Chapter 57 The immortal Ehuan

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou organized tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to finally plug the lack of embankments on the Yuejiang River, and the flood finally receded gradually.

At this time, Liu Hou was not in a hurry to go north to rescue Jingzhou, rescue Guan Gong, anyway, it had been delayed for so long, if Jingzhou had fallen, it would have fallen long ago, if it didn't fall, it wouldn't be bad for a few days.

The flood gradually receded, but the road below the mountain was muddy, and the first thing Liu Hou thought about was not to attack Panyu City and find Buqi to settle accounts, but to arrange the lives of the victims. Due to the continuous search and rescue of disaster victims, there are now more than 40,000, and the high ground where the Shu army is camped can no longer accommodate so many people. Fortunately, the flood waters had receded, and Liu Hou organized the victims to retreat to the high ground one after another, looking for a suitable place to rebuild their homes.

With the help of tens of thousands of Shu troops, the speed of rebuilding their homes was very fast, and seeing that there was still a month to build enough houses to resettle all the victims, Fei Yi came to Liu Hou to cry and complain that there was not enough food.

Although the flood waters receded, the roads were very difficult to walk, and it was still very difficult for the baggage teams to bring in grain, so the grain transported in was still very small, and it could not meet the needs of so many soldiers and civilians.

"Then, in Mr. Fei's opinion, what should be done for the present?" Liu Hou also felt that this question was very strict, and asked Fei Yi if there was any good way.

"There are two strategies." Fei Yi stretched out two fingers and said.

"I want to hear about it."

"First, as far as possible, send troops to capture Panyu City and capture the grain in the city, or you can postpone the food crisis and get through this difficult period, and when the roads are clear and the transportation capacity keeps up, the problem of food shortage can naturally be solved."

Fei Yi's method is good, in this era, many ordinary people have no surplus grain, and the surplus grain has been collected by the landlord and the government and hoarded in big cities and counties. As the capital of a state, Panyu City is estimated to have no shortage of grain, and if Panyu City can be captured and the official warehouse can be opened, there will naturally be a large amount of grain for Liu Hou to call.

Liu Hou came all the way to fight, and many times the grain transportation could not keep up, relying on attacking the city and grabbing the local grain, which made his troops never have a shortage of food.

"Okay, this method is good, what about the other method?" Liu Hou asked.

"The other is to temporarily stop the construction of resettlement sites for the victims of the disaster, mobilize people to build bridges and pave roads, and help transport food."

"Isn't it, I have 80,000 baggage troops, and they can't meet the needs of transporting food?" Liu Houdao.

"If we only supply our own soldiers, these 80,000 people are of course enough, but now that there are tens of thousands of more people, and it seems that the number of people is still increasing, it will naturally be difficult to meet the needs." Fei Yi said.

"Alas!" Liu Hou sighed, he hated the backward productive forces of this society, there were no cars, no trains, it was really not easy to transport something.

"Also, because of the flooding, many bridges have been washed away and many roads have been cut off, which makes transportation more difficult." Fei Yi added.

"Then, then divide half of the people to help the baggage troops build bridges and open roads, and the remaining half will stay to build resettlement sites." Liu Houdao.

"The prince is wise." Fei Yi bowed his hand.

"Oh, by the way, the resettlement site should be built a little better, since it is being torn down and restarted, it must be planned. Let those who participated in the early construction of the "Ministry of Industry" assist in the planning, and build the resettlement site in accordance with the early construction style of the "Ministry of Industry". Liu Houdao.

Liu Hou's words turned a disaster victim resettlement site into a prosperous town in the future, and it is the town with the best planning, sanitation and living settings in Lingnan.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, please rest assured, many of the military personnel have been with the Prince since the beginning of the 'Ministry of Industry', they are very familiar with these matters, and Yi will arrange for them to follow up on this matter."

"Well, that's good, oh, by the way, if we storm Panyu City, what if that old boy burns down the granary?" Liu Hou suddenly remembered this possibility, and it can be seen that this guy is actually a decisive and ruthless master in his heart, regardless of their life and death.

This kind of decisive person kills people, what can't be done in a hurry? Liu Hou also understood his thoughts now, he didn't think about defeating himself or expelling himself from Lingnan, he just wanted to delay as much time as possible, delay himself in Lingnan for a few more days as much as possible, and buy more time for Sun Quan in the Battle of Jingzhou.

If he burned the huge amount of grain stored in Panyu City, he would really have a big head. At that time, Liu Hou's burden will not only be the tens of thousands of victims outside the city, but also the hundreds of thousands of people in the city will also become victims waiting to be fed in an instant.

At that time, unless Liu Hou abandons the burden of nearly 200,000 yuan and no longer cares about the lives and deaths of these people, he will definitely fall into the mud in the big quagmire of Lingnan.

When Liu Hou and Fei Yi both had a headache, they suddenly heard a message from their own soldiers: "General E is back." ”

After the great flood, E Huan has been missing, and tens of thousands of disaster relief troops have not found the main general of the first army. Liu Hou also thought that he was going to lose a fierce general this time, and he was sad for the past few days, but now that he heard that he was back, Liu Hou was very happy, and immediately sent an order to let him come in to meet.

Looking at the scrawny man in front of him, Liu Hou almost didn't recognize him. Ehuan, who was originally strong and majestic, is now thin into a skinny beauty, uh, ugly, this Ehuan looks as vicious as a tiger, even if he becomes skinny, he still can't be beautiful.

Liu Hou can imagine how much he has suffered these days. "General E is tired, I don't know how General E spent this time?" Liu Hou asked about his experiences these days.

E Huan saluted Liu Hou and choked up about his experience during this time. It turned out that on that day, he led his troops to intercept the Eastern Wu army, chased them all the way to the bottom of the river embankment, and besieged and killed the Eastern Wu soldiers under the river embankment. Although the Eastern Wu soldiers desperately wanted to rush up the river embankment, they were never able to succeed under the siege of the powerful combat power of the rattan armor soldiers.

Seeing that the Eastern Wu soldiers were about to be slaughtered, E Huan suddenly heard a huge sound of water coming from the river embankment, and E Huan looked back at the river embankment, and couldn't help but be frightened - the river lacked an embankment.

The river cascades down its banks like the Milky Way that has fallen for nine days, and the scene is as spectacular as that of Niaguara Falls. The difference is that this spectacle comes with mortal danger.

The soldiers who reacted, regardless of whether they were in the Shu army or the Eastern Wu army, threw down their weapons one after another, and all of them only hated their father and mother for having two legs and fled lifelessly. Since they were under the embankment, very close to the breach, the raging water was overwhelming, and they did not have to go far before they were overtaken by the torrent.

They immediately became a chestnut in the sea, and thousands of chestnuts were swept away by this torrent, not giving anyone a chance to struggle at all, and all of them became chestnuts drifting with the tide.

Needless to say, under this kind of torrent, no matter how good the water is, it is useless, even if many of the Dongwu soldiers are good at fighting waves in the Yangtze River, there is no shortage of water war masters who are nicknamed "white strips in the waves", "mixed river dragons", and "turning mirages".

But under such the power of heaven and earth, they have all become "white death in the waves", "mixed river insects", and "river pigs". Of the 2,000 Eastern Wu soldiers who were cut down by the rattan armor soldiers, none of them all met the Sea Dragon King.

In contrast, the Shu army is all wearing super life jackets - rattan armor. The buoyancy provided by the cuirass, back armor, helmet, and rattan armor around the neck could ensure that the head of the Shu army was lifted out of the water most of the time.

This allows them to breathe life-sustaining air smoothly. In addition to providing buoyancy, rattan armor also provides elastic force, i.e., it is very resistant to impact. This is also important and is second only to the ability to provide the opportunity to breathe air.

Don't underestimate the ability to resist impacts, under the sweep of floods, a qiē object, including the human body, moves irregularly at a high speed, and you can imagine how many things the human body will hit in this process.

It's okay to hit a table, chair, table, and stool, and it's not impossible to hit a hard stone, and in this case, it's not uncommon to hit your head and break your blood, displace your internal organs, or have a concussion. The Shu army, which was wrapped in rattan armor all over his body, was extremely protected in this super bumper car game, and the elasticity of the rattan saved many people.

Even so, the Fujijia army still lost thousands of people, and those who did not die were wounded. In this case, whether you can survive or not has little to do with martial arts and strength, it all depends on luck and character.

E Huan belongs to the kind of person with average character and bad luck is not very bad. He was swept away by the flood for ten miles, and unfortunately hit the boulder several times, knocking him unconscious, and suffering serious internal injuries.

Ehuan soaked in the water for a day and a night, and was finally rescued by a father and daughter fishermen. Due to his severe injuries and the lack of medical treatment, not even clean drinking water and food, Ehuan has been in a coma and has been suffering from a fever.

He didn't wake up until recently, and after his injuries improved, he immediately asked the fisherman's father and daughter to send him to Shu Ying, so Liu Hou could see him at this time.

Liu Hou also sighed, this guy's vitality is really strong, and he can be compared to Xiaoqiang. However, it was a good thing that he could come back, Liu Hou immediately arranged for a military doctor to diagnose and treat Ehuan, and rewarded the father and daughter who rescued Ehuan.

With the news brought back from Ehuan, Liu Hou was almost certain that the flood had nothing to do with Buqi. Although the soldiers who were rescued earlier all said that the Eastern Wu Army never went up to the embankment, Liu Hou still did not dare to conclude that the lack of embankment was not a ghost caused by Buqi.

Because he can repair the plank road and secretly Chen Cang, that is, use these 10,000 people to lure away the Shu army, and send people to dig the river embankment. Liu Hou even thought about how those extra people came from: there were ten teams of 500* people who broke out of the city in batches, and several of them escaped the pursuit of the Shu army and disappeared.

Could it be that these teams sneaked back and did this? Liu Hou always had some doubts that Bu Qi would come up with such a strategy. But now E Huan has confirmed that it is not, although Bu Qi must have wanted to dig the embankment, but he couldn't do it, it was God who helped him.

As the chief general of the First Army, E Huan had to be told by Liu Hou to pay attention to the river embankment before he set off, so he was more concerned about the safety of the river embankment than others. Before the accident, he sent sentries to scatter on the nearby river embankment to keep guard, and if there were any Dongwu people who were ghosts, these sentries would fire fireworks to warn them.

However, E Huan never received any warning signals, so he believes that no Dongwu people went up to the river embankment to wreak havoc.