Chapter 304: The Yellow River Fu (Part 3)

"Yes." All the civil and military officers bowed down to receive the order.

Many of them did not understand Zhu Chongjiu's tolerance in their hearts, and even many people felt indignant in their hearts, however, due to Zhu Chongjiu's prestige and the love of old Ivan and other generals, they could only temporarily wronged themselves, and then find ways to discount them in the specific implementation.

Even so, in the long war years that followed, I still don't know how many people saved their lives because of Zhu Chongjiu's rationality today, and in the following hundreds of years, whenever the national contradictions within China were on the verge of exploding, there were always some people who did not lose their rationality, remembering what Zhu Chongjiu said that day, and turned the tide again and again.

It is always reason, not instinct, that drives human progress.

This is the difference between humans and beasts.

It is also the watershed between civilization and barbarism.

You can't turn yourself into the kind of person you hate the most recently, otherwise, everything you do will lose your meaning, a very simple sentence, but in this country that has been savagely conquered for nearly a hundred years, it has re-illuminated the goodness in the hearts of many people, and it has been shining in the annals of history, as long as a star.

However, when Zhu Chongjiu just said this, no one in the Huai'an army could have imagined that they were rekindling the fire of civilization.

They're busy, and everyone is as busy as the gears on a waterwheel.

The rule of the Grand Governor's Mansion, that anyone must go all out as long as a decision is made, has penetrated into everyone's bones after more than a year of subtle development.

And Zhu Chongjiu's division and integration of tasks cobbled together based on the experience of enterprise operation in another time and space, although it is a four-way difference, makes his grand governor's office much more efficient than any bureaucracy in this era, and it only takes most of the night for all the ships to be cleared.

Hu Dahai's Second Army remained in Huai'an, and all the soldiers of the First Army and the Fifth Army rushed to the rolling Yellow River at 10 a.m. with companies as units and more than 400 ships of different specifications.

Each ship was loaded with only a third of its load, and in addition to the men and the necessary weapons, it was enough to feed the people on board for ten days.

The mast once again towered like a tree over the river, moving slowly.

The surface of the Yellow River has narrowed by half, and large swaths of tidal flats have been exposed, like bones gnawed by the devil.

The waterfowl, which were busy taking advantage of the opportunity to intercept and kill schools of fish on the shallows, were alarmed by the fleet, jumped up one by one, and fell to the opposite shore one by one, covering the sky and the sun.

Everyone didn't bother to speak, and stood silently on the deck, anxiously looking at the potholed tidal flats, as if they could find a lucky answer in the sand that had just seen the air.

Maybe the judgment of the chief manager and Lu Changshi is wrong, the dry period of the Yellow River this year has been advanced, so the downstream section of the river will be abnormal, if that's the case, although everyone ran in vain, at least the other hundreds of thousands of Red Army robes are safe and sound, from Suiyang to Xuzhou, this vast land, the old folks are safe and sound.

Everyone doesn't want Zhu Chongjiu's prediction to come true.

However, there is always a moment when the wish is shattered.

When the fleet approached Suqian, all good expectations came to naught.

Because of the two major rivers Suishui and Huaihe River in the middle, as well as the buffer zone such as Panshi Mountain and Hongze Lake, it is close to Huai'an, and it is almost impossible to see the life of floods.

However, after passing the confluence of Suishui and the Yellow River, the water surface under the bow of the boat became wider and wider, and soon, the difference between the river bank and the river channel could no longer be seen.

It was already wheat harvest time, but there were no ears of wheat or livestock in the fields, and only a dark yellow surface of water covered all the fields and villages.

The house has long since collapsed, and the tall willow and poplar trees can only see a gray-green top, and the people and animals who are lucky enough to survive hold firmly on the branches on the top of the tree, close their eyes, and completely leave their fate to God.

As long as they lose their strength, they will fall into the ** and disappear in the blink of an eye.

"According to the original plan, the Fifth Army left one regiment to rescue people, and the other ships continued to go upstream." Zhu Chongjiu immediately raised the iron horn and gave an order on the command ship converted from an Arab dhow, "After saving people, send them to Suining immediately, and then slowly find a way to send them to Huai'an." ”

"Save people, save people, the general manager has an order, and the Fifth Army will leave a regiment to save people." The guards on the command ship, most of whom were two Huai disciples, immediately opened their throats and passed the order on loudly.

"Save people, save people, the general manager has an order, and the Fifth Army will leave a regiment to save people." The brethren on the nearby ships shouted in relay for the order to be passed quickly to the end of the fleet.

Several specially made triangular flags quickly rose to the top of the mast.

More triangular command flags, raised from the boats of the commander, brigade commander, and regimental commander,6 conveyed the order to the last ten large ships of the ranks.

Xu Yi, the commander of the regiment who received the order, did not dare to slack off, and immediately scattered the ships under his command, searched around along the wide water, and encountered people who were taking refuge on tree branches or on the top of the hills, so he quickly connected to the big ship, and then concentrated on a huge cargo ship that was originally used to transport grain.

When a cargo ship was full of people, it immediately returned to sail and sent the people to Suining.

Other ships rushed to the next uncharted waters, continued the search, rescued as many people as possible, and never gave up until the last moment.

Due to the abundant rain at the end of spring this year, the area affected by the bursting of the Yellow River this time was quite large, from Fangcun to Xuzhou, and there were very few villages that were lucky enough not to be swallowed by the flood.

Even the few villages that survived the disaster have become islands surrounded by floods, and if enough food is not brought in or people evacuated, people will surely starve to death.

The city of Xuzhou itself, because of the perennial disasters in the past and the complete flood drainage facilities, has not been completely swallowed by the flood, but the streets in the city are also more than three feet deep.

A large number of adobe houses have been blistered by the river, and the bodies of drowned livestock and people are floating everywhere along the current, and although Zhao Jun has exhausted all the resources of his henchman Li Mubai who stayed in Xuzhou, he can only ensure that the city walls and government offices will not be washed away, and he is at a loss for other dangers inside and outside the city.

On the other side, the Yuan army also took advantage of the water to rob, constantly sending soldiers with water to rush outside Xuzhou in small boats and rafts, killing the fleeing people, robbing property, plundering women, and killing the elderly and children in front of the people, and never tired of it.

So when Zhu Chongjiu led the rescue fleet to arrive, the first thing he did was not to relieve the disaster, but to disperse the stragglers who crossed the river to rob and maintain the order inside and outside Xuzhou that was on the verge of collapse.

Fortunately, he brought enough ships, and among the Yuan army on the north bank, there were quite few soldiers who could sail and swim, so after a few battles on the water, the two sides quickly decided the winner.

The Yuan army no longer dared to cross the river to make trouble, but the Huai'an army did not have the strength to attack the north bank, although the cannons in Toto's hands were bulky, but the number was very sufficient, as long as the Huai'an army's warships approached the shore, they would be targeted by dozens of artillery pieces at the same time, and there was no chance to grab the beach and board the 6.

In this way, the two sides have also drawn a water boundary.

The area north of the main road of the Yellow River was within the range of Mengyuan's artillery, and the Huai'an army could not enter, while the south bank of the Yellow River, including Xuzhou City, the boundless Yellow Flood area, was temporarily under the control of the Red Turban Army, and before the flood waters completely receded, the power of Mengyuan could not be touched for the time being.

As a result, Zhu Chongjiu had a few days of respite, and on the one hand, he ordered his soldiers to enter the city, assisted Li Mubai, the prefect of Xuzhou, and a group of officials who stayed behind to remove the beams and rafters from the collapsed houses, make rafts, and carry the victims out of Xuzhou, temporarily to the downstream Panshi Mountain, Suining, Suqian and other places to resettle, while sending a large number of ships to search the surrounding areas in a dispersed manner, to find out the news of Xu Da, Zhima Li, Zhao Junyong and others, and at the same time to rescue the surviving people and soldiers to Xuzhou first, and then try to move downstream.

However, compared with the number of people in Xuzhou City who urgently needed to be evacuated, the ships that were originally quite abundant were immediately overstretched.

Different from the embarrassing situation of Yangzhou City carrying hundreds of thousands of mouths on his back, Xuzhou, which Zhao Jun used, was not short of food, so for more than a year, this public has recruited heroes from all over the world and asked them to bring their families to serve, and the population of Xuzhou City has expanded rapidly in a very short period of time, and now the total scale has exceeded 500,000, which is no less than Yangzhou last year.

Zhu Chongjiu was busy every day by organizing boats to evacuate people from Xuzhou to the Yellow Flood Zone, and on the other hand, directing his brothers to constantly rescue the victims from the flood-besieged villages.

However, some people are still restless at this time, and in order to be able to bring a little more family wealth, or to leave a moment earlier than others, they do not hesitate to use any means, and every day at the place where they board the ship, there are frequent fights and brawls, and the situation of giving benefits to the soldiers who maintain order and asking for accommodation is also repeatedly prohibited, and some people even use all kinds of means to directly bring the relationship to Zhu Chongjiu's temporary governor.

"Let him get out of me, if you dare to help them again, don't blame Lao Tzu for not remembering the friendship of the year." As soon as Zhu Chongjiu heard this, he was furious and scolded Li Mubai, who was saying good things for others.

"Don't, don't, don't." On the day Li Mubai, the prefect of Xuzhou, saw Zhu Chongjiu's face for the first time, he was scared by gunpowder and peed his pants, leaving the root of the disease still not cured, so when he saw Zhu Chongjiu's eyes, he immediately raised his hand, gambling and vowing, "Humble duty, humble duty can be to, assure Maitreya Buddha that humble duty is definitely not a benefit, so he asked for a space for him, humble position, humble position is to listen to him, he knows, knows the possible whereabouts of General Xu Da." ”

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