I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 256 Xiao Hongcai

Xiao Hongcai was walking on the embankment of the river bank, thinking about a secret letter he received three months ago, which asked him to do one thing, seal the river in Li County, and dig a channel to guide the water from the Qulong Grand Canal into Xinyue river.

This letter was delivered by a dart nailed to the doorpost, and it was not signed. I thought it was just someone playing tricks and threw it away.But there was a startling mark at the end of the letter, which forced him to accept it.

Afraid of being tricked by the enemy, he immediately used Xiao's secret village to go to Mobei to find his second uncle to confirm. Unexpectedly, his second uncle not only gave him an affirmative answer, but also came to Li County in person, saying that he wanted to see the sealed seal with his own eyes. letter.

When he held it in his hand, after reading the few words in the letter, he was trembling with excitement, crying, knelt down and shouted: God has eyes, God has eyes! !Thank you Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and thank you Tathagata Buddha.

Although I don't know why the dam was built to seal off the river to divert water, but the mysterious person must have a reason to do so, and the Xiao family will support it with all their strength.

"Prefect Xiao? Prefect Xiao?"

Xiao Hongcai was called back to reality, and looked at Shui Zhi Si Fengfanyi beside him.

In fact, there are no water control talents around him. After confirming the authenticity of the secret letter, he and his second uncle were still worrying about how to build a dam to divert water. They never thought about it. Three days later, this Feng Fanyi came to the door by himself and said Can help them get things done.

Needless to say, this must be the arrangement of the mysterious person, so he readily accepted it, and also accepted the two thousand elite soldiers and craftsmen brought by Feng Fanyi. In just three months, the fortification was almost completed.

At this time, he also just received the emperor's imperial decree, ordering him to suppress the bandits.

Everything seemed to be arranged, Xiao Hongcai and his second uncle accepted the order with peace of mind, without any pressure.

After completing the sealing of the river near Liushen Mountain and confirming that all the water from the upper reaches of the Qulong Yunyan River was diverted into Xinyue River, Xiao Hongcai followed Feng Fan on horseback and rushed along the north bank of the Yunyan River to Li County. They felt that the river water was dropping inch by inch. From the first day they started building a dam to seal off the river, they would pay close attention to the changes in the water level. , and the banks were covered by reeds, who would have noticed that the river had inadvertently dropped two to three feet?

However, the two or three-foot drop in the water level was fatal to the pirate ships that barely entered the Yanyan River. The original plan for the dredging of the Yanyan River was to start from Liushen Mountain and end in Lixian County. The dam building on Liushen Mountain was carried out As for the premise of the dredging work, Feng Fanyi and the people he brought seemed to have started the preparatory work long in advance.Now, the Yunyan River has been connected to Lixian County, and the water can be diverted into the Xinyue River by damming, so as not to form flooded dikes in the plain area.Without stopping, Feng Fan personally confirmed the suitable location for dam construction, formulated a detailed dam construction plan, and even prepared several old abandoned ships for dam construction and blocking the river, and piled them up on both sides of the planned dam construction site. part of the rocks.

Today, he and Feng Fan are going to rush to Liushen Mountain at night, and mobilize the nearby people to build a dam and block the river with them overnight. Before dawn, there will be a gap of less than two feet wide in the dam, waiting for Li County to ignite After the beacon sent a message, the earth-rock boat parked on the west side of the gap in the dam was scuttled to seal the gap, and the river was completely cut off.

Liushen is hundreds of miles away from the bandit's lair, and the army and people along the Wangnan River are also well-organized. It is impossible for the bandit's eyeliner to sneak and infiltrate so far overnight for reconnaissance. A hundred-foot-wide river completely sealed off?
"Prefect Xiao, look ahead!" Feng Fanyi suddenly shouted.

Xiao Hongcai also saw the sky in the direction of Liushen Mountain, faintly turning yellow dim light, a whole piece, very wide.

"It's fire!" A soldier shouted from behind.

A group of people rushed to the nearby village at the same speed.

It turned out to be a group of bandits!
The boat formation of the bandits was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames. Although the bandits on board mainly fled to the south bank, wanting to join up with the beach positions on the south bank so that they could retreat back to their lairs together, many bandits fled to the north bank in a panic.

Xiao Hongcai drew out his saber, and said to the dozens of guards behind him: "It seems that we came at the right time!" Feng Fanyi Zhou Quan, who was left with seven or eight guards, led the others to charge directly towards the bandits who climbed up the North Causeway.

At this time, the water in the Yunyan River was shallow and the mud was deep. Those who waded and escaped were heavily armored. Where can it resist the impact of Xiao Hongcai's troops?
Seeing Xiao Hongcai riding his horse and wielding his saber, taking the lead like a tiger descending the mountain, he led dozens of guards to charge repeatedly, killing the bandits on the North Embankment to pieces, hating his parents for losing two legs, and desperately fleeing into the river, Feng Fan I was so excited that I couldn't close my mouth from ear to ear, I heard from that person that Xiao Hongcai is both civil and military, a rare talent, to see his brave and mighty side today, I am really amazed.

Feng Fan secretly said: Xiao Hongcai led the army to have a brilliant record in the frontier, it is by no means a blessing.The emperor has a discerning eye, and with his ability, he is really worthy of any general.

Watching the contact battle at Beidi made Feng Fan's blood boil, and he also wanted to take the guard Xiao Hongcai left for him to rush up to kill the enemy, but just two steps forward, the guard was so frightened that he quickly grabbed his horse's head.

This man even makes people worry about riding a horse, let alone killing an enemy. If the horse is faster, he may fall off the horse. Besides, his lord attaches great importance to this man. How dare everyone let him make mistakes?
Feng Fan and his side couldn't fulfill the wish of the bandits, so they could only sit on the horseback and watch the battle.

After a while, Xiao Hongcai could no longer be seen, and he led his men to the vicinity of the battle circle.

After a stick of incense, the sound of the drums on the south bank was like thunder. Feng Fan looked away anxiously, but it was Xiao Hongcai standing in front of the beacon tower and beating the drums to boost morale himself. He was dressed in green armor and a red cloak, surrounded by soldiers Standing like a bright light guides the soldiers in front of the garrison to fight the enemy bravely.

There are still more than [-] cavalry on the west side that have entered the river beach position. Except for a group of soldiers on the east side of the beacon tower and a group of archers on the other side of the beacon tower as a reserve team, the rest of the garrison and militia on the northern line have already served. Pushing forward across the board, the final crushing blow to the enemy positions that had begun to collapse...

The bandit leader stood on a mountain top, staring at the hellish battlefield to the west with a solemn expression, a chill radiated from the depths of his bones.

This person's name is Dong Silai, and he claims to be a great strategist, but he never imagined that Xiao Hong, the new governor, would have a strategy to seal off the river, directly trapping their heavy boat formation in the middle of the river, unable to move.

"Sun Ting, look at this river, there seems to be something strange." Dong Silai muttered to himself.

Sun Ting was also a big braggart, he didn't believe that Xiao Hongcai's army could block the river and divert it in such a short period of time, he only said: "It didn't rain for more than a month, the river dried up, it was purely unexpected, it was our own carelessness. "

Seeing that the current situation is compelling, Dong Silai hesitates whether to go to the fortress for rescue.

Quite a few of the soldiers and horses in this sneak attack were subordinates of the master. Their tempers were somewhat imaginative because they fought with the master all the year round, so now they all strongly demanded to end the battle.

But Dong Silai breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there seemed to be a group of Xiao Hongcai's troops coming not far away from the corner of his eyes, and the others had to give up the idea of ​​rescue due to the situation.

Looking around, there are no less than a thousand people on the other side. Even if they press all the troops left behind, the disadvantage of their troops is too great. Besides, the river beach position is close to collapse. If they go to rescue here, the possibility of suppressing the position is extremely slim. In the end, You can only lose all the last chips in your hand.

Seeing that some people in the position had already led their troops to flee first, causing the entire river bank position to collapse, Dong Silai couldn't blame him too much, but was just prepared to welcome the result of the rout of troops entering the fortress and the damage of three warships.

Xiao Hongcai also followed the escaped Kou Bing to the west, and understood that they had rescue and positions.Looking at the moonlit night, he knew that he would not be able to take down the bandit leader in one go tonight.

There are more important things right now!
Xiao Hongcai ordered that, except for some cavalry to continue chasing and killing the fleeing bandits, all soldiers from the infantry battalion and militia should gather on the river embankment on the south bank, capture and kill prisoners, and the most important thing was to force all the bandits on the east wing of the river beach position to abandon them. They were not allowed to reveal the fortifications they saw.

Xiao Hongcai walked to the front of the formation, calmly looked at the bandits who were trapped on the embankment, and shouted in a deep voice: "You guys have a good life, it's too late to regret it now, if you abandon your weapons, I will leave you a way to survive..."

One of the bandits sat paralyzed on the ground, embracing the already cold corpse of his companion, drenched in blood, looked at Xiao Hongcai in the distance, and didn't have the heart to pick up the weapon beside him, and replied disdainfully: "It's not you who treats me well. When the child realizes that there is nothing to say about success and defeat, if you can leave my whole body buried in the ground, I will be grateful..."

Xiao Hongcai didn't say much, he waved his hand and ordered to shoot all the bandits who were encircled and suppressed. He pointed at the man just now, and said to his guards: "Leave him a whole body..."

At this time, the soldiers in the boat formation on the east side of the river beach also knew that they were in a predicament where they could not struggle.

Because the shallow part of the river bed has exposed silt, such deep silt, even if you abandon the boat, you can't go ashore quickly to escape, unless you can hold on until the tide rises and the salt channel is refilled with water, then you can escape.Although the large shield can block ordinary arrows, it can't stop the fire attack of fuel tanks and rockets when it is trapped in the middle of the river. The ship array caught in the sea of ​​fire is a living example. It only takes half an hour for the defenders to set up the stone throwing again. Crossbows, they simply won't be able to support the next time the tide rises.

Xiao Hong just returned to the Beacon Tower. At present, dredging and transporting the salt river requires too much labor, and it would be good to have one or two thousand more hard labor. Besides, today is the day when the embankment is closed, and there is no need to kill.

He had a lot of muddy water and blood on his body, and suggested to Feng Fanyi who had just been escorted: "Depending on the situation, it is not appropriate to attack the bandit's fortress by force today, you should prepare quickly, and don't miss the auspicious time for Hedi. Wait." The river recedes a little bit, and before the tide rises, I plan to organize people to build another mud embankment here, to seal the salt river in advance, and to build a road leading to the north bank. At least until the bandits have reinforcements, we have the ability to Completely blockade the northern front so that the bandits cannot advance westward with a single soldier."

"We've confirmed the casualties, it's not too late for us to start..." Feng Fanyi said.

At this time, waves of cheers sounded from the garrison position, and when they saw Xiao Hongcai approaching, the cheers were even more violent. Feng Fan and the others could also understand why the young Xiao Hongcai was able to be in the army at this time. With such a high prestige.

Whoever brings brilliant victories and achievements to an army will win the support and respect of the whole army.

Royal Palace
"Okay! Good! Wonderful!" Qi Tianyin couldn't help applauding after reading the [-]-mile rush that Heishuige handed over.

The next Emperor Master Jiang Heng's mouth was slightly raised, and he also praised him.

After being happy, Emperor Taihe leaned on the dragon chair and asked, "Recently, Chang Chonghu has been very quiet."

Then he said in a vague way: "However, in the morning court today, a minister has written a letter to remind me that for the stability of the country and the peace of mind of the people, it is time to establish a crown prince."

Really urgent...

　Thanks to my good friends for their insights and suggestions on the hydraulic engineering part.

　　Big wedding tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)