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The Anguo cavalry swept in like a hurricane, stirring up a cloud of dust that obscured everyone's eyes.

When they got close, they saw a sea of ​​shining long swords, as if they were facing a forest of swords.

The cavalrymen running in the front screamed in fear, but it was too late. The cavalry rushed into the forest of swords, and blood mist filled the sky. The screams and wails of death resounded throughout the Gobi Desert.

The extremely sharp Mo Dao pierced the bodies and horses of the cavalrymen in front. The corpses quickly piled up in front of the Mo Dao formation. Dozens of cavalrymen jumped over the piled corpses, but were cut off by a sword in the air. The bloody corpses and internal organs fell from the air.

The impact of the cavalry was offset, and the Mo Dao formation was launched immediately. Three thousand people were divided into three rows, advancing like a wall, and the Mo Dao flew up and down. Wherever they passed, the cavalry and horses were all broken into pieces, killing people in a sea of ​​blood and corpses, which made people extremely scared.

Seeing that the enemy had wavered, Xi Wanli immediately ordered: "Cavalry attack!"

"Woo--"

The horn sounded, and 10,000 cavalrymen were divided into two groups, like two long dragons, and launched a fierce attack on the enemy from the south and north at the same time.

The front was an unstoppable Modao formation, and 5,000 Tang cavalrymen from the north and south attacked fiercely. Sabah's army began to be in chaos, especially the powerful lethality of the Tang heavy armored infantry, which frightened all the enemy troops, and the originally strong morale began to fade rapidly.

At this time, another 10,000 Tang cavalrymen appeared from the west, led by the Tiger Guard General Chen Dan, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The drums of the cavalry attack from the west sounded.

Ten thousand cavalrymen rushed to the rear of Sabah's army like a tiger descending from the mountain.

Sabah's army completely collapsed in an instant. They shouted and turned their horses to look for an opportunity to escape.

Sabah broke out from the southwest under the protection of more than a thousand soldiers, and there was a gap here.

But this gap was a trap. When they rushed in, they found themselves surrounded.

Arrows rained down from all directions. The leather armor of the enemy cavalry could not stop the sharp armor-piercing arrows of the Tang army. They were shot and fell off their horses. In just a few rounds of horse shooting, the enemy casualties exceeded 70%. The remaining cavalry fought desperately to break through, but they could not break through the copper wall and iron wall of the Tang army. Under the ruthless killing of the Tang army, they gradually disappeared.

In just one hour, 13,000 cavalry disappeared under the powerful attack of 23,000 Tang troops.

The Tang army found Sabah, the culprit of the attack on Suiye, in the pile of corpses. He was shot with more than 30 arrows and had died.

Deputy General Chalan rushed to the front and was chopped into pieces by the Modao Army. Another deputy general Maimana was killed by the Tang cavalry.

The killing of these three people meant that the army was completely gone. The Tang army immediately seized 5,000 camels in a date palm forest 30 miles away. This was Sabah's logistics, and seized 600,000 gold coins and a large number of dry biscuits.

The Tang army also seized a large amount of personal wealth in the horse bags of the enemy's war horses. These soldiers sold the looted wealth and population cheaply and exchanged them for gold and silver coins, which they carried with them. Each soldier had several bulging money bags.

In total, the wealth of the enemy soldiers alone exceeded 500,000 gold coins and millions of silver coins. Together with the 600,000 gold coins seized from the logistics camels, the gold coins were close to 1.2 million.

Xi Wanli immediately rewarded each soldier with ten gold coins. One gold coin could be exchanged for two strings of money according to the official price, but it could be exchanged for three strings of money on the black market. The soldiers were immediately jubilant.

Later, even the more than 20,000 soldiers who did not participate in the war could get a reward of ten silver coins.

The gold and silver coins were temporarily stored in Juzhanti, and they would be transported back to Chang'an after the war.

Li Ye's worries were not unnecessary. After entering July, the Central Plains entered a rainstorm mode. It rained for more than ten days in a row, and the extreme drought turned into extreme flooding. The tributaries of the Yellow River were full of water, rushing to the Yellow River from the north and south at the same time. The water level of the Yellow River was also rising day by day, and it had long exceeded the warning level.

A huge threat of dike collapse appeared in Jeju. This area had become a suspended river on the ground decades ago. Fortunately, the court had been prepared, and all the people within fifty miles on both sides of the Yellow River were relocated.

One hundred thousand soldiers used countless mud bags to reinforce the river bank, but it was useless. In the face of the destructive power of nature, human power seemed insignificant. The Yellow River dike collapse was inevitable. The key was whether it would collapse to the north or to the south, which involved the issue of diverting the Yellow River.

That night, the dike of Liuyang Township, Liaocheng County, Bozhou, on the opposite bank of Jeju, was finally washed away by the Yellow River. The width of the breach reached several miles in an instant, and the surging Yellow River water rushed down and swept northeastward.

In just two days, Bozhou, Dezhou, Dizhou, and Cangzhou became a swamp. The Yellow River water took the Yongji Canal to the north and finally flowed into the sea at the Haihe River in the north of Cangzhou.

This Yellow River flood turned the eastern part of the North China Plain into a flood area, with more than 300,000 people affected and thousands of people dead.

You may find it strange that only more than 300,000 people were affected and only a few thousand people died?

That was because during the An-Shi Rebellion, the people of Hebei were slaughtered by An Lushan and Shi Siming, and the remaining population fled to the south in large numbers. In addition, the separatist regimes of the feudal lords for several years, and wars broke out between the feudal lords. Hebei had long been a thousand miles of red wilderness with a declining population.

Only a few thousand people died, because they had been well prepared. All the people within 50 miles on both sides of the Yellow River had been relocated. People in distant places were extremely sensitive to various disasters. They had already packed up their belongings. When they heard that the Yellow River had caught fire, the people in the relevant counties and prefectures fled desperately. Most of the dead were the elderly and the sick who were unwilling to leave their hometowns.

When the news of the Yellow River bursting its dike in Hebei reached Chang'an, Li Ye urgently convened a military meeting to discuss disaster relief.

Li Ye sighed and said, "I should have listened to the advice of the Du Shuijian and opened the dike in Dizhou to release the floodwater, which would have effectively lowered the water level. Dizhou has the smallest population, so even if it was flooded, the loss would be small. I was just lucky and hesitated to issue an order, and the dike finally broke.

Wei Jiansu hurriedly advised, "Your Majesty did not issue an order because the precipitation in the Central Plains has begun to weaken. It is very likely that the Yellow River will not break the dike. No one thought that it would break at the last moment. Your Majesty does not need to blame yourself. Moreover, according to the information received, most of the people in Bozhou and Dezhou were evacuated in time. The population in Cangzhou and Dizhou is sparse, and the number of deaths should not be high."

Li Ye was helpless and asked again, "I am concerned about whether the dike will break in the future? Will it affect the south of the Yellow River?"

Wei Jiansu shook his head, "The key is that the rain in the Central Plains has weakened. Once the rain stops, it will soon seep into the ground, and the water replenishment of the Yellow River will be less than the outflow, so there will be no more dike breaks. The top priority now is disaster relief. "

Li Ye asked Xiao Hua, the Minister of Revenue, "Has the Ministry of Revenue come up with an estimate? How many people are affected?"

Xiao Hua bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue has made a preliminary estimate based on the affected counties and prefectures, and it will not exceed 400,000!"

Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief, "Although the number is not large, the resettlement of more than 300,000 people is also a big problem!"

Liu Yan stood up and said, "Your Majesty, let's follow the previous plan! Relocate them to Liaodong. This is a good opportunity. I am willing to go to Hebei to share your worries!"

Li Ye nodded, "I will leave the disaster relief to Minister Liu. Hejian County is one of the three major material storage points. There are 300,000 stones of grain and 50,000 tents, as well as other materials such as medicinal materials. You rush to Hejian immediately, and then I will arrange for the subsequent materials to be delivered to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic. As for resettlement to Liaodong, that is the next step."

"I obey your order!"