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Chapter 290 Defending the Yellow River(1/2)

Let’s talk about Jiannu in the future.

He walked west along the south bank of the Yellow River and finally stopped until Heyin, because He Luohui finally found a shallow that could get rid of the Ming Navy.

Because the Yellow River channel north of the river has become extremely wide, twenty miles wide.

The result of widening is that the river channel becomes shallower, and the rainy season has not yet entered, which is what is often called a dry season, so the water depth of this section of the Yellow River is even less than three feet.

It would be fine if the water was shallow, but it was divided into multiple strands.

Now the Ming Navy was left with only staring at him.

He Luohui came back immediately and reported to Dorgon: "Master, I'm looking for a crossing river point, which is the river beside the north of Guangwu Mountain. Because the water is shallow, Minggou's navy warships cannot enter the river beside."

"Okay." Dorgon said, "Then you can bring people to build a floating bridge."

"Yeah!" He Luokang knelt down and beat a thousand, then turned over and left.

As soon as He Luohui left, the white flag armored Lae Zhenshitu came to report: "Master, Li Zicheng sent a messenger and said he wanted to exchange prisoners of war with us."

"Li Zicheng wants to change prisoners?" Dorgon was a little surprised and asked, "Who does he want to change?"

Shi Tu said: "He wants to exchange King Huaishun and King Gongshun for Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing and his son."

Dorgon's face showed a look of embarrassment. It would be fine if Liu Zongmin was replaced, but Niu Jinxing and his son could not.

The reason is also very simple. Niu Jinxing and his son have surrendered to the Qing court. Can't they be sent back to Pseudo-Shun again?

Hong Chengchou persuaded, "Master, Niu Jinxing and his son are just mediocre talents. I, the Qing Dynasty, have not many father and son, and there are not many father and son. However, King Gongshun and King Zhishun are rare generals. Both of them are from Dongjiang Town, especially good at water wars and firearms, which will be of great use when they conquer the Southern Ming Dynasty in the future."

Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan also echoed: "Please give a clear explanation."

"Well." Dorgon nodded immediately, "Then let's make an appointment to exchange prisoners in one place."

Shi Tu said: "They have already decided the location for the prisoner exchange, and it is under Sishui Pass."

"No, they said they were under Sishui Pass?" Dorgon shook his head and said.

"If you change the place, it's just between Sishui Pass and Heyin County, and the time is set at noon tomorrow."

Speaking of this, Dorgon said again: "Shitu, you will be responsible for the replacement of prisoners tomorrow at noon. If you have the chance, you will destroy the pseudo-Shun Army, and then rob Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing and his son. If you don't have the chance, forget it. In addition, you must be careful and never let the pseudo-Shun Army plot against you."

"Yeah!" Shi Tu hit Qian and stood up and left.

Watching Shi Tu leave, Dorgon turned his gaze to Kaifeng again.

Hong Chengchou turned his head and looked towards Kaifeng Prefecture, and said Youyou: "Calculate the time, the Inlaid Blue Flag should have already dug the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Kaifeng Prefecture is about to be flooded."

Fan Wencheng said: "It's a pity that the water volume of the Yellow River is a little small this year."

"It's a pity." Ning Wanwan was also a little regretful, "at most of the time it would flood Kaifeng Prefecture and Guide Prefecture. Xuzhou is not sure, and Huai'an Prefecture will definitely have no hope."

Dorgon was silent.

...

It is terrible that the Yellow River breaks its dam.

But it is not that easy to break the dam of the Yellow River.

Tunqi was jumping and cursing: "A group of pigs and dogs, what do you guys do for?"

As he said that, he became angry and Tunqi immediately ordered Qiding to push all the hundreds of coats that dug the river embankment to the edge of the Yellow River to behead him. In an instant, rows of heads fell down the river embankment.

After killing hundreds of Baoyi in one breath, Tunqi finally got a little angry.

Then hundreds of coats were found and the Yellow River embankment was dug again.

This time, the construction was carried out above the original gap, so the progress was greatly accelerated.

The original gap was dug for two days and nights, but this time it took less than half a day to dig the gap again.

Once the gap was dug, the turbid river water immediately spread out and flowed down the gap. Seeing this, Tunqi quickly took the flag to evacuate the embankment.

Then wait not far from the gap.

Although Tunqi was dissatisfied with Dorgon's arrangement, Jiannu had extremely severe tribal punishments, so he did not dare to ignore the task assigned by Dorgon to the Inlaid Blue Banner at all.

I didn't see the Yellow River breaking completely, and Tunqi dared not leave.

However, after waiting for almost an hour, the river water never flooded.

With full of doubts, Tunqi brought the flag back to the embankment.

As a result, I was stunned when I saw it, and the gap dug was blocked again.

"What's going on?" Tunqi couldn't understand. "Can the gap in the river embankment be blocked by itself? Didn't it mean that the Yellow River breaks twice in three years and changes its course every hundred years? Is it a scam? Can you block the gap dug by yourself? What's the gap? These dogs are so bad that they just report disasters and deceive the court's disaster relief silver."

At this time, a Baoyi said, "Master, I know the reason."

"The reason?" Tunqi asked with a bad expression, "What is the reason?"

Baoyi said nervously: "Because the Yellow River water contains a lot of mud and sand, if the river water does not flow fast enough when it flows through the gap, the mud and sand will deposit on the gap, thereby blocking the gap."

Tunqi seemed to understand, but he didn't understand: "What do you want to do?"

"The gap is so shallow." Baoyi said fearfully, "It must be digged at least two feet deep."

"Do you want to dig so deep?" Tunqi was skeptical, but then he thought about it. If he could not complete the task, Dorgon would definitely not spare him after he returned, so he immediately decided to give it a try.

Tunqi shouted: "Dig it all deeper."

"I didn't dig two feet before it was dark today, and I would die!"

Driven by Tunqi and Qiding, hundreds of coats wade into the mud in the gap, waved their hoes or picks to re-diggle the river bank, and digged deeper and deeper.

...

At this time, a fleet of the Navy was winding down.

"Uncle Fourth, are we going back to Xuzhou like this?" Zheng Cai said unwillingly.

"Otherwise? What else do you want?" Zheng Hongkui said angrily, "The Yellow River is less than three feet deep, and it will be stranded when it goes up. What does it mean to be stranded? I don't need to tell you the Fourth Uncle?"

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zheng Cai couldn't help but sigh when he heard this. Of course he knew what it meant to be stranded.

At this moment, the whistleman on the mast suddenly shouted: "Main Town, look at the south bank."

Zheng Hongkui, who was talking to Zheng Cai, rushed out of the battle shed and climbed along the ladder to the top of the battle shed.

In addition to the watchtower on the main mast, the entire bird boat has the best view on the command roof.

After Zheng Hongkui climbed to the top of the battle shed, he opened the telescope and pointed it at the river bank in the south. The water surface of the Yellow River here is also extremely wide, conservatively estimated to be at least ten miles.

So even if you have a telescope, you can only see a rough look.

"It seems there are many corpses?" Zheng Hongkui said in a deep voice, "Let's go."

With the order of Zheng Hongkui, the sailors on the boat immediately adjusted the direction of the sails, and then slowly sailed to the south bank of the Yellow River with the coordination of the stern rowing.

I got closer, and finally saw it clearly.

I saw a row of corpses lying on the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River, at least two or three hundred, and all of them were headless corpses.

Then aim the telescope's field of view at the river surface, and you can even vaguely see someone's head floating in the turbid river water.

"The thief is coming, Jiannu is killing our common people again." Zheng Hongkui also said that these hundreds of headless corpses were all the common people, and he couldn't help but be angry and half-dead.

"There seems to be Jiannu outside the embankment!"

The whistle clutched on the mast and looked far because he climbed high and saw far away, so he saw the coats that were waving his hoes and pickaxes to dig the river embankment, and the surveillance of the blue flag.

Seeing this, the whistleman shouted: "They are digging the river bank!"

"What?" Zheng Hongkui's face turned dark immediately, "Dig the river embankment?"

Once the Yellow River embankment is dug up and the Yellow River water floods, the consequences will be unimaginable!

Zheng Hongkui shouted loudly: "Tell me to order me to put the order, and all the warships line up to stop them."

A total of six bird boats immediately lined up in a row and quickly approached the south bank. It was about two hundred steps away. Zheng Hongkui ordered the anchor to be placed, and then he pushed the hull across to face the south bank.

At this time, Jiannu outside the embankment of the south bank also discovered the Ming Navy.

Even though hundreds of Jiannu rushed to the south bank embankment and tried to shoot with the big bow in his hand, they found that the Ming army navy was two hundred steps away and could only yell and scold the water of the Yellow River.

Of course, the Ming army navy will not be polite about the prey that comes to the door.

With just one round of artillery bombardment, more than a dozen Jiannu fell on the dam and were all broken.

If he was hit by the solid iron bullet of the Red Cannon, he would be no longer a human being.

Jiannu on the river bank hurriedly hid under the bank and stopped showing his head, but this did not prevent the artillery soldiers of Zheng Hongkui and the Ming Navy who had rich artillery experience.

Under the guidance of the whistlemen on the watchtower,

The navy's ship-borne red cannons successfully made curves.

Not only Jiannu suffered this time, but also the coat of clothing that was desperately digging the Yellow River embankment.

The entire excavation operation soon could not continue because the excavation point chosen by Tunqi was not very good and the Yellow River embankment was not enough to provide enough shading.

The artillery shells of the Ming army's navy could easily hit Jiannu.

But there seemed to be a capable person on Jiannu's side, so he quickly changed his location.
To be continued...
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