Murong Yi and Feng Ziying looked curious, and Feng Ziying asked, "Have you seen Mr. Jiang before?"
Jiang Yuxuan nodded and said: "I have seen in ancient books that this is a material made by humans. It is not natural, and this manufactured material is very strong. Our current equipment cannot break it at all. This This is also the reason why the reservoir has been here well for thousands of years."
"Can't destroy it?" Murong Yi said in surprise.
"It can be understood that way." Jiang Yuxuan said.
"It's impossible," Feng Ziying said doubtfully: "We are now much more developed than before. There are more towns. Before the towns, there were villages. There was nothing in the villages before. How can we make such a tough thing."
"I only saw it in ancient books, and they were incomplete." Jiang Yuxuan said while looking at the reservoir, "dig down one meter of soil around the embankment."
Murong Yi said in surprise: "This reservoir is so big. We have to dig one meter down the embankment. I'm afraid it will take until tomorrow."
"Dig it."
Seeing Jiang Yuxuan's insistence, Murong Yi had no choice but to order the army to start digging one meter down the embankment.
There were more than a thousand soldiers, except for the garrison personnel. All the remaining soldiers picked up their tools and started digging around the reservoir.
Seeing the excavated soil rolling down the high slope, Jiang Yuxuan said: "Pile this soil for me."
"Sir," Liu Zhen said, "It is already very slow to dig the soil, and it will be even slower when it is piled up."
"It's okay, hurry up and give the order." After Jiang Yuxuan finished speaking, he inspected the embankment situation with Murong Yi and Feng Ziying.
In the morning, Jiang Yuxuan was sleeping in a simple tent. When he was hazy, he heard someone shouting. He opened his eyes and walked out of the tent.
Seeing Murong Yi and Feng Ziying standing in front of the tent, Jiang Yuxuan said, "You guys got up really early."
"I couldn't sleep that night." Murong Yi said, "Sir Jiang, Liu Zhen just came over to report that all the soil on the embankment was dug down to one meter, and no abnormalities were found."
"Oh," Jiang Yuxuan looked solemn, "Take me to have a look." After saying that, he followed Murong Yi and others to carefully survey along the dug embankment.
After digging out the soil, a smooth and flat embankment was erected on the high slope, like a thick steel wall, tightly trapping the water inside.
Apart from the remaining soil, there are no traces on the wall, just like a natural one.
"How was this built?" Feng Ziying looked at it in surprise.
Jiang Yuxuan was walking and looking under the embankment. He suddenly stopped, bent down, and wiped away the soil at the bottom of the embankment with his hands, revealing a clearly visible trace.
The mark was as smooth as if it had been scratched with a sharp knife, with almost no gaps visible. It would have been difficult to spot it unless the soil on the embankment was wiped clean.
"There is a crack." Feng Ziying stared at the mark and said.
"This is not a crack," Jiang Yuxuan stood up and said, "Keep digging along this place."
After hearing Jiang Yuxuan's order, the surrounding soldiers began to dig deeper.
The soil slowly piled up on both sides, exposing more and more banks.
"How deep is this thing?" Murong Yi asked in amazement as he looked at the embankment that was getting deeper and deeper, forming a huge wall.
"This embankment is at least dozens of meters deep, maybe deeper." Jiang Yuxuan said.
"That means we have to go all the way down the slope." Feng Ziying said in surprise.
"Thousands of years ago, perhaps there was no such high slope at all, only the bare embankment, surrounding the water." Jiang Yuxuan said thoughtfully.
When the embankment was dug to a depth of more than ten meters and a width of six to seven meters, a soldier exclaimed: "Look, there is something here."
Jiang Yuxuan, Murong Yi and others quickly stepped forward and saw a pile of rusty iron-like things between the embankment and the soil.
"Dig them all up." Jiang Yuxuan said.
"Yes." Seeing something coming out, several soldiers were full of motivation and quickly cleaned up the nearby soil, revealing a rusty thing from top to bottom.
"Everyone, please don't stand below, everyone go up." After Jiang Yuxuan finished speaking, he said to several soldiers: "Break open this iron gap for me."
They were already curious, but now that they heard what Jiang Yuxuan said, everyone exerted all their strength and kept banging on the rusty iron seams.
The iron seam, embedded in the soil, was almost broken by rust. Under the attack of dozens of soldiers, it quickly broke apart. After the rust was cleaned, a half-meter-deep groove was exposed on the embankment wall. .
In the groove, there are many ten centimeter-sized holes, and there are some rope-like things intertwined in the holes.
"What on earth are these?" Murong Yi asked doubtfully.
"I don't know," Jiang Yuxuan replied.
"Can the reservoir still be opened?" Feng Ziying said.
Jiang Yuxuan looked at the excavated embankment wall, touched the gaps in the wall with his hands, and said, "Everyone, keep digging over there."
Hundreds of soldiers started digging to the left, and dug another six or seven meters wide. After cleaning up the soil, they found that there was a recess in the embankment wall. The height was the same as the gap in the wall, and the width was slightly wider. The bottom And flush.
After looking at it, Jiang Yuxuan said: "Look, everyone, this thing can definitely be moved over there, and the grooves here must be switches, but they are all broken."
"This project is big enough, who did it?" Feng Ziying said in astonishment.
"No matter who it is, you must open this thing now." Murong Yi said.
"What Battalion Commander Murong said is right," Jiang Yuxuan said, "Now we can only use brute force to pry this thing open."
Murong Yi shouted: "Everyone spread out and smash this thing as hard as you can."
The entire army spread out and used weapons and tools to hit the embankment wall. After five or six minutes, the wall shook slightly, and water began to overflow from the gaps.
"Move, move." Some soldiers shouted excitedly.
"Stop knocking," Jiang Yuxuan shouted: "See if you can move over there."
Under Jiang Yuxuan's command, everyone worked together to move the wall to the left.
After a few rounds, the water on the right became bigger and bigger. Feng Ziying said excitedly: "It seems to be moving. The water is coming out from there. Everyone, please use your strength."
"Battal Commander," a soldier pointed at the top of the slope and shouted, "Look, it looks like Yan Haitong's army."
Murong Yi looked and saw that Yan Haitong was heading here with several battalions of troops.
Tian Pei walked beside Yan Haitong and said, "Zhen Gong, look at the reservoir, there seem to be a lot of people there."
Yan Haitong looked at it for a while and said: "No matter how many people there are, there are not as many as us, just go up and kill them."
Seeing Yan Haitong coming up with his troops, Jiang Yuxuan said: "Battal Commander Murong, I will leave a regiment of troops here to open the reservoir. The rest of the troops will be handed over to you and Battalion Commander Feng to stop Yan Haitong."
