The repair of the embankment and the rescue made the cavalry tired like dogs, and such high-intensity labor was much harder than fighting an encounter.

But the water of the Zhanghe River is still rising, and the entire embankment has been submerged in the flood, and there is a risk of collapse at any time.

It was already late at night, and the state army lit torches, and they were still rushing to repair the river embankment with all their might, and they would not give up until the last moment.

Finally, the sand in the hourglass was exhausted, and Wen Qin ordered all the men and horses to evacuate the embankment immediately, as for the opening of the embankment, it was a simple matter that could not be simpler, just send two random people to dig a hole in the embankment, and the river water would flow out of this opening.

This small opening only widened several times in an instant, and the turbulent water broke free from the shackles of the river, and desperately squeezed towards this opening, and after a few breaths, the entire section of the embankment collapsed, and the flood was like a wild horse, rushing down frantically and roaring out.

Since ancient times, there has been the title of the flood beast, but before seeing the real flood, few people can understand the meaning of this sentence, in fact, the real flood is far more terrible than the beast, the kind of rapids surging, destroying the world's might, so that the side of the state army is like the color of the earth, in the face of the power of nature, how small people are.

Wen Qin stood on a safe stretch of embankment, which had been turned around as the river flowed frantically within the trough, and the flood roared along the low-lying terrain towards Sindu, which was expected to reach Sindu in a few hours.

At the same time, Deng Ai's side must have dug the embankment of the Qing River at the same time, and the two major torrents would eventually converge in Xindu City, and at that time, the entire Xindu would become a water city, completely submerged by the flood.

"Withdraw!" The task was completed, Wen Qin immediately gave the order to retreat, and the next battle was not something that their cavalry could participate in, and it was the turn of the "water army" of the state army.

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At dawn, Lu Zhao woke up.

He slept very soundly last night, since the outbreak of the war in Jizhou, Lu Zhao had not slept so peacefully for many days, and he was always disturbed by all kinds of news, or his mind was full of a lot of cranky thoughts, which made him sleepless and exhausted all night.

And this night Lu Zhao was very calm and serene, and no one came to disturb him, so he slept very deeply, and it was not until dawn that he was woken up by the chirping of birds outside the window.

Lu Zhao hurriedly got up, and then asked the soldiers outside what news could come from outside the city.

After getting the exact answer from the pro-soldiers, Lu Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the withdrawal of the Bingzhou army has become a fact, but what is the reason for it needs to be further investigated.

However, all this is no longer very important, the critical moment of Xindu City has passed, and under the leadership of Lu Zhao, the defenders of Xindu have overcome many difficulties with the most tenacious will, and finally ushered in the dawn of victory.

There is no doubt that Lu Zhao will be praised by Sima Shi, he has been in this position of Jizhou Mu and Zhenbei General for too long, and with the credit of this time, Lu Zhao finally has the opportunity to return to the Luoyang court and rank as the third duke.

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Zhao showed a knowing smile on his face, but in an instant, his smile became stiff, because he heard a faint roar, which was rather strange, it seemed to be the roar of thousands of troops, and it seemed to be like the sound of a tsunami that overwhelmed the mountains and seas.

Lu Zhao's face changed, could it be that the Bingzhou army came back again? But listening to such a loud movement, it didn't seem like the sound of the army, and he asked the people below in a deep voice: "What is this noise?" ”

The people below were also at a loss, but someone soon pointed out: "It's the sound from the north gate."

Lu Zhao immediately ordered to lead the horse and lead the people straight to the north gate.

Although the state army has withdrawn, but the defense of Xindu City is still not relaxed, the leading general or captain of the Yamen stick to the city day and night, Lu Zhao rushed to the north gate, saw the Yamen general coming, and asked: "What's the matter, what's the situation outside?" ”

The Yamen general's face turned a little pale, and he said, "It's a flood, the Zhanghe River has flooded, and it has flooded to the city." ”

Flood? Lu Zhao was slightly stunned, Xindu is low-lying, but it often suffers from the flooding of the Zhanghe River, but the amount of water in the Zhanghe River is limited after all, and it cannot cause large-scale harm like the Yellow River bursting its embankment, but at this time when the Bingzhou army was besieging the city, the sudden flood still made Lu Zhao feel a little strange, so he abandoned Ma Deng City and went to see what was going on.

As soon as he got on the city wall, Lu Zhao was stunned by the scene in front of him, the monstrous flood had swept the north of Xindu, outside the city of Xindu, it was already an ocean, endless, water and sky were connected, the flood was flowing rapidly, making bursts of roaring sounds, the sound that Lu Zhao heard in the city was the sound of the flood, but standing on the city wall at this moment, he heard it louder, and it was shocking to see.

Yesterday Jizhou experienced a heavy rain, but even if it is a heavy rain, it can not form such a terrible flood, the rolling torrent in front of you, is flowing wantonly, they have broken through the gate of the outer wall, towards the open space between the inner and outer city walls poured rapidly, the water level is rising at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in a blink of an eye it has been submerged to the position of half of the wall.

Lu Zhao's face turned pale, and he suddenly thought that it was the peach blossom flood season, and the water level of the Zhanghe River had skyrocketed, coupled with this sudden heavy rain, which eventually caused a flood.

But is this flood a natural disaster or **? This couldn't help but make Lu Zhao fall into deep thought.

If it is a natural disaster, then the first to suffer must be the Bingzhou army outside the city, but before the flood came, the Bingzhou army actually withdrew in advance, and the withdrawal was completely exhausted, and there was no one left in the camp.

Originally, Lu Zhao learned that the withdrawal of the Bingzhou army was too weird, but he didn't figure out the truth at that time, and now it seems that the sudden withdrawal of the Bingzhou army is inseparable from this flood.

Lu Zhao thought about it carefully, could it be that this flood was not a natural disaster at all, but a real **, and the reason why the state army retreated was because they dug the embankment of the Zhanghe River and wanted to flood Xindu.