In the south of the city, the lower reaches of the Ru River, the officers and soldiers besieging the Hanging Gourd are organizing the young men to barrage the river and build a dam, the Ru water volume at this time is still abundant, as long as the dam is successfully built, the rapidly rising river water can be recharged into the Hanging Gourd, making it into a piece of Ze country.

The most famous example of defeat is that the Liang State wanted to attack Shouyang of the Wei State, and built the Fushan Weir in the lower reaches of the Huaishui River in Shouyang, but the Fushan Weir that cost countless manpower and material resources and lasted two years to build the Fushan Weir collapsed, which harmed countless people of the Liang State downstream.

And the same attack on Shouyang, there are also successful examples, that is, more than ten years ago, Chen Guo's northern expedition to Qi, the famous general Wu Mingche led his troops to besiege Shouyang, and built a dam in Weishui to irrigate the city.

Shouyang was soaked in river water, the soldiers defending the city had diarrhea, their hands and feet were swollen, six or seven out of ten of the dead, the combat effectiveness was sharply reduced, and Shouyang was finally conquered by Chen's army.

But the same person, the same method of warfare, failed in another siege battle: eleven years ago, the state of Qi was destroyed, and war broke out between Zhou and Chen, which were originally allies, Wu Mingche led the Chen army to attack Xuzhou, Huaibei, where the Zhou state was based, and built a dam to flood Pengcheng, but was defeated by the Zhou reinforcements, and Wu Mingche was defeated and captured.

Same tactics, different results; The same person uses the same tactics, and there will be different results, what is the problem?

It lies in how to block reinforcements and how to successfully build dams, and these two problems are not a problem for today's officers and soldiers, and the traitors who are entrenched in the hanging gourd are isolated and helpless, and their nearest stronghold is Pingyang, Shenzhou, which is more than 200 miles apart and cannot echo each other.

Another relatively close stronghold is Song An, Xizhou, which is more than 200 miles away from Hanging Gourd, and the traitors entrenched in Song An are forced by the Yangzhou army and cannot go north to reinforce Hanging Gourd.

The Chen army, which succeeded in besieging Shouyang, had more than 100,000 troops, and the Chen army, which failed in the siege of Pengcheng, had only 40,000 or 50,000 troops.

It is much easier to build a dam in Rushui than in Huaishui, and it is not the first time that the official army has attacked the Hanging Gourd by building a dam backwater.

At this moment, the officers and soldiers who had learned the lessons of several sieges of the Hanging Gourd had made all preparations, and the young and strong men were piling earth on both sides of the Rushui River to build dams to intercept the flow, and a large number of soldiers were on the scene to guard against the rebels in the city sending people to swim in the water to attack the dam construction site.

This alone was not enough, the officers and soldiers built many wooden boats, built pontoon bridges dozens of steps upstream of the dam construction site, and soldiers who were familiar with the water waited on the bridge with hooks, spears, buckets, and pumps, so as to prevent the upstream hanging gourds from releasing fireboats to attack the dam construction site.

In order to ensure the success of the dam, the officials and soldiers made all the preparations, and invested thousands of young and strong men to dig the earth directly in the wilderness on both sides of the Rushui River and transport it to the river to build a dam, and the dam site was located near the upper reaches of the Guanjun Nanzhai.

At the same time, it was necessary to build a long fence in the wilderness on both sides of the Rushui River in order to enclose the rising river, and control the water level with the water gates of the barrage diversion canals to ensure that the hanging gourds could be soaked in the water, while the four large battalions of the officers and soldiers were not affected.

Because of the abundant manpower and material resources invested, the construction of the weir and the long fence project progressed quickly, and within a few days of the start of construction, the construction of the long fence on the shore was completed, and the barrage gradually closed.

During this period, the thieves were dying and struggling many times, trying to release fireboats to attack the dam construction site, but all of them were intercepted and extinguished by the officers and soldiers on the pontoon bridge, and now the weir is about to close, which is the most critical moment.

The water at the closing of the weir was turbulent, and no matter how many stones and dirt bags were thrown, they would be washed away, and the officials and craftsmen built more than a dozen large boats, which were filled with stones and mud, and prepared to row the boats to the closing place and sink into the water to plug the mouth.

This was also the successful experience of the government and army in building a dam downstream of the Hanging Gourd, and there was an inexhaustible supply of soil in the wilderness on both sides of the Rushui River, so it was only a matter of time before the dam was closed, but in order to ensure a success, the large ships that were prepared to plug the mouth were twice as many as the ships used before.

In the soil extraction site on the east bank of Rushui, many young people wielded hoes and shovels to dig soil and stones, and many young people picked up baskets full of soil and stones and walked towards the dam construction site.

The site was once a large flat area, but now it has become a large crater, and if it rains for several days in a row, the pit will turn into a deep and uninhabited lake.

The scope of the excavation field continued to expand, and on the northeast edge, a young man waved his hoe to the ground, only to hear a muffled sound, the hoe seemed to have hit a hard object, at first he only thought it was a stone, but gradually found that something was wrong.

The thing in the ground, the material is indeed stone, but the shape is very smooth, it seems to be artificially carved, and a few young people came to help, and gradually dug away the soil around the thing, and finally found that it was a stone statue buried in the ground.

Many people gathered around to look at the stone statue and talked about it, and at first everyone thought it was a Buddha statue, but as the earth on the stone statue was gradually removed, onlookers found that the shape was different from the usual Buddha statue.

It's not a Buddha statue, it seems to be a tomb keeper, and everyone feels bad luck when they think of it, but the bones of people have been dug up one after another in the soil field, so it's not a big deal.

On the contrary, because this stone statue is suspected to be a tomb guard, it attracted officers and soldiers: there is a tomb guard, which means that there is a tomb, and the scale of this tomb is not small, maybe the identity of the tomb owner is not low, that is, there are a lot of burial goods.

Most of the funeral goods are some gold and silver jewelry or a large number of copper coins, although the dead man's things are a little unlucky, but these things are worth a lot of money, anyway, they are used elsewhere, who would know that this thing is a funeral goods?

Therefore, these funeral goods are all owned by the government, and no one is allowed to take them!

The officers and soldiers said so, looking at the bright blades, the young men nodded silently, but things quickly took a turn, because when the appearance of the stone man was completely cleaned up, everyone found that the stone man was one-eyed.

Guarding the tomb with a one-eyed stone man? What kind of evil tomb is this? If it is dug up, will there be demons and monsters running out to harm people?

Just when the young people were worried in their hearts, there was a new discovery: the stone man was engraved with words.

In these years, the vast majority of the people were illiterate, and at first it was not that no one noticed that there were "patterns" on the stone people, but they really thought that it was just patterns, and it was the military officials who maintained order on the scene who recognized what these patterns were "small profits".

The young men didn't know how the stone man could do business and "make a small profit", they were all concerned about what was written on it, and the military officer was a little proud when he saw everyone looking at him.

Rare opportunity to be in the limelight, he twisted his beard, stared at the stone man with wide eyes, and intermittently read out his "small earnings":

"Mo, Dao, Stone, Man, One, One, Eye..."

"Provoking, moving, hanging, gourd, heaven, down, anti..."

As soon as the last word was read, the military officer regretted it, and the surrounding people were silent, and the illiterate young men looked at each other: this... This stone man is unlucky!!

Before everyone could start discussing, the generals present shouted loudly: "Zi Bu is strange and confused!" Don't think about it! ”

It's okay not to say this, but it's even more fueling the fire, there are many people who haven't reacted to what's going on, and even those who are far away can't hear the sound of the military officials reading words, but now it's good, they all know that something is wrong.

Paper cloth fish monster pears stretching out?

When many people heard this inexplicable remark, they just said that there were "paper cloth fish" and "strange pears" sticking out their heads in the river, that is, there were monsters in the river, and they couldn't help but turn their heads and ears.

The general who spoke saw that his words were ineffective, so he simply shouted straightforwardly: "This... This is a traitor... This is a stone man buried by the rebel in advance, and there are words engraved on it, which is to spread rumors to confuse the public! ”

"Quick, smash the stone man!!"

A few young men quickly took a sledgehammer and smashed the stone man in public with a few blows, which should have been thrown elsewhere, but in front of everyone, it seemed weak, so the pieces of the stone man were transported to the wooden boat and blocked with the other wooden boats.

Although the officials and soldiers repeatedly ordered that rumors should not be spread and spread, the saying that "there are paper cloth fish and strange pears sticking out their heads in the river, everyone should be careful" still spread far and wide, and soon spread all over the dam construction site, and many people were worried in their hearts, but they did not dare to say anything.

There are paper cloth fish and strange pears in the river, and they are afraid that they will lose their lives if they are dragged into the water, but the whip in the hands of the overseer will also make people hurt half to death, and the knives in the hands of the officials and soldiers are not ornaments, so the young people are still working honestly.

Nearly twenty large ships were easily filled, and the best ones sailed to both sides of the weir close, and at both ends of the weir were gathered a large number of young men, and countless carts full of earth and stones were ready to be plugged.

The general who commanded the scene ordered the water engineer to carefully observe the water situation at the closing place, and when the time came, the horn sounded, and more than ten large ships sank at the closing place of the weir at the same time, and at the same time, the young men on both sides of the weir struggled to push the cart into the torrent in front of them.

The sound of the water roars, the gap in the weir becomes smaller and smaller, and at the same time the water door of the diversion ditch is opened to reduce the impact of the water flow at the closing point, and the weir is full of people, and countless carts are loaded with dirt and stones, and people are pushed into the rapids.

In the midst of the cheers of the tide, the weir finally closed, and as more and more earthwork was poured into the river, the weir became stronger and stronger, the water gate of the diversion ditch was closed, and the water was cut off at the waist, and the water level gradually rose.

The weir was still crowded, and the young men were busy reinforcing the dam, and the generals couldn't help but be overjoyed when they saw the water level rising, and looked up at the hanging gourd city in the distance.

Let's see how long you can make it!

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The river is rising, it has approached the city wall, and a large number of soldiers have gathered at the south wall of the hanging city, and Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen is among them, and the soldiers looked at the ocean in front of them without saying a word, and a barrage in the distance jumped into view.

The bronze bell rang, and the crowd parted a road, and a Taoist priest dressed in a Taoist robe and stomped his feet walked to the altar at the head of the city, holding a seven-star sword in one hand and a bell in the other, followed by eight famous boys, divided into two columns, holding incense burners, copper basins, candles, yellow paper and other items.

And a rooster.

The Taoist priest stepped on the seven-star step to the altar, first cut off the head of the chicken, dipped the chicken blood with the seven-star sword, drew the talisman on the yellow paper, and then burned incense and prayed, shook the copper bell, and lit the candle with the sword through the talisman paper.

When the northwest wind was blowing, the Taoist priest recited words in his mouth, dancing with a seven-star swordsman, and the burning rune paper flew with the wind, and the soldiers present did not say a word.

The bone instrument who volunteered to stay in the hanging gourd, looked at the scene in front of him and frowned, and then said to Yuwen Wen, the king of Xiyang on the side: "King, the son is silent and the strange force is chaotic, and the defense of the city must rely on the concerted efforts of the whole army, why did you do such an absurd act?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, hehe..."

Yuwen Wen replied with a smile, without explaining too much, looking at the Taoist priest jumping around in front of him, he was in a trance for a while, as if he saw that he was the Taoist priest, and he was about to make a big splash.

According to the original script, it was supposed to be him.

Yuzhou Prefecture is about to fall for the so-called 100,000 army, in the face of such a crisis, Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen stood up, in order to protect his dream of hegemony, all he can do is... Become a god!

In front of everyone's eyes, it is a rare opportunity to make Zhuge Kongming's super wind pulling scene by the east wind reappear, and the reputation of "wise and close to demons" will be blown up.

Oh, what ...

Yu Wenwen is now the king of the county, a "lord", not a strategist, the reputation of the lord is different from the reputation of the strategist, who dares to imagine that Liu Bei is wearing his feet and wearing a robe to the altar to borrow the east wind?

Zhuge Kongming, as a strategist, can be "wise and close to the demon", if Liu Bei, as the lord, is "wise and close to the demon", who else will come to him at that time?

Of course, this is just one of the considerations, and Yuwenwen's other consideration is that once the method fails, it will really be a slap in the face in public, and the face will be gone, so there needs to be an unlucky ghost to come forward.

Once the method fails, then borrow the head of the unlucky ghost!

Yuwen Wen sighed in his heart about the miserable fate of the man who carried the pot, and Wang Daoshi also lamented his miserable fate in his heart, at this moment he was doing it in front of so many generals in the city, once he failed, it would be over.

He is an alchemy wandering Taoist, heard that Shannan Huangzhou Xiyang "Wuzhuang View" has an organic fate, so he trekked through the mountains and rivers to the south, but when passing by the hanging gourd, he was affected by the military disaster, trapped in the city and couldn't get out.

As a Taoist, he should not participate in earthly disputes, but on the day the city was broken, the jade was burned, and the Taoist priest Wang was trapped in the hanging gourd, quietly waiting for the end of his life's journey, and then the person who decided his fate came.

A knife stuck in the old dining table, with a little bit of silver on the other side.

Either you die, or you go to the city and go to the altar to do it, just look decent.

Is there still a choice? No.

Therefore, Daoist Wang trembled and waved the seven-star sword at the head of the Hanging Fortress City, chanting an out-of-tune spell in his mouth, and "dancing" in order to save his life.

Li Yunxin and other Anzhou army generals looked at the scene in front of them, a little confused, it is said that the king of Xiyang sometimes acts inexplicably, everyone is not surprised, but it is strange that it is a little strange to ask the Taoist priest to retreat from the enemy.

King Xiyang is acting so absurdly, and King Qi doesn't care?

Thinking so, I said that I wouldn't say it, and everyone decided that in case the soldier failed and couldn't retreat from the enemy, he must not show it in front of him, lest the king of Xiyang break the jar and break it after making a fool of himself in public, and it would be bad if something happened.

At the edge of the crowd, Zhang Yu, the lieutenant of Xiyang Wangfu, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, then looked at the Taoist priest who was doing it, and made a movement to others without a trace, the man casually leaned against the female wall, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to him, he stretched his hand out of the female wall.

Wang Daoist jumped exhausted, and finally came to the end, not caring about the so-called "failure of the method", his heart was horizontal, he bit the tip of his tongue, and sprayed blood into the seven-star sword in his hand: "Fabi, order up!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the man on the side of the female wall let go of his hand, and the stone he was holding fell down the city wall and smashed on a small wooden roof.

There were a few people squatting in the cabin in front of several large wooden barrels, with enameled iron wires attached to them, and one of them, listening to the movement of the roof, looked at his companion, and saw that everyone nodded, he grasped the handle of the detonator, and pressed down hard.

The galvanic battery-powered circuit is turned on, and the electrical signal is transmitted downstream along the wires buried in the ground, where the enemy's barrage is located, and it is also the former site of the Zhou army's dam and backwater irrigation and hanging gourd, and a large number of thunderbolts have been buried in advance.

At the head of the city, Yang Su twisted his beard and squinted his eyes at the enemy weir in the distance, he really didn't understand the meaning of Yuwen Wen's practice of being a Taoist priest, this kind of absurd behavior was not beneficial at all except to ruin his reputation.

He didn't think that Yu Wenwen had a problem with his brain, but he really couldn't figure out why the other party was acting so absurdly, and now that the Taoist priest had finished doing it, he wanted to see how effective it was.

Just as he was wondering, there was a roar in front of him, Yang Su looked at it, and then his face turned pale: the weir on the Rushui River somehow made a loud noise, and it collapsed in an instant.

The weir had already intercepted the river water, and the water level had risen significantly, but at this time it suddenly burst, and a large amount of river water rushed violently, and even the young men and soldiers on the dam and both sides of the river were swallowed up by the surging water, and the number of people was not less than 1,000.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Yang Su almost pulled off his beard, looked at the Taoist priest on the altar, and then looked at the Xiyang King who was talking and laughing, and felt that his brain seemed to be a mess.

This... How is this possible!!