Within a few days, the Han River flooded, the turbid waves surging, and the water swept hundreds of miles. In this area, Cao and Liu each had tens of thousands of troops, with their camps as iron as iron, and their murderous aura soaring into the sky. However, as soon as the flood arrived, there were countless camps and military camps that were destroyed in an instant, and many soldiers were buried in the belly of fish. The situation was tragic.
The Cao army units located upstream of the river are the first to be hit.
The floating city, which connected Fancheng and Xiangyang and built with huge manpower and material resources, has disappeared. The floating bridge system has also disappeared, and the soldiers responsible for guarding the floating bridge, the military camps and huge amounts of supplies on both ends of the floating bridge are all floating.
Zhang He, the right general who was responsible for guarding the floating bridge, retreated in time to Gaogang north of the Han River. He watched helplessly as his reorganized headquarters was destroyed again, leaving only hundreds of people gathered on a small piece of land dozens of feet in a radius. He could not sit, could not lie, and there was no food or water.
More than 30 battalions of Cao's troops stationed in tributary ponds in various places in Qingshui went to half of them in just one night. Seeing the rain surging, many of the troops around Xinye in the upper reaches chose to break the dike and release water. So the flood washed downstream without any obstacles, rinsing downstream one after another.
When the water from each tributary converges, the width of the water outlet is more than twenty feet. The mixed yellow mud water wraps the soil, wood, people, animals, and a vast amount of soups flow into the Han River, causing huge swells, and washes up Yuliangzhou in one breath, erasing the buildings and farmland that have been built over the continent for hundreds of years.
At the same time, in the vast area from Lumen Mountain to Lulin Mountain, the original swamp area has expanded ten times or hundreds of times. It looks like the sea, and the water surface is almost connected with the former traces of Yunmengze in the western part of Jiangxia County and the eastern part of Nanjun. The originally undulating and steep peaks have all turned into reef islands standing on the sea.
Under such water conditions, the troops stationed in low-lying areas were already swept away. As time went by, the corpses of humans and animals that had originally sunk to the bottom of the water slowly swelled and floated one after another. The corpses gathered little by little in the fjords left by some water conditions and stacked into a thick layer.
Occasionally, buffaloes that broke free from the reins exposed their heads and backs and slowly swam past the corpse.
Under the combined effect of the Qingshui and Hanshui, the Hanshui River was flooded with waves on both sides, and the cities where Cao's heavy troops were stationed by Xiangyang, Fancheng, and even Dengsai and other Cao's troops were all immersed in the water. If you look down from a high place, only square or round walls remained on the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city climbed on the roof to avoid the water.
Many houses collapsed stagger because they could not bear the crowds on the top. Even the seemingly strong city walls began to collapse gradually after being soaked and washed by water about a few days after several days. At first, they deformed little by little like squeezed tofu, and after they reached a critical point, they fell into the water with a loud bang.
Fortunately, the water level inside and outside the city was already average, and there was nothing to be alarmed about collapse of a piece of the city wall.
At this time, all the Cao army soldiers were busy saving themselves. Occasionally, if someone thought about halfway through the war, the officer would tell them:
Our army is like this. Liu Bei's army is in the lower reaches, and there are few cities and high grounds for their support. How can they survive? Even if they have the benefits of the navy... When there is a heavy rain and heavy flood, how many people have to board the ship? How many people can they carry on?
After this battle, both Cao and Liu furniture suffered losses, and no one was better than each other. However, in Wancheng, our army still had a powerful soldier led by the King of Wei personally, and what else could the Jingzhou army and Jiaozhou army remain?
Therefore, we won this battle! When the water receded, the troops continued to move south and cleaned up the remaining troops of the Jingzhou Army and the Jiaozhou Army in the mud. It was so easy to get back to the back!
This statement itself is not bad. But Cao's army would never have imagined that the enemy had been waiting for this flood. How well prepared the Jingzhou Army and the Jiaozhou Army, how well-trained the coordinated operations of their water and land armies, how fast they were, and how fast they could be. It is really difficult for those warriors from the north to understand.
句扶沿着山路走着,时不时止步,低声询问激励几句在路边放哨的将士们.在他身后,亲兵首领带着几名同伴捧着瓦罐,给士卒们每人倒上一大碗滚烫的杂粮粥.
Because the soldiers carried skins to store fried rice and fried noodles with them, there was still no shortage of food at this moment, and there were clear springs in the mountains. However, where the rain and floods passed, everything was soaked, and the fuel was scarce, so they could not make hot food. Ju Fu finally found dry firewood in an old house that could make fire, and quickly cooked a pot of hot porridge and brought it out to share it with the soldiers to encourage their morale.
After a few cans of porridge were divided, Ju Fu also stood at the end of the mountain road. Going further forward, the road was completely out of the water and could not walk. However, small boats or rafts would be more convenient here.
The water level is slowly fading, and today's mountain road extends more than two meters than yesterday, but it is still very difficult to go out. Yesterday afternoon, General Lei sent his confidant entourage from Jiming Mountain to contact him. After more than 40 miles, the entourage and his group stayed asleep and traveled for eight hours.
When they arrived at the edge of Green Forest Mountain, they were covered in mud and wounded areas, and they could not see anyone. A post at the entrance of Ju Fu was probably too nervous and regarded them as mountain spirits and monsters. They shot them at the start of work and shot them, but they were shot.
When the misunderstanding was eliminated, Ju Fu rushed to the scene and was even more furious. It turned out that Lei Yuan was close to Yan Yu who was shot. In the past two years, Li Zhen's age and status have increased, and he has assumed more and more responsibilities and can no longer be inseparable from Lei Yuan like he did back then. So Yan Yu, a young attendant promoted by Lei Yuan in Lexiang County, gradually replaced some of Li Zhen's tasks.
Lei Yuan sent people to send messages everywhere, fearing that the talismans, handwritten orders and other things would be lost in the flood, so the sent people were all entourages who were familiar with the generals of all parties. Yan Yu volunteered to come to Lulin Mountain, but as soon as he arrived at the mountain pass, he was knocked over with one arrow.
At this time, Yan Yu was leaning on a spear in his hand, walking behind Ju Fu step by step.
The young man was injured again after running around all night. His face was a little gray and his eyes were sunken. But his expression was very excited, which was very different from Ju Fu's worries.
He grinned and said, "Don't worry, the sect leader has already decided everything, and the Jiaozhou navy will arrive today."
Ju Fu nodded, without answering for a moment.
He was the county lieutenant of Hanchang County, Brazil County. After following Lei Yuan for several years, he was the commander of General Left's headquarters, and he was considered a close subordinate. However, he had never heard of Lei Yuan's arrangements for the heavy rain in Jingxiang.
He really couldn't imagine how Lei Yuan could make all these preparations without his subordinates knowing nothing. As a result, he naturally amazes Lei Yuan's determination to win in this environment, but he has a little bit of doubt.
After thinking about it, he said in a deep voice: "I have already chosen 500 elite soldiers who are proficient in water and dare to fight, and have also gathered enough weapons and armor. I just waited for the ship to come!"
Before he finished speaking, the soldiers climbing on the high ground shouted wildly: "Boat! Boat! Look! The boat is here! It is our military ship!"
Ju Fu felt that the blood in his body was getting hot.
He took a few steps and rushed to the lookout soldiers with great agility: "Where is the ship?"
"Captain, look!"
Before the soldiers could reach out to indicate, Ju Fu saw it.
The small boats were moving fast on the water, as if they threw stones hard across the ice, and they approached in a moment. On the boat ahead, a shirtless man with a beard waved to Ju Fu and laughed.
Chapter completed!