After several heavy rains in the spring and summer of the sixth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, the water level of the mother river in the Central Plains also began to rise, and it was time for the people along the banks to be afraid.

On the east bank of the Yellow River, a short and fat man dressed in a red official mansion is walking by the river with a group of prime men who look like military attaches of the Great Song Dynasty. Behind is the escort of the brigade. Both sides of the Yellow River are barren, with only barren grass in the farmland, no crops, and no farmers to cultivate it. Occasionally, a knight rode his horse from the embankment on the opposite bank, and saw the Great Song Dynasty officials patrolling the river, just standing on their horses and watching. They are all scout cavalry of the Great Zhou Republican Army, and now they can't beat the Song officials on the other side across the Yellow River, so they can only see what happened.

The Song Dynasty official was the Great Song Dynasty's Daimyo Mansion Lu Jingluo to pacify the envoy, and he knew the affairs of the Daimyo Mansion Du Chong. Now Lu Yihao has lost his official position and resigned and sent to promote Shaolin Temple.

And the Song army on the battlefield in Hebei was also squeezed into two major military groups. One was the Cizhou Legion commanded by Zong Ze, the envoy of Xuanfu of Hebei, and Han Xiaoxuan, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Army; The other is the Daimyo Legion commanded by Du Chong.

Both groups were surrounded and monitored by the superior forces of the Republican Army.

Among them, the Cizhou Army was divided and surrounded in Handan and Fuyang, with a total strength of about 100,000 people.

The Daimyo's legion, on the other hand, was trapped in the Daimyo Castle and had a total strength of no less than 100,000.

Of course, the 200,000 Song troops are no longer the same thing as the Hebei New Army at the beginning of the war. The original 300,000 Hebei New Army, now there are 60,000 or 70,000 left, of which 30,000 were led by Wang Yu and retreated to Jingdong East Road. The rest belong to the two major groups of Cizhou and Daimyo.

Zong Ze, Han Xiaoxuan and Du Chong used them as the basis to expand the army of 200,000 people. Although there are a lot of people, the equipment and training cannot be compared with the previous elite troops.

Moreover, the excellent officers also suffered a large number of losses in the previous engagements, and had no choice but to pull out the seedlings to help the surviving middle and low-ranking officers. Yue Tuo, who perfectly inherited his father's genes of good and defeat, has now been officially worshiped as the fifth general of Hebei, and the rank official has also been promoted to the martial arts doctor (Zhengqipin), and a Yaojun of Baozhou Thorn History has been added. It's really a prosperous official!

Of course, Yue Fan, who will not win the battle, still has some skills - the 6,000 famous soldiers under his command are Du Chong's trump card main force, and he has left the protection of the Daimyo's Mansion City many times to fight, although he must lose every battle, but he is defeated but not defeated, and he can always withdraw most of the men and horses safely. Therefore, people gave the nickname "Yue Wuxian".

And after more than ten defeats in a row, Yue Tuoyue Wuxuan also found a little problem.

It's just that the number of Zhou troops on the periphery of the Daimyo's Mansion is limited! Otherwise, "Yue Wuxian" would have to sacrifice his life for the country.

"To be made (Du Chong's pavilion position is Tianzhang Pavilion to be systemized)," Yue took a few steps forward, reached Du Chong's side, and said in a low voice, "When the department went out of the Maling Road crossing this time, there were only thousands of thieves, and it was one of the thieves. The Maling crossing is so important, and there is only one brigade of thieves, and there are obviously not many thieves in the besieged city. ”

The Zhou army was "trapped" in the city of the Daimyo's mansion, not besieged. He did not come near the city and dig a long trench. Instead, they deployed defenses in Guantao, Wei County (west of the Yellow River), Gucheng, Maling Daokou, Weidian, Nanle Town and other places on the periphery of the Daimyo's Mansion City, and then blocked the roads leading to the periphery of the Daimyo Mansion City with cavalry.

In fact, it is just to monitor the movements of the Daimyo's Mansion.

The main force of the Zhou army in Hebei is now divided into three routes, all the way to Cizhou, preparing to annihilate the strong combat effectiveness of Zong Ze and Han Xiaoxuan; All the way to Qizhou (belonging to Jingdong East Road) direction, ready to repel Tong Guan and Wang Yu's department; There is also a road that bypasses the Daimyo's Mansion and enters Yunzhou, where it is divided into two parts, one along the Wuzhang River to the west to join Chen Liu's Wu Yiyong, and then belongs to the Henan Army. The first part headed east into Yanzhou, aiming at Confucius's hometown of Xianyuan County (Qufu) - Xianyuan County and the neighboring counties of Yanzhou and Surabaya, both located south of Mount Tai and west of Yimeng Mountain, just behind Qizhou. Once it falls into the hands of Zhou Jun, Tong Guan and Wang Yu's Jingdong Group's retreat may be cut off.

Moreover, the Yan Shenggong of Xianyuan County is a large landowner, and the Northern Song Dynasty hereditarily knows the affairs of Xianyuan County, and he is almost the feudal lord of Xianyuan County, and he must have a lot of grain on hand. After taking Xianyuan County, the Jingdong army of the Zhou army did not have to worry about eating and drinking. The consumption required to attack Xuzhou in the next step is not a big problem.

As for the Daimyofu City, which has always been regarded as the pillar of Hebei's defense by the Great Song Dynasty, it should be a difficult fortress to conquer in the eyes of the Military Machinery Department of the Republican Army. Therefore, it was monitored by a force, and there was no plan to forcibly attack.

If the defenders of the Daimyo's castle were to run away, the Republican Army in charge of surveillance would not try to stop them, but would only be able to do so all the way.

However, contrary to the expectations of the military experts of the Republican Army, Du Chong, who was guarding the Daimyo's Mansion City, actually came up with a clever plan to "flood the Seventh Army", and wanted to use the flood to reopen the encirclement that did not exist in order to cover the escape of the Daimyo's defenders.

When Yue Tuo told Du Chong about the discovery that "there are not many enemies in the trapped city", Du Chong was bowing his head and thinking thoughtfully, and when he heard Yue Tuo's words, he sneered: "If you don't have much, you will also be defeated, if you want more, can we still get away?" ”

"To be controlled......" Yue frowned, he wanted to persuade Du Chong to give up blowing up the embankment, but now he didn't dare to say it, and hurriedly said, "The lesson to be made is that they are all incompetent generals and others." ”

Du Chong nodded lightly and called, "Where is Xue Dutong?" ”

"The last general!" A fat military attache in his thirties took a few steps forward and saluted Du Chong.

He is Xue Guang, the capital of the Daimyo Mansion and Ludu, and like Yue Tuo, he is a good general that Du Chong relies on.

"When can I blow up the dam and destroy the levee?" Du Chong asked.

Xue Guang, like Yue Fan, did not approve of blowing up the dam, but he didn't dare to disobey the order of his boss Du Chong, so he had to reply: "Shuai Si, as long as the weather is dry and rainless, you can blow up the dam." The sappers have already chosen a place where the gunpowder will be planted, ensuring that they can blast dozens of paces at a time. It's just the people of the Daimyo's mansion ......"

Du Chong stared at Xue Guang and said lightly: "The truth that Ci can't be in charge of the army, hasn't the Martial Arts Palace taught it?" ”

Xue Guang, like Yue Fan, both graduated from the Martial Arts Palace, and when the war broke out, he was just a deputy general. Now that he can worship the rulers, of course, Du Chong is hand-pulled, so naturally he can't help but give face to the benefactor.

At the moment, it is a humble state of being taught: "My subordinates have been taught...... The sappers are ready, just waiting for the commander's order, and the dam can be blown up at any time! ”

"It's not Ben Shuai's order!" Du Chong clenched his fist into the air, "It's the official's edict!" Yesterday night, the wax pill edict of Kaifeng Mansion has arrived, and Ben Shuai's dam bombing strategy has been approved! Do you have anything else to say? ”

Because there were not many Zhou troops in the besieged city, and there were no surface troops, it was impossible to cut off the communication between the Daimyofu City and the Kaifeng Prefecture.

The Song army general who followed behind Du Chong heard the order, and no one dared to raise any objections anymore.

Du Chong smiled heavily and nodded lightly: "The Yellow River embankment was not blown up by us, it was done by the East Thief!" Their purpose in blowing up the dam was to wash away the walls of the Daimyo's Mansion. We had no choice but to break through. Do you understand? ”

"Xiaguan (the last general) understands!"

The generals responded in unison.

The destruction of the dam is too unethical and not necessary...... Oh, or rather, from the point of view of the Hebei operation alone, it is not necessary.

As for the plan to abandon Hebei and Jingdong Road, Jingdong Road, and Gyeonggi Road, it is another matter...... After the Yellow River was blown up in the Daimyofu area, it would inevitably seize the Si into the Huai and from the Huai into the sea.

And now it is the season of rainy and abundant water in summer, whether it is Surabaya or Huai River, the water level is high, once the water of the Yellow River pours in, the consequences can be imagined. On both sides of the Huaihai Sea, I am afraid of being flooded into a Zeguo.

After Zhao Huan led his troops to retreat west into Guanzhong, the Yellow Flood area caused by the two banks of the Huaihai Sea and the Yellow River burst was the trouble of the Northern Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty......

Du Chong nodded and said in a deep voice, "How is tonight?" The weather has been dry these days, and it's time to blow up the dam! ”

"The last general commands!" Xue Guang said.

Du Chong said again: "Can the departments prepare for a breakthrough?" ”

"It's all ready, and you can break through at any time!"

"Good!" Du Chong said sharply, "This commander will order, blow up the dam tonight and break through!" ”

"Whoa!"

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On the third day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, with a series of roars, the Yellow River embankment south of the Daimyo's Mansion and north of Nanle Town was blown open with a gap of more than 20 steps wide!

At that time, the Yellow River was at its peak in the summer, and the water level had already exceeded the horizon, so it was difficult to control the flow of water from dilapidated dikes on both sides of the river, so that it could barely travel north.

So when the embankment was blown open, the raging Yellow River water immediately burst out and spread to the low land in the east, quickly flooding Nanle Town, Weidian Town, and then rushing to Hanzhang Town, a densely populated town. In an instant, the once prosperous town was swept away by the surging yellow water, and as far as the eye could see, there was a country all around.

After washing away the town of Hanzhang, the Yellow River flowed all the way to the southeast, and soon flooded Yanggu County, Ximenqing's hometown, and rushed into Liangshanbo. At this time, the water level of Liangshanbo was also very high, and there was no flood storage capacity at all, and the water rushed straight into Surabaya and rushed towards Xuzhou City. And in the early morning of the sixth day of the first month of May, the Liguo Iron Mountain was flooded, and the Liguo City Fort and the Xuzhou Pengcheng Da Fort were all soaked in water.

In the end, the surging waters of the Yellow River were seized into the sea through Surabaya, and then caused a terrible flood in the lower reaches of Huaihai...... Since then, Huaihai is afraid that it will be flooded year after year!

At least 200,000 people were drowned in the flood! Millions of people are displaced and homeless! And the most severely affected areas are not Hebei and Jingdong East Road, but the banks of the Huai River, where the Yellow River water eventually flows!

The former prosperous and rich Huai River banks were destroyed in one fell swoop! The huge mess was placed in front of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the soon-to-be-established Eastern Song Dynasty.

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