Chapter 283: The Great Flood

For this reason, he and Qian De lay on the map and studied and calculated little by little for two whole days, and then sent people downstream to personally investigate before they dared to determine the feasibility of the plan, the difference was only the magnitude of the final effect.

On the morning of the third day, as soon as it was dawn, Philip led the guards and the top of the three Maga regiments to a hill.

Facing the frost that shrouded the mountains in the morning, a shocking picture was displayed in front of him.

Two kilometres away is the mighty Lake Fuchaka, with its blue-white ice reflecting its brilliant brilliance, and along the banks of the river are dense oil-rich pine and apricot forests more than a dozen kilometers long and more than a kilometer wide.

Further on the periphery, there is a 500-meter-wide fire barrier, where all the trees, not even the slightest weeds, have been cut down, leaving only the bare stumps and gray-black soil that cling to the ground, which adds a striking visual impact.

The more than 300-meter-wide Blackwater River stretches out from the lower reaches of Lake Fuchaga, and the special geological structure and the shade of trees make it seem that the river is not flowing with transparent water, but sticky black grease, which is also the origin of the name of the Blackwater River.

Within a kilometer of each side of the river, there are two man-made earth dams, first driven deep into the ground with logs and then covered with thick stones and earth, to ensure that the sudden surge in water does not collapse the river in the first place.

The sites of the following dams were also carefully selected, and the same was done on both sides of the valley in order to save a little more water.

Everything was ready and only the east wind was missing, and Vladimir raised his hand to test the direction of the wind, which was blowing from the shore to the center of the lake.

He nodded to the patriarchs, and the signal soldier blew the horn in Philip's nervous mood.

The sound of a majestic trumpet sounded far away in the silent mountains of the early morning, and suddenly a bright fire flashed in everyone's sight.

This is followed by the second, third, and fourth......

Countless orange-red flames erupted in the woods by the lake, and soon joined in a line, as if a large burning hand held the lake in the palm of his hand.

Dry and oil-rich trees in early winter are the best fuel, and the perennial inaccessible forests in the mountains make all the old trees tall and thick, like giant torches.

It barely took half an hour, when the last soldier in charge of lighting the fire ran out of the fire belt covered in soot, and the flames were already rising behind him, and the billowing smoke accompanied by the blinding light of the fire burned the sky above the great lake red.

Even standing in the distance, Philip and the others still felt that they were in the middle of a fire, and the hot air made everyone's skin quickly appear a layer of oil, and even their breath was a little hot.

Philip had been keeping an eye on the air around him, but it was all primitive solid fuel, there were no explosions, no shock waves, and Mars couldn't fly.

And the violently heated gas rose into the air, and the air around him was constantly replenishing inside, which made him temporarily relieved.

Although a colorful birch forest stretched more than ten kilometers away was his last insurance, he still had a deep sense of guilt for committing such a crime with his own hands after seeing the forest fire in his previous life.

"Look, the ice is melting!" was the exclamation of someone who broke his thoughts.

Sure enough, even though the light of the burning fire made it impossible for them to see the lake inside, the ice on the banks of the Blackwater River had begun to visibly decrease.

Soon the soldiers stationed by the river came to report that the water coming out of the lake was warm.

The group moved to the farthest of the three wooden dams, which was the bottom of a valley 50 kilometers downstream of the Heishui River, and in fact all three dams were built on the terrain of the valley.

The previous dam closure had accumulated a large amount of water, creating a 10-meter-high drop, but now the water surface is growing rapidly with each breath.

Twelve meters, fifteen meters, twenty meters, the originally calm water surface has also become turbulent, smashing on the thick dam body to stir up soaring waves, like a fierce beast that may cross the gate at any time.

Twenty-five meters, thirty meters......

It wasn't until the water level reached thirty-three meters that the entire dam began to tremble slightly, the wooden structure let out a loud moan, and the horn of the dam was sounded belatedly.

Twenty men with giant hammers stood on either side of the dam, wielding sledgehammers and shouting neat trumpets to hit several logs that were two meters thick.

The thick logs were beaten away from their original base and slanted outward.

When the final hammer was struck two minutes later, the huge log let out a roar and tumbled away from its original pedestal, causing a chain reaction.

Like the first link that has been unfastened, the 300-meter-wide dam cracks in ten places at the same time, and the huge dam body completely disintegrates under the gravity of millions of tons of dark river water.

All the patriarchs who had never seen such a spectacular scene with their own eyes, and even countless warriors in the distance, were shocked by the great power of nature in front of them, and no one even spoke for a long time, just opened their mouths and watched the Hong Feng, which was more than twenty meters high, roar downstream with an indomitable momentum.

Five minutes later, the rumbling sound of thousands of horses rushing upstream could be heard, and a wall of water twenty meters high, mixed with countless logs and stones, rolled and roared towards them, and some of the soldiers were so frightened that they fell backwards to the ground.

Even Arthur spread his wings in horror and flew into the sky, but he still had a good conscience, and when he left, he tugged at Natalie's mane and almost got kicked by the grumpy girl.

In another five minutes, a third flood roared by, smashing everything within a hundred meters of the shore into chaos, like hell.

The crowd did not continue to look downstream, but lifted countless rafts and placed them not far from the river, ready to board the boat and head north.

And 80 kilometers downstream of the Heishui River, a tributary of the Heishui River was completely cut off by logs and earth and rock, and the rushing flood peak ran down the other tributary without hesitation.

At 90 kilometers, I don't know what Maxim of the Nu River tribe thought of, and he actually collapsed a stone mountain, and countless stones as big as houses completely blocked the Heishui River.

The huge flood peak crashed into the stone mountain, splashing waves hundreds of meters high, and even Maxim, who was standing a few hundred meters away, felt the sound of vibration coming from under his feet.

Eventually, the stone mountain they had carefully prepared withstood the test of the waves, and with a slight turn to the right after losing its initial strength, the water broke through the soft soil layer that was less than five meters thick, and ran in a direction that had never been before.

These floods flooded the valley floor, flowed through the ravines, carried away countless earth and gravel, washed away countless trees, and became heavier and heavier.

In the end, they all poured into a large crack that was hundreds of meters wide.

The trembling Nuhe tribe finally overcame the test of the three flood peaks, and Maxim wiped the cold sweat from his head and ordered his subordinates: "Hurry up and inform the main force upstream, the road is open." ”

By the time Philip and the others drifted downstream on a raft that had been connected together, it was as if everyone no longer knew the mountain forest they had known for decades.

The original ravine became the bottom of the river, and the cliff of the rift, which was originally 100 meters deep and took half a day to climb, now slowly retreated from in front of his eyes, as if he could touch the jade velvet flower on the top of the peak with his hand.

In just one afternoon, they had already drifted down more than 300 kilometers on a raft, and the distance was already half completed.

The Prairie people are now depressed and confused.

He never felt like a tough guy who looked at death as if he were at home, or a wise decision-maker, but the tricks of fate made him awaken to the second level in a daze, and he became a middle-level figure in the structure of the grassland regime.

Since a few days ago, the water level of the Blackwater River has been dropping, and it is falling more and more violently, and it is almost out of flow.

Daxun Mingge ordered to explore the upper reaches of the Heishui River to the south to see what was wrong.

You must know that the Heishui River has become the lifeline of millions of troops, whether it is drinking water for people and livestock or the transportation of troops, it is inseparable from this river hundreds of meters wide.

So he tragically gave this order, but the problem was that he only had a mere 40,000 troops in his hands, and he was not the elite of the big tribe, all of them were cobbled together by the personnel of the small tribe, and both strength and discipline broke his heart.

But even so, he couldn't disobey Da Xun's order, so he had to head south.

However, what made him even more desperate was that when he was advancing hundreds of kilometers south, he was suddenly attacked by a group of giantesses.

The giantesses were all over two meters tall, taller and more burly than the Wards to the north, with bows larger than their bed crossbows, not to mention the black-lipped reindeer that came and went like the wind and the javelins that pierced everything.

The women were free to move freely in the depths of the jungle, using their familiarity with the terrain to emerge from wherever they could, each time leaving his steppe warriors fall to the ground before they could even counterattack, and then be constantly cut into small pieces and devoured.

In just two days, the 40,000-strong team under Nacha's command was reduced by two, and the remaining 20,000 men were like frightened birds, trembling and refusing to continue to approach south.

Nacha was unwilling, so he could only ask for help from the back and report the latest movements of the Alpine Warders while retreating north.

It wasn't until they retreated to a flat valley less than thirty kilometers from the mountain pass, the passage they had carved out on the cliff, that all the horses had a chance to stop and repair.

The news that the Awakened under his command found out was not worth mentioning, and those low-level critters could not accurately feedback what they saw even if they were obedient, and could only know that there were a large number of enemies assembled in the upper reaches of the Blackwater River.

This is simply an ostrich nonsense for the current Nacha and his subordinates.

That's why he chose to rest at the bottom of this valley far from the river, even if the enemy chased him down by boat, he had enough space to transfer.

At noon, the follow-up troops came up, and Nacha finally breathed a sigh of relief, the vanguard was 20,000 people, and the main force of 100,000 people would be replenished one after another.

Unlike the rabble under his command, these two 10,000-strong teams are among the most powerful forces under Daxun Mingge.

From the uniform ferret's mount and the scimitar made of stainless steel, you can see the elite of these men.

Finally able to shirk responsibility, as long as you wait for these big people next, it doesn't matter if you are whipped a few times, at least you don't have to fight with those giantesses anymore, Nacha thinks so.

As soon as the food was prepared for the vanguard, the traces of the follow-up troops could already be seen in the distance, because the dozens of kilometers to the west from the Bishan Pass were relatively flat areas, like the bottom of a cauldron with a small arc.

This is normal, since the grassland people chose this location as a breakthrough, they are greedy for the terrain here.

If it weren't for the collapse of the cliffs caused by the natural subsidence of the cliff here for countless years, they would never have been able to chisel through the hard mountain walls that are several kilometers thick.

If they chose other places on higher ground, they would have to spend much more cost and time than they do now, and maybe the time for the general attack will be pushed back a few years.

After calculating the time, in almost a quarter of an hour, the main reinforcements will be almost there, and he will be able to step down.

Nacha still has to arrange tents and prepare enough food, although I don't know what the big man's temper is, but as a small person, it has become a habit to want to do more, and there is no harm in it.

Before he could think of the wording of the meeting for a while, how to hide his previous losses, he suddenly heard a commotion coming from the south of the makeshift camp.

Nacha chuckled in his heart, could it be that the group of giantesses caught up?

However, there was a camp of 20,000 elite vanguard troops over there, and he suddenly relaxed a lot, and let them taste the power, so that it would be much easier to explain to himself for a while.

At this time, one of his henchmen, who was also his brother-in-law, ran over with a loud cry, looking panicked.

"What's wrong?" asked Nacha.

His brother-in-law may have been too panicked, and he fell down when he came to him, and he didn't care about crying out in pain, so he got up and grabbed Nacha's arm and said, "The flood is coming, run!"

Nachaxin said that this place was at least ten kilometers away from the nearest tributary of the Heishui River, and where did the flood come from this season, and was about to scold him, and then he stared at the back of his brother-in-law, and could not take his eyes off it anymore.

He felt that he was dreaming, otherwise how could there be countless floods gushing out of the ravines in the south, and the powerful force of the water flow even collapsed the mountain walls dozens of meters high, smashing countless huge waves.

And those elite iron horsemen in his eyes are running desperately in this direction.

Unfortunately, the strength of the ferret is strength and a hard scale armor, speed is not their forte, not even as weak as the ostriche, in the blink of an eye, countless black shadows were swept to the ground by the waves of the flood, and then howled and disappeared into the chaotic muddy water.

Nacha didn't care about his subordinates, so he dragged his brother-in-law and mounted an ostrich and ran to the nearest mountain.

As the flood approached, there was a huge roar behind him, louder than the trampling of the 100,000 iron horsemen he had heard, and the ground was also shaking, just like the earth dragon turned over, and the originally flat ground rose and fell like waves, so that the mount under him almost fell out.

Nacha didn't even have time to look back, and he didn't even pay attention to the terrified screams echoing in his ears, and there was only one thought in his mind, that is, to run desperately, to run up that mountain, and what his subordinates and future were, were not as important as his life.

Finally, when he climbed the small mountain ridge that was only fifteen meters high and looked back, he found that the fierce water dragon had made his original campsite a vast ocean, and countless small black dots were desperately struggling in it.

Because of the distance, the water dragon did not appear so big when it came to the foot of the hill, but it still hit and splashed a huge wave, and continued to move behind it without hurrying or slowing, flooding the woodland, flooding the ditch, and the only exit from the valley.

Only then did Nacha discover that his brother-in-law was gone, and that he himself was trapped on the island, and there was no other way but to pray silently for the protection of the god Rondo so that the water would not rise.

The water level is still rising, three, five, ten meters, and finally gradually flattening, and the place where he stands is only a few dozen square meters.

Nacha climbed to the highest tree in the mountain and looked in horror at the vast ocean in front of him.

No matter how big the flood was, it was impossible to drown all the people, and when the current calmed down, at least a thousand figures converged towards the surrounding high points.

There were ferrets, ostriches, his men, and the elite knights, who may have been superior before, but now they all have the same name, that is, the remnants of the defeated army.

The ferrets and ostriches were fine, but the humans were not so friendly, and they were all scrambling to climb the trees.

Among them, two elite knights climbed the big tree where Nacha was.

"You get down and make way for the uncle. One of them, who looked like a thousand-year-old, said.

Nacha sneered, and the horsewhip in his hand was thrown on the man's head with a bang, even if he was confused and had no ambitions, he was also a serious second-level awakened person.

The hard whip was drawn directly into the man's mouth, and in addition to taking away a piece of flesh, the man screamed and fell into the deep flood, never to be seen again.

The other elite knight seemed to know what was going on, but he was shaking as he hugged the trunk of the tree, and it was not a good thing to be soaked and exposed to the cold air this season.

In less than half an hour, the originally mighty and dense team of 40,000 people was swallowed up by the flood, and countless corpses floated in the water, piling up under the small mountain range with the action of the current.

All kinds of miserable deaths made a battle-hardened old wolf like Nacha a little numb and didn't dare to look at it directly.

Nacha noticed that the main reinforcements that were rushing here in the distance were also retreating in a hurry, chasing the surging water dragon behind them.

Gradually, the tail that fell behind was swallowed by the water dragon, and then devoured away towards the body.

Nacha knew that the reinforcements were finished.

More corpses piled up at the exit of the valley, blocking the powerful currents, and as the flood continued to pour out of the valley, the water level here tended to rise even further.