Shi Dakai's troops missed the best opportunity to cross the river. They held a banquet for three consecutive days to celebrate the birth of the little prince, creating a prosperous and optimistic atmosphere. In the past three days, only Su Sanniang was always paying attention to the actions of the other side and the water level of the Dadu River, and nothing unusual happened. So, three days later, the troops arrived at their destiny, Lao Ya Vortex.

The day was still sunny during the day. The scenery of Shu was full of vitality against the blue sky and white clouds. The soldiers of the heavenly kingdom brought thousands of bamboo rafts to the south bank of Lao Chou Whirlpool, arranged neatly. A group of soldiers familiar with water were trying to ride the bamboo raft on the river surface of Lao Chou Whirlpool. Seeing that everything went well, some soldiers rushed to the shore and shouted: "No problem - everything is normal-"

The preliminary work of crossing the river was deployed until dusk. When the bamboo raft was ready and the tent was about to be demolished, a large cloud suddenly swallowed up the sunset and sunset. The originally clear four directions suddenly became dim, like the night.

Shi Dakai, Su Sanniang and Zheng Yingxiong were on the front line. Seeing this, Su Sanniang said in confusion: "Strange, it was a sunny day just now, why was it suddenly covered with dark clouds? Is it going to rain?"

As soon as the words were finished, the rain began to fall. At first it was like a mountain rain, gradually getting heavier and heavier. The river water also rose with the flow. The originally stable bamboo raft was immediately pulled around by the torrent, and then hit a huge rock and fell apart in an instant. The three soldiers who were tested fell into the river. Even though they were familiar with the water nature, they were swept away by the torrent. Fortunately, Shi Dakai urgently arranged for personnel to throw ropes to rescue him, and then pulled the three of them ashore.

As soon as he got ashore, a soldier who fell into the water reported in panic: "Your Highness, the water situation suddenly surged. It is probably not the time to cross the river!"

Shi Dakai said: "Since that's the case, I will go back to the camp and wait, wait until the rain passes, and then cross the river."

Su Sanniang was shocked and said, "No! King Yi, more than 30,000 pursuers of Qing Yao are coming here. If the flood does not retreat for a day, wouldn't it have to wait for a day? If it does not retreat for three days, would it have to wait for another three days?"

Shi Dakai himself was also a little anxious, but he still calmed down and said, "Don't worry, the turn of the sand king is not the flood season. I have asked the people around me a few days ago. The Dadu River has never had a flood at this time for a hundred years. I expected that the flood would recede at most tomorrow morning. It is cold outside the account at this time, so don't get hurt. You should go back to the camp and rest."

Zheng Yingxiong also echoed: "The King of Yi is right. The spy has come to report that the pursuers of Qing Yao are at least two hundred miles away from here. The Shu Road is already rugged and difficult to move. There is another heavy rainfall in the sky. We can't walk, so the Qing Yao can't walk either. I think it's okay to wait for a day or two, don't worry." After that, he walked straight back to the account.

Seeing Zheng Yingxiong leaving, Su Sanniang pulled Shi Dakai aside and whispered: "It is because the Dadu River has not encountered such a flood in a century, don't you think it is even more strange?"

Shi Dakai asked: "How do you say this?"

Su Sanniang said, "King Yi, have you forgotten that I, Su Sanniang, are not only a soldier in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also a purifying messenger! After practicing in Guangxi, I could sense the existence of the demonic energy. It was just now that the rain fell heavily in the sky. I wondered if it was the monster's cause, so I tried my best to search, and the result was..."

“What’s the result?”

Su Sanniang pointed upstream and said, "So I found that there was a powerful demonic aura about twenty miles upstream."

Shi Dakai was shocked: "In this way, it is very likely that the monster did this flood. Why did he do this?"

Su Sanniang said: "Your Majesty and you all know that you want to use demon power to attack Qing Yao. How could Qing Yao never imagine using demon power to deal with us? Qing Yao is the lord of the north after all, and has enough bargaining chips to negotiate with monsters. Now that we know that we are going to cross the river, we will let the monsters trigger this flood to block my way, so that our army will be desperate!"

Shi Dakai immediately figured it out and slapped his head: "Oh, so I, Shi Dakai, have really wasted three opportunities!" Then he asked a soldier next to him: "Go and see, how much cannon ammunition is left in our army?"

When I was young, the soldiers came to report: "Report to Your Highness, Your Highness, our army still has seventy-six cannons, but... but all the ammunition is already wet!"

Shi Dakai was shocked: "What... Then, waiting can only be a suicide, but the river is surging, how can we cross the river?"

Su Sanniang said: "The two evils are the least. Now that things have come to this point, there is no chance of winning the battle with the pursuers. If you walk across the river, there is still a glimmer of life. Look, the soldiers just fell into the water because they hit the huge rock in the river. If we move upstream, even if the bamboo raft will be washed down rapidly, as long as they don't hit the stone, they will be sure to reach the other side."

When Shi Dakai heard this, he nodded and praised, "Then we follow the plan of Sanniang." He shouted at another soldier, "Transfer our military order. We have nearly 10,000 soldiers, cross the river in two batches. The first batch of 3,000 people move one mile upstream, cross the river first, and observe and study the second batch of more than 6,000 people carefully, and all of them cross the river tonight!"

So, three thousand men and seven or eight people were in groups, and they rode on about four hundred bamboo rafts, facing the heavy rain and flood, and headed towards the opposite shore. Countless small rafts were seen moving in the flood like fallen leaves, waiting for the mercy of fate.

One soldier after another fell into the water, and one raft after another fell apart, but even so, more than twenty rafts had already taken the lead in breaking through the center of the river and launched a final sprint towards the other side.

It was almost time for a group of soldiers to arrive ashore first, so more latecomers would be encouraged. Shi Dakai and Su Sanniang secretly encouraged and cheered up in their hearts.

At this moment, a huge wave suddenly rolled up the upstream, and only a tragic scream came from the river. The huge wave instantly swallowed all the bamboo rafts. After the huge wave, the water level rose again and the turbulence increased sharply. The three thousand soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom were buried in the belly of the fish.

At this moment, Su Sanniang and many soldiers vaguely heard the sound of "Haha-ha-" and was extremely terrifying in the dark valley and the flood!

Su Sanniang rushed to Shi Dakai and said, "No, the monster is ten miles closer to us. Now the remaining soldiers are already frightened birds and can't cross the river again!"

Seeing the three thousand brothers killing their lives in vain, Shi Dakai gritted his teeth, not knowing whether he hated the Qing army or the monster, but he bit his tongue unconsciously and let a stream of blood flow out along the corner of his mouth. After the pain, Shi Dakai roared at the sky: "I, Shi Dakai, was wise for a lifetime, and was confused for a moment, allowing the brothers to enter this path of no return! Father, Jesus, you harmed the people, you are in vain for God!" After that, he wanted to jump into the river and commit suicide.

Su Sanniang and the soldiers around him quickly pulled Shi Dakai and advised him. Su Sanniang shouted: "King Yi, my brothers are born and die together, why do you commit suicide? At worst, you will die with those Qing demons! Go and evaluate the reason with that heavenly father!"

The soldiers shouted, "Yes, die together! die together!"
Chapter completed!