However, the floods were worse than Yang Xin expected......

"It's an ocean!"

Yang Xin stood on a small boat, looked at the banks of the Xicheng Canal and sighed.

In his opinion, the flood is nothing more than the flood of the river, and the surging torrent washes everything along the way, but the flood in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is another matter, the continuous heavy rainfall in the rainy season causes the water level of all rivers and lakes in this water network area to rise, and the entire densely populated plain.

It is not accurate to describe it as Hung.

It's waterlogging.

"Before that, it was a heavy rainstorm that lasted for five days, causing the river to rise sharply, and then the tide turned into backflow, and all the villages along the river in Jiangyin and Wujin were destroyed, and Changshu and Taicang and other places are about the same, Jiangyin was the hardest hit only because Jiangyin City is on the riverside. However, our militia had already prepared, and immediately evacuated when the situation was not good, and prepared a large number of tents, including the victims in the city, all of whom were sent to Dingshan and other places, but there were no such measures in the Changshu area, and it is said that many people died.

But it didn't work.

The people were rescued, but the new wheat was all gone. ”

Li Zhong on the side said.

"Haven't you already received it?"

Yang Xin said.

"It's useless to harvest, this year's plum is early, the rainfall is heavy, most of the wheat is rotten in the ground, and the harvest that is not rotten is not dry, and then it encounters a big water bubble, and finally it is rotten, it can be said that this year's new wheat is all over, and not only the wheat, but also the transplanting of seedlings has been delayed. If it is not possible to retreat until the beginning of autumn, then this year's rice will be finished, and even next year's wheat will be finished, and rice transplanting will be late rice, and it will be too late to harvest and plant wheat too late.

But so far the rain has not stopped.

It's almost June.

The price of rice in Suzhou and Wuxi has reached one or two or six yuan, and there are rice grabbers everywhere, and there are ordinary people who block the rice boats from going out, and those gentry are still spreading rumors, saying that our side is beating local tyrants and dividing the fields and violating the guidelines, which often angers the heavens, so the punishment is lowered. ”

Li Zhong said.

"How dare they say it."

Yang Xin said.

"Our people definitely don't believe this, because the evacuation was organized, and the local tyrants in various places received a large amount of stored grain, which was just taken out for disaster relief, and according to the standards set by the governors, it was rationed by the heads of the villages in various places, and the small ones also gave them orders that they could not starve to death, and it was not difficult to survive. But the places controlled by the gentry are not good, they are all in pain in order to support the regiment, and this year's rent is over, and they are even more reluctant to relieve the victims, but they say that they blame us for beating the local tyrants and collecting all the food, so they have no food relief.

Many of the victims were coaxed by them.

But it's useless to coax, they can't get food relief, the victims should grab it or grab it, after all, they can't just starve to death, some places are already eating grass roots and tree bark.

There are even those who grab tolerances.

Those gentry are now transporting grain for the regiment to protect.

I don't have time to worry about us.

And not only this area, the entire Taihu Lake is almost the same, Wujin, Jiangyin, Wuxi, Wujiang are the most severely affected, and it can almost be said that there is not a single new seedling in the farmland. ”

Li Zhong said.

Yang Xin didn't speak again, just silently looked at the side, a floating corpse was slowly drifting by.

"Further forward is the territory of team training."

Li Zhong said.

Suddenly, there was a shout from the front.

Then there was a group of victims carrying food bags on the shore in the distance, and they were followed by the chasing group training, but because it was raining and the muskets could not be used, the group training could only chase with knives and spears, these victims quickly ran into the water and threw the food into several small boats, but the group training also chased over, and these victims did not hesitate to take out a hoe from the boat and face the group training with a resolute face......

"Kill these people who rob the military rations!"

The captain of the regimental training raised his knife and shouted.

Yang Xin immediately pulled out the revolver lighter on Li Zhong's waist, and then pulled the trigger, this kind of gun has a waterproof cover, although it is impossible to reload, but it is still possible to shoot a shot.

Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire.

The group trainers who were about to rush up looked up at them in amazement.

"Let them go."

Yang Xin said.

"Governor, the brothers also have to eat, they robbed the army of food, what do the brothers eat, you can't help the bandit army so openly!"

The captain said unceremoniously.

"Do you want me to say it a second time?"

Yang Xin said.

The captain waved his hand with a sad face, and the victims jumped into the boats without hesitation, and then quickly left with the boats, and soon entered a village with an apparent past, disappearing into the ruins of woods and houses, presumably fleeing directly to the Red Turbans-controlled area, which was the easiest place to escape. And those group drills held weapons one by one and looked at Yang Xin with indignant eyes, the latter ignored them and continued to lean forward to the South Gate Wharf, and those group drills turned around and followed.

This is their territory.

Xicheng Canal has two channels into the river, one is Huangtian Port, the other is Xia Port, the former blocks the river tide inflow with the Huangtian Gate, and the latter blocks the Caijing Gate, that is, the South Gate, Jiangyin Tuanlian is stationed here, and imitates Yang Xin's simple fortress, and also builds a fortress here. Moreover, this fortress also has Hongyi cannons, in fact, the plains around Taihu Lake are like the plains of Western Europe at this time, and these simple fortresses seem to have sprung up after a rain.

Whether it is the Red Turban Army or the current name of the Loyal and Brave Army, or the regimental training of those gentry, they are all frantically cultivating the fortress.

At present, the total number has exceeded 30.

It's really a small town and a fortress.

This thing is cheap and effective, Shen Tingyang and those people don't know how to do the test first, they have already tested it before, and they can easily bombard the old city wall with Hongyi cannons, but it takes several times more shells to bombard this simple fortress, and the former is also covered with bricks, this one is not covered with bricks, if you give the outer bread bricks to the fortress like the former, it is estimated that it can be bombarded to despair.

Of course, such a good thing must be repaired.

At present, these regimental leaders and the supporters behind them are not that kind of rotten people, especially the Dutch mercenaries they hired also support this.

In short, this area is full of fortresses.

"This is not easy to fight!"

Li Zhong said.

He was the first to build this, and of course he knew the defensive power of such a fortress.

"There's nothing bad about fighting."

Yang Xin said.

Indeed, this is the primary version of the Dutch fortress, this thing did drag Spain from the leader of Europe, to the direct decline, but a military genius who has not yet been born can easily destroy it, and in the face of Vauban siege tactics, this kind of fortress immediately fell. The complete experience of the fortress is Vauban type, this military genius who is famous for building fortresses, and also the genius who destroys the old ones, although he was not born until nine years later, but his parallel trenches, mortar cannons, and Z-shaped trench propulsion can be used directly.

However, Yang Xin still admires Daming's current fortress.

At least this scene represents the level of warfare in this land that is growing by leaps and bounds.

Xu Xiake, who came out of the shore in a hurry, looked at them vigilantly, and around Xu Xiake there were traces of flooding, and there were even a large number of collapsed houses, and those people who had escaped the flood were cleaning up the ruins with numb expressions.

There is also a porridge shed next to it.

Obviously, Xu Xiake still gave some relief.

But from the weak movements of those people, it can be seen that they are just hanging for their lives.

Yang Xin ignored Xu Xiake, walked directly to a group of children who were biting the grass roots, and then stretched out his hand to the back, Li Zhong in the back immediately held a heavy iron can at his feet, Xu Xiake looked at him suspiciously, the team that had just arrived, and those victims also looked at this thing suspiciously. Yang Xin took the dagger that Li Zhong handed over, plunged directly into the iron can, and then cut around it, and then broke off half of it.

The instant smell of fat made the eyes of those children widen.

Yang Xin took the dagger and directly cut it into squares in his hand, and then handed it to them, a little girl couldn't wait to grab a piece, bit down half in an instant, and then showed a happy smile.

"Pour this into the pot and cook it with the rice."

Yang Xin said.

Xu Xiake waved his hand, and a group practice immediately picked up the rest, walked directly to the porridge shed, dug it out of it with a knife and put it into the pot, and couldn't wait to taste it first.

"Meat, it's all meat!"

He shouted excitedly.

"I've heard that there are rumors that I have caused heavenly punishment and that God has punished this land with floods, so I really want to ask now, do you believe it?"

Yang Xin said.

As he spoke, he pointed to the Xicheng Canal behind him.

Small boats carrying the same iron cans are approaching in a long queue with no end in sight.

"Don't believe it!"

One of the victims shouted excitedly.

Then there were countless of the same shouts, and even those group exercises were shouted.

It's meat.

Even the team training rarely eats meat at the moment.

Xu Xiake, the land of these local gentry is also close to extinction, there is no rent to collect, and the grain has to be transported from outside, and those gentry will not lack their food, but the flood has caused hungry people everywhere, and there are people grabbing grain everywhere, and those grain ships are often robbed.

They are hardly able to even eat enough rice, and have actually begun to eat barley.

This is the only one that has been spared from the flood, as it was harvested much earlier than the wheat harvest, which was completed before the rainy season began.

But what Yang Xin brought was meat!

"A jar of fifty catties of minced meat, I will give you two hundred, my fleet is carrying this, my factory in Tianjin is still in production, since the grain is out of production, then let's eat minced meat, in addition to I will set up a similar factory in Jiangyin, there are fish in the Yangtze River, why do we have to eat grain?"

Yang Xin said.

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