Before dawn, the tiny light on the horizon finally broke through the darkest night, opened the heavy black curtain, and gradually, the sky slowly brightened up with irrepressible force.

Xiucai woke up early, saw the light of day, immediately got up, raised his eyes, the hill was like a lonely island in the vast ocean, surrounded by yellow water, in the morning light, rippling out layers of turbid fish scales.

When Xiucai saw it, he almost planted his head on the ground, his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. It's the heavens that are going to kill us! Oh my!

Xiucai knelt on the ground in a dejected manner, looking at the vast sea helplessly, just now, he even had the heart to commit suicide, what the hell is going on? What the hell is going on?

In fact, a few sentry brothers also saw that the water around them did not recede overnight, and even increased a little, and they were also worried, and they didn't know what to do.

Xiucai left a few brothers who continued to keep watch, and the rest of the people all gathered around the dark fort of the Three Dogs to discuss how to get out of the current predicament.

Needless to say, this big water is obviously not accidental, it is estimated that the Yellow River has burst, Da Kui is very clear about this, he is on the bank of the Yangtze River in Nanjing, and he has seen the terrifying scene after the Yangtze River burst when he was a child.

Everyone agreed with this point of view and motioned for Da Kui to continue, and Da Kui slowly explained how they had avoided the danger after the levee burst.

Normally, every house in their area had a boat, and almost everyone climbed on the boat, and the roof was useless, it was all submerged, and the only way to get on the boat, or where there was a mountain, was going up the mountain, as it is now.

But Dakui and the others were just temporarily avoiding the flood, although they were starving to death, they could still row to other places to survive, but now, everyone is on this hill or island, but they are waiting to die.

If the bank of the river bursts, I don't know when the water will dry up, maybe it won't dry all the time, is it possible that everyone will starve to death here?

If you really die like this, it is better to fight to the death with the devil before, and die a little more happily, everyone said that they were full of money.

We can't die, we won't die. Xiucai kept telling himself, hinting to himself, that we would definitely find a way to live, and not only go down, but also return to the army.

But now, everyone is talking about how to get out of this predicament, and some say that they can build a ship, or make a raft, tie some wood and planks together, and then row away.

But Da Kui looked at the only remaining timber and planks on the mountain, and could only make two or three small rafts, and estimated that each raft could sit three or four people, but there were about twenty people, which greatly exceeded the transportation volume of the raft, and these horses.

Some people say that they ride a horse to swim in the water, but this is even more ridiculous, people and horses themselves escape, you can still drive them into the water, and ride on them, and the horses will not listen to you at all.

Several masters of horseback riding tried on the spot, without using their hands, these horses would not go into the water if they were killed, no matter how they were led, they would rather die on the hill than resolutely not go into the water.

This road is also blocked, what else is the road?

If there is a negative one, they will stay on the hill and wait for the water to recede before leaving, maybe by that time, the three dogs' injuries will also be healed......

Before he finished speaking, he was immediately interrupted by everyone, sit and eat the mountain empty, brother, everyone's food is enough for three or four days, what if this big water does not recede for ten days? What should I do if I don't refund for a month?

When the time comes, everyone will starve to death here, and they will still fight a fart, beat a devil's fart, and even see the shadow of a devil, and they will burp.

Unable to think of a better way, everyone fell silent for a while......

"If you don't have to eat, you can eat these horses." The foodie radish came out coldly.

As a result, it attracted a "severe beating" from everyone, how could it be possible to eat these horses on their feet, go crazy, and expect them to carry everyone away from the enemy-occupied area.

But Chaoyang suddenly flashed a light in his head, slapped his thigh, and roared happily: "Yes, eat these horse ......"

Everyone stopped the "beating" of the radish, turned their heads and looked at the usually silent and calm group of Chaoyang in surprise, how could they say such absurd words like a flowery radish.

"Have you ever wondered what we're going to eat once we're here for a few days? More critically, what do these horses eat? Will they starve to death? ”

Chaoyang didn't say his thoughts all at once, but first set up a reason with everyone, changing his previous taciturn nature.

Yes, why didn't I think of this, so many horses, more than thirty of them, and the amount of food they eat every day can be described as incomparable, and in just one night, these horses have eaten up all the grass and low leaves on the hill.

Now some of the horses put their front hooves on the trunks of the trees, and raised their heads to eat the leaves, and some of them could not eat the leaves, so they lowered their heads and gnawed at the bark, and if this continued, in less than two days the hill would be eaten bald by the starving ghosts.

If there is no better way to get out of here, in case the horses starve or starve to death, that is not a reason, and in the end they will not even be able to eat fresh horse meat, but only skinny horses that are starved to the bones.

"I have an idea, and it was also Radish that inspired me to eat horses just now, let's slaughter these horses first, and the uneaten horse meat can be cooked and processed as dry food."

This thing is even more absurd, everyone has not turned this corner all of a sudden, although they know that the horses have nothing to eat, they will starve to death, but they didn't expect Chaoyang to be so simple, directly kill all the horses, it is too unreasonable.

Have you not eaten meat for a few days and want to eat meat and want to go crazy?

Seeing that everyone was staring at Chaoyang with strange eyes, Chaoyang was a little flustered, and hurriedly finished speaking:

"Don't be nervous, I'm talking about making rafts out of horse skins."

"What? What raft? Everyone didn't understand at once, but they only heard the slap of the beard on their thighs, and with an oops, they shouted:

"That's right, why didn't I think of it, Chaoyang, your method is good."

Seeing that everyone was still puzzled, Hu Zi explained instead of Chaoyang, it turned out that both of them were people from the Wubao area of Shaanxi, and the junction of Luliang, Shanxi, with the river as the boundary, this river is the Yellow River.

In order to cross the river, the people in their hometown would make sheepskin rafts to use as boats, which in simple terms, slaughtered the sheep and cut the skins in it with a small quick knife.

Then tie the sheepskin to the head and four feet, blow it up, and become a large balloon, similar to a modern lifebuoy, and tie several of them to wooden poles or wood to become a sheepskin raft, which crosses the river between the banks of the Yellow River to transport guests and goods.

"But you're talking about sheepskins, and we're horseskins, can you handle it?"

Xiucai somewhat agreed with this seemingly absurd suggestion, but felt that this horse skin, which might be different from the sheepskin, could be made into a raft?

"There are also horse rafts, but there are relatively few, I watched my grandfather do it when I was a child, and it is more difficult than sheepskin rafts, and horses are more expensive than sheep, so there are very few people who do them, but we can try it."

"Then let's kill a horse for an experiment, if it can be done, let's do it, Chaoyang Beard, can you be sure that these rafts made of horse skins are enough to carry us people?" Xiucai is still a little worried.

"As long as it can be made, more than 30 horse rafts will carry us as a piece of cake."

Seeing that Hu Zi was so sure, Xiucai put a little snack and motioned everyone to be Hu Zi Chaoyang's apprentices, killing horses and cutting skins to make rafts.

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