Water Margin people

Qiongying was so focused on the sand table that she didn't even notice Zhang Qing approaching with tea in his hand.

"Didn't I tell you not to bother me?"

Qiongying felt someone approaching and thought it was another soldier coming to persuade her to rest, so she waved her hand in annoyance.

Zhang Qing didn't expect that when Qiongying raised her hand, the teacup in his hand was knocked over and the tea spilled onto the sand table.

"You're back?"

Qiongying realized that the teacup had been knocked over. She turned around and saw that it was Zhang Qing. Her expression then eased a little.

"The enemy is not looting at all. They are deliberately harassing us in order to exhaust our efforts."

Zhang Qing looked at Qiongying and said.

"Is that really the case?"

Qiongying was not too surprised, as this possibility was within her expectations.

"Don't be too stressed. If it doesn't work, I can go out a few more times and I'll be able to find out something."

Zhang Qing looked at Qiongying and spoke.

"I always feel it's not that simple! Oh no, the water has spilled onto the sand table!"

Qiongying shook his head, but he quickly thought of what had just happened, and the spilled tea spilled onto the sand table.

The two looked at the sand table, which restored the terrain from the Mesopotamian River Basin to the Persian Gulf in proportion.

The tea that was spilled on the sand table happened to fall near the city of Baghdad. The tea flooded everything around it. The marked villages and garrison signs were destroyed by the tea. The tea flowed along the river valley towards the Persian Gulf.

"I'll have someone restore the sand table!"

Zhang Qing saw that the sand table was damaged and said that this sand table was still very important.

"Wait! Water! Water! Water! That's right! It's water!"

Qiongying stared at the sand table for a moment, and suddenly a bold idea flashed in her mind.

"What water?"

Zhang Qing looked at Qiongying in confusion and asked.

"wait!"

Qiongying ran directly to the table and brought the teapot.

"Didn't you say that there was good rain this year, but there was little water in the river, and many places are dry? Aren't you curious about where the water went?"

Qiongying looked at Zhang Qing and said.

"Where did you go?"

Zhang Qing still didn't figure it out.

"You watch."

Qiongying began to pour water directly on the Asia Minor Plateau. The tea flowed down from the highlands and surged along the river valleys and rivers. The water was very strong and soon filled the river valley plains and headed towards Baghdad.

"This...a flood!"

Zhang Qing finally reacted at this time and realized that they were going to use water attack.

"Yes, it was a flood! You should know that Guan Yu flooded the seven armies. At that time, it rained heavily for more than ten days. Guan Yu built a water fort upstream to accumulate flood water, and finally defeated Cao's army!"

"At that time, Yu Jin set up camp in a low-lying area, and aren't we also in a low-lying area now?"

Qiongying pointed to the city of Baghdad surrounded by "floods".

"Why do you encounter harassment and distraction when you lead your troops to the north? They just don't want you to go to the north and don't want you to discover these things."

"And then there are the people who were abducted. If we want to stop the flow of these two rivers, we definitely need manpower."

Qiongying continued her analysis.

"That's true. How big a flood would this be? How many people would die?"

Zhang Qing's face was gloomy. It was completely reasonable to think so. However, at that time, only the Seven Armies were flooded, while there were a large number of civilians living in the plains of the Two Rivers. When the flood came, the most deaths would be among the civilians.

"They are at the end of their rope now. What can't they do?"

Qiongying said that those in power are never merciful. Saladin wants to revive the Arab Empire, so any number of casualties are acceptable.

"We will go to the northern plateau now and we must not let them succeed."

Zhang Qing said.

"It's useless to go now. If you go, the enemy will immediately release the water. It's difficult to build, but it's easy to destroy."

Qiongying shook her head and said that if she went there now, the enemy would immediately attack her. "What should we do then?"

Zhang Qing was a little anxious. Once the flood came, the entire Mesopotamian River Basin would be destroyed. Not to mention the death toll, this place would become a deserted place within a few years.

"Start a war! Start a war with those tribes in the desert! Use this as a cover to get the army and civilians out of the low-lying river valley. Even if a flood comes, the damage won't be too great."

Qiongying said.

"But some people may not want to!"

Zhang Qing said.

"It's hard to persuade the damned ghosts with kind words. We can only try our best. If they want to leave, they can leave. If they don't want to, what can we do? At most, we can tell them in advance that the flood is coming. As for whether they leave or not, it has nothing to do with us."

Qiongying said.

"That's it, I'll go gather the troops now."

Zhang Qing said.

"I will report these speculations to His Majesty. Also, send a small team to the northern plateau to take a look!"

Qiongying thought for a while and said that such a big thing must be reported, and the flood issue also needed to be confirmed.

"it is good!"

Zhang Qing nodded.

The telegraph machine started beeping.

Qi State, Liangshan City.

In the imperial study, Sun Lei was leaning back in a chair and reading memorials.

"It's the same thing every day, eh!"

Sun Lei felt a little bored. He was like a machine, dealing with the same government affairs every day.

Sun Lei, who was a little annoyed, threw down the memorial and came to the other side of Liangshan, where Lu Zhishen's small temple was.

At this time, Lu Zhishen was drinking with Wu Song under a tree.

"You two have so much free time!"

Sun Lei looked at the two men and said that he was so busy that he was dizzy, but these two guys were hiding away and drinking.

"brother!"

"elder brother!"

When Lu Zhishen and Wu Song saw Sun Lei coming, they stood up and greeted him with a smile.

"Brother, you're here at the right time, have a drink!"

Lu Zhishen greeted Sun Lei with a smile.

"What? Are you feeling better after coming back from Liaodong?"

Sun Lei looked at the two men and said that they had only been back for more than a month. Although it was spring in Liangshan in April, the ice and snow in the northern part of Liaodong had just melted.

"There's not much point in walking around. It's all white. The same goes for the thieves. There are a hundred or so of them occupying a hilltop. We can't find them after walking for seven or eight days..."

Lu Zhishen complained bitterly that suppressing bandits was completely different from fighting a war. There was no organized enemy at all, and a stronghold of a hundred or so people was really useless to them.

"I told you it wasn't a good job, but you insisted on going out."

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Fortunately, we did kill a few big bugs, so it's a gain!"

Lu Zhishen said with a chuckle.

"You really fought with your bare hands?"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and asked, he was very curious about how Lu Zhishen could defeat the most ferocious carnivore on the planet.

"Of course not with bare hands. The Liaodong tiger is too big. One person with bare hands is no match for it. Wearing armor and holding a Zen staff is more appropriate."

Lu Zhishen said that he wanted to fight the tiger with his bare hands, but he gave up when he saw the size of the tiger.

"The difference between the big beasts in Liaodong and those in the Central Plains!"

Wu Song also spoke up. He had killed a tiger with his bare hands before, but facing the tiger from Liaodong, he didn't dare to go forward with his bare hands.

"Of course it's different, it's the biggest insect in the world!"

Sun Lei nodded. He knew how scary the Siberian tiger was. Previously, large armies went to Liaodong. When there were too many people, the tigers were scared away and no one encountered them. (End of this chapter)