"Scoop water! Hurry up ......"

"Find wood to make up the ...... for the boat"

The rain is still pouring down.

As soon as the flood water flowed down, it rushed along the Taizi River, sweeping countless houses and people on both sides of the river. Finally, it joins the Liao River and flows into the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea.

Thousands of miles into a country.

In the city of Liaoyang, huge plank boats swayed and floated in a vast ocean.

Nearly 20,000 soldiers scooped up the water soaked in the ship with all their might, but they couldn't stop the water gushing out of the breach.

The tied horses struggled frantically, stirring violently......

Wang Xiao was already soaking wet, he took two deep breaths, looked around, and shouted, "Throw away all the dry food!" ”

"Quick, throw away the dry food......"

According to the current water situation, it will be at least two or three days on the water, and it will naturally be very troublesome without dry food, but there is not much to worry about at this time.

The soldiers dropped sacks of dry rations off the boat, and the hull sank a little slower.

Wang Xiao turned his head to look and saw that the roof of a large wooden house in the distance was embedded in the edge of the western city wall.

"Paddle over there, remove that roof!"

"Master Hou, the water is too big to paddle through......"

At this time, most of the Chu army was struggling to scoop up the water, and they could only draw out more than 100 soldiers to row, and the big boat was swaying leisurely, and it could only remain unwashed away in the countercurrent, and it was extremely difficult to get close to the roof.

The river had already submerged Wang Xiao's thighs, he frowned, turned his head to look, and saw that there was not enough wood elsewhere.

"Pull it over with a rope."

"I'm coming!"

Qin Shanhu picked up a long rope, tied a long knife and went up, shook off the big pong and threw it away.

With a pop, the long knife flew very far, but it finally fell in the rain, and it was still two feet away from the big roof......

"It's too far."

The white tiger frowned, and secretly said that Qin Shanhu had a strong arm, and he couldn't throw it that far if he changed himself.

The boat was still sinking, and the water was almost up to everyone's waists.

Wang Xiao had no other ideas for a while.

Suddenly, I saw a figure on the big roof jump into the water.

A moment later, the man emerged from the water, already holding the long knife thrown by Qinshan Lake in his hand. He swam a few times, trying to wrap the rope around the roof......

"Pull it!"

Wang Xiao looked over, and saw that the big roof was getting closer and closer, and a young man was sitting on it, and he actually met it on the street two days ago.

Thinking of his iron heart at that time, he didn't look at the other party much, but the lives of nearly 20,000 people today were all saved by the other party. Wang Xiao had mixed feelings in his heart for a while.

He waded to the edge of the boat, intending to take the boy himself.

The guards around him came around, rather wary.

Wang Xiao stretched out one hand in the air.

The young man looked at Wang Xiao's outstretched hand, his eyes were filled with fear, and he also wanted to live.

"Come on." Wang smiled.

The young man only chattered and slowly stretched out his hand.

Wang Xiao looked at the other party and opened his mouth to say something.

Even if he did it all over again, he still wouldn't let go of the young man because of pity, but at this time, Wang Xiao still wanted to apologize.

The next moment, the young man's face changed, and a knife tip appeared in his abdomen.

"Uh......"

But a soldier floated up from the water, stabbed him to death, and was about to cut the rope.

"Protect Master Hou!"

Qin Xuance threw the spear in his hand, and with a "poof" sound, he nailed the Qing soldier into the water.

Wang Xiao ran to the edge of the boat in two steps, holding the young man's hand with one hand, but saw that the other party had slowly sunk into the water.

"Hold on, give me the other hand!"

"I'm ...... Chu people...... I am not a minion......" The boy did not stretch out his hand, but poked his head out with the last of his strength.

"Official...... When Jiannu entered the Kou...... I hid my younger siblings in a rice jar...... Daimyofu Pucheng County...... My younger siblings are in the rice bowl...... Find ......"

Wang Xiao's eyes turned red.

"You come up, I'll take you home."

The boy didn't respond to him, and his hand grew cold.

"Come up! I'll take you home to find your brother and sister......"

"Master Hou, he's dead, hurry up and retreat, it's dangerous on the side." The white tiger said, carrying a knife to guard against the water.

"Quick! It's time to nail the boat! The soldiers shouted.

Qin Xuance pulled Wang Xiao and retreated to the boat.

Wang Xiao was pulled by him, his hand slipped, and the figure of the young man was immersed in the flood and disappeared.

"Daimyo's Mansion, Pucheng County." Wang Xiao whispered.

Qin Xuance sighed deeply: "You know, Tibetans ...... in places like rice jars."

"I know."

Wang Xiao took a deep breath, suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart, and ordered: "Nail the boat, row south, and go to Longding Mountain to meet Geng Zhengbai." ”

"Yes......"

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If you look upstream along the Taizi River, the east of Liaoyang City is the vast mountainous area of Liaodong.

During the Warring States Period, Yan Taizi Dan fled here, so the river name Taizi River, originated from the Red Stone Gravel Mountain, and flowed into the Bohai Sea from east to west.

Due to the intersection of cold and warm air masses in the north and south, heavy rain often occurs, and the terrain is steep, and flash floods often come and go......

It was not until later generations that the upper reaches of the Taizi River successively built the Baowo Reservoir and the Guanyinshan Reservoir for flood control and water supply, and the flood disaster of the Taizi River was reduced. In the 100 years before the construction of the Weiwo Reservoir alone, there were eight major floods, and the magnitude and number of disasters were the highest in the Liaohe River Basin.

Now that the Qing Dynasty is entrenched in Liaodong, although it is not capable of building large-scale reservoirs, it can still build water conservancy to reassure people's livelihood.

The Qing Dynasty built a levee in the upper reaches of the Taizi River, which could not prevent the heavy rains in July and August, and a spring flood could still be prevented...... Unless, someone digs the dam.

Breaking the embankment and drowning the enemy has to bear the infamy since ancient times.

The general of the Qin Dynasty, Wang Ben, dug the Yellow River and flooded the city of Daliang, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries to the soldiers and civilians of the Wei State, adding to the name of 'Violent Qin';

During the Song Dynasty, the traitor Du Chong opened the embankment of the Yellow River in an attempt to block the Jin soldiers. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people were drowned, and the deaths caused by displacement and plague were several times greater, and the richest and most prosperous Lianghuai region in the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed;

In the Chu Dynasty, Wu Kaimao, a general under Tang Zhongyuan, dug the embankment of the Yellow River, flooded the city and sealed the city, hundreds of thousands of people died, and nearly 10 million people were homeless and became refugees. Wu Kaimao has since won the title of 'King of Wu Yan'......

Wang Xiao is not afraid of infamy.

After a spring flood, Liaoyang could not be burned according to the original plan, so he planned to replace the fire with water.

As the saying goes, fire and water are blended.

There are many people who are willing to take on this errand when they go out of the city to build a dam, and then break the embankment to release water, Wang Xiao felt that Geng Zhengbai was acting steadily, so he ordered him.

Geng Zhengbai went out of the city on the night he took Liaoyang, and led 2,000 men to the east seventy miles to build a dam.

For fear of revealing the news, they did not dare to bring labor, and relied on the hands of these two thousand soldiers.

The first few days went well, they brought enough dry food, hid in the mountains to build embankments, and occasionally encountered Jiannu scouts and killed them.

But today, with the Liaoyang War, Zilharang expanded the scope of the scouts. More and more scouts went missing, and finally attracted a 1,000-strong army with white flags.

At that time, Geng Zhengbai was leading a thousand people to soak in the water to prepare for the decision, neither armor nor weapons, a rain of arrows fell, the river was stained with blood, and nearly a thousand soldiers floated on the water.

The 1,000 soldiers left behind on the shore were soaked in water for several days, sleepless and frozen, and their combat strength was at their lowest, and they suffered heavy casualties when they landed under the sudden attack of the Qing army......

"Burst! Fast! ”

In response to Geng Zhengbai, there was only a scream.

Seeing the soldiers fall one by one, he remembered his loud sentence "The last general will never live up to the trust of the Hou Ye", and thought that if the Qing army captured the capital and the Iron Camel Village, he would almost faint.

"No!"

Geng Zhengbai knew that 20,000 of his comrades were still waiting for him......

"Go back to the cave and get the explosives!"

"Yes, I will never let down the trust of Lord Hou!"

"Quick! The brethren are waiting for us! ”

In the pouring rain, Geng Zhengbai led the soldiers back to the cave and carried the with oilcloth wrapped in explosives.

The soldiers of the Chu army escorted them, and nearly a thousand people fell one by one under the slashing of the Qing army.

After the death of the Chu army guarding with knives on the periphery, the Chu army in the inner layer used their bodies to protect their comrades in the inner layer......

At this point, this battle has become a unilateral massacre by the Qing army.

Geng Zhengbai's fight was to blow up the embankment before Jiannu killed all his people.

finally trekked to the embankment, and there were only 50 people left in the 2,000 Chu army.

The rain of arrows is still falling.

No one fled.

Not only because they know they can't run away, but also because they are carefully selected people who dare to die.

At this moment, under the encouragement of their comrades, they are willing to exchange their own deaths for more and more lives of Jiannu, as well as the lives of their comrades......

"Today's struggle is not for himself, but for those who come after him!"

These days, the words that Wang Xiao has been talking about, those words that they didn't understand, but someone shouted them out at this moment.

One by one, Chu soldiers fell, and Geng Zhengbai's hands trembled slightly.

On his head, someone held clothes to block the rain, but in the humid environment, the fire could not be lit......

"General Geng, quick!"

"General Geng......"

Geng Zhengbai only felt that this voice of 'general' was so far away.

He didn't think he was a general, he used to be just a village man, but later he was appreciated by Zhang Dusi and became the commander of the patrol battalion.

And then ...... The scene of leading Geng Dang to Wang's house for the first time is still vivid.

At that time, the demented young master of the Wang family said, "Xiao'er still knows that the next sentence is 'Those who die in their own way, are also fate'." ”

Those who die in their own way are also white.

The next moment, the fire fold suddenly lit up......

"Boom!"

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"The last book said 'Pang Lingming raised the cowardice for a decisive battle, and Guan Yunchang flooded the Seventh Army', and this time it said 'Guan Yunchang scraped his bones to cure poison, and Lu Zi understood that he crossed the river with clothes'. But he said that Cao Ren saw Guan Gong fall ......"

In the capital, in the teahouse, the storyteller said in a straight voice.

In the private room on the second floor, Wang Zhen turned her head and saw that it was Xiao Chai He who entered the door.

"Coming?"

Xiao Chai He sat down at the table, first glanced around, and then asked, "How can Uncle have the leisure to listen to books today?" ”

"There's an old man who likes to listen to books."

Xiao Chai He only remembered the little guy named Miqu who used to follow Wang Zhen in the past......

Wang Zhen put down the pen in his hand and asked solemnly: "Has the letter been sent out of Chai Jingguan?" ”

"I'll do something, uncle, just rest assured."

"This is a serious matter, and we must not be cautious." Wang Zhen said slowly, "Can you force Huang Taiji away, it's a matter of ...... here."