Stones, sacks......

When the officers and soldiers were desperately driving piles at the breach, ships brought in stones and soil from the north shore to block the breach. For a time, both sides of the Yellow River were full of busy people, whether it was those who escaped the killing of the Qing army on the south bank or those who survived the flood on the north bank, they all joined the battle with the soldiers.

Man will conquer the sky!

No one in this era had such a belief, but now, on the embankment of the Huangqiaokou breach, everyone stubbornly believes in this sentence, and they believe that they will be able to block the breaching embankment.

As long as the embankment is blocked, millions of fathers and villagers on the north bank can be saved!

In the next two days, with the efforts of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, the embankment of the breach finally stopped expanding, and gradually closed with the extension of steel and wooden piles. Although the boiling water still pours into the north bank through the breach, the steel frame slowly closes to give people a glimmer of hope.

In the past two days, there are also many officials and gentry who have heard the news and rushed to help, and Huang Shoucai is one of them, he is not an official, nor a gentry, he has been boating for decades, so he knows a lot about water, and he is smart and studious, good at using his brain, so he knows the river theory, is good at dredging and guiding the river, and eliminating floods. Chongzhen flooded Luoyang for eight years, and the flood did not recede for a long time. When the prefect heard of Huang Shoucai's name, he sent someone to invite him to discuss countermeasures with him, and eventually the flood water would be receded by draining the river. After that, he was appointed as a small official, specializing in river control, although he did not enter the stream, but after hearing that the embankment of Huangqikou on the north bank had burst, he still led hundreds of people to come here by boat and straight down the river.

As soon as he arrived at Huangqikou, he ordered people to obey the command of Zhang Erzhong and others, and at the same time took a small boat to inspect the floodplain on the north bank, looking for a suitable location to divert the flood and avoid further flooding.

Of course, it is not only Huang Shoucai who came to help, but also many people, the prefectures and counties on both sides of the Yellow River have always expressed some expressions, and even the Lu County Commander sent dozens of soldiers to help after learning the news.

"Mother, mother...... Frozen, froze to death......"

Looking at the men who were pulled onto the boat from the icy river water, they were all blue from the cold, and the dozens of people who had just come from Lushi County were all shocked and turned blue.

Even when they were on the boat, they could still see the ice on the steel piles.

"Xiu, Xiucai, this, in such a cold world, going down to the river, yes, it is going to freeze to death!"

Not to mention jumping into the river to drive piles with your naked feet, on such a cold day, even if you take off your clothes, you can freeze to death!

Niu Jinxing, who was stared at by the big guys, swallowed his saliva, although he was not the official of these people, but because he was a showman before the army, he has always won everyone's trust.

"When, of course it will, it will freeze to death!"

"So, after you get into the water, you can't stand on the steel pile for more than a bag of cigarettes, remember, when the time comes, you have to come to the ship! If you don't come up, someone will pull you up. ”

Following the sound, I saw a man wearing a fur hat and a green open coat, looking at them and saying.

"You're from Lushi County?"

"Yes, after Li Xianzun of Lushi County knew that the prince was here to block the breach, he sent me and others to help."

Niu Jinxing replied truthfully.

"Since you're here, let's get ready to work, but let me tell you first, it's freezing now, although you can bake a fire, have a coat, and have a fur hat, but your hair can't dry when it's wet, and it will kill you, shave your head or not, you decide for yourself!"

Shave!

Only then did Niu Jinxing and others notice that the men who were desperately trying to drive piles with hammers in the raging flood were all shaved heads, like monks.

"Xiu, Xiucai, what to do?"

When they heard that they were going to shave their heads, everyone was immediately dumbfounded, after all, this hair was the father's and mother's. All eyes were on Bull Venus

After being stunned for a while, under the gaze of everyone, Niu Jinxing arched his hand.

"This, this general, the "Book of Filial Piety" has a cloud "body skin, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also." "I'm waiting, really, I can't shave my hair!"

Li Yunkai glanced at this person and said with a smile.

"Have you read a book?"

"I'm ashamed, the villain was lucky to get a show before joining the army."

said that he was ashamed, but Niu Jinxing had an unconcealable pride on his face.

"Since you are a scholar, you should know that today you are waiting for your life, but for millions of people in Hebei, if you and I freeze to death due to wet hair, when the time comes, who will drive piles, who will block the embankment, this is caused by the righteousness, the prince often said, "The husband acts, regardless of right and wrong, regardless of interests; On obedience and disobedience, regardless of success or failure; On eternity, no matter a lifetime. "That's all I say, if you really can't figure it out, I won't force it!"

When the words fell, there was a report from the soldiers.

"Li Qianhu, it's your turn!"

The shouts of his subordinates made Li Yunkai answer, and then he tied sandbags and ropes around his waist, took off his coat and jumped into the icy river, took the hammer from the hands of others and got busy.

"He, he's a thousand households?"

Niu Jinxing and the others were dumbfounded, the dignified master of thousands of households was actually driving piles in the ice water like everyone else.

"Deputy Li Qianhu, but from the palace, he is also the prince of the family, you see, over there, it is the prince of the world, and he is also busy loading sandbags there!"

The prince ......

Looking up at the river embankment, following the direction of the boatman's finger, Niu Jinxing and the others saw that among the people who were busy wearing sandbags, there was a young man who was covered in muddy water, and he looked no different from the people around him, but, he, he was actually the prince of the world!

"Oh my God, this, this...... Shiziye, Shiziye, that's Fengzi Longsun, Ju, and he actually works with the big guys...... Old cow,"

The man who was over forty years old next to Niu Jinxing touched his hair and shouted.

"It's just a few hairs, the husband wants to act, to talk about right and wrong, yes, right and wrong, go into the water and shave his head, in order to save millions of people in Hebei, this head I shaved!"

"That's it, that's it, isn't it just shaving your head, besides, you dare to jump down in such cold water, let alone a few hairs ......"

For a while, these soldiers from Lushi County, perhaps infected by the environment, were all excited, and when shaving their heads, Niu Jinxing once again set his eyes on the muddy Shiziye, looking at the Shiziye's sweating like rain and working with the mud legs, he couldn't help but mutter the sentence he had just heard.

"The great husband acts, judging right and wrong, regardless of profit or harm; On obedience and disobedience, regardless of success or failure; On all eternity, no matter the ...... of life"