The inspection department is a subordinate agency at the county level, the main function is to catch thieves and traitors, is a local security force with a military nature, responsible for maintaining local law and order, similar to a modern police station, with a patrol inspector (chief officer), deputy inspector two, patrol Ding is not fixed, usually about 100 people.

The Inspection Department is generally set up in sparsely populated rivers, lakes, or mountain post roads, etc., and is responsible for inspecting business travelers and identifying and arresting traitors.

Puzhou is located at the junction of Shandong Province and Henan Province, plus the Yellow River crosses the two provinces here, there are many thieves in this kind of place, so there is a patrol inspection department on the side of the Yellow River thirty miles northwest of Puzhou City, the name is called the Catfish Mouth Inspection Division, and the inspection (chief official) is named Ma Debiao, which is the younger brother of Ma Debing, the commander of Shouzhang County.

In terms of location, the catfish mouth inspection department is in the north of Shuibaozhai, and the distance is only about 20 miles, which can be said to be quite close.

Because of the light rain falling in the sky this evening, the inspectors hung wind lanterns on the lantern tower of the water village, and then hid in the inspection office to have fun, or lazily went back to the room to sleep, and the mother-in-law in the house did some primitive sports of thriving. The pace of life of the ancients was very slow, and there was a lack of entertainment, so there was only a small thing to pass the time in the evening.

At this time, a banquet was set up in a hall of the Inspection Bureau, and Inspector Ma Debiao and Deputy Inspector Niu Jisheng were entertaining a guest, but in fact, they were not guests, because this person was another deputy inspector who had just arrived today.

This deputy inspector's name is Qi Jingtong, about thirty years old, tall and strong, and his appearance is very powerful. The key is that this Qi Jingtong has a bit of a background, and his father Qi Xuan is the commander of the Dengzhou Wei in Shandong (Zheng Sipin martial arts).

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, military attachés below the command level can be hereditary, that is to say, after his father retires or dies, Qi Jingtong can inherit his father's position as the commander of the Dengzhou Guard. Therefore, although Ma Debiao is the chief officer of the Inspection Department, he also has to be polite to Qi Jingtong, the newly appointed deputy inspector.

"Come on, I'll pay tribute to a bowl of vice-check!" Deputy Inspector Niu Jisheng raised the wine bowl and shouted with a smile.

Martial artists are naturally more bold than literati when drinking, for them, it is too girly to use a wine glass, and it is only pleasure to drink in a big bowl. Qi Jingtong is undoubtedly a bold martial artist, he picked up a bowl of wine and drank with Niu Jisheng.

A patrol leader raised the bowl with a smile and said, "The small one also respects the deputy inspection bowl!" ”

So, under the siege of the inspector Ma Debiao and others in turn, Qi Jingtong soon became red and drunk.

At this time, Ma Debiao stood up and laughed: "Brother Qi is drunk, come here, help Deputy Qi to go back to his residence to rest." ”

"I didn't ...... Drunk or not, you can continue to do it, everyone drinks...... Come on, keep drinking! Qi Jingtong said with a big tongue.

"Brother Qi is drunk, rest first tonight, the coming day will be long, let's drink again on another day!" Ma Debiao winked, and the two inspectors helped Qi Jingtong out of the hall, and the latter still shouted that he was not drunk.

Ma Debiao showed a trace of contempt on his face, and said lightly: "It's just a mallet!" ”

"Wouldn't that be better!" Deputy Inspector Niu Jisheng said with a smile.

Ma Debiao glared at Niu Jisheng and scolded: "Laugh at the fart, Lao Tzu is like burning his ass now, why hasn't he come to report the news!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a guy who was covered with water vapor was brought in by the inspector and reported nervously: "Lord Inspector, the Qin Cha has arrived in Puzhou City, and he immediately brought people to inspect the embankment again." ”

Ma Debiao was stunned for a moment and scolded: "His grandmother's, this Lord Qincha is really a good official who loves the people like a son, does his best, and dies." At night, they braved the rain to inspect the river embankment. But it's okay, the work at night is more hidden, Lao Niu, let the brothers immediately take the tools and set off, let's help Lord Qincha, let him be a good official who bows to the bottom and dies. ”

Ma Debiao bit the word "death" very hard, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

Niu Jisheng swallowed his saliva and hesitated: "Boss, it's really dry, that's the imperial court, if the East Window incident happens in the future, our family will have to ......."

Niu Jisheng said and made a gesture of wiping his neck with his hand.

Ma Debiao said ruthlessly: "The first strike is strong, and the second strike suffers." Now the chief officials of Fan County, Yuncheng County, Caozhou, and Puzhou have all been copied, and even our Yanzhou prefect, Tongzhi, and Yanzhou Wei commanders have been imprisoned, and I don't know when I will be caught on the head of my eldest brother (Shouzhang County Commander Ma Debing).

The eunuch Huang Jinxin is ruthless, you don't know the fate of Guo Gang in Puzhou recently, the family was copied so that there was not even a single hair left, and the wife and daughter were abused by Jinyiwei. Once my brother is investigated, we will definitely not be able to escape, Lao Niu, do you want to follow in Guo Zhizhou's footsteps? ”

Niu Heiji couldn't help but show ruthlessness when he heard this, gritted his teeth and said: "The boss is right, instead of sitting still, it's better to give it a go and do it!" ”

So, Ma Debiao and Niu Ji gathered inspectors, brought various excavation tools and torches, and went straight to the Yellow River embankment upstream of the inspection office in the rain.

Ma Debiao and others are resident here, and they are quite familiar with the terrain, and soon they touched the embankment seven or eight miles upstream, where the embankment is relatively narrow and the soil is relatively loose.

As soon as Ma Debiao gave the order, hundreds of inspectors threw off their arms and dug the embankment, apparently to dig a gap in the embankment, in fact, this position had been excavated in advance, but it was later refilled with sacks and the like. At this time, all the inspectors have to do is to move the sacks back and dig the gap deeper.

"Quick!" Ma Debiao and Niu Jisheng held torches and kept urging the inspectors to speed up, looking very crazy, after all, this was a gamble that cost their lives.

Those working inspectors are all trusted henchmen of Ma and Niu, and the untrustworthy inspectors have already been sent back to their hometown to visit relatives by them under various excuses.

Soon, the sandbags were all removed, and the murky water of the Yellow River overflowed down a half-meter-wide gap and flowed down the slope of the embankment.

Of course, this was not enough, and the patrolmen began to swing hoes and shovels to deepen the gap.

At the same time, Xiao Huai was leading a group of brocade guards, led by a guide, holding torches in this direction. Xiao Huai was worried that the embankment would collapse, so after rushing to Puzhou City, he immediately led people to check the situation in the dark.

Just when Ma Niu and the two were commanding a group of patrolmen to dig in full swing, a loud shout suddenly came from behind them: "What are you doing?" ”

Ma Debiao and Niu Jisheng were startled, turned around and looked at them suddenly, and suddenly their complexions changed greatly, only to see the new deputy inspector Qi Jingtong appear behind him at some point, he was wearing a robe, holding a torch in his left hand, and holding a bright waist knife in his right hand, he was staring at Ma Niu and the others with wide eyes and doubts, and his face was covered with drunken blush.

Ma Debiao couldn't help but secretly complain, isn't this guy drunk, why did he touch it without making a sound.

It is said that Qi Jingtong is very good at drinking, and he drank more than a dozen bowls of wine in one breath before, and he was indeed a little drunk, but he went back to the room and lay down for half an hour before he was awakened by urine, and he got up from the bed to the toilet.

After all, Qi Jingtong was from a military family, so he immediately became vigilant, went back to the room to get a weapon, and found the family of a patrolman to ask, only to know that Ma Debiao and Niu Heiji went out with all the patrolmen, and it was estimated that there was a situation.

Qi Jingtong was suddenly unhappy, these guys drunk themselves, and then poured out of the nest, there must be a big action, but they didn't let themselves participate, isn't this rejecting himself, so he picked up a knife and touched the footprints, but when he saw Ma Debiao and others digging the embankment, he was a little confused, so he asked.

"You ...... You want to dig up the levee? Qi Jing's face changed when he said the phone, and the little bit of alcohol disappeared in an instant, and he shouted: "Are you crazy? Bastard, Ma Debiao, Niu Inheritance, what the fuck do you want to do? ”

Ma Debiao's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he shouted decisively: "Kill him!" ”

There was no need to urge at all, more than a dozen patrolmen raised their weapons and pounced fiercely at Qi Jingtong, deliberately digging down the embankment is already a capital crime, not to mention deliberately murdering Qincha, this is a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, these patrolmen naturally want to kill Qi Jingtong alive.

Qi Jingtong was shocked and changed color, wielding a knife to resist, his martial arts were not bad, and he killed several patrolmen, but after all, his fists were invincible to his four hands, and his body was injured one after another, and finally he was stabbed in the left thigh, and suddenly the blood gushed like a spring, and he rolled down the embankment slope under his unsteady standing, and disappeared into the darkness.

At this moment, a long dragon of torches appeared in the distance, and it was coming towards this direction. Ma Debiao's face sank, and he shouted: "Don't care, hurry, dig quickly, drown him!" ”

The patrolmen dug frantically, and the gap widened wider and wider, and finally, the turbid water of the Yellow River roared and poured out from the gap, and the impact of the current further widened the gap......

Rumble......

After several days of continuous rain, the water level of the Yellow River was already high, and at this time, it was like a herd of wild horses surging out.

Crash......

The levee collapsed completely, and the monstrous flood poured down from the sky, and some slow patrolmen were directly swept into the monstrous turbidity waves

When Ma Debiao and Niu Jisheng ran out of hundreds of meters and looked back, they saw that the gap had increased to more than ten meters, and the terrible flood was rushing down the slope like a giant dragon, and the torch team in the distance was soon messy and rushed to the nearby highlands, however, most of them were finally swallowed up by the flood, only a few torches were lucky enough to rush up the high hillside, however, the flood was still rising sharply......

Ma Debiao and Niu Hei glanced at each other in shock, and at the same time secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it was successful!