Chapter 203: Waves on the Ground
"Don't come up! Don't come up! I can't squeeze it up! ”
"Into the thief, if you dare not let him come up, Lao Tzu will throw you down!"
"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze ... Yes! ”
With an exclamation, someone on the overcrowded arrow tower was squeezed to the point that he couldn't stand and fell downstairs, fell into the water with a pop, and disappeared into the water like yellow soup after struggling a few times.
There were all sorts of debris floating on the surface of the water, and there were a few corpses mixed in, the soldiers who had drowned in the water, their bellies distended and pale, and they looked a little oozing with the waves.
Generally speaking, it takes a few days for a drowned person to come to the surface, but some drowning people will come to the surface after more than an hour, and it is said that they will float when they have a large belly after they have 'drunk' the water.
Those who float up an hour or two after drowning are considered the "best of the best" among the floating corpses, but the survivors don't want to be such a leader, they desperately squeeze to the heights, just to survive.
However, most of the barracks were submerged, and the few high-lying places could no longer be squeezed, so other commanding heights became places of refuge, and the Arrow Tower was one of them.
All the arrow towers in the barracks were full of people, the platforms were overcrowded, and there were people on the ladders and wooden beams, but there were still many soldiers struggling to lean towards the arrow towers, and more and more people climbed the arrow towers, and they were already overwhelmed.
But the instinct to survive causes many dying soldiers to struggle their way up, and if there is nowhere to scratch, grab someone else's ankle and try their way up.
Someone kept falling into the water because they couldn't grasp it firmly and were pulled by others, and the vacated spot was quickly occupied, and then someone else desperately climbed up, and when they were safe, they had to pull their comrades up together.
There are so many positions, in order to survive and do nothing, scolding, crying and shouting one after another, from time to time someone exclaimed and fell into the water, struggling to shout for help, and finally did not enter the water, Zheng Wu stood on the arrow tower, looking at the scene in front of him with anxiety.
The platform he was on was too crowded to squeeze any longer, the planks creaked, he himself was squeezed into the corner, the railing was strangled across his abdomen, and yet there were still people climbing up, trying to squeeze in to make room for those below.
Many desperately shouted "Don't come up!" However, the people above shouted, the people below would not listen, there was a big flood in the middle of the night, the water level can now be topped, most of the soldiers are northerners, they can't swim at all, who doesn't want to live? Who doesn't want to climb to the heights?
The few highlands in the camp that have not been flooded have been occupied by the generals, and ordinary soldiers have no way to gain a foothold there, so they can only go to climb the camp fence and the arrow tower, but the camp fence is full of people and is overwhelmed, and it has fallen several large sections in succession, and the only one that can save lives is the arrow tower.
If this continues, the arrow tower will collapse!
Zheng Wu thought so, but there was no way to change anything, he couldn't swim, even if the water was only up to his chest, he would panic, not to mention that the current flood had drowned many people, he could only pray that the arrow tower was very strong, and so many people could withstand it if they climbed up.
Last night, he was on duty at night, and Liu Laoer, who was on duty, never came, and when he was awakened by the shouting, he was shocked to find that there was a heavy flood outside and the camp was flooded.
At first, he didn't come back to his senses, and when he saw that there was water everywhere on the ground, he hurriedly went down to the arrow tower and went back to the tent to pack his things, but after going down to the ground, the water was no longer deep enough to reach his buttocks, and he saw many people running towards the arrow tower, so he realized that it was important to save his life first.
Finally climbed up the arrow tower again, and it was safe for the time being, but the situation got worse and worse, and the water level in the camp soon reached the level with the outside, getting deeper and deeper, and more and more people drowned.
He saw with his own eyes that his comrade Liu Lao Er turned around and went back to get something, and when he ran over again, the water was already up to his waist, but Liu Lao Er was walking in the water and suddenly stumbled forward, struggling in the water for a while before there was no figure.
Since then, Zheng Wu has not seen Liu Lao Er again, and the fate of his comrades made his legs weak with fright, knowing that he would die once he fell into the water.
So he can only pray that the arrow tower is strong enough, and pray that he will not be squeezed down, Zheng Wu was squeezed uncomfortably, and he could only endure it, he really couldn't figure out why the camp was flooded even though it was not raining heavily?
There was a sudden piercing crackling sound under his feet, it was the sound of wood breaking, Zheng Wu only felt that the platform under his feet was tilting, and the arrow tower began to tilt with the exclamations of countless people, and then poured into the water.
The moment the arrow tower entered the water, it stirred up a splash, and countless soldiers who climbed the arrow tower disappeared into the waves.
Under the surface of the water, Zheng Wu struggled desperately, pouring a large amount of river water into his mouth and nose, choking almost suffocating, and the fear of dying made anything that could be grasped around him a life-saving thing, and when his left hand touched a person, he climbed up without caring so much.
The other party struggled desperately, and Zheng Wu also used his last strength to press it under him, trying to put his head out of the water to catch a breath, but at the moment when he surfaced, his waist was hugged.
Another person tried to use him as a pedal to surface, the two struggled to hug each other, exhausted the last trace of strength, and sank down in despair, Zheng Wu, who was about to lose consciousness, stretched out his hand in vain to grab the water.
I... I haven't tasted a woman yet...
Zheng Wu sank to the bottom of the water and failed to become a "leader", and there were soldiers drowning or about to drown in the water, and the cries for help came and went, and Pan Zihuang, the head of the march, heard it in his ears but could not do anything.
He was woken up by his generals in the early hours of this morning, and when he learned that there was a heavy flood, he was quite calm, and immediately ordered everyone to move to Shaoling.
However, the water level did not rise slowly, the first few groups of soldiers left the camp when the water was waist-deep, and the soldiers and horses who came out of the camp later could not reach Shaoling, and after tripping while walking, they struggled in the water for a while and then there was no movement.
Most of his soldiers were northerners, who couldn't swim, and there weren't so many boats to transport people in a hurry, and seeing that the water level was getting higher and higher, Pan Zihuang was trapped on a mound waiting for rescue.
Looking up, Pan Zihuang could no longer see the river outside the camp, only a vast ocean, the camp inside and outside the camp were full of water, the surrounding area of Shaoling had turned into a Zeguo, and his soldiers and horses, and baggage were all soaked in water.
There has been no heavy rain recently, it can't be the weather that caused the river to swell, Pan Zihuang noticed that the water was overflowing instead of rushing over, so it was not a dam upstream to store water for water attack, but...
Instead, damming the downstream of Rushui or Lishui flooded Shaoling!
This is an unbelievable thing, Pan Zihuang felt that the area around Yuzhou was a plain area, and even if someone built a dam in the lower reaches of Shaoling, it would be impossible for a large flood to occur in a short period of time without heavy rainfall.
Yet what he thought was impossible is happening!
After fighting for so many years, Pan Zihuang only sighed that he was the most embarrassed today, and before setting off from Yecheng, Prime Minister Chi Dian also told him a thousand times, saying that it was now summer and autumn, and let him raise the water attack.
Pan Zihuang was indeed on guard against the enemy's water attack, but he didn't expect that the other party's means would make waves on the ground.
The huge sound of water accompanied by the exclamation came, Pan Zihuang followed the sound, only to see another arrow tower overwhelmed and fell, I don't know how many soldiers will lose their lives because of this, and after this flood, his army is afraid that it will be greatly injured.
There were many casualties among men and horses, and the grain, grass, and baggage were also finished, even if the water receded, his soldiers could not go south to fight, and even it was difficult to defend Shaoling, because even if there were people, the grain and grass were not enough.
Pan Zihuang thought of the defeated and dead Heba Fuen, he himself was not much better than the other party, the Yuzhou army collapsed without a fight outside the city, and his 20,000 soldiers and horses were finished before they reached the hanging gourd.
In the direction of Shaoling, several small boats rowed in this direction, and the soldiers on them were armed with sharp knives and spears, and if anyone kept warning to climb the boats, they would cut off their hands and stab people, they were here to take Pan Zihuang and his main generals into the city, and no one else could get on the boat until then.
Just when the boat was approaching the camp, there was a horn sound from the south, Pan Zihuang did not turn his head to look when he heard this sound, but smiled helplessly: Since the enemy army barrage the river and build a dam to irrigate Shaoling (Lekou), then take the opportunity to send troops to attack by boat, isn't it a normal thing?
In the south, there are human figures on the endless water, which are countless soldiers in small boats and bamboo rafts, advancing towards the Lekou camp, pounced on the survivors who were divided and surrounded by the water.
The flag is like a forest, and one of the big flags, the two big white characters on the black flag are very conspicuous: Yuwen.