Yellow River, Jixian Dam.
Han Shizhong, Wang De, and Li Bao also boarded a water-viewing pavilion built on the dam at this time, and stared blankly at the Yellow River water rushing down from the huge gap in the dam on the other side of the river.
The Yellow River has changed its course!
This is an earth-shaking change, and the topography of the entire Central Plains will be changed!
Originally, the Central Plains was divided into Hebei and Henan by the Yellow River, but now... on the vast Zhongzhou Plain, there will be a yellow flood area dozens of miles wide!
The vast plains will be cut into two by the surging Yellow River and the muddy plains, creating a situation of dividing the east and west.
And this huge change is a catastrophe for the people who happen to live in those areas where the Yellow River floods pass!
I don’t know how many innocent people will be buried in this rolling yellow water!
Han Shizhong, Wang De, and Li Bao could no longer utter a word. They were left with only shock, anger and incomparable sorrow... Those who drowned in the flood were all the people of the Song Dynasty!
After a long while, I heard Han Shizhong silently say: "One day, I, Han Wu, will go straight to the gold thief's lair..."
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"Dad, then, is that the Yellow River?"
"Yes, that is the Yellow River..."
"There's so much water! Can Kaifeng Mansion withstand it?"
"I can...should be able to withstand it! I must be able to withstand it!"
Amidst the huge roar, father and son Zongze and Zongying had already climbed to the water-viewing pavilion at the highest point of Genyue Tai City. While staring at the approaching and surging Yellow River water, they spoke with trembling voices. Talk to each other.
If you take a look at the faces of the two people, you should be able to see the panic in their hearts at this time... The expressions on their faces remain unchanged despite the collapse of Mount Tai, that is the nonsense of people who have not seen the collapse of Mount Tai! Now, without the collapse of Mount Tai, the scene of the collapse of the Yellow River is already shocking enough.
If you look down from a high altitude, you can see that the yellow water that is dozens of miles wide is like the tide of the Qiantang River, roaring down, sweeping everything north of Kaifeng Fucheng at an extremely fast speed! Forests, field ridges, manors, towns, palaces, and even small fortresses made of rammed earth were all swallowed up by the roaring Yellow River water.
Looking around, there is only a vast ocean left!
In a blink of an eye, the front line of the flood had already reached the moat in the north of the outer city of Kaifeng Prefecture. The moat had also been widened and deepened, not to prevent the Yellow River flood. It is to find a way for the water that originally flows into Kaifeng Prefecture and is connected in the city to the Bian River, Wuzhang River, Jinshui River, Huimin River, and Caishui River after the water gates in various places in Kaifeng Prefecture are blocked. . Otherwise, before the water from the Yellow River comes, everything outside Kaifeng Prefecture will be flooded!
However, this widened moat still has a certain flood control function...at least it can divert part of the Yellow River water into the Bianhe River, Wuzhang River, Jinshui River, Huimin River, and Caishui River.
However, heavy rains continued in Kaifeng Prefecture during this period. The water levels in these five rivers were already very high, and the water level in Kaifeng Prefecture's moat was also very high. Therefore, it could not hold much water from the Yellow River. In less than half a stick of incense, the moat of Kaifeng Mansion was filled up by the surging water, and then the overflowing water rushed towards the base of the outer wall of Kaifeng Mansion.
The city walls of Kaifeng Mansion are very thick and will not be destroyed by floods. And Zongze ordered people to block all the doorways, whether it was Shuimen, Lumen, or even the last city gate in the south of the city used to communicate with the inside and outside. After the bell of Guanshui Pavilion rang, Wang Shan personally led people there. block up.
There were craftsmen stationed inside this doorway. When they heard the bell, they immediately closed the city gate, and then used wooden boards and earth bags to block the gap between the two city gates as much as possible. When Wang Shan arrives with the soldiers and civilians responsible for blocking the gate, he will take out more soil bags from the several hidden soldier holes on the inside of Kaifeng Mansion, and build them inside the city gate one by one, completely sealing the city gate. .
But if the water from the Yellow River is too strong and overflows the outer city wall of Kaifeng Mansion, then all these reinforcement and anti-blocking strategies will be in vain... And the outer wall of Kaifeng Mansion is too long, so there is no need to think about raising the overall height. Thought. However, the inner city of Kaifeng Prefecture, while implementing the same sealing method as the outer city, has also been raised as high as possible, so its waterproofing capability is even better.
As for Taicheng... there is no need to worry. The height is high enough and it will not be flooded at all. The problem is just that the area is too small. If the flood reaches outside Taicheng, then the big Kaifeng Mansion will turn into a small Kaifeng Island!
The highlands of Gen Yuetai City were already filled with soldiers and family members holding their breath at this time. Everyone was staring blankly at the vastness outside the city. Some people opened their mouths as if they wanted to shout, but no sound came out!
Zong Ze and Zong Ying, father and son, stopped talking. They just stood on a high place, watching Kaifeng Fucheng being surrounded by the vast water, and watching the water rising higher and higher...
The two father and son just watched and watched... I don't know how long they watched, but suddenly Wang Shan's loud voice came to their ears!
"Stay behind, stay behind...it's blocking the flood! The outer shell of Kaifeng Mansion is blocking the flood! The water level has risen very slowly, and the water surface is still nearly ten feet away from the outer wall of the city!"
Thank God, Kaifeng Fucheng has been temporarily saved!
Zong Ze and Zong Ying, father and son, both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
Zong Ying turned to her father and said, "Dad, we finally saved Kaifeng Mansion!"
But Lao Zongze shook his head and sighed: "What is saved is not Kaifeng Mansion, but a piece of heaven and earth in Kaifeng Mansion City... Now outside Kaifeng Mansion City, there is a vast ocean! I don't know how many people there are, I want to be buried in this vast water..."
As he spoke, the old man felt dizzy and swayed a little, and was about to faint. Zong Ying knew that his father's vertigo was about to happen, so he quickly called people around and helped Zong Ze onto a bed. The old man should rest for a while and catch his breath first. He himself comforted his father and said: "The people outside the city have been evacuated long ago. Now the east of Cai River is deserted. There is no human habitation for hundreds of miles, and there is no fear of floods..."
Zongze sighed again: "In the past, the prosperous place in Gyeonggi Province is now...uninhabited for hundreds of miles! It's really sad and hateful!"
Zong Ying gritted her teeth and said: "These are all the sins of the gold thieves. One day, they will have to pay with their blood!"
...
Kaifeng Fucheng is holding on for the time being!
Of course, it was only Kaifeng, as a military fortress, that held on. If there are hundreds of thousands or even millions of soldiers and civilians in this city, then this kind of "holding on" is meaningless.
Because the terrain of Kaifeng Fucheng is relatively low, the floods that trapped the city could not retreat for dozens of days. As early as the end of the Warring States Period, when the Qin army dug up the Yellow River embankment and flooded the beams, the floods besieged the city of Daliang, the capital of Wei, for three full days. months! And the location of Daliang is in the northwest area of Kaifeng Fucheng!
While the flood trapped the city, the Yellow River water carrying a large amount of sediment would also rush into the Bianhe River, Wuzhang River, Jinshui River, Huimin River, and Caishui River, blocking all five busy water transport channels. After the water receded, , it would be difficult to enter Kaifeng from Caomi in the southeast.
In addition, if the Song and Jin Dynasties, who occupied both sides of the Yellow River, could not put aside their past grievances, work together to regulate the Yellow River, and fix the course of the Yellow River as soon as possible, then a large area of Yellow Flood Area might appear to the east of Kaifeng City!
The yellow flood zone will also block water transportation and other land transportation!
Without the food and material supplies in the southeast, and the surrounding area being washed away by floods, the millions of people in Kaifeng City will simply not be able to sustain themselves... and they will not be able to escape this city besieged by floods even if they want to. Easy, the only thing waiting for them may be starvation!
However, those who were trapped by the Yellow River floods in late March of the first year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty were not only Kaifeng Prefecture, which had long been turned into an empty city, but also those who had just crossed the Huimin River and were in Weishi County under Kaifeng Prefecture. One hundred thousand golden soldiers (including Ali Xi) camped in Zhujiaqu Town.
This is really a flood that has washed away the Dragon King Temple, and I have tricked myself! The Jin soldiers had nothing to do but dig the Yellow River dam for fun, and finally flooded Wanyan Zonghan's army!
"Daddy, daddy...it's not good, the Yellow River dam collapsed!"
It was Zong Han's "crow-mouthed son" Xie Bao who rushed into a big house in Zhujiaqu Town and was forcibly occupied by Wanyan Zonghan.
When Xie Bao brought the latest version of bad news to his father, Wanyan Zonghan was drinking alone... His army of one hundred thousand was now in trouble!
After these golden soldiers withdrew from the front line of Jishan, they were watered by heavy rain all the way! One hundred thousand troops struggled all the way through heavy rain and mud, and also forded several swollen rivers. Everyone was wet, and even the air they breathed seemed to be full of moisture. For the Jurchens, Bohai people, Khitan people, and Xi people who are accustomed to the dry climate in the north, this life is simply unbearable. Along the way, before entering Kaifeng Mansion, Zong Han's army was already full of sick people. There are already tens of thousands of people who have fallen ill or even died of illness, more than those killed and injured by Zhao Kai's army after all their hard work!
If this trend continues, when the army returns to Songzhou, half of them will die of illness?
Can Wanyan Zonghan not drown his sorrows in wine?
Just when he was worried, his crow-mouthed son came again!
"Dad, the Yellow River dam collapsed! We can't retreat eastward any more!"
Wanyan Zonghan looked at his son, his face full of anger. Is this crow's mouth finished?
"Xie Bao, what did you say?" Zong Han asked, "How did you know the dam collapsed?"
It turns out that Wanyan Zonghan did not receive the urgent report from Lou Shi, Tu Hesu and others - where did the Chuanqi who delivered the letter go?
Xie Bao said: "The water level of the Huimin River has risen sharply and is about to overflow! Moreover, the water in the Huimin River has become very turbid, and the direction of the flow is wrong. It is pouring in from the northeast... It must be the collapse of the Yellow River. Dam! Dad, we can't retreat eastward. The terrain in the east is low, and there are Cai River and Bianhe River to divert water. It will definitely form a flood area, and our army will not be able to pass through at all. It is not possible to go north, either. The area around Kaifeng Fucheng is also low, and now it’s probably flooded with oceans, and we can’t get through it..."
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