Heavy snow has fallen, more than 1,000 cavalry in the blue and black sè big in the scale armor, galloping horses, like the tide of silver and red, the fifth day of the first month of the new year has just begun, from the north gate of Liyang City, from the west section of the Qingcang Mountain Trail through, to the northern wilderness.

Everyone knows that Han Qian usually acts in Liyang City, and after Zhao Wuji also led the Chaozhou Assassin History, Han Donghu's main force of the guards and cavalry of Yu Hou was also stationed in Liyang City with Han Qian.

Even after Shu declared itself a vassal to Great Chu, the war horses imported from the Western Domain to Huaixi were no longer subject to the previous restrictions, but the Zhuzhen army was in urgent need of a new independent cavalry battalion, so the guard cavalry still maintained an elite cavalry establishment of more than 2,400 people.

Thousands of guards and cavalry went out of the city, which meant that either Han Qian traveled far away, or there was a major change somewhere in the north, and the guard cavalry needed to rush to reinforcements as soon as possible.

Liyang City was preserved, and it was originally the land of Liyang School, and then the government office of the government and the families of the generals and children also moved to Liyang City one after another.

The population of Liyang City has not yet been relatively pure, but just after the New Year's Festival, there is such a big movement in the city, which does not mean that people are not panicked, and they don't know what is going on in the chaotic world today.

Although Liyang and Jinling are only separated by a river, the residents of Liyang City are much more sensitive to the changes in the current situation.

Wen Bo returned to the house from Lianyuan in the afternoon with two family soldiers, but he didn't send anyone to inform him, Xue Chuan, Cao Ba, his nephew Wen Yuan and his eldest brother Wen Zhanyu all rushed over when they heard the news.

After the Wen family was annexed, Han Qian's most basic request, in addition to abolishing the slave and maid status, was to analyze the clan and property.

The so-called clan and property analysis also divides the traditional clan with the clan head or family head as the head of the clan and clan affairs into independent families and divides the clan property equally, that is, it is necessary to substantially abolish the old system of inheritance by the head of the family and the eldest son.

Now Wen Bo and his brother Wen Zhanyu are also counted as two households, Xue Chuan and Cao Ba are even more independent to set up their own doors, but the power of tradition and habit is still strong, but whenever there is anything, Xue Chuan, Cao Ba and others also ran to Wen Bo's house to discuss it as soon as possible - for this situation, Han Qian will not be forced to prohibit it indiscriminately.

"What the hell is going on, how can such a large-scale guard cavalry be dispatched all at once for this big New Year?" Cao Ba, who was just in his early thirties, couldn't sit still more than Wen Yuan and Xue Chuan, and when he opened the door and saw Wen Bo in the courtyard, he asked loudly.

Xue Chuan and Cao Ba were both children of the Wen family's soldiers, and they followed Wen Duqiao and Wen Bo to establish meritorious services in the army, and they were once promoted to a high position at the first level of Duyu Hou.

After the Luoshan defenders surrendered to Tangyi, they were first organized into the Right Shenwu Army, but after returning to Tangyi from Liangzhou, the soldiers of the Right Shenwu Army were temporarily disbanded and repatriated, and reunited with their families, while the grassroots military attaches all went to the designated intermediate schools to receive literacy and basic military knowledge training, and the middle and senior military attaches above the battalion commander were assembled at the Liyang Academy Military Academy for training.

In addition to Wen Bo's direct command of the military marching Sima and the deputy chief of the leading army academy, the deputy chief of staff and the deputy capital of the military intelligence department, Xue Chuan, Cao Ba, Wen Yuan and others were inevitably stuffed into the military academy to receive strict cultural and military knowledge training.

Wen Yuan and Xue Chuan were better, Cao Ba had limited literacy and could barely read very simple letters, and suddenly asked him to study high-intensity cultural subjects, and he had already accumulated a stomach full of resentment, complaining all day long that it was the government that did this, and it was intended to deprive them of military power.

Wen Duqiao and Wen Bo reprimanded them many times, but they still couldn't suppress Cao Ba's stinky temper, and they were somewhat worried that Cao Ba would come out of their mouths.

"It's good for you to come here, you will graduate from the military academy on the same day, and you don't need to go to the military academy for training after the year, and you will go to Shouchun with me as an attendant military attaché!" As Wen Bo spoke, he called over a few servants and servants who were not used in the house, took out a list, and told them to go to inform the people according to the list, and the people on the list should be assembled before dark, and then set off for Shouchun.

On this list, including Cao Ba, Xue Chuan, and Wen Yuan, they are all middle and senior military attaches of the Right Shenwu Army who are currently regarded as having potential and continue to stay in the military academy for training, with a total of more than 80 people from the battalion commander to the Du Yuhou level.

Of course, this time, as attendant military attachés, there were also 100 middle and senior military attachés who were selected from the Tianping Capital and other departments to enter the academy for training.

In addition, Han Qian had just issued a military order to recruit about 500 grassroots military attachés who had been trained in various localities, and to form a cavalry team of attendant military attachés with middle and high-level military attachés who had been trained, and asked them to report to Shouchun as soon as possible.

At this time, just in time for the New Year's Festival, not to mention the grassroots military attachés who mainly receive training near their places of residence, most of the cadets of the military academy are not in Liyang because their families are young, and they all leave Liyang to reunite with their families.

However, the generals of the Right Shenwu Army are small, and they mainly settle in Liyang and Donghu after surrendering, and it is most convenient to assemble.

"What's going on?"

The family led the horse out to inform the others, and after returning to Tangyi, they all took care of the house or traveled through the mountains and rivers, and did not ask about the world, and they couldn't help but ask at this time.

Regardless of whether the special guard military attache cavalry team or other names, Han Qian's emergency recruitment of so many middle, high-level and low-level military attaches who are being trained means that he is very likely to carry out a large-scale expansion of troops and horses in Shouchun, rather than something to draw from the existing soldiers and horses.

If the scale of Huaixi's soldiers and horses is further expanded, it is obvious that something has happened, otherwise why would Han Qian need to do something to startle the snake but waste money and food?

Wen Duqiao didn't know that it was calm and peaceful years ago, what reason was there for Han Qian to suddenly decide to expand the army at this time, which made everyone have a bad year in a row?

Han Qian did not ask for strict secrecy about the Weizhou rebels digging a levee and bursting the water in Xingyang, and Wen Bo also told him bluntly, but he didn't want to go out and talk nonsense at will.

"Liang Shixiong dug the embankment and burst the water, it should be to block the Liang army's attack on Xingyang and ensure that the Heluodong portal is worry-free, this matter has its own Liang Emperor Zhu Yu to have a headache, Tangyi needs such a big reaction?" Wen Zhanyu asked suspiciously.

They had joined Liang Guo with Xu Mingzhen before, mainly because of their desire to cling to Qiangzhi, but they did not have any special feelings for Liang Guo and Liang Emperor Zhu Yu, and there was no obstacle to calling him by his name at this time.

However, in their minds, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang is definitely a strong existence in the world, and they do not think that Liang Shixiong will be Zhu Yu's opponent without the help of the Mughal people.

At the same time, they also knew very well in their hearts that the current battle line on the western flank of Hehuai had a crucial impact on the future situation in the Central Plains, and if Zhu Yu could recover Heluo first, he would open up contact with Guanzhong, but whether Liang Shixiong could drag Wang Yuankui and Tian Weiye to take the lead in capturing Yongzhou and Huazhou with the help of the Mengwu people, the situation in the Central Plains would change

It's even worse.

In Wen Zhanyu's view, Liang Shixiong's digging of the embankment in Xingyang and the collapse of the water was a tactical move of the defenders, just like Han Qian secretly built an ice dam in Wujin Ridge and finally broke the Shouzhou army.

Even if Zhu Yu's side can detect this situation in advance, it is very likely that it will cause great trouble for the Liang army to attack Xingyang City in the future, and it is likely to slow down the pace of the Liang army's attack on Heluo, making the situation in Guanzhong more and more besieged, but Wen Zhanyu seems that Han Qian has expected this situation.

Even if there is no help from the Mughu, Liang Shixiong is also a famous general of Liang State, how can he not have any means?

"Making a fuss at every turn, are some people exaggerating?" Cao Ba pouted and said.

Although he has suffered a lot at the hands of the Tangyi Army over the years, he feels that he is not as tortured as being sent to the military academy, as long as he has the opportunity, Cao Ba still can't help but sneer, and Wen Bo is also extremely helpless.

"Master Hou thinks there is anything unusual about this?" Wen Duqiao frowned and asked.

"Hou Ye is worried about the intentions of the Weizhou rebels, it is not simply to dig a dike and collapse the area near Xingyang, but the hydrological resources of the Industrial Construction Department and the Engineering Institute about the Yu River (Yellow River) are too limited, and some things cannot be said to die," Wen Bo said, "However, Hou Ye has already sent Huo Xiao to Shouchun on a fast horse to meet Guo Duanduo, and asked Guo Duanduo to send someone to contact Emperor Liang immediately." If Lang Zhongguan, who is in charge of river affairs in charge of the Ministry of Industry of Liang, does not have specific hydrographic data on the Xingzhou section of the Yu River and the west side of the chasm, then the two families should immediately send people to infiltrate the enemy's territory to conduct on-the-spot surveying and mapping ......"

"It's not that serious, is it?" Hearing Wen Bo talk about everyone's speculation about the discussion in the Weiyu Pavilion on the first day after the New Year, Cao Ba was a little frightened and smacked his lips and said.

"Now we need first-hand hydrological data of the Xingyang section of the Yu River to make subsequent judgments," Wen Bo said, "If the riverbed of the Xingyang section has been suspended from the south bank, once the embankment is excavated, it means that the Yu River will completely change course!" And if the original calculation of the Mengwu people or Liang Shixiong was to force the Yu River to improve, then even if the riverbed did not hang out of the south bank, as long as the siltation was serious enough, they could requisition tens of thousands of people below the breach, pile up dirt and plug the river, and force the Yu River to be diverted! ”

"Master Hou is guessing that the Mughurs are going to build a floating mountain weir!?" Wen Yuan asked in surprise.

"What's the Fushan Weir?" Cao Ba asked.

"You stupid person who doesn't learn anything, you only know how to sleep in class all day long, if you ask such a stupid thing in front of Hou Ye, Hou Ye will directly remove your Duyu Hou General, and I don't have the face to intercede for you." Wen Bo said with a smile.

"Do you know what the hell is Fushan Weir?" Cao Ba asked, tugging at Wen Yuan's shirt.

"A few years ago, Hou Ye personally went to the military academy to teach, and mentioned several examples of the application of large-scale civil engineering in the war, and the Fushan Weir incident focused on it, you may have fallen asleep hiding behind Xue Chuan at that time." Wen Yuan whispered.

"Wen Yuan, go and get the handouts to show this fool, save me from being embarrassed after Shouchun." Wen Bo said angrily.

"Master Hou also said that it is a subject that the brigade and town army commanders must learn, I just want to be able to lead one or two thousand soldiers and horses to charge into battle, what do you need to learn?" Cao Ba said, "You are all so serious, could it be that this ghost fishing floating weir is really powerful?" ”

In addition to tidying up a little, Wen Bo also had to wait for the first batch of guards and military attaches to assemble first, and it would be possible to leave the city and rush to Shouchun after dark at the earliest, and meet Han Qian and the others who were ahead of him.

He didn't have anything to do for the time being, so he patiently explained to Cao Ba what was going on with Fushan Weir.

The construction of Fushan Weir can be traced back to more than 400 years ago, when Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang of the Southern Dynasty, in order to seize the strategic place of Shouyang (Shouchun) from the Northern Wei Dynasty, sent people to build a barrage dam in Fushan in Linhuai County, downstream of Shouyang, with the intention of blocking the Huai River, making the Huai River water pour into Shouyang City, forcing the Wei army to withdraw from the south bank of the Huai River.

At that time, the Southern Liang Army requisitioned 200,000 soldiers and civilians, starting from Fushan in the south and reaching Tonghe Mountain in the north, filling in the earthwork from both ends, which took two years to complete.

At the beginning of the construction of the Fushan weir, the threat to the Wei army was indeed great, soon after the impoundment of water, Shouyang City was besieged by the water, forcing the Wei army to abandon the city and retreat into the Bagong Mountain in the north, and there was an ocean within hundreds of miles upstream, but it was a pity that the Fushan weir only existed for four months, and it was washed away by the size.

The final result did not pose a fatal threat to the Wei army, but caused the area controlled by the Southern Liang army at that time to be affected by a large flood, and the soldiers and civilians were killed and injured countless times.

"Didn't the Fushan weir not succeed?" Cao Ba said.

"The Fushan weir has not been completed, but it does not mean that Liang Shixiong's plot in Xingyang has failed, everything still needs specific hydrological data, which is also the key reason for you senior generals to go to the military academy for training." Wen Bo said earnestly.

"Didn't you realize the seriousness of the matter at the beginning, and you need to be reminded by Master Hou?" Cao Ba muttered.

Wen Bo was almost angry with this fool, but he couldn't refute his nonsense.

"Hou Ye summoned us to Shouchun, is it to prepare to send troops and unite the Liang army to attack Xingyang?" Cao Ba wants to have a battle to fight, and his bone marrow is full of numbness, which is cooler than making girls.

"Unlikely." Wembo shook his head and said.

Although Han Qian couldn't figure out the follow-up impact in such a short period of time, Wen Bo had his own judgment.

Liang Shixiong is not a weak general, no matter how many troops he has, it will be difficult to capture Xingyang City before the water of the Yu River rises sharply, not to mention that the whole thing is very likely to be done by the Mengwu people and the Weizhou rebels.

Wen Bo didn't explain too much to Xue Chuan, and asked them to seriously think about it first, and this matter might have a direct impact on the southwest of Liang and the northwest of Huai.

Geography, arithmetic, engineering and other subjects are compulsory for middle and senior military attachés to enter the military academy for training, and Xue Chuan and Wen Yuan studied quite seriously.

After the siltation of the Yu River is serious at Wenbo Point, and the riverbed may be suspended from the flat land on the south bank, the subsequent impact can also be deduced accordingly.

Once the Yu River (Yellow River) is completely diverted to the south, it is not difficult to imagine how serious the disaster will be in the areas along the chasm and the Shaying River, but in addition to the Central Plains war situation will become worse and more chaotic, Huaixi will also inevitably be directly and profoundly affected.

This is mainly determined by the geographical location of the Yinghe estuary to the west of Shouchun.

The Kip Shikou in the north of Shouchun is less than 70 zhang wide, and this very special terrain has seriously affected the dumping of water from the upper reaches of the Huai River in the summer and autumn rainy seasons, but in the past ten years, there are seven or eight years to form a large flood detention area on both sides of the Huai River west of Kip Shikou.

Over the past decade or so, when Xu Mingzhen was the envoy of Shouzhou Jiedu, he organized the military and civilians to build embankments on the south bank of the Huai River, eight kilometers west of Shouchun City, and almost restricted the flood detention area

On the north shore of Yingzhou.

If the diversion of the Jialu River and the Shaying River becomes a fact before the summer, it means that the upstream of Kipshikou will increase the water potential by three to five times after accommodating the water from the Yu River.

This is no longer a question of how much the flood detention area on the north bank will be expanded, but also directly related to whether the levee on the south bank can withstand the impact of such a large water potential.

If the embankment on the south bank fails to hold up, it means that the territory of Shouzhou will also become an ocean this summer.

If there is advance prevention, the loss of people and horses will be extremely limited, but the resettlement plan in Shouzhou, five or six hundred thousand acres of cultivated land will be submerged, and the weir lake project planned to be implemented in Longchi Mountain after the year, the dredging fortifications of the Beiqishui River and the subsequent construction of Shouchun into an important town in the northwest of Huai will be delayed, and the loss of money and grain will be extremely heavy, which may interrupt the existing construction and development rhythm of Tangyi.

Perhaps the losses in Huaixi were still limited, and the diversion of the Yu River had a more serious and tragic impact on the current control area of the Liang army in Hehuai, which involved the situation in Hehuai to change in a more complex and chaotic direction, and even Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang failed to hold on to Xu Ru and other places, so that the Mengwu cavalry drank the north bank of the Huai River, and the negative impact on the war situation in Huaixi and the Central Plains would be even more frightening.

Wen Bo gathered a part of the guards and military attachés to set off on horseback from Liyang, and rushed to Shouchun City before noon on the seventh day of the new year.

The Shaying River is currently the lifeline of the Hehuai Liang Army, the materials for Tangyi to reinforce the Hehuai Liang Army and the severe drought of Xu Ruyingchen and other prefectures, the main grain fields are distributed on both sides of the Shaying River, Zhou Daoyuan, the waiter of the Liang State Ministry of Industry, went to Yingzhou to inspect the Yingshui River at the end of the year, and when he received the news sent by Guo Duanduo from Shouchun, Zhou Daoyuan had not left Yingzhou.

After receiving the news, Zhou Daoyuan sent people to Xinzheng to report to Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, while he himself rushed directly to Shouchun to meet Han Qian.

Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang attaches great importance to the management of the Yu River waterway, after ascending the throne, he set up a river affairs department in the Ministry of Industry, and it is also a coincidence, before the river Shuo shock, the Ministry of Industry of Liang has just organized manpower to survey the hydrological situation of the middle and upper reaches of the Yu River, so there is the latest data that Han Qian urgently needs.

The Xingyang River section, due to the special terrain, the water situation is extremely complex, the river siltation situation is light and heavy, Zhou Daoyuan, as the most important minister of the Ministry of Industry of Emperor Liang, he does not need to transfer data from Bianjing, he is familiar with all kinds of data.

Before the news came from Tangyi, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang also happened to send someone to summon him back to Xinzheng, that is, to ask him to assess the possible impact of the Xingyang embankment.

The embankment chosen by the rebels is indeed the most silted section of the river, and the riverbed is not a little close, if not overhanging from the ground.

If, as Han Qian expected, all this was a strategy carefully calculated by Liang Shixiong and the Mughal people, and only 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and civilians were requisitioned, and it was relatively easy to build a dam to hold back the water in the lower reaches, it was very likely that they would succeed in forcing the water of the Yu River to move south from the Jialu River and the Shaying River to the south......

After confirming this information, Han Qian ordered the main soldiers and horses of the Second Town Army to assemble in Shouchun, and ordered the new soldiers of the Right Shenwu Army to return to Shouchun to assemble and train in Shouchun.

A few days later, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang sent news from Xinzheng confirming that the Muguls had set up a large camp on the north and south banks of the Zhaotang Embankment, downstream of the Weizhou rebels' dike.

The Zhaotang embankment in Wuzhi County, located on the west side of the Jialu River to the Yu River sluice, has more serious siltation in the riverbed, and is also an excellent place to build a barrage dam downstream of the embankment.

At present, the Yu River is still frozen, there is almost a month and a half of the ice period, and the flowing water under the ice is also extremely shallow, although for the time being, there is no further move between the Weizhou rebels and the Mughuls, but since the whole plan is determined to be carried out by the Weizhou rebels and the Muguls, it is not realistic for them to rush to attack Xingyang City at this time, and it is not too much to predict the development of the situation at the worst.

According to the request of Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, Han Qian immediately sent 120,000 stone brown rice, 3,000 stone salt, 30,000 quintals of refined iron, 5,000 armor, 2,000 steel crossbows, 200 bed crossbows and 10,000 bundles of iron arrows and other materials from Shouchun.

On the 20th of January, in addition to the 10,000 elites of the Second Town Army, 2,000 generals of the Navy Army, and 1,000 guards and cavalry to complete the assembly in Shouchun, the 12,000 generals of the newly formed Right Shenwu Army, which had been on the provincial reunion vacation for nearly half a year, and 40,000 young and strong men recruited from the outer prefectures and 20,000 young and strong men from the three counties of Huoqiu, Shouchun, and Fengtai, all completed the assembly in Shouzhou with unimaginable efficiency.

Han Qian signed a military order on the 21st of January to officially add the fourth town army in addition to the first, second, and third town armies, the Tangyi naval army, and the guard cavalry in Tangyi, and appointed Wen Bo as the commander of the capital and Tan Yuliang as the deputy commander of the capital.

On the day of the formation of the Fourth Town Army, the generals did not issue armor and weapons at the first time, but directly issued a large number of shovels and burdens, and the 60,000 young and strong men who were temporarily recruited were also temporarily incorporated into the Fourth Town Army.

The first task of the Fourth Town Army at present is to strengthen the embankment on the south bank of the Huai River west of Bagong Mountain to the best of its ability before May.

Ji Xiyao and the engineers and engineers of the Institute of Engineers, who specialize in water conservancy and river affairs, carried out a new emergency mapping of the terrain around Shouchun City in the past half a month.

After obtaining first-hand data, Han Qian decided to designate the lower reaches of the Beiqishui River, Wabudang, east of Shouchun City, and the surrounding shallow depression area with a total area of 3,000 to 4,000 square miles as a specific flood storage area, and relocate the few households in this area.

However, the flood detention area is on the west side of Shouchun City, and it may extend westward to Huoqiu this year, but Wabudang is on the east side of Shouchun City, and it is impossible for 50,000 or 60,000 people to complete a task that 50,000 or 60,000 people can accomplish in three or four months.

Then it can only be between the west embankment of Shouchun City and Wabudang, a relatively open and low-lying flood belt can be delineated.

At present, in addition to building shallow embankments on both sides of the flood belt to protect the irrigation area and Shouchun City in the rear, the most important thing is to dig through the topographic obstacles on the flood belt that are not conducive to the rapid discharge of floodwaters.

In this way, it can ensure that once a large area of flood detention is formed between Shouchun and Huoqiu, the flood water can also be channeled to Wabu in the fastest time through the flood belt, so as to greatly reduce the impact on farming.

The Longchishan Weir Lake also needs to be built as originally planned, but a new channel needs to be urgently excavated between the Longchishan Weir Lake and the Beiqishui River, so that the stream water in the Longchishan area can be diverted to the Beiqishui River before the rainy season comes, eliminating the possibility of impacting the embankment on the south bank from the side behind.