July 14 of the fourth year of the Great Song Dynasty.

Corporal Liu Pet stood under the cloudy sky, and the whole person looked a little stunned. Similar to him, the people on the embankment basically had this expression. It has been a month since the construction of the embankment began, and all the commanders and fighters on the front line, including Captain Zhao, have exhausted almost all their strength to build this embankment.

By the end of the project, the embankment, which was about 100 meters wide, was filled with various machinery and equipment, and a large number of livestock were used to power it. Manpower is no longer the main motivation here, but people have to work continuously. Under such consumption, Liu Pet felt that his energy had been squeezed out. He can indeed move around and work, but his whole person is as numb as a walking corpse.

Of course, the expressions of the people on the embankment at this time were not because everyone was numb and the corpses were transformed. All other work was halted for the time being, and a dozen large boats sailed upstream of the river towards the gap in the last 100 meters.

With only a 100-metre-wide gap left, the river is extremely turbulent and makes a bull-like sound. In order to test the impact of the current, a large cable thicker than an arm was tied to an iron cage filled with stones and lowered into the river, and the ropes were pulled off. This made the plan to erect cables on both sides of the river and put iron cages into the river failed. A few meters long iron cage filled with stones and thrown down is washed away, and a few meters long iron cage filled with stones is now the limit weight that can be used to propel into the river.

The ships that are coming now are the last resort. Almost all of these boats were pressed to the waterline, and Liu Pet went up to the boat to see it. I saw that inside the cabin were oversized iron cages ten meters long, and the iron cages were filled with stones. These ships were not prepared now, and construction began in them very early in order to fill them.

As long as you have a little understanding, at least at the level of Liu Pet, you can understand that Zhao Taiwei wants to block the estuary by sinking a ship in the final gap. Liu Chong, who has been working on the construction site for so long, is very supportive of this method, and he really can't think of any other means to block such a ferocious river.

With the help of the cables on both sides, four boats with a width of seven or eight meters were able to enter a gap of 100 meters side by side. The ships were all lowered to anchor, and to their astonishment, the cables were stretched under the tremendous force. Thankfully, ropes were roped up on both sides of the river, and the crew did not have to cross the boat, and after a few dull explosions, they grabbed the rope that hung from the sling that crossed the bank, and they escaped.

Liu Pet saw that the boat was tilted left and right at first, and soon the butt quickly sank into the water, and after a while, countless debris floated on the water. Many people were amazed, and the instructor of the company who was transferred from the navy said: "Even if it is hit by ten five-pound cannons, it will not be broken so quickly!" ”

What is the effect of being beaten by ten five-pound cannons, Liu Pet doesn't know. What he saw was that once such a large ship was swept into the water, it was like paper paste, and before Liu Chong's imagination could ferment, the four boats below were driven towards the gap with the help of exquisite piloting and cables on both sides of the river. A new round of shipwreck reclaim has begun.

Although the fillers were all old ships, Taiwei Zhao was still extremely painful in his heart. These ships are all ships that can continue to be used, and the broken ship simply cannot withstand such a toss. More than a dozen ships sank, that is, more than 10,000 ships were really 'drifting'. When the last boat was torn apart by the fast-flowing water, the corner of the iron cage was raised high and did not sink again. At this time, the water of the Yellow River is no longer flowing, but because it is blocked below, it begins to throw waves seven or eight meters high into the air. But no matter how much the river struggled, the water downstream of the wreck was noticeably smaller.

Everyone couldn't help but cheer. At this time, the commanders shouted: "Come on, everyone!" He took the lead in operating the equipment that had been prepared. A few meters long iron cages filled with stones are pushed into the water like dumplings, stirring up turbid waves that soar into the sky.

Liu Pet was also in this group, although he felt that his arms were numb, he still tried his last bit of strength to push those winches with everyone. If you don't have the strength to carry your arms, you can carry them on your shoulders, and if your shoulders hurt and you can't bear them, you use your chest to push them. The equipment that looked so heavy was just pushed, slow but not stagnant.

I don't know how many rounds were cast, but the commander waved a red flag and shouted: "Stop!" "The commanders and fighters who were working on the machinery stopped. Then a large group of people rushed over with sacks full of sand and threw them into the river. Liu Pet thought to himself, the iron cage can't work, how can the sack work?

But to Liu Pet's surprise, the sack seemed to have played a role, and he saw that those people kept moving forward, moving forward. I don't know when the roaring sound of the cow has disappeared, and even the river breeze has become smaller. I saw where the red flag was waving, and someone rushed over from the other side, covered in muddy water.

"That's it! That's it! Cheers rang out in the nick not too long ago.

Using up his last comprehension, Liu Zhong probably judged that the entire embankment had finally been completed. At this time, he felt that he should also join the joyful crowd, but the pain in his body made Liu Pet suddenly sad, and he couldn't help crying.

Zhao Jiaren was finally liberated from the pain of spending a lot of money at this time. Looking at the causeway that has been broken through, looking at the construction site where some people laugh and some cry, Zhao Jiaren also felt a sour nose and tears flowed down.

At this moment, thunder suddenly rumbled in the sky, and the dull sound shook the entire north and south of the Yellow River. Then the bean-sized raindrops began to fall. The cold rain and warm tears were mixed together, so that Zhao Jiaren could no longer care about sentimentality, and he hurriedly ordered loudly: "Quick! Intensify the reinforcement of the embankment! ”

On July 17, about the beginning of September in the Western calendar, next to the new channel more than 300 miles downstream of the new estuary of the Yellow River, Marshal Ashu, who was directing the crossing of the river, first noticed that the river had begun to rise and the current had become turbulent. Looking at the sky that was about to rain, Marshal Ah Shu felt that he was unlucky.

Since the Yellow River flows south, the entire north of the Yellow River has become drier and drier. Previously, Marshal Ashu was ready to march according to the old map and join the Great Khan Kublai Khan. Unexpectedly, I suddenly encountered the new Yellow River. Because of the dryness, the old course of the Yellow River has become a waterless sandy and barren beach, and with the Mongols raging, it is no longer inhabited. The lack of human population meant that there was no possibility of finding a ship, so the marshal led 40,000 soldiers and horses in a dilemma on the wasteland.

The Great Khan's order sounded good, and the sheepskin raft was a tool for the Mongols to cross the river. But the Mongolian army didn't expect Zhao Jiaren to actually make a moth that returned to the north of the Yellow River, and they didn't even bring much sheepskin rafts. In the past few days, Marshal Ashu ordered to march eastward and began to cross the river in a place where the water flow was stable and wide. Only half of the people passed, and the river actually rose.

Standing by the river, Marshal Ashu felt as if he had returned to his days in Yangzhou. At that time, he had to face the fields crisscrossed by the ditches in the south of the Yangtze River, and suddenly he saw that there were also endless fields, but if he really wanted to walk a straight line between two points, he had to cross a river and then a river and then a river. It's a nightmare.

Just as he was thinking, Marshal Ah Shu felt a cool breeze blowing, and cold raindrops hit his face. When I looked up at the sky, I felt that the dark clouds were getting lower and lower. At this moment, his own soldiers hurriedly pulled Marshal Ashu's arm, "Marshal be careful, the water is rising so fast." ”

Marshal Ah Shu lowered his head, and sure enough, he saw that the river had risen to his feet. He hurriedly looked for high ground and walked up, but saw that the river seemed to be chasing him. At this time, the Mongol army did not expect such a thing to happen, and the people on the bank of the river hurriedly ran to the heights.

Surrounded by his own soldiers, the marshal went up to the top of the river bank before stopping. Looking down condescendingly, Marshal Ah Shu was shocked. The river, which was only more than a mile wide yesterday, has become more than two miles wide in a short period of time. Because the north bank is relatively low, the river continues to expand towards the north bank. Even on the higher south bank, the muddy river swept up a large number of branches, leaves, weeds and other things and swirled towards the river bank, splashing the old high water, and even spraying Marshal Ashu in the face.

At this time, those who had crossed the river either capsized or clung to the boat, and the river was quickly swept downstream. If the soldiers on the shore are clever, they will run to the higher shore early, and there will be a place to stay. Those soldiers who did not run high enough were flooded in the lower part of the back road. Although they are in the plains of Hebei, these people are located on isolated islands.

At this moment, the raindrops became denser and denser, and the sound of rain began to appear between the heavens and the earth. The soldiers hurriedly took out a poncho for Marshal Ashu and raised an umbrella. Although the marshal had experienced a hundred battles, he was confused by a situation that he had never seen before. Where is Hebei in front of you, it is obviously Jiangnan.

At this moment, Marshal Ashu's own soldiers screamed. The marshal was already in a bad mood, and immediately frowned when he heard this. Then I heard the soldiers shouting: "Marshal, it's not good! It's all water behind us! It's all water! ”

Marshal Ah Shu looked up, but saw the personal soldier standing at the highest point of this high place. Behind the marshal was obscured by a high slope, and nothing could be seen. The step also went to the highest place, and Marshal Ashu froze. More than 30 zhang behind him, there was a rapids several zhang wide that appeared at an unknown time. And in a blink of an eye, the rapids are widening and rising. At this moment, Marshal Ah Shu was completely stunned. He already had absolutely no idea what was going on.

More than three hundred miles upstream from Marshal Ashu, Zhao Jiaren and Zhao Taiwei knew what was happening. On the day he succeeded in damming the river, it began to rain. The rain rained for three days first, but fortunately, Zhao Jiaren was a person from the industrial age, and he was not stingy with iron and sisal sacks.

At this time, the sky has cleared, the water level of the Yellow River is still at a high level, the new river channel has been washed to more than three miles wide, and the Yellow River water is rolling down the river. Zhao Jiaren was very happy in his heart. If he blocked the Yellow River according to the insight of the Song Dynasty, there was probably no other possibility than failure.