"Although I'm not skilled in naval battles nor in river crossings, sometimes one's disposition dictates their actions," Guo Jia said proudly.
Without waiting for Guan Yu to inquire further, Guo Jia slipped back to the camp and ordered the soldiers to start chopping trees and setting up the camp, though the number of trees being chopped seemed surprisingly excessive no matter how one looked at it.
In the following days, Zhou Yu's dispatched scouts observed the five large boats of Guo Jia from the upstream river, but all they could see was Liu Bei's Army endlessly chopping down trees. Meanwhile, the number of stone throwers on the northern bank of the Huai River kept increasing, but it all seemed inconsequential.
