The rain falls on the wasteland, and the stagnant water accumulates in the low places.

The water in the giant lake is even more turbulent in the rain.

When stones fall into the lake, they are often swept away by the swirling current.

To build a dam to cut off the lake, it was necessary to fix the boulders at the bottom of the lake.

It's not easy.

However, the people who moved the boulders to fill the lake burst out with enthusiasm and perseverance that exceeded Yougen and Liu Heng's expectations.

The smaller stones were tied over and over again with thick ropes on selected embankments before being lowered into the lake.

In order to prevent the boulders from falling into the lake from shifting, the displaced people followed the guidance of Yougen and tied the boulders that had fallen into the lake with more than a dozen copper-painted iron chains, and pulled them diagonally on the shore of the lake with manpower to meet the opposite position of the current.

However, in the rushing water, there is a huge amount of power, and the strength of mortals is far less than it.

Even, so to speak, insignificant.

But when the three thousand strong men were divided into three parts, took turns to fight, and worked together, they could barely prevent the stones that entered the water from being swept away by the flowing water.

The lake continues to surge, and the strong people continue to exert their strength.

With the help of their companions on the shore, the homeless people who clinged to the boulders, with thick ropes tied to their waists, and held their breath in the churning water, were able to erect several tree stumps with the top enough to expose the lake against the sides of the boulders, and the stumps were hammered into the mud at the bottom of the river by soldiers sitting on flat boats and carrying huge hammers in their hands.

Every once in a while, people in the water are constantly being pulled out of the lake, and people on the shore are constantly jumping into the water.

The water, which had been moving rapidly because of the heavy rain, had torn many of the ropes that bound the people's waists.

The debris and coldness carried in the water continue to tear through people's soft skin and constantly destroy people's fragile consciousness.

Many corpses. were all pulled out of the lake by the crowd on the shore.

Many broken ropes were pulled out of the lake by the crowd on the shore.

Many of them have no bones.

The hammer-wielding soldier tried his best every time, but the boulder that fell to the bottom of the lake was still washed away by the lake several times.

Each time the boulder was washed away, the copper-plated chains were pulled, affecting the homeless people and hammer-wielding soldiers on the shore.

Every time, a lot of people are killed and more people are injured.

Every time someone dies, cries and griefs can be heard in the homeless people not far away.

But it wasn't long before the lakeside was set to be nailed to the first embankment. It will be filled with more people.

Many old and weak people spontaneously cruised on the shore of the lake below, collecting the rubble washed up by the current, and the sturdy corpses that had been swept away by the lake, which had long since twisted and broken.

When death has become the norm.

People can only gamble with the sky.

Half a month later.

The rain became more and more dense, and the drops were as thin as hair.

The continuous rain suddenly became soft and gentle, and it was no longer tyrannical and wild.

The water that overflowed the banks of the river and kept pouring into the lake had already turned into a surging torrent. It carries the momentum of destroying everything.

But the boulder placed at the bottom of the lake by the displaced people has also become a nail deeply rooted in the silt.

Leaning on boulders, erected in the middle of the lake, tree stumps next to each other. There are four hundred of them.

Four hundred stumps, arranged on either side of the boulder, arranged in twenty horizontal columns.

Each column is twenty.

A boulder clinging to a tree stump. It will no longer be swept away by running water.

On the dirt slope facing the shore of the lake, there were 25,630 graves dug by Sergeant Liu for the dead homeless.

in these mounds. There are corpses buried.

The dead who did not have a body could only remain in the lake.

After more than 20,000 people died, the lake could be filled.

"I didn't expect that. ”

Yougen leaned against a mound, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and let out a long sigh with his mouth open.

The delicate rain threaded through the brim of the hat and dripped down on the face of the root.

Yougen's face was full of sighs.

"So many people will die. ”

A trail of transparent water slid across the corners of the roots' eyes.

It stained the dust left on his face, and it became cloudy because of it.

Like a cloudy teardrop, it flowed down the cheeks and into the scattered sideburns.

Standing beside Yougen, Liu Heng, who was also wearing a cloak and a hat, stared at the homeless people on the shore of the lake not far away, and moved the carriage full of stones with difficulty.

He was silent for a moment, then let out a long sigh.

"We were only concerned with collecting rocks to fill the lake, but we didn't expect them to work so hard. ”

"But why?"

"Huh. ”

Yougen smiled wryly and shook his head helplessly.

"What else?"

"It's not all because of me. ”

"It's so big, I've only seen Dujiangyan, and I've never even been to the Three Gorges, so I came up with ideas. ”

Yougen stared at the dark clouds covering the sky, and the smile on his face became even more bitter.

He lowered his head slightly and stood up.

He accentuated his tone, and his chest began to rise and fall violently.

"Filling lakes and cultivating fields, accumulating grain and straw, is easy to say!"

"I can't blame you for this. ”

Liu Heng frowned, turned his head to look at Yougen, and looked worried.

Liu Heng was puzzled by what Yougen said.

But he could also see that there was a sense of agitation on his face at this time, and a disorder of breathing.

"You had already advised me to use our ability to fix the first stone when we had enough rocks. ”

"You have instructed the displaced people, but your intention was to let them assist in preparing for the future reclamation work. ”

"You and I both know that the people have already begun to place the stones, but we thought that they would stop the order and send soldiers to help. ”

"There is no overseer, and our soldiers and soldiers are all strictly disciplined by military discipline, and they will not be punished easily. ”

"The loss of so many people this time was beyond everyone's expectations. ”

"There are roots!"

Observing that the breath exhaled by Yougen was still disordered, Liu Heng, who was frowning, deliberately accentuated his tone, and his voice became stronger.

"Twenty-five thousand six hundred and thirty outcasts are dead!"

"There are still 198,274 displaced people alive!"

"It's not all because of you!"

"The people who survived, but they are all your reasons!"

Liu Heng stretched out his right hand from under his coat and pointed not far away, the displaced people who had begun to dump stones into the lake where the embankment stones were placed.

He clenched his teeth, mobilized the Yuan Gang in his body, and gathered it in his throat.

"In the future, when the embankment is built, if it is really as you say, the displaced people gathered here will be very grateful to those who build the embankment!"

"Those who died because of the construction of the embankment can no longer come back to life!"

"And those who live can live well and raise more living people!"

The sound of thunder, like a sharp blade, pierced into Yougen's ear.

Yougen looked at Liu Heng with a shocked face, and his round eyes almost popped out of his sockets.

In this moment, he forgot how to breathe.

"Only they have raised more living people. ”

Liu Heng looked at Yougen's face full of surprise with satisfaction, felt the breath of rooting and stabilizing, and gathered the vitality in his throat, and his tone immediately calmed down.

"We have more soldiers. ”

Here, it will become a place for our army to recruit soldiers

Staring at Liu Heng's face as a matter of course, there was a round eye that shook slightly.

Suddenly, he understood.

He understands why the current homeless people are so desperate.

But he was puzzled again.

He wondered why his former self had become so cold-blooded.

At this moment, his heart was unstable.

"Poof!"

Yougen suddenly felt that his heart was blocked, and when he opened his mouth, he spurted out a mouthful of black blood, and fell to the ground with his head up. (To be continued......)

PS: That, hehe.

Thank you for your support.

But I'm on the day shift today, so it's late.

Tomorrow is the night shift, let's see if I can write a chapter in the afternoon.

If you can't make up for it in the afternoon, don't wait, sorry.