Guo Shoujing, a water conservancy expert, turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the Yellow River in a somewhat dejected manner, without thinking about Kublai Khan next to him.

The Great Khan Kublai Khan did not blame Guo Shoujing for his gaffe, he rode steadily on his war horse, looking at the surging Yellow River half a mile away. The three-mile-wide river was filled with water, and from Kublai Khan's position, the waves in the center of the river rose high, almost as high as his position. The width of the new river channel is not as wide as that of the Yangtze River, and the ferocity of the rapids is even more violent.

If you look at it from an outsider's point of view, Guo Shoujing's slightly lost soul posture has a feeling of intending to throw himself into the river. In fact, Guo Shoujing, who was in his forties, had no such thoughts at all, he was attracted by the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but take a closer look. Standing at a height more than 100 meters away from the river, the turbulent water made Guo Shoujing feel that the ground under his feet was shaking slightly.

After watching it for a while, Guo Shoujing walked back to Kublai Khan. He said ashamedly: "Great Khan, what the minister said before that the Song army could not fill the river should be wrong. Looking at the current water potential, the Song army should have blocked the Yellow River. ”

Kublai Khan still had some illusions in his heart, and he asked the prime man's leading water conservancy expert with some hope, "Maybe the Song army only blocked part of the river?" ”

Guo Shoujing smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Great Khan, if they dared to leave a gap, their dam would have been washed away by the flood a long time ago." ”

Kublai Khan trusted Guo Shoujing's water conservancy ability very much, and no matter how unwilling he was, he could only believe that the Song army had really built the dam. He patted his thigh and laughed loudly: "It's okay, we can just tear down their dam next year." I have heard Hao Jing and them tell me that there have been many examples of digging up the southern side of the Yellow River since ancient times. ”

Guo Shoujing has an instinctive aversion to the breaking of the embankment, but this matter is related to national affairs, and when the Great Khan said this, Guo Shoujing could only laugh a few times to meet the situation.

Also coming with Boyan, the handsome Boyan still had a cold expression. Regarding Kublai Khan's statement of breaking the embankment, Boyan himself felt that he could support it. The Song State was able to build a barrage dam in a month, and it should have been much easier to break the embankment. However, Boyan did not join in the excitement on this matter, he said: "Great Khan, since the Song army has finished repairing the dam, I think I will march to Luoyang." ”

As soon as these words came out, Kublai Khan couldn't laugh. With the current volume of the Yellow River, the Mongol army could not cross the new section. The Song army could march north to Luoyang, a strategic point leading to the northwest.

"Go back and discuss how to guard against Luoyang next." Kublai Khan said. After turning the horse's head, Kublai Khan ordered again: "Send someone to contact Ah Shu again and ask him to march quickly." If you can't come, you will return to Shandong to defend it. ”

"Ahh As if telepathically, Marshal Ashu sneezed. Rub your nose. In fact, this has nothing to do with telepathy, it's just that Marshal Ashu, who has someone with an umbrella, is blown by a cold wind and causes a sneeze.

After sneezing, Marshal Ashu looked around. The rain clouds are thick, the sky is overcast, and the cold wind is swishing. At this time, it is evening again, and the surroundings are about to be lost. On the isolated island, densely packed with Mongol troops. Earlier, Marshal Ashu ordered people to communicate by means of sound, and found that within a radius of seven or eight miles, the Mongol army was trapped by the raging Yellow River on an isolated island composed of one high ground after another.

At this time the marshal was two miles from the nearest riverbank. More than a dozen of his islands had tried to swim more than 20 feet into the water, but they were either carried away by the turbulent flood or hit by something in the water, and unfortunately lost their lives.

Before the shadow of the earth was about to completely cover this isolated island in the water, Marshal Ashu ordered: "Let everyone stand tight, take off the leather armor that you don't need and put it on your head to keep out the rain." "Actually, he had already ordered it before, but the battle-hardened marshal knew he had to emphasize it again.

The Mongols spread the news, and calm quickly returned to the isolated island. The crowd crowded with each other, relying on everyone's body temperature to get warmth. Then it was completely dark.

Marshal Ah Shu was a few hundred miles to the west, and the tired Song troops in the Song army's camp began to rest. Zhao Jiaren personally led the patrol vigil in shifts with those middle and senior commanders. It is precisely at this weakest time that the greatest security vigilance is needed.

A few hundred miles east of Marshal Ashu's location, Zheng Jie led three divisions to surround the city of Jinan. Compared with the exhausted main force of the Song Army on the West Road, the main force on the East Road led by Zheng Jie can be described as energetic.

"Taiwei is really a man of God! If you say that you can return to the north of the Yellow River, you can make the Yellow River return to the north! Zheng Jie couldn't sit still excitedly, he stood by the map, and spoke loudly to the division commanders and division chiefs of staff with his hands behind his back.

The division commanders and the division chiefs were equally excited. Everyone's voices were also very loud, "Since Taiwei has let the Yellow River return north, the south of the Yellow River is our territory." ”

"Yes! Jinan, Qingzhou, these places are all big cities of Mongolia, as long as the Mongol forces in these places are wiped out, they are not afraid of the Mongol army. ”

"Let's do it quickly, and we have to kill it clean!"

In this fierce attitude, some people couldn't help but question: "But will the Ashu army fight back?" ”

The Song army had fifteen divisions at this time, one division remained in Hanyang and Ezhou to guard against the Mongol army in Xiangyang, and one division was in Lin'an, and the embankment changed in Lin'an. Ten of the remaining thirteen divisions were blocking the Yellow River, and the remaining three were concentrated in Jinan. There are eight battalions in one division, about 10,000 people. When Marshal Ashu left Shandong, he took 40,000 people with him.

Zheng Jie immediately said: "I'm afraid of hair!" As long as we are careful, don't give Ah Shu a sneak attack. Fight with dignity, none of us are afraid! Aren't we now just using upright soldiers to fight a dignified battle! ”

This big truth made everyone at the meeting nod their heads and said yes, the Song army was indeed fighting such a war, so the discussion became the details of tomorrow's battle, and the details of how to keep vigil these days.

The Song armies on all walks showed enough caution, and the Mongol army, which was the opponent of the Song army, was obviously unable to cooperate. Kublai Khan's pre-military meeting was not able to discuss and reach a conclusion. If they can win the battle in terms of military strength, the Mongol army will of course be able to come up with various tactics. Now the Mongol army could not find the means to defeat the other side, and it was impossible to draw conclusions from any discussion.

When Kublai Khan ordered the meeting to rest, Marshal Ashu was also awakened from his standing sleep.

"The water is rising again! It's all up to the waist! The outermost soldiers cried out in panic and helplessness.

In addition to the isolated island where Marshal Ashu was, the cries for help from other places were also heard through the night. The shouts of the Mongol army were almost the same, the water rose up, the water flooded the legs, and the water flooded the waist. However, the highest height shouted is to drown over the waist. In the waist-high rushing water, humans can't hold out for long.

I don't know what time it was in the night, anyway, under the dark sky, I couldn't see my five fingers, and the dirt slope on the high ground where Marshal Ah Shu was suddenly sliding. The originally dry slope was soaked with water from the top and bottom, and with so many people standing on it, the soil could no longer bear it.

The marshal was unsteady on his feet, feeling himself falling straight down, but he was grabbed from behind. Taking advantage of this strength, the marshal also struggled to support himself with his legs, and finally stood still. The people around who were falling into the water or not falling into the water screamed in shock, but the group of people who fell into the water like dumplings were more silent. At most, there were a few screams that were not loud, and there was no movement.

In the dark night, everyone else instinctively wanted to stay away from the danger and squeeze to a higher place. It didn't take long for Marshal Ah Shu to stand firm, and he felt that he was unstable again. His mind was like electricity, so he shouted in Mongolian: "The Mongols shout with me, and the Mongols are all gathered together!" The Mongols shouted with me, and the Mongols gathered together! ”

First Marshal Ah Shu shouted, and then the Mongolian guards followed. It didn't take long for the most organized voices on the island to overwhelm the others, and the Mongols began to assemble. Marshal Ashu asked the assembled Mongols to form a group of people hand in hand in Mongolian, and everyone who came close was questioned in Mongolian, and if they could speak Mongolian, they were put into the group, and if they couldn't speak, they were excluded.

It didn't take long for the outer circle of the island to hear the Mongolian response. Marshal Ashu then ordered in Mongolian, "Kill the others!" ”

Genghis Khan instilled many of his ideas in Mongolian culture, such as wishing the Mongols to be simple. It's just a stupid pleasure that doesn't have a brain on weekdays, and when he receives an order to kill someone from above, he will not hesitate to carry it out. The Mongolian people were as Genghis Khan expected in this matter, and in such a treacherous situation, after receiving the order of Marshal Ashu, the assembled Mongolian army silently drew their scimitars and began to assassinate the surroundings in silence.

There are more screams on the already panicked island, and it is really unnoticeable. By the time a number of people had been killed, the non-Mongol Mongols were outnumbered, and even though they began to feel that something was not quite right, they lost their numerical advantage. What's more, many people don't know what's going on. By the time the Han army found out that people had begun to kill on a large scale, they had no advantage in numbers at all. In the dark night, the Mongols, who were closing in on the last survivors, were assassinated with their collected spears.

The sound of killing is becoming less and less. However, the sound of rain and water became louder and louder, and Marshal Ashu ordered the Mongols to gather together in Mongolian. The island was quiet again.

To Marshal Ashu's surprise, every massacre he had participated in before, after the killing, the air was filled with a thick smell of blood, and after this killing, there was only a faint smell of rust in the air. It's the first time I've experienced such a clean smell.

I don't know how long, but when Marshal Ah Shu woke up from his sleep, he saw that the sky had finally turned gray. I still couldn't see anything in this light, and I could only roughly see the rushing river continuing to move eastward without stopping, and the water surface was only more than a meter away from Marshal Ashu's foothold at this time. Marshal Ah Shu was glad in his heart, if he hadn't killed him at night, he would probably have fallen into the water and died in the chaos by now.

PS: The next shift will be six o'clock tomorrow morning, don't cultivate immortals, good night.