Chapter 67 Flood Fighting
Kunshan Yaojiayan.
Lightning and thunder roared, torrential rain poured in, and it was pitch black in broad daylight.
The monstrous flood water descended from Taihu Lake, all the way to Kunshan, and fiercely impacted the embankment of the Wusong River.
In the sound of the huge angry waves, Zhao Shouzheng was wearing a poncho and holding a wooden stick, standing on the crumbling river embankment, staring at the vast soup in front of him and the boundless water surface.
"The whole of Kunnan has become a lake." Second Master Zhao finally deeply realized what the power of heaven and earth was. "The water level is at least one higher than when the official took office."
"Fortunately, there is Kunnan flooding, otherwise we wouldn't be able to resist it with our earthen embankment." Zheng Ruo once wore a cloak and carried a wooden stick, and stood beside Zhao Shouzheng with the support of his son.
"But if it weren't for the adults who mobilized the whole county in time to strengthen the river embankment, I'm afraid that the embankment would break today!"
"Unless you can hold out until the summer harvest, there is no point!" Zhao Shouzheng's official robe was stained with mud, and he was wearing a pair of big pants inside, and he stepped on the clogs with bare feet. How embarrassed it looks and how embarrassed it is.
Zheng Ruozeng was no better than him, his whole body was covered with mud, and he was no longer human.
On this muddy embankment, even if you wear clogs and someone to help you, wrestling is commonplace.
Behind the two, on and off the embankment, countless Kunshan people carried sandbags and earthen baskets, tirelessly reinforcing the defense line.
The earth-shattering shouts and trumpets are indistinguishable from the sound of monstrous water.
Although the rain was pouring down, although the feet were muddy, and although they were exhausted, everyone gritted their teeth and persevered.
There is still half a month to go before the summer harvest, and if the embankment bursts at this time, the previous efforts will be wasted!
The results of the desperate efforts of tens of thousands of people are also obvious, and the original embankment line has long been flooded.
However, the embankment built by more than 100,000 sandbags and hundreds of thousands of baskets of sand and soil is nearly a zhang higher than before, and it is wider and stronger, and most sections of the river can withstand the test of floods.
But the flood has always broken the surface with points, and does not engage in egalitarianism with you. In several critical sections of the embankment, the danger is still very serious!
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The Yaojiayan guarded by Bai Zhushu and Gu Dadong was the first big turn after the Wusong River entered Kunshan.
Its river course is bent at an acute angle, and the water flow is turbulent and abnormal, which is one of the important dangerous sections of the entire Wusong River and the first section of the four major dangerous sections in Kunshan County.
Zhao Shouzheng and Zheng Ruozeng were inspecting the river embankment, and they received an emergency from two people, saying that there was a dangerous situation in Yaojiayan!
He hurriedly sent Zheng Qian, the captain of the reserve, and led 2,000 people to rush to reinforcements.
Second Master Zhao was still not at ease, so he handed over the defense of Nanshan Temple to Zheng Ruozeng and Xu Wei, and brought five hundred people over to check.
When he got off the horse's back and went up to the embankment under the tugging of the crowd, he saw that at the bend of the river that was most violently impacted, the bamboo and wood guardrails on the outside had long been gone.
The thickened corners of the key have been dug out of a large hole by the flood!
The people who were relieving the disaster desperately threw sandbags into the hole, but when so many sandbags went down, it was like dropping a handful of beans, and they were washed away by the torrent in a blink of an eye.
Seeing that no matter how much he could save the danger, Bai Zhushu sat on the ground.
"The power of heaven and earth is not human to resist......"
Zhao Shouzheng and Gu Dadong's eyes also dimmed, and the three of them knew that the embankment was not far away.
Gu Dadong looked back at his son Gu Guishou, and whispered to him to go back and see if there was anyone in the town who hadn't moved.
Gu's ancestral business is in Gujia Town, less than five miles north of Yaojiayan.
Once the levee breaks, it will flood the town in less than a meal.
Gu Guishou hurriedly ran down the embankment and almost collided with someone.
"Is there no way?" Looking at the big mouth that had expanded to one and a half feet, Zhao Shouzheng looked at the sky in despair.
'Son, help......
"Don't throw sandbags!"
As soon as Zhao Erye, who looked up at the sky, finished praying, he heard a confident voice, saying from far and near:
"Fill the basket with stones and carry it up the embankment, then use a bamboo pole to string the baskets together and throw them down!"
Second Master Zhao wiped the rain from his face, and saw that it was a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties who spoke, just like walking on the embankment.
Wu Chengen accompanied the man and went up the embankment, and explained to Zhao Shouzheng:
"This is Pan Zhongcheng of Wucheng County, who is Ding Wei's hometown, and he heard that the flood situation in this county is urgent, so he came to help!"
"Oops, Premier Pan!" When Zhao Shouzheng and Gu Dadong heard this, they hurried up to pay their respects as if they had seen a savior.
"There's no time to be polite, hurry up and do it!" Prime Minister Na Pan snorted, not pretending at all. "There is no one in Kunshan County who knows how to do it, so you are making a fool?!"
Zhao Shouzheng didn't feel embarrassed at all, but as if he had a backbone, he asked Master Bai to do it quickly.
Because this person is Pan Jitao, the prime minister of the river, Pan Jitao, who can be obediently tamed in his hands by the Yellow River, which is ten times more violent!
There is no one in the world who knows how to control water better than him!
"Don't crowd so many people on the embankment. Like a headless fly, it's useless and in the way! Pan Jitao gave a second order:
"Divide half of the people and build a moon embankment on the outside of the embankment, just in case!"
"Immediately demolish the nearby houses, I want twenty wooden beams!" Pan Jitao issued a third order to Gu Dadong. "All the bricks and stones have been brought in!"
"Hey, okay!" Gu Dadong responded and hurriedly went to do it in person.
"So what am I doing?" Zhao Shouzheng, who was wearing big pants, asked.
"You stand on the side, get out of the way." Pan Jitao glanced at him, and went straight to command the rescue.
"Mr. Pan Zhongcheng invited? What a great achievement! Second Master Zhao smacked his lips, and immediately smiled at Wu Chengen: "By the way, Pan Zhongcheng's family is in Wucheng, and Changxing is a neighboring county. ”
"It wasn't invited by the old man." Wu Chengen shook his head and said: "It's true that the two counties are adjacent to each other, but he will return to his hometown in the past year, and I am already in prison, so I haven't met." ”
"And how did he get here?" Second Master Zhao asked strangely: "There is still a Jiaxing Mansion between Huzhou Mansion and Suzhou Mansion." ”
"When he comes, he will look for Childe." Wu Chengen whispered: "Seeing that Gongzi was not there, he asked me to accompany him to the embankment." ”
"It turns out that the monkey ...... Oh no, the rescuers that my son moved in......" Second Master Zhao shed tears of happiness.
I'm afraid Lao Tzu is not the reincarnation of a good man in the tenth generation, right?
Otherwise, how could he give birth to such a blessed son who would help him wherever he was in trouble whenever he encountered difficulties?
"I don't know how Gongzi deceived the dignified Pan Zhongcheng." Wu Chengen muttered, he has been busy these days and wants to go back to prison.
"Whatever, as long as someone comes, I don't care if he was deceived or kidnapped?" Second Master Zhao laughed and said, "In my heart, I finally don't go up and down!" ”
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