Late that night, the rain began to increase like a pouring down. The torrential rain was also mixed with thunder and lightning, and lightning pierced the night sky, illuminating the entire embankment.

Although Hong Tiju hadn't slept for several nights, he still persevered, even digging his nails into the flesh, using pain to wake himself up and persevere. He felt a sense of sadness, thinking that this might be the last time he would inspect the embankment in his life.

When he reached the embankment, he suddenly stopped, and although it was dark all around, lightning streaked through the sky from time to time. He could see the Yellow River like a monster rising from the horizon, and began to open its terrifying fangs and green eyes, scanning him and the capital city of Bianliang behind him with a death-like gaze.

And he stood on the embankment, almost like he was standing in the water. The river was almost at his level, and at a glance, he could see the embankment on the other side, but now only the vast river had flooded the horizon, and the whole world was a rolling yellow river.

Then, he slowly lowered his head as he felt as if his boots were literally in the water. Although the boots are already soaked in the rainstorm, stepping on the water feels completely different from the wet boots.

When he looked down, finally, his heart was broken into countless pieces. for he saw that one of his feet was treading in the water. The murky waters of the Yellow River had already flooded over the embankment, reaching half the height of his calf.

At the same time, Hong Tiju felt the embankment under his feet moving from the inside out. He heard the last whimper of a dying old man on the riverbank. He was moving faster and faster. At this moment, a bolt of lightning swept through the sky, and he saw that he had moved away from the riverbank, but was standing on a large clod of earth that was lonely and drifting with the river.

The embankment has burst!

Hong Tiju let out a cry of sorrow, and was swept away by the rushing flood.

The embankment burst right from where Hong Tiju was located, and quickly tore along the embankment to both sides, forming a gap hundreds of zhang long.

The flood found a new outlet, and the flood water, which had been flowing slowly along the embankment, rushed forward like a beast unleashed from a cage. The direction of the rolling flood is Bianliang Castle in Tokyo.

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In the past few days, Yang Xianmao has not done anything else, he has been urging the hundreds of carpenters to build that big wooden ship.

At his urging, it took only a few days for a large wide wooden ship to be repaired.

Yang Xianmao ordered all the grain to be loaded onto the ship, and at the same time prepared some fresh water. In addition, he purchased a large number of commonly used medicinal materials, plus medicinal materials from his own pharmacy, which were prepared and loaded onto ships.

He didn't get on board the ship, because the house had a large underground ice cellar, which was used to store ice cubes in the winter so that they could be used to relieve the heat in the summer. Yang Xianmao instructed the servants of the house to transfer all the ice cubes inside and throw them in the open space, let it melt, and put all the silver and valuable utensils in the ice cellar, and sealed the ice cellar.

The ice cave is very well sealed, and flooding does not necessarily bring in water. Even if these gold and silver vessels were submerged in the flood, they would not be damaged. When the flood waters recede, it can also be taken out and used.

But if they are placed on the ship, they will take up most of the ship's load-bearing capacity, which will directly affect Yang Xianmao's plan. He prefers to use these load-bearing forces to carry food, water, and medicinal herbs. In the midst of a flood, these are often more important than money.

Yang Xianmao also issued a warning to the others. He told the two county lords and asked them to tell the prince to prepare for the flood. Because he was worried that such heavy rainfall could cause a major flood and inundate the capital.

As a result, after the two county lords relayed this to the two princes, they attracted the ridicule of King Wu, saying that he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope. And King Run, who was not salty, said that he knew it, and there was no follow-up.

Since Yang Xianmao did not choose the lord of Yaoxiang, King Run has stayed away from Yang Xianmao, not wanting to offend him, so as not to affect the treatment of his daughter's illness, but also not wanting to see him, because as long as he sees him, he will remember that Yang Xianmao married his brother's daughter and gave up his daughter, which made him very shameless.

The two princes did not listen to Yang Xianmao's advice, but he still tried his best to tell his worries to the people around him who he felt should be reminded. Including Hua Youying, Hua Wuxiang's sisters and brothers, and the owner of the Zhou Pavilion, the only one who didn't say it was Cai Jing, and he even hoped that the flood would drown Cai Jing and eliminate harm for the people.

Cai Jing did not go to the Liao Dynasty, but became an official in the capital. Judging from the current situation, it is not clear that he is a traitor. He works hard and is motivated. In particular, his organizational skills are super strong, and he soon became the actual leader of the officials and scribes of the Yamen of Kaifeng Prefecture, and he is very appealing.

But this is also easy to understand, but all traitors must have his superiority. Many traitors are actually capable people, and only with the ability can they reach such a high position, and only then can they have the foundation to be traitors. If he has no ability, he will not be able to achieve the status required by the traitor.

Although Yang Xianmao reminded these people, they more or less felt that Yang Xianmao was making a fuss. They all thought it was a little funny when they knew that Yang Xianmao was building a big wooden boat at home. Could it be that there are still wooden boats used in the dignified capital? Including Yang Xianmao's family members also did not understand, but no one could change the decision made by Yang Xianmao.

The official in charge of guarding the city gate of the capital is called the city gate official, and the city gate official has also received an alert from the imperial court, knowing that there is a huge flood and heavy rainfall in the upper reaches, which may endanger the river embankment downstream, and the vigilance should be strengthened. But that's not all, such a warning document appears every year during the flood season, but the wording is slightly different. This year's wording was slightly harsher than before, but not harsh enough to alert him.

The capital is still five miles away from the Yellow River. Even if the embankment is washed away, the flood water will overflow. As long as the water flow is not directly facing the Kaifeng city wall, the problem is not too big. The dirt bags to block the gates had already been prepared. At that time, it was enough to close the gates and gather the soldiers to carry them to seal them, so he did not feel any nervousness.

In the evening of that day, the city gate official asked people to prepare a few exquisite appetizers, as well as a pot of fine wine, and poured himself a drink in the city gate tower alone. Halfway through the drink, he decided to go out for a walk, so he burped out and made his rounds on the castle tower.

It was raining heavily outside, and a guard behind him was holding an oversized oil-paper umbrella to protect him from the wind and rain. He walked to the city wall, held the city wall with his hand and looked into the distance, it was foggy outside, it was rain, and even the scenery under the city was hazy.

He stretched out very comfortably, he did not understand what was going on by the Yellow River, it was the lifting of the flood control, he was only responsible for guarding the city. And Hong Tiju's urgent report that the Yellow River overflowed the warning line near the top of the embankment and demanded that the flood discharge be carried out immediately downstream did not copy to him, but directly reported to the imperial court, so he did not know anything.

The city gate officer looked in the direction of the Yellow River, but could not see anything in the rain and fog. So he went back to the gatehouse, sat down at the round table, hummed a little tune, and continued to pour himself until the pot was dry.

Today he is on duty, and he will be on duty at the city gate. This was one of the things that made him very uncomfortable, but fortunately he could drink two glasses, which was not bad, so he took off his military uniform and armor and went to bed.

After drinking, it is easy to fall asleep, and soon he snores loudly.

Despite the heavy rain during the night and thunder rolling overhead. But even so, it didn't keep the city gate officials awake. It was raining, but he slept more peacefully.

In the middle of the night, the city gate officer was awakened by a knock on the door. Outside the door, a soldier shouted nervously, "General!"

The city gate official suddenly sobered up, but he was not in a hurry, he thought that someone had forcibly tried to enter and exit the city gate again. This kind of thing happens every once in a while, some people are drunk, some people are really in a hurry, and more people think that they have some power, want to show off their privileges, and make a noise about going out of the city or entering the city.

There are a lot of people in this capital, and the water is very deep. He didn't dare to offend a city guard casually, so when he encountered this situation, he came forward to persuade people to leave. Of course, in most cases, he did not need to intervene, and the soldiers either drove them away, or forcibly detained them for interrogation and then released.

And now, the soldier is knocking on his door in a hurry, presumably because someone is trying to force his way through. He slept soundly, and he hated being disturbed at this time, so he rolled over and muttered, "It's not a big deal, just don't bother me, you can handle it." ”

The soldiers outside didn't know if they heard it, and they were still knocking on the door, screaming with horror. The gatekeeper was impatiently propped up and prepared to curse, when suddenly he realized that something was wrong. Because his bed was swaying, trembling to be exact, and he faintly heard something coming from a distance.

It wasn't anything familiar he'd ever heard, but a force more powerful than the galloping of horses, striking the ground at the same time.

Is there a strong enemy attacking? Impossible! Everything around the capital is peaceful, and no one dares to rebel and cause chaos. Even if someone wants to stir up trouble, it is already impossible to gather dozens or hundreds, and this momentum is only afraid that even 100,000 military cavalry will not be able to reach it.

So he got up on his feet, and when he got up, he found that he was a little unsteady on his feet. He hurried to the door and opened the door, and saw the two soldiers outside the door looking at him in the same horror, and said, "General, something is wrong. The walls are shaking, I don't know what's going on......"

The gatekeeper immediately rushed out and came to the wall. It was already late at night, and it was raining outside, and lightning broke through the night sky one after another. By the lightning, the city gate officer looked far away, and suddenly he saw that in the midst of the rain there was a black thing moving towards them.

The black line became clearer and clearer in the rain, and then the black line swept across and turned into a wall, which slammed into the wall. There was a roar of the city wall, and he and a few of the soldiers were unsteady on their feet, and they all fell on the wall.