The Anguo cavalry swept in like a strong wind, and the billowing dust they stirred up obscured everyone's eyes.
When they came closer, they saw bright long knives, as if they were facing a forest of knives.
The cavalry running at the front screamed in fright, but it was too late. The cavalry group rushed into the forest of swords. Suddenly, blood mist filled the sky, and the screams and wails of death resounded throughout the Gobi.
The extremely sharp Mo Dao pierced the bodies and horses of the cavalry in front. The corpses quickly piled up in front of the Mo Dao formation. Dozens of cavalry jumped over the piled corpses, but were chopped off by the knife in the air. The bloody corpses and
Offal falls from the sky.
The impact of the cavalry was offset, and the Mo Dao formation was launched immediately. Three thousand people were divided into three rows, advancing like a wall. The Mo Dao flew up and down, and the cavalry and war horses were all broken into pieces wherever they passed, killing mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
, which makes people extremely frightened.
Seeing that the opponent had wavered, Xi Wanli immediately ordered: "Cavalry attack!"
"Woo——"
The trumpet sounded, and 10,000 cavalry troops divided into two lines, like two long dragons, and launched a fierce attack on the enemy from the south and north at the same time.
In front of them was the unstoppable Mo Dao formation, with five thousand Tang Army cavalry from the north and south attacking hard. Sabah's army began to become confused, especially the powerful lethality of the Tang Army's heavy armored infantry, which frightened all the enemy troops. The originally strong morale began to rise rapidly.
subside.
At this moment, another 10,000 Tang army cavalry appeared from the west, led by Huben Lang general Chen Dan. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The war drums of the cavalry attack from the west sounded.
Ten thousand cavalrymen rushed towards the rear of Sabah's army like tigers descending from the mountain.
Sabah's army collapsed completely in an instant. They shouted and turned their horses to look for opportunities to escape.
Sabah broke out from the southwest under the protection of more than a thousand soldiers, and there happened to be a gap here.
But this gap was a trap. When they rushed in, they found themselves trapped in a tight siege.
Arrows were shot from all directions like raindrops. The enemy cavalry's leather armor could not stop the Tang army's sharp armor-piercing arrows. They were hit by arrows and fell off their horses. In just a few rounds of cavalry shooting, the enemy's casualties exceeded 70%. The remaining
The cavalry fought desperately to break through, but they could not break through the copper and iron walls of the Tang army. They gradually disappeared under the ruthless killings of the Tang army.
In just one hour, 13,000 cavalrymen disappeared under the powerful attack of 23,000 Tang troops.
Among the piles of corpses, the Tang army found Sabah, the culprit who attacked Suiye. He had been hit by more than thirty arrows and was dead.
Lieutenant General Charan rushed to the front and was cut into pieces by Modao Army. Another deputy general, Maimana, was killed by Tang Army cavalry.
The killing of these three people meant that the army had completely disappeared. The Tang army immediately seized 5,000 camels in a date palm forest thirty miles away. This was Sabah's logistics and 600,000 gold coins were seized.
and lots of dry biscuits.
The Tang army also seized a large amount of personal wealth from the horse bags of the enemy's horses. These soldiers sold the stolen wealth and people at low prices in exchange for gold and silver coins, which they carried with them. Each soldier had several bulging coins.
purse.
After calculation, the wealth of the enemy soldiers alone exceeded 500,000 gold coins and millions of silver coins. Adding in the 600,000 gold coins seized from the logistics camels, the number of gold coins was close to 1.2 million.
Xi Wanli immediately rewarded each soldier with ten gold coins. One gold coin could be exchanged for two guans at the official price, but it could be exchanged for three guans on the black market. The soldiers were immediately jubilant.
Later, even the more than 20,000 soldiers who did not participate in the war would still be rewarded with ten silver coins.
The gold and silver coins are temporarily stored in Juzhanti and will be transported back to Chang'an after the war.
Li Ye's worries were not unnecessary. After entering July, the Central Plains started to rain heavily. It rained continuously for more than ten days. The extreme drought turned into extreme waterlogging. All the tributaries of the Yellow River were filled with water, and the Yellow River flowed from the north to the south at the same time.
The water level of the Yellow River is also rising day by day, and has long exceeded the warning level.
A huge threat of embankment collapse appeared in Jeju. This area had become a hanging river decades ago. Fortunately, the court was well prepared and all the people within fifty miles of both sides of the Yellow River moved away.
One hundred thousand soldiers used countless mud bags to strengthen the river embankment, but it was in vain. Facing the destructive power of nature, manpower was insignificant. It was inevitable that the Yellow River would break its embankments. The key was whether it would break to the north or to the south.
Embankment, this is an issue involving the diversion of the Yellow River.
That night, the embankment in Liuyang Township, Liaocheng County, Bozhou, on the other side of Jeju, was finally washed away by the Yellow River. The width of the embankment instantly reached several miles, and the mighty Yellow River surged down and swept away in the northeast direction.
In just two days, Bozhou, Dezhou, Dizhou, and Cangzhou became a land of marshes. The Yellow River flooded Yongji Canal to the north, and finally entered the sea at the Haihe River in the north of Cangzhou.
This Yellow River flood turned the eastern part of the North China Plain into a yellow flood zone, affecting more than 300,000 people and killing thousands.
You may wonder why more than 300,000 people were affected by the disaster and only a few thousand died?
That was because of the Anshi Rebellion, where the people of Hebei were massacred by An Lushan and Shi Siming, and the remaining population fled to the south in large numbers. In addition, the feudal towns had been separated for several years, and wars broke out between the feudal towns. Hebei was already a vast wilderness with a depleted population.
Only a few thousand people died. That's because they had been fully prepared. All the people within fifty miles of both sides of the Yellow River had moved away. People in the distance were extremely sensitive to various disasters. The people had already packed up their belongings. I heard that there was a fire in the Yellow River.
People in the relevant prefectures and counties tried their best to escape, and almost all the people who died were the elderly and the sick and the weak who were unwilling to leave their hometowns.
News that the Yellow River broke its banks in the Hebei section reached Chang'an, and Li Ye urgently held a military meeting to discuss disaster relief.
Li Ye sighed and said: "I should listen to the advice of the Water Supervisor of the City. Opening embankments in Dizhou to release floods can effectively reduce the water level. Dizhou has the smallest population, so even if it floods, the losses will be small. I just want to be lucky and refuse to do so."
Decree, the embankment finally broke.
Wei Jiansu quickly advised: "Your Majesty did not issue the decree because the precipitation in the Central Plains has begun to weaken. It is very likely that the Yellow River will not burst its embankments. No one expected that it would burst its embankments at the last moment. Your Majesty does not need to blame yourself. Moreover, according to the information obtained,
Most of the people in Bozhou and Dezhou evacuated and fled in time. Cangzhou and Dizhou are sparsely populated, so the death toll should not be high."
Li Ye was helpless and asked: "I am concerned about whether the embankment will collapse in the future? Will it affect the south of the Yellow River?"
Wei Jiansu shook his head, "The key is that the rain in the Central Plains has weakened. Once the rain stops, it will soon seep into the ground, and the amount of water replenished by the Yellow River will be less than the outflow. Then the embankment will not break again. The top priority now is disaster relief."
Li Ye asked Xiao Hua, the Minister of Household Affairs: "Has the Household Department made an estimate? How many people are affected by the disaster?"
Xiao Hua bowed and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs estimates based on the prefectures and counties affected by the disaster, it will not exceed 400,000!"
Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief, "Although the number of people is not large, the resettlement of more than 300,000 people is still a big problem!"
Liu Yan stood up and said, "Your Majesty, let's follow the previous plan! Settling them to Liaodong is just an opportunity. I am willing to go to Hebei to share your Majesty's worries!"
Li Ye nodded, "Leave it to Liu Shangshu for disaster relief. Hejian County is one of the three major material storage points. There are 300,000 stones of grain, 50,000 tents, as well as medicinal materials and other materials. You can rush to Hejian immediately.
time, and then I will arrange for the delivery of follow-up supplies to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic. As for the resettlement to Liaodong, that is the next step."
