The highest peak of the second flood peak comes at the beginning of Xu hour.
That is at dusk.
Today's flood peak came much earlier than yesterday.
At least the sun hasn't set yet.
Reflecting the sunset, the red mark on the water has reached the "1.5 meter" mark.
This shows that the flood peak has exceeded the warning water level by 1.5 meters.
Last night, it was said that the flood peak exceeded the warning water level by 1.8 meters!
When Song Yang arrived, Fang Zhe was directing Minzhuang to look at the sacks to check for leaks and fill them.
Song Yang headed west along the river embankment.
The further west you go, the closer the water surface is to the river embankment.
At the lowest point, the water surface was only a little more than a foot away from the top of the river embankment.
This means that the river water was almost the same as the river embankment last night!
There are piles of sandbags here, and stepping on them is a bit like stepping on cotton. Song Yang still needs to move forward.
But Fang Zhe held him tightly.
"Your Majesty! The riverbank in front is almost made of sandbags. If something happens if the water level is so high, what will the people of Jiangzhou do?"
Song Yang stopped. He was not afraid, but wanted to be worthy of the people.
He is the only one who can lead Daqian to glory. If something happens to him, no one will be able to inherit the Encyclopedia.
Song Yang didn't move forward, but he didn't retreat either. He stopped here and personally carried sandbags and piled them on the river embankment.
When the people saw Song Yang personally fighting the flood, they were infected and became more motivated.
This dangerous section of the embankment is actually more stable than the section that broke yesterday.
There was originally a shoal upstream. Even if the water rose, the impact of the undercurrent on the dike would still be greatly weakened by the impact of the dike.
With the joint efforts of everyone, this section of the embankment was raised another level.
Song Yang led the people to work until the second quarter of the day.
"Your Majesty! Look! The water in the river has dropped!"
The villagers shouted and pointed at the water level pole.
Song Yang looked over with a torch.
Sure enough, it dropped a notch.
Although it is only a scale, it also proves that the river water is indeed falling.
The second peak of the flood has passed.
Jiangzhou Levee has once again withstood the test.
Jiangzhou has withstood the test, but some places have not.
North Shore.
River embankments in many places such as Hanyang and Anqing have burst, and the rivers from Dajiang to Huangzhou, Huaining, and Lujiang have become a vast country.
Fortunately, Song Yang asked Yu Ming to move all the people in the Jiangbei stronghold to higher ground in advance.
Otherwise, many people will die in this wave.
Early the next morning, because of the Jiangbei breach, the flood had a place to vent.
The water surface quickly dropped below the warning level.
"well!"
Looking at the falling water level, Song Yang let out a long sigh.
"Your Majesty, it is better for the embankments in the north of the Yangtze River to collapse than the embankments in the south of the Yangtze River!" Ma Cheng came over with an umbrella and said to help Song Yang block the rain.
It rained some more last night, but not heavily, and it continued to drizzle until this morning.
Early this morning, Ma Cheng came to replace Fang Zhe.
"The people in Jiangbei are also miserable. They have suffered natural disasters, banditry, and now floods." Song Yang shook his head and said.
"The north of the Yangtze River is sparsely populated, so even the impact of flooding will not be too great. Besides, our ability to defend the south of the Yangtze River is already the limit." Ma Cheng explained.
Indeed, due to lack of manpower, Jiangnan Dam is still stretched thin.
If we continue to control Jiangbei, there may be flooding at both ends.
Therefore, Jiangzhou's defense focus has always been on Jiangbei.
Song Yang just felt that Jiangbei was also a dry place, and now it was flooded. It would take a year and a half to clean it up, or even longer to recover.
That's why it's just a bit of a pity.
"You're right. Fortunately, Jiangnan was saved." Song Yang looked at Ma Cheng.
"After the water level stabilizes in the afternoon, let's send someone to Jiangbei to take a look."
In the end, Song Yang couldn't bear to give up Jiangbei directly. He was afraid that there would be uninformed refugees coming from the north. Facing the flood head-on was no joke.
Ma Cheng also understood what Song Yang was thinking and nodded in agreement.
Three days later, the river water returned to its normal level.
The flood finally passed.
Song Yang has been staying at Shuiyun Yamen for the past three days.
Sit on the front line to direct flood fighting and rescue operations.
I asked Ma Cheng to go to Jiangbei for inspection that day, and he actually brought back more than 40 people.
They are all from Henan Province.
This year there has been heavy rainfall throughout Daqian, and rivers in the north are also in danger of flooding.
Especially in the Yellow River system, several dams were closed this year.
Zhao Wenbin was based in Xinyang, but the management of the Yellow River was completely left to his subordinates.
He didn't look at it himself, how could those people who didn't pay for flood control be worthy of the rules passed down in the past?
In fact, Zhao Wenbin also knew this.
He himself is the first level scalper, and he takes the big one.
It's just that I always take a chance and think that the Yellow River embankment can still hold it, so I can just repair it casually.
Coupled with more than three consecutive years of good weather, everyone is taking it lightly.
Heavy rains are coming, and floods are coming.
The Yellow River embankment failed to withstand the test and broke in many places.
People whose homes were destroyed could only flee with their families.
Some people who came to the south were immediately disappointed when they arrived in the southern part of Huainan Road, looking at the chaos.
It was too late to turn back at this point, so I could only find a place on higher ground to take shelter temporarily.
Song Yang heard about this and immediately sent a large number of ships to Jiangbei to pick up people.
"Expand the inspection area and minimize civilian casualties!" Song Yang gave Ma Cheng an order.
Ma Cheng and Gongsun Qi led the navy back and forth.
This incident lasted for seven full days.
Until the floods in Jiangbei receded naturally.
There were as many as 13,000 refugees brought over from Jiangbei!
When Song Yang heard about this number, he was so shocked that he didn't speak for a long time.
"Why are there so many people?"
"The Yellow River overflowed, covering most of Henan Province, and the people had no choice but to flee in all directions."
Ma Cheng already knew the reason from the refugees.
"It's so serious!" Song Yang frowned.
"Your Majesty, Henan Province has been affected by floods, and Luo Xin is fighting with the Sumo tribe in the north. Even if he wins in the end, Henan Province may not be able to capture his army this year!"
Gao Liangping suddenly talked about Luo Xin.
Song Yang also realized that Luo Xin didn't have enough food, so he might take risks and continue waging war to support war!
"Be vigilant. If they dare to move, this year will be the time to pacify the Central Plains!" Song Yang took a deep breath and said.
Jiangzhou has been making preparations for the Northern Expedition.
Dozens of repeating guns and cannons have been built, and by the end of the year there will be one or two hundred new artillery pieces.
With the investment in steam machinery, the production speed of artillery has made a qualitative leap.
And now with the improvement of mechanization level, the production speed is still accelerating.
Compared with before, it is almost overturned.
"My lord, something happened!"
Song Yang was discussing everything from floods to the use of troops when Yu Ming suddenly broke in and said in a deep voice.
It turns out that there has been too much rain in the past few days. Jiangzhou mobilized the entire city to build embankments to prevent floods, but the granaries in the city failed to take precautions.
Three of the grain cellars were seriously flooded, and the grain inside was about to be ruined!
Three grain cellars can provide 15,000 stone grains!