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"What's going on?" The explosion was so powerful that Tadu felt his ass shake and jumped.

Jiang Zhanyuan's face changed greatly: "Not good! Someone blew up the dam to the northeast! The northeast side is a swamp, and when the dam blows up, the lake floods into the swamp! There are sparsely populated over there, and the water level of Hongze Lake is lowered when the lake water is poured in! When the water level drops to a certain level, it is useless for us to blow up the Gaojiayan. ”

"That's nonsense! Don't hurry up and blow up Gaojiayan! While the water level is still high! Dadu roared.

Jiang Zhanyuan secretly calculated in his heart: If Gaojiayan is blown up, as soon as the Ming army comes, everyone will not want to live! Since the Ming army has blown up the northeast embankment, it can be used as an excuse to dissuade Dadu from blowing up Gaojiayan, so that everyone can have a chance to live. Thinking of this, Jiang Zhanyuan said: "My lord, Minggou has already blown up the northeast embankment, if we want to blow up Gaojiayan, we must leave time for retreat." Our ships are gone, so we have to retreat by land, so it will take at least an hour before the dam can be blown up. But after an hour, the water level dropped, and it was pointless to blow up Gaojiayan! The flood that rushed to the Canal Zone will not be too big, not only will it not cause any losses to the barbarians, but it will cut off the retreat of our army! ”

"So what do we do now?" Dadu asked dejectedly.

Jiang Zhanyuan didn't dare to offer advice, but just turned his head and secretly glanced at Etuhun.

Of course Etuhun knew what to do, he didn't want to die. So he stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and slapped a thousand: "Dashuai, the slave thinks there is no need to blow up Gaojiayan!" Let's get out of here! As long as we don't blow up Gaojiayan, even if we are caught up by Ming Dog, everyone still has a way to live. If Gaojiayan is blown up, everyone's way of life will be cut off! ”

"Dashuai, let's go quickly! Leave Gaojiayan behind and give the minions a way to live! All the Eight Banners generals knelt on the ground and pleaded.

These Eight Banner generals were actually relatively brave when they fought, but the firearms of the Qiongzhou Army and the heavy cavalry gave them too much shock, knowing that fighting against the Qiongzhou Army was a matter of death in vain, how many people were willing to do it? The matter has come to this point, you can run if you can, and if you can't run away, you just surrender.

Originally, Dadu wanted to blow up Gaojiayan and repay the court with death. But looking at the Eight Banners generals kneeling on the ground, Dadu finally couldn't make this decision, so he sighed: "That's it! Let's go! ”

The demoralized Qing army evacuated Gaojiayan, came down from the heights, and retreated in the direction of the canal. Because Gaojiayan was not blown up, the official road to Huai'an was still open, and the Qing army could enter the canal and escape by boat. It is a pity that Dadu has forgotten an important detail: most of the ships on the canal have been requisitioned by the Qing army, and at this time those ships were either used by the Qing army to sink into the Huai River to block the shipping channel, or they were defeated in the water battle of Hongze Lake and sank to the bottom of the lake, and the fleeing ships had already fled in the direction of Shandong, and it was impossible to come back to meet them.

Originally, there were still some small boats on the side of the canal, but the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society were secretly operating, and the boatmen on both sides of the canal were withdrawn, and the boatmen who still had boats in their hands simply fled along the canal, some fled to the south, and some fled to Shandong.

In a word, when they go to the canal, they will find that there is no longer a shadow of a boat on the canal, which used to be bustling!

To the northeast of Hongze Lake, the Ming army defeated the Qing army's water division, and the remaining Qing army water division fled from several small rivers, and the Ming army took control of the dam northeast of Hongze Lake without much effort. Next, Wang Yu ordered that several thousand catties of gunpowder be placed on the dam, and the gunpowder was sealed in a wooden box and then buried in the soil, a total of 15 places. The Ming army in charge of the blasting lit the fuse and evacuated the dam, followed by an earth-shattering explosion.

The tightly sealed wooden box has excellent air tightness, and it is buried in the soil, and the explosion power is not small after ignition, the dam was blown open fifteen gaps more than ten zhang wide, and the lake water that lost its restraint surged down, widening the gap, and soon formed a gap more than a mile long, and the lake water poured into the swamp.

"The Yellow River has been seized into the sea many times, and the problem of hanging lakes on the ground still cannot be fundamentally solved! To solve this problem, the first is to control the Yellow River; The second is to dig up the original channel of the lower reaches of the Huai River, and then dig up the low-lying land in the lower reaches of the river to bring in the lake water, so as to fundamentally solve the fundamental solution to the threats faced by Sizhou City and Huai'an and other places! Wang Yu stood on a steam-ironclad river gunboat and looked at the raging lake in the distance and said.

At this moment, a car and ship came quickly, and a spy got off the boat, boarded the gunboat, and saluted Wang Yu: "Handsome! The Tartars of Gaojiayan have retreated! Instead of blowing up the dam, they went straight down the dam and were evacuating along the official road in the direction of the canal! ”

Liu Guoxuan said with a smile: "Dashuai, if we blow up the Gaojiayan Dam at this time, I'm afraid that tens of thousands of Tartars will all become food in the belly of fish, shrimp, turtles and turtles!" The people downstream have withdrawn, we blew up the dam, and the people have nothing to lose! ”

"Can't be fried!" Wang Yu shook his head, "How many fertile fields are there in the land of Lianghuai!" If the water is released, the fertile land will become saline-alkali land from now on! ”

Wang Yu knew very well in his heart that although the Yellow River had been diverted many times, in this era, the Yellow River had not completely destroyed the fertile land in the Lianghuai area. It was not until later, when the Yellow River was diverted again, the city of Sizhou was buried, the dam of Hongze Lake collapsed, and Chengzi Lake appeared, and the soil quality of farmland in the Lianghuai area began to decline. The real and completely destroyed was during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in real history, when Chiang blew up the Yellow River Dam at Huayuankou and submerged the entire northern part of Jiangsu. After the water of the Yellow River receded, large areas of land became saline-alkali land.

"It's a pity!" Liu Guoxuan sighed, "I lost a good opportunity to annihilate the Tartars!" ”

"The Tartar can't run away!" Wang Yuyou stroked his beard and said with a smile, "There are no boats available in the canal!" The Tartars had to flee by land to the north! They go by land, are they fast with our sailors? ”

Dadu finally failed to escape, and when the Qing army arrived at the canal, they found that there were few people on both sides of the once prosperous canal, and the boats that once filled the canal were gone. Without boats, the Qing army could only flee to Shandong on foot along the river embankment. But the speed of walking is slow, and it is very good to be able to walk 100 miles in two days.

The Ming army's naval division entered the canal along the small river north of Hongze Lake and blocked the front of the Qing army.

At the same time, the naval warships that entered the canal from the Yangtze River also caught up from behind, cutting off the Qing army's rear route.

Seeing that tens of thousands of troops were cornered, Dadu drew his sword and killed himself, and the rest of the Qing army surrendered.