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Chapter 253 Thousands of troops

More than ten miles upstream of Yanling, an embankment cut off the water in half. The river channel of the lower reaches of the embankment narrowed, and the river section of the upper reaches of the embankment has turned into a vast ocean. From a distance, it seems to have become a lake.

This embankment is made of countless sandbags, wood and stones. It has a large amount of earthwork, but it is completed within one day. The reason why the progress is so fast that in addition to investing a lot of manpower, countless cloth bags are also used.

The young and strong men stuffed cloth bags with sand and stones, and then continued to pour them into the water. Construction sites on both sides of the north and south simultaneously built dams. I don’t know how many cloth bags were put into the water.

Whenever the young and strong people see this dike that has finally closed, they will be amazed.

After placing sand and stones with cloth bags, it is similar to throwing money into water. Many people are wondering if these cloths are used to cut them into clothes, how many people will not have to worry about wearing them?

For ordinary people, cloth can be used as hard currency. There are not so many copper coins, and a large amount of copper coins are very heavy and difficult to carry. Therefore, on weekdays, most of the people who buy and sell goods are made of cloth or grain to "barter".

So many people feel heartbroken when they see so many cloths used to build dams.

But no matter how heartache is, it is useless. This is the official cloth. You can use it whatever you want. Whoever dares to secretly take a few cloth bags and gets whipped if they are found. If the embankment collapses, everyone will be in trouble.

So even at night, the young and strong people have to patrol the embankment. Once they find that the embankment is in danger of collapse, they have to warn in time so that everyone can rescue the situation immediately. The young and strong people who stayed up all night couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw dawn breaking out.

They can rest until dawn without having to blow the air and get frozen on the dam.

As they thought about it, the young and strong looked at the two sides of the strait. There were camps of government troops on the shore. The soldiers were now snoring in the tent. Only a few of them were unlucky to blow the air on the dam and didn't give them more clothes. Everyone was trembling and could only get together to keep warm.

While cursing in a low voice, I suddenly heard something happening in the Nan'an camp. When I looked up, I saw the fire in the village lit a torch and ran toward the embankment, shouting, "Come back! Come on the shore soon!"

When the young and strong men heard this, their first reaction was that there was a problem with the embankment and they were about to collapse. They were so scared that they were so scared that they rolled and crawled to the shore.

As soon as they stepped onto the solid shore land, they felt their feet weak. At this moment, several soldiers lit torches and walked towards the embankment. The young and strong men collapsed on the ground and watched the soldiers walk straight to the middle of the embankment.

Just when I was in a daze, I saw these soldiers seemingly lit something with torches, and then ran to the shore. As soon as I ran ashore, I heard thunder sounds coming from the dam.

The originally solid embankment trembled in the thunder, and then collapsed in many places. The young and strong on the shore were in the dim moonlight, and they could see water columns spraying out from many places on the dam, and then they were stunned.

The embankment that everyone has worked hard to build will be destroyed?

Before they could react, with a sharp sound, the entire embankment collapsed from the middle and then disappeared into the surging river water. The river water was originally blocked by the embankment and formed a large lake. Now there is no obstacle. The lake water turns into a flood and swept downstream with a roar.

At dawn in the east, the morning light shone in the wilderness. Yuchi Youqi, who was on the mound in the southwest suburbs of Yanling, heard the earth-shaking noise in the west, and hurriedly stood up. Looking through the morning light, he saw a fast-moving white wall appearing on the horizon to the west, whistling along the water river toward Yanling.

The earth seemed to be trembling, as if thousands of troops were galloping. Yuchi Youqi felt the vibration, and looked at the white wall that was getting closer and wider, and felt his breathing rapid and his eyes filled with tears.

He carefully set up a trap in Yanling, waiting for Yuwen Wen's troops to drill. As long as the other party comes, the troops will not be short. Therefore, in order to "enter guests", Yuchi Youqi prepared thousands of troops.

That is water attack. The number of people on the other side will die!

Build a dam in the section of the Binshui River more than ten miles upstream of Yanling to store water. When the opponent attacks Yanling with all his strength, he breaks the dike and releases the water. Even if the enemy has many troops, he will be washed away cleanly.

Now, the flood is coming!

In the morning light, the water roared in. Most of the outside of Yanling City was flat ground, and the enemy troops besieged the city were inseparable from the enemy. Yuchi Youqi listened to the increasingly loud roar, looked at the dim wilderness, and watched the white wall swept everything.

Sweep across the river with torches on the surface of the river, sweep over the shore, and then sweep across Yanling City, extinguishing the fires all over the sky in an instant.

The flood was overwhelming, sweeping everything, and the city of Yanling was standing in the torrent, and the enemy without the protection of the city wall would only be swept away by the flood, struggle helplessly, and finally sink into the water and turn into shrimp soldiers and crab generals.

With the help of the faint morning light, Yuchi Youqi looked at the fields that had turned into a vast ocean, and the water that had arrived at the edge of the mound. At that moment, tears filled his eyes. He waved his fists vigorously and shouted loudly: "Wooah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Thousands of words could not express his mood at this moment. The humiliation in his heart seemed to have been washed away by the flood. Then what filled his chest was joy, great joy.

Countless soldiers rushed up to the mounds, looking at the vast ocean in front of them, and were very excited. No matter how many enemy troops besieged Yanling were, they would be destroyed by the flood!

The tide of cheers burst out instantly and rushed to the sky: "Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!!"

......

"King!! The water level of the water drops suddenly. It seems that the enemy downstream broke the dam and released the water!"

"knew."

In the morning light, Yu Wen Wen looked at the southeast water and reported according to his hands that the river water level was falling sharply at this time, and a faint roar came from the southeast, indicating that the downstream dam had collapsed.

If the dam breaks up the upper reaches and releases water, Yanling will inevitably turn into a vast ocean.

‘Oh, the straw people who besieged Yanling are so miserable!’

Yuwen Wen thought so, not only was he not happy but was extremely annoyed. He couldn't hold it in his anger. Finally, he blurted out: "It's really water attack, you are treating your son-in-law like this? How about I really drowning, what should I do if Sanniang and Siniang? You are just like this!!"

The guards next to them looked around and pretended that they didn't hear it. Yuwen Wen had scolded him enough, and took his eyes back from the east and looked at the Fukuang City shrouded in the mist in the south.

Wucang City was built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Prime Minister Cao took the emperor to order the princes in Xuchang to set up a palace on the banks of the Wushui River east of Xuchang to stockpile the grain obtained from the military camp. Because it was Wushui Di Pavilion (warehouse), it was named Wucang.

The Bulgarden is located more than ten miles east of Xuchang, and is in the upper reaches of Yanling. The Bulgarden passes through the city, so it is divided into two cities, north and south. At this time, a large amount of grain transported through the Bulgarden River was stored, with more than one million hu of grain. It is the garrison of the Xuchang army.

Once these foods are set on fire, everything will be finished, so heavy troops are stationed in the north and south of the city of Wucang to make a complete plan.

Whether it is the South City or the North City, there are trenches dug outside to attract water into the interior. In addition, various defensive facilities on the periphery can withstand the siege of tens of thousands of people. There is also the Xuchang camp not far away to provide reinforcements at any time, which is not something that ordinary troops can chew off by sneak attacks.

Previously, Yuwen Wen made a judgment based on the large amount of military information discovered by the elite scouts, and the enemy was very likely to set up an ambush in Yanling, and he might still plan a water attack. He felt that the enemy would be very at ease with the safety of the Wucang City.

Once the Gunkura defenders are attacked by the enemy, they do not even need to go out of the city to fight. With their solid defense facilities, the invaders can knock off their big teeth, because under normal circumstances, no one can successfully attack Gunkura in a short time.

Therefore, the defenders only need to defend the skull. When the enemy comes, they do not need to attack. At most, a few cavalry outside the periphery will be lost. The defenders must not attack easily, even if the opponent appears on the north bank, so as not to be trapped in the trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain.

The mentality of the Guardian of the Kōkang is easy to figure out. Then, Yuwen Wen has to teach the other party how to write the word "death" in official script.

With a sound of a cry, after the mound he was in, hot air balloons rose to the sky one after another, and with the help of the north wind, they floated to the south.

The first hot air balloon floated above Yuwen Wen. The bottom of the hanging basket was only two or three feet above Yuwen Wen's head. Yuwen Wen looked up and the soldiers in the hanging basket waved to him excitedly and cheered.

Although the hot air balloon is not high now and can be shot down with a rocket, the mound is a distance from the Hokage Castle. This distance is enough to raise the height of the hot air balloon and reach a height that even the archers can't shoot on the arrow tower on the city.

The heavily guarded city of Yokokura is no different from being unprepared in front of these hot air balloons.

Yuwen Wen raised his hand and waved towards the soldiers in the hanging basket. He looked at the excited faces, the gradually rising hot air balloons, and the large number of incendiary bombs attached to the hanging basket. His smile was also very bright.

The newly added incendiary bomb is very powerful and comes in handy today.

Hot air balloons floated over the mound where Yuwen Wen was, and in the north wind, he floated towards the south of the Fukuang City. He retracted his a little sore arm and listened to the sound of the horns coming from the Fukuang City to the south, his smile became brighter.
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