a hurry, standing in the north and south of Huaibei, there is little trace of the enemy in the field of vision. After more than ten days, the water slowly declined, and returned to the old way of Huaishui. However, the flood-covered area has also become muddy mudflats, making it difficult to accommodate large armies to assemble in close proximity.