The river is quiet at night. The autumn flood is approaching and the weather is cool.
On the vast river surface, there were no longer any water birds looking for fish. Only the reeds in the water were swaying here and there in the evening wind.
Sitting in the tent on the shore of Kezhou, Xun Pingzi finally felt sleepy, slowly put down the file in his hand, and prepared to lie down and fall asleep.
Before falling asleep, he was still a little worried and asked a general outside the tent how the reinforcement of the river embankment was going.
"Don't worry, military advisor. General Jiang Meng said that it will be reinforced in two days. When the autumn floods come, there will be no problems."
Xun Pingzi exhaled, nodded, and fell asleep in a daze.
Not long after, he had a strange dream. In the strange dream, he returned to the age of a young boy and was playing with the neighbor's children. Unexpectedly, he got unstable on a roof tile and fell into a large water tank.
.
The real feeling of choking his nose made him break into a cold sweat.
"Strategist, strategist! Something bad has happened!" The general outside the tent rushed in hastily.
Xun Pingzi opened his eyes with difficulty and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"What?"
"Military advisor, I just heard people outside shouting that the autumn floods are coming!"
"What... this is impossible!" Xun Pingzi stood up in a hurry. If the autumn floods are coming, it will definitely rain, right? If it rains, the Xiangjiang monument line will overflow, which will trigger the autumn floods.
But now, there is no rain, where is the autumn flood coming from?
Xun Pingzi looked angry and hurried out of the camp, not wanting to punish those who dared to gossip. Unexpectedly, after walking a few more steps, he was horrified to find that the mud under his feet suddenly became
Get muddy.
"Where did the water come from—"
"Commander, hurry up!" Before Xun Pingzi could finish speaking, Jiang Meng, all wet, came hurriedly on his horse.
"If I'm not wrong, the Shu people intercepted the river upstream and it was flooded before!"
"Commander, mount your horse quickly!"
Xun Pingzi looked exhausted, and before he had time to think, he was pulled onto his horse by Jiang Meng. After a while, a large group of cavalry camp followed the high position and ran over quickly.
Sure enough, about half an hour later, the second round of flooding caused by the Shu people's interception of the river had already followed the river and rushed over quickly.
The river embankment that was still being built was not strong and was suddenly flooded. Countless civilians and Beiyu soldiers, like ants being boiled by hot oil, scattered in panic and went to higher ground.
Escape.
I don't know how long it took, but after the third round of flooding, the water in the river cut by the Shu people seemed to be gone. The world around them fell into a rare dead silence again.
A Northern Chongqing general stood on a slope. After a while, he actually started laughing.
"What are you laughing at, little general?" someone asked.
"I laugh at the short wit of Qingfeng. This simple plan to cut off the river and flush it out didn't even kill a few civilians. What kind of clever idea is this?"
"Little general, the river embankment has been flooded."
"To build again is——"
Bang.
Before the general had finished speaking, Jiang Meng, who looked anxious, kicked him to the ground. At this time, not only Jiang Meng, but also the sheepherder Xun Pingzi next to him also had a look of horror.
"Military advisor, Qingfeng intercepts the river... This move is not to drown people, but to break the river embankments! In a few days, the autumn floods will begin. If it rains in the past two days, the river embankments must be strengthened.
, and it cannot be carried out!”
If it rains, you can only use sandbags and the like to keep heightening and reinforcing it. You can no longer use mud and rammed earth to solidify it as usual. But there is no time to prepare sandbags.
"General Jiang, hurry up, we must mobilize the people tonight! No matter what method we use, we must strengthen the river embankment!" Xun Pingzi's voice trembled. Until now, he finally understood Qingfeng's plan.
What they want is to take advantage of the autumn floods to destroy the dock under construction.
"Military advisor, I'm going to give you orders now!"
Half an hour later, the sound of Kezhou gong waking up the night suddenly woke up many people.
"Everyone, hurry up and strengthen the river embankments! The autumn flood season is coming, hurry up and strengthen the river embankments!" One after another, the generals rode back and forth.
More and more civilians were mobilized, and the surrounding area was filled with the cries and resentments of the people. Some even had the guts to yell unwillingly at the Beiyu officers and soldiers.
There were extremely messy footprints on the wet ground.
Xun Pingzi stood on the high ground, his face full of pain. If it were not for carelessness, how could Qingfeng's plan succeed? He was worried that Qingfeng might have some back-up plans...
This person is so terrible.
"Hurry up and burn the midnight oil! When the river embankment is reinforced, General Jiang will give orders and everyone will be rewarded with silver!"
Hearing that there would be a silver reward, the villagers finally got serious and worked hard in the dark to strengthen the river embankment.
…
"Ma Yi, isn't that too cruel?" Huang Daochong sat on the bank of the river, his face neither sad nor happy.
"The military advisor is joking, this is a great strategy to defeat the enemy."
"I have lived in Kezhou for a long time, and now I feel a little bit unbearable." Huang Daochong shook his head, "But there is no way, as I said, the sheepherder wants to build a dock, so I can only find ways to destroy the dock.
"
First, the inland river was dug, and the dock was built, which became an extremely safe fortress. For Western Shu, it was bound to be a disaster.
"Ma Yi, how many times can the Jiejiang River be flooded if the gate is released?"
"Military advisor, there are only two more times left."
In the past, the power of water flooding and breaking the bank was not very powerful. That was because it was used sparingly and divided into several times. As long as the effect of flooding the river bank was achieved, it was a great good.
"One more round will crush the confidence of the people in Beiyu."
"During the autumn floods, if the river embankments were not reinforced, the people of Kezhou and the army of Beiyu would most likely go to avoid the floods. But the dock is still under construction and cannot be moved."
…
Coming from the upper reaches, the rumbling waves suddenly flooded over again, submerging another section of the river embankment. After working for most of the night, the civilians and Beiyu soldiers were all stunned.
Xun Pingzi, standing on the high ground, looked up to the sky and sighed. He already understood that the current Qingfeng would not give him any chance.
What was important was to completely block his way to reinforce the river embankment before the autumn floods. In other words, he could only take the people and soldiers to seek refuge in higher places.
But this newly built dock... is afraid that it will be washed away by the autumn floods.
"Commander, what should we do now?" Jiang Meng gritted his teeth, his eyes full of hatred. These Shu people, that Qingfeng, have completely taken the initiative.
"The Shu people must have done it on purpose. The flooded river was not very big, but it happened to destroy the river embankment."
Xun Pingzi's hands trembled and he kept rubbing his forehead. He felt that his mind was filled with confusion.
"Military advisor, back then I had an agreement between Beiyu and Xishu, and the two sides were not allowed to start a war... If not, I would use this excuse to send people across the river to make that Qingfeng restrain himself."
"General Jiang, if you send someone there, then Qingfeng will only say that he did not provoke the war. The river flooded by itself, which means nothing."