Feng Manlou didn't have time to speak, so he hurriedly ran out of the study, only to see Dong Chao wearing a full body and a hat on his head. Feng Manlou asked, "Aren't you waiting in the wing room outside, why are you getting wet like this?" ”

Dong Chao said: "Just now, the four of us were chatting, talking about the possibility of heavy flooding in this heavy rain, and it happened that a relative of our subordinates lived by the river, so we went over to take a look. However, the levee is now very unsafe, and it is less than three feet deep before it has passed the levee! ”

Feng Manlou was shocked and said: "What are you still doing, let Sun Hu and Wang Ying go to inform Wei Xiancheng and Qian Zhubo respectively!" Bring more officials to catch fast, and prepare for flood fighting! ”

Seeing Dong Chao turn around to leave, he hurriedly said, "You and Xue Ba will go to the riverside with me to have a look!" ”

Yang Hongcai chased out of it and asked, "What happened?" ”

Feng Manlou smiled: "It's okay, prepare a few clothes and hats for me, I'm going to the riverside to have a look!" ”

Yang Hongcai nodded, saw the appearance of Feng Manlou, and said, "Be careful!" ”

When Feng Manlou took Dong Chao and Xue Ba to the riverside, he saw that the embankment was indeed less than three feet. And the speed at which the river rises is very fast. The rain has been falling non-stop, and if it continues like this, it will flood the levee in less than two hours!

Feng Manlou was shocked and said, "Quick, go and prepare sacks, earth and stones, and strengthen the embankment!" ”

The two listened and hurriedly went to prepare. The surrounding residents, some of whom also came out to take a look at it at this time, shouted to them in Fengmanlou: "Don't be afraid, I am Fengmanlou, the magistrate of this county!" The families paid attention, the men helped to prepare sacks, earth and stones, and prepared to strengthen the embankment, and the women, children, and the old people all withdrew to the city, where the terrain was a little higher, and it was not flooded so quickly! ”

Originally, everyone lived by the river, and they were monitoring the situation along the river at all times, but now they heard the county magistrate say that the embankment may not be guaranteed, and they were a little panicked.

Instead of helping to find the dirt and stone sacks, the residents went home, packed up some soft goods, and prepared to flee for their lives.

Suddenly, Dong Chao shouted: "My lord, look! ”

It turned out that the water had risen by another three inches, although it was not much, but it had risen so much in such a fast time, which still made people feel panicked. If you go up another foot and a half, it will be as flat as the ground, and if it rises another three feet, oh, less than three feet, it will not cross the embankment.

The worst thing is that Feng Manlou seems to have found that with the erosion of the waves of the river, the embankment has slowly begun to be washed away, and the outside of the embankment is some gravel, wrapped in thick soil, and the soil is mixed with lime. However, with each wave erosion, some of the soil was worn away, and in less than three or five times, only gravel remained, and the gravel was quickly washed away, and the lime was not seen at all.

The embankment, which usually looks good, is now a problem. But it turned out that there was no lime at all, to be precise, it was just a little lime, and it didn't show the effect at all. Feng Manlou was dumbfounded. In this way, as long as the water rises to the level of the ground, the embankment may burst at any time.

Feng Manlou's first thought was to escape, but looking at the houses behind him and the crowd of people who were hurriedly preparing to leave, a sudden thought rose in his heart: We must keep the embankment!

Seeing that the water was rising so fast, everyone was desperately collecting sacks and filling them with earth and stones. Feng Manlou knows that if you pack one more bag now, you will have one more insurance.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for me to see the black crowd behind me, about a hundred people, all of whom were officials of the yamen, and the catchers arrived under the leadership of Wei Zhongshu and Qian Weilun.

Feng Manlou didn't have time to complain, and shouted: "The embankment may burst at any time, hurry up and let everyone collect sacks and prepare soil and stones!" ”

Liu Dutou stepped forward and said, "My lord, why don't you gather the people nearby!" ”

Feng Manlou said: "Of course! Oh, no need! ”

But it turned out that Wei Zhongshu was asking the officials to gather the people nearby, saying that it was a convocation, but in fact it was forcibly pulling people. About a quarter of an hour later, a crowd of about two hundred people was soon assembled.

Feng Manlou roared: "I know everyone wants to save their lives, but if we want to save our lives, we must keep the embankment, everyone is divided into three groups, one group helps the old and weak and sick people nearby to move to the higher places in the city, the water will not rise for a while and a half." One group goes to collect sacks, one group prepares earth and stones! Hurry, hurry, it's not time! ”

In order to strengthen the execution, Feng Manlou asked Sun Hu Wang Ying, who rushed over, to bring a few officials and a group to transfer the old, weak, sick and disabled together. Let Dong Chao and Xue Ba bring a few officials together and take a group of people to collect sacks, and he personally formed a group with Wei Zhongshu and them, as well as the rest of the officials, and brought hoes and other tools from them to dig soil and stones on the spot.

The heavy rain fell for another half an hour before it stopped, and everyone was drenched like chickens in soup. Although the heavy rain has stopped now, but the sky has also darkened, when it rained, the sky was very dark, and now it is almost night, the wind is full of buildings, so everyone can light torches, tonight is a very dangerous situation.

The heavy rain brought by this typhoon came quickly and urgently, although it lasted for a long time, but it went quickly, and it will not rain again after it goes, but it does not mean that the water will no longer rise.

After the rain stops, there will be a peak flood period, as long as it is over, it will slowly stabilize, and then it will slowly disappear.

The water is almost parallel to the ground, everyone has already prepared the sacks, the wind is full of buildings to see, but it is still not enough, not only to prepare the heightened sacks of soil and stones, but also to prepare where to plug the gap after the embankment breaks, although there are more than 200 people busy, but it is not enough at all!

"Quicken, quicken!" "Quick, quick!" "Third brother, third brother, here!" “……”

The whole construction site was very lively, seeing that the river water was already parallel to the ground, and it was still rising, everyone couldn't help but panic. If the residents who lived nearby at first were just thinking about escaping, now people are only thinking about preparing more earth and rocks to plug the gap.

Suddenly, someone shouted, "The embankment has broken here, sacks, sacks!" ”

Feng Manlou hurriedly ran over, but saw a person, it was Wei Zhongshu, who held a sack of earth and stones and threw it into the gap. Who knows, this gap is not big, but the speed of the water is very fast, and the sack was washed away at once, and then, there was a loud noise, and the gap was opened a little bigger.

Seeing this, the sacks of the wind were no longer able to resist, and hurriedly shouted: "Liu Dutou, Dong Chao Xue Ba, Sun Hu Wang Ying, hurry up, human wall!" The rest, throw sacks! ”

Everyone stood together arm in arm, at this moment, no one had any extra thoughts in their hearts, but they just knew that if they couldn't resist the flood, the houses in the vicinity would be submerged in the water. The people who were busy on the embankment, except for the people from the Yamen, were the residents of the vicinity, and everyone was united for a while.

Suddenly, I heard a loud bang, and the embankment next to the human wall was washed through another opening. Feng Manlou hurriedly shouted: "Liu Dutou, Wei Xiancheng, hurry up and let the people break the wall, everyone speed up and plug the gap!" ”

Wei Zhongshu didn't have time to hesitate, hurriedly threw away the sandbag in his hand, and called a dozen or so people over.

Although the human wall cannot stop the flood, it can prevent the sandbags that have just been thrown away from being washed away by the flood immediately. After the sandbags were dropped, they could not withstand the impact of the flood, but they were blocked by the human wall, and the water was gradually blocked as the sandbags were thrown down one by one.

However, the opening was too big for the sandbags to come in. The water also gradually rose, from the calves to the knees, and then from the knees to the waist.

And the flood also spread a foot away. Seeing this, Dong Chao shouted: "My lord, this can't be done, wait a little longer, the flood will flood us!" ”

Feng Manlou didn't have time to think nonsense, just shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, anti-sandbag, hurry, hurry!" ”

Dong Chao shouted: "My lord, you go back, let's come!" ”

Xue Ba also shouted, my lord, go back.

Feng Manlou resolutely shouted: "Don't disturb the people's hearts." I can't plug the gap, and I have no complaints when the building is swept away by the flood! ”

Those people who resisted sandbags originally didn't have a good impression of the officials, but now Lord Feng led by example, and suddenly touched many people. What they are trying to do, what they are not drawing!

The home behind them is not theirs, and the Yuhang City behind them is not theirs. Even if this large area of private houses is flooded, these officials still have a place to flee for their lives. But now, they are using their lives to defend the safety of everyone's lives and property. Immediately, they were moved to tears.

Those old and weak women and children standing on high places also took the initiative to join the ranks of carrying sandbags, and those who could resist resisted resisted, and those who could not resist were carried by two people!

Seeing this, Feng Manlou knew that the people's hearts were available! The hearts of the people are united, Mount Tai moves! Feng Manlou thought to himself, it is impossible for these two openings to withstand the impact of the flood.

It is not the first time that Yuhang has been breached, but in the past, when the embankment was broken, those officials disappeared one by one, but now, they have come forward to build the embankment, and everyone feels warm in their hearts.

With the urging of the wind and the concerted efforts of everyone, the flood was finally blocked and the embankment was finally saved when the flood was more than a foot away and was about to reach the neck of the human wall.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The wind is full of buildings, but it can't be relaxed, because this long embankment is now like a colander, seeping water everywhere!

Feng Manlou shouted: "Everyone hurry up and strengthen the embankment, don't let anyone seep in, hurry!" ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they knew that if this continued, all the dikes would be in danger of being washed away, and even if the gods descended to earth, they could only watch the flood raging, so they began to take action.

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