Therefore, in a tense environment, Guo Fei sent a sergeant to lead the way, and on August 22, Xie Shence was brought to 15 miles upstream of the Hutuo River.

It is a natural cistern, like a gourd. Because the mountains on both sides of the river are high and dangerous, it is very easy to store water, only need to fill the "gourd mouth", fill it with water, and then open it again, and the river channel below more than 20 miles will fall into the situation of "overflow".

However, such a "water release" will not have much impact on Jinju City below. If it had been before, with the walls of Jinju Fortress intact, even the great flood of thirteen years ago would not have caused much harm to the residents of the city.

Not to mention the thickness and tightness of the city wall, but when Jinju Fortress was built, the designers considered the defense of Jinju Fortress as a military town, and it can be said that it was comprehensive. This includes protection against upstream flooding. Jinju Fortress is surrounded by mountains to the west and a river to the north, and the terrain is higher than the north bank, making it an easy fortress to defend and difficult to attack, and it is waterlogged in summer and autumn, and the city is well drained, so even most of the area south of the Hutuo River has become an ocean, and although the city is muddy, there is no water.

This is also conducive to the prevention and control of plague after rain. Xie Shence thought so.

Of course, the method of storing and releasing water is not a good thing for most people outside of Jinju City.

First, after more than ten days of heavy rain, the water level of the Hutuo River has also risen a lot, and it is not easy to store water in the natural reservoir called "colander" fifteen miles upstream. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources. Technically, there is not much of a problem, but the time needs to be rushed.

Second, the Hutuo River is the largest river in the North China Plain (a tributary of the Haihe River) in Hebei Province, and its own flood discharge capacity is still worrying during the rainy season.

This idea was actually vetoed many times by Xie Shence on the way from Cangzhou to the west.

Originally, this heavy rain just in time for the autumn harvest had already made hundreds of thousands of people in Hexi County miserable, and there was a tragic situation of cannibalism, if it was worse...... Not only is there the possibility of forcing the people to rebel, but the most important thing is that it will cause more than a dozen more deaths in the middle and lower reaches

10,000 people

There is also post-disaster reconstruction, plague prevention, house reconstruction, dredging of mountain fields, restoration of agriculture, migration of people, and so on.

But in the end, Xie Shence still decided, drowning!

It's not that the number of people who died is just a cold number for him, he's seen the tragic situation of people eating people, and it's the first time he's had the idea of doing something for these people, but......

How can it be?

If the Yan army captured Jinju, then the defense line of the northern army would become a sieve. After that, the Yan army could not only break through the fortresses on the first line of the Hutuo River, but the most important thing was to go south from Jinju and drive straight in, pulling the entire Hebei Province into the flames of war. Then there is Shanxi Road, Shandong Road, then Huaiyang Road, no, and then Jinyang......

That's what Xie Shence is worried about.

Therefore, when passing through the prefectures and counties along the road, Xie Shence would ask the local Tiqi to hand over some of the disaster relief items that had been written long ago to the state and county magistrates, so that they could prepare in advance.

Do your best, let it be the fate of heaven.

I just hope that there will really be fewer deaths.

In fact, if it weren't for Xie Shence's sudden discovery that Sima Bi had two hearts, Xie Shence would really not have made such a decision, and he could have spent it, anyway, Dajin has money, food, and people......

But don't worry.

Who knows if Sima Bi really just wanted to paralyze the Xie family and Emperor Jin, so he proposed to the Xie family? Who knows if his true intentions were to rebel or betray?

Xie Shence had already secretly sent his discovery and conjecture to the Weihou Mansion and the Tiqi Division through the passage of Huaishang and Tiqi, and by the way, he also told some of the things he was worried about.

These worries, I believe that Zhou Jinmian and Xie Sheng will give hints to Emperor Jin and the courtiers in their own way. Then, flood Jinju for yourself and mentally prepare some people in Jindu.

Of course, in the area of post-disaster relief and reconstruction, Huaishang can completely share a large piece of the cake. Even if Jinju is lost and Hebei Province is in turmoil, it is advantageous for Huaishang to prepare early and hoard supplies. What's more, this year's rain is not small, and the section of the Yellow River is ...... Disaster relief or something is already commonplace.

Xie Shence surveyed the terrain of the colander, and then decisively ordered the logging to be harvested and the water was stored.

On August 23, the rain finally stopped.

Then there's the scorching sun.

Two days later, the ground had been dried, and the Jin army had built pontoon bridges and launched a counteroffensive against the Yan army on the north bank.

Guo Fei set up a position on the north bank, and then issued a collective taunt to the Youzhou army, which had retreated ten miles.

Enraged, Murong Cheng raised six thousand Youzhou iron cavalry and launched a fierce attack on Guo Fei.

Five thousand hoplites formed a huge pocket, of course, this "huge" was not enough to encircle half of it in front of the almost overwhelming Youzhou cavalry. Under the offensive of Youzhou's iron cavalry, the Jinju army was crumbling, but it never fell.

In this battle, Guo Fei did not retreat, and did not hesitate to kill the enemy by killing 1,000 and losing 1,000 himself, which even made Murong Cheng think that the decisive battle between the two sides had come in advance. After the 1,000 archers and 2,000 fresh troops that came up behind the Jinzhou army were put into the battlefield one after another, Guo Fei was able to stabilize his position. However, it is still too early to say that it is an active counteroffensive.

Jinju City spit out a cavalry one after another, with a number of less than two thousand, one thousand seven or eight, and at this time also crossed the river.

Guo Fei's Chinese army changed formation, the infantry retreated in an orderly manner, and then the cavalry stood out.

The leader was He Ruoque.

Murong Cheng was in the Chinese army, listening to the report of the "clairvoyant" (a detective with excellent eyesight who detected the enemy's military movements on the battlefield), and a sneer tugged at the corner of his mouth.

With less than 2,000 people, do you think you can decide the outcome of the war?

Then the horn of the Yan army sounded, and the Chinese army gathered a cavalry of 1,300 people and slowly moved towards the west of the battlefield.

This assembled cavalry is all wrapped in black cloth and black armor, and it is Murong Cheng's own pro-army, Heifudu.

The Black Floating Capital, which is almost invincible in foot combat, will only become more terrifying after returning to its true colors as a cavalry.

Of course, He Ruoque noticed the movements of the black cavalry.

To be honest, the level of the Black Floating Capital's armament is already very close to the Black Armor Guards of the Ti Cavalry Division. It's just that there is a certain gap in the sophistication of equipment.

Is it really combat......

Didn't fight, don't know.

He Ruoque was eager to try.

Immediately, 1,700 cavalry easily pierced through the right flank of the Yan army's already exhausted 1,000 cavalry, and collided with Murong Cheng and Heifu.

The sabre of the cavalry of the Jin army and the scimitar of the Youzhou army collided with sparks, the collision of the war horse and the war horse threw the people on horseback into the sky, some soldiers still tripped on the stirrup after falling from the horse and were finally dragged out of a scarlet, some soldiers exchanged the price of losing limbs for the lives of the enemy, and some people were cut off at the first time and then trampled into flesh.

A puddle of blood splattered from the enemy's body, and shot at his own, or on the armor of his comrades, or on his own body, or hanging with minced flesh, full of blood.

The two cavalry were in a stalemate.

He Ruoque and Murong Cheng fought hard with their respective elites, striving to knock each other down before they fell.

In fact, with the strength of Heifudu, even if the number of cavalry is smaller, as long as the gap is less than a quarter, such a non-fancy hard battle, not to mention destroying the withering and decaying, it is easy to steadily suppress people.

But today, what they encountered was not an ordinary Jin cavalry.

Of these 1,700 men, there were 600 ivory troops.

In addition to the few Modao troops in the Northern Army that are not often dispatched, Sima Bi's ivory army is the most. In this ivory army of only 10,000 people, 4,000 heavy cavalry and 6,000 light cavalry were not inferior even when facing the Golden Horde cavalry of the imperial family of Yan Kingdom.

And of this cavalry of 1,700 men, there were 600!

In fact, in Jinju City, there are four hundred.

The ivory army, at this time there were a thousand in Jinju, and the rest were all in Cangzhou.

However, even if this thousand ivory troops are all put into the battlefield, I am afraid the effect will not be much better.

The six hundred Ivory Army, led by a captain of the Ivory Army, served as the tip of the spear, followed by the 1,100 cavalry led by He Ruoque.

Because the effect of the strong and the weak obviously stimulated the Jinju cavalry's desire to fight, even if the casualties were more heavy, the Jin army did not let it go at all.

At this time, He Ruoque, who was covered in blood, and Murong Cheng, who was holding a double hammer, met.

The big spear swung out a blood line and stabbed at Murong Cheng's chest.

Murong Cheng opened the big gun with his left hand and carried a hammer with his right hand, and with the inertia of the war horse rushing forward, he was a hammer in the head. He Ruoque withdrew his gun and blocked Murong Cheng's sledgehammer.

His arms sank suddenly, and He Ruo felt struggling.

With the power of Murong Cheng's hammer, it turned out to be like this.

With a loud shout, He Ruoque swung away the war hammer and stabbed out another shot at the back of Murong Cheng's heart.

Dodging the blood-dripping gun, Murong Cheng paid attention to this Jin army.

"Report your name!"

Murong Cheng felt the need to know his name, even though he was about to die.

"Your grandfather!" He Ruoque laughed in response.

Murong Cheng turned his horse's head and chased after He Ruoque's back.

The two staggered together again.

The spear was lifted and held up by the twin hammers, and then the tricky tip of the spear probed into the horse's belly from an unexpected angle, and was once again separated by a sledgehammer. There was Heifu who wanted to help, but he was picked by He Ruoque with a shot, and his body was off the horse's back.

There were Jin army archers who wanted to make a profit, but they were captured by Murong Cheng very keenly, and they were either overused or photographed casually.

The two of them gradually fought in a battle circle, and no one stepped in within a radius of two zhang around.

The two war horses, head to tail, were spinning in place, and the two on horseback were still fighting hard.

Xie Shence stood on a dirt mountain in the distance, looking at the two people who had been killed, and relished.

"Yue Yun? Or a golden marble? Forget it, he's a Xianbei person. But I haven't seen Yue Yun either......"

Thank you Shence said to himself.

"Such a person must be killed, I don't know if there is a chance to ...... this time"

Xie Shence looked at Murong Cheng, who was wielding a double hammer and fighting with He Ruoque, and gradually strengthened his murderous intent.

(PS: There will be Oh tonight~.) ~）