On the embankment, the Red Scarf Army was digging in the dark in full swing.
On the side, Protector Lei still couldn't believe what Protector Cao said. "With how humble the Hong brothers are, how can they be princes?"
"Isn't Zhu Chongba useless?" Protector Cao killed him with one blow.
"Uh, okay..." Protector Lei had nothing to say. He asked worriedly: "Then what should we do? Are we still digging?"
"The problem is not big, the news should not have been leaked." Protector Cao said solemnly: "I went to the Yamen Street to inquire about it before I came here, but there was no response from the county. Even Han Yike, the official officials were transferred to Zhongdu.
Helped."
Linhuai is a Fuguo County. Zhongdu City will definitely not have enough manpower to receive the Holy Master, and the entire county government will definitely have to be transferred there. This is why the Mingjiao wants to take action in Linhuai County.
"Where is Fengyang?" Protector Lei asked again.
"Everything is as usual. Zhu Chongba and his son will spend the night in the imperial mausoleum tonight, and the army is stationed around the imperial mausoleum." Protector Cao's intelligence work is still very effective, otherwise he would not be able to find out such secret information.
"That's good, get it done quickly. Even if the King of Heaven comes, I can't do anything to save the day!" Protector Lei gritted his teeth and said: "By the way, quickly send someone to report to King Ming and let him arrest those four boys first.
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"I have already sent someone." How could Protector Cao lag behind others in his professional field?
"Okay." Protector Lei responded, and the two of them focused all their attention on the breach of the embankment.
Although Hanzhi County built the embankment very solidly, it was not made of cement concrete after all. So many people wielded pickaxes and dug frantically, working from both sides, and finally dug through the embankment.
But this is only the inner side embankment. If you want to cause floods, you have to dig through the embankment...
The panting believers, carrying hoes, immediately moved to the embankment a hundred feet away.
"Fucking Han Yike is so perverted. It's not enough to build one embankment, we have to build two!" Lei Hu cursed.
Han Yike from Zhongdu City sneezed and suddenly worried about his own levee...
Some people may ask, why don't so many people dig two embankments at the same time? The reason is simple. This section of the river is a suspended river above the ground.
Once the main embankment is dug but the sub-dike has not yet been dug, the people on the sub-dike will probably be swept away by the fierce flood that pours down.
Therefore, if we excavate at the same time, no one will want to be assigned to the sub-dyke. Therefore, no matter how many people there are, the sub-dyke must be dug first, and then the main embankment.
This is human nature.
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However, things in this world are often bad because of human nature.
Digging the sub-embankment first and then the main embankment will waste too much time...
When the two guardians led the believers to the wider and stronger embankment, before digging a big hole, they heard the rapid sound of horse hooves in the distance!
The leader is a veteran with white beard and hair and old armor!
"Monster, stop it! I'm here with a big stick!"
Amidst the angry shouts, Hu Taigong held a wolf fang high and led more than a dozen cavalry soldiers to rush directly to the embankment.
"Stop them quickly!" Lei Hu took out the copper hammer from his back and ordered calmly.
The Red Turban soldiers on guard quickly raised their bucklers and waved their swords, trying to stop the aggressive enemy.
But with their flesh and blood and their shields as big as a cutting board, how could they stop the thundering cavalry?
The old and strong Taigong Hu took the lead and rushed into the enemy's formation, smashing and smashing him with a heavy wolf's fang! The enemy soldiers were unarmored and would be shattered if touched. Even if they were just swept, a large piece of flesh would be scraped off, and they screamed in agony.
Falling to the ground and rolling.
Fearing that the old village owner would suffer a loss, more than a dozen cavalrymen tightly guarded him in the middle. They were all veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles. They rushed, intercepted, blocked, and protected with a tacit understanding. They protected the old village owner with overwhelming force and charged in in one go.
Deep in the enemy's lines!
Fortunately, Protector Lei wielded a long-handled copper hammer and was able to withstand Hu Taigong, so he was not directly killed!
But at this time, the horseless Zhuang Ding of Hu Mansion also followed up with his sword and gun raised.
The Ming followers had no choice but to give up breaching the embankment temporarily and faced the enemy with hoes and iron picks. The two sides suddenly fought each other, fighting to the death on the banks of the turbid Huaihe River and on the high ground.
"Hurry up and call for reinforcements! They must have backup as well!" Protector Lei and Grand Duke Hu roared at Protector Cao without looking back, beating sparks everywhere.
"Okay!" Protector Cao quickly took out a firecracker and lit it with a firecracker.
The firecracker flew up into the sky with a whoosh, and exploded in the night sky, blooming into a red firework.
According to the agreement, when King Ming sees this signal, he will immediately come for reinforcements!
How could I, with ten thousand troops, not be able to break open this embankment?
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In that room, Lei Hu stood on a high place, and relying on his youth and strength, he fought with Old Madam Hu for more than ten moves!
The villagers of Hufu Village only blocked the Ming Cultists from attacking the old village owner. However, they had no intention of intervening.
A real man should be one-on-one, this is the old man's lifelong creed.
Seeing that he was gradually gaining the upper hand, Thunder Tiger let out a ferocious laugh, noticed the opponent's flaw, and swept through the entire army with one move, hoping to knock him off his horse with a hammer.
Who would have thought that the old owner of the village was trying to show off this flaw. He yelled, "Well done!" He turned sideways and raised the wolf's fang, deflecting the thunder tiger's blow.
Thunder Tiger's empty door opened in an instant, and the old owner clamped the horse's belly fiercely. The horse charged forward and directly hit Thunder Tiger on the embankment.
Protector Lei was beaten to pieces and felt like his body was about to fall apart. But he was experienced and knew that if he stayed still, he would be beaten into a rotten watermelon by the Wolf Fang in the next moment.
He quickly gritted his teeth and rolled over, rolling and crawling away from the battle group.
"Old lady, let me help you!" Unexpectedly, at this time, another group of people arrived!
One of the leading young generals, wearing a golden mountain armor, a helmet with phoenix wings and red tassels, ape-like arms and wasp waist, full of heroic spirit, turned out to be Fengyang Guard Commander Ping An, who was supposed to be escorting Zhongdu!
Before he finished speaking, Ping An had already rushed to Protector Lei on horseback, and chopped down Thunder Tiger to the ground with just one spear.
This time, I didn’t see how good Ping Baoer was in martial arts, but his ability to steal people’s heads was really amazing...
The old lady almost lost her temper.
Soon Tang Fu, the second son of Zhongshan Hou, also led his servants to come to support. Under the attack from three parties, the battle situation immediately became like boiling water and snow, and it became completely one-sided.
Seeing the situation, the Ming believers dropped their weapons and tools one after another and rushed to the river to escape on the boats. It was dark and the embankment was slippery, and they pushed and trampled each other. I don't know how many people fell into the water...
"Why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet? What is King Ming doing?" Protector Cao looked anxiously at the river in the distance, but there was no movement on the river.
The soldiers also urged anxiously: "Dharma Protector, if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave!"
Then without any explanation, he quickly put him on a fast boat and managed to escape before the Ming army arrived...
The remaining believers were not so lucky. After being strangled by the Ming army and the servants of Hu Fuzhuang and Zhongshan Houfu, none of them survived.
In fact, in other places, they would not be so unlucky.
But who made them want to break the dike so frantically? The whole family of these officers, soldiers and servants are in Linhuai County. If the dike was really broken, the whole family would be drowned in their sleep...
So we can't blame them for being cruel. They also have to shock Xiaoxiao and let them know that there are some red lines that they cannot cross.