The morning mist had not dissipated, and the Baoqiu water was wrapped in a little cold air and crashed into the mouth of the Heilongtan.
Pei Xiu stepped into the cold river water with one foot. He scooped up half a scoop of water and poured it on his face:
"Divid the water first!"
Thirty shirtless strongmen rushed into the shallows carrying rafts.
Three feet long pine wood is tied into a tripod, and baskets with stones are buried at the bottom, and blue-black mud is splashed when it hits the riverbed.
The mats woven with tree bark spread out layer by layer on the wooden stand, looking like a giant bird hanging its wings from a distance.
When the seventh raft was in place, the turbulent flow was broken into two strands - the main river on the west side roared like thunder, and the water flow in the construction area on the east side was docile, and you could even vaguely see the riverbed with intertwined teeth.
"It's now!" Pei Xiu's bronze whistle pierced the morning mist.
Two hundred strong men shouted horns and stepped into the water deep in the chest, and the wooden stakes carried on their shoulders undulate like the spine of the black dragon in the mist.
The moment the first wooden stake was inserted into the riverbed, a loud "bang" sound was heard.
Liu Hun was the first to swing a 50-pound hard wooden hammer and smashed it hard.
"A hammer to determine Youzhou!"
"The second hammer breaks the thief's courage!"
The sound of the trumpet hit the rock wall of the canyon, alarming countless birds.
...
Yanshan Mountain in July is like a burning brick kiln.
The Wei army flags on Yuyang Pass were as if they were sunburned, and they hung down in a wilted manner and remained motionless.
The Wei soldiers on the city of Guancheng held the gun and hid their bodies in the shadows as much as possible in order to avoid the vicious sun.
A soldier tried his best to stretch his neck and looked under the city wall.
"If you don't watch well, what are you watching?"
Behind him, the sound of Bo Zu's reprimanding came.
The soldiers turned around and looked at the neighbor of the countryman, "Boss, I'm looking at the water."
"What's good about water?" The uncle came over, and then poked his head out, glanced at the city, and said, "Be careful that you are seen by the superiors, and you will be beaten to your military sticks."
He was not malicious, and he took good care of this young fellow villager who had only been here for three months.
It is precisely because of care that I remind you this.
The soldier shrank his neck, looked at the direction of the corner tower, and muttered:
"Not it?"
All officials are hiding in the shade and enjoying it. Just stand under the sun and forget it. If you accidentally get a stick, is there any reason for it?
"Tsk!"
Bo Zu retracted his head and glanced at the recruit. Seeing that the other party was a little dissatisfied, he wanted to say something, but finally sighed:
"Forget it, I can't understand it either. It's okay to be careful anyway."
As an old soldier who has been in the army for nearly twenty years, he would definitely not want to have such new recruits under his command.
If you really want to go to the front, this kind of new recruit has no other function except to die.
But looking at the soldiers around him, most of them were like their younger fellow townsmen. If they did not stand, they would not be in the mood to say anything more.
Youzhou is no longer the Youzhou that Captain Tian was there, at least not in the army.
Since the commander Tian (i.e. Tian Yu) left Youzhou, the camps in Youzhou have been abandoned by one battalion.
Those generals were becoming less and less ruthless when they made money.
Especially those who sit at the checkpoint guard are even more generous.
Whether it is a caravan that wants to go out of the frontier or a Hu person who wants to go out of the frontier or a pass, you have to do some things up and down.
As long as you do the job well, no matter who you are or what you bring, everyone will turn a blind eye.
If you don’t have enough work, you can’t even think about getting in or out of a single hair.
This is actually easy to say. Anyway, the soldiers at the gate can get some benefits.
The general eats meat, and the soldiers under him can also drink some soup.
The key is that there has been no war in Youzhou over the years, and the situation of empty salary in the army is getting worse and worse. In a team of 100 people, officials have the courage to eat fifty, sixty or even seventy or eighty people.
Otherwise, this time the Han Dynasty invaded, there wouldn't be so many civilians in the army.
Looking at his little fellow townsman who was still glancing at the city, the uncle shook his head, forget it, anyway, it wasn't my turn to worry about such things.
"What the hell are you looking at?"
"Water! Boss, don't you notice it. Have you been getting hotter these days? Standing here, you're almost roasted."
The uncle looked up at the sky and wiped his sweat, "It was so hot that day, and it was probably about to rain."
The little fellow villager pointed below, "I'm not talking about this, I mean, the water under the city seems to be getting less and less, no wonder it's so hot."
Yuyang Ancient Pass is built on the west bank of Baoqiu Water. Water vapor comes up on weekdays. Even if it is not cool, it will not be too hot.
But as the water level drops, coupled with the strong sun in the past few days, it feels much hotter than usual.
"Hmm?" Bo Zu heard this and looked down again. "I haven't noticed it yet. The water is indeed much less than usual."
"Yes, you find it strange, right?"
"Not surprising." Bo Zu shook his head, "You are still too young. How many good years have you seen in the years?"
"Either a severe drought or a locust plague, a severe flood or a plague, or a cold plague, it won't make people live a good life at all. This world is difficult!"
"Although it will be less water in at least one month, you don't know that it had been flooded just the autumn of the previous year."
The master said, and then said in a certain direction, "The Hu people could not get through the flood two years ago, and the caravan could not get out. I heard that even the King's envoy was alarmed."
I heard that since the Han army annexed Bingzhou, the entire Wei Dynasty has relied on two or three gates northeast of Youzhou to buy some horses from outside the frontier.
Once there is a problem at the gate and the horses outside the frontier cannot enter, Wang Xiong, the governor of Youzhou, will naturally be anxious.
"So, God is not normal, what can you do?"
Hearing Bo Zu say this, the young fellow villager suddenly remembered the fact that his family had starved to death due to locust plague a few years ago, and he didn't say anything more.
"Aowu~"
The wolf howling sound from not far away caused the two of them to turn in a certain direction together.
"Listen," Bo Zu said again, "The world is in chaos, everything becomes abnormal. Even the wild wolf dares to come out and scream in broad daylight."
"There seems to be a group of wolves at the foot of the mountain these days, and I keep hearing them screaming all the time."
"It's probably the wolves outside the Great Wall that flew over..."
The two of them talked for a while. After leaving, Bo Zu thought about it. In order to avoid being said that his young fellow villager was lazy when he was on duty, he reported that the water level of Baoqiu was lowered.
"There is less water flowing in Baoqiu?"
Cui Zi, the guard general of Guancheng who received the news, thought to himself, what a big deal?
If you have less, just as long as you don’t lack water.
In the past, he wouldn't have cared about such things.
It’s still a good thing if there is less water. Those who are outside the Great Wall may come to trade earlier.
It is a bad thing to have too much water. If the king really had to jump again like the previous year, the king's envoy would have to jump.
But now it's different.
I heard that the checkpoints in the west have been attacked by the Han army and the Hu people in turn, and the war is in full swing.
Although there is no war here, and there are Hu people outside the border to help with the guards, there will be no mistakes if you are careful.
As Wang Xiong's confidant, Cui Zi is not only good at making money if he can stay in this position.
On weekdays, he had to find ways to transport horses to Youzhou or the Great Wei, so he still had the ability.
I saw him wave his hand, "Then send someone out to have a look."
"General, now?"
"Tomorrow, it's getting late today. I'll send someone out to investigate tomorrow morning."
"Here."
At noon the next day, a rumbling thunder came from the horizon.
The heavy rain came as promised as Bo Zu said.
Cui Zi always felt that she had forgotten something.
It was not until the people below came to report that the scout sent did not come back on time that he remembered:
"Didn't come back?"
Cui Zi looked at the heavy rain outside, "Can it be that the rain is too heavy and they can't walk in the mountains, so they can't return on time?"
"Wait a little longer, wait until the rain stops. If they have not returned yet, send someone to search."
After thinking about it, he instructed: "Send more people, there are many wolves in the mountains recently."
It's impossible that it was taken away by a wolf...
——
The sudden heavy rain at the upper reaches of Yuyang Pass also brought considerable trouble to the Han army's dam building.
The last wooden stake was completed. In the rain, the soldiers carrying the baskets of stones were carried. Some people slipped and the people and the stakes fell into the undercurrent.
The safety rope around the waist was instantly straightened, and the other end was tied to the back of the pack horse on the shore.
The horse was frightened and raised its hooves, and pulled the person out of the whirlpool.
Everyone dragged the person to a safe place with all their strength. The military doctor pulled Li Sanwa's clothes soaked in it, and the blood marks on his chest were streaked by the safety rope looked like a dragon.
"You guys have a big life, but you're lucky that this rope is Nanxiang Ma, and you can hold anything like a thousand pounds!"
Nanxiang hemp rope, Nanxiang sack, a well-known trademark of the Han Dynasty.
In addition to hemp rope, this time the army also brought a large number of sacks, which helped a lot in building dams.
He grabbed a handful of medicine powder and applied it directly to the wound, making the soldiers grin.
Seeing that the rain was getting heavier and it was impossible to continue building a dam, the general of Zhendong had to order a temporary rest.
But the troubles caused by this heavy rain are far from over.
"General, the rain is too heavy, and the water level behind will definitely be raised. If there is another heavy water coming down the upstream, the piles may be dangerous at that time."
Pei Xiu found General Zhendong anxiously and expressed his concerns.
"Send someone to watch the stake! Once you find that the situation has changed, you can stabilize it. If you can't stabilize it... don't force it."
General Zhendong's face was still calm, and he seemed to have not been disturbed by the possibility of failure to build a dam. He gave orders calmly.
Since she dared to lead her army here, she naturally could not pin all her hopes on the water attack.
The General Staff of the Grand Sima Mansion is not a place to raise waste.
If there is no sufficient plan and deduction, General Zhendong will hang them up one by one after he returns and use a whip dipped in salt water!
In the army, if you can't even do your job well, don't blame the military law for being ruthless.
Seeing General Zhendong so calm, Pei Xiu's heart suddenly calmed down.
"Students understand."
But it was expected that after the clouds and rain stopped, the rain that had been praying thousands of times and thousands of times would not come, still came unexpectedly.
"Click!"
The two wooden stakes in the middle shook and were washed up by the water flow.
"Protect the pile!" Someone jumped onto the bamboo raft, roared and rushed towards the gap, carrying a basket full of stones on his shoulder and plunged into the rapids.
The water flow led the man to the wooden stake, causing him to spit out a large mouthful of blood, but the twisted bamboo cage skeleton stuck the gap.
"I'm afraid of life!"
The soldiers hurried forward to help.
General Zhendong saw what had just happened, pursed his lips and said nothing.
She recognized that this was a general from the Great War.
The Erlang of Nanxiang and Yuezhi was the most elite in the Han army, the most fearless and the most courageous soldier.
This time, half of the people who followed her came from these two places.
I don’t know if this rain stimulated the wolves. After the rain stopped, the wolf screamed more and more frequently.
Lian Xiao also joined in the fun.
General Zhendong was standing on the mountain with his sword in his hand, watching the dam below take shape little by little, and suddenly a cavalry came to report it.
"Supervisor Guan, General Zhao, sent someone over there, saying that he had to do something in detail to see the general."
"Hmm? Detailed work?"
I just caught the scout sent by the thief army yesterday, and I came here to do it again today. Has an abnormality been found at the gate?
“Bring it up.”
Several fine works were brought up soon. When General Zhendong saw the visitor, he raised his eyebrows and looked surprised on his face:
"Teacher Han, are you finally here?"
Han Long, dressed in a hunter, laughed:
"General Guan, your army is really hidden deep enough. If I hadn't been prepared, I would have seen that Baoqiu's water suddenly lost so much water these days, and I still couldn't find it!"
General Zhendong also had a rare smile on his face: "Teacher Han, when you come, I will be sure to win the pass at least 50% more!"
General Zhendong still respects this chivalrous deputy leader of the Wulin League.
In her opinion, Han Long can indeed afford the title of "the greatest hero".
"I've been too awarded!" Han Long humbled for a moment, and then saw the situation at the foot of the mountain, he couldn't help but exclaim:
"The dam of the general is almost built? It seems that even if I don't come, the general will be able to capture the pass."
"It's not difficult to conquer the pass. The difficult thing is how to take down the hills on both sides. May Teacher Han teach me?"
"To be honest with the general, I and my friends have been wandering around here, but I have been learning the wolf howling and owl screaming for a month, hoping that the general will come soon!"
The combination of wolf howling and owl cries turned out to be the code of the joint.
While Han Long said, he introduced his two friends to General Zhendong:
"This is my friend in Youzhou. They have long admired the Grand Sima for a long time! This one is Ji Yang and Ji Hui, who is a brother."
"A poem "The Legend of the Sima" is "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and all the heroes in the world are regarded as confidants. The great ones of heroes are to serve the country and the people, and to make the heroes in the world feel like shaking clouds and fog."
"If they could meet the Grand Sima, they would like to pay their lives to each other and be brave enough to be willing to do so."
Feng Dasima took the golfer to a height with a book, a poem and a sentence, and allowed them to find the path in their lives in an instant.
He is regarded as the leader of the league by the world's gossip, and his influence is unimaginable if he is not a gossip.
The two of them stepped forward to greet each other: "Ji Yang and Ji Hui met General Guan."
General Guan is the number one general under the command of Sima Feng, named Hedong Yihu, and is famous.
When the two of them saw that although he was stained with mud, they did not affect his handsome appearance at all, they couldn't help but secretly praise him:
Such a fairy figure is willing to surrender to Duke Feng. I wonder how extravagant Duke Feng is?
But Han Long explained again:
"The two brothers are quite skilled in martial arts and are often hired as guards by caravans and go out to the frontier with caravans. They are so familiar with this area that they can guide the generals."
"Okay, okay!" General Zhendong couldn't help but be happy, "This is really great! In this way, I will have no worries!"
——
The sun was barely on the tip of the mountain, and a team of barbarians appeared at the gate in a mess.
"Who?"
The Wei soldiers on the city immediately took a bow and pulled arrows and pointed them at the city.
An old Xianbei man was pushed out and shouted in stiff Chinese words:
"General, we are from the Xianbei Uloran tribe, and we have very important things to report to the General of the Great Wei."
"Uloran tribe?"
Not only the soldiers, but also the generals and schoolmen on the city wall were puzzled, and no one had ever heard of this tribe.
But this is not a big problem.
After all, the Xianbei race is now separated, with countless tribes of all sizes, and no one knows how many of them are, what are their names.
"Sir, the situation is urgent, and it is important to the Han army. I must not delay it!"
As soon as he heard the Han army, a commotion broke out on the city wall immediately.
The general of the Wei army, who was in charge of the city, naturally knew the situation outside the border and did not dare to neglect it at the moment. He immediately asked someone to report to the main general Cui Zi at the declaration.
When Cui Zi heard that a Hu people came to report the news about the Han army, he was immediately shocked:
Did the Han army really cross the swamp and attack the Yuyang border?
"How many Hu people are there?"
"Three hundred come to ride."
"Is there an exception?"
"No, they are all Hu people's faces. The Hu people they say and the Hu clothes they wear are mostly made of bows and feathers."
So, then, it is indeed a tribe outside the border?
"Let them lead come in first, and the rest let them stay outside and not move around."
Soon, the two Hu people were brought to Cui Zi.
One of them was in his prime, with half shaved hair and half braided into small braids, and he was the leader of the tribe.
As for the other person, it was an old man with a copper bell tied around his waist and animal teeth around his neck. He was a witch in the clan.
Cui Zi, who is familiar with the Hu people, saw that these two people were indeed from outside the border.
After asking about the situation, he was so shocked that he almost jumped up:
"What did you say? The Han army has really arrived at the frontier?"
"It's true, General, they came out of the swamp, covered in rotten mud, like a group of evil ghosts, who would kill people when they see them."
"We were originally small-skinned tribes, and we had no way to compete for grasslands with those large tribes. We could only grazed on the edge of the swamp."
"I originally thought of summoning the warriors in the clan, hunting some yellow sheep foxes, and replenishing food for the clan, but I didn't expect to run into them."
"We can't beat it, so we can only escape." Old Zhu Wu said and started crying. "The women and children in the clan didn't have time to get on the horse, so they rushed over..."
"General, you must make the decision for us. Without women and children, we will be all done..."
Seeing the old Zhu Wu crying, the leader of the tribe who couldn't speak Chinese, the huge horseman also turned red in his eyes.
I will be the master of your mother!
Cui Zi twitched his lips. The Han army sneaked across the swamp, and it was definitely impossible for him to steal the small tribe.
They definitely wanted to follow the natural passage of Baoqiu Water to attack the pass!
I'm almost unable to protect myself, so how can I make the decision for you?
It was just because the other party came to report the message to him, so he naturally couldn't refuse directly.
He comforted the people with kind words, and in front of the two, he asked someone to put the Hu people in and settle them, and promised that he would find a way to avenge them.
However, when the two of them retreated with gratitude, Cui Zi turned around and thought about how to kill these three hundred people and swallow their horses.
More than three hundred horses are a great achievement!
As for those Hu people, they can cut off their heads and get the merits.
Of course, it is not now, but after the Han army is defeated.
These people have a grudge against the Han army, and when the Han army attacks, they can still help defend the city.
Hey, I'm such a genius!
Cui Zi quickly thought about it in his heart, and then called someone in:
"Have you been back yet after someone sent out to find someone the day before yesterday?"
"General, not yet."
"None of them came back?"
"No."
Looking outside, the sun had already set off the hill.
It's broken, something really happened!
The scouts of the Han army were extremely brave and were the elite among the elite.
It is obvious that these people may have encountered the Han army scout who came to explore the way or reconnaissance.
The Han army scouts had already arrived nearby, so the Han army was probably not far away.
Thinking of this, Cui Zi's face changed and he immediately ordered:
"Transfer our military orders and from tonight, everyone will be on guard!"
"Send additional personnel to strengthen the inspection at night! Remember, who dares to neglect, military law will deal with it!"
"Also, let the deputy general and the army Sima come over and say I have something important to discuss with them!"
PS: 5,500 words, a gift for starting work after the New Year! (It seems that I forgot to write the chapter name, forget it, it doesn’t matter.)
A book friend from the water conservancy industry mentioned above said that building a dam is not easy, thank you for your reminder.
The author naturally knew that modern water conservancy is a very complex project, and he also had a little understanding of it in college.
The author has tried to be as close to the actual situation as possible. Not only did he check historical data, but he also checked the actual geography, but he also used artificial intelligence to deduce and calculate the data, and asked it to give detailed construction steps.
But the novel is ultimately a novel. This book actually refers to the construction of Dujiangyan, so there is no need to be too careful.