Although this is an extremely huge project, under this era, there is no mechanical equipment to use. If you want to complete this project, you must use the method of carrying a person on your shoulder.

However, in the process of conquering nature, the spirit and power reflected by people are infinite. Cao Liang mobilized hundreds of thousands of military and civilians to invest in this huge project of governing the Yellow River and achieved effective results.

After a month of hard work, tens of millions of cubic meters of silt in the Yellow River were cleared, with an average depth of more than one meter. At the same time, the cleared silt was used to reinforce the river embankments on both sides, increasing the height of the embankments by an average of about three feet, greatly improving the flood control capacity of the Yellow River. Within a hundred years, if there were no major floods, the Yellow River floods would no longer exist.

This is a great blessing for the people of the Central Plains. The Yellow River breach over the years has caused serious disasters to the people on both sides of the river. After this governance, the risk of Yellow River flooding has been minimized is a great thing that benefits the country and the people.

During the project of dredging river channels and strengthening the embankment, many people along the Yellow River joined the team spontaneously. They all understood that Cao Liang's move was really for the sake of the people and for the benefit of the people, and naturally he was deeply respected and loved by the people.

Sima Shi killed the people and harmed the people, Cao Liang blocked the mouth to save the people. The people were not fools, and who was good or bad was obvious at a glance. The people all had a sound in their hearts, and the people's support naturally determined the belonging of the country.

The project to block the breach was officially launched in mid-October. Before that, Deng Ai had stored a large amount of earth, sandbags, straw mats, wooden piles, and stones. Everything was ready. He was waiting for the Yellow River water level to fall, and then he was ready to close the gap in one go.

At first, the project was progressing very smoothly. Deng Ai summoned the most experienced blockers on both sides of the Yellow River. They were all experts in blocking and breaking. Under their command, tens of thousands of teams on both sides were constructed at the same time, compressing the breaking step by step.

To put it bluntly, it means fighting against the most rebellious Yellow River. The Yellow River has been flowing like this for more than half a year and is used to being free and dispersed. If you want to lock it back into your original cage, it will naturally not do it. He wants to struggle, he wants to resist, he wants to roar. In short, he is unwilling to be bound.

Therefore, blocking the trench is not an over-hungry task. It must be carried out step by step, steadily, and laying the foundation for the opportunity to complete the integration.

Although it was in the dry season, the water of the Yellow River was still surging and turbulent, and the drop was very large near the breach. The water of the Yellow River flowed through here, which was relatively turbulent. Hundreds of kilograms of sandbags or stones were swept away by the rapids as soon as they were thrown into the water.

Fortunately, the blocking hands that Deng Ai found were all experts who blocked the breach. They naturally had a set of tricks to block the breach. They wanted to drive piles in the river water. Each wooden stake was as thick as a bowl. The strong soldier waved his hammer and nailed the wooden stakes one by one into the breach. The distance between each wooden stake was about a foot. Then they covered the wooden stakes with straw mats woven with reeds, and then built them with sandbags and stones. In this way, the repaired river bank will not be easily destroyed by floods.

After more than ten days of continuous struggle, the break of several miles of width has been compressed to a width of only a dozen feet, as if victory is in sight.

But at this time, the Yellow River showed its ferocity. It seemed unwilling to be bound in the original river channel. It roared and struggled, as if it had used all its strength. It was like a wild horse that had broken away from its reins, whistling towards the breach. The rapids surging, and waves hit the embankment, causing thousands of layers of waves.

The dragon-sharing stage is the most difficult stage to block the breakdown. Even if there are only a few feet of blockage in the end, the entire project may end in failure.

The closer it is to Helong, the more unruly the Yellow River becomes. It uses all its strength to savagely rush the embankment that wants to trap it, as if mocking people for being overestimated.

At this time, the water was turbulent to a very fast pace. A wave came, and even the people and wooden stakes were washed away. Fortunately, these people who drove the stakes had ropes tied to them, and the people on the dike pulled them back with all their hands and feet, otherwise they would be washed away by such a turbulent river water and would be dead and lifeless.

The people who blocked their hands tried several times and all tried to get off the pile. Instead, they washed away the thunders several times. When they were pulled back, they were wet all over, trembling in the cold wind, their mouths were covered with sand, and they all shook their heads, indicating that this job was really impossible.

The water volume of the Yellow River varies every year. Although the water level drops a lot than usual during the dry season in winter, it does not mean that this breakage will easily get blocked. This year's water level is obviously higher than in previous years, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of combining the dragon.

When everyone saw that even those experienced blocking hands were unable to do anything, they were suddenly panicked, and in the end they were only a few feet wide. If they could not block, all their previous efforts would be wasted.

After hearing the news, Deng Ai immediately rushed to the embankment. Seeing the situation in front of him, he immediately ordered to protect the dead head and not allow the rapids to clear the newly built embankment. They must do everything possible to join the dragon.

But now the water flows in the Yellow River is too fast, and even wooden stakes cannot be lowered, let alone throwing sandbags and stones into the river. In the current situation, no matter how many sandbags and stones you throw, it will be useless. With the size of the Yellow River, everyone will refuse, and no one will be left behind.

Just when everyone was helpless, Deng Ai thought of a solution. He ordered his troops to cut down large trees, which were quite tall, and then spliced ​​together with the trunks to make a long raft, and the length of the raft was just wider than the breach.

The built raft was pushed into the Yellow River by the Bingzhou Army and went downstream. In order to prevent it from flowing out and breaking, Deng Aiwen tied several thick ropes at the head and tail of the raft. He used manpower to forcefully straighten the raft, stretching it across the gap, and stuck it tightly there.

Due to the raft blocking, the wooden pile driving project can be carried out smoothly. People shouted horns and fought continuously for a day and a night. The gong sounded, and the breaking finally came to an end. People cheered and cried with joy.

The Yellow River finally put away its wildness, just like a tamed wild horse, being cleaned up and obeyed and surrendered to people's feet. It honestly flowed eastward along the old path of the Yellow River, as if it had forgotten its free and galloping days.
Chapter completed!