Chapter 1289: Nightmare

On the cliff of Helongshan Mountain, from the early hours of the morning, Lin Jue and others witnessed this scene of the apocalyptic flood in amazement. Everyone was speechless in horror and speechless for a long time.

Lin Jue and the others only found out that something was wrong in the middle of the night. The guards who were in charge of watching and observing the situation on the battlefield in Xingzhong Mansion came to report important news at the third watch. Because they found that the cavalry of the Jurchens, who were building siege equipment under the city of Xingzhong Mansion overnight, suddenly began to pull out of the camp and leave. Quickly came in the direction of Helongshan.

When Lin Jue went up to the top of the cliff to observe, the Jurchen soldiers and horses had all been drawn up, and I galloped towards Helong Mountain in the moonlight. Everyone was surprised, and some even thought that their whereabouts were exposed, and the Jurchens were going to encircle and suppress their own people.

But Lin Jue knew that it must not be because of this reason. Even if the Jurchens knew about their existence, they would not mobilize all their troops and horses into the mountains to encircle and suppress themselves. There was no grudge between themselves and the Jurchens, and it was impossible for them to do this. Moreover, just as the Jurchens were building equipment and preparing to capture Xingzhong Mansion. How could they come to encircle and suppress for the sake of more than 100 of their own people because of a small loss. Something must have happened in the process.

Soon after, when the army in the city of Xingzhong Mansion began to retreat out of the city to Daqingshan, north of Xingzhong Province, and there was a commotion in the city, and a large number of people seemed to have begun to evacuate, Lin Jue was even more sure that something unusual had happened. Both the Jurchens and the Liao seem to be running away from some disaster, what is going on? Lin Jue didn't know, but he faintly felt uneasy in his heart.

At dawn, when the faint sound of a dragon roaring like a tiger roaring and rolling like wind and thunder came, Lin Jue once regarded the shaking of the ground as a major earthquake. However, when the tall water wall in the distance to the north shone with a white waterline that was more than ten miles long, Lin Jue and the others were dumbfounded like clay wood sculptures.

Lin Jue has seen the tide of August 18 on the Qiantang River in Hangzhou. The scene was indeed like a thousand horses galloping, which was shocking and impressive. However, compared with the scene in front of him, the tide of Qiantang is also overshadowed. From the top of the cliff, you can just look down on the whole flood water. You can see the high waves rushing towards you like the head of a viper, followed by a torrent of mountains, uprooting trees and collapsing houses. The tide of the Qiantang River gives people more of a magnificent and majestic feeling, and the scene in front of them brings people the fear in their bones that the end is coming.

"Original...... The Jurchens went into the mountains to avoid disaster. They must have known the news of the coming flood. Yelu Zongyuan...... It's just a devil, how dare he order the dam upstream to be dug up, this is to defy the condemnation of the world, and do the anger of people and gods. ”

In an instant, all the questions had a clear answer at the moment when they saw the flood rolling in. Everyone around him also understood, and they were shocked and speechless.

"There are still people in that city, what should I do? The flood has come. Bai Bing pointed to the busy people in Xingzhong Mansion and shouted.

All eyes were on it, their hearts tightened, and the muscles on their faces twitched. Outside the city, huge waves are coming, but the streets of the city are still chaotic people. Little do they know that disaster is coming.

"Let's go, let's go. The flood is coming. Bai Bing stomped his feet anxiously, and couldn't help but shout towards the distant city.

Gao Muqing reached out and grabbed her hand, and said softly: "Sister Bing'er, it's useless, they can't hear it." ”

Bai Bing shouted, "Husband, save them." ”

The corners of Lin Jue's mouth twitched, his face was gloomy, and he didn't say a word. The huge waves hit the city, and the water level in the city soared, and the entire city was instantly submerged. When the crowd on the street was swallowed up like ants, Bai Bing cried.

For several hours, Lin Jue didn't say a word, standing on the cliff and watching the flood raging below. From Lin Jue's point of view, Helongshan was like an island surrounded by floods at the moment. Below was a filthy torrent of foamy garbage, and all the wilderness as far as the eye could see was already a sea of water. Lin Jue knew that the huge waves would go all the way south to east, and would loot all the land within a radius of a hundred miles, and then it would slowly calm down. And in just this half a day, I don't know how many people will die.

Lin Jue's heart was constricted and angry, he was never a person who pretended to be a merciful virgin, on the battlefield, Lin Jue would not have any means at all, even in the battle with the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou, Lin Jue would never have the slightest pity. Because Lin Jue's philosophy is that as long as you go to the battlefield and stand on the opposite side, you are the enemy. There is no mercy in dealing with the enemy. Even if you are the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou, even if you are forced to do it.

However, Lin Jue could not tolerate the indiscriminate killing of innocent people, treating the defenseless people as if they were wanton, and killing them at will. The strong should not bully the defenseless weak with force, but should take on the responsibility of protecting them. Even if you are an enemy civilian, you should not kill them indiscriminately, and even if you don't want to protect them, you can't take their lives at will, because they don't pose any threat to you. What's more, it is even more despicable to use the lives of the people of one's own country as bargaining chips to protect one's own private interests in such an extreme way.

Yelu Zongyuan, as the emperor of Liao, not only did not protect his people, but instead resisted the attack of the Jurchens by disregarding their lives, which made Lin Jue surprisingly angry. Yelu Zongyuan is not worthy of being the emperor of Liao, not worthy of being a man, or even worthy of being a person. This kind of person, like Guo Xu, is the scum of people. It is for the sake of the devil who can destroy the whole world for his own selfishness. Sadly, however, it is this kind of person who rules the world and is in a position of reverence. It can be seen from this that this era is so black and white, how distorted and dirty, how dark and dull.

Ironically, Yelu Zongyuan actually didn't achieve his goal. Sun Dayong had already confirmed the news that the Jurchen cavalry had stormed into the valley of Helongshan. The flood failed to cross the Helong Pass, so Yelu Zongyuan's hundreds of thousands of Jurchen soldiers and horses were safe and sound. It's ironic. Yelu Zongyuan knew the news, and he was afraid that he was going crazy.

There are also signs of receding floodwaters over time. After all, no amount of water can be shallower under the allocation of such a huge area of flood discharge area. However, the receding water level has exposed more horrific scenes. From a distance, on the north bank of the Daling River after the flood, the original green and vibrant land is now bare. The flood stripped away the turf and dirt, revealing yellow-orange-orange and sun-basking white ground. Those are all sand beneath the strata. Originally, the reason why the Daling River and the Yaniu River basin became a land of abundant water and grass was because the river alluvium covered the fertile river soil on the gravel land, and over time formed a foot thick fertile soil for the growth of grass and trees. But everywhere the torrent went, everything was beaten into its original shape. The top layer of the ground was swept away by the floods, and the gravel was re-exposed. And no grass can grow on these sandy soils.

It is conceivable that the gravel floor will quickly dry out under the sun's rays. When the wind blows, it will be dusty and dusty. This fertile land will soon become barren.

Yelu Zongyuan's act of digging the dam not only killed 200,000 people in the Liao State and destroyed so many cities and villages, but also completely destroyed the entire fertile land, destroyed the fertile soil in the eastern part of Zhongjing Road, and destroyed the foothold of future generations.

The floodwaters on both sides of the Daling River also appear to be receding. Some of the high slopes of the mound were also exposed, and they were covered with black trees, grass, and the remains of corpses. From a distance, it looks like a pile of huge scars. The muddy flood was like stagnant water, and the swollen corpses of people and livestock could be seen in the foam of the white flowers. The hands and feet of the swollen corpse reached out of the water, towards the sky. It's like praying for mercy from heaven, and it's like a final accusation, which makes people shudder.

In fact, the flood in Xingzhong Fuzhong subsided very quickly. The sudden rise of the Daling River after the arrival of the flood peak lasted less than half an hour. The rising water level receded as the torrent continued to overflow southward. There was still a great deal of water in the city, but most of the walls and houses were already exposed. However, on the roofs of the city walls, the corpses of the people were lying on them, all soaked like blowing dolls. A large number of hovering vultures landed on the roofs of the city walls and pecked at the corpses, and some flew into the sky with long bloody entrails and intestines, fighting and biting each other.

Faced with such a scene, Gao Muqing and Bai Bing, who had been by Lin Jue's side, couldn't help but vomit. Lin Jue looked at the two girls apologetically, and finally decided not to stay here to watch these human disasters. So he took the two daughters down to the top of the cliff and returned to the woods.

Everyone was in a depressed mood, and when they returned to the forest, they were silently speechless, only silently ate some dry food, and then rested under Sun Dayong's orders. Lin Jue was also a little exhausted, depressed, closed his eyes and rested in the shack for a while, and unconsciously fell asleep.

Lin Jue had a dream in which he was standing on top of the wasteland. Dozens of feet high, like a mountain-like flood head, rushed over, making Lin Jue terrified. The point is that there are countless people struggling above the waves, opening their mouths and screaming.

"Help me, help me. Help me. The cries of the people who were carried by the waves were terrible and piercing. Lin Jue ran desperately, the waves wrapped around the people and chased after him, and finally Lin Jue was exhausted, only to feel that his head, neck, arms, thighs, hands and feet were pulled and entangled by countless hands, and the whole person was also swept into the turbid waves until he was suffocated.

"Ahh Lin Jue woke up screaming, sat up and looked around blankly, his forehead was full of beads of sweat.

Bai Bing and Gao Muqing, who were sitting on the side and spoke softly, turned their heads in shock, and when they saw Lin Jue, whose face was dazed and sweating profusely, they hurriedly moved over.