Chapter 21 Yalong River War (4)

On the other hand, their fishing rights on the Yalong River can also be confirmed.They urged parliament to quickly recognize the new borders. But more stubborn people refused to give in to deceit.General Lector delivered a speech calling for respect for every inch of the land drenched in the blood of May's descendants and sacred to Taff's shimmering cloak.The speech turned the outcome of the vote.Mei Yun hadn't invented very effective explosives at the time, but returning the river to its original bed was much simpler than man-drilling the channel. In just one night, under the protection of archers and spearmen, the recruited Mei Yun labor force dug enthusiastically, and changed the Yalong River back to its original path.They met no resistance, and no blood was shed, for the peace-loving Council of Hui forbade their troops to attack the Meiyun.Standing on the east bank of the Yalong River, General Lector, without encountering any opponents, sniffed the victory in the air, and shouted, "Come on! Destroy those scheming whores!" According to historians, upon hearing At this cry, Mei Yun's archers and spearmen ran across the half-mile-wide pasture and rushed to Huy's city wall, followed by the citizens who had just restored the river to its old course.

They rushed into the city, but the city guards were already ready, and the citizens of Huyi fought like tigers to defend their homeland.At the end of a bloody hour-long battle, General Lector was killed—an enraged woman threw a heavy butter churn through a window, crushing the general to death.Mei Yun's army retreated back to the Yalong River in a disorderly manner.They reorganized their defenses and guarded the river bank heroically, but when night fell, they were driven to the other side of the river, and the remnants fled back to Meiyun City to seek refuge.Hu Yi's troops and citizens did not try to attack Meiyun, they began to dig the riverbed again, prepared explosives, and diverted the Yalong River again.We all know that technology, especially disruptive technology, has an easy-to-disseminate nature.

Inevitably, Mei Yun quickly learned how to create the same explosives as their counterparts.Perhaps somewhat unusually, neither city attempted to adapt the technology to weapons manufacturing.After Mei Yun also possessed explosives, they newly appointed a chief of the engineering unit, and led the army to blow up the dam on the old course of the Yalong River.The river flooded to the old way, and the army returned in class.After about a hundred years, the topography of the entire region has been drastically and irrevocably altered.The pastures that were once green and grassy are gone, the Yalong River is no longer suitable for fishing, there are no narrow places with jagged rocks, muddy drinking places and shallows where cows can escape the heat.In its place was a canyon, a chasm about a mile wide and two thousand feet deep.