This time, the terrible flood caused by the bursting of the Yellow River's banks besieged the city for more than a month. After such a long period of immersion, the exit of the secret passage outside the city was opened, and the flood water entered the secret passage until it reached the collapse.

Before that, the secret passage had become a nest for voles, who could not get out of the original passage after feeling the flood water coming in. Instead, he made a hole in the Imperial City. Gathered through the collapsed part to the palace, and they dug all the way to the back garden of the Empress Dowager Gao, where they happened to be crushed by the unusually fat palace maid.

And rats don't burrow in one direction, so many rats gather in the burrow, they have to find a place to go, so as not to drown in the flood from behind. So some rats have dug holes and arrived in the city of Kaifeng Mansion. After these rats were infected with the plague in the city and returned to the rat nest, they quickly spread the plague among the rats, so that a large number of rats in the tunnels were infected with the terrible plague, and after storming the palace, of course, it also caused a plague epidemic.

Song Shenzong could never have imagined that the palace where he had taken high alert measures was actually broken through by rats using the escape tunnel dug by the previous emperor and burrowed into the city. Then the flood water soaked under tremendous pressure and slowly washed away the collapsed place. In the end, under the strong water pressure and long-term immersion, it broke through the ground of the back garden of the Empress Dowager Gao, and the fountain rushed out, and the first one to wash away was actually the Empress Dowager Gao, who was waiting for the king.

After Song Shenzong got the news, he didn't know what to do for a while. It was still Gonggong Long beside him who reacted quickly, and immediately asked the guards to bring ladders, set them up on the Jinluan Palace, and asked the emperor to climb to the top of the Jinluan Palace. The hall is very wide and often needs to be repaired, so there is a long ladder that can go up directly from the bottom to the roof, but of course this kind of ladder cannot be placed next to the palace, but in the repaired craftsman's room.

Before that, the emperor's safety had to be ensured first, so the guards ran to get the ladder, while the light and strong ones climbed to the roof first. Putting the rope down and tying a chair, Song Shenzong sat on the chair, tied it with a cloth belt, and then pulled it up to the roof. Then he used the same method to pull Concubine De and Zhao Jie, who lived in the side palace, on the roof.

The martial arts were strong in the inner positions guarding the corners of the roof, nervously watching the flood below get higher and higher. Fortunately, the Jinluan Hall itself has steps that are higher than the other palaces, and the flood has not yet reached the steps, but it will be sooner or later.

They also estimated that the flood water must have poured into the imperial city from outside the city through pipes and the like. If so, the flood outside the city would have been almost as high as the city walls. If such a high water level were poured in, the entire palace would be submerged, except for the palace's tallest hall, the Jinluan Palace.

This time the flood entered the city differently than the previous ones, because the city gate blocked the flood before, so only part of the flood entered the city, and the water level was not as high as the flood outside the city. This time it was different, if the flood water that came out of the ground could not be stopped, the flood water would continue to come in until it was level with the flood outside the city.

And with such a high water level, there are few houses in the palace that can not be submerged. Except for the Jinluan Palace, there is really no other hall that can be higher than the flood water outside the city.

The concubines and concubines in the palace, as well as the palace maids and eunuchs, all discovered this problem. But they had no way to go up to the Jinluan Palace, but pinned their hopes on the walls of the imperial city.

The walls of the imperial city are not as high as the walls around Kaifeng Bianliang City, after all, it is a city within a city, and it is not even as high as the city walls on the periphery of the imperial city. But whether the height of Miyagi's walls can exceed the flood level, these people have no time to think about it in a panic, and it is important to flee for their lives first.

And the gates of Miyagi have been completely sealed, and even if there is a flood, it will not be opened without the will of the emperor and the empress dowager. In this way, these people in the imperial city could not escape from the palace city, and fled to the higher walls of the imperial city outside, or even the surrounding walls.

Many palace maids did not have time to escape to the walls of the palace city, and some did not know what to do in panic, and were finally drowned in the flood. And with the help of the palace maids and eunuchs, the ladies successfully escaped to the city wall, including the embarrassed Empress Dowager Gao.

The flood quickly submerged the entire palace city, but it did not stop rising, and the women and eunuchs who fled to the upper floor of the palace city were in danger.

Song Shenzong, who was on the Jinluan Palace, found out and quickly ordered the guards to find a way to open the gate of the palace city to discharge the flood, because only by releasing the flood would the entire imperial city not be flooded.

However, the gate tower of the imperial city outside cannot be opened, otherwise if the flood rushes into Kaifeng City, the people in the city will face terrible danger again.

Song Shenzong wanted to besiege the flood inside his imperial city in order to save the people outside the city. According to the emperor's will, several guards with good water properties immediately jumped into the flood, swam to the vicinity of the palace gate, and dived down to open the palace gate.

Fortunately, the gate of Miyagi was opened outward, and the flood pressure in Miyagi was facing outward, so the gate was opened smoothly. When a small crack was opened in the palace gate, the flood water immediately poured out.

The flood rushed towards some high-ranking officials in the imperial city and some of the still functioning imperial officials, who were still busy with their official duties. The sudden flood frightened them to the point that they were overwhelmed, and the speed of the flood was extremely fast, turning the palace city inside and the imperial city outside into an ocean in less than half a day.

Taking advantage of the drop in the water level, the palace maids and eunuchs on the relatively low tower of the palace city hurriedly tried to find a way to transfer, and some of them were transferred to the Jinluan Palace, and the main ones transferred were the Empress Dowager Gao and some of the emperor's concubines. The others, on the other hand, managed to move to a higher level in the Imperial City outside.

Sure enough, this decision was very wise, because it didn't take long for the flood to fall and rise along with the flood of the Imperial City outside. Eventually, it flooded the castle towers of the palace city, so that the entire palace except for the highest Jinluan Hall was submerged in the floodwater.

After the entire Imperial City was completely flooded, the water level stopped rising, but the survivors of the Imperial City faced the problem of how they would live. Especially Song Shenzong, who was trapped on the roof of the Jinluan Palace, and the imperial dining room had already been submerged in the flood.

Fortunately, the officials outside the city immediately participated in the rescue, and they used large wooden barrels and other objects to rescue the emperor on the Jinluan Hall and them to the upper floor of the imperial city outside.

When Song Taizong arrived at the city tower, he immediately noticed that something was wrong. For there was a terrible tremor above the tower, which was at the feet. He quickly understood that the tremor was due to the fact that although the walls of the Imperial City were high, they were only half as thick as the outer city of Bianliang in Tokyo outside.

Because this kind of imperial city and the palace castle inside it are not mainly used to defend against enemies, as long as others can enter the city, the imperial city cannot be defended. This kind of wall was only intended to separate the royal family from outsiders and make it inaccessible to outsiders. Therefore, the thickness of the city wall is much less than that of the outer city wall. And under the strong pressure of the water, the walls of the imperial city began to tremble terribly, which was a sign of imminent collapse.

Therefore, Song Shenzong immediately decided to let the people on the city tower move to the city wall outside the city, but he didn't know how much time the flood would give them to transfer. Just as they descended from the tower of the imperial city through an elevated ladder and were about to move towards the city wall, a huge figure suddenly appeared in the air.

It was a huge roc bird, with its wings spread out to cover the sky.

The huge Roc bird slowly flapped its wide wings and slowly flew towards them. It flew relatively low, and when it got closer, it was clear that there were many people sitting on the back of the huge Roc bird. The first one turned out to be the newly promoted little imperial doctor Yang Xianmao, who hugged the two beautiful ladies left and right, of course, the county lord of Bai Zhi and the county lord of Yaoxiang, and the other sat Tang and the maid Liu Dongyan in the back.

For a moment everyone was stunned and didn't know what was going on.

Yang Xianmao had been waiting for this day for a long time, he originally wanted to deal with the plague first, and then leave with the two ladies and the godmother. But when he learned that the Imperial City had suddenly been completely submerged by a flood that was surging from underground, he decided to leave. Because he also saw that the walls of the imperial city could not withstand the soaking and impact of this flood at all, and would soon collapse. Then the whole city will be an ocean again, and there is no need for him to stay in this terrible city.

So after confirming the news, he immediately brought two county lords, the godmother and the maid. Because they have to fly a long way, it is impossible to take more people, and there is no need to take these people to more than a hundred years ago.

Yang Xianmao gathered them and didn't say where they were going. Because after such a thing is said, I am afraid they will not dare to go. Therefore, Yang Xianmao was ready to cut first and then play, just telling them that this flood and plague-ridden Bianliang City really couldn't stay any longer, and he was going to take them away on the Dapeng Bird.

When the two county lords and godmothers heard that they wanted to be Dapeng birds, they thought that Yang Xianmao was joking. But when Yang Xianmao summoned the Dapeng Bird to appear in front of them, these people were terrified. But seeing that Yang Xianmao was very familiar with the Dapeng bird, he was relieved.

The Roc bird obediently spread its wings and placed them on the ground, allowing them to follow the wings like a staircase directly to its wide back. In order to reassure the godmother and the two county lords, Yang Xianmao found a rope and made a saddle on the Dapeng bird like a horse. Put a chair on the rope and fix them to the chair when they go up so that they don't slide down.

The two county lords and godmothers climbed up and sat down for a while, thinking it was very interesting. And Yang Xianmao only told them to take them to the sky, but did not tell them to leave. Therefore, the two county lords did not know that they would say goodbye to their parents, and happily climbed on the back of the Dapeng bird and sat on the chair. After Yang Xianmao fixed them, he brought enough dry food and drinking water before beckoning the Dapeng bird to take off.