The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 891

In Baima County, there was not much rainfall three days ago. It was heavy rain from the upper reaches, and many tributaries flowed into the Yellow River, causing the river to surge, and a big flood peak that was as powerful as the sky appeared.Today, Baima County is also raining heavily, and the torrential rain makes it hard to keep your eyes open.

The torrential water rushing down from the upper reaches kept rising, and the continuous torrential rain not only increased the difficulty of construction, but also exhausted the physical strength of the soldiers and civilians in the heavy rain, and the drenched bodies were particularly hungry.

A layer of sandbags was piled up, and soon flooded by floods. This severe situation also made the idea of ​​camping and resting empty.

Fortunately, no one felt depressed, and continued to work steadfastly.

"It's no way to go on like this!" Xie Yingdeng looked at the soaring river water, worried.Although the soldiers of the Fourth Army have the will to fight like iron, no matter how strong they are, there will be times when they are tired. If these soldiers are exhausted and the construction progress cannot keep up, the flood will still overflow the river embankment. If we can live in this section, what about the river embankment below?Can it stop the crazy rising river?
Once a certain embankment is broken, the flood will engulf it, and the entire embankment will be torn to pieces and collapse. At that time, the torrential flood will surge southward, submerging the land of Huanghuai into a vast ocean.

"General!" A craftsman from the Ministry of Industry ran over and said to Xie Yingdeng, "This section of embankment extends from southwest to northeast, and the most critical part is the Baima embankment where the Yellow River bends. Now the new embankment bears, we must increase the thickness of the new embankment, otherwise it will be washed away.”

"Then thicken it."

"The problem is, we need to thicken the embankment for more than this section. If we do this, the bags may not be enough, so we have to try to ensure the flood control capacity of the old dikes at both ends."

"Then adopt the second plan." As he spoke, Xie Yingdeng asked the peasants to connect the rope nets, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to drive wooden stakes that were more than ten feet long into the bottom of the old embankment, and densely packed them along the embankment. into a row.

Then commanded the soldiers to lower the rope net, and dozens of soldiers with good water skills took off their clothes, tied them together with a thick rope, and then ran upstream, sliding into the flooded riverbed without hesitation.

It's just that the water flow was too fast, and when people jumped down, they were engulfed by the water and disappeared. It took a long time for them to emerge, and the people on the embankment breathed a sigh of relief.If the soldiers on the shore hadn't held on tightly to the hemp rope, this group of soldiers might have been washed away.

After they stabilized their bodies, the soldiers on the shore raised the rope net from the embankment with wooden sticks and handed it over.After the soldiers in the water took it, they put it on the wooden stake nailed to the bottom of the embankment.

After pulling the soldiers back in the water, they rolled the long bamboo cages full of stones into the bottom of the river one by one. The rushing water carried the bamboo cages to the bottom of the river, but they were blocked by the rope net and could not be taken away. When the bamboo cages are lowered slowly by the rope, they are slowly piled up to the top of the dam.

Although there have always been rumors of water flooding, when the water is too strong, no amount of earth and rocks can stop the raging flood, and the most feared thing about the embankment is not the frontal impact of the flood, but the continuous erosion of the flood. If there is a small gap in the "smooth" embankment, it will gradually become difficult to fill the gully, and eventually the entire embankment will collapse.

The water in the riverbed seems to be calm, but after a long time, no one can guarantee that there will be no stone loss on the embankment submerged in the big water. With the existence of this cage of stones, it can bear the impact of the water flow, Under the action of the flood, it is close to the river embankment to ensure that the river embankment will not be washed away or broken.

After the bamboo cages are piled up to the top of the embankment, two layers of sandbags are stacked behind them to prevent water leakage, and then earth and rocks are poured into them for compaction after the sandbags.

In this way, one by one, we will work hard to strengthen and heighten the embankment.

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At this moment, Baima City is boiling because of the arrival of the army.In their impression, the duty of the army is to fight and kill all enemies of the country and the court, and there is no other role other than that.

Not only have I never seen the behavior of the imperial court dispatching a large army to fight the flood, but I have never even heard of it. It may be that something that has never happened or heard before, but it happened today.

When the news of the army guarding the embankment came, it spread throughout the city as if it had grown wings, and the people all went out to cheer with blood boiled and tears in their eyes.

"What a blessing to the white horse! We, the people of the white horse, are so lucky!"

A county school student with white beard and hair rushed to the street, and the pouring rain drenched him like a rat, but at this time he looked crazy and shouted in the heavy rain: "Although natural disasters are merciless, the Holy One regards the people as the cause of death." Heavy, instead of obeying the destiny in the face of the disaster, we must call the army and the people to defy the order! The flood is irreversible, but the hearts of the people in the Sui Dynasty are even more irreversible! We are born under the rule of such a holy son. The soldiers of the Sui Dynasty rushed here without rest, without eating a meal or drinking a sip of water, and went to the embankment. Risking their lives to fight against the flood. There is an invincible and invincible army here, and so on What are you still afraid of? Why are you hesitating? Hurry up and go to the embankment with the old man with farm tools, and fight against natural disasters with the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty! Even if you can hold a piece of loess, it is a contribution to the Sui Dynasty and your hometown."

"Let's go, let's go together."

"Take the farm tools and guard the embankment."

"Take the farm tools and guard the embankment."

Ordinary people are humble people, and they are often the most easily agitated people....Originally all the young and strong people in the city went to the embankment and took turns guarding the embankment. The old, weak, women and children stayed behind, but now the public is shocked, just as the old gentleman of the county school said. Generally speaking, anyone who has a breath and can hold the clay will rush out of the house and rush into the wind and rain.

Countless people rushed to the streets, merged into a torrent, rushed out of the city gate, and rushed to the city to the embankment.

At this moment, Baima City can be said to be the aspiration of the people and the unity of all people.

The army led by Yin Hongzhi met these people unexpectedly. He ordered the soldiers to avoid these people, rode their horses and walked through the stagnant water, and asked Wang Sen, "Wang Xianwei, how far is Cangcheng?"

Wang Sen pointed forward with his horsewhip, and said: "Cangcheng is located in the north of the county, and it is integrated with the city wall. Let's go ahead and turn right. The end of this fork is the special warehouse road for Cangcheng. Don't worry, waiter Yin. immediately……"

As soon as he said this, his body suddenly shook, and he almost fell off the horse. He stared into the distance in a daze, and he froze on the horse, unable to say a word.

Yin Hongzhi turned his head to look eagerly, and was momentarily stunned.

At this time, there was heavy rain and the sky was vast, but there was a faint red light in sight, and puffs of thick smoke shot up into the sky, as if a terrifying giant beast was struggling out from between the sky and the earth, Yin Hongzhi's hands and feet were suddenly cold .

What he feared the most had happened.

After a while, several people came to their senses and shouted at the same time: "Cangcheng is on fire, go and put out the fire!"

"I must kill this bastard." Yin Hongzhi roared angrily while galloping his horse.

That bastard county magistrate didn't show up on the embankment all day and night, obviously he was preparing for the burning of Cangcheng.

I don't know how much food will be burned in this fire.

(End of this chapter)