Chapter 577: Flood Disaster
The driving team suddenly panicked, there were chasing soldiers behind, there were interceptions on the left, and mountains and forests on the right, especially the chasing soldiers behind were getting closer and closer, and they were all in a desperate situation all of a sudden. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"I'm going south!"
Yang Ding, the general of Xingyi, heard that there were Liangzhou people upstream, and did not hesitate to rush downstream with his soldiers and horses to find a suitable section of water to cross the river.
Liu Xie, the son of heaven, asked Taiwei Yang Biao in a trembling voice: "Yang Qing, is there a way to cross the river?" ”
Yang Biao looked at Bashui and said: "Although this water is deep, it can still explore the bottom, you can throw the carriage down and build a wooden bridge......"
Before he finished speaking, Dong Cheng, the general of Anji, hurried over: "Your Majesty, the soldiers have found a few boats upstream and can cross the river." ”
Liu Xie couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then worried: "How many boats are there?" As many people may have crossed? ”
Dong Cheng's eyes swept over the courtiers, family members and palace people who followed behind, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he said categorically: "I can't take care of much, Your Majesty, the concubine, the third prince and the important ministers will cross first!" ”
Liu Xie glanced back at the large team, still hesitating, the ship had already come downstream.
Dong Cheng immediately asked his subordinate military captain Shang Hong to carry the Son of Heaven to the riverbank, and supported his daughter Dong Guiren forward.
Seeing the opportunity, Fu also hurriedly asked his sons Fu De and Fu Jun to go up to support Queen Fu Shou, and he also followed closely.
Dong Cheng swept the three of them, father and son, and did not speak, after all, they were the queen's family members, and Song Hong in the crowd saw this, and hurriedly helped his daughter Song Guiren.
When the family members, attendants, palace people, and soldiers saw this, they didn't know that they had been abandoned, and in despair, they went crazy and rushed to the riverbank one by one.
Taiwei Yang Biao and Yang Qi hurriedly controlled the situation, but how could they control it at the moment of life and death.
Seeing this, Dong Cheng drew his sword and slashed the two palace people who rushed forward, and pointed the long sword at the place where the queen Fu Shou was, and said sharply: "Sun Wei, lift the knife and open the way!" ”
Fu Jie ordered Sun Wei to immediately raise a knife and slash all the way, opening the way in the crowd, several waiters who followed Fu Shou were hacked to death, blood splashed Fu Shou's body, Fu Shou's face was pale, his lips moved, his eyes flashed with sadness, and tears fell like rain.
Liu Xie, Fu Shou, Dong, and Song were the two nobles who got on the ship first, and then Dong Cheng, Fu family father and son, Zuo Ling, Chong Ji and some close servants, waiters, Liu Xie urgently called Taiwei Yang Biao and other courtiers to get on the boat, but Yang Biao was determined to stay and calm the people's hearts.
As the boat was about to leave the shore, dozens of soldiers and attendants rushed to the side of the boat and clinged to the side of the boat to get up.
Dong Cheng's expression was hideous, he stood up, the long sword in his hand slashed towards the side of the ship, and in the exclamation of Liu Xie, the son of heaven, blood burst out, more than ten fingers fell into the boat, and four or five attendants screamed and fell into the water.
Seeing this, Dong Cheng's cronies immediately waved their swords and cut off their fingers, screaming miserably, a bunch of bloody fingers fell from the boat, and the blood splashed Liu Xie, Fu Shou and others all over their faces, and countless people fell in the water, even shouting for help, most of them didn't know how to water, or they had heavy armor on their bodies, and they gradually sank one by one.
Liu Xie hid his face and cried.
Yang Biao was put on the boat, and saw that there were hundreds of people on the shore, and with those four or five small boats, he couldn't cross back and forth at all, so he immediately shouted on the boat: "Retreat the carriage into the river, build a wooden bridge, and help cross the river!" ”
When the desperate soldiers and retinue on the shore heard this, they immediately shouted and acted, and pushed the carriages down the river.
Yang Biao's younger servants, Yang Qi, Huangmen squire Zhong Xuan, and other ministers remained on the shore and immediately commanded the soldiers to act.
The river was so deep that one wagon would only be submerged if it went down, so another one was piled up.
The river was cold in October, but the soldiers and attendants didn't care about it, they just desperately wanted to build a pontoon bridge.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves behind is getting closer and closer, dozens of horsemen galloped, followed by thousands of people, the current one is the Xingyi general Yang Feng, Yang Feng was covered in blood, saw that Dong Cheng had crossed the river with the Son of Heaven, scolded, and immediately yelled: "To the north, find the shallow place to cross the river!" ”
While the crowd was neutral, a few courtiers, attendants, and soldiers followed north.
Yang Qi and Zhong Miao saw that the carriage was too slow and unstable to build the bridge, floating with the water, crossing the river was difficult, and it was too far from expected. ”
Yang Qi was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly greeted the courtiers, family members, attendants and palace people left behind by Zhong Xuan: "To the south, cross the pontoon bridge!" ”
Then the people turned sharply to the south.
Ran south for about two miles, and sure enough, I saw a pontoon bridge above the water, which was made up of dozens of boats, which was more than ten zhang wide, and Yang Ding's soldiers and horses had already passed most of them, and everyone immediately followed to cross the river.
Before the pontoon bridge, Yang Qi, who was settling everyone to cross the river, heard Zhong Xuan exclaimed on the other side, and hurried over, only to see a wooden board standing on the side of the pontoon bridge, with some words written on it. The payment is Zhang Liao.
His body was shocked, and he understood that Zhang Liao had already expected such a catastrophe, and he couldn't help but pause when he thought of the previous decision of the Son of Heaven.
The moon rabbit sank into the sky, the dawn sky was dark, the courtiers, family members, attendants and palace people passed most of the time, Yang Qi and Zhong Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and were very grateful to Zhang Liao for the pontoon bridge, but at this moment, there was a shout of killing from behind, and a torch could be seen in the distance, and the horse's hooves were like thunder, it was the Liangzhou cavalry who was chasing.
More than 100 people waiting in front of the bridge were in an uproar, frantically rushing to the pontoon bridge, the pontoon bridge was turbulent, and many people fell into the water.
Yang Qi and Zhong Xuan hurriedly calmed people's hearts, but the Liangzhou cavalry was extremely fast, and they chased after them in a blink of an eye, and it was Guo Yan who took the lead.
When Guo Yan arrived at the river, when he saw this situation, he immediately knew that the Son of Heaven had crossed the river, and he couldn't help but be furious, and immediately ordered the soldiers to rush onto the pontoon bridge and kill them frantically.
On the other side of the river, Yang Ding saw the pursuers, and heard Guo Yan scolding, and immediately ordered the soldiers to cut the pontoon bridge on the other side of the river.
Zhong Miao saw the opportunity, rushed out from one side, drew his sword and cut off the pontoon bridge on this side, the entire pontoon bridge floated downstream, Zhong Miao pulled Yang Qi to jump on one of the boats, and drifted away along the water.
Li Dao was destroyed and furious, and when he saw that there were nearly 100 people on the bank, he immediately arrested a few attendants and inquired, and learned that Yang Feng and the Son of Heaven had crossed the river from upstream, so they immediately took their soldiers to the north and rushed to the upper reaches of Bashui.
However, the discipline of the Liangzhou soldiers under his command was the most corrupt, and they looted while chasing, and even the clothes on the palace people were also stripped of, and when they encountered resistance, they directly slashed with weapons, and a large number of attendants and palace people were forced to jump off the water and swim to the opposite bank, some survived, and some were drowned directly.
The whole Bashui was miserable.