klisemfg Chapter 581: Flooding Yulei Pass
Chapter 581: Flooding Yulei Pass
Huan Qi and several generals stood on the top of the city wall, looking towards the north, hoping to find any trace of the enemy, but there was nothing.
"Deputy Commander, are the enemies just trying to scare us so that we can mobilize our army to defend the city, stay up all night in the rain and get sick, so as to reduce our combat effectiveness?"
A general said to Huan Qi.
The rain was so heavy that even the bamboo hat and straw raincoat could not completely block it.
Another general also said,
"Deputy Commander, since the enemy hasn't come, let's go back and have the city gate repaired tomorrow."
Huan Qi shook his head and said
"I'd rather get wet in the rain here than go back and drink, at least here I can sober up.
I don't think something is right. I want to take another look. You guys go back."
"Forget it, if you don't go back, we won't go back either. Let's go to the gatehouse to take shelter from the rain."
The generals opened the gate of the city gate tower and walked in.
Huan Qi followed him in. They lit the candles and sat on the chairs in silence.
After a cup of tea, the sound of galloping suddenly came from outside.
Huan Qi and others were horrified, thinking that the enemy cavalry had arrived, and immediately ran out to look down.
However, there was still no light outside.
"What's going on? Are all the Yan soldiers owl-like? Do they have night vision? In this kind of weather and visibility, not having torches is tantamount to suicide."
A soldier suddenly said,
"Deputy Commander, this doesn't sound like the sound of cavalry, it sounds like the sound of flowing water."
"Water? How can we have water here?"
Huan Qi muttered to himself, and suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he understood everything at once.
"I understand! The Yan people didn't come to attack us, they blew up our river bank, they want to drown us!
The first sound blew up the city gate, and the second sound blew up the river embankment. They had divine thunder that could blow up anything!
Damn the Yan people, they are going to kill us all!"
"Hurry and report to the commander-in-chief! Open the south gate and divert the water away!"
Huan Qi yelled anxiously, then quickly picked up the drumstick and beat the drum with all his might.
When the drums are beaten, all soldiers must immediately prepare for battle and attack.
But it was the middle of the night and many soldiers were asleep.
"Deputy Commander, beating the drum is useless! The flood is at our feet!"
A general shouted anxiously.
In the north, a raging flood crashed into the city wall, and then quickly flowed into the pass through three city gates, one large and two small.
Because the passage became smaller and the water flow became more turbulent, it directly washed away the soldier who had just gone down to report.
"It's over, it's too late. The water is flowing faster than a horse can. There's no time to notify the south to open the city gates!"
A general shouted.
The south city wall is not connected to the north city wall, and there are mountains on both sides of the east and west.
They couldn't outrun the flood and couldn't notify the south.
"Keep beating the drums! At least wake everyone up and let them find shelter on higher ground!"
Huan Qi gritted his teeth and pounded the drum hard.
The other generals and soldiers also woke up. Some beat drums, some beat gongs, and some shouted loudly.
The water surged in, getting higher and higher, like a galloping beast, pouring into the pass, destroying one tent after another, and sweeping the people inside into pieces, carrying them away with the current.
For a while, screams could not be heard.
The entire pass instantly turned into a hell on earth.
The Wei army in the east was trapped on the mountain by a forest fire and was burned to charcoal alive.
The Qin army in the west was trapped inside the pass by a flood, and countless people drowned.
The Eastern and Western armies combined had a total of one million people, and they experienced firsthand what it meant to be in a world of ice and fire.
The flood came in violently, and the valley was low and flat, so the flood could come in unimpeded and destroy everything in its path.
The floods became more and more severe, the water level became higher and higher, and it rushed directly to that side.
And in the south... there are not many defenders, and there is no general at all.
After the last incident of secretly selling military rations, opening the city gate late at night has been sentenced to death. Without the general's order, no defender in the south dares to open the city gate.
Moreover, the water level below rose to more than one meter in just a few minutes, and they were unable to use any strength to go down.
In addition, the city gates all open inward, and the weight and impact of the flood are pressing against the city gates, making it impossible to open them.
They could only guard the city wall and use ropes to pull up the friendly troops who swam over. This was all they could do.
The general's mansion was also in chaos.
The flood suddenly broke open the gate, scaring Sun Tai and many generals.
"What's going on? Where did the flood come from?"
Sun Tai was horrified and shouted repeatedly.
A soldier ran in from outside the door and shouted,
"General, this is bad! Everyone says the Yan army has blown up the dike and is going to drown us.
The Han River is now at a very high level, and the water is flowing out to Yulei Pass. Marshal, please run for your life!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Tai's face turned pale instantly and his head buzzed.
"The Yan people blew up the dike?! What beasts! What beasts! What beasts!"
"Run! Open the South Gate! Retreat the entire army! Retreat first!"
The generals guarded Sun Tai and quickly retreated outside, but the water level rose too quickly. As soon as they walked out of the city lord's mansion, the water had already reached their thighs.
A general reacted very quickly and said loudly,
"General, we can't get out. There's so much water, the city gates can't be opened. We'll be drowned before we even get through.
Get on the roof, quickly, wait for the water to recede!"
"Okay, okay, get on the roof, get on the roof quickly!"
Sun Tai was soaked like a drowned rat and hurried back to the general's mansion with the generals.
They moved chairs over and climbed up to the roof one by one.
Let the Marshal go up first, and then let the generals go up.
After twenty or thirty people went up, the guards behind wanted to come up, and Sun Tai shouted,
"Don't go up there anymore. The roof can't hold so many people. Go to the courtyard wall, go to other rooftops, go quickly!"
"As ordered!"
The others immediately crowded onto other rooftops.
Soon, the roofs of the buildings were crowded with people.
But Yulei Pass is a military pass after all. There are not many buildings and not many people are stationed there at ordinary times. Most of them are crowded in tents. Even if all the roofs are filled with people, there will not be more than a thousand people standing there.
Those who could swim wanted to swim to the northern city wall, but they could not withstand the impact of the water flow and were washed to the south.
Many people were drowned, or were killed by the current and hit other hard objects, or died of exhaustion.
Some lucky ones swam to the top of the building, but the carrying capacity was limited. Once it was crowded with people, no more people could go up.
The soldiers on the roof of the kitchen saw with their own eyes that the woodshed collapsed because there were so many people on it, and all the people on it fell into the water and drowned.