The cavalryman came from the northwest, and you could already see the panic on his face before he even arrived.
But not only that, if he hadn't noticed the gradual sound of horse hooves, Cao Ren might never have looked at the northwest sky——
He had said that the south was covered with clouds, but what he hadn't noticed was that the entire sky to the north of Anlu City was filled with dark clouds.
Vaguely, black clouds cascaded, and there were flashes of light and electricity. It was a thunderstorm...
After being stunned for a moment, the cavalry had already entered the city and rushed towards the city wall in a hurry.
——
"Report! General! No...it's not good..."
"Speak slowly and clearly, what's going on?
But there is hostility?"
In fact, it was only a short moment. The cavalry came to Cao Ren. He was out of breath from exhaustion. He struggled to report the matter, but he stopped intermittently because of shortness of breath.
Cao Ren was a little unhappy, so he could only guide him to speak out more smoothly.
But the cavalryman was obviously frightened by something and couldn't calm down——
"General...water..."
"Bring him some water!"
When Cao Ren heard the other party asking for water, he shook his head and told the guard behind him.
However... what the other party meant was not this at all:
"No! General! It's water! The river is overflowing! The upper stream has burst its banks, and when I came, Suixian County was already covered in ocean! And...and the black clouds..."
The cavalryman suddenly burst out with a huge volume, and even pointed at the northern sky with a pleading cry and shouted:
"I joined the army from Sui County, but in the past ten years, I have never seen such a fierce rainstorm! Sui County has been flooded, and several county officials are asking for help from the surrounding areas! But...but the river is overflowing,
It is extremely difficult to leave Suixian County... I have no choice but to come alone to see the general..."
"General...can...can you send a team of soldiers and horses to rescue the people in Sui County...If no one comes to save me, I'm afraid..."
In fact, when he said this, the cavalryman really hesitated.
He had long heard that Cao Ren left Xiangyang to conduct an extremely important military operation.
As a veteran, he actually knew what to do at this time - since their names were not called, they could not cause trouble even if they did not help.
But seeing that the lives of tens of thousands of people in Sui County were hanging by a thread, God hated the innocent civilians below so much that he mercilessly poured water into Sui County and the nearby mountains, forests and agricultural canals——
Imagine the feeling of despair when a place that was once pastoral and beautiful, with mountains and fields visible even in winter, was suddenly destroyed by a flood with unlimited momentum in the blink of an eye.
They really have no choice.
In the face of natural disasters, human power is as insignificant as ants.
But even so...even so, he still wanted to grasp this last straw.
After all, he didn't understand what a war was about to do... He only knew that if he didn't save people, I'm afraid Suixian would become a dead place tomorrow.
The howls of the cavalrymen resounded through the city wall. Cao Ren was unable to react for a moment. He just stared at the black clouds in the distance and murmured to himself:
"Why...is this happening..."
Cao Ren suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
But the key point, apart from the troubles mentioned by the cavalry in front of him... there was one thing that Cao Ren could not ignore.
Jianshui, also known as Fu River, is a relatively large tributary in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
There are many tributaries in the upper reaches of Jianshui River, which are similar to the Han River basin but do not intersect with each other. It is a very independent water system in Jiangxia.
The flood problem mentioned by the cavalry often occurs in the Jinshui Basin, but in recent years, because Cao Cao occupied the north, he also sent Cao Ren to build the northern part of Jingzhou, from Wei Xing in the west of Jingzhou to Anlu in the north of Jiangxia.
Cao Rendu once led the army and personally built river embankments and dams - in order to prevent war. Once floods occur again, it will make the situation worse.
It’s not that Cao Ren didn’t know that the Jiushui River was prone to flooding. What puzzled him the most was that he had just brought his troops to build the dam near Suixian County two years ago. In addition, it was still winter and the water level of the Jiushui River was low.
With the confluence of factors, this time's floods and heavy rains are quite strange.
Is it really God who doesn't allow them to fight?
Cao Ren hesitated... Anlu happened to be in the intersection area where the Jianshui River merged into Yunmengze in the south. Not only was the terrain low-lying, the river channel downstream of the Jianshui River was also quite winding and narrow. Extreme weather conditions could easily cause waterlogging.
Since floods have already occurred upstream, all the things he asked about the fishermen just now are explained——
Seeing that the water level of the river far outside the city seemed to be rising at a speed visible to the naked eye, Cao Ren suddenly began to face a dilemma——
"General..."
The cavalryman seemed a little unwilling, because he saw confusion in Cao Ren's eyes.
He, who is not stupid, immediately understood that Cao Ren must be in trouble...especially...especially when he saw the many soldiers under the city who were attracted by his arrival——
Anlu City has a large army gathering at this moment. Judging from the scale, the cavalry clearly know that this battle is no small matter.
so…
"General...I understand, you will treat it as a humble duty and have never been here today..."
"Our remaining brothers will definitely find a way to deal with the water upstream, and... Yingchuan and Ancheng are also close. We have already had brothers go to Yuzhou to move reinforcements——"
The cavalryman suddenly stood up, looked at Cao Ren who was in a daze, and suddenly took off his helmet.
He bowed slightly to Cao Ren, and the sweat on his forehead was clearly visible.
Cao Ren looked at the other party with some surprise - the other party's hands and body were trembling, not just because of fatigue or something else, but what the other party said next almost made Cao Ren, a real man, lose his guard.
"Suizhou camp! Yang Zhen! I wish the general victory! Clear all obstacles in the way for us, the Wei Dynasty!"
After saying this, the cavalryman named Yang Zhen put on his helmet and quickly left the city wall.
Cao Ren could not say a word until the end.
According to what Cao Ren later said, he returned to his hometown of Xiangyang in his later years. When passing by Sui County, he asked the county magistrate whether there was a soldier named Yang Zhen in the Suizhou camp.
When the county magistrate saw that it was Cao Ren, he naturally spared no effort to fulfill his request - of course Yang Zhen's name was found.
His highest position was the military governor of the Suizhou Battalion, and he was considered to be quite an officer in the camp.
But all the records disappeared one day without a trace.
The county magistrate came later. I heard that after the county was flooded, support came from neighboring counties and it lasted for many years.
If we don’t know what happened back then, we naturally have no way of investigating what happened later.
"It's strange. The roster of Suizhou Camp is gone here. Then who...go and search for the old names stored in the warehouse for the general..."
"No need, let's go here. I see that Yang Zhen's name list says that he has a couple of children. They should be in their twenties now. Find them. If you don't mind, let them go to my house.
They came to see me and said that their father's old friend wanted to meet them."
"Um...ok."
Cao Ren left, leaving only the county magistrate to figure out, and Yang Zhen's story ended like this.
