Three hundred and fifty-nine, the embankment bursts
Xiao Yuzi knew that she would take care of these things, so she didn't worry too much, so she had no choice but to smile, turned back first, and returned to the tent to warm the quilt, thinking of the monotonous food for days, and even Lin Chaoge, who went down with the whole person's popularity and reeds, was distressed, and he couldn't even take care of himself when he went out. Especially when the crowd just now saw a man with his trouser corners contaminated with muddy water on the sides, and even a lot of brown short beats on his face with a navy blue turban wrapped around his head at random, if he didn't look at that face, he would not have contacted this person with Lin Chaoge, the noble son of Qingfeng Langyue from Chang'an.
When Lin Chaoge came back, he saw Xiao Yuzi sitting on the ground eating steamed buns that had been cooled, and there were beef jerky and a bowl of steamed eggs covered in the lid of the peony flower pot at his feet.
Lin Chaoge is now like a mud figure dug out of the mud, just like an old cow who has been rolling in the mud pit several times, she also knows that her image must be very good now, so she deliberately took off her shoes and coat at the door, and looked clean before entering.
"Come here." Before she could speak, Xiao Yuzi beckoned to her; "Did you go to patrol the embankment just now, how is the situation?"
"Fortunately, the situation is not very critical now." Speaking of this, Lin Chaoge breathed a sigh of relief, "But this rain has been falling for almost half a month, the water level has risen, and the quality of the berm is worrying, but I just looked at it again, the new embankment is almost fixed, but the water potential has not decreased, it seems that we have to keep the flood season, or wait until when the rain will stop, the water level may drop, anyway, I will definitely not be able to go back for a while." Spread his hands and expressed helplessness.
"I don't know when this rain will end, but I haven't seen the sun for a long time, and people are getting a little moldy."
Although she also wanted to finish the matter as soon as possible and go back early, the current situation did not allow it.
Xiao Yuzi frowned, "Can someone be sent to supervise the embankment at night?" ”
"Yes, what's wrong?" When Lin Chaoge heard him ask such a question, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted; "I have already given an order in advance, there must be someone to guard the embankment day and night, the embankment is in the people, the embankment is gone, people are dead, what's wrong, but what's wrong?"
The imperial court allocates so much money every year to repair the river and build the embankment, which river repairer does not make a lot of money from it, and this risk is also something they must bear. If you want to make a fortune from the dead, you have to see if you have that life, and if you are lucky, but the people who were ordered to repair the embankment in front of you may have a bad tone and lost a little luck.
"It's nothing, I just think that there should be more guards, lest anyone be guarded for stealing or being bought." Xiao Yuzi finished eating the last bite of steamed buns in her hand, drank tea and hot water, and then said slowly.
Lin Chaoge thought about it, his face suddenly turned pale, even his nails turned white, he stood up and said, "Are you afraid that someone will be lazy or steal from the guards at this juncture?" Hearing you say that, I feel a little uneasy and want to check it out. ”
"I've already let the tea life pass, don't go, it's late at night, the mud in the sand pit of the Luohe River is of different depths, and you don't have a torch, it's useless to go." Xiao Yuzi stopped Lin Chaoge from about to lift the curtain and go out, and then said; "He's more experienced than you, so just put your heart back in your stomach.
"But, okay." Lin Chaoge looked at his determined gaze, nodded silently, and used a hairpin copper bar to brighten the wick a little more, and the shadows of the two in the dark cyan military tent seemed to overlap together, and the shadows were too weird.
She doesn't believe in others, even if the river repairer guards and Cha Ge also go, she can't sleep. She only hopes that the worst will not happen.
Lin Chaoge, who was full of food and drink, looked at Xiao Yuzi, who was also holding his mental head, and said; "You better continue to rest, it's only been three hours, don't stay up late with me."
Xiao Yuzi grabbed her hand and put it on her chest and said: "It's okay, I can only break my heart as long as I can see you, you sleep first, and I will call you when it is dawn, in case something really happens outside, I can also solve it for you." ”
"I have everything for me."
A warm current surged through Lin Chaoge's heart.
Before I could say anything more, I heard someone outside shouting: "The embankment has been broken—the embankment has been broken——! ”
Both of them Huo Ran stood up, regardless of the others, rushed out, Xiao Yuzi easily put on the hat and put it on.
Seeing someone riding a horse and shouting, "Wahuang Village and Zhenqing Village have burst their embankments - a big hole has collapsed - quickly send someone over to help." It was accompanied by the sound of the water being too strong to resist the flooding.
Lin Chaoge rushed out, grabbed a person and said angrily: "How can Wahuang Village and Zhenqing Village break the embankment!" She was so anxious that she grabbed the collar of the river repairer and scolded, "I didn't ask you to dig a channel to divert water into the river early, and there is no danger reported by the two villages every two hours, how could the embankment suddenly burst!" ”
The river repairer's eyes flickered; "This, next, this official doesn't know either!"
After all, Xiao Yuzi has been cultivating as an adult for a long time, and he can see that his expression is wrong, he dodges and even speaks, obviously there is a ghost in his heart, but at this time, he has no time to judge carefully, so he only shouted: "Come on, take him to me!" ”
Before he could speak, the river repairer was tied up by Cha Sheng's mouth and tied up with hemp rope.
Someone below asked urgently: "Do you want to rush to the berm now?" ”
"You go to the two villages first, and if there are drifters, they will be rescued, and the rest of you will do the embankment sweeping and digging sand to resist the flood embankment." Lin Chaoge said loudly, so anxious that he was giving birth to two mouths, and eight hands went to help.
Xiao Yuzi said to the tea student beside him; "Lead the horse, this king is going to borrow soldiers, you stay here to protect the princess!"
If there are more executions, even if there are enough thousands of people here, the casualties will be heavy, although this big break is really inexplicable, even if there are many of them, they can't stand the speed of the embankment collapse, and now they must race against time with death.
Xiao Yuzi's face was gloomy beside him, on weekdays, his forces were entrenched in the middle of Beijing and the far northwest, and he couldn't reach it, Lin Chaoge could keep an eye on it, but he couldn't keep an eye on all the villages—and even all the prefectures and counties, although he didn't know how the floods were elsewhere, but it was probably not good, maybe there were still a lot of ghosts and ghosts who planned to muddy the water as much as possible, so as to make a fortune from it, maybe after the flood broke the embankment, they didn't know the evidence of corrupt officials and corrupt officials.
Killing two birds with one stone, it is very vicious.
When he heard Xiao Yuzi say that he wanted to borrow troops, Lin Chaoge knew that the embankment burst was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.
Xiao Yuzi didn't wait for Lin Chaoge to say anything, he had already turned over and got on the horse, Xiao Yuzi grabbed Lin Chaoge's hand, her eyes were firm; "You're waiting for me here!"
"Okay, go and come back quickly, I will wait here for Xu Shizi to come back with you." Lin Chaoge nodded firmly in agreement.
"Good. You wait for me to come back, stay safe. Xiao Yuzi rode his horse to the forbidden army camp stationed in Liangzhou Prefecture.
Galloping all the way to the army under the torrential rain, Xiao Yuzi turned over and dismounted, asking to see the generals here, and the sergeants in the army all looked sideways at these embarrassed people. The forbidden army stationed in Liangzhou should have nearly 10,000 people, knowing that there is a disaster ahead, why not send people to help, if you say that there is no cat and Xiaoyuzi, it is absolutely unbelievable.
"This king secretly ordered to inspect the flood situation here, and now Wahuang Village and Zhenqing Village have broken the embankment one after another, and there are not enough people in the river, so I also asked the general to transfer troops to help." Under the hood, Xiao Yuzi's face was like frost, and it was very hateful to see that the soldiers stationed here were still doing nothing.
Xiao Yuzi reluctantly took off her hat.
"Regent?!" One of the soldiers who had returned from the Northwest Land saw Xiao Yuzi's face, and was so surprised that his voice almost changed tone, and the others knelt down and saluted.
Xiao Yuzi didn't pay attention to it, and her tone was like frost and snow: "The river is in danger, if you sit idly by, you will die." ”
After speaking, the people immediately got on their horses, led the forbidden army that had reacted quickly, galloped to the river embankment, divided into several roads, and protected and fixed the embankment in different sections of the river embankment.
I don't know when it rained heavily, and the rain helped the water to become more urgent.
"General, it's too late to carry the soil, order all the horses and cut down big trees to stop the water!" The tea sheng, who was also mixed into the water berm, shouted loudly in the rain; "Lord Wang, this place is dangerous, don't come down."
"It's okay, one more person." Xiao Yuzi had already sworn to die and stepped forward to fight the flood with the others.
The general of the forbidden army answered, and it was passed on to all the sergeants that the embankment of the sinking section of the river was opened, and the river was turbulent and rushing, and both sides were also in danger.
The dwellings in the low places have already been half flooded, fortunately, Lin Chaoge in front has already evacuated the masses to the high ground to stay, and now most of the people have climbed to the high ground, and there are a few people who are unwilling to leave floating in the water, fortunately, Xiao Yuzi has ordered, if you see the drifting people, you will be saved, and the river guards will remove the door panel to save people.
In addition to the old and weak, women and children, all the people who have a little strength have also gone into the water to protect the berm, and thousands of river soldiers and Yellow River men are flowing water into the river to sink wooden dragons, soil bags and other things, just racing against time.
Since Xiao Yuzi left, Lin Chaoge asked them to continue to make embankments and extensive soil and stones to resist the waves. ”
Lin Chaoge had never had experience in controlling water, and the only experienced Xu Zhizi was nowhere to be found, so as soon as he came to Zhangzhou, he ordered people to step up the use of tree branches, stones, etc. to tie up the embankment. If not, it will be dangerous later on. At that time, it was very laborious and time-consuming to remove the negative soil, but when the embankment was lowered, the water potential could be analyzed, which relieved the urgency for a while.
When some Yellow River men saw Lin Chaoge, they began to persuade Lin Chaoge to go to the high ground, but Lin Chaoge was reluctant to go, "I'm here to protect the berm with everyone!" ”
She even moved her hands to drag logs against the waves of the river embankment, and the rain and river water beat people to a soaked water.
Lin Chaoge took a rough bamboo rope, tied one end around her waist, and tied it with the others, in case one of them fell down and was washed away, and because she was really afraid that she would be washed away.