Little-known Secrets of the Three Kingdoms
by Stony Ground
About This Novel
In the winter of the 14th year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 209), Cao Cao's army suffered repeated defeats in Jiangling and suffered heavy losses, and was forced to withdraw north. Sun Quan controlled the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Seeing that the threat from the north was eliminated, Sun Quan actively expanded to the south. In the fifteenth year of Jian'an (AD 210), he occupied all of Jiaozhou (today's Guangdong and Guangxi). Then he planned to develop northward. In May of the 19th year of Jian'an (AD 214), there was abundant rain in the Yangtze River area. The big rivers swelled and the small rivers were full, which provided favorable conditions for Wu Jun's warships to attack. General Lu Meng suggested to Sun Quan: "Recently, Cao Cao has sent Zhu Guang, the governor of Lujiang, to cultivate rice in Wancheng in the north of the Yangtze River (now Qianshan County, Anhui, on the shore of the Wan River). The fields in Anhui are fertile and high-yielding. If they are allowed to be harvested for a few years, they will become a threat to our army, so we should eliminate them early."
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