Chapter 1098: Digging the Dike (Part II)
"Your Majesty, the enemy is gone!"
Wang Jin reported to Sun Leiyu.
"Gone? So simply? ”
Sun Lei touched his chin and thought, last night the enemy was still clamoring to defend the city, why did he leave suddenly?
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid there is a conspiracy here!"
Xiao Jiasui said.
"It looks like it's going to rain!"
Sun Lei nodded, and looked at the gloomy sky again, the rainy season had arrived.
"A little rain won't delay the war!"
Wu Song opened his mouth and said that the rain in June may last for half a month, but the rain will not stop the war.
"Report, Your Majesty, the enemy has gone to Fan County, and now he is heading west, and it seems that he is going back to Tokyo!"
A scout came on horseback to report.
"Back to Tokyo?"
Everyone looked at each other, why did the enemy suddenly want to run away when the battle was fought well?
"Your Majesty, I'll lead the troops to intercept!"
Shi Jin immediately asked Zhan Dao, he was unwilling to let the enemy go like this.
"Which route did they take from?"
Sun Lei looked at the scout and asked.
"All the way west along the south bank of the Yellow River."
The scout replied.
"Where did Tong Guan get the guts to go like this?"
Sun Lei squinted his eyes and thought, Tong Guan didn't win for a while this time, in this case, Tong Guan dared to return to Tokyo from the south bank of the Yellow River, this is very abnormal, it stands to reason that Tong Guan at least has to go to the north bank of the Yellow River to evacuate.
"Send all the scouts out and find out!"
Sun Lei didn't rush to intercept, Tong Guan's 300,000 army couldn't go for a while, and now it is the most important thing to find out the situation.
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Fan.
"My lord, are we really going to do this?"
A group of soldiers looked at Du Chong with a frightened face and asked, they were holding shovels and hoes one by one, thinking that they were here to build fortifications, but Du Chong actually asked them to dig the Yellow River.
"Dig up, it's an order!"
Du Chong looked at those soldiers and roared, Tong Guan had already led the troops away, if he didn't dig the Yellow River, the Liangshan army would kill him Kaide Mansion.
"What are you doing stunned, the flooding is also flooding the south, can you still go north? If you don't dig it up, and the thieves go to Kaide Mansion, you will all die! ”
Du Chong pointed at the crowd and threatened again.
Everyone didn't dare to disobey the will of Du Chong, the chief, so they could only wave their hoes and shovels and start digging the river embankment.
In recent years, the Yellow River has been flooded, and the river course has changed several times, and now it has divided into several rivers, among which the north road and the east road are the main ones.
The Yellow River North Road turns north after exiting the Jingbei Road, while the Yellow River East Road goes all the way to Puzhou, turning north and then going east from Fanxian County, which is where the flooding is most serious.
The river embankment is not strong, and the officials of the Song Dynasty have been tinkering with the river embankment in recent years, and the embankment was dug up with a hoe and shovel.
"Go ahead, dig this hole for me, and bring water into the channel!"
Du Chong saw that the excavation was very smooth, and he was overjoyed, he thought that the embankment would be difficult to dig, and he was worried that the enemy would rush over, but now it seems that it can be done in one day.
Two hours later, there was a rumbling sound, and the ground seemed to shake.
"The river bank has collapsed, run!"
Someone shouted in terror, and then the soldiers and men scattered and fled.
"Collapsed?"
Du Chong walked to the embankment in surprise, but after only two steps, he saw that the embankment not far away had really collapsed, and the turbulent river water below rushed directly into the channel, thinking about Liang Shan and leaving.
The river was so fast that the yellow slurry filled the canal and spread everywhere.
At this moment, the wind was strong and the rain was pouring down.
"Haha, God help me! God help me! ”
Du Chong looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, and the water of the Yellow River was even more turbulent.
A thunderbolt sounded, and in the thunderstorm, Du Chong was like a madman.
With the impact of the water, the embankment collapsed more and more, and soon it had stretched for half a mile, and the breach could not be blocked, and nearly half of the water from the east of the entire Yellow River flowed to Liangshanbo.
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"Report, Your Majesty, it's not good, the enemy has dug the embankment of the Yellow River, and the river is heading towards Liangshan!"
The soaking scouts rushed into the tent and hurriedly reported.
"Hmm!"
Sun Lei was not moved at all when he heard that the Yellow River had burst, but just looked at the heavy rain outside.
"Your Majesty, these people are really ruthless!"
Wen Huanzhang's face was complicated, he once wanted to enter the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, but now he is looking at it, it is really a place where ghosts and gods gather, and it is difficult to distinguish between people and ghosts.
Wen Huanzhang was very happy at this moment, glad that Sun Lei would go to him and invite him.
"The Yellow River flood is a stubborn disease of all dynasties, and the emperors of all dynasties are most afraid of the Yellow River flood, and now this group of people has taken the initiative to dig the river embankment and indulge the flood, it's really damned!"
Xiao Jiasui said.
"Find out what's going on!"
Sun Lei looked at Xiao Jiasui and said, he is not worried about flooding, the rivers in Liangshan have been renovated in recent years, whether it is flood control, flood storage, or drainage, there is no problem.
On the south bank of the Yellow River, heavy rain made the roads muddy, and Tong Guan and his army marched with great difficulty.
"Why is this rain coming?"
Tong Guan looked at the gloomy sky and the pouring rain and frowned.
"Tong Xiang, it's raining too much, why don't you set up camp first!"
Xin Xingzong rode over, and the heavy rain had already made the army march at fifty percent, and now it could walk twenty or thirty miles a day at most.
"Set up camp!"
Although Tong Guan was unwilling, this kind of heavy rain was not conducive to the march.
"I just don't want to fight, I don't know what you're afraid of!"
Lu Junyi gritted his teeth and scolded in a low voice, he had enough of it, he had no chance to show his martial arts.
"Master, the Yellow River is not flowing right!"
Yan Qing looked at the turbulent Yellow River and said to Lu Junyi.
"It's raining, and it's normal for the water to flow quickly!"
Lu Junyi glanced at Huang He and said indifferently.
"No, look, master, this water is leaning on the south bank, they won't really dig the Yellow River!"
Yan Qing said.
"No, who would dare to do such a thing that will stink for thousands of years?"
Lu Junyi shook his head and said, although he hates Sun Lei, but he is not enough to use this kind of poisonous trick, the power of the flood has the potential to destroy the world, and the death and injury of millions of people are light.
The Chinese army's tent was the first to be built, and as soon as Tong Guan entered, Yang Keshi and others surrounded it.
"Childlike!"
Everyone looked at Tong Guan.
"What for?"
Tong Guan looked at everyone coldly.
"Tong Xiang, you didn't agree with Du Chong's suggestion, did you?"
Yang Keshi asked.
"I don't know anything, it's none of my business!"
Tong Guan shook his head and said.
When everyone heard Tong Guan say this, their hearts were also a little calmer, they thought that as long as Tong Guan didn't give an order, Du Chong wouldn't dare to do anything.
"Let's all go out, camp and rest, and set off back to Tokyo as soon as the rain is lighter."
Tong Guan ordered directly to everyone.
It didn't take long for a person to quietly walk into the camp tent of the Chinese army, and walked directly to Tong Guan's side, leaned over and said a few words in Tong Guan's ear.
"Keep this matter a secret!"
Tong Guan's hands shook unconsciously after listening.
"Du Chong is really a ruthless character!"
Tong Guan couldn't help but sigh, he has seen a lot of ruthless people over the years, but there are really few people who can be more ruthless than Du Chong.