The raindrops beat on the roof tiles, and the heavy rain of the day was much lighter, and Yangzhou was silent on a rainy night.

This kind of light rainy night is the most comfortable time to sleep, Chen Yue most wanted to lie in bed and listen to the sound of rain before crossing and fall asleep in fantasy.

But now, with great pressure on his shoulders, the carefree life of a petty police officer has long since disappeared.

How high the status is, how much responsibility there is, Chen Yue used to think that this sentence was a bit exaggerated, but now it seems to be true.

Now he is just a Hou Ye Jiangbei Governor, and in the past year since he arrived in Yangzhou, Chen Yue can be said to have not slept much. I often have to work all day during the day, and lie in bed at night and think about various problems.

For example, now, it is obviously the best time to sleep, but Chen Yue has no intention of sleeping, and is full of thoughts about what will happen tonight.

Obviously, everything was arranged, but Chen Yue couldn't help but think about it again, if there was something wrong.

Listening to the sound of beating the watch outside, Chen Yue secretly calculated the time, the plan will start soon, after dawn, the Qing army outside the city will be swept away!

On the same night, all the soldiers had already boarded the warship on the embankment of the Sanheba in Hongze Lake, and only the soldiers responsible for starting the fire were left on the embankment.

In the tent at the top of the embankment, Cheng Hai blew the whistle in his mouth, lit a stick of incense with the torch in his hand, and then inserted the stick stick into the gunpowder spread out on the wooden board.

When the incense stick is lit to the end, the gunpowder will ignite, and the gunpowder will ignite the powder keg buried deep in the embankment hole along the lead in the bamboo pipe, and the five large wooden barrels will explode at the same time, destroying the embankment less than one zhang wide.

So, incense sticks are timers, and it can be that the person in charge of lighting the gunpowder has plenty of time to evacuate.

After lighting the incense, Cheng Hai walked out of the tent with a torch, and at the same time, the soldiers in the other four tents who were in charge of lighting the incense sticks under the command of the whistle also walked out.

Several men left the embankment and boarded the ships.

In Hongze Lake, hundreds of warships are quietly moored, and a string of rain-proof and wind-proof lanterns are hung on the masts of each warship, and thousands of lanterns are like stars in the sky, reflecting the sparkling lake water, reflecting each other.

On the largest warship, Wang Yin and Jin Shenghuan stood side by side, but they didn't speak, they were waiting for something.

Suddenly, the water of the lake shook violently, and the hull of the boat shook with it. Then there was a muffled sound, low and violent, like the roar of an ancient beast.

Then a loud bang was heard, and if it were daylight, countless pieces of earth on the embankment were blown up by the violent explosion, flew into the air, and then fell into the lake with a loud sound.

A gap of more than ten zhang appeared out of thin air at the embankment, and the strong water pressure caused the lake to quickly vent out, like a heavenly river rewinding.

Hongze Lake itself is a hanging lake, and because the sediment sediment is deposited all year round, the bottom of the lake is much higher than the southern plain, and the water is only confined to the lake by the dams.

Now that the dam is broken, the strong potential energy makes the lake water quickly rush out of the gap, and the gap expands rapidly under the impact of the lake water, from more than ten zhang to dozens of zhang.

A large amount of water rushed out of the gap, roaring into the course of the three rivers, rolling along the river to the south, and if you could see it during the day, the rapidly flowing water spread into the distance at a great speed like a huge wave in the sea.

At first, the course of the Three Rivers was able to accommodate the water that burst out of the lake, but as the water gushed out quickly, the narrower channel reached its limit, and the water flowed beyond the channel and spread throughout the fields.

In Hongze Lake, due to the large suction force brought by the burst of the lake, the ships were involuntarily subjected to the southward force, but under the pull of the iron anchor, hundreds of warships still stopped steadily in the lake, but listening to the sound of the monstrous waves formed by the lake pouring down, everyone was shocked, although this spectacular scene could not be seen at night, but only by the sound of imagination also knew how thrilling what was happening.

The fleet was tasked with encircling and suppressing the remnants of the Tartars who had survived the torrent, but this was not the time to kill, because the lake had just poured out and the speed of the flow was too fast, and the ships were difficult to control at night.

When the day dawns, there is enough water from the lake to pour into the wilderness, and the water level is high enough to hold up the warship, and then it is a good time to kill it.

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On the embankment of Shao Bo Lake, Chen Mo stood quietly on the embankment, letting the drizzling rain wet his hair and cheeks, and he was waiting for the moment to light the powder keg.

Hongze Lake is nearly 200 miles away from Shao Bo Lake, and the explosion sound of the Hongze Lake embankment cannot be transmitted so far at all, Chen Mo has to wait for the water flow from Hongze Lake through the three rivers, and when the water arrives, it is the moment to blow up the Shao Bo Lake embankment, and he will personally ignite the powder keg fuse and explode.

"General, the water is coming!" There was a small boat parked not far from the embankment in the embankment, and the boat shook violently, and a personal soldier shouted to Chen Mo at the same time, and at the same time desperately shook the torch in his hand.

Seeing the shaking torch, Chen Mo turned around and entered the tent, and inserted the lit incense stick into the gunpowder lead, the incense stick was very short, but this time was enough to leave the embankment and return to the boat.

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In the camp of the Qing army, Duoduo Huo Ran sat up from the bed, listened to the movement outside with his ears sideways, and the faint sound from the north was like the roar of a red-clothed cannon.

What kind of movement is this, Duoduo pondered intently, but he couldn't guess the answer, but he felt a faint uneasiness in his heart. Then he stopped sleeping, and got up and stood up.

The perennial conquest made Duoduo develop a habit of wearing armor even when he slept on the battlefield, of course, he could not sleep in three layers of armor, and the iron armor outside still needed to be removed.

Just tidy up casually, stepping on a pair of clogs, Duoduo walked out of the tent, the rain has basically stopped, it only takes a day, and when the ground hardens, he can launch a new attack on Yangzhou.

This time, Duoduo was determined to take Yangzhou at any cost, and he had been delayed under the city for too long. He had to hurry to Nanking to rendezvous with Bolo.

The city wall of Yangzhou has collapsed several sections, and perhaps we should not rush into the city, but should first attack the city wall and take down the west wall. Looking at Yangzhou City, which was like a behemoth in the darkness in the distance, Duoduo thought secretly.

He didn't know how long he had been standing outside, but just as Dodor turned to go back to his tent, he stopped all of a sudden, and an inexplicable voice came into his ears, and when he listened carefully, it seemed to be the sound of running water.

Just as Duoduo was trying to tell whether it was rain or water, he felt a chill under his feet, and water poured down the clogs to his feet.