In order to prevent Luoyang City from turning into a marsh country and to prevent the people downstream from being buried in the belly of the fish, Cui Renshi gathered all the officials from the Ministry of Industry and Luoyang City here to discuss countermeasures.
Seeing the ice wall accumulating thicker and higher, some people proposed to dig up river embankments and release floodwaters into the fields to protect the city of Luoyang.
But in this case, no one can guarantee whether the embankment can be repaired. If the flood is too large and the Yellow River changes its course, Luoyang will not only be affected!
By then, the entire Henan Province, Shandong Province, and even Jiangnan Province will be ravaged by floods, and millions of people will be displaced as a result. Who dares to shoulder this responsibility? Who can afford it?
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Rejecting the idea of creating a man-made breach, the Ministry of Industry proposed using a large ship to break the ice wall.
According to the predictions of officials from the Ministry of Industry, while the ice wall is not fully formed and the water level difference is not too great, a giant boat can be used to forcefully break open the ice wall! Release the blocked river water!
Although this would inevitably cause the river to overflow and submerge some of the land downstream, compared to the huge waves that swept across Luoyang, they could still withstand this loss!
As soon as this suggestion came out, it was immediately recognized by others. The danger of the river now lies in the ice wall. As long as the wall is knocked open, there will be no problem!
Therefore, after deciding on this plan, Cui Renshi immediately sent people to notify the people downstream to move to Luoyang City or to higher ground, and at the same time look for suitable ships to collide with!
Collision ships are easy to find, because water transport on the river has flourished in the past two years, and there are many huge ships traveling during this period!
As long as huge rocks are loaded into these large ships, and iron-clad rams are added at the waterline, a ramming ship can be quickly transformed.
However, there is a boat, but the man driving the boat makes things difficult! Because everyone knows that this is not a dangerous job at all, but a life-threatening job!
At first, someone suggested letting the ship go down the river and hit the ice wall on its own, thus avoiding sacrifice.
But this proposal was quickly rejected by officials from the Ministry of Industry!
Because the ice wall in front is silted up, the flow speed in the upper reaches of the river is not very fast. If the ship is allowed to go down the river, it does not matter whether it can have enough force to break through the ice wall. If it is hit by an ice floe, the hull of the ship will be knocked sideways, and it will hit the ice wall at the end.
On the contrary, it will be self-defeating, from breaking the ice wall to strengthening the ice wall!
And just when everyone was extremely anxious, the Caogang people who got the news happened to rush over. After hearing their difficulties, the bearded man immediately volunteered to take over the task.
So, there was this scene at the beginning.
The wind is rustling, the water is cold, and once the strong man is gone, he will never return!
Perhaps, this is the most appropriate portrayal of the men on the boat!
Because everyone, including those men, knew that this was a fatal action!
That ice wall is too thick and too big!
They crashed into it with a huge boat, and there were only two consequences.
First, the ship was smashed into pieces!
Second, the ice wall was completely broken open!
However, for them, there seems to be only one ending, and that is to be completely swallowed by the huge waves of the river!
No big ship can stand firm in the raging river floods! And in today's weather, once the big ship capsizes and the crew falls into the water, all that awaits them is to be frozen to death and then sink to the bottom of the river.
Although, I know that this trip will lead to death!
However, those men still stepped onto the big ship, resolutely cut off the cable, and then sang the boat song and rushed towards the cold and unknown depths of the river!
Leaving the river beach where Cui Renshi was, the big boat was riding on the fierce cold wind, speeding on the wide river surface.
Around the ship, ice floes hit the sides of the ship from time to time, making bursts of heart-wrenching creaking sounds. The huge hull was also trembling uncontrollably during the collisions.
But even so, the bearded man always stood firmly on the bow of the ship like a rock!
"Full sail! Full speed!"
Close, close! Just when the man could see the valley not far away, his last order finally resounded through the entire ship!
There are people on the canyon of Balixia!
These people were the common people around them. They heard that the government was going to send people to break through the ice wall, so they came here to prepare to witness this feat with their own eyes!
But at this moment, seeing the big ship moving down the water abandoning everything, like an arrow from the string, it slammed into the ice wall in front of the valley entrance, and everyone's breathing stopped.
Perhaps, it is really difficult to describe what I saw at this moment in words!
Under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes, even the time around him slowed down a lot!
Those standing on the canyon could only see the big ship hitting the ice wall with an indomitable momentum on the dim and turbid river!
The ground beneath my feet trembled! Immediately afterwards, an explosion that was ten times heavier and a hundred times heavier than thunder came from the bottom of the valley!
At the same time, countless sawdust mixed with ice water, like a dragon emerging from the water, instantly rose more than ten feet on the river! The water spray even splashed on the people at the top of the valley!
The flying mist covered the sky and the sun, blocking everyone's sight! No matter how much the people in the valley opened their eyes, they could no longer see the big ship under their feet that looked like it was dead.
"It's OK! It's OK!"
Silence! After the deathly silence, suddenly someone pointed at the bottom of the valley and shouted in surprise!
When the others heard this, they were shocked and quickly looked where the man was pointing!
Although the location of the original ice wall was still hazy and unclear, the originally sluggish downstream river water was obviously speeding up. Some broken wood mixed with floating ice fragments also began to flow downstream with the current.
surge away.
"It's done!"
In an instant, ecstasy enveloped the hearts of countless people! This ice wall that touched the heartstrings of countless people was finally knocked open! As long as it was knocked open, the raging river would naturally tear open the crack, and finally tear it open.
The entire ice wall was shattered into pieces!
"No! No!"
However, before they could cheer and celebrate that the crisis was over, another man with bronze skin had a solemn face, staring closely at the surface of the river that was not covered by smoke.
"No! The ship didn't come down! The ice wall didn't come down either!"
"ah……"
With one sentence, the mood of everyone who was ecstatic just now suddenly fell to the bottom again!
yes!
If the big ship really breaks the ice wall, then the water flow should be getting bigger and bigger! Also, whether the big ship is broken into pieces or is still intact, it should always flow down with the water, right?
Until now, I haven't seen any trace of it. Wouldn't that mean it was a failure?
