Chapter 124 Breaking the embankment and flooding
Shortly after the rain was getting heavier, the river began to soar. In the evening, mountain torrents finally broke out. Its earth-shaking and destructive momentum was shocking. At this moment, Lu Pofeng secretly arranged for the scouts along the Qiushui River to be heard. This group of people was left by Lu Pofeng when he withdrew from the Sanggan River. They were providing Lu Pofeng with the latest information.
In a village 80 miles away from Xialuo City, a supply convoy of Xianbei people was found. The convoy was huge! There were tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and more than 2,000 soldiers were escorted. If the convoy was added, there were three or four thousand grooms and servants.
What a lucky! As soon as the troops arrived at Sanggan River, news of the enemy's supply came, as if God was helping him. Everyone was very excited! Liu He immediately summoned everyone to discuss ways to deal with it, but at a loss, he couldn't find a way to eliminate the convoy. Everyone had no choice but to do anything, and their enthusiasm suddenly became cold.
Because of the flash flood, the troops could not find a suitable place to cross the river for a while. Even after crossing the river, the enemy's troops had more people than their own troops, so they could not encircle and annihilate them. From Natun Village to Xialuo, there was no dangerous terrain along the way, and the ambush could not find the place.
Liu He asked everyone to summon the lower-level officers to discuss it again, and walked to the river alone, silently looking at the rushing river water and thinking about their thoughts.
"Captain..." Lu Chuanyun was afraid that something would happen to him, so he followed Liu Xiu and Pan Feng.
"Deran! Last year, when we came back from a surprise attack on Baicaowa pasture, we were chased by Wuyan and finally crossed the Luan River with us. It was rainy at that time, and the water level in the Luan River soared, and I almost drowned. Fortunately, Deran caught a big tree floating in the river and survived by chance."
"Good luck to the lieutenant!" Lu Chuanyun said with a smile: "The Sanggan River is much narrower than the Luan River, and the water flows rapidly. It ran all the way eastward to meet Qiushui, and then in Zhuolu County it suddenly turned south and headed straight for Guangyang County. If the lieutenant falls from this, I am afraid we will find you in Ning County."
Liu He and Liu Xiu, Pan Feng burst into laughter.
"Are there no river beside the way? It's too far to Ning County, so I'm already dead."
"We have a steep bend here, and there is another one twenty miles down. That place is upstream of Pan County. In the past, it would have to be broken whenever it was rainy, so locals called it Shakou. When our Bailu tribe moved here, it suffered floods every year. Once the dam broke, the surging floods poured down hundreds of miles, and it almost flooded the entire Xialuo County. Every year, many people died of floods, and the people lived in a difficult life. Later, under the leadership of several prefects of Shanggu County, the local people built and strengthened the Shangdong every year, repaired and repaired for more than ten years, and it has not been completed yet."
"Will the sand mouth break the dam with a huge flood like today?" Liu He asked.
"If such heavy rain doesn't break for two days, that section of the embankment will probably collapse." Lu Chuanyun said with a wry smile: "But it doesn't matter if the breach is broken. This year, everyone fled to the Zhuolu area to avoid disaster. A large part of them followed us into the mountains, and even if they drowned, the Xianbei people would be drowned."
Lu Chuanyun's eyes suddenly lit up and she screamed: "Captain! With that~ we can dig the sand mouth and drown the Xianbei people."
Liu He was stunned.
The next day, the heavy rain had no intention of stopping.
In the morning, outside Zhuolu City, three thousand people with Lu Pofeng had nothing to do and started a horse racing competition in the heavy rain.
At noon, in Xialuo City on the north bank of the Sanggan River, a thousand Xianbei soldiers rushed out of the city and arrived at Kantungang, 30 miles away from the county seat, and responded to the supply convoy that came from Guantun Village.
In the afternoon, in Pan County on the south bank of the Sanggan River, 1,500 Xianbei soldiers left the city and rushed east along the Sanggan River to the ferry opposite Xialuo City for warning.
Almost at the same time, in Zhuolu City, more than 100 miles from the south bank of the Sanggan River, the Xianbei people suddenly opened the north gate. Three thousand soldiers, led by Tuoba Hu, walked out of Zhuolu City with high hopes. Lu Pofeng, who was racing horses at the south gate, was shocked and hurriedly led his troops to escape.
After receiving the news, Tuoba Hu smiled faintly and didn't care. Then he ordered Tuoba Xiong to take one thousand men from his headquarters to the ferry crossing of Zhuolu County, and led two thousand cavalrymen to head towards the Sanggan River without panic.
In the late afternoon, the supply convoy approached Xia Luo City with escort from three thousand cavalry.
In the evening, the rain gradually stopped, but at this moment, a shocking sound came from the direction of the sand mouth. Tuoba Hu suddenly heard the news that the sand mouth broke, and his chest felt severely hit. He was dizzy for a moment, and he could hardly breathe and almost fell from his horse.
"Hao Shuai..." The guards were shocked and rushed to help him off the war horse.
Tuoba Hu barely calmed down his mind, pointed to the messenger and said in a trembling voice: "Immediately arrive at Pan County, Zhuolu, and order all troops to abandon all supplies and set off overnight to Ning County."
"Hurry up to Juyang and tell the chief! All the supplies of our army were lost when the sand mouth broke."
"We are ready to cross the river and retreat immediately."
In the middle of the night, the drizzle started to drizzle, as if someone was crying, resentful and sad.
Liu He's troops followed closely behind the Xianbei soldiers retreating from Pan County and chased them quickly.
The war horses ran wildly on the muddy road, splashing the sky with dark mud, and the sound of horse hooves like thunder resounded through the dark night sky. The knights on the horse's back were covered with mud, melting into the dark night like ghosts.
"Captain! A large group of cavalry appeared on the right side of the army." A scout suddenly emerged from the darkness and shouted loudly towards Liu He.
Liu He looked at the hazy night of Xiaoyu and shouted to the scout: "Try again."
Then he turned around and shouted to the horn soldiers: "Order the troops to be careful and move forward at full speed."
Lu Pofeng's troops followed the hundreds of Xianbei soldiers who were urgently withdrawing from Zhuolu from midnight. They really didn't understand why the enemy suddenly gave up Zhuolu City and ran towards Ning County without a life. He and Yan Rou divided the front and back armies. He led the soldiers of the Bailu tribe in front and Yan Rou led the Han cavalry behind to prevent ambushing by the enemy.
In the second half of the night, he received a report from the scout and learned that there were troops marching in parallel with him. He was shocked and hurriedly led the troops to deviate from the avenue and move forward carefully.
At dawn, the two troops discovered that the other party was their own people almost at the same time, and they were in a false alarm.
Lu Pofeng couldn't help laughing when he saw Liu He with a black mud on his face.
"HaoShip! Has the enemy of Zhuolu retreated?" Liu He asked loudly while urging the horse to run.
"Yes! The enemy suddenly abandoned the city and fled. Although we didn't know the reason, we still chased him. Captain, why did you appear here? Has the enemy situation changed?"
"We turned defeat into victory. This is a miracle! Do you believe it?" Liu He shouted excitedly.
Lu Pofeng felt ecstatic. He whipped the war horse hard and rushed to catch up with Liu He, almost roaring, "What's going on? What happened?"
"The sand mouth broke through the dam! The flood poured down and washed away all the enemy's supplies."
Lu Pofeng widened his eyes and could hardly believe his ears.
"The Shakou Dike is broken..."
Suddenly he roared: "Did you sent someone to dig it?"
Liu He looked at his angry eyes, as if he was about to eat people, was startled and shook his head instinctively.
"We spent more than ten years working hard to repair that embankment and invested a lot of money. It was absolutely no problem to repair it and resist ordinary floods. How could it fall? It took less than two days of rain torrents, how could it crash? How could it crash?"
Liu He was stunned by his guilt and did not dare to make a sound, but just lowered his head and ran away.
Lu Pofeng and his father and son led the tribe members and the people near the Sangqian River, with the support of the local government, and after thousands of hardships, they finally built a solid embankment in Shakou. There were their blood, sweat and hopes, but they did not expect that it would turn into a bubble after a few years. The collapse of the embankment seemed to have far greater stimulation to Lu Pofeng than defeating the enemy.
Lu Pofeng roared twice, then felt his loss of composure. But the joy in his heart had been washed away by the collapse of the embankment, and he was heartbroken and disappointed and even a little depressed.
But the soldiers, whether they were Wuhuan or Han people, were urging their mounts to beat in the rain at dawn, and shouting over and over again with all their strength to celebrate the incredible victory that suddenly came.
Lu Pofeng saw Lu Dingjun.
"Is the Shakoudi bleed a good thing you did?" Lu Pofeng looked at him viciously and gritted his teeth.
Lu Dingjun nodded in embarrassment.
"Haoishi! Be calm down. The Xianbei people occupy our homes. If they don't drive them away, how can we live our lives? If the embankment is broken, we can repair it, but if our homes are gone, where will we go? Do you hide in the mountains all year round?"
Lu Pofeng shouted in pain: "In order to build that embankment, hundreds of people have died in the clan over the past decade, and even your father has died on the embankment, you..."
Looking at the cheering crowds around him shouted: "Hao Shuai! We escaped from Sangqian River into Taihang Mountains, and weren't hundreds of people dead? Don't be angry, we should get all the hatred back from the Xianbei people. If Tuoba Rui fails, we can return to Sangqian River immediately. Are you unhappy?"
Lu Pofeng sighed deeply, and he couldn't be happy. Although he knew that breaking the dike was a helpless move, and defeating the Xianbei people was more important than anything else, he just couldn't bear to leave the dike, and he had feelings for it.
"Where is Lu Chuanyun?" Lu Pofeng asked, because he had not seen Lu Chuanyun and woke up: "Is he who brought people to Shakoudi?"
Lu Dingjun smiled bitterly.
"He also came up with the idea? I took this little brat and peeled his skin." He had nowhere to ejaculate, so he whipped the horse and turned around and roared: "Hurry up! Hurry up to Zhuolu County to kill all the Xianbei people."
At this moment, Lu Chuanyun sneezes more than a dozen times. He and more than 300 soldiers hid on the hill near the sand mouth, trembling with the wind and rain. In front of him was an endless white piece of water, and the huge sound of water flowing from the gap was vaguely heard.
"Little handsome! This flood can almost be retreated in two or three days, right?" a centurion asked lazily while sitting next to Lu Chuanyun.
"If it doesn't continue to rain today, it's probably the same. I hope the Xianbei people can leave some things for us." Lu Chuanyun said with a smile.
The centurion couldn't help but laugh: "Dream! With such a large water, the terrain gap is large, what else can the rapid flow leave behind? A cow or a sheep?"
"But the dam is broken, and it will take a lot of effort to repair it this year." Lu Chuanyun immediately changed into a bitter face: "Do you think Haoshuai will settle the score with me for this?"
"Of course! You're waiting for a whip." The centurion smiled gloatingly.
Chapter completed!