Astral Apostle Chapter 259: Break

  Chapter 260 Breaking the Levee

  For the next period of time, the imperial army and Longwangzhai were still in a stalemate.

  However, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court slowed down their offensive, shrunk the battle line, and stationed at a certain distance, no longer approaching the front line of the Dragon King Village.

  In the camp, Lingfengzi listened to the military discussions as usual, Ma Zhen only said that the soldiers did not move, and did not explain the reason.

  But the military officers attending the meeting found something unusual. Huang Ping, who was also a senior general, had not been seen for many days.

  Someone asked about this, and Ma Zhen said that Huang Ping had received a military order to lead troops to receive a batch of important supplies allocated by the court to prevent them from being intercepted by bandits and so on.

  Everyone believed it to be true and did not pursue it. Lingfengzi in the idle state just recorded the information faithfully and quietly passed it to Longwangzhai, without taking the initiative to find out the truth.

  This is actually a piece of false information, an excuse used by Ma Zhen to deal with everyone, just to conceal Huang Ping's movements.

  In fact, at this time, Huang Ping took his order and had already quietly left with his troops to the upstream estuary of Huyang to start implementing the **** breaking plan.

  This task is of great importance and cannot be missed. In order to hide his whereabouts, Huang Ping did not bring a large number of soldiers and horses into action.

  Due to the implementation of the five strategies for breaking thieves, the officers and soldiers concentrated and controlled many civilians scattered in the countryside, resulting in fewer eyeliners scattered in the wild in Longwangzhai, which brought a lot of convenience to Huang Ping's secret operations .

  In order to prevent leakage of information, the soldiers in Huang Ping's team did not know the details of the mission, and thought they were going to fight in a roundabout way.

  The team marched cautiously all the way, and finally arrived at the destination after a delay of some time.

  ……

  Huyang, Dingbokou.

  This is a river embankment, which has been built for many years, and its history can be traced back to before the founding of Daxia.

  Huyang Duojiang River, the largest of which is called the Shahe River, runs through the Central Plains from west to east.

  However, the Shahe River floods all the year round, and the flood control effect of the Dingbokou has not been able to keep up with it. Therefore, Huyang has been suffering from floods in recent years.

  But even so, this is still an important embankment. Although it cannot prevent flooding, it can at least control it to a certain extent, so as not to prevent a complete flood.

  Huang Ping arrived with his troops and asked the soldiers to stand by for the time being, while he himself looked at the surging river, his eyes flickering.

  The lieutenant on the side carefully asked: "General, what are we doing here?"

  "The commander-in-chief has ordered to open the embankment of Dingbokou River and flood the bandits."

  Huang Ping's tone was indifferent, without any emotion.

  The lieutenant general was taken aback for a moment, and then his face changed slightly: "Is this really true? If the Sha River breaks its embankment and floods, then the people of Huyang will..."

  Before he finished speaking, Huang Ping turned to look at him with cold eyes.

  The lieutenant general was watched by him, his voice gradually lowered, and finally fell silent.

  Seeing this, Huang Ping withdrew his gaze and said coldly with an unquestionable tone:

   "Pass my military order, get rid of the embankment!"

  The lieutenant general had no choice but to pass on the order quickly.

  Until this time, the army on this trip did not know the purpose of this trip, and the officers and soldiers were in an uproar, unbelievable.

  The top is so ruthless? !

  This kind of shameful thing of cutting off children and grandchildren immediately met with resistance from many soldiers.

  However, disobedience to military orders is a taboo and will be dealt with by military law.

  But not long after, a few villagers suddenly appeared nearby, ran over in a hurry, and shouted anxiously:

  "Generals, this embankment cannot be dug!"

  The officers and soldiers who were working heard the sound and turned their heads one after another, looking over in surprise.

  The villagers who suddenly appeared were all dressed in ragged clothes, with dark skin and calloused hands. They looked like farmers who had been working all year round.

  The guards patrolling around immediately stepped forward to control these anxious villagers.

  Huang Ping narrowed his eyes, and asked people to bring them to his eyes.

  Bringed to the military tent, the farmers were embarrassed and performed nondescript etiquette.

   "Who is coming, tell me your name..."

  Huang Ping questioned him.

   Not long after, he figured out the origins of these people.

   It turned out that there was a small settlement of more than 20 families nearby, and the location was relatively remote and hidden.

  These farmers are from the village. They happened to bump into this team of officers and soldiers when they went out, so they didn't plan to show up.

  Seeing the actions of the officers and soldiers pawing the embankment, several people couldn't sit still immediately, and wanted to run out to dissuade them, ignoring other things.

  "General, this Dingbo mouth cannot be dug. If this place collapses, there will definitely be floods!"

  "Yes, if there is a breach here, disasters will happen for thousands of miles around!"

   Several farmers were nervous, trying to dissuade them.

  Huang Ping was noncommittal and asked the soldiers to take the farmer down.

  Then, he turned towards the lieutenant general and said lightly:

   "Let these mud legs lead the way, send hundreds of soldiers and horses to follow, and capture all the villagers as coolies to help us dig the embankment... In addition, our actions need to be kept secret, and we must not leave a living mouth to leak the news. After the success, all will be executed."

   "...will obey."

  The lieutenant general was silent for two seconds before accepting the military order.

  He strode out of the military tent with a look of anger on his face, but in the end he turned into a look of helplessness and ordered soldiers to arrest people.

   Without much effort, the officers and soldiers captured the civilians in the nearby villages and drove them into coolies.

  In order to save their lives, these villagers can only do what they want.

  As the river embankment was dismantled step by step, the water potential gradually increased, and the roaring river soon caused the embankment to burst.

  At this point, manpower is no longer needed. Tens of thousands of hectares of river water will pour out, and the breach will continue to expand. In the end, the only way to stop it is to use human life to fill it.

  Huang Ping then ordered the troops to stop operations, killed all the captive civilians, and threw the bodies into the river.

  The unrepentant corpse floated in the river and went down the river.

  Huang Ping didn't take a second look, and immediately led his troops to withdraw quickly, and retreated after success.

   Only the angry river is left to rush, break through the embankment, let out more and more, and flow farther and farther.

  ……

  A certain place in Huyang, in the forest.

   Zhou Jing and a group of soldiers are resting here, the number of them is no more than a thousand.

  He has not been sitting in the cottage these days, but personally leads troops outside to use the bandit tactics, harassing the officers and soldiers to the point of death.

  Because he mainly relied on his own force to attack the enemy, he didn't bring too many soldiers and horses.

  During this period of time, there were many attacks, and the results were quite rich. Many officer and army barracks were destroyed, and a large number of officers and soldiers could not hide.

   "If you continue to exert pressure like this, sooner or later the imperial army will not be able to withstand the withdrawal. Now that the situation is in our favor, I don't know how long the enemy can last... Speaking of which, the officers and soldiers look helpless now. Could it be that they really want to give up the conquest Already?"

  Zhou Jing thought to himself while biting the jerky.

  At this moment, the minions who were outside to watch the wind suddenly ran in.

   "Report! Village owner, two villagers have come to see you, saying that there is an urgent report!"

   "Bring it here."

  It was no surprise that Zhou Jing came back to his senses.

  He ran around in the Huyang area during this time and did not hide his whereabouts. Although he did not have a fixed place, occasionally villagers who were not under the control of the government would bump into him by chance and came to see him.

   Soon, two dusty villagers were brought in.

  Seeing Zhou Jing sitting on the Dama Jindao, the two of them immediately bowed their heads and bowed in eager tones:

  "Master Chen, something is wrong, the flood broke out again!"

  Zhou Jing was taken aback when he heard the words: "Flood? Shouldn't it be the flood season?"

  "It's true, our village is flooded!"

  The two villagers spoke convincingly, with anxious faces.

  "Could it be that something happened to the upper reaches, where the embankment has been in disrepair for a long time, and there is a breach?"

   Zhou Jing frowned.

  Is this an accident or man-made?

  Could it be that the officers and soldiers wanted to attack with water, and the Seventh Army would be flooded? But at present, the two sides do not seem to be engaged in any stalemate battle in the upstream area.

  Moreover, there was no information on the military mobilization of corresponding officers and soldiers from Bill's side.

  He didn't think in another direction at the first time... As the orthodox of the world, the imperial court was so "courageous" that it gave up the territory of a province under its jurisdiction, directly flooded the entire area, broke the jar, smashed it, and broke it again lower limit.

  Although it is insidious to expel the people and attack, the officers and soldiers have a name anyway, and they are all driven by "accompanying criminals who collaborate with the enemy and conspire against the enemy."

  Digging dikes and flooding Huyang has no reputation at all. Regardless of the survival of the people here, there is a complete lack of virtue, and there is no **** for having children.

  "Okay, let's go and have a look. If it's easy to handle, I'll send someone from the village to take care of it."

  Zhou Jing immediately made a decision.

  Flooding is the main disaster in Huyang. Since this is the foundation, no matter accident or man-made, it must be dealt with.

  Besides, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened~IndoMTL.com~During the past two years when the government was not helping, Dragon King Village would occasionally control the flood to save people, and it is already familiar with it.

   "Thank you, village master, thank you, village master!"

  The two villagers immediately thanked Dade and thanked them again and again.

  At this time, one of them seemed to think of something and said:

  "By the way, on the way we came, we found footprints left by a large group of people passing by on the southeast fork road. I don't know if they are the people of the village master."

  "Southeast? We don't seem to have gone there."

  A leader next to him interjected suspiciously.

  Hearing this, Zhou Jing's eyes flashed.

  Since they are not their own people, then this unknown team is probably from the imperial court.

  Suddenly appeared near the left, probably with ulterior motives.

   "Catch up with this group of people first, and arrest them for questioning."

  Zhou Jing didn't hesitate, and immediately made a decision, calling everyone to set off.

  (end of this chapter)