Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 473 Flooding a Country

"Prime Minister, you were the one who came up with the idea of ​​sending troops. Tell me what we should do now?" The emperor challenged the prime minister unceremoniously.

The prime minister had a bitter face, but he couldn't slap himself, so he could only follow his previous suggestion and continued: "Your Majesty, I don't think the purpose of this letter of credence is for an ultimatum."

"Oh?" King Long looked at the prime minister with anger burning in his eyes.

"Threat!" the prime minister said, "No matter how powerful Ming was, it was a matter of the past. Now that Zhu Changyuan has just founded the country, it is already the limit to be able to launch an aggressive war against Annan. It is impossible to threaten us at the same time."

"Furthermore, Annan seems weak. It is easy to defeat but difficult to conquer. It is a big joke that the 60 troops of the Ming Dynasty want to enter the territory of Annan. According to my humble ministers, there is no army of 100 or even [-] million, and it is impossible to conquer. And the Ming Dynasty We can't afford that many troops now!"

"Ten thousand steps back, even if he has a million troops, it is impossible to divide his troops into two groups to attack Annan and our Dongyu at the same time. Your Majesty can imagine that if Zhu Changyuan had the ability, he would have fought from the north in one go as early as last year. Let's fight each other, instead of hiding in Bhamo and doing some land reform!"

After the prime minister said something, he was almost persuaded by himself.

After listening to him, King Long thought deeply, and had to say that what the prime minister said was quite reasonable.

"Also, although our Toungoo is a small country, we can spread thousands of miles, and there are millions of people, hundreds of thousands of troops. He can attack and we can defend, why should he be slaughtered?"

The prime minister's words deeply moved King Long.

Yes, you, Zhu Changyuan, come here if you have the ability. In my country’s territory, I have hundreds of thousands of troops in my hands.

"It's good that one can attack and I can defend. Just do what the prime minister wants. Reply to Zhu Changyuan. If you have the ability, do it with real swords and guns. Don't hide in the city and be a bastard, just talk without practicing!"

The reason why King Long had such confidence was that he himself did not believe that Zhu Changyuan would send out troops to fight against his hundreds of thousands of troops when he attacked Annan.

Therefore, King Long was very trustworthy, and he sent someone to reply to Zhu Changyuan with the opinions they had researched within ten days.

Zhu Changyuan took it out and only read a sentence, only to realize that he was insulting himself, so he didn't read the rest of the content again, just crushed the paper ball and threw it away, and said to the guards beside him, "Come on, follow me to the mountains."

Bring dozens of guards, take a boat upstream from the river outside Bhamo City, and drive towards the depths of the mountains not far to the north.

The river outside Bhamo City, called Lishui, is actually the same river as the river outside Myitkyina City, but one is the upper reaches and the other is the middle reaches.

Lishui is the name of the large water system in Myanmar in ancient China. In modern society, the name of this river is the Irrawaddy River.

Although the Ayeyarwady River is not as long and famous as the Yellow River, but because it is located in a subtropical tropical region, the rainfall is abundant, so the flow of this river is also very large. The water flow is about ten times that of the Yellow River. About one-half of the entire Yangtze River flow.

Lishui has a wide river channel from Myitkyina to the sea. Its valley terraces are the gathering places of towns and populations in Myanmar, and they are also the places where human civilization is stimulated.

The section of the river from Myitkyina to Bhamo, due to cutting down the mountain, the river flows quickly, but the river course is correspondingly narrowed, and the entire section of the river is about [-] kilometers flowing in the canyon.

Before leaving Myanmar last time, Zhu Changyuan had imagined that he wanted to do something big in Myanmar, so he set up a foreshadowing before leaving. This is also the biggest reliance he dared to say that Myanmar will be wiped out within ten months ( See Chapters 33 and 34 of Volume IV).

From a distance, I saw a waterfall rising suddenly on the river, blocking the middle of the river.

Yes, it is indeed a waterfall. There are two large ships exchanged from the system parked under the waterfall. The ships are full of construction machinery.

It turned out that for more than half a year, the machinery on the ship has been building the dam day and night, and the higher and higher it is, the dam not only cuts off the entire Lishui River, but also builds a dam within a hundred kilometers behind. A huge cistern came out, and it also blocked the navigable channel, so that the two big ships now had to dock downstream, useless.

The river dam that Zhu Changyuan asked to build is very simple. It simply starts to pile up stones from the bottom of the river, slowly raises the water level in the upper reaches, and then continues to pile up stones. After submerging the stone dam, it overflowed from the top of the dam, forming a rather spectacular waterfall.

When the boat drove to a place not far from the waterfall, Zhu Changyuan abandoned the boat and climbed up the mountainside from the foot of the mountain, then turned back, and finally saw the huge lake that he had built up like a dragon.

Seeing Zhu Changyuan's arrival, the officials in charge of defending the dam rushed over to salute, and said, "I pay my respects to Your Majesty!" Before Zhu Changyuan left, he was still King Yanming, and he became emperor after a few months of seeing each other, and his soldiers were also happy .

"Okay, get up!" Zhu Changyuan pointed to the long lake behind, and said, "I see that the river behind here is several times wider than before, and the amount of water stored in it may be quite considerable, right?"

The little official said: "Your Majesty, there is a lot of water. Although our dam is three feet higher than the water level downstream, the entire lake is two hundred miles long. If the dam is blown up now, the whole of Burma will go down. It will become a country of water."

"Okay, great! Are the explosives ready?" Zhu Changyuan asked again.

"The preparations have been completed a long time ago. Some time ago, my subordinates chose to test the explosion in the water. They will definitely destroy this dam in one fell swoop!" The soldiers in charge of guarding the dam are very confident.

"Hahahaha!" Zhu Changyuan laughed uproariously, and said, "It's ridiculous that he is King Long, and he is still waiting for my relatives to command an army to fight him to the death in southern Myanmar. How could I be so stupid? After today, he will think about what will happen to me Destroy Burma in ten days!"

Zhu Changyuan looked back suddenly, looked at the guards behind him, and said: "I will pass on my order to order all the soldiers in Bamo City to transport food and supplies to the high place behind the mountain, and the army and the people will also withdraw to the high place."

"Yes!"

In fact, the Bhamo executives knew that Zhu Changyuan would flood Myanmar sooner or later, so they stored all the strategic materials in high places a long time ago. Now that Zhu Changyuan has issued an order to retreat, for them, only a small amount of materials and personnel are needed. Just move to a higher place.

Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers retreated, Zhu Changyuan arranged for the soldiers to start arranging explosives on the dam, and on the other hand, secretly received the two large ships and their machinery into the system.

A day later, news came from Bhamo that the soldiers had retreated, Bhamo City had become an empty city, and all the underwater explosives on the dam had been placed.

It was getting late, and the setting sun shone the last ray of brilliance, dyeing the western sky crimson, with pale clouds, dyed like blood!

The night slowly enveloped, Zhu Changyuan stood on the top of the hill for a long time, let the breeze pass by his ears, shook his head slightly, and murmured to himself: "Forget it, there is no one who is undead in a war. Although killing too many people hurts peace, but I will do my best to make up for it in the future!"

"Let's get started!" came the order.

"Boom!" There was a dark sound, and a strong explosion sounded underwater. Immediately, gravel splashed, and a water curtain more than ten meters high rose on the river.

"Boom, boom boom!"

The sound of explosions continued, and a table-sized boulder was thrown from the water into the sky. Then, amidst the continuous sound of explosions, a huge gap was opened in the middle of the dam, and the torrent was mixed with gravel. Down.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by the continuous roar of the water hitting the stones, Zhu Changyuan took advantage of the last gleam of light in the sky to see that the originally clear river water turned into a turbid mud flow in the process of flowing down.

"Go, cleanse this evil world!"

Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath and slowly descended from the top of the mountain.

The flood carried tremendous pressure and flowed down crazily from the mouth torn apart by the explosives. Although the explosives only opened a deep gap, 10 minutes later, under the action of the flood itself, the gap was enlarged double.

The water flow of the Ayeyarwady River is ten times that of the Yellow River, and the destructive power of the floods can be imagined.

Wherever the flood went, the village was instantly razed to the ground.

Even those tall trees and jungles in the tropical rainforest were cut off and submerged like grass cut by a scythe after encountering such a large flood.

The flood flowed from north to south. At the beginning, the destructive force was huge. All the towns encountered were instantly turned into ruins. Many people were drowned before they had time to react, or were torn to pieces by the stones in the water.

Many people died.

But Myanmar is a tropical rainforest after all, with lush vegetation on the surface, which is not comparable to China.

Therefore, on the land after [-] kilometers, although there are floods, the destructive power is much reduced. At least when the water comes, it is not as fierce as in the middle reaches.

Although the people in the lower reaches lost their houses, properties, and homes, most of them could still save their lives as long as they reacted a little more quickly.

Therefore, not many people died in the downstream area, but the loss was great.

King Long crawled out of the palace wet all over, found a high altar and climbed up, covering his face and crying loudly.

The officials who climbed up behind him flicked their clothes while persuading them.

"Your Majesty, don't be too sad!" The courtiers persuaded one after another.

He Long Wang stopped crying, looked at his palace turned into a land of water, and said: "What should I do? Why is there a flood for no reason? Now that Ming Dynasty is going to war against me, if Zhu Changyuan's army enters the country, how will we defend against the enemy?"

"Toungoo Empire, it's over..."

King Talong let out a long sigh and cried again.

(End of this chapter)