Yiyang Pavilion said: "If it rains heavily in the flood season this year, the Yellow River is bound to flood and get out of control, I am afraid that the river will be diverted, and then the plain city may not be able to be saved." ”

The diversion of the Yellow River? Liu Ze gasped, Nima's, don't bring such a cheat. In history, the lower reaches of the Yellow River have been flooded more than 1,000 times, and 26 major diversions, each of which has brought profound disasters to the Chinese nation, countless villages and towns have been destroyed, millions of people have become refugees, and the flood is merciless!

As soon as he took office, he caught up with this trip, and he dared to let Zhang Rang not be a plan, but dug a pit for himself, and the worst thing is that if the Yellow River is diverted, Pingyuan City may disappear from the map, and where is he an official? For the sake of thousands of Li people, Liu Ze must not sit idly by and let the flood rage.

Liu Ze said to the chief of the Yiyang Pavilion: "Pass on the order of this county, prepare a sufficient amount of sandbags, reed mats, wood, earthwork and stones within three days, and send hundreds of river workers who are proficient in water to wait on the embankment." ”

The chief of the Yiyang Pavilion was taken aback and said, "Liu County Order, don't you really want to live in this decision?" ”

Liu Zelang said: "Yes, if you can't block this breach, how can the people of the plains be home, and why are the officials of this county?" ”

The reason why the chief of the Yiyang Pavilion was arranged to guard on the embankment was precisely because he was the head of the river workers and an expert in blocking the breach, in his opinion, such a turbulent Yellow River water could not be blocked no matter what. It's not something that can be solved by whims.

"Liu County Order, this river is too fast, it won't be ...... at all," Yiyang Pavilion Chief said hesitantly, while looking at Liu Ze's face.

Liu Ze interrupted him unceremoniously and said, "Man will win the sky, and this official doesn't believe that there is a break in the world that can't be stopped!" Pass my order, prepare the materials within three days, and anyone who dares to disobey the order and delay it will be severely punished! ”

Joke. Later generations can go out of the Pinghu Lake from the high gorge. Can't I, Liu Ze, even block a small Yellow River breach?

The Yiyang Pavilion Chief didn't dare to say anything more, and commanded: "Obey the order, and do it immediately." It's just that the wind and waves on this embankment are fierce, and there is a danger of dam collapse at any time. Please move to a safe place by prefectural order. ”

Liu Ze said sharply: "This break can't be blocked for a day. The official did not go down the embankment for a day. I can't block it for a year, and I can't go down the embankment for a year! Don't say much, get ready. ”

The chief of the Yiyang Pavilion hurriedly retreated.

Guan Yu looked at the raging river at the breach. said worriedly: "Big brother, blocking the breach is no better than marching to fight, such a wide gap, such a rapid wave, it is estimated that it is enough." ”

Liu Ze looked at Jia Xu and said, "What do you think of Wen He?" ”

Jia Xu shrugged his shoulders, looked helpless, and said with a wry smile: "The lord wants to ask Xu for a plan, and Xu is not worried, but this natural thing in heaven and earth, I can't do anything." ”

Liu Ze naturally didn't expect Jia Xu, a powerless scholar, to come up with any good way, he squatted down and thought about how to block this breach, I have seen a lot of videos of flood fighting and rescue in later generations, but most of them are to publicize heroic deeds, if it is really the specific method of blocking the breach, Liu Ze really doesn't know.

At this time, Guan Hai behind him said in a rough voice: "Lord, in my opinion, it is not difficult to block this break!" ”

Liu Ze was overjoyed, Guan Hai used to be a carpenter, how could I forget about this. "Tell me what I have in mind."

Guan Hai said: "The Yellow River is too fast, and the sandbags and stones thrown down are immediately washed away, so the rafters are sharpened first, made into wooden stakes, smashed deep into the mud, and then filled with mat sandbags, and re-built the dam, so that one by one the piles are knocked down, and the dam and weir are built foot by foot, and in the end it will not be closed." ”

Liu Ze almost jumped up excitedly, patted Guan Hai's shoulder and said, "Good idea, Ziqian, you are really a lucky general." ”

Guan Hai smiled honestly and said: "It's nothing, I used to be a carpenter, and I still understand this truth." ”

Liu Ze couldn't help but sigh with emotion, the literati of this era read poetry and books, but they were not diligent and did not distinguish between grains and grains, talked about it on weekdays, and were helpless when they encountered some problems and difficulties, while craftsmen and artists like Guan Hai were able to come up with such wonderful ideas. It seems that the cultivation of technical talents cannot be delayed, and social progress, despite the power of science and technology, relying on the rule of the literati will only rest on its laurels, stagnate and backward, and will be beaten.

Since he has released bold words, Liu Ze has no intention of going down the embankment, Pan Feng can only set up a small tent for Liu Ze on the embankment, and eat and sleep here.

Maybe it was because of Liu Ze's majesty, or maybe the Yiyang Pavilion Chief was also looking forward to blocking the breach of the Yellow River, and within three days, he really prepared all the required materials one by one, and even the three elders in the township rushed over to see the county commander.

Liu Ze didn't care about them at all, said a few perfunctory words, and immediately started work, Guan Hai was temporarily appointed as a supervisor, responsible for the full command and dispatch of the river workers under the Yiyang Pavilion Chief. The preparatory work was carried out in an orderly manner, and hundreds of rafters with the thickness of the bowl mouth were sharpened and stacked under the embankment, and the ground was like a hill. Piled even higher were thousands of sacks, filled with mud and sand, and bound up, as well as many stones, reed mats, and other supplies.

Guan Hai tried to drive a pile down, and the rafters with the thickness of the bowl mouth had to go into the mud at least a third, and the river workers shouted with sledgehammers, and smashed them down, and it was difficult to get off a pile for half a day.

Wu Anguo was annoyed, and jumped into the water with his pair of sledgehammers, snapping, and after a few hammers, a wooden stake was smashed under the water, and everyone sighed Wu Anguo's divine power.

After a few piles, Guan Hai found that the water flow was too fast, so that the wooden piles were shaky, and after thinking about it, he changed the single row of piles to a double row of piles, and then tied the piles together with crossbars and ropes, so that the pile cage was formed, which was much stronger, and no matter how big the flood was, it was difficult to shake. After laying a few pile cages, the river workers got busy, carrying sandbags, stones and reed mats, with the pile cages as the skeleton of the embankment, and the sandbags thrown into the river were no longer afraid of being washed away by the flood, and the dam and weir extended forward foot by foot.

In order to speed up the progress of the project, Liu Ze ordered both sides to start construction at the same time, with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in charge of commanding the opposite side. In order to complete the closure of the dragon as much as possible, Liu Ze divided the river workers into three squads, and incorporated his own archers into it, filling sandbags with underground piles day and night. Pan Feng instructed the remaining migrant workers to dig and transport stones to build the embankment more firmly.

The head of the Yiyang Pavilion never imagined that this young new county magistrate would have such great courage and come up with such a wonderful method, and the Yellow River breach, which seemed to be blocked at all, was squeezed one zhang by another, and it only took more than two days, and the gap that was originally about forty or fifty zhang wide was compressed to more than ten zhang, and it only took one day to close the dragon's breath.

But at this time, the Yellow River was unwilling to fail, revealing its hideous face, trying its best to break free from the shackles and roar towards the breach, the waves were bigger, the water was more turbulent, and the stake was just halfway down, it was washed away by the raging river, and five or six were washed away in a row.

Guan Hai, who was commanding on the shore, was in a hurry, jumped directly into the water, and drove the pile himself. But the merciless flood did not give him half a sense of mercy at all, and a raging wave hit and washed away several piling river workers and Guan Hai at once. Fortunately, they all had safety ropes tied around their waists, and they didn't rush far before they were pulled back by everyone.

Guan Hai's face was full of yellow sand, his face was pale, he shivered from the cold, spit out the mud and sand in his mouth, and gasped: "The water is too urgent, I can't get off the pile at all!" Lord, I don't think this break can be blocked! ”

Everyone's hearts sank, and their eyes were on Liu Ze, and they were silent on the spot.

Looking at the endless rushing and roaring water of the Yellow River at the breach, Liu Ze stomped his feet fiercely and said loudly: "All the brothers who know how to water, stand up!" ”

shouted to the other side again: "Yun Chang, Yide, immediately organize the brothers who know how to water, go into the water to block it!" ”

Saying that, Liu Ze was the first to jump into the Yellow River, everyone was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, the lord is going to use his flesh and blood to block this breach! Chen Zhi jumped down close behind, and Guan Hai, Wu Anguo, and the soldiers of the archery battalion also jumped down one by one, holding hands in a line. The turbid yellow water quickly reached their waists, their chests, but it could not stop their progress. In early spring and February, it was still cold and cold, the river was biting cold, and everyone's faces were pale, but behind Liu Ze, no one was willing to flinch.

Liu Ze glared at Guan Hai behind him and shouted, "What are you doing here?" Don't hurry up and organize river workers to fill in sandbags! ”

Guan Hai Fangcai was also hot-headed, and jumped into the Yellow River with the lord regardless of it, and was woken up by Liu Ze's voice, only then did he remember that he had more important things to do, and he hurriedly climbed to the shore again.

Zhang Fei on the opposite side had already jumped into the water first, and the ten-zhang wide river did not look very wide, but in this turbulent river, how easy was it for people on both sides to hold their hands? Seeing that the distance between them was only less than a zhang, the Yellow River swept up with huge waves and pounced viciously, knocking them over in the water. Everyone struggled to stand up, holding hands and not daring to relax, fell and got up again, and then was knocked over by the waves again, and struggled to get up again, but the people on both sides could not hold hands.

Guan Hai shouted: "Rope! Grab the rope! ”

A thick and long rope went down very quickly, and threw it over, the people in the river climbed the rope, and finally met, Liu Ze's hand tightly held Zhang Fei, a human wall, and finally stopped the raging flood. More people jumped into the water, huddled tightly together by the big rope, person by person, shoulder to shoulder, to build an inbreakable human embankment. (To be continued......)