Chapter 57: The Great Flood - Digging Dujiangyan
In this way, when he was still seven or eight miles away from Genting City, the war horse under his crotch was out of breath, and he couldn't walk at all on the road, Yang Xuan had no choice but to lead everyone into the forest in front. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Everyone's faces were grim, and everyone took off bows, sabers, and bird guns from their horses one by one, and ordered the wounded and Zhu Shuying and others to lead the war horses to the hillside in front.
Zhu Shuying led the war horse, and said with tears in her eyes: "General, this, this is my fault, you don't care about me, my family of hundreds of people is finished, you can ride your own horse and escape." ”
Yang Xuan shook his head and said, "Throw away you two women, I will no longer have humanity, and I will not still be bullied by the rogue."
Hurry up, it's too late if you don't go. ”
Zhu Shuying had no choice but to lead the war horse with the wounded to climb to the top of the mountain.
Zhang Pu led the reinforcements to chase after him breathlessly, and because of the urgency of the chase, the blood of the war horse under the crotch swelled, and one by one it reached the limit.
Along the way, there were four or five obstructions, the obstructors hid in the forest, behind big rocks, and when they saw the rogues arrive, they first released their guns, then their crossbows, so that everyone was not very disturbed, and one of them was killed, and 5 or 6 people were injured by stray bullets.
Now seeing a war horse fall on the road, everyone seems quite excited, everyone is chasing very this road, it seems that the other party can't support it, and now the war horse has run to death.
Looking at the forest in front of him, Zhang Pu looked at the people behind him, and said loudly: "Brothers, these officers and soldiers are really playing with their lives, the other party can't run at all, and now it's time for the local blood debt to be repaid." ”
A small leader next to him said timidly: "Boss, we have chased more than 20 miles all the way, and now people are sleepy." The officers and soldiers ran for more than 20 miles, probably very close to their camp, so for the sake of safety, we had better retreat first. ”
Zhang Pu glared at the little leader viciously, remembering the graceful posture and ruddy face of the little lady just now, thinking of the strict punishment of the Great Western Army, he pulled out the treasure knife and said: "Retreat, retreat what?" Now that the king has occupied Chengdu, and the whole of Sichuan is ours, the officers and troops are now panicking, what is there to worry about. ”
Zhang Puse was so bold that he forgot the lesson just now, and beat his horse to approach the forest.
Just over 150 steps away from the forest, everyone saw the fire flashing in the forest, could it be that the officers and soldiers were really buried in the forest, and now they are making fire from flint and lighting the fire rope?
Everyone was shocked and tightened the reins of their horses, these officers and soldiers were too accurate in their marksmanship, and they were killed and injured too many along the way.
Seeing everyone so cowardly, Zhang Pu was very annoyed, urging everyone to beat the horse and approach, less than 60 steps away from the forest, the fire flashed in front, a war horse was hit, the frightened war horse let out a long neighing sound, dragging the knight to run into the distance.
Everyone was shocked, Zhang Pu stared, and saw a man in black jumping up again and again, rushing towards the cliff behind.
The crowd was quite annoyed, and everyone rushed over with their horses, but the road was rough and full of thorns, and it was impossible for the horses to gallop as fast as they did on the flat ground, and when they arrived, the man in black had already run into the forest.
Everyone beat their horses and kept chasing, and at this moment, the fire in the forest continued to cross, the guns continued to sound like firecrackers, and the gunmen hiding in the shadows kept firing their guns at the rogues in the bright place.
Zhang Pu and others had to dismount and fight, taking advantage of the numerical advantage to outflank them, worried about being outflanked by the other party, Yang Xuan and others kept releasing their guns and crossbows, and they also kept retreating to the rear.
The rogues chased after each other, and there were several hand-to-hand fights, and by now 5 brothers had been injured, and seeing the approaching rogues, everyone had to retreat to the top of the mountain, and then rely on this to block the rogues who rushed over.
Seeing that there was only one path to climb on the top of the mountain, he rushed and killed twice, but he was driven down by the officers and soldiers, and now the rogues have regrouped, and they are probably thinking of something.
With tears in the corners of her eyes, Zhu Shuying looked at Yang Xuan and said, "General, there are still five war horses here, you can flee for your life with the brothers who are not injured."
General, I am an ominous person, let myself be self-destructed, and you will leave me alone. ”
Yang Xuan said with a knife: "I'm not Cao Cao, let my subordinates, let the women and children drag the enemy to escape by themselves, so that even if I live a hundred years old, how can I bear it?"
Don't worry, as long as you hold on for a moment and a half, our reinforcements will come, and the reinforcements will only be more than ten miles away, and it won't be long before they come back. ”
Reinforcements? Now that the sun had set, the sky was very dark, and reinforcements were in Genting City behind.
At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of rushing water from the west, mixed with the wailing of people and animals.
Yang Xuan was shocked in his heart, turned around to look, and saw that people and animals in the distance were desperately fleeing to the hillside, and saw the rolling flood pouring in.
Everyone's faces turned pale, everyone looked at Yang Xuan, thousands of miles of Chengdu Plain, the country of abundance, how could there be a scene of flooding?
Everyone is at a loss, since Li Bing and his son built the Dujiangyan water conservancy fortifications one year after the residence into a gathering, two years into a city, three years into Chengdu, more than 2,000 years Chengdu Plain has experienced such a big flood?
Is it a punishment from heaven?
Shaking his head, Yang Xuan suddenly thought of Long Wenguang's vicious eyes, and thought of the rumors in the army, Long Wenguang repeatedly threatened to die together.
Could it be that Long Wenguang sent people to dig Dujiangyan and lead the water of the Minjiang River to pour into the Chengdu Plain?
A few days ago, the torrential rain continued, the drop from the Minjiang River to the Dujiangyan field is very large, if the Dujiangyan is dug up, the edge of the Chengdu Plain may suffer from the catastrophe.
It turned out that Long Wenguang made people dig up Dujiangyan, hoping to use the flood to pour 200,000 Liukou into the army, so as to achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight, but he did not expect that the Liukou would use a simple blasting cylinder to attack the city, and he did not expect that the Liukou had already been mixed into the city.
Long Wenguang not only did not save the fate of the fall of Chengdu City, but also became the cause of the Sichuan Massacre, after Dujiangyan was pulled out, although the Chengdu Plain did not return to the tragic scene before Li Bing and his son repaired Dujiangyan, but also destroyed the ecological environment of the West Sichuan Plain.
The Minjiang River flows out of the Minshan Mountain Range, flows south from the west side of the Chengdu Plain, and is an authentic ground hanging river to the entire Chengdu Plain, and it hangs very much. The whole topography of the Chengdu Plain is from the Yulei Mountain in the pass of the Minjiang River, inclined to the southeast, the slope is very large, Dujiangyan is 50km away from Chengdu, and the drop is up to 273m.
In ancient times, whenever the Minjiang River flooded, the Chengdu Plain was an ocean; In the event of a drought, it is thousands of miles of red land, and there is no harvest.
The flooding of the Minjiang River has plagued Xichuan for a long time, swallowed fertile land, invaded people's livelihood, and became a major obstacle to the survival and development of the ancient Shu Kingdom.
Now Dujiangyan has been pulled out, floods have flooded, and the rich Chengdu Plain has been facing floods and droughts for thousands of years, and the Chengdu Plain lacks grain and grass for thousands of miles.
It was so difficult to support the military needs of Zhang Xianzhong's 200,000 army, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not gain a foothold in Sichuan, so the two sides confronted each other and killed each other, which caused the tragic history of the Sichuan Massacre and the tragic history that shook the past and the present.
Of course, Yang Xuan couldn't have figured out so much at once, and now he only vaguely felt that Long Wenguang had notified Pixian County to order Zhao Jiawei to open Dujiangyan, and now how to take advantage of this flood to escape. (Bishu has recorded that Zhao Jiawei opened Dujiangyan, and many other books also record that Long Wenguang ordered Zhao Jiawei to open Dujiangyan).
At this time, the Liukou also found that the flood was rolling in, and saw the surrounding people desperately trying to escape from the hillside, and saw the officials and soldiers guarding the top of the mountain, so they had no choice but to flee to the top of the opposite hill.
The flood is not too big, flooded to the calf (in 1964, the water flow measured at Zipingpu Station was 5480 cubic meters per second, this time Dujiangyan was dug up, only part of the diversion, plus there were more than 50 kilometers to Jintang County, and the water flow could not be too big after the flattening), but the flood was very violent (slope 200:1), especially in some low-lying areas, livestock were washed away, and some wailing sounds were made in the distance, which was very desolate.
But since there is Dujiangyan, there has been no flood disaster in the Chengdu Plain for more than 2,000 years, and the panic psychology brought is serious.
Yang Xuan was also quite panicked in his heart, after the flood, there must be people fleeing everywhere, so how is it good?
Now the sky is dark, and there is a sound of gurgling water at the foot of the mountain, Yang Xuan is worried that the Liukou will attack the mountain with all his strength after reacting, if he is afraid that he will die and have no place to be buried.
There was no way, Yang Xuan sent people to explore the way, everyone held hands, tried to walk on higher ground, waded through the floods everywhere one foot deep and one foot shallow, and walked all night before everyone returned to Genting City, which was a few miles away.
Seeing Yang Xuan return to the cottage, everyone was encouraged, and when they heard that they had encountered a rogue, Guo Chonglie led an infantry brigade to come to support, but he encountered such a big flood just after coming down the mountain.