After Su Jin sent the letter into the city, he led people straight to the Hunan Dam, and after a night of accumulation, the water of the embankment was about to overflow the earth dam, and the simple earth dam was also in danger.

The dynasty stood knee-deep in the water with thousands of soldiers, a thick rope for every ten people, the end of the rope tied to the corner of the straw bag on the embankment, waiting for an order to pull out the straw bag full of dirt, and the dam would collapse immediately.

Su Jin stood in the water that overflowed the embankment, waiting quietly, looking at the head of the city in Zuzhou, he knew what the collapse of the embankment meant, so he vaguely warned the other party in advance, hoping that the other party would pay attention to evacuating the people; But there was no sign of evacuation of the people at the head of Zuzhou City, and it seemed that the warning was useless.

"Dashuai, let's start, we have done our best to be benevolent and righteous, and we can't delay."

"Wait a minute, wait another half an hour." Su Jin waved his hand.

An hour and a half passed, Su Jin gritted his teeth, he knew that he couldn't wait any longer, he had been delayed in Zuzhou for too long, and the scouts sent out had already detected the intentions of various units of the Liao army to reinforce Linhuang Mansion in Bailiwan, if it was delayed, I was afraid that he would really fall into the encirclement of the Liao army and fight with him.

"Don't blame me for being ruthless, it's a life-and-death fight, and that's all I can do." Su Jin shouted loudly: "Open the dam!" ”

All the soldiers shouted in unison, bags of straw bags were dragged away from the embankment, hundreds of bags of straw bags were pulled away, the already precarious embankment has been crumbling, with the key dozens of bales of straw bags were withdrawn, the dam slowly collapsed, suddenly rumbling loudly, the speed of collapse intensified, in the blink of an eye the embankment has collapsed in the center of the area to form a large gap more than two feet long, the flood turned over the scorched yellow foam made an earth-shattering sound and overturned down.

The huge flood poured into the lake, and a huge wave moved rapidly, and soon reached the city wall on the opposite bank, stirring up an ochre-yellow wave, and with the continuous infusion of the water, the water of the south lake swelled wildly, and after half an hour, the water level had overflowed the embankment on the inner side of the north city wall.

In this half an hour, Su Jin was relieved to find that there was movement at the head of Zuzhou City, and there was a huge sound of gongs clattering in the distance, which was an alarm of fire or disaster, it seems that the people of Zuzhou City have found signs of the lake swelling, although they are far away, the sound of the people crying and running is still clearly audible, and many people running up and running gradually appeared on the high roofs and city walls, Su Jin sighed, it seems that the city lord of Zuzhou still understands his warning.

An hour later, more than half of the water accumulated in the dam was vented into the South Lake, the South Lake swelled, the water surface became much wider, and then looked at the city of Zuzhou, it was already a vast ocean, the city wall of more than two zhang high was flooded by half, the water flow had nowhere to drain, and the streets in the city were rushing back and forth, and the water in the city was already half a person high; On the roofs of the houses, on the walls, and on the tops of the trees, there were all the people, watching in horror as the flood gradually spread up.

The situation was even worse than Su Jin expected, Su Jin originally only estimated that the north side of Zuzhou City was four or five feet lower than the south side based on visual measurements, but now it seems that it is far more than that; Fortunately, there is not much water in the levee, and the wider the lake, the more water it can hold, and it can only rise by about half a foot at most, but even so, many people's hiding places are no longer safe.

Yelurong, the lord of Zuzhou, wanted to cry without tears, he didn't expect the Song army to come to this hand, when he woke up to the intention of the Song army, it was too late, fortunately, he immediately ordered to ring the gong to warn, and asked the people to quickly find a high place to hide, the water came too fast, he didn't even have time to open the north gate to let the soldiers and people escape from the city.

At this moment, he is lying on the city wall like the soldiers and the people, and half a foot under his feet is the flood, this is still a fart fight? How can you fight if you can't move an inch? Fortunately, the Song army could not attack without water, and it was safe for the time being.

Su Jin already had a way, last night when Jingtai and the dynasty were busy working, Pan Jiang with 50,000 soldiers was not idle, the trees near the left were lush, and the fir was the most common tree species here, both tall and light; In one night, Pan Jiang led people to make thousands of simple wooden chops, which came in handy at this moment.

Su Jin gave an order, thousands of wooden platoons went into the water, five or six Song soldiers bent their bows and arrows, spears and knives were waiting for them, the wooden platoons split the ocean of lake water and went straight to the head of the city of Zuzhou, the soldiers at the head of the city had no heart to resist, if you do it at this time, you are killing yourself, others don't have to fight you at all, just turn around and go back, everyone will be trapped in the water to death.

The wooden platoon shuttled back and forth, where was the battle, it was like a rescue, and the afternoon was spent back and forth to bring the people and the disarmed Liao soldiers to the high ground in the south, and the soldiers were disarmed and sat on the ground in despair, soaking wet; The people were gathered in another open field.

More than 10,000 defenders in the city, plus more than 30,000 people, were rescued until dark; Hundreds of people did not have time to take shelter or their houses were soaked and collapsed and drowned, but this was already a small casualty.

Su Jin also scratched his head, it was originally a war, but now it has become a rescue, but Su Jin has put down the barrier in his heart, it is naturally much better to take the city without killing people than to slaughter people's lives, but the current problem is that the flood also blocked the way to the north, which was not considered in advance.

That night, Su Jin convened everyone to discuss the direction of the next step, the flood blocked the road to the north, Shangjing Road Linhuang Mansion is close at hand but can not pass, to wait for the flood to recede I don't know how many days, I can't wait here for the water.

Pan Jiang's advice was to make a detour to the east and spend some time making a semicircle to attack Yikun County east of Linhuang Mansion; Jingtai's suggestion is that it is better to turn around and attack Yongzhou in the southeast, in short, it will be a mess, and maybe he can meet the small group of Liao soldiers who went back to rescue Linhuang Mansion, and they happened to intercept and kill halfway.

Su Jin weighed it again and again and decided to implement the second plan, because it would inevitably take more time to attack Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing by detour, and the Liao army was reinforcing Linhuang Mansion, and when it went, the other party was waiting for it; Attacking Yongzhou cannot be said to be a good choice, because it is getting farther and farther away from Linhuang Mansion, and the psychological deterrence of the Liao people is getting smaller and smaller, and the longer it takes, the more difficult it will be to go to Beijing, because there will be continuous reinforcements arriving.

The lesser of two evils, attacking Yongzhou at least will not meet the Liao people face to face, and continuing to come and go in the hinterland of the Liao State is also a big problem for the Liao people, they can't ignore themselves.

How to deal with the soldiers of Zuzhou is a difficult problem, the slaughter is naturally inhumane, but leaving them may be opponents on the battlefield in the future, thinking about it, Su Jin decided to take these more than 10,000 Zuzhou soldiers as the people who accompanied the army, as for the city lord Yelurong, there is no need to keep it, plus his scolding mouth is not clean, Ma Han dragged him into the woods and cut off his head with a knife.

Su Jin's decision to attack Yongzhou in the southeast is undoubtedly the most correct, although Su Jin is unwilling and a little unhappy, but in fact, if they pass Zuzhou and arrive near Linhuang Mansion, they will find that they are facing the resistance of 100,000 border soldiers transferred back from the Goryeo Jurchens, from taking Raozhou to flooding Zuzhou, there was a delay of nearly half a month, not only the border soldiers in the far east arrived, but even the 50,000 Liao troops who withdrew reinforcements from the front line had also arrived at Gaozhou Zuo, which was burned into white land. If Su Jin's army were to engage the Liao army on the outskirts of Linhuang Mansion, it would be hit by a flanking attack from top to bottom.

At noon on the second day of the march, in a place called Nitou Mountain, two hundred miles north of Yongzhou, the cavalry who explored the road came to report and met the figure of 30,000 Liao troops.

These 30,000 soldiers are the reinforcements of the rescue of the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, because more than ten days ago, the army of the Song State raided Gaozhou, pretending to attack Dading, frightened the Pingzhang political affairs of the Prime Minister of Zhongjing City, Yeluji's friendship was scattered, and he quickly shrunk the troops of the surrounding states and counties to protect, but he did not expect that the Song army was very cunning, and he dropped a spear and turned to the north to easily conquer Raozhou; Yelu Jiyou still didn't dare to move, but then the emperor sent a holy decree from the south, asking the state capitals of Zhongjing Province to quickly reinforce Linhuang Mansion, Yelu Jiyou's boss was unwilling, because he was afraid that the Song people would kill the horse gun again, and Da Ding would not be able to protect after the troops were transferred.

After many days of grinding, the news of the arrival of the Song army in Zuzhou came, and Yelu Jiyou was relieved and ordered the general to lead 30,000 troops to reinforce Linhuang Mansion, which was later than the 50,000 horses withdrawn from the southern front.

And he also has a heart, in order to avoid chasing the tail with the Song army in Zuzhou, he deliberately ordered the general to detour to Yongzhou to the north, so as to avoid encounters, but also to delay time, maybe to Linhuang Mansion, the battle has ended, the victory can be naturally shared, and he did not lose his soldiers and horses if he was defeated, after all, these soldiers and horses are his clan soldiers.

But I didn't expect that when the canopy was delivered, the sky was not as desired, and people were unlucky to drink cold water and plug their teeth, even if it was a detour, they were still blocked by Su Jin's army.