It's November in Bianliang, Tokyo. It's already very cold. There was a light snowfall last night. The cold wind in the morning blew it, making it solid and slippery. Your boots squeaked when you stepped on it.

Wang Gui, the former military commander of the Tokyo Remaining Department, and Xu Qing, the deputy commander, led more than ten escort soldiers, wearing full body armor, braved the cold, ice and snow, and entered the Wansheng Gate.

After Du Chong took office as a new official, he resorted to the most commonly used and tried-and-tested method of gaining military morale: all generals were automatically promoted to one level. Therefore, Wang Gui and Xu Qing were promoted from commander to commander.

At this time, the situation facing Tokyo was extremely dangerous: 200,000 Jin troops (actually 80,000, and the Jin people also learned to report false numbers) had already deployed on the north bank of the Yellow River, and were waiting for the Yellow River to freeze, so that they could cross the river, break Bianliang, and go down to Yangzhou.

, captured the leader of the Song Dynasty, and defeated the Southern Dynasty in one fell swoop.

As the barrier to the north of Jianyan Dynasty, the atmosphere in Bianliang became extremely tense at this time. It could even be said to be nervous. When Wang and Xu entered the city gate, they saw a group of soldiers escorting a few people who were not afraid.

Still cold and shivering

The people and soldiers took these people to the base of the city wall, tortured them for a while, raised their swords, and chopped them to death one by one. Then they wiped the blood from the knife wounds on the corpses, and several soldiers dragged the corpses down.

After burying it, several other soldiers slowly walked back.

Wang Gui frowned and asked the guard to call the leader of the escort (a leader of fifty people) over and asked: "What did those people commit? They killed them openly."

The escort said with a smile: "Wang Tongzhi, you haven't been here for a while, so you don't know anything. Nowadays, the Jin people are rampant and there are many details. Lord Du Fu has an order, but anyone who comes from Hebei to invest will be strictly investigated and their whereabouts will be traced."

If there is any suspicion, justice can be done on the spot..."

Before the escort had finished speaking, a soldier came running over, puffing out white air, and reported: "In the escort, there are a few men who are acting suspiciously, claiming to be servants who escaped from the Jin Army camp. How should we deal with them?

"

The guard scratched his neck and said, "What's the point of asking? I'll kill him!" Then he accused him and hurried away.

Xu Qing shook his head: "It seems a bit excessive to deal with it on the spot without asking any questions..."

Wang Gui sighed: "It is said that when Du Liu was guarding Zhi Cangzhou, he killed hundreds of Yan people who fled into Cangzhou on the spot because he suspected that there was a spy involved. It can be called a thunderbolt method."

Xu Qing took off his helmet and picked off the ice flakes that had condensed on the helmet. He smacked his dry and cracked mouth and said: "So many state capitals in Yandi, including Yanjing, were all besieged by the Jin army.

At that time, the city gate was opened by Xizuo and the city fell. No wonder Du Liu guard was so ruthless."

Wang Gui looked gloomy. He glanced to the northwest: "Thankfully Brother Yue is not here, otherwise he might have a dispute with Du Liushou... That's all! We soldiers can't handle this kind of thing, so hurry up and go to Liushou Mansion.

Don't keep Du Liu waiting for a long time, it would be disrespectful."

When the second general arrived in front of the left-behind mansion, there was already a concierge waiting on the stone steps with his sleeves rolled up and his head shrinking. When he saw the second general, he hurriedly went inside to report, and soon a guard led the second general inside.

In the side hall in front of the Liushou Mansion, on both sides of the corner, two large fire pits were blazing with charcoal fire, baking the small side hall warm. Du Chong, dressed in brocade, was sitting upright behind the case, looking at the volume on the case.

drawing.

A guard came outside the door and reported: "The Lord, Wang Tongzhi and Vice Tongzhi Xu have been ordered to arrive."

Du Chong didn't even raise his head: "Come in."

The door was half-opened, and the cold wind blew in. Du Chong frowned imperceptibly, raised his head, and said with a smile on his face: "Two commanders, please take a seat."

Wang and Xu thanked him, took off their helmets, held them under their ribs, and sat respectfully on the high chair on the left.

Du Chong knew the temperament of these generals, and did not beat around the bush. He went straight to the point: "Now the Jin people invade the border, drink horses from the Yellow River, and covet our lands in Tokyo and Henan. Both of you are brave generals in our front army who stayed behind. I don't know if I can guard them."

A good strategy for the enemy?"

Wang Gui and Xu Qing looked at each other. They were just one of the many commanders of the Left Behind Department. The Heyin they were stationed in was not the first line of defense against the Jin Army. When would it be their turn to be such a low-ranking person in this plan to defend against the enemy?

Did the military attache of rank say anything?

After all, Wang Gui was somewhat quick-witted and said hurriedly: "For such a military and national plan, all the ministers in the court and the left-behind will be left behind, and the deputy left-behind will strategize, but the temple will not be able to do anything. We, the military officers, will only act according to the orders and follow them unswervingly. This is

This is the true nature of a general."

"Okay, what a good general." Du Chong laughed loudly and pointed at Wang Gui, "What I want is your words."

Now he called the two men to come forward, spread out the drawings on the case, and explained while giving instructions: "This is the Yellow River. On the north bank, Kaide Mansion, Anli Army, and Weizhou have all been occupied by the Jin people. The army has gathered, dozens of people have never seen it before.

Thousands of people.

In Henan, our army only has 50,000 troops from the Tokyo Remaining Division, 8,000 troops from Zhang Boying's (Zhang Jun) Imperial Camp's Front Army, and 6,000 troops from Han Liangchen's (Han Shizhong's) Imperial Camp's Left Army. The total is less than 70,000 troops.

,How can we fight against the Jin people?"

Wang Gui and Xu Qing are both military generals, so they naturally have the clearest understanding of the enemy's strength, combat power, and morale. Although it seems that the Jin army may not have as many as 200,000, according to the information from the front, it is indispensable to have 100,000 or 80,000. In the Song Dynasty,

The three armies of the army were dispersed in three places and were not subordinate to each other. In addition, the combat effectiveness of the Song army was always far inferior to that of the Jin army... This battle was really impossible to fight.

Du Chong could tell from the two generals' silent sighs and nods that they believed what he said. He was secretly happy and continued: "I have a plan to make the Jin people collapse without a fight, but it requires two people to control them."

Great help, I don’t know…”

Du Chongla, with his characteristic literati tone, waited for Wang, and Xu and the two of them joked, "The last general will not dare to resign."

"The last general dare not resign!" Wang Gui and Xu Qing really stood up and solemnly saluted respectfully, saying what Du Chong wanted to hear most.

Du Chong twirled his beard and smiled, then straightened his face, and drew his fingers towards the curved line of the Yellow River on the scroll. His voice was gentle, but to the ears of Wang and Xu, it was like thunder in the cold winter: "The golden man is coming.

The troops are fierce and powerful, and it is difficult to resist them with human power. In this case, why not use the power of heaven and earth to stop the enemy with the Yellow River!"

Wang Gui had vaguely guessed something from Du Chong's murderous Yan Shuang words, and was so shocked that he could not speak.

Xu Qing was still a little confused and said blankly: "Isn't that what we are doing now? As long as we defend Zhanzhou and block the Zhuo River Bridge, before the Yellow River freezes, no matter how many Jin troops there are, they may not be able to do anything to me."

Du Chong sneered: "How long will it take for the Yellow River to freeze? It won't be until February next year at most, when hundreds of thousands of people will step on the ice... Vice Commander Xu, do you want to show your power and go to stop the enemy?"

It was a cold day, but Xu Qing was sweating profusely. He bowed his head and saluted, not even daring to say a word.

Wang Gui quickly smoothed things over and changed the topic: "But the intention of staying behind is to move the Yellow River..."

"After all, the deputy commander is more knowledgeable than the deputy commander." Du Chong snorted coldly before returning to the topic. He took the volume "Li Weigong Questions" on the desk in his hand. He showed the demeanor of a wise general who was strategizing, "The military strategist Sun Bin said

'A strategist can make the most of his situation'. Li

Wei Gong (Li Jing) also said, "The way of war is to use the ground as the mainstay, with virtual and real as the auxiliary, and change as the auxiliary. You cannot focus on defending dangers in order to seek victory." Relying on the natural dangers of the Yellow River is to passively respond to the enemy; a gentleman is good at falsehoods.

"Why don't I use the Yellow River to attack the enemy and flood the three armies!"

Wang Gui lowered his head, while Xu Qing widened his eyes and said: "How can... create a water... flood the three military laws?"

Du Chong's eyes revealed a fierceness that chooses and devours people, and his tone was cold and cold. It was comparable to the cold winter outside: "Die the Yellow River and pour it backwards, and use the wild current to overwhelm the enemy!"

"Ah!" With Xu Qing's steady footing, when he heard this, his stockings trembled and he almost sat down.

Wang Gui's heart twitched several times, but he remained silent on the surface, except for the corners of his eyes twitching from time to time. He knew very well, because the north bank of the Yellow River was controlled by the Jin army. If he really wanted to dig, he could only dig the southwest bank - that is to say, even if

Even if the Yellow River is dug, it will not be able to submerge the Jin army on the north bank. The flood will only

The land of Henan will be submerged. By then, the Central Plains, which are thousands of miles away, will become the country of Ze, and the land of floods will trap the cavalry in the quagmire, and tens of thousands of Jin troops will be unable to move. They will delay and delay the Jin army's offensive, so that the Emperor of Yangzhou can hunt south.

Buying time is the true intention of Du Liushou to dig the Yellow River!

Du Chong had already opened the skylight. Naturally, he spoke openly without hesitation: "This matter has been reported to the emperor and has been approved by the emperor. The two commanders can just rest assured and go ahead and do it. We will discuss it with others in the future."

There are officials and the government supporting you. I request that you and the two of you will lead the three thousand soldiers of the front army to dig out the dam of the Yellow River within ten days and before twelve months! The location of the collapse is right here -

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Du Chong's finger stabbed somewhere on the drawing.

Wang Gui and Xu Qing took a closer look, and three big characters jumped into their eyes: Li Gudu!

Just like the crimes that happened in the history of another time and space, Du Chong, who could be called the biggest butcher in the early Southern Song Dynasty, finally came up with this crazy plan that could change the mountains and rivers, turn the mulberry fields into the sea, and destroy countless lives.

In the history of another time and space, it was also the same time. In the winter of the second year of Jianyan (1128), the Jin soldiers gathered their strength and wanted to go south to conquer the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. In order to prevent the Jin soldiers from going south, Du Chong attacked Li Gu above Huaxian County.

Cross (now the river

The Yellow River embankment is opened to the west of Shadian Ji in Nanhua County, Nanhua County, and the river flows eastward. The new road passes through Ligudu, south of Huaxian County, and then through Puyang, between Dongming and Ming Dynasties, and then through Juancheng, Juye, Jiaxiang,

The Jinxiang area flows into Sishui, and from Sishui it flows into Huaihe River.

This man-made disaster was comparable to a natural disaster. People at the time said: All the people in Tokyo were caught in the waves. There were one or two ladies and gentlemen milling about in the morning corners of the city, wailing on the treetops of the wooden symbols. It was a miserable wind and rain,

Due to hunger and cold, many people drowned and died of freezing. Those who mourned for this remnant and wanted to pay tribute to it are now destined to die for thousands of lives.

"History of the Song Dynasty. Emperor Gaozong Ji" says: "It was the winter when Duchong crossed the Yellow River from Si into the Huaihe River to block the Jin soldiers." This man-made crossing of the river was a major event in the history of the Yellow River. From then on, the Yellow River left the "Book of Mountains and Seas",

According to "Shang Shu. Yu Gong", it has flowed through today's Jun County and

The old road between the old Huacheng in the south of Huaxian County no longer flows northeastward into the Bohai Sea, but instead flows southeastward into the Sihuai River. In the following decades, it was "either cut off or blocked, and the migration was uncertain", which caused great trouble.

The harm occurred mainly in the present-day northern Henan, southwestern Shandong and eastern Henan areas.

The Du Chong River Jue did not have a great impact on the Jin army's southward march, nor did it prevent the Jin army from going south. It also caused more than 200,000 local people to drown. In addition, it was a cold winter, not to mention being submerged, it was simply a matter of death if they touched the water.

, and the number of deaths caused by displacement and plague was several times that. The most prosperous and prosperous Lianghuai region in the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, and nearly 10 million people became homeless and became refugees.

Du Chong's move to conquer the Yellow River set off an extremely bad start, which can be called a thousand years of poison.

Afterwards, in the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng surrounded Kaifeng, perhaps thinking of Du Chong's "ancestor"'s actions five hundred years ago, and the Yellow River was dug again (whether it was dug by the official army or the rebels is controversial and is beyond the scope of this book)

), with a population of hundreds of thousands in Kaifeng, not a single one was left alive. Later, during the siege of the Taiping Army in the late Qing Dynasty, there were also several man-made embankment breaches.

However, the one that had the greatest impact was the incident during the modern Anti-Japanese War, also in Zhengzhou, Henan, when Jiang Zaizhen’s troops of the New Eighth Division of the Chiang Kai-shek Army attacked the Yellow River at Huayuankou. What was strikingly similar to history was that the purpose of this attack on the Yellow River was also to prevent the enemy from attacking.

However, the target to be stopped eight hundred years ago was the Jurchens; the target to be stopped eight hundred years later is the Japanese.

Eight hundred years of time and space, ancient and modern evil deeds are similar, and the results are surprisingly similar - neither of them can really prevent the enemy from invading.

Placing the hope of defeating the enemy on the power of nature is undoubtedly an extreme denial and despair of one's own abilities.

The Yellow River cannot stop the wolves, just like the Great Wall has never blocked the invasion of aliens. The only people who can block and counterattack the enemy are the "people" who stand upright!

This is the real Great Wall of Steel that cannot be broken, knocked open, flattened or chewed.

Du Chong and his ilk would not understand, or would rather not think about, this truth, but as warriors, Wang Gui and Xu Qing seemed to be able to see this point more clearly than Du Chong.
Chapter completed!