Fortunately, the follow-up of this flood peak was weak, and the people on the embankment were not involved in the river, otherwise there would have been more deaths.

Many people were washed down the steep slope by the river, and they were washed away by the river to a very far place before stopping, and the casualties are unknown. The levee was thrown into chaos. Fortunately, Li Zuoche and Qi Long were present, commanding the army to maintain order.

Xu Wugui was terrified, and hurriedly organized people to check whether the embankments along the river were affected under the impact of this flood peak. You must know that this section of the embankment has just been built, the foundation has not yet been stable and dry, and the flood resistance capacity is really not high.

The results of the examination made Xu Wugui's heart cold. Under the impact of the flood peak, the embankment that was just built today has cracks about half a mile long, and the river water seeps out of the river, and the entire section of the embankment has a faint tendency to collapse! Hearing the news, Xu Wugui's face immediately changed greatly. As the saying goes, a thousand-mile embankment is destroyed in an anthill, and if there is such a gap in the embankment, then the entire embankment will be finished!

After the flood peak, the water level of the river also rises rapidly, and soon it is submerged to a dam-like position, and the water level is still rising. Looking at the dark clouds gathering in the night sky, Xu Wugui knew that a heavy rain was coming, and it was impossible for the water level to be lowered in a short period of time.

Xu Wugui immediately found Qian Long and asked him to go back to the city to find Chen Sheng to move the rescue troops, and at the same time quickly organized the workers around the embankment to start reinforcement works on the collapsed embankment.

Less than half an hour after the dragon left, a torrential rain fell from the sky. Xu Wugui inhaled the cold air again and again, and said to Li Zuoche beside him with a wry smile: "Lord County Shou's words are right!" This weather is really wicked! ”

Li Zuoche couldn't laugh at it, he just counted the number of people, and found that more than 1,000 people were washed down the embankment by the flood peak, about 200 people were injured, and 7 or 8 people hit the stones and hard objects and died tragically. This unexpected tragedy filled his heart with gloom.

"Can this levee be held?" Li Zuoche took a while before he held back such a sentence.

"I don't know." Xu Wugui thought for a while before cautiously replying, "If the water level rises to the top of the embankment, the entire dam may collapse due to the impact of the dam failure area. Xu Wugui's mood was also heavy. This dam was his work for months, and if it collapsed in a flood, he would not be able to see Chen Sheng alive.

"Behind the embankment, there is Dongye City." Li Zuoche wiped the rain from his face and said, "You know, the consequences after the dam collapses. ”

Xu Wugui nodded and said, "Don't worry, such a situation will not occur, if it comes to a critical moment, then dig a dam in other places to divert the flood!" When he said this, Xu Wugui's tone was a little difficult. Flood diversion is indeed the most direct and effective way to lower the water level. But Xu Wugui knows one thing better. The low-lying areas that are close to Dongye City within a radius of 100 miles and can divide floods are actually the most densely populated places. No matter where you choose to open a dam to divert floodwater, the consequences for that place are enormous.

Li Zuoche frowned, and before he could speak, he was almost unsteady by a gust of wind. The big trees around the embankment also shook one after another, and many trees with shallow roots collapsed as soon as the wind blew them!

"The wind platform is coming!" Li Zuoche had lived in the coastal areas of Minyue for a long time, and when he saw this scene, his face suddenly turned pale. I'm really afraid of something. Everything that Chen Sheng was worried about in the past few days has come true, I really don't know, this county guard is an unknown prophet or a crow's mouth, and this disaster has been cursed!

The dam burst as the water level of the river rises, and the heavy rains have made it extremely difficult to repair the dam. If you add a hurricane, will this embankment still be able to withstand it? A question flashed in Li Zuoche's heart.

"Don't panic!" Xu Wugui was able to calm down. He grabbed Li Zuoche and shouted loudly in Li Zuoche's ear: "Stabilize everyone and continue to repair the dam!" If the river collapses, there is nowhere to escape! You lead people to hold the retreat, and no one is allowed to escape from the embankment, and if the hearts of the people are scattered, it will really be over! ”

After Xu Wugui finished roaring, he immediately pounced on the place where the danger was most serious.

Li Zuoche was already quite talented in military affairs. Naturally, I understand the importance of people's morale. The workers on this embankment, except for a small number of soldiers whose loyalty is available, the rest of them are basically forced to join the government because of the famine, which is a work-for-relief project, and what they ask for is the word "life". If a typhoon is about to appear and the dam bursts, why not flee quickly?

Come to think of it. Li Zuoche took a breath of cold air and said to a thousand people behind him: "Take five hundred people and stay behind the embankment to calm people's hearts!" If you find anyone who dares to run away, you will not be spared! Li Zuoche has always been known for his gentleness, but at this time, he showed such a hideous side, which startled the commander behind him.

You must know that although Li Zuoche does not have an official title, he has a very high status in front of Chen Sheng, and his weight is very high, if he insists on his views, Chen Sheng will not easily obstruct it. So it's very convincing. The commander immediately took the order and went away.

The wind and rain are getting stronger. The footsteps of the people facing the wind on the embankment have become particularly difficult, the turbid waves on the river are even more amazing, and the rain falling on the body is even more painful. Although Li Zuo's body was covered with a robe, in the face of the pervasive rain, the coat had no effect at all.

However, what made Li Zuoche feel relieved was that under the integration of Xu Wugui, a neat horn soon sounded on the embankment, and the sound of the horn was a little fluctuating in the whirring wind, but Li Zuoche knew that the sound of the horn meant that the workers on the embankment were not really panicked.

In fact, for the Yue people in Minyue, they don't know how many times they have seen hurricanes and heavy rain in previous years. So in the face of this hurricane, not too many people feel too much fear. In addition to the initial chaos caused by the impact of the flood peak, more people became a little happy: it hasn't rained for months, is this God finally unable to hold back? Many people rolling around on the construction site rubbed their bodies violently, and when they rubbed them, they rubbed off pieces of mud.

Looking at these happy workers on the dam, Xu Wugui smiled bitterly. These people apparently did not know the danger of the levee beneath their feet. It seems that the sense of fearlessness brought about by human ignorance also has a very positive side. He quickly summoned the foreman and issued instructions, and for a while, the construction site quickly returned to normal in the storm.