In the twilight of Xuzhou City, quietly, the village soldiers and people on the city wall will look up from time to time to look at the Qing army camp in the west of the city from between the arrow stacks, where there has been a whole night.

"It looks like the East Captives are going to withdraw their troops!"

Looking at the movement in the camp of the Qing army, Wan Shouqi muttered to himself.

"Master Wan, have the Tartar soldiers really withdrawn?"

Ding Zhuang on the side asked urgently.

"It must be withdrawn! When the imperial reinforcements arrived, they naturally wouldn't stay in the city for a long time, but they didn't know that it was the general who led the troops! If there was no artillery fire from the official army yesterday, we are afraid that Xuzhou will fall! ”

"yes, yes, that cannon is so powerful that it even blew the Tartar's head and arm onto the city wall......

"No, I heard that there are also Tartars' heads that were blown up into the city and boiled and eaten......"

For a while, there were different opinions in the city, but Wan Shouqi stared thoughtfully at the Yellow River embankment more than five zhang high in the distance, and looked at the bonfire on the embankment on the opposite bank......

Compared with the tension on the south bank of Xuzhou City, the atmosphere on the north bank is very brisk, the fledgling Jinan villagers did not stay on the boat, but set up camp on the river embankment five or six zhang high, since the expedition, this is their first down-to-earth, the first victory does not mean the end, everyone knows, there is a fierce battle waiting for them tomorrow!

Fierce battle!

Tomorrow we will land on the South Shore!

While the soldiers were sleeping in their tents, the tents of the Chinese army were illuminated by calcium carbide lamps.

"Yunlong Mountain!"

Zhu Guoqiang pointed to Yunlong Mountain on the sand table and said,

"How's the situation on the other side of Yunlong Mountain?"

"Lord Shizi, there are about 500 Qing soldiers in Yunlong Mountain, and our people have been staring at it all night, and they haven't seen the artillery team go up the mountain."

"It doesn't matter if Jiannu's artillery team can't go up the mountain, tomorrow Yunlong Mountain is our main target, as long as Yunlong Mountain is laid, it can form a horn with Xuzhou City, and the army can land smoothly, and after assembling in the north of the city, then attack Jiannu in the west and east of the city."

"Lord Shizi, if you can't take Yunlong Mountain tomorrow, the last general will come to see you with his head."

Suddenly, Qian Degong's voice rose sharply, after Ding Pengcheng's big victory, whether he was invincible or Chen Wuving, they were all waiting to make meritorious contributions and show their hands in front of the prince.

"What I want is not your head, let's fight more with less, 8,000 soldiers, all have fathers, brothers, wives and children, we must not risk their lives, war intelligence is the most important, send more people to find out the news."

Glancing at him, Zhu Guoqiang reiterated.

"Yes, the last general will send someone."

When he set out from Jinan, Zhu Guoqiang only brought 8,000 village soldiers, facing a Qing army several times his size, although he had the advantage in weapons, but he still did not dare to hold it up, and in the following hours, Zhu Guoqiang had been discussing tomorrow's battle plan with them.

And the core of all is actually a sentence to put it bluntly: "more cannons and fewer cannons".

In the second half of the night, when Chen Wudi and Qian Degong went out, before Zhu Guoqiang could sleep, someone entered the account, it was Zhang Erzhong, the imperial history of Caoyun, at the beginning of the year, the canal dried up, the main transportation line of the capital was interrupted, and he was sent to dredge Caoyun. In the past few months, he has been patrolling back and forth, dredging canals on thousands of miles of rivers.

Familiar with the canal, he took the initiative to board the ship in Jining and gave many ideas for the fleet to pass through the canal. Seeing him enter the tent, Zhu Guoqiang said politely.

"Yixiao, why is it so late, you haven't slept yet?"

Zhang Erzhong, with an anxious expression, got straight to the point:

"Lord Shizi, just now Xiaochen went to the edge of the Yellow River for a turn, and the situation is very bad."

"What's wrong, what do you see."

Zhu Guoqiang, who was yawning, listened to his words and immediately asked in a low voice.

The reason why Jining pulled Zhang Erzhong on the boat at the beginning was because he was familiar with the canal and the Yellow River, and for Zhu Guoqiang, who had set the strategy of "attacking along the river", of course he would not let go of such a talent. Hearing him say this now, the sleepiness immediately disappeared.

"Lord Shizi, yesterday you said that you were going to cross the river tomorrow, so Xiao Chen has been observing the situation on the river, looking for a place where the water flow is not urgent and suitable for going ashore, but just an hour ago, the water flow of the Yellow River suddenly dropped a lot, more than doubled!"

At this time, Zhang Erzhong's face was pale and he reported tremblingly.

"What do you mean, can you say it carefully?"

Zhu Guoqiang's heart tightened suddenly, and he asked eagerly.

"Xiao Chen, since the beginning of the year, I have been ordered by the emperor to go south to dredge the Cao Yun, and I still know the Yellow River, no matter what, the flow of the Yellow River will not drop suddenly, unless, unless it is ......"

Raising his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead, Zhang Erzhong gritted his teeth and said,

"Unless someone is mad and digging the Yellow River embankment upstream, the river will never flow so fast!" If Xiao Chen's expectations are not bad, to the north of the Huangqiao Pass on the north bank of the Yellow River, I am afraid that it will already be a piece of Ze country. ”

"Ahh

Zhu Guoqiang was suddenly speechless in shock, and looked directly at the map on the wall with his eyes.

Dig the embankment of the Yellow River!

This, is this possible?

"Why Huangqiaokou?"

"Shiziye, there is a record in the gazetteer" that the straight north of Huangqikou passes through Shanxian County, Juye, and the canal, and goes straight to the Daqing River. ”……”

Daqing River!

There is no need for Zhang Erzhong to explain, Zhu Guoqiang already knows the answer!

Daqing River! Jinan was built by the Daqing River.

More than 200 years later, during the Xianfeng period, the Yellow River broke and seized the Daqing River into the sea, and the hardest hit was Shandong Province, and dozens of cities, including Jinan, became Zeguo.

In an instant, in Zhu Guoqiang's mind, the surging Yellow River turned into a huge devil, opened its bloody mouth, and rushed all the way towards Shandong and Jinan.

Even if he built a large number of fortifications in Jinan, what is the use of facing the Yellow River, he only needs to send someone to blow up a hole in the Yellow River, but in a few days, he can flood the Seventh Army.

With the breaking of the Yellow River, how many people will die in the belly of the fish along the way?

Several hundred thousand?

Multimillion?

Millions of people died in the belly of the fish!

Thinking of this, Zhu Guoqiang's eyes darkened, his body shook a few times, and he instinctively held on to the table with his hand so that he barely fell.

Zhang Erzhong, who is from Shandong, has already sat on the ground, hugging his head and crying like a fool.

"Why did my Shandong father bother, he actually suffered such a catastrophe! Two hundred years! Two hundred years! I have been curing water for 200 years! The thousand-mile-long causeway was built with the lives of hundreds of thousands of people! God, why don't you open your eyes......"

"Cry what cry! Is it urgent to cry now? ”

After a moment of consternation, Zhu Guoqiang picked up Zhang Erzhong from the ground, and waved his hand to repel the guards who broke into the tent.

"Go, blow the assembly trumpet, assemble urgently."