Chapter 267: Heavenly Might
The night, like the figure of a giant beast, blocked a visible light source; Heavy rain and lightning are like its claws and fangs, tearing the whole world.
In the sound of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the Wutong people who were preparing for the war across the country wore armor and saddled horses, and it was so quiet that it was depressing, and it was so depressing that it was suffocating.
Chu Tianya's order has been issued, and he will launch a "fatal blow" to the Jurchen tonight.
The specific operational deployment was not laid out. Chu Tianya said that it would not be until the last moment that specific arrangements for the transfer of troops and generals would be made.
This made everyone feel a drum and worry in their hearts - will this "fatal" blow kill the Jurchens or kill themselves?
Just yesterday there was a battle with the Jurchens, the allies lost four thousand elites, and Cao Cheng, one of the giants within the alliance, almost almost turned his face with Chu Tianya. Tonight, Chu Tianya has to play a bigger ...... Many of the leaders of the allied forces are a little overwhelmed, and many people have secretly discussed it, and once the limelight is not right, they will immediately flee.
Anyway, it was just a temporary "alliance", and the relationship between them and Chu Tianya was only a short-term cooperative relationship, and they could run both the monk and the temple. Who really wants to take this life for nothing?
Regarding the thoughts and movements of these people in the allied forces, Chu Tianya could not only guess it, but also actually heard some rumors. He ignored them and told his men not to pay attention to these two-minded people. Whoever wants to go, he will not stay; But if anyone dares to defect to the enemy and flee to the ends of the earth, he will be killed!
This is a secret order, and only Chu Tianya's original team can know about it.
It was late at night.
Chu Tianya, Xiao Linglong, Tang Ang and others, as well as Cao Cheng and a group of allied leaders, all wore hats and clothes, standing in the dark rain curtain, waiting quietly.
Chu Tianya did not move like a bell, his expression and eyes were cold to the extreme. Others are either holding their breath or distracted, and so on.
Suddenly, there were several earth-shattering rumbling noises along the Yellow River in the northwest, making the whole world seem to shake!
Wutong Yuan, who was closer, felt this shock, and frightened some people on the spot, shouting in panic "The earth moves, the earth moves"!
As a result, all of them were whipped and severely whipped.
Cao Cheng and the others were dumbfounded, "Lord Wang, this is ......"
"Wait." Chu Tianya's eyes narrowed, and he stared at the darkness ahead.
When Cao Cheng and the others came to their mouths, they had to swallow it back raw.
The Yellow River, a new powerful explosive prepared by Anu and others with Yelu Yanchen, blew up a big gap!
At this time, it was the flood season of the Yellow River, the water level was extremely high and the turbulence was fierce, although the explosives only blasted open a few two or three meters wide openings, but as soon as the turbulent river water was discharged, it began to tear the river bank fiercely. The gap was soon widened, and huge torrents rushed out of the riverbed like a tsunami.
Even a few miles away, the people of Wutong Yuan heard this rolling thunderous roar, just like thousands of armies rushing from the sky, deafening and terrifying!!
"The Yellow River and the Yellow River have burst their banks!!"
Someone with similar experience screamed in panic and immediately took another beating.
Chu Tianya governs the army, and discipline has always been extremely strict. Whoever dares to shout and confuse the army's morale in such a situation of preparing for war is simply asking for hardship.
"If the order goes down, the flood will not flood the Sycamore Plain." Chu Tianya still issued an order to appease the army, "Order the Jianghuai Navy to prepare to board the boat and break the enemy!" ”
As soon as this order was issued, Cao Cheng and the others completely woke up! - Chu Tianya is borrowing the power of the Yellow River to flood the Nuzhen!
"The prince is a ghost, and his subordinates are so impressed that they throw themselves to the ground!" When Cao Cheng said this, he was so excited that he trembled a little!
The power of the Yellow River is no stranger to everyone in this era. Hugh said that there were 350,000 Jurchen cavalry, even if it was 1 million or 10 million, and if they had to compete with the flooding Yellow River, there would be only one result.
That is, the total annihilation!
The Jurchens are brave, and their army is strong. But compared with God's brilliant heavenly might, they are still ants!
Almost at the same time that Cao Cheng had just finished filming Chu Tianya's sycophants, a huge torrent was like an angry beast rushing from the northwest, and the waves several feet high were like the giant fangs of the beast, and the beastly rushed left and right, and everything he saw was swallowed by it until he disappeared without a trace.
The entire Wutong Plains trembled slightly. The war horse neighed in fright, people were stunned and frightened, and Chu Tianya and the others had to squat down slightly to stand firm.
The forces of nature, as expected, are not human beings can compete with.
Although the fierce and huge torrent was rampant, the sycamore was located on a high slope, and no matter how fierce it pounced, it only quickly turned back like a caged beast pounced on an iron cage.
Hong Feng turned around along the foot of Wutong Plain, turned his head and ran towards the Jurchen camp.
Overwhelmed and unscrupulous!
"Lord Wang, Hong Feng has passed! Kill the Jurchens! Cao Cheng, the leaders who had seen the world, were so excited that they were a little incoherent, "It's over, it's over!" ”
"Hmm......" Chu Tianya's nose only let out a long sound.
Cao Cheng and the others suddenly calmed down and stood beside Chu Tianya obediently, although they trembled with excitement, they didn't say a word.
The incomprehensible water of the Yellow River, along the road opened up by the flood peak, endlessly slaughtered towards the Jurchen camp in the lower places.
Although they were nearly ten miles away, Chu Tianya and the others also vaguely heard the sound of ghosts crying wolves coming from the Jurchens' hundred-mile camp.
Because, the whole world seems to be frightened and moved.
The wind and rain are more urgent and overwhelming.
"Northerners are good at horses, but not good at boats." Chu Tianya seemed to say to himself, "If you drink the Yellow River, you should use the power of the Yellow River to break the ......"
"Lord Wang, such a ferocious flood, the city of Tokyo ......" Cao Cheng said halfway through his words, and immediately stopped in horror.
Because he thought that at the same time as the flooded girl, it was actually flooded Tokyo. From a military point of view, this strategy is definitely a model of genius, resisting the strong with the weak, and winning more with less; But from the perspective of history and the old masters, it is unscrupulous and even destroys human nature!
It is conceivable that after this battle, I don't know how many people who don't know about war will slander Chu Tianya and even criticize Chu Tianya. When the future history books and descendants evaluate this matter, they will also see the wisdom of the benevolent and the wise, and the unkind and unwise will want to pick up the ancestral graves of the eighteenth generation of Chu Tianya's ancestors.
……
In short, it will be a highly controversial and mixed war!
"Don't worry, the flood can't extinguish the capital." Chu Tianya said lightly, "It's better to be soaked in the flood for a few days than to be slaughtered by the Jurchens for a few days." Tokyo is not a good place to build a capital in the first place. This king has his own plans. ”
Chu Tianya, for the first time, called himself "this king" in front of Cao Cheng and others.
Cao Cheng seemed to hear it, Chu Tianya was actually alluding to one thing, the Tokyo in front of him, don't do it; In the world, there is a better place to be the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.
This place is where the "King of Luoyang" is located!
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At this moment, the Jurchen military camp is already a scene of apocalypse.
No matter how brave a warrior is, he can't use his sword and flesh and blood to kill the demonic beast that fell from the sky.
Their choice, apart from death, is to flee.
The 350,000 army, plus nearly 100,000 men and miscellaneous servants, nearly 500,000 men, and 3,400,000 horses, totaling nearly a million living beings, were killed like grass in the face of this man-made natural disaster.
Before the flood officially drowned many people, many more were trampled to death by their own people, their own horses. From the marshal Wanyan Zongwang to the ordinary soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers, they are all running for their lives, choosing high places to escape.
The invincible Wanyan Zongwang felt the fear from the bone marrow for the first time in his life. The dead soldiers on the left and right almost carried this victorious marshal on the battlefield and fled from the barracks. Because of Wanyan Zongwang, almost at the same time as hearing the sound of the flood of the Yellow River, he had completely collapsed and was paralyzed.
In the Jurchen camp, the previous order collapsed in an instant. What is brave and fearless, when he hears the drums, he advances and retreats, and he is not afraid of death to go forward and succeed, all of which have become a joke.
They can only flee, flee, flee again......
The city of Tokyo felt this big shock dozens of miles away.
The soldiers who stayed in the capital overnight quickly reported the news of the mutation to Shangfeng, and soon spread it to Zong Ze and Xu Han.
Fortunately, the site of the city was chosen to build the capital, and the walls of the inner and outer castles were quite thick and towering, and even if the flood invaded the city, it would become slow and shallow. In addition, as the capital of the rich Song Dynasty, Tokyo has long been prepared to deal with various natural disasters, so there is no shortage of measures to deal with floods.
At that moment, Zong Ze immediately led more than 100,000 forbidden troops in the garrison city and began an emergency operation to deal with the flood. The first is to channel and block the channels that may be invaded by floods, the second is to dig canals and ditches to drain the water, and the second is to relocate the people and soldiers in the low-lying areas of the city to reduce casualties as much as possible.
At this time, everyone who has a heart has more or less thought that this sudden flooding of the Yellow River should be man-made. The Great Song Dynasty built the capital here for a hundred years, and spent huge sums of money to build embankments every year. It is a few days of rain, even if it is a flood that is rare in a century, it may not be able to climb over the strong and tall Yellow River embankment.
If it was artificial, the rebel army of Chu Tianya's headquarters was stationed in the Wutong Plain Heights, and the cavalry garrison of the Jurchens was habitually chosen in a relatively low-lying basin...... Blowing up the embankment to divert the flood must be done by Chu Tianya!!
Zong Ze stood at the head of the tall Tokyo city, looking at the dark sky in the distance, listening to the distant screams and the rushing roar of the flood...... He was sluggish.
"A genius from the sky, save me Da Song...... God bless the Great Song, bless this genius! ”
"God, Da Song has saved !!"
The white-haired Zong Ze, yelling hysterically, suddenly fell to his knees on the ground, crying.
The generals on the left and right were all frightened and rushed to help.
"You don't have to help me...... Quickly, quickly go to report to the official family and the Xu Mansion, and say......" Zong Ze was almost hoarse and out of breath, "Just say that Chu Tianya is about to break the enemy, and after Yan Zongwang, the whole army will be annihilated!" ”
"Huh?!" The left and right generals will be scared crazy for a while.
"Don't go yet!!"
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By midday, the flood was still rushing, but the current was not as fierce as it had been when the levees had just been blown up.
The Jianghuai Rebels under Cao Cheng's command were mostly familiar with water, so they temporarily formed a naval army, drove boats into the flood in a place where the water was slow, and began to kill the Jurchen defeated soldiers.
The embankment of the Yellow River has been cracked into a huge gap five or six miles wide, and the flood water is being discharged unscrupulously into the flood-stricken areas at an incalculable speed and discharge.
Under the sycamore plain, which is closest to the gap, the water depth has reached more than ten zhang. Fortunately, the terrain of this high slope is high enough, otherwise Chu Tianya and other 200,000 rebels will all turn into fish and turtles.
The Jurchen army, with nearly 500,000 troops, is already scattered without suspense, and there are few survivors. The lucky few fled to a high enough place, and looked at the raging flood under their feet in horror, as if they were demented, and they had lost half of their warrior demeanor.
Dozens of miles of oceans, floating corpses of people and horses, or banner tents can be seen everywhere. The Jianghuai Navy took on more than 100 ships of all sizes that had been temporarily requisitioned and built, and began to collect the wreckage and salvage the spoils of war. From time to time, I saw a group of Jurchens who were extremely wolf-like gathered on the dirt slope with a little pointed tip, and they also asked the Jianghuai sailors for help, knowing that they were looking for death.
What awaits them is naturally a relentless rain of arrows.
Many Jurchens who escaped by chance saw the Southern army coming by boat, and drew their swords to kill themselves.
If it was in the past, ten Jurchen cavalrymen would dare to be enemies of hundreds of southern troops; But today, they have completely become lost dogs, and even the courage to fight is gone.
The situation in Tokyo is better than expected. Even low-lying water depths are less than three feet. Because Xu Han and Zong Ze's flood control, drainage and evacuation work were carried out decisively and timely, the damage suffered was not severe. There were nearly a million soldiers and civilians in the city of Tokyo, and at best they were frightened. But when they learned that it was the rebels outside the city who had led the flood to kill the enemy, they were replaced by rejoicing.
There is nothing more painful and relieving than defeating that group of invincible Jurchen bandits without blood!
Although there was turmoil in the city for a while, there were some surprises and dangers, so it quickly stabilized. Zong Ze immediately made a decision and ordered the forbidden army in the city to gather and build ships as quickly as possible to participate in the battle of "killing and hunting" outside the city.
In fact, it is not so much a battle as a "share" of the spoils of war by the fishermen after they cooperate to collect the nets.
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Wutong Yuan was closest to the flood, and Chu Tianya was still standing like last night, as if he had never moved.
He witnessed with his own eyes the passing of the first flood peak and the depth of the water below, and the reverse current of the flood also floated many corpses of men and horses, which were piled up under the plane plain under the crashing waves.
"Collect the body and bury it." Chu Tianya ordered.
At this moment, no one doubted any of the orders given by Chu Tianya.
Collecting corpses for the Jurchens, his subordinates had different understandings of Chu Tianya's order, some understood that it was out of humanity, some understood that Chu Tianya knew that killing was too important to accumulate a little yin virtue, and some people felt that it was because they were afraid that the flood and the corpse would cause a plague.
Whatever they thought, the order was swift and effective.
"Tianya, the overall situation has been decided, can you go back and rest?" Xiao Linglong said lightly beside him, "You've been standing like this for many hours. ”
"There's no hurry." Chu Tianya replied lightly, still standing still.
"In his position, in his own way, you have done anything wrong." Xiao Linglong came to consol.
Right now, by Chu Tianya's side, Xiao Linglong knows that she is the only one who understands Chu Tianya. In fact, he was not a cold-blooded and brutal person. killed so many people in one breath, although he couldn't see a trace of abnormality on the surface, Xiao Linglong knew that his heart must be like the rushing flood, the waves were churning endlessly.
"From the first day I met you and Bai Xu, I understood this truth......" Chu Tianya said lightly, "If I don't kill people, people will kill me, there is no other choice." Now I finally understand why the book of war says that 'those who know soldiers are not warlike'. Although it is better to live than to die, killing is really not such a fun thing......"
Xiao Linglong nodded silently, speechless. She recalled that when she first met Chu Tianya, he was just a cell boss who bullied prisoners for three or five wine money; Now, it has been decided by the hands of tens of thousands of people...... The hero of the country!
The world is impermanent!
"Lord Wang, it's getting dark, do you want the Jianghuai Navy to withdraw?" A subordinate leader said.
Chu Tianya nodded, "Mingjin withdraws his troops." It can make the Jurchens compete with the flood more. It was ordered that tomorrow, the whole army, in addition to the Jianghuai Naval Army, will go to the embankment of the Yellow River to build embankments to prevent flooding and fight floods. ”
"Yes!"
Nearly 200,000 troops were sent to flood control and rescue people, which was not too common in the past. Chu Tianya's intention is very simple, the purpose of diverting the flood to resist the enemy can be achieved, and the flood must not be out of control. After all, this is the territory of the Great Song Dynasty; At the moment, this trick is forced to be used, and the real killing of one thousand enemies is self-inflicted and eight hundred.
This night, Chu Tianya was very drunk, if it weren't for the presence of Liuhe and Xiao Linglong, I don't know what he would become.
That is, when it was almost dawn on this night, a group of Tokyo forbidden troops sent by Zongze were extremely lucky to find traces of Allah handsome Yan Zongwang and others on the slope of a remote mountain village. After a contest, the invincible Jurchen hero, Wanyan Zongwang, who has never been defeated in his life, was actually captured by a group of little-known southern pawns!
These pawns only thought that Yan Zongwang was a general at the beginning, and they wanted to catch him and receive a reward, so they knocked him unconscious and didn't even give him a chance to commit suicide. Later, he was escorted into the city of Tokyo, and when the prisoner was verified, Zong Ze personally recognized him as the famous Wanyan Zongwang!
The news really shook the whole of Tokyo. From the official family to the ordinary Tokyo civilians, everyone was shocked and excited!!
Wanyan Zongwang, the second son of Aguta, the founder of the Jin State, the second brother of the current Emperor Wu Qimai, the founding hero of the Jin State, and the first god of war of the Jin State who is invincible and invincible...... Originally, the vast majority of the Jurchen royal family and generals thought that he should have stepped into Tokyo as the winner and the surrenderer.
Unexpectedly, with the image of "captive", he appeared in the imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Tokyo City.