The Yangtze River flowing thousands of miles was like divine power, splitting the tall and dangerous peaks of Wushan, leaving behind a deep and narrow canyon, and then heading eastward and rushing endlessly.

The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation. Together with the Yellow River, it has nurtured a long-standing Chinese civilization. Throughout history, whoever can control the Yangtze River can control this half of the Yangtze River.

The Battle of Chibi more than 50 years ago was a war to fight for control of the Yangtze River. As a result, Cao Cao, who had been invincible, suffered a defeat here. Since then, the Three Kingdoms have become a feud, and this pattern has continued to this day.

Including Cao Cao himself and his successors, they have always been resentful of the outcome of the Battle of Red Cliff. If it weren't for a sudden plague that led to the chaos of Cao's army before the war, there wouldn't be a disastrous defeat that burned Red Cliff.

In order to avenge and to unify the world, Cao Wei instigated the southern expedition against the Eastern Wu several times, but without exception, the reason was that although Cao Wei had powerful infantry and cavalry, the power of the navy was too weak. Even Cao Wei did not have a decent naval fleet for decades, so the so-called southern expedition was just scratching the surface and could not threaten the foundation of the Eastern Wu.

Judging from the comprehensive strength of military, economic and population, the Eastern Wu was obviously not a match for Wei, but it has never been at a disadvantage for decades. The main reason is that Wu has the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

If there were no natural barriers of the Yangtze River, the Wei State's infantry and cavalry would have swept across the Wu State long ago, and it would be no problem to fight to Lingnan. However, it was because of this vast river that Cao Wei's dream of unifying the world was delayed for more than half a century.

It was not until Cao Liang's emergence and saved the dying Cao Wei Dynasty that the Wei State had the strength to conquer Wu again.

Cao Liang's battle against Wu was not like the Wei State in the past, and he stopped short of his experience. Since he wanted to fight, Cao Liang was determined to go to the end and never give up until he destroyed Wu State.

If you want to defeat Wu, simply sending infantry and cavalry is not responsible. You must cultivate a powerful navy force and seize and control the water control power of the Yangtze River in order to turn the natural barrier into a thoroughfare.

To build a naval force that is stronger than the Wu Kingdom, this is simply an out of reach. After all, life in the north and south is very different. People in northern China mainly travel in infantry and cavalry, while people in southern China travel in boats and ships. Even if the Wei Kingdom can concentrate its efforts to build a considerable number of warships and warships, it is almost a dream to surpass the Wu Kingdom naval army.

But Cao Liang had Cao Liang's method. On the boat, the Wei army was indeed not as good as the Wu army, but the Wei army had an advantage that the Wu people had never had, that is, the powerful catapult. As long as the catapult and warships could be combined, the ones created by Cao Liang would no longer be the traditional navy.

The power of technology is infinite. It was Cao Liang who used the advantage of catapulting car to defeat the proud naval fleet of the Wu people in one fell swoop during the battle between the river, conquered Jianye, and destroyed the Wu Kingdom.

In addition, Cao Liang also developed a method to install catapults on warships, used the remaining ships of Wu State to convert them into catapults battleships, and in the water battle of Pengze Lake, he completely destroyed the remaining power of the Wu State naval army, and since then he firmly controlled the water control power of the Yangtze River to the hands of the Wei army.

The Yangtze River, which starts from the mouth of the Yangtze River in the east and reaches Wu Gorge in the west, has now fallen under the control of the Wei army. The east and west, which once was the foundation of the founding of the Wu Kingdom, have become obstacles to isolating the traffic between the Wu people in the north and south. Why can the Wu Kingdom not perish?

Now the Wei army's infantry and cavalry attacked the Qiting and Huya Mountain, and they were unable to break the situation for a long time and could not attack Xiling for the time being.

However, the warships of the Wei Navy's Navy could sail to Xiling City in a swagger, facing Xiling City far away. The Wu army had no choice but to do anything to these warships.

Not only can the Wei army warships sail to the river surface of Xiling, but they can also sail to Wu County where Jianping County is located, which is only a few miles away from Yong'an City in Shu Kingdom.

The warships of the Wei army have an unmatched advantage between the Wu and Shu people. Therefore, on the current surface of the Yangtze River, except for the warships of the Wei army, both Wu and Shu people dare not enter the water, because the warships of the Shu Kingdom are not the opponents of the Wei army at all. Once the two sides meet, the fate of the Shu army is that the ship is destroyed and the people are killed.

Originally, transporting troops and food from the water route was time-saving and labor-saving, but the Shu army had no right to control water. Whether they were transferring troops or transporting grain, they had to walk on the rugged and steep mountain roads, which was helpless.

Even if Lu Kang wanted to go from the south bank to the north bank, he had to take a detour to Yong'an, cross the river from there, and walk a large circle, and walk hundreds of miles more before he could reach Xiling.

It can be seen how sad the Wu people were after losing control of the Yangtze River waterway.

Jiang Wei had no good idea about this. After all, the navy of Shu Kingdom was relatively weak, and he had no strength to compete with Wu Kingdom before.

The Wu navy has now been destroyed. With such a small family background, there is no need to take it out and die. Therefore, Jiang Wei automatically gave up control of the Yangtze River waterway and specializes in fighting the mountain wars that the Shu army is good at.

As for the Wei army warships cruising under his nose, Jiang Wei automatically chose to ignore them. Anyway, these warships of the Wei army were outside the range of the Shu army's bow and arrow, and the Shu army was beyond the reach of them.

But if these warships try to approach Xiling City or want to attack Xiling, the bows and crossbows in the hands of the Shu army are not vegetarians, and they will definitely give the Wei army some color.

In fact, what Jiang Wei was most worried about was that the Wei army directly launched a landing battle against Xiling. Just like in the public security before, the Wei army concentrated its main force on the south bank, and then used the advantages of boats to ferry the main infantry and cavalry of the Wei army to Xiling City and launch an attack on Xiling City.

The Wei army's ability to cross the river was so powerful that Jiang Wei did not participate in the battle of Jianye and could not understand it. However, in the battle of Public Security, Jiang Wei personally led the army to block the Wei army, so Jiang Wei deeply understood the ability of the Wei army to land and fight.

However, Xiling is not Jianye, nor is it the public security. The terrain here is dangerous and the cliffs are high. If the Wei army really uses the method of public security crossing the river to attack Xiling, it will definitely not work.

The dangerous terrain of the Xiling River section will inevitably seriously restrict the Wei army's actions, so in Jiang Wei's opinion, it is really unlikely that the Wei army will launch a large-scale crossing of the river in Xiling.
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