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Chapter 128 Digging the River to Block the Troops
October 23, Daming Mansion, Beijing.

Du Chong, the guard of the Daming Mansion, who claimed that "handsome ministers should not sit on the fence, should take it as a matter of risk", looked at the Jin army outside the city, and felt his calves trembling.

The fear in his bones kept urging him to run quickly.

At the beginning of the year, in Cangzhou, they killed all the people who came to live in Yan area, but it was of no use. As soon as the Jin people came, Cangzhou was lost.

Fortunately, the peace (surrender) faction had great power in the court, and Du Chong was also a master of rhetoric. After losing Cangzhou and fleeing south, not only was he not held accountable, but he was promoted to the guard of Daming Mansion.

I don't know if Song Guan's family is blind or if his brain is flooded.

No, the top is a coward and the bottom is even more coward.

The Jin army outside the city had not yet begun to attack the city, so Du Chong planned to run away.

However, Du Chong still has some brains. He just "run naked" in Cangzhou before, so he must do something this time, otherwise it will be really difficult to explain.

"How are the preparations going?" Du Chong asked his men.

"Everything is ready, just waiting for the guard's order." The commander in question replied.

"Starting at [-]:[-] tonight, I will make sure these Jin troops never come back." The madness revealed deep in Du Chong's eyes made his men swallow back their words of persuasion.

He has tried to persuade him no less than ten times, but the guard still insists on having his own way. What can he do?
After the general went down to do his work, Du Chong called his cronies: "Assemble the troops, we will leave the city overnight and go to Kaifeng, Tokyo."

"Beijing Daming Mansion is no longer guarding?" The confidant was shocked. He would never have thought that the guard had already had a strategy to deal with the enemy just now, so why did he still run away now?

"I think the Jin army's camp is on a higher ground and the river water shouldn't be able to flood them, so we still have to evacuate." Du Chong replied.

What the hell is this shit.

If you can't drown the enemy by digging a river, do you have to run away?

The confidants couldn't understand, but they didn't dare to scold him, but as a soldier, he still retained a trace of humanity and asked carefully: "Since digging the river can't flood the Jin army, why did you let people dig the river just now? "

"It's impossible to flood, but it can block the way of the Jin army and allow us to retreat calmly." Because he needed his cronies to lead the army for him, Du Chong patiently explained: "Stop talking, go down and prepare , we will leave the city after dark and go out through the south gate."

"Accept orders!"

The confidant said no more, lest the guards would leave him here to guard the city.

Generally speaking, Du Chong is a big coward among the generals, and his trusted generals are not much better.

……

At Haishi, hundreds of soldiers were digging soil with shovels on the Yellow River embankment northwest of Daming Mansion.

Some soldiers knew how much disaster their actions would cause, and couldn't help but whisper:
"Damn it, even a dog official can do this kind of thing like annihilating his descendants."

"Don't you know this? During the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yun flooded seven armies and defeated more with less. The guards probably also wanted to use the Yellow River to defeat the Jin army."

"Fart..., I don't know if I can win the Jin army, but the people downstream will definitely suffer."

"In this world, how can an official care about the lives of the people?"

"Stop talking! Dig quickly!" A military general stopped the conversation between the two.

It is difficult to build river embankments, but it is too easy to destroy them.

As the river embankment was dug thinner and thinner, finally one section could no longer hold up and water began to seep out.

"Run quickly, water is leaking!", "Hurry, run upstream!" Everyone yelled and ran away.

Once the seepage starts, it is impossible to stop it.

Crash!Before the soldiers digging the river could run away, the jerry-rigged river embankment began to collapse, and some soldiers were swept in by the bursting river water. "Erwazi!!", "Help!!", "Run quickly! The embankment has burst!"...

For a time, there was a chaos on the river embankment.

Before the enemy was flooded, the soldiers digging the river suffered disaster first.

Once the Yellow River begins to burst its banks, it will be out of control.

Under the chain reaction, the breach became bigger and bigger. The Yellow River was already an above-ground river in the lower reaches. Now it had a vent, as if the entire river water rushed out from here.

……

In the north of Kaifeng City, large swaths of floods surged forward under the cover of night.In the silent night, the low rumble sounded like thunder in the sky.

However, the thunder is far away in the horizon, but the flood is close at hand.

I don’t know how many people were washed away by floods in their sleep and lost their lives. How many families were separated from each other in an instant, or even the whole family died.

The ruthless flood does not distinguish between men and women, young or old.

The water carries a large amount of sediment, rocks, branches, trunks and other debris, making it impossible for people in the water to escape.

Every time he floated up by chance, he shouted for help, and then the flood poured into his mouth. Within a few breaths, he sank to the bottom of the water and was never seen again.

In this section of Daming Mansion, the Yellow River flows from south to north, and the terrain basically maintains a situation of high in the south and low in the north, high in the west and low in the east. The people in the city escaped.

But for the Jin army, due to the high terrain where they camped, they were not flooded.

Wanyan Zongwang, the commander of the East Route Army, looked at the flood water passing around the camp and felt happy in his heart.

Fortunately, when we chose to set up camp, we found a high ground to prevent Song soldiers from attacking at night, otherwise the camp would have been soaked in floods now.

But I also had some doubts in my heart. The Song Army coach should know that the Jin Army camp was at a high place, so why did he still dig the river?
Is there any strange plot waiting for me?

……

Of course Du Chong would not tell him: "I just want the river to block your way, it's that simple."

The Song army who left the city fled south along the Yellow River, and rushed under the night. Song soldiers kept falling behind along the way, but the generals who only cared about fleeing for their lives couldn't care less.

After walking for almost an hour and a half, Du Chong heard the soldiers behind shouting: "The flood is coming!"

"Run!"...

"How could it be?" Du Chong was confused. Stubborn was in the north of the city and we were in the south. How could the flood come here?

Don’t you know that since the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River embankment has been repaired every year, but the quality is getting worse year by year?

It was fine before the embankment breached. However, after the embankment burst, the water flow at the embankment breach increased sharply, the embankment was washed away, and the embankment breach continued to expand and spread rapidly upstream.

The speed of this embankment breach unexpectedly exceeded the speed of Du Chong's army's escape, and by now, it had caught up with the rear army.

"Guard, let's go first. The Yellow River embankment has completely breached." One of his men reacted first and quickly dragged Du Chong out of the carriage and helped him onto a strong horse.

Dozens of cavalry troops had gathered nearby. When Du Chong got on his horse and sat down, they immediately protected him and fled southward at a fast speed.

Stealing chickens will not lose rice.

Du Chong dug the river to block the troops. Not only did he not harm the Jin army, he also drowned his troops.

As for the harm to the people downstream, it is even more immeasurable.

(End of this chapter)