Cao Cao besieged Ye with earthen hills, tunnels, and a flood from the Zhang River, captured and beheaded Shen Pei, and Ye was pacified. (Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) 魏書 武帝紀 (卷01) 建安9년)
In the first month Cao Cao crossed the Yellow River, blocked the Ji River, and let the water flow into Baigou, opening the grain transport route. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷064 (원문 단락 #5218, 204년))
In the fifth month Cao Cao tore down the earthen mounds and tunnels, and dug a moat around the city, encircling forty li of its surroundings. At first he dug shallow, and while Shen Pei mocked him, in one night he dug it two zhang deep, then led in the Zhang River to water it, so that half the city starved. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷064 (원문 단락 #5220, 204년))
When the army of Yuan Shang arrived, the generals wanted to avoid it, but Cao Cao said 'if they come by the main road we will avoid them; if they follow the western mountains we will capture them.' Yuan Shang followed the western mountains and camped at Yangping by the Fu River, seventeen li from Ye. At night torches signaled to those in the city. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷064 (원문 단락 #5222, 204년))
Southern Europe (2)
Severus holds the Secular Games and placates the citizens with a great spectacle in which hundreds of beasts are killed, and with frequent donatives. (Herodian, History of the Empire 3.8)
In the consulship of Chilo and Libo, Severus, together with his two sons Antoninus and Geta, again holds the Secular Games (Ludi Saeculares) on their 110-year cycle. (Zosimus, New History Zos. 2 (1814 영역) p.37)