Shi Dakai's troops missed the best opportunity to cross the river, and held a banquet for three consecutive days to celebrate the birth of the little prince, creating a thriving and optimistic atmosphere. In the past three days, only Su Sanniang has been sullenly paying attention to the actions on the other side and the water potential of the Dadu River, but nothing abnormal happened, so three days later, the troops arrived at their fateful place - the old crow whirlpool.

On this day, the day is still beautiful and windy, the landscape of Shudi, against the background of the blue sky and white clouds, looks vibrant, the soldiers of the heavenly kingdom will transport thousands of bamboo rafts to the south bank of the crow whirlpool, lined up neatly, a group of soldiers who are familiar with the water are trying to ride the bamboo raft on the river surface of the crow whirlpool, seeing that everything is going well, some soldiers rushed to the shore and shouted: "No problem - everything is normal -"

The preliminary work of crossing the river was deployed until dusk, when the bamboo raft was ready, and when the camp tent was about to be dismantled, a large dark cloud suddenly swallowed up the sunset and sunset, and the four directions, which were still clear, suddenly dimmed, like a dark night.

Shi Dakai, Su Sanniang, and Zheng Yingxiong were commanding on the front line, and seeing this, Su Sanniang said suspiciously: "It's strange, it was still sunny just now, why are there suddenly dark clouds?" Is it going to rain? ”

As soon as the words fell, the rain began to fall tick-tock, at first it was like a mountain rain, and gradually it fell bigger and bigger, and the river also rose, and the originally stable bamboo raft was suddenly swept away by the torrent, and then hit a boulder, and fell apart in an instant. The three test ride soldiers fell into the river, even though they were familiar with the nature of the water, they were also swept away by the torrent, but fortunately, Shi Dakai urgently arranged for personnel to throw ropes to rescue, and only then pulled the three ashore.

As soon as he landed on the shore, a soldier who had fallen into the water reported in a panic: "Your Royal Highness, the water has suddenly surged, and this is probably not the time to cross the river!" ”

Shi Dakai said: "In this case, I will go back to the camp and wait for the rain to pass, and then cross the river." ”

Su Sanniang was shocked: "Absolutely not! King Yi, more than 30,000 chasing soldiers of the Qing Demon are rushing to this place, if the flood does not recede for a day, won't it have to wait for a day? If you don't retreat for three days, why don't you have to wait for three days? ”

Shi Dakai himself was also a little anxious, but he still stabilized his emotions and said: "Shawang doesn't have to worry, this spring and summer turn is not the flood season, I have asked the people around me a few days ago, this Dadu River, in a hundred years, has never had a flood at this time, I expect that at most tomorrow morning, this flood will recede." At this time, it is cold outside the account, don't get drenched, go back to the camp and rest. ”

Zheng Yingxiong also echoed: "King Yi is right, the spies have come to report, the Qing Demon Chasers are still at least two hundred miles away from here, and the Shu Road is already rugged and difficult to walk, and it is raining rain, we can't walk, and the Qing Demon can't walk." I think it's okay to wait for a day or two, don't worry. With that, he walked straight back to his account.

Seeing Zheng Yingxiong leaving, Su Sanniang pulled Shi Dakai aside and whispered: "It is precisely because this Dadu River has not encountered such a flood in a hundred years, don't you think it is even more strange?" ”

Shi Dakai asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Su Sanniang said: "King Yi, have you forgotten that I, Su Sanniang, am not only a soldier of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also a purification messenger!" After cultivating in Guangxi, I was able to sense the existence of demonic energy, and it rained heavily in the right time, so I wondered if it could be done by demons, so I searched hard, and the result was ......"

"What was the result?"

Su Sanniang pointed in the direction of the upstream and said, "As a result, I found that there was a powerful demonic aura about twenty miles upstream. ”

Shi Dakai was shocked: "In this way, it is very likely that this flood was caused by that monster, why did he do this?" ”

Su Sanniang said: "Your Majesty and you both know that you want to use demon power to fight the Qing Demon, how can the Qing Demon not think of using demon power to deal with us?" After all, the Qing Demon is the lord of the north, and he has enough bargaining chips to negotiate with the monsters, and now that he knows that we are going to cross the river, he will let the monsters cause this flood to block my way, so that our army will be cornered! ”

Shi Dakai suddenly figured it out, and patted his head: "Alas, in this way, I, Shi Dakai, really wasted three days of good opportunities in vain!" Then he asked a soldier next to him: "Go and see, how much artillery ammunition is left in our army?" ”

When he was young, the soldiers came to report: "Report to His Royal Highness King Yi, our army still has seventy-six cannons, but ...... However, all the ammunition has been soaked! ”

Shi Dakai was shocked: "What...... So, if you wait, you can only kill yourself, but this river is turbulent, how to cross the river? ”

Su Sanniang said: "The lesser of two evils, the matter has come to this point, there is no chance of winning a decisive battle with the pursuing soldiers, crossing the river in danger, but there is still a glimmer of life." You see, the soldier fell into the water just now because he hit the boulder in the river, and if we move a little upstream, even if the raft will be rushed down rapidly, as long as we don't hit the rock, we will have a certain certainty of reaching the other side. ”

When Shi Dakai heard this, he nodded and said, "Then it's up to Sanniang's plan." He shouted at a soldier again: "Pass on my military order, our nearly 10,000 soldiers will cross the river in two batches, the first batch of 3,000 people will move one mile upstream and cross the river first, and the second group of more than 6,000 people will carefully observe and study, and all of them will cross the river tonight!" ”

So, in groups of 3,000 people and horses, seven or eight people, they took 400 bamboo rafts to face the torrential rain and floods, and sailed towards the opposite bank, only to see countless small rafts moving in the flood like fallen leaves in an orderly manner, waiting for the mercy of fate.

One soldier after another fell into the water, and one raft after another fell apart, but even so, more than twenty rafts had already broken through the center of the river and launched a final sprint to the other side.

Seeing that a group of soldiers was about to go ashore first, in this way, more latecomers would be encouraged, Shi Dakai and Su Sanniang secretly cheered in their hearts.

At this moment, a monstrous wave as high as a mountain suddenly rolled upstream, only to hear a fierce scream from the river, the huge wave instantly swallowed all the bamboo rafts, after the huge wave, the water level rose again, the turbulence increased sharply, and the three thousand heavenly soldiers were buried in the belly of the fish.

At this moment, Su Sanniang and many soldiers vaguely heard the sound of "ha-ha-", in the dark valley and the monstrous flood, it was extremely terrifying!

Su Sanniang said to Shi Dakai: "It's not good, the monster is ten miles closer to us, and now the remaining soldiers are frightened birds and can't cross the river anymore!" ”

Seeing that the three thousand brothers gave their lives in vain, Shi Dakai gritted his teeth, and he didn't know whether he hated the Qing army or the monster, so he unknowingly bit his tongue and let a stream of blood flow out of the corner of his mouth. After the pain, Shi Dakai roared angrily at the sky: "I didn't expect that I, Shi Dakai, would be wise in my life, and I would be confused for a while, and let my brothers walk into this road of no return!" Heavenly Father, Jesus, you have mutilated all living beings, you have been God in vain! After saying that, he wanted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river.

Su Sanniang and the surrounding soldiers hurriedly pulled Shi Dakai and persuaded one after another. Su Sanniang shouted: "King Yi, my brothers and I were born and died together, why did we take our lives?" It's a big deal to die with those demons! Let's go and judge with the Father of Day! ”

The soldiers shouted, "Yes, all of them will die!" Fight like Kilkenny cats! ”

Shi Dakai stabilized his emotions and said: "Come on, pass on my military order: all the soldiers, if you want to leave, you can leave from the path, I, Shi Dakai, will never stop you, if you don't want to go, go back to the camp to rest and prepare to face the Qing demon!" ”