The effect of the soldiers blocking the flood mouth was seen the next day, as the Rose overflowed the banks and flooded the depressions on both banks.

It's a pity that the captives are not stupid people who can't fight, and camping is a very strict set of standards, at least they know how to choose the high terrain, so when there have been several puddles near the captive camp, their barracks have not been flooded, whether it is the west camp or the east camp.

As for the North Camp, which had been soaked in water for a long time, half of it was already soaked in water, not because the captives were not professional enough when they chose the North Camp at that time, but because the Rose River was from the southwest to the northeast, and the north generation was the lowest, so they had no choice, the whole was waterlogged, even if it was chosen at a high point, it was still waterlogged.

However, looking at the still gloomy weather in the sky, Yang Chao was very sure that the battalion with a good position of the captives tomorrow would probably become an isolated island.

They don't care if the captive battalion becomes an isolated island Haizhou City, what they care about is whether Haizhou will be flooded.

That's a problem!

Song Lian found Yang Chao early in the morning.

"General Yang, how is this good, if Haizhou is flooded, these 100,000 people will lose their homes?"

Yang Chao sighed, making this kind of lose-lose plan, he is not without a little psychological burden.

immediately took out the map and explained to Song Lian that Yang Chao studied architecture, and he still has the ability to read pictures.

"Lord Song, please see, the terrain of Haizhou is already low, so it is very easy to accumulate water if it encounters heavy water. However, Haizhou is close to the sea and is easy to drain, so although there are many floods in Haizhou in the past, Haizhou City is not easy to be flooded. All I want is to drown the captive battalion. ”

Song Lian also knew Yang Chao's plan, or knew part of it, that he had promised to flood the soldiers. But he didn't expect Haizhou City to risk flooding, and if he knew this, he would have to reconsider whether he could agree. After all, once Haizhou is flooded, even if Haizhou is released in the future. He is also a local official who is derelict in his duties, and he is not afraid of being held accountable, but he is afraid that someone will take advantage of the topic to play.

Song Lian has been guarding Haizhou until now, and his mentality has changed from the tragic death in the past to a kind of wanting to make meritorious contributions and be promoted, and a delicate situation of suffering from gains and losses, and he doesn't want to take a little political risk at this time.

Seeing Song Lian's attitude, Yang Chao sighed in his heart. Fortunately, he didn't tell him the whole plan, if he told him that he was going to dig the river and release water to flood Haizhou, I am afraid that Song Lian would not agree to kill him.

The situation was better than Yang Chao expected, and by evening, the two captive battalions were already isolated islands, and there was water half a foot deep on all sides.

Early the next morning, the water was more than a foot high.

But in Yang Chao's view, this is far from enough.

Therefore, early in the morning, Yang Chao immediately sent three more small boats.

Yang Chao in the city still saw them off, and saw them go out of Haizhou City through the South Water Gate. Entering the Rose River again, the captives no longer have to think about it, they are surrounded by heavy water and they have no time to take care of themselves.

"Your Excellency. Are you really going to do that? ”

Huang Fengfu asked worriedly.

Yang Chao sighed: "In order to keep Haizhou City, this is also a last resort." ”

Song Lian said easily: "Mr. Huang, you are too worried, is this also an expedient measure." ”

The reason why Song Lian is relaxed and why Huang Fengfu is worried is actually because they don't think the same thing.

Yang Chao told Song Lian that he was going to Huai'an to ask for help when he sent people from the south, and told Huai'an that the captives were no longer worried, and asked them to send grain ships quickly. Otherwise, if Haizhou is not captured by the captives, he will starve to death. There are only ten days left to store food, starting today. The city's supply has been halved, and it will last for a maximum of 20 days, which is also the fastest time to travel from Huai'an to Haizhou.

Looking at the three unit sailboats that had just been made out of the Rose River and raised their sails, Huang Fengfu sighed deeply, he thought that Yang Chao's move was to put Yang Chao on the cusp, and it would definitely attract criticism.

Huang Fengfu was so worried because as Yang Chao's henchman, he knew Yang Chao's true purpose.

It's definitely not going to Huai'an to ask for help, at least not just asking for help.

Yang Chao wanted these boats to blow up the upper reaches of the Rose River and release water to flood Haizhou City!

Huang Fengfu knows very well that once Yang Chao does this, no matter how much credit he makes, he will be impeached by the officials, a crime that ignores the people will not be able to escape, but it may not be possible to be convicted, Yang Chao relieved the siege of Haizhou and made such a great contribution, not to death, but the merits and demerits are offset, I am afraid that the future will be ruined.

He persuaded Yang Chao with this, and Yang Chao was also deeply worried, but he didn't expect that after thinking about it all night, Yang Chao still decided to do it.

Yang Chao's choice made Huang Fengfu feel better, after all, Yang Chao is focused on big things, and small things can still be sacrificed.

But the future is a little uncertain.

But if Yang Chao is timid and has too many scruples, he doesn't seem to be the kind of resolute hero in Huang Fengfu's heart, so how Yang Chao chooses will make Huang Fengfu entangled.

Yang Chao himself doesn't care, since he has made a choice, let's do it.

And Yang Chao carefully looked at the topographic map, and determined that Haizhou's generation, close to the sea, the terrain is relatively flat, even if Haizhou City is flooded, drainage is relatively easy, not to be flooded for a long time, as for the Yellow River along the city wall that was directly washed away by the water, basically do not need to consider, after all, it is Jianghuai, and it is almost to the sea position, like the situation of the hanging river in Henan, it is not so serious, although the river bed of Jianghuai is also very high, but it is not higher than the city, so Haizhou City may be waterlogged for a period of time, But it will never be washed away by the flood to the city walls or houses.

A few sailboats, still carrying the hundred or so people, raised their sails and walked forward in the wind and rain, and there was a little bit of poetry.

The soldiers on the ship will definitely not feel the poetry, all of them are coarse, and what they are thinking about at this time is more, reward!

That's right, these people are still those gate soldiers at Linhongkou.

The reason why Yang Chao chose them was mainly because they had some experience in hydraulic engineering, and when it was not easy to find water conservancy experts in a short period of time, they could only make a cameo.

"Lord Baihu, where do you look?"

In front of the hereditary hundred households of the Linhongkou Gate Soldiers, a soldier asked.

Baihu said coldly: "No, this riverbed is too low." Even if it explodes, there won't be much water! ”

Yao Baihu shook his head and gave up a position where it was easy to place gunpowder.

The boat headed southwest along the Rose River. When he passed more than two miles of Qishan, Yao Baihu's eyes suddenly lit up.

He saw that the river in front of him was extremely open. The bank of the river was very high, and another plumb was released, and he found that the river was very deep, which was exactly what he was looking for, and the water here was deep and wide, which meant that there was enough water, and the ground was high enough to blow up. The river will soon be able to flood the area around Haizhou City.

"Dock, dock!"

Yao Baihu immediately ordered.

When he came out this time, he was a lot more bold, and he didn't ask Yang Chao to send troops, because he felt that it was better to bring all his brothers for such a good thing as receiving the reward money, but Yang Chao still forced more than a dozen guards to them, which made them a little regretful.

Soon the boat was docked.

Yao Baihu took everyone again, and after walking forward for nearly a hundred zhang, he nodded and found a suitable position.

"There's Lord Lao Zhang!"

Yao Baihu only pointed to the location at this time. Said politely to a soldier.

This soldier is called Zhang Erba, and he is a team leader under Yang Chao, so he asked him to bring more than a dozen people over. Not to protect this group of watermen, but because Zhang Erstick participated in the blasting of the moat passage a few days ago and has gunpowder blasting technology.

Zhang Erstick nodded, and with a wave of his hand, a group of people immediately walked back.

Soon they brought down the barrels wrapped in oilcloth from the boat, and one carried one on his back, panting, the rain-soaked bank was very difficult to walk, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the most important thing was that the barrel on their backs was too heavy. Each one weighed fifty pounds, and it was full of gunpowder.

A total of more than 20 barrels of gunpowder were moved. Everyone else was carrying shovels and other things.

Soon they were on the riverbank, and then everyone began to dig busily.

A deep pit was dug a foot deep. Densely draw a word on the riverbank, and then put the powder barrels into these pits one by one, and carefully bury the soil, pull out the fuse, pull out two or three zhang long, light the fire, the big guy ran away, it was already clear in advance, they were going to blow up the river, and they couldn't even blow themselves up.

Soon there was a loud rumbling sound, and a big hole appeared on the riverbank, but the mouth was still very shallow, and the water gushed out of the riverbank from here and poured into the depression in the north.

Yao Baihu couldn't help but regret.

The bombing of the river and the storming of the city may have deep concerns for the civilian officials, but for him as a gate soldier, there is no psychological burden at all, and with the promise of a reward of two hundred taels of silver, there is no problem.

"Brothers, it's been a hard trip!"

Yao Baihu could only beckon everyone to work again, ready to find another opening to blow up.

A soldier said depressedly: "I still have to move!" ”

Carrying gunpowder and digging pits, Yang Chao's soldiers are naturally unwilling to do it, they are just commanding, which can be regarded as a kind of oppression and exploitation.

Therefore, Yao Baihu's soldiers were a little depressed, because it was really tiring.

Yao Baihu felt that his little temper exploded all of a sudden, and scolded: "Ma, you don't have anything to do with it, you think that two hundred taels of silver is so easy to earn, and you don't want to pull it down, don't earn the money." ”

The soldier immediately smiled and replied: "Lord Baihu, forgive me, the little mouth can't speak, I'm just saying, how dare you dare." Hundreds of adults are inclusive, inclusive! ”

One hundred taels of silver, this is a huge wealth that they have never seen or even thought of, the annual military salary is enough to eat, and these gate soldiers and military households will have surplus food, even Yao Bai's family does not have so much silver to accumulate.

"Alright, work!"

Yao Baihu waved his hand majestically, and his subordinates immediately started working hard again.

Right next to the opening just now, they began to dig again, and these people did not understand the principles of science, in fact, if they buried gunpowder under the riverbank, the effect might be better, and then the huge water pressure might suddenly collapse a large section of the riverbank.

This time they dug deeper, digging to four feet, and they really couldn't dig any longer, because the water in it buried everyone.

Then they were delivered to each other, the gunpowder was carefully placed at the bottom of the pit, the barrels were carefully buried with earth, and the fuse was pulled.

It must be lit immediately, otherwise these fuses will be useless if they get wet.

It was quickly lit again, and then it ran away, and after a loud bang, this time there was another big opening, bigger than the last, but not enough to break the riverbank.

Yao Baihu was frustrated and was about to blow up the river again, when he suddenly heard a tremor, and found that the embankment in the center of the two mouths had collapsed, lifting huge pieces of dirt and carrying them down the riverbank.

Only then did the crowd cheer and quickly get on their boat.

I saw that the water level under my feet was slowly lowering, and it was all flowing from which opening, and that opening was closer to Haizhou City, which was equivalent to taking a straight line on the winding river.

This caused a huge trouble to a group of soldiers, because when the water poured into the gap, their boat was in danger of being washed away, but fortunately, Yao Baihu was experienced in the water, and immediately let people pull the boat to pull the fiber on the shore, so that a few people who were familiar with driving the boat stabilized the hull on the boat, and after pulling it forward for a mile, the water surface flow slowed down.

They then got on the boat, and continued to go southwest with satisfaction, two hundred taels of silver was not so easy to take, one hundred taels was their reward for blowing up the Rose River, and the other one hundred taels was their reward for reporting to Huai'an, so in addition to blowing up the Rose River, their next job was to go to Huai'an to ask Shi Kefa for food.

However, these gate soldiers don't care about these, as long as they get two hundred taels of silver, they can live a more nourishing life. (To be continued).