Chapter 566: Boundless Black Curtain Comes with Rain
Hua Duxiu fled back to the camp of the four princes in embarrassment, returned to his tent, and said that he would not go out anything.
First the little black egg, then the little leopard, and the forbidden army warriors who don't know why they want to kill themselves, if they meet the opponent of the Daomen Alliance again, this trip to the sea, the rebels have not yet fought, I am afraid that they will be killed by the "friendly army" first.
You can't be careless.
Young Master Ben is the personal guard of the Fourth Highness, and he doesn't honestly stay by the side of the Fourth Highness, what am I going out to wander blindly?
Even if you want to wave, don't you have to wait for your physical condition to recover before you wave?
On the night Hua Duxiu returned to camp, it began to rain lightly in the sky.
Although Canghaiyue is farther north than the Desert North Continent, the climate here is not cold. The early summer wind had already arrived, the forest was full of green, the sea breeze carried a wet warmth, and many soldiers of the expeditionary force even strengthened the pier in the sea naked, without the slightest intention of freezing.
It rained, Hua Duxiu was even more lazy to go out, during which he asked an acquaintance warrior to send a letter to Shen Lijia, warning him not to run around the camp, but also to be optimistic about the people around him, so Master Hua recuperated in the camp with peace of mind.
Recalling that day, he met Bao Yibao in the military camp of the Trapped Demon Valley Mansion, plus he followed him for most of the day, Bao Yibao almost turned around all the camps, and the things he painted were probably not for his own people.
If Bao Yibao, as a disciple of a famous family in Mobei, can still join the Mobei Water Division openly, Beiguo Tienan is a "famous" rebel who has been labeled, and he definitely has ulterior motives when he appears in the army.
This is still known by Hua Duxiu, and I don't know how many gangsters I don't know.
This counterinsurgency battle may not be as smooth as imagined.
As for the team of forbidden warriors who wanted to kill themselves, Hua Duxiu asked Chen Dalei afterwards.
I only knew that they belonged to a certain unit of the forbidden army, and I heard that their tragic death on the edge of the camp caused a great shock, but only a half-gnawed burnt pastry was found at the scene, and there were no other clues, so it was finally gone.
Whose men are they, and for whom do they work?
Which lord of the imperial capital did the Hua family offend?
In what matter did you offend?
None of this is known.
I don't understand that simply not wanting to be the only way for Young Master Hua to stay happy and confident, it didn't take long for Hua Duxiu to forget about it, wake up and eat, eat and drink tea when he is full, and just wait for his body to recover.
Days flew by.
The expeditionary force became more and more firmly established on the coast, and the soldiers of all walks of life marched in several directions, driving away all the rebels within a hundred miles of the base camp.
Canghaiyue is a "U" shaped island, the capital is at the top of the island on the west side, the expeditionary force came from the south, occupying the southernmost part of the island, as long as it goes more than 300 miles due north, it can completely cut off the connection between the east and west ends of Canghaiyue.
The terrain of Canghaiyue is low on the left and high on the right, and most of the industries, towns, population, and cultivated land are distributed on the west side, and the east side is mountainous.
According to the intelligence of the spies' preliminary reconnaissance, the main force of the rebels was scattered on the island on the west side, with the capital "Sammocheng" as the center, and arranged in steps.
Because the expeditionary force landed in the south, the main forces of the rebels showed signs of moving south.
After gaining firm control of the 100 miles around the base camp, the Imperial warships set sail again to re-land on the northwest coast.
Even if the northwestern resistance was too great to land smoothly, it could rely on the sea surface advantage to remain undefeated and attract the main rebel force, while the ground forces of the expeditionary force took the opportunity to completely control the central area of the island and confine the rebels to the western peninsula.
If the rebels flee into the mountains of the East Island and start a guerrilla war, it will be protracted to completely annihilate the rebels.
When the fleet was ready, it went to sea again to fight, and several days passed.
These days, Hua Duxiu has never seen the sun.
It's been rainy.
In order to solve the problem of drinking water for the army, the camp was built close to two rivers. It rained continuously for more than ten days, and the water level of the river rose by a foot, but it was only a foot.
No one took it seriously.
On the fifth day of the fleet's voyage, King Minghong ordered several large armies to continue to expand to the periphery and control the central region of Canghaiyue as soon as possible.
That night, something big happened.
Five hundred miles away from the expeditionary force camp, in the eastern mountains, it has been pouring rain here for half a month.
Unlike the drizzle over the base camp of the expeditionary force, it rained in the mountains of Higashishima in a real torrential rain.
The rolling mountains, the basins and valleys between the mountains carry a huge amount of rainwater!
However, all the waterways that flow into the sea have been blocked by well-intentioned people, the sky has been raining incessantly, the waterline between the mountains has continued to rise, and even the low mountains in some places have been swallowed up by the mountains and rivers, and countless orchards and mountain villages have sunk dozens of feet deep under the water, as if they had never existed.
It's not that the spies of the expeditionary force have not come to investigate, and there are still many people who have come.
One is that from the base camp to the interior, it is raining everywhere, and no one feels that anything is wrong, and the second is that the farther away from the base camp and into an unfamiliar area, the more likely it is to be attacked and killed by the rebels.
The scouts of the expeditionary force focused on the West Island, and no one who came to the East Island to explore went deep into the mountains and forests.
It was a terrifying scene in the depths of the mountains five hundred miles away, and the expeditionary force knew nothing.
On this night, Zhao Xuanhuang, the king of Chengying, who led the fleet to sea, was not there, and the marshal Minghong Wang Jun Yilan received an urgent letter from the front, saying that he was about to break through the middle of the island when he encountered the main force of the rebels, and the king of Minghong also left the camp to sit in the town to supervise the battle.
There is only one "God King" who has not yet been officially canonized-Tianhe Tianzun.
The supreme governor of this place is the fourth prince.
After dinner, Hua Duxiu wanted to read, but he couldn't settle down.
It always felt like something was going to happen.
But it was quiet outside, the army went out to fight, and the samurai who stayed behind for the exercise had returned to the camp to rest, and they couldn't even hear the sound of the military trumpet.
Except for the sound of rain, Hua Duxiu couldn't find the source of her uneasiness.
It's this gentle drizzle, which has been raining since the first day, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with it?
At the same time, in the mountains five hundred miles away, the sky was already quite dark, and it was almost completely dark.
The black clouds in the sky were unusually thick, the moonlight and stars were gone, and the torrential rain was pouring down, and this was a dark world.
If you look closely, there are many rugged black-clothed warriors standing on the top of a dozen tall mountains in the west of the mountainous area.
As if receiving some kind of signal, from the inside out, the black-clothed man on the mountain either ignited the gunpowder with a special technique, or shook the rocks in key parts with strong techniques, and the flood accumulated in the depths of the mountains quickly poured towards the western valley.
A few miles away, the black-clothed men on the second floor did the same, taking advantage of the huge impact of the flood to open more mountain passages in various dangerous ways, and let the flood water rush farther west.
One by one, the barrier like a valve collapsed, and even to the outermost layers, there was no need for manpower to open the passage, and the immeasurable water pressure directly crushed all the blockages, and poured out like a tiger out of a box.
The terrible flood that had been building up in the mountains for half a month rushed out of the valley and rushed towards the gentle terrain to the west with thousands of horses galloping.
What rivers, what undulating terrain, low hills, in the face of overwhelming floods, everything is in vain.
The strange wind, which had even stopped for half a month, blew again at this time, and the wind direction was from east to west, pushing the flood water to speed up.
Three hours later.
When the time was approaching, most of the officers and soldiers had already fallen asleep, and Hua Duxiu was restless that night, and he had been sitting at the head of the bed to breathe and did not sleep on Sunday.
In the dark, Hua Duxiu suddenly opened her eyes.
The earth shook faintly, and an indescribable sense of crisis slammed into his consciousness.
Something big is going to happen!
Hua Duxiu hurriedly put on his shoes and flew outside the tent to listen carefully.
The light rain was still falling, the sky was moonless, and the scenery from a little distance could not be seen really, and the patrolling samurai not far from Hua Duxiu also noticed the abnormal shaking of the earth, and looked around uneasily, whispering.
The tremor is getting stronger and stronger. After a while, many samurai, who had not slept deeply, came out of their tents to check on the situation.
"What's wrong, earthquake?"
"No, the earthquake is just the shaking of the earth, how can I hear the roar in the wind?"
"Isn't there any message from the outpost posts?"
"It can't be the rebel cavalry rushing through the line to kill it, right?"
"Are you funny, it's been raining for more than ten days, the ground is muddy, how can the war horse run?"
......
More and more samurai came out, and many people whispered to each other, but no one could tell what was going on.
Suddenly, a panicked and loud emergency trumpet sounded in the far east, and a faint shout of a samurai came down the wind:
"Hair water, big water, come on!"
"The flash flood is coming, run and ......!"
"Hurry up and save the chief, let the chief run ...... first!"
One trumpet sounds, everywhere the trumpet sounds.
Hua Duxiu was taken aback: "Torrent?"
"Where did the gods come from? There are plains for three or four hundred miles around the camp, where did the mountains come from?"
Before he could think about it, Hua Duxiu pulled his legs and ran towards the camp of the four princes.
According to this tremor, if it is really a flood, how terrifying is this flood?
I'm afraid it's not as simple as washing out the drainage channel.
A few days ago, Hua Duxiu got the news that Jiajia and they went to sea with General Hadan, and they didn't have to worry about their safety at this time. After all, on the sea, the imperial fleet has an absolute advantage, and there is the Chengying King pressing the formation, Hua Duxiu is very relieved.
Now what he is worried about is himself, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince who promised to protect his safety!
Hua Duxiu's small tent was around the camp of the four princes, and the warriors stationed there recognized Hua Duxiu and did not stop him, and Hua Duxiu rushed in and saw the little fat man running out in a panic, and grabbed his arm.
The fourth prince exclaimed: "Hua Qing, what's the matter, how did the earth shake like this?"
Hua Duxiu said while pulling the four princes out: "I don't know! Come out and take a look, if it doesn't work, let's run!"
The Fourth Prince: "...... This is the base camp, the safest place, where do you want to run?"
Hua Duxiu didn't shout back: "Run to a safer place!"
When he came outside, even if the light was dim, Hua Duxiu could see the clues.
With the blessing of special eyesight, he saw a black iron curtain in the east pushing flat, and the air was full of a strong earthy smell, and the drizzle hit his face, messing up his hairstyle, and he didn't even notice it.
"I'll go, it's a big flood! Your Highness, run!"
The fourth prince was stunned and said, "Flood? Where is the flood? What are they panicking about?"
Huaqing, don't pull me, this palace is now the supreme commander of the base camp, and I have to command the overall situation and stabilize the situation......
Oops, why are you still pulling!"
Hua Duxiu was anxious, the eyes of the four princes couldn't see Hong Feng, but he saw it!
The flood that is a few feet high is coming, and you are still commanding, commanding a fart!
Hua Duxiu said angrily: "Shut up! I'll carry you away, if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave!"
Perhaps frightened by Hua Duxiu's fierce momentum, the four princes gave up struggling, and let Hua Duxiu carry him and rush away in the direction of the dock. Many samurai wanted to stop it and ask Hua Duxiu what he was going to do, but unfortunately Hua Duxiu's speed was so fast that he disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Hua Duxiu, who has returned to his peak state, is so fast that he is like a ghost.
And the flood hit faster than expected.
Not to mention Hua Duxiu, even if the fourth prince's eyesight is mediocre, he also sees the huge shady curtain pushed by the line in the distance.
This dark curtain is like a hellish demon with an open mouth, roaring to swallow the whole world.
"Oh my God, is this—is this really a flash flood? Hurry up, get on the boat!"
Hua Duxiu's face was like earth, holding the four princes in one hand, while looking at the huge ship that was still some distance away from the dock and moored in the deep water, and said in a trembling voice:
"Your uncle, I'm afraid it's too late......"