In the old calendar, at the end of October, the seventy-seventh year of Longqing, Zhou Rong used the strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain to draw out the White Robes, then altered the Luo Xiao River course, causing the floodwaters to backflow into Shouyang City. The court and the public were shocked, and he became famous across the land upon first emerging, a historical event known as the Flood of Shouyang.
In the same year, November, a celestial anomaly occurred, persistent torrential rains, and the Luo Xiao River's water level rose instead of falling during the autumn and winter seasons, with the waters surging to support giant warships. With the northwesterly wind, the old court's naval forces swiftly moved northward before rapidly advancing eastward, their forces pressing straight towards Youlan Capital, historically referred to as the Drainage Strategy.
