The golden shopkeeper didn't say a word, nodded and agreed, and personally took Leng Yi and them to the granary, there were a large number of empty rice bags in the granary, ready-made, no need to fly, Leng Yi was overjoyed, and after thanking him, he instructed Soo Li to quickly carry the rice bags to the city wall and install the earthen embankment.

Bags of rice requisitioned from various rice merchants were delivered to the city walls. The people began to dig up the soil from the city wall and put it into rice bags, and carried it onto the river embankment to strengthen and raise the embankment.

At this time, the rain, which had stopped for a few days, began to rain again, and it soon turned into a heavy rain. The rain made the flood fighting people feel more urgent, and more people joined in the construction of embankments to fight the flood and rescue the flood.

Finally, the biggest flood rushed to Bazhou City!

In the dark night, you can't see at all, you can only hear the sound of thousands of horses rushing in. In an instant, the river swelled more than one person high and reached the highest point of the embankment! In some places where there was no time to raise the heights, the flood overflowed and rushed into the city!

The people on the embankment were in chaos, and some began to run towards the city wall.

Leng Yi yelled: "Follow me!" "Jumping into the flood. Cheng Luojie understood, and jumped in with it, holding Leng Yi's arm. The other soaps also jumped in, holding hands and pulling up the human wall to plug the gap.

At this time, there is no need for a command, the water situation is a command, where the embankment is overflowing, there will be people jumping in as sandbags to gamble on the gap. The sandbag bearer at the back fills the low-lying areas where the flood water has overflowed. Finally blocked the flood overflow levees.

Leng Yi pulled Cheng Luojie to climb the embankment, and he was really afraid for a while. If it is not blocked in time, this kind of overflow will soon make the embankment soften, causing the embankment to burst!

Now, as the flood waters continue to rise, the embankments must continue to be heightened and reinforced. Leng Yi took Cheng Luojie and joined the team carrying sandbags to fill the blockage.

The old man personally participated in the flood fight, and the news immediately spread throughout the entire river embankment, and many people found that the flood rose badly, and they all had the idea of running towards the city wall, but when they heard that the old man of the general judgment was fighting sandbags on the river embankment, he was immediately in good spirits. More people joined in the rescue.

As the flood continues to rise, the river embankment is also increasing and thickening, always a little ahead of the rising flood. Do not allow floodwaters to overflow the embankment.

After fighting for a day and night, a bad news came again,—— all the rice bags were used up!

And the flood is still rising!

Leng Yi ordered in a deep voice: "Requisition the fabric of the silk shop!" ”

Horses of fine cloth were transported under the city walls, covered with sand, and filled in on the embankment.

After using up the fabrics from several shops, it was dawn and the good news finally came! The flood has stopped rising!

When this news was confirmed by the soap who was in charge of observing the water situation, the people up and down the entire river embankment were boiling.

Leng Yi didn't feel relaxed at all, because the flood was still at a high level, and the firmness of the river embankment built in a hurry obviously couldn't reassure him. Leng Yi ordered to continue to strengthen the embankment and check for water seepage in various parts of the embankment.

This inspection made Leng Yi break out in a cold sweat. Water seepage is found in many parts of the embankment, and some have pipe gushing. With the constant high water level and the tremendous pressure, the embankment is in danger of bursting at any time!

Leng Yi immediately organized the blockage of seepage and pipe gushing, led by the soap officials of the Yamen scribes, who were responsible for the inspection and inspection of the embankments of each section of the river.

Hong Jie, who was in charge of surveying the water situation upstream, came with a piece of good news that reassured Leng Yi a little, that is, the rainfall in the upstream had decreased. No new flood peaks were found. However, the overall situation of the flood has not fundamentally changed, and it must be strictly guarded.

However, the thing that worried Leng Yi the most still happened.

It was late at night on the third day of continuous high water levels, and after fighting for several days and nights without closing his eyes, he and Cheng Luojie slept in a private house by the river embankment after arranging the inspection task.

In his sleep, he woke up violently, for he heard a sound like rolling thunder! It sounded in the distance, and at the same time, he felt the ground beneath his feet begin to tremble violently.

Cheng Luojie also woke up, and in the dark night, she grabbed Leng Yi's arm tightly and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Leng Yi didn't know either, and said, "Is it an earthquake?" Get out! ”

He pulled Cheng Luojie to open the door and came out, and saw that the people on the embankment were running along the embankment, shouting wildly.

"What's wrong? What's going on? ”

No one could hear Leng Yi's voice, because the huge rumble had already covered everything.

At this moment, a figure rushed over and rushed to Leng Yi's face, it was Deputy Song who caught the head. hurriedly said to Leng Yi: "It's terrible, big lord, the embankment has collapsed!" Run! ”

Leng Yi's whole body was suddenly cold, how could this be? Before I went to bed, there was no danger! The big seepage and pipe gushing have been blocked. How did you work so hard to burst the embankment?

Although he was thinking about this question in his head, he didn't stop at his feet, pulled Cheng Luojie, and ran up the river embankment. Deputy Song also followed. Leng Yi turned around and asked, "Where did the embankment break?" ”

His voice was very loud, almost leaning into the ear of Deputy Song Catcher.

Deputy Song's voice was also very loud, and Leng Yi could hear it clearly: "The place above is close to the city wall!" ”

This is even worse, Leng Yi thought to himself, if the embankment bursts downstream, there will not be many houses directly destroyed by the flood, at most it will just overflow. However, if it is upstream, the flood will rush directly into the city, and I don't know how many houses will be washed away!

The people in the city didn't know if it had been transferred, and Leng Yi hurriedly said, "Is there anyone else in the city?" ”

Deputy Song said: "There should be no more, after you gave the order, the eldest lord, those who refused to leave also moved to the city wall, and the subordinates arranged brother handles in all the passages down the city, and no one was allowed to go downstairs back to the city." ”

"Very good!" Leng Yi was a little relieved, as long as the person was fine.

As they spoke, the roar rushed below, and the house where they had slept before was shattered in an instant as if it were paper paste in the flood, and rolled away with the flood!

Leng Yi They are on the river embankment, high above the water, but there is nothing to do. He ran up the embankment and reached the gap in one go.

Due to the large volume of water in the river and the high water level, it rushed down and rushed out a gap dozens of steps wide. In the dark night, I couldn't see clearly, and I could only feel the shock of the wanton rush of the wild current. It makes people feel that human beings are so small in front of wild nature.

Fortunately, he had already let Cheng Luoyan protect Zhuo Qiaoniang and the others in advance and moved them to the city tower, and his sniper rifle was also transferred away. There will be no danger now.

The gap could no longer be passed, Leng Yi turned around and walked back, he ran all the way along the embankment, wanting to check if there were any people who had fallen into the water. Along the way, all the washed away houses rolled over in the floodwaters. No cries for help were heard, and no one was seen in the water.

Leng Yi was a little relieved at this time, it seems that the transfer of personnel is very good.

Along the way, I met a lot of people and people on the embankment, they all participated in the construction and supervision of the embankment, and they never imagined that the embankment would suddenly burst. They were all very frustrated.

Leng Yi asked one by one who first discovered the river embankment breach, but these people all said that it was not them, and when they knew, the flood had already washed down.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier. At this time, there was no modern communication equipment, and there was no contact with Sooli and Minzhuang, and there was nothing that could plug the gap, the only thing to do was to wait, wait for the dawn, reorganize, find a way to plug the gap, and then rebuild the home. Other than that, there is nothing else to do.

Leng Yi led them down the river embankment until they reached the southernmost city wall. Here, the flood washed away the city gate, turning the south gate into a bridge hole, rolling out of the gate, and began to tear the walls on both sides of the gate.

The walls were covered in green bricks and could not withstand the wild floods. It soon collapsed and widened into a wide gap.

It was also with this gap that the flood was able to vent out of the city. This embankment was connected to the stairs of the upper city, and when Leng Yi and the others went up to the city tower, they saw that the black pressure was full of human heads, and they looked at him silently in the heavy rain, and no one even stepped forward to say hello. They were all terrified by this terrible flood.

Until a gray-haired old man walked up to him and slowly knelt down. The others seemed to have just reacted, and fell to their knees in the heavy rain.

Leng Yi hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man, but the old man didn't get up, took Leng Yi's hand and said, "General judgment master!" Thank you for saving your life! If you hadn't insisted that everyone move to the castle tower, many of us would probably have drowned! You are a lifesaver for all of us! ”

Everyone behind him also kowtowed, shouting to thank their benefactors.

Leng Yi said: "I'm sorry for everyone, I couldn't hold the embankment and washed away everyone's houses and property." I'm very sorry, but I will definitely tell the court and allocate funds for disaster relief as soon as possible to help everyone rebuild their homes! ”

At this time, this is what these victims want to hear the most. Although they all know that even if the imperial court provides disaster relief, there will not be too much money to help them, and more will have to rely on themselves. However, it is much better to have one hope than no hope. So they cheered again.

Leng Yi waited for everyone to be quiet for a while, and then said loudly: "The key now is to quickly plug the gap in the river embankment." Drain all the water in the city and minimize the damage as much as possible. How to plug the gap, I'm trying to figure it out. ”

Everyone said that if they needed manpower, they would be willing to fight to the death.

Leng Yi was very moved, comforted everyone a few words, and then took Cheng Luojie and them to walk forward along the city tower.

As soon as he walked a few steps, Leng Yi stopped, because he saw a familiar figure, it was his wife Zhuo Qiaoniang!

"Qiao Niang!" Leng Yi couldn't help but scream.

(To be continued)