Shopkeeper Jin nodded without saying anything, and personally took Leng Yi and others to the granary. There were a large number of empty rice bags in the granary. There was no need to empty the ready-made rice bags. Leng Yi was overjoyed. After thanking him, he ordered Zaoli to quickly carry the rice bags to the granary.

Go to the city wall and install earth embankments.

Bags of rice requisitioned from various rice merchants were continuously delivered to the city wall. The villagers began to dig out the soil from the city wall, put it into rice bags, and carried it on their backs to the river embankment to reinforce and raise the embankment.

At this time, the rain that had stopped for a few days began to rain again, and soon turned into a heavy rain. This rain made the flood fighting people feel the urgency of the matter even more, and more people joined in building embankments.

Flood fighting and rescue operations are underway.

Finally, the biggest flood peak reached Bazhou City!

In the dark night, you couldn't see at all, you could only hear the sound of thousands of troops rushing towards you. In an instant, the river surged as high as a person, reaching the highest point of the river embankment! Some places that had not had time to increase the height were flooded.

Come here and rush into the city!

The people on the river embankment suddenly became confused, and some began to run towards the city wall.

Leng Yi shouted: "Follow me!" and jumped into the flood. Cheng Luojie understood and jumped in, holding Leng Yi's arm. Other Zaoli also jumped in, holding hands.

Build a human wall to block the gap.

At this time, there was no need for command, the water situation was the command. Wherever the embankment overflowed, people would jump in and use sandbags to fill the gap. The sandbag bearers behind filled the low-lying areas where the flood came with bags of sand and soil. Finally, it was blocked.

The floods overflowed the embankments.

Leng Yi then pulled Cheng Luojie up the river embankment. He was really scared for a while. If it was not blocked in time, this kind of overflowing of the embankment would soon make the river embankment loose and cause the embankment to collapse!

Now, the flood continues to rise, and the embankment must be further raised and reinforced. Leng Yi and Cheng Luojie joined the team carrying sandbags to fill the blockage.

Mr. Tongpan personally participated in the flood fight. The news immediately spread throughout the river embankment. Many people found that the floods were rising badly. They all thought of running towards the city wall, but when they heard that Mr. Tongpan was fighting against sandbags on the river embankment

During the rescue operation, the spirit was immediately lifted. More people joined in the rescue operation.

It is true that a rising tide lifts all boats. They are competing for time with the floods. As the floods continue to rise, the river embankments are constantly growing taller and thicker. They are always a little ahead of the rising floods to prevent the floods from overflowing the river embankments.

After fighting continuously for a whole day and night, bad news came again - all the rice bags were used up!

And the floods are still rising!

Leng Yi ordered in a deep voice: "Requisition the fabrics from the silk shop!"

Bolts of fine cloth were transported to the foot of the city wall, wrapped in sand and filled in on the river embankment.

After using up fabrics from several shops, daybreak came, and the good news finally came! The floods had stopped rising!

When the news was confirmed by Zao Li, who was responsible for observing the water conditions, everyone up and down the river bank was excited.

Leng Yi did not feel relaxed at all, because the flood level was still high, and the firmness of the hastily built river embankments obviously did not reassure him. Leng Yi ordered the river embankments to continue to be strengthened and to check the water seepage in various parts of the river embankments.

After this inspection, Leng Yi broke into a cold sweat. Water seepage was found in many places on the river embankment, and some even had piping phenomena. With the huge pressure from the continuous high water level, the river embankment is in danger of breaking at any time!

Leng Yi immediately organized to block the water seepage and pipe surges. Led by the officials of the Yamen, they were responsible for inspecting and inspecting the river embankments in each section of the river.

Hong Jie, who was responsible for exploring the water conditions in the upper reaches, received good news that reassured Leng Yi. That is, the rainfall in the upper reaches had reduced. No new flood peaks were found. However, the current situation of the entire flood situation has not fundamentally changed, and strict precautions must be taken.

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However, the thing that worried Leng Yi the most still happened.

It was late at night on the third day when the water level continued to be high. He had worked hard for several days and nights without sleeping. After arranging inspection tasks, he and Cheng Luojie slept in a private house by the river embankment.

In his sleep, he woke up suddenly because he heard a sound like rolling thunder! It sounded in the distance, and at the same time, he felt the ground under his feet began to tremble violently.

Cheng Luojie also woke up. In the dark night, she held Leng Yi's arm tightly and said, "What's wrong?"

Leng Yi didn't know either, so he said: "Is it an earthquake? Get out quickly!"

He pulled Cheng Luojie to open the door and came out. He saw Zaoli Minzhuang running along the river embankment, shouting wildly.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

No one could hear Leng Yi's voice because the huge rumbling sound had covered everything.

At this moment, a figure rushed towards Leng Yi and rushed in front of Leng Yi. It was Deputy Song. He said to Leng Yi in a hurry: "It's terrible, sir, the embankment has collapsed! Run!"

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Leng Yi's whole body suddenly went cold. How could this happen? There was no danger before he went to sleep! The large seepage and pipe surges had been blocked. How could the embankment break after such great efforts?

Although he was thinking about this problem in his mind, he did not stop. He pulled Cheng Luojie and ran up the river embankment. Deputy Chief Song followed him up. Leng Yi turned around and asked, "Where did the embankment break?"

His voice was so loud that he almost spoke in Deputy Song's ear.

The voice of Deputy Song’s arrester was also loud enough for Leng Yi to hear clearly: “Up there near the city wall!”

It was even worse this time. Leng Yi thought to himself that if the embankment broke downstream, the flood would not directly destroy many houses. At most, the flood would just overflow. However, if it were upstream, the flood would directly rush into the city. Who knows where to go?

How many homes were destroyed!

The people in the city didn't know if they had been transferred, so Leng Yi asked anxiously: "Is there anyone still in the city?"

Deputy Song said: "There should be no more. After you gave the order, Sir, those who refused to leave were also moved to the city wall. At all the passages going down to the city, my subordinates arranged for brothers to handle them, and no one was allowed to go downstairs.

Go back to the city."

"Very good!" Leng Yi felt relieved, as long as nothing happened to him.

While they were talking, the roaring sound had already rushed below. The house where they were sleeping seemed to be made of paper in the flood, instantly shattered and rolled away with the flood!

Leng Yi and the others were on the river embankment, high above the water, but nothing happened. He ran up the river embankment and reached the gap in one breath.

Because the water volume in the river was too large and the water level was too high, it rushed down and opened a gap dozens of steps wide. In the dark night, I couldn't see clearly, and I could only feel the shock caused by the wanton and wild flow.

People feel that human beings are so insignificant in front of the wild nature.

Fortunately, he had asked Cheng Luo'an to protect Zhuo Qiaoniang and the others before moving to the tower, and his sniper rifle was also moved away. There will be no danger now.

The gap could no longer be crossed, so Leng Yi turned around and walked back. He ran along the embankment to see if anyone had fallen into the water. He saw along the way all the houses that had been washed away and rolled over in the flood. He did not hear calls for help, nor did he.

I saw someone in the water.

Leng Yi felt a little relieved. It seemed that the transfer of personnel was going well.

Along the way, we met many villagers and ordinary people on the river embankment. They all participated in the construction and supervision of the river embankment. They never expected that the river embankment would suddenly burst. They were all very depressed.

Leng Yi asked one by one who had discovered the breach of the river embankment first, but these people all said that it was not them. By the time they knew it, the flood had already washed down.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier. At this time, there is no modern communication equipment, contact with Zaoli and Minzhuang has been lost, and there is nothing that can plug the gap. The only thing that can be done is to wait for dawn, reorganize, and find a way to plug the gap.

, and then rebuild their homes. Apart from that, there is nothing else to do.

Leng Yi led them down the river embankment until they reached the southernmost city wall. Here, the flood destroyed the city gate and turned the south gate into a bridge hole, rolling out of the city gate.

, and began to tear apart the walls on both sides of the city gate.

These city walls were made of mud wrapped in blue bricks and could not withstand the erosion of wild floods. They quickly collapsed and widened into a wide gap.

It was also through this gap that the floodwaters were released out of the city. This embankment was connected to the stairs to the upper city. When Leng Yi and the others went up to the city tower, they saw a mass of black heads, all of them looking at each other silently in the heavy rain.

Looking at him, no one even came forward to say hello. They were all frightened by this terrible flood.

It wasn't until a white-haired old man walked tremblingly in front of him and slowly knelt down. The other people seemed to have just reacted and knelt down in the heavy rain.

Leng Yi quickly stepped forward to help the old man, but the old man did not get up. He took Leng Yi's hand and said, "Master Tongpan! Thank you for your help! If you hadn't insisted on moving everyone to the tower, many of us would have died.

They probably all drowned! You are the savior of all of us!"

Everyone behind him also kowtowed and shouted loudly to thank the benefactor.

Leng Yi said: "I'm sorry for everyone. I failed to guard the embankment and destroyed everyone's houses and property. I'm very sorry, but I will definitely report it to the court and allocate funds for disaster relief as soon as possible to help everyone rebuild their homes!"

At this time, what these victims want to hear most is this sentence. Although they all know that even if the court provides disaster relief, there will not be much money to help them, and more, they have to rely on themselves. However, there is a hope

, which is much better than no hope. So we cheered together again.

Leng Yi waited for everyone to quiet down for a while, and then he said loudly: "The key now is to quickly block the gap in the river embankment. Drain all the water in the city and reduce losses as much as possible. How to block the gap, I

Thinking of a way."

Everyone said that if manpower is needed, they are willing to fight to the death.

Leng Yi was very moved, comforted everyone a few more words, and then led Cheng Luojie and the others forward along the tower.

After taking a few steps, Leng Yi stopped because he saw a familiar figure, it was his wife Zhuo Qiaoniang!

"Qiao Niang!" Leng Yi could not help but cry out.
Chapter completed!