In the spring of the sixth year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, after several heavy rains in the summer, the water level of the Mother River in the Central Plains began to rise, and it was time to worry the people along the coast.

On the east bank of the Daming Prefecture section of the Yellow River, a short and fat man in a red government official was walking by the river with a group of great Song military officers. Behind him were surrounded by the brigade of guards. Both sides of the Yellow River were deserted, with only weeds, no crops, and no farmers ploughing. Occasionally, knights rode past the river embankment on the other side of the river and saw officials patrolling the river, just waiting and watching. They were all scouts and cavalry of the Great Zhou Republic Army. Now they could not defeat the Song Dynasty officials who were on the other side of the Yellow River, so they could only take a look.

The Song Dynasty officials were the chief officials of Daming Mansion Road and the appeasement envoy of Daming Mansion, and Du Chong, who was responsible for the Daming Mansion. Now Lu Yihao has lost his post and dismissed and sent him to the Shaolin Temple.

The Song army on the battlefield in Hebei was also squeezed into two major military groups. One was the Cizhou Legion commanded by Hebei Xuanfu Zong Ze and the Zhaoyi Army governor Han Xiaozhou; the other was the Daming Legion commanded by Du Chong.

Both major groups are under surveillance by the Republican army's superior forces.

Among them, the Cizhou Legion was divided and surrounded in Handan and Fuyang, with a total force of about 100,000 people.

The Daming Legion was trapped in the Daming Prefecture City, with a total force of less than 100,000.

Of course, the 200,000 Song army is no longer the same as the Hebei New Army at the beginning of the war. The initial 300,000 Hebei New Army is now 60,000 to 70,000 people, and 30,000 of them were led by Wang Bing and retreated to Jingdong East Road. The rest belong to two major groups, Cizhou and Daming.

Based on them, Zong Ze, Han Xiaozhou and Du Chong expanded an army of 200,000. Although the number of people is large, the equipment and training cannot be compared with the previous elite troops.

Moreover, outstanding officers also suffered a lot of losses in the previous battles. They had no choice but to boost the middle and low-level officers who survived. Yue Fan, who perfectly inherited his father's genes of good defeat, has now been appointed as the fifth general of Hebei, and has been promoted to the Wugong Doctor (the seventh rank), and has also been added to Yaojun, the governor of Baozhou. He has a great official career!

Of course, Yue Fan, who can't win a battle, still has some skills. His 6,000 famous soldiers are Du Chong's ace main force. He has left the protection of Daming Mansion City many times to fight. Although he will be defeated in every battle, he will be defeated without defeat and will always withdraw most of his troops safely. Therefore, he is nicknamed "Yue Wuyang".

After more than ten consecutive defeats, Yue Fengyue Wuyang also discovered some problems.

Even if the number of Zhou troops outside Daming Prefecture is limited, otherwise "Yue Wuyang" would have to sacrifice his life for the country.

"The waiting system (Du Chong's office is the waiting system for the hosting of Tianzhang Pavilion)," Yue flipped forward a few steps, arrived at Du Chong, and whispered, "When the ranks of the Maling Road, he encountered only a few thousand thieves when he left the Maling Road Crossing this time, he should have been one brigade of thieves. The entrance of Maling Road Crossing is so important, there are only one brigade of thieves, and there are obviously not many thieves trapped in the city."

The Zhou army was "hidden" against Daming Fucheng, rather than encircling it. It did not dig the long moats near the city. Instead, it set up defenses in Guantao, Wei County (west of the Yellow River), Gucheng Town, Maling Roadkou, Weidian, Nanle Town and other places outside Daming Fucheng, and then used cavalry to block the road leading to the outer edge of Daming Fucheng.

In fact, it is just a film that monitors the movements of Daming Mansion.

The main force of the Zhou army in Hebei is now divided into three routes, one by one, one by Cizhou, preparing to annihilate the troops of Zong Ze and Han Xiaozhou, who have strong combat effectiveness; one by Qizhou (belonging to Jingdong East Road) to defeat Tong Guan and Wang Bing; the other bypasses Daming Prefecture and enters Yunzhou, and is divided into two units in Yunzhou. One by goes west along the Wuzhang River to meet with the Wuyi brave men of Chenliu, and then belongs to the Henan Legion. The other by entering Yanzhou eastward, targeting Xianyuan County (Qufu) Xianyuan County, the hometown of Confucius, and the neighboring Yanzhou Chengxia County and Sishui County, are both south of Mount Tai and west of Yimeng Mountain, and are just stuck in the rear of Qizhou. Once they fall into the hands of the Zhou army, Tong Guan and Wang Bing's Jingdong Group's retreat may be cut off.

Moreover, the Yanshenggong Sect in Xianyuan County was a very large landlord. During the Northern Song Dynasty, they were all hereditary knowledge of Xianyuan County. They were almost the feudal lord of Xianyuan County, and they must have a lot of food on hand. After taking over Xianyuan County, the Jingdong Army of Zhou's army would not have to worry about food and drink. The consumption required to attack Xuzhou in the next step is no longer a big problem.

As for the Daming Prefecture City, which has always been regarded as the pillar of Hebei's defense by the Song Dynasty court, it should be a fortress that is difficult to conquer in the eyes of the Republican Army Command. Therefore, it was monitored by a unit of troops and there was no plan to force the capture.

If the defenders in Daming Prefecture were about to run away, the Republican army responsible for surveillance would not try their best to stop them, just follow them all the way.

However, beyond the expectations of the military experts of the Republican Army, Du Chong, who was guarding Daming Prefecture City, actually came up with the clever plan of "flooding the Seven Armies" and wanted to use large water to reopen the encirclement that did not exist to cover the escape of Daming defenders.

When Yue Fan told Du Chong about the discovery that "there are not many enemies trapped in the city", Du Chong was lowering his head and thinking. When he heard Yue Fan's words, he sneered: "If you don't have too many, you will be defeated. If you want more, can we still escape?"

"Hard-to-mand..." Yue Feng frowned. He wanted to persuade Du Chong to give up blowing up the dam, but now he didn't dare to say it. He hurriedly said, "What I taught to do is that the last generals are incompetent."

Du Chong nodded slightly and called out, "Where is Xue Dutong?"

"The last one is here!" A fat military officer in his thirties stepped forward a few steps and bowed to Du Chong.

He is Xue Guang, the commander of Daming Prefecture Road. Like Yue Fan, he is a good general who Du Chong relied on.

"When can we blow up the dam and destroy the embankment?" Du Chong asked.

Xue Guang, like Yue Fan, did not agree to blow up the dam, but he did not dare to ignore the order of his boss Du Chong, so he had to report: "Report to Shuaisi, as long as the weather is dry and rainy, he can blow up the dam. The engineers have selected a location to bury gunpowder, and they can ensure that they can blow up dozens of steps at a time. It is just the people of Daming Mansion..."

Du Chong glanced at Xue Guang and said lightly: "The reason why Ci cannot command soldiers hasn't been taught by the Martial Arts Palace?"

Like Yue Fan, Xue Guang graduated from the Martial Arts Palace. When the war broke out, he was just a deputy general. Now he is the commander of the capital, and of course Du Chong promoted him, so he naturally has to give his benefactor face.

At the moment, he was humble and taught: "I have been taught... the engineer is ready, just wait for the commander of the commander, and you can blow up the dam at any time!"

"It's not my commander's great order!" Du Chong clasped his fists into the air, "It's the official's edict! Last night, the wax ball edict from Kaifeng Prefecture had arrived, and I approved my commander's strategy to explode the dam! Do you have anything else to say?"

Because there are not many Zhou troops trapped in the city and there are no water troops, it is impossible to cut off the liaison between Daming Prefecture City and Kaifeng Prefecture.

When the Song army generals who followed Du Chong heard the order, no one dared to raise objections again.

Du Chong smiled deeply and nodded gently: "The Yellow River embankment was not something we exploded, it was done by the East! Their purpose of the dam was to destroy the walls of Daming Mansion. We had no choice but to break out. Do you understand?"

"The lower official (the last general) understands!"

The generals responded in unison.

The dam blowing up the dam and dam are too unethical, and it is not necessary... Oh, or, from the perspective of Hebei operations alone, it is not necessary.

As for the plan to give up Hebei and Jingdong East Road, Jingdong East Road, and Jingji Road, it is another matter... After the Yellow River is bombed in Daming Prefecture, it will inevitably capture Si and enter Huai, and enter the Huai River from Huai to the sea.

Now is the season of rainy and abundant summer. Whether it is Sishui or Huaihe River, the water level is high. Once the Yellow River water pours in, the consequences can be imagined. On both sides of the Huaihai River, they are afraid that they will be flooded into a country of Ze.

After Zhao Huan led his troops to retreat westward into Guanzhong, the yellow flood areas caused by the breach of the Huaihai and the Yellow River were all troubles of the Northern Zhou and Eastern Song dynasties...

Du Chong nodded and said in a deep voice: "How is this evening? The weather has been dry these days, and it's just right to explode the dam!"

"The last general will take the order!" Xue Guang said loudly.

Du Chong said again: "Can all departments be prepared to break through?"

"Everything has been done, you can break through at any time!"

"Okay!" Du Chong said sternly, "I will break through the dam tonight!"

"Here!"

...

On the third day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, with a series of roars, the Yellow River embankment south of Daming Prefecture and north of Nanle Town was blown up to a gap of more than twenty steps wide!

It was the summer season of the Yellow River, and the rising water level had long exceeded the horizon. It was entirely dependent on the disrepaired embankments on both sides of the shore to control the water flow, making it barely travel northward.

So when the embankment was blown up, the surging Yellow River water immediately broke out and flocked to the low land in the east, quickly flooding Nanle Town and Weidian Town, and then rushed to the densely populated town of Hanzhang Town. In an instant, the once prosperous town was swept away by the surging yellow water. Looking up, there was a terrain around it.

After destroying Hanzhang Town, the Yellow River water flowed southeastward again, and soon flooded Ximen Qing's hometown Yanggu County and into Liangshanpo. At this time, the water level of Liangshanpo was also very high, and there was no capacity to store floods. The water rushed straight into Sishui and rushed towards Xuzhou City. In the early morning of the sixth day of the fifth month, it flooded Liguo Tieshan, and soaked all the Liguo City Castle and Xuzhou Pengcheng Castle in water.

Finally, the surging Yellow River flood took the Huai River into the sea through the Si River, and then caused a terrible flood in the downstream of the Huai River... From then on, the Huai River will probably flood year by year!

At least 200,000 people were drowned by the flood! Millions of people were displaced and homeless! The most severely affected areas were not Hebei and Jingdong East Road, but the two sides of the Huai River where the Yellow River finally flowed into!

The former prosperous and prosperous Huai River was destroyed! The huge mess was now in front of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the upcoming Eastern Song Dynasty.

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