The big river is a ribbon lying across the land of the Central Plains, it was originally free and unrestrained, the legend is that in ancient times, the dragon gate was not opened, Lu Liang was not chiseled, the river went out of the Mengmen above, the big overflow countercurrent, there were no hills, the high Fu was extinguished, the name was flood.

At that time, the big river, known as the "Nine Rivers", had a number of divergent rivers, which entered the sea from the northern part of the Bohai Bay. When the autumn water comes, the hundred rivers irrigate the river, the flow is so big, between the two Zhuzhu cliffs, do not argue about the cattle and horses, the flood is cross-flowing, flooding in the world.

It is said that until the time of Dayu, the tribes of the Central Plains reached an alliance under the pressure of the flood and gathered the strength of all the tribes to finally tame the river and govern the flood.

Since then, the river course of the big river has been fixed into one, people call this Yellow River channel "Yu River", the river water is also clear, there is a poem as evidence: "Kankan cut Tanxi, put the river of a thousand Xi, the river water is clear and ripples", except for the Shang Dynasty when there were several floods, it is generally calm.

But the calm is only temporary, it is always restless, in the fifth year of King Zhou Ding (602 B.C.), this dragon that had been sleeping for more than a thousand years, woke up, it twisted slightly, causing the river to deviate, which was the first breach in recorded history:

The flood took the river from Suxukou (now the confluence of the Qi River and the Wei River), went east to Luochuan, to Changshoujin (now the northeast of Huaxian County, Henan) and diverted from Luochuan, and merged with the Zhanghe River in the north, to Zhangwu (now the northeast of Cangxian County, Hebei) into the sea, this new river channel is in the south of the Yu River.

Since then, the river has been fixed to the west of Puyang, and with the increasing population in the middle reaches of the river, especially in Hedong, Henan, and Hanoi as the most populous areas in the world, forests and grasslands have been widely reclaimed as farmland, and the rivers are connected by each other, and the villages face each other, and the sediment content of the rivers is also increasing.

This river channel is called the "Turbid River".

The princes Zhao, Wei, and Qi, who were on the verge of the river, had no choice but to build their own dikes, so that when the river burst, it would block the flood, so that it would be blocked and harm the neighbors on the other side.

This kind of beggar-thy-neighbor dike, which does not take into account the interests of the whole, makes the river wander uncertainly, and when the water goes away, it becomes a fertile cultivated land, but when the flood comes, it suddenly drifts away, and the princes downstream suffer greatly.

Natural disasters come from time to time, and man-made disasters have also begun......

"Replacing soldiers with water, the Wei State suffered the most."

As the grandson of Xinlingjun, Wei Wuzhi received an excellent education from an early age, and after Wei's death, he went into exile and hid by the river, and he was familiar with the story of this river.

When Zhang Ao decided to take 3,000 people on an adventure, he still tried to make the last stop, and said to Zhang Ao: "The seven heroes are fighting, and there have long been those who broke the water to flood the enemy country, as far as I know, there have been four times!" ”

"The first time was in the twelfth year of King Wei Hui (359 BC), when Wei attacked Zhao, and Chu sent troops to attack Wei, Jingshe was the general, as for the turbid river, it actually broke the river to irrigate the east of my Changyuan, and the water was wet in several counties, killing and wounding tens of thousands of people."

"The second time was when Zhao Suhou was the marquis, Qi and Wei jointly attacked Zhao State, Zhao State decided to irrigate it with river water, Qi Wei died thousands, and had to retreat, the flood spread for dozens of miles, and the rest of the month retreated."

"The third time was done by Zhao Guo."

Wei Wuzhi said with a calm face: "King Zhao Huiwen attacked Wei and broke the river at the mouth of the gourd, causing Puyang to be affected by the disaster, the water was hundreds of miles, and there were eight or nine thousand people who drowned due to the bursting of the embankment, and tens of thousands of houses were damaged, and 100,000 people were affected by the disaster, so they had to migrate and take refuge!" ”

As for the fourth time, it is an eternal pain in the hearts of the Wei people: seventeen years ago, Wang Ben sent Zheng Guo to break the mouth, build a dam, and lead the river water into the chasm to irrigate the beam, and the beam was irrigated, resulting in many dead and wounded in the city, and the city of Liang was bad, and the king of Wei asked to surrender.

But fortunately, because Zheng Guo planned properly, the main Liang was unlucky, and the rest of Wei was not affected much.

In short, four times in history, "water instead of soldiers", the use of large rivers, the result was that Wei was unlucky.

Wei Wuzhi wanted to warn Zhang Ao that if he broke the river to retreat the Qin soldiers, it would still be Wei Di who would suffer in the end.

But Zhang Ao has been a member of the Lichen Temple in the Qin Palace since he was a child, he is vicious, and he doesn't have much emotion for Wei, so he said: "Why can someone only hurt me with a knife, but I can't hold its handle and use it to hurt people?" ”

"This knife will also deeply cut the Wei State."

Wei Wuzhi still hopes that Zhang Ao will dispel this idea: "In the past, the princes beggar-thy-neighbor, the river was difficult to govern, since Qin Shi Huang sent Zheng Guo to inspect along the river, and demolished a lot of Yongsai River defenses, and the big river has only lived in peace for more than ten years. ”

Under the pressure of Qin Shi Huang's powerful giant hand, for more than 100 years, because Qi, Wei and Zhao beggar-thy-neighbor, and the yellow dragon that ravaged both sides of the river, was subdued again and fell into a deep sleep......

The settled river brought fertile soil in the middle and upper reaches, improved the salt brine land in the lower reaches, and the land was wide and fertile near the embankments on both sides of the river, because the eastern county had a large population, and there was no land for cattle and horses. After Qin Shi Huang ordered "to make the people from the solid fields", people along the river entered the surrounding area one after another, reclaimed the land, established villages, and also took on the task of guarding the embankment, at least tens of thousands of people lived.

Wei Wuzhi grabbed Zhang Ao's horse and said: "Water can kill the country, you plan to break the embankment, now it is the height of summer, the river is prosperous, if it breaks out, surging south, not only tens of thousands of people and animals along the embankment are gone, even the counties of Dongjun will also be affected, then I am afraid that except for Puyang City, which is high and deep, the rest of the townships will be wiped out by the water!" ”

This year's river is bigger than usual, and once the levee is deemed to have burst, the turbulent water of the river will rush into the Donggun Plain in an instant, and it will surely go out of control, causing more terrible results than the four man-made disasters in history.

This is exactly what Zhang Ao needs: "Puyang City can stay." ”

He was ashamed: "Anyway, most of the rest of the places have already surrendered to Qin, and they are the cities of the enemy country!" Enemies of the people! ”

Wei Wuzhi was a little unbearable: "This is related to tens of thousands of lives!" ”

"Is their life as valuable as King Wei?"

The life of a group of mediocre ants, is it important to have the reputation of a hero with Zhang Er to restore the country, be a hero, and be loyal?

Zhang Ao said:

"If you sacrifice these people, you can make the Qin army collapse, it will save the Wei State, and it will be worth it!"

Zhang Ao insisted on going his own way, he held the tiger talisman given by Zhang Er, so he didn't listen to Wei Wuzhi's words, and left Dunqiu with three thousand Dongjun light heroes.

And Wei Wuzhi didn't have the courage of his eldest father to steal the talisman to save Zhao, so he could only watch Zhang Ao leave in a daze......

Zhang Ao and his entourage of 3,000 people, most of them admired Zhang Er's name, the Wei Di light man who was not afraid of death, most of them were from Dongjun, after listening to the words of Zhang's father and son "Qin will slaughter Dongjun", they swore to the death and decided to fight with the Qin army to the end.

What everyone arrived at was not Puyang, which was besieged, but the "gourd" dozens of miles northwest of Puyang!

……

At the mouth of the gourd, the night is still deep, and what appears in front of the light heroes is a wide embankment, behind the embankment is the turbulent river, the sound is like a galloping horse, and the waves are endless.

The mouth of the gourd is the place where the Zhao army broke the river more than 70 years ago, and it is also the most vulnerable area of the entire downstream river. The river water passes through the Zhao embankment in Changyuan County and returns to the wooden ditch, and the river channel is still stable, but after entering the territory of Puyang, as the riverbed is raised by sediment, the natural embankment is difficult to prevent the river from flooding, and it has to be artificially increased.

This section of the river is often unreined, Puyang has not been affected by disasters in the past, and it must be repaired every year, otherwise, the river will break the embankment and go to the low-lying plain irrigation area in the southeast......

For a while, the light warriors guessed what they were here to do - this time they were not only carrying weapons, but also agricultural tools such as shovels, hoes, shovels, shovels, etc.

"Dig!"

Zhang Ao had already sent someone to look at the place in advance, and pointed to a and said: "Dig the dike, and the water will pour out to the southeast, and you can completely destroy the Qin army in Puyang!" ”

The three thousand light men were silent, you look at me, I look at you, no one moved.

"The first digger, ten gold!"

Zhang Ao shouted loudly, but everyone still didn't move, until someone came out of the ranks, and said: "Zhang Jun, the villain's brother's house, is in Zhencheng in the southeast, if this water is decided, his family will definitely be floated, we are willing to go to Puyang with Zhang Jun to fight to the death with the Qin army, but this embankment, must not be ......"

"Kill him!"

Zhang Ao shouted angrily, and asked his cronies to press the person on the gourd-mouth embankment, cut off his head, and the round head rolled down the embankment and fell into the water.

Like a sacrifice to Hebo......

After tasting the taste of blood, the Yellow River, the sleeping sleeping dragon, seemed to feel something, and the water became more cheerful, and it knew that someone was going to emulate the historical Zhao King Chu general Qin Shuai again, in order to use his surging body to wake himself up.

Awaken the wrath of the sleeping dragon, and the price is hundreds of miles of yellow plains and more than 100,000 lives.

"The one who digs the embankment first will be rewarded with 100 gold!"

After killing someone, Zhang Ao blushed his eyes and raised his reward, this time, there was really a person who didn't live in Dongjun who stood up, picked up a shovel, and was eager to try......

"Can't dig!"

More Dongjun rangers shouted: "We can die ourselves, but our family and friends will be swept away by the water!" ”

They were restless, they were opposed, and Zhang Ao's men were divided into two parts, and the swords were rattling.

And Zhang Ao himself, with his personal guards, stood under the embankment, raised the iron tool high, and shoveled it down!

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the present, it took many years to build and repair this embankment, and its amount of work is no less than the Great Wall, or even greater than the Great Wall.

But to destroy, it only takes a few days, or even a few hours, for manpower to dig a hole, and the rest is left to a huge force of nature......

A thousand-mile embankment, destroyed in an anthill!

With the first sound of the iron shovel, the sleeping dragon, which had been sleeping for more than ten years, opened its eyes!

She is the mother of this civilization.

It is the well-being of nursing him to grow up.

It was also a nightmare that hung over his head for thousands of years!

She can bring prosperity and well-being to the country, but she can also bring fear and disaster.

Like a three-body star that is constantly rotating, civilization is on top of it, creating a cycle of chaos again and again.

And in addition to the inevitable natural disasters, crazy people are always trying to use the power that they can't override, again and again, playing with water and drowning!

She bared her fangs and flicked her tail, and she couldn't wait to break the shackles again!

The light man under the heavy reward accelerated the speed of excavation, and the light man of Dongjun, who did not want to see his hometown reduced to Zeguo, also began to draw his sword and fight with Zhang Ao's cronies.

In the midst of this chaos, a firework suddenly rose into the air and exploded above the mouth of the gourd!

This is a signal that the Qin army is fighting at night and has become customary.

Dawn is approaching, accompanied by the white light of the sky, the footsteps of Qi Brush sounded, and a black army appeared around the gourd, forming an encirclement and pressing towards the light heroes!

"I knew that you would come and dig the embankment!"

Guan Ying is naturally the captain of this Qin army.

Xia Gong also sent winged battalion strategists to the partial division attacking Wei, since the big river is on the side, they naturally have also calculated, the pros and cons of breaking the embankment to irrigate Puyang......

The conclusion was that the consequences were beyond their control, so they dispelled this idea, but Guan Ying kept an eye on this: "Will the Wei people come to break the embankment if they are desperate?" ”

He sent scouts to monitor near the mouth of the gourd, which was most likely to be dangerous, and sure enough, Zhang Ao came.

The baby's gloomy face was hidden behind the thick armor, and he looked at the light man jumping off the beam on the riverbank, like a group of termites grinning on the embankment, and people couldn't help but want to reach out and press it to death!

"Drive them down the river to sacrifice to the river god!"

……

The battle lasted for an hour, the Qin army was like a bamboo, the light heroes died to death, and Zhang Ao was also hit by several arrows, stumbled and jumped into the river, and was swallowed by the turbid current.

When there was no more Wei people on the embankment, the river was calm again.

The toiling began again, this time with the Qin soldiers threatening the captives, using the sticky bones and blood of their dead comrades as plasma, and the sand of the great river, to fill the dikes that had been dug up.

As the shackles tightened again, the dragon, whose eyes had been wide open, closed its eyes in disappointment.

She fell into a deep sleep again.

We can only wait, waiting for the next once-in-a-century natural disaster, waiting for the next even more crazy man-made disaster!

Only the river still flowed, like the heavy snoring of a dragon.

Whether it is clear or turbid.

Is it a disaster or a blessing.

She will accompany the Chinese civilization in her youth and go on forever!

……

PS：

I didn't expect it! I wrote it early when I came back, and I sent it after I finished writing, and this chapter counts as 6.30.

Because the author often cooed, he couldn't finish the book in June, so he was angry, so he had to continue in July, and the final closing stage was over, striving for the end in mid-July.

In addition, this month I don't ask for a monthly pass, ask for a recommendation ticket, I hope that after the completion of the book, the total number of recommended votes can be more than the number of words, so I feel more face-saving (forked waist).