The surging river slopes towards the low depression of the three-way pass.

The once sturdy embankment had become a widening gully, and the pungent smell of gunpowder and water vapor was mixed around the embankment, and a large amount of water and rubble was scattered on the nearby ground.

The white waves were not particularly intense, and the currents of the water at different heights and lows began to kick in slowly, tearing the blasted rubble from the gaps from the wounds in the riverbank.

Experts from the Department of Water Affairs and officials who specialize in blasting work stand on the distant floor, quietly watching the scene.

With their own efforts, they protected Yunshui County from floods.

***

"Quick! Fast! Fast! Hurry up! No time! ”

Wang Lanling shouted hurriedly, at this time the sky was getting more and more gloomy, the moon had not appeared for more than ten minutes, and the entire river embankment was filled with wet and cold moisture.

Hot sweat dripped from Wang Lanling's forehead, and he looked at the embankment that still existed more than ten meters wide, and his heart was full of anxiety and panic.

Six hours have passed since Li Jianzheng came back, and according to the reconnaissance of several personnel arranged in the follow-up, the demolition team has been arranged in place in Yunshui County.

Nearby laborers are desperately trying to carry bags of sandbags from the grass below to the riverbank more than ten meters away.

On both sides of the estuary, all kinds of wood, sandbags and stones are rapidly being buried, but as the estuary closes, the speed of the water here begins to become more and more rapid.

If you throw something a little lighter, you will be washed away.

Wang Lanling was very anxious, and Zhang Honglin, who belonged to the water affairs department of the county town next to him, said: "Lord Wang, I went upstream to measure it, and now the water flow speed is not very fast, compared with the water flow speed at night, it is more than twice as fast, I think it should still be raining in the county town at this time." ”

Although Zhang Honglin is an expert sent by the county to understand the water situation in Heishui County, these experts do not know what they are doing, they are just tools, not chess players, and do not understand the true intentions of chess players.

As a scholar, Zhang Honglin has also seen and understood with his own eyes Wang Lanling's personality and what this adult is doing.

At this time, Zhang Honglin didn't have the ability to stop the flood, nor did he have the ability to do too much, but he still wanted to care about some Wang Lanling.

Wang Lanling heard Zhang Honglin's words, and said directly: "Don't comfort me with good words, although I don't understand as well as you, but I also know the ruthless truth of this flood, where is it so easy to measure, maybe in the next minute, the water will rush over." ”

Zhang Honglin stood quietly on the side, Wang Lanling was right, the speed of the water flow is indeed measurable, and the speed of the flood can be used to guess the time it takes for the flood to rush from Yunshui County to this side.

But when the embankment will be blown up in Yunshui County, they don't know at all, maybe there are still a few hours to prepare, maybe the next second when they are a little lax, they will be swallowed by the water.

"My lord! Hulu Mountain is already full, and there are few places to stand at present, and it has accommodated more than 120,000 people! Each team leader is leading people to coordinate and pacify, and everything is stable for the time being! ”

Wang Lanling said: "For the time being, arrange the people who passed after you outside, and if you can make do with it, make do it for a while, and pay attention to strengthening patrol supervision!" ”

"Yes!"

The man quickly returned, and not long after he left, another person quickly ran over.

"My lord, after the owner of Chixia Village knew that the flood was coming, he had already sent people to lead the villagers to take refuge, and sent another fifty people to help my lord!"

Wang Lanling is not familiar with this Zhuangzi, he is in charge of the affairs of Heishui County, and he is mainly concerned with the affairs of several big families and two divisions, and lacks understanding of some things in the surrounding area.

Although gunpowder and science and technology are gradually rising, martial arts and chivalry are twilight, but some chivalrous spirit is still left, in the face of the great right and wrong, there is no shortage of those who make a fortune and the wealth of the dead, but there is also no shortage of some people who are willing to bring their own dry food to protect their families and defend the country.

"Thank you for me, I will come to thank you after who retreats, and now I also ask those strong men to obey the command of the leaders nearby, the current situation is urgent, please don't feel that what you do is cheap, just treat it as my command of them."

"Everyone is like me, I am like everyone, everyone can represent me, and I can represent everyone!"

Wang Lanling didn't know what these people would do or what they could do, so he handed it over to his subordinates to arrange.

Now that the matter has reached an urgent juncture, Wang Lanling must preside over here, and he has no time and energy to do anything else.

Chai Tuo agreed: "Yes! Take care, adults! ”

After retiring, Chai Tuo quickly ran out into the darkness.

Heaven did not give anyone a favor, and when the work of the embankment was in the final stage of life and death, a frightening muffled thunder was heard in the distance.

The sky was as bright as day at this moment, and a dull thunderbolt exploded among the clouds.

"Leave it alone! Keep up the work! Wang Lanling shouted loudly in a crisp voice.

Although his voice was not steady and juvenile, at this time, the people who looked up at the sky would soon be pulled back from the shock of Tianwei again, burning every ounce of strength.

"My lord! It's going to rain, this ......" Zhu Wenyang looked at Wang Lanling, and then looked at the laborers who were constantly stepping on the clods of soil that had just been paved to the center of the river, and he didn't know what to say.

Wang Lanling didn't move, "Go and light the fire next to me, so that everyone can see me and find me." As long as I'm here, the rest of us can be sure. ”

From the beginning to the present, Wang Lanling has always stood by the river, although it will be a little obstructive and dangerous, but this height can be seen by those who work.

It doesn't matter if it's a show, it's okay to stabilize the morale of the army and supervise others to do their work, anyway, Wang Lanling is standing here, standing in this place where the flood can't run away, and the rest of the people can supervise it.

"Yes!" Zhu Wenyang quickly went to add coal and firewood to the bonfires around him, and also divided a few piles to make the place brighter.

In the place behind Wang Lanling, there is a flag, just like a march to war, and a logo belonging to his family stands high here.

"My lord! That's pretty much it! ”

Wang Lanling looked upstream, and in the dark waters, there were hundreds of red lanterns lit.

It was Liu Fufeng who spoke, and when Wang Lanling heard it, he quickly shouted to the river: "Be careful!" Let's go! ”

Zhu Wenyang saw that the fleet that had been prepared a long time ago was ready, so he hurriedly said, "My lord! I'm here to help! ”

"Go ahead, be sure to watch your own safety." Wang Lanling nodded and told Zhu Wenyang to be careful.

Zhu Wenyang quickly jumped off the embankment, like a swimming fish hidden in the dark night waters, and quickly swam towards the lights in the distance.

After Zhu Wenyang left, Zhang Honglin took the initiative to squat down to add firewood, and several other experts also squatted down to help do something.

Wang Lanling looked at the surface of the river, which he couldn't see clearly at all, and looked at the location of the lanterns on the boat.

On both sides of the river, a large number of young warriors gathered, and these people held thick ropes to pull the boats in the middle of the river.

It is not clear how many there are, there may be dozens of people, or there may be more than a hundred people on each side.

Hidden in the night, the ship carries a large amount of stone sand.

These boats were all temporarily requisitioned, Wang Lanling had no such idea before, they were all a few hours ago, after the people in the camp learned of Wang Lanling's intentions, they signed up to donate them.

More than 20 boats were connected by ropes and iron cables, gradually approaching the mouth of the river.

"Boom!"

The lightning and thunder reappeared, and the noisy thunder made Wang Lanling see everything on the river, the young men on both sides of the river who were trying to pull the ropes, the boatmen on the boats who were holding long poles to adjust the direction, and the rushing and turbulent and violent and polluted river.

After the thunder, the raindrops the size of beans began to drop like beads.

Wang Lanling remembered that this was not the first time he had been drenched in the rain, and like last time, this time he couldn't retreat, and there were thousands of people watching him behind him.

Even if the flames were quickly extinguished in the heavy rain, the last scene of Wang Lanling standing in the rain without retreating at all made those who were still in the rain want to believe that they had not been abandoned.

The heavy rain began, and the project was not interrupted, and this time no one persuaded Wang Lanling to leave.

The place in the middle of the river became invisible, Wang Lanling's vision was obstructed by dark clouds and rain, and he couldn't see a few meters away, and gradually became unable to open his eyes, and it became difficult to breathe.

The wind was accompanied by a shower, and a gust of wind blew, and Wang Lanling's thin body was quickly blown down behind him by surprise.

Wang Lanling tilted his head and fell backwards, his eyes were a little unable to open when he looked up, but he saw the moon that was covered by dark clouds and emitted a faint light.

Isn't it time to run away?

When he was about to fall to the ground, this idea popped up in Wang Lanling's heart.

"Your Excellency!"

The four powerful palms supported Wang Lanling's two arms respectively, and after the body had something to rely on, Wang Lanling slowly stood firm, "I'm fine." ”

Sun Li and Tong Yue hugged Wang Lanling, Sun Li took down the hat he was carrying behind him and handed it to Wang Lanling, "My lord, bring this." ”

"Okay, thank you." Wang Lanling took the hat and put it on his head under the blow of the rain.

Tong Yue stood in front of Wang Lanling, blocking the oblique storm with his broad body.

The dark clouds gradually lifted, and the moon in the sky slowly moved the moonlight sprinkled in the distance to the side of the river embankment while the torrential rain was still ongoing.

In the reflection of the moonlight, Wang Lanling saw the bow of the ship moving towards the flood mouth in the rain curtain.

"One-two!"

The men on the shore also saw the boats washed away by the flood towards the mouth of the river, and they quickly exerted their strength.

Pulled by the thick ropes, the direction of the boat began to change, and several small boats first rushed sideways to the mouth of the river.

As soon as they approached the water outlet, these ships connected horizontally thought to be broken branches, bringing out part of the interceptor ropes that were originally fixed on both sides, and they could break at any time.

When Wang Lanling was nervously thinking about what to do, the boats behind did not hesitate and sailed towards the mouth of the river together.

The bows of these big boats are tilted closer, and after scrambling to reach the mouth of the river, they are stuck here!!

"Bury it! Push the car straight through! Hurry up! ”

Wang Lanling shouted loudly.

There is no need for Wang Lanling's command, and the people on both sides who have been waiting for a long time have already taken action.

The carts were pushed to the mouth of the river again, and several men ran together to rush forward, and as they approached the mouth of the river, they let go of their hands so violently that the loaded cart pressed against the bow of the boat.

There were not enough cars, and the embankment was already covered with people, who were close to each other, carrying bales of sand to the mouth of the river like conveyor tracks, and several men with great strength were constantly throwing them down.

Fortunately, this is an era of martial arts where most people's physical fitness is different from ordinary people, even ordinary farmers can carry a hundred catties of things and go far.

"The water is coming!"

"The water is coming!"

"The water is coming!"

A hurried shout came from a distance, Wang Lanling looked into the distance, and saw a torrent like a ladder rapidly approaching this side, where the height of the water surface was obviously one or two meters higher than this one!!

"Quickly ashore!! Don't stop, keep filling the river! If we don't stay here, there will be no place to defend in the future! Our lives are up to us! ”

"In this life, nothing is destined except to die, I don't want to be a disaster victim, I don't want to die in my family, I don't want to suffer, so do something now!"

Wang Lanling doesn't want to fall short, if he retreats at this time, then everything he has done will be in vain!

The people on the boat were quickly pulled up by the people on the shore, and some of them climbed ashore on their own, and these people who were willing to take risks were all selected, and the kind of artists who were bold.

After escaping ashore, the people who pulled the boat on the shore and the people who drove the boat on board quickly approached the shore and joined the army of porters.

The flood was not particularly fast, and it took more than ten seconds from the time the flood was discovered to the time it surged in front of me.

Tong Yue's legs were trembling, he looked at the oncoming flood tide and felt afraid, holding Wang Lanling's hands at this time, more to seek courage.

Wang Lanling didn't think about anything, and when the water vapor and waves of the flood hit the river embankment and picked up the rain curtain, he didn't have any thoughts.

It's like drowning, or when the head is in a different place, the brain doesn't know whether it is fast or slow, and a second can be extended for a long, long time, but it is indeed muddy and difficult to think.

When he realized his situation, his body suddenly regained consciousness and realized everything.

"My lord! Prevented! Not washed out! Sun Li shouted excitedly and looked at Wang Lanling excitedly.

Wang Lanling looked at the mouth of the river, only to see white foam and a large number of branches and planks and other things floating in the fleet, the whole fleet was horizontal, shaky, some ships directly overturned under the water, and the ropes around them also sank a lot.

The water level rose suddenly, and after hitting the mouth of the river, a large amount of flood water began to slope towards the other side of the river.

Heishui County opened an opening to divert water from a bend to the county, and at this time, the opening became unobstructed, so the flood naturally bent and flowed in another direction.

It won't be long before these floodwaters will circle back into Yunshui County.

"Keep plugging!"

Wang Lanling continued to shout, the estuary was not completely sealed, and at this time, the shoddy construction still hid many dangers, and the embankment could burst at any time.

The heavy rain stopped after half an hour, and the moon remained in the sky after it cleared.

At the location by the river, it has begun to take turns to rest.

The evacuees who saw the flood below the mountain also began to go down the mountain to replenish the lack of labor by the river, and joined the ranks of the masses.

***

In Yunshui County, the torrential rain has not abated from more than 12 o'clock in the night until more than 7 o'clock in the morning.

The director of the water affairs department looked at the two adults whose atmosphere was obviously wrong, and said stubbornly: "This morning, coupled with the heavy rain last night, more than ten hours of heavy rainfall, 472 mm of rain has fallen so far, and the river in the city has overflowed to the streets, and the water in some streets has reached the man's waist, and the farmland outside the city may be flooded a lot." ”

Yun Tiantian and Xia Mengbao both sat in their respective positions with heavy faces at this time, and on the chairs around them were also officials from various important departments in the city.

"What the hell is going to do over there in Blackwater? Why block the Blackwater River? How could he block a fifty-meter-wide river overnight?! ”

Xia Mengbao looked at his subordinates sternly and asked: "I asked you to investigate clearly, this is the result of your investigation?!" ”

Yun Tiantian was also anxious at this time, and when he saw that Xia Mengbao was angry, he said: "This matter has been done too much by the Heishui County side, this is already a deliberate disobedience to the decree, and I don't know the general situation!" ”

Xia Mengbao tried his best to calm his mood, at this time it was meaningless to hold his own water affairs department accountable for the unfavorable water control, and only by throwing the pot on Wang Lanling could he relieve the responsibility of the unfavorable water control on the side of Yunshui County.

"The governor of Blackwater County is too wasteful!" Xia Mengbao scolded angrily.

This is actually true, even if Wang Lanling has a backer, even if Wang Lanling is a water official, but the governor is the governor, as the number one person stipulated by the imperial court, Guo Juli wants the right to have the right, and he wants people, but he is a waste and does not dare to go to Wang Lanling.

He just doesn't have the right to embezzle, if Guo Juli wants to check and balance Wang Lanling, he can kill all the decisions of Wang Lanling.

In terms of personnel, the governor also has personal soldiers to use, these people don't care whether Guo Juli is a waste or not, as long as Guo Juli is the governor appointed by the imperial court, then these people must obediently obey orders.

As long as there are two guards and a letter of order, Guo Juli can arrest Wang Lanling.

But this man did not dare to offend anyone......

Xia Mengbao stood up directly, "Someone!" Prepare the car! I will personally go to Heishui County and bring that Wang Lanling to justice! ”

Yun Tiantian and the others will naturally not stop it, and it is most appropriate for Xia Mengbao to come forward in this kind of matter.

In short, it's Wang Lanling's fault!

It was this person who disregarded the overall situation and refused to sacrifice the ego, and as a result, he harmed everyone.

After Yin Wuwu learned that Wang Lanling had really blocked the embankment, he breathed a sigh of relief and had a plan.

He quickly whispered to Yun Tiantian: "My lord, Wang Lanling is Lord Zhao's son-in-law after all, and at this time, he is openly disobeying the decree and harming Yunshui County, I am afraid that the scene will be uncontrollable at that time, and I will also go over and take a look, and report the matter back to you when the time comes." ”

Although Yun Tiantian was very dissatisfied with Yin Wuwu, when he heard that this person was willing to go over and watch the hostile scene between Xia Mengbao and Wang Lanling for himself, he still nodded and said, "Okay, you can go." ”

After Yin Wuwu agreed, he immediately left the county guard's mansion, hurriedly went home and called his wife, and fled to Heishui County together.