Sixteen days have passed since Chen Chong started planning the northern section of the river bridge.
When Shazhou New City was about to be built, he began to arrange the construction of river bridges. However, considering the importance of the matter, even if the new city took care of it, once the intention was discovered by Liang people, many variables would still arise in the construction, so he secretly
Starting from the perspective, first arrange for the troops to build the required materials on the shore. After the construction is completed, the river bridge will be built in a short period of time.
The first and most important material used was river piles. The Mengjin River was turbulent, and it was difficult to stabilize the ship with anchors alone. This was also the main reason why it was difficult to build a river bridge here. After thinking about it, Chen Chong decided to build river piles in the river.
, as long as the river piles are stable and ships have anchorage, the river bridge will naturally be built smoothly.
So he personally took a boat and took Wei Yan between the two cities. He painted a red stone on the river bank to mark the direction. The soldiers on the boat shook the oars according to the red stone to maintain the boat's position. Wei Yan was on the bow of the boat, holding a two-foot-three-foot wooden stick.
The pole was inserted directly into the river bottom in the current, and then the numerical value on the wooden pole was reported to Chen Chong. Chen Chong sat behind Wei Yan, holding a pen and paper in his hand, marking the water depth and river bed geology at the corresponding positions.
After spending two days sorting out the data, Chen Chong felt confident that although the river was fast, the depth of the water was only two feet, and the shallow depth was only half a foot. He could definitely build a river bridge.
He first dug a river pile in the deepest part of the river. The river pile was one foot wide and three feet and five feet long. It was made of poplar wood. Different from ordinary river piles, Chen Chong cut the lower part of the river pile into a triangle and wrapped it with
The cowhide was inserted diagonally into the river bed to a depth of one foot. With the help of the momentum of the river water, the river pile was stuck in the river bed, and then a heavy hammer and stone were applied. The result was in line with his expectations. The river pile faced the current without falling over, which was enough to tie the boat.
Moored.
By the fifth day of August, the 216 river piles between Beiguan and Shazhou were driven into the river bed, and all the river piles of the first section of the river bridge were in place.
At this time, the Nanguan attack and defense gradually became anxious. Seeing that Dong Zhuo had guessed his intention, Chen Chong no longer hid it. He immediately ordered Chang Xi and his men to sail a boat into the river, first use ropes to initially maintain it, and then lay planks on the boat, etc.
After barely being able to stand behind people, I used wedges, mortises and tenons, and iron anchors to connect the river piles to the boat.
In two days, with the help of river piles, the people successfully built a 100-foot pontoon bridge, which reached Shazhou New City. In order to confirm that the pontoon bridge was indeed usable, first a hundred people in light armor passed on the bridge, then a hundred people in heavy armor walked across it, and finally Tao Qiuhong tried to cross it.
Ten carriages and horses carrying baggage crossed the pontoon bridge without incident.
Tao Qiuhong felt his feet sinking and swaying, and looked at the white waves beside the bridge. Tao Qiuhong was full of emotions. He said to Chen Chongbai: "When I was in Beihai, I was jealous of the leader Hua Xin, thinking that he was just in vain. Later, he helped me seek benefits and escape."
Only then did I realize that it was my own shallowness and self-restraint that led me to deal with things without asking others. Unexpectedly, when I saw the dragon head today, I realized that everything depends on human beings and that rivers cannot cross the ocean." When people heard Tao Qiuhong's words,
They admired Chen Chong even more, so they all called this bridge Wangyang Bridge.
But the river bridge is only half completed, and the remaining 100-foot river bridge is the top priority.
The Liang people on the south bank were all horrified when they saw that the river bridge was built to a hundred feet. They also saw the sergeants parading back and forth on the river bridge, and they were even more frightened. They all said that the generals on the other side were not ordinary people. Only with the blessing of God could they build this bridge. According to the divination of the Prime Minister
, to say that it is beneficial to cross the great river, I am afraid it should be done on the other side.
Others say that when the Yellow Turbans were raging with millions of people and the sea was boiling across the nine states, it was Bingzhou Mu who led his army to fight for peace. The traitor Zhang Jiao was known as the Great Sage, who could prevent all diseases and healed all people, and then he gathered millions of followers. In the end,
As soon as he met Bingzhou Mu, he became terminally ill. This shows that Chen Longshou is really a born saint and is not something we can resist.
These words quickly spread among the Liang people, and many people in the army believed in them. Some officers even spoke to Dong Yue, hoping that Dong Yue would speak to the Prime Minister and let the imperial court appease the dragon head. Dong Yue cursed continuously.
Ridiculous, he drove all these people out of the tent, but he was quite satisfied with it in his heart. However, when he thought of all the discord between Longshou and Xiangguo, and had no choice, he simply stopped the southward offensive and concentrated on building the Beimang defense line.<
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After learning about it, Jia Xu, the captain of Xiaopingjin, guessed what Dong Yue was thinking. He immediately came to Beimang to meet Dong Yue and persuaded him: "Why is the general so confused? Even though Chen Chong is extremely smart, he is just an ordinary person. Otherwise, why would he be so confused?"
There are three ups and downs in the court? Now, under the Prime Minister's command, all the ministries are damaged, and only the general is intact. This is a good opportunity for the general to leap over the dragon's gate! The general now indulges in the good opportunity and is famous for his indolence in the army. This is a self-destruction in the Prime Minister's country.
Ah!"
Dong Yue was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. He thanked Jia Xu repeatedly and asked, "It's just that Nanguan is really difficult to break. I wonder what Wen He can do?"
Jia Xu frowned and said slowly: "If the new city of Beilu Shazhou has not been completed, we may occupy the sandbar first, use bows and arrows to cut off the north bank, and then surround it from three sides on land, cut off its foreign aid, and we can slowly break it. But now I
The army lost the initiative and sat back and watched as the Beibei captured the sandbar and built a new city. Once we besieged the city, the Beibei were able to come out from the sandbank and help each other from the river. The Beibei were also good at water warfare, making it difficult for our army to match. Now it seems
Come on, it is impossible to break through with external force."
Dong Yue asked anxiously: "What should I do?"
Jia Xu sighed and said: "Even if we can't break the city, we have to stop it from building the river bridge. Once the river bridge is built, the army on the north bank will cross the bridge. The general only counts tens of thousands, but can he really defeat the 70,000 people on the north bank? By that time
Chen Chong built a camp at the foot of the mountain, sent another army to attack Xuanmen and Aocang, and lured Yuan Shao's people to join him. What did the Prime Minister do? In the end, he could only abandon the Eastern Capital and stick to Hangu."
Speaking of this, Jia Xu considered that not long ago, he was ordered to build a lot of ships in Xiaopingjin. Up to now, more than two hundred ships have been built, which can be put to use. So he gave two strategies for the time being: "
The Beibei must have exhausted their manpower and material resources to build the city and build the bridge, and it is difficult to prevent them. Our army can send elite troops to cross the river and harass them repeatedly, dragging them down and preventing them from concentrating on building the bridge."
"Secondly, the ship can carry more firewood and set fire to the ship from the upper reaches. The fire ship will float down the river and burn the pontoon bridge on the north bank. If this is repeated, the northern captives will not be able to hold on for long. After all the armies have rested and recuperated, they will
Attack it with all your strength."
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Dong Yueshen thought so, and withdrew the surrounding troops that night. He first sent an army of Sima from Pingyin to lead two thousand knights to sneak across the river. This cavalry army cruised between Zhi County and Heyang, trying to find a place for the pontoon bridge to accumulate materials.
But they failed to succeed, and instead intercepted some baggage on the way. After receiving the news, Zhi County and Heyang sealed the city gates that night and put the entire city under martial law. The camp was also patrolled day and night by sentries.
On the ninth day of August, the cavalry tried to attack the Heyang camp from the flanks, but only four miles away when a hidden sentry in the wild forest spotted Liangqi's whereabouts.
The patrol team. In the middle of the night, the sound of gongs and horns made the horses panic, but the cavalry still did not give up. They plugged the ears of their mounts with cloth and marched two miles further. At this time, soldiers had gathered in formation at the camp.
There are many torches and everything is in order.
The leader of the Army Sima was quite hesitant when he saw this, and said to his subordinates: "We have already succeeded in preventing the northern captives from sleeping peacefully. Why should we bury our lives here?" So he slowly retreated.
On August 11, after the cavalry returned, Jia Xu launched the boat in Xiaopingjin. At noon, the dry firewood was piled on the boat, and the Liang people lit the fire and pushed it into the water. The fire boat went down the river, and the flames soared into the sky, heading downstream.
Head towards the river bridge.
The sergeant on the middle road saw thick smoke billowing from the river upstream. The soldiers from the three cities came out to watch. They saw that the first few fireships were approaching, and the smoke columns behind them were soaring into the sky, and it seemed that a large number of fireships were approaching. The soldiers on the riverside all stamped their feet.
Huh, the sound echoed across the river. Chen Chong, Wei Yan, Tao Qiuhong arrived first, followed by Zang Ba, Chang Xi, Tian Kai and others, and everyone climbed up the tower to look far.
Chen Chong had made preparations for this before, and ordered the soldiers in the three cities to be equipped with long hooks and stationed at the western end of the sandbank. When he saw the fire ship passing by, he used the long hook to pull it to the shore.
Three or four ships were treated like this. When the group of fire ships got closer, the fire ships collided with each other. The flames were soaring into the sky. The area was extremely hot. Coupled with the thick smoke, many soldiers could not hold on and could only let it go.
The fire boats passed by. Two fire boats hit the hull of the pontoon first, causing the bridge to shake. The soldiers carried buckets of water from the river to put out the fire, which was able to put out the fire. But there were still hundreds of fire boats behind, and everyone was momentarily stunned.
There is no way.
At this time, the commander of the army, Ma Taishi Ci, said to him: "Mingfu, why don't you take out all the small boats in the city that are going to repair the pontoon bridge, and have people ride on the fireboats. Then put on the long nail-headed locks that lock the pontoon bridge, and go to the south."
To the north, just run the iron cable across the water."
When Chen Chong heard Taishi Ci's words, his eyes lit up and he kept saying: "What a great idea! What a great idea!" He called Zang Ba and hundreds of soldiers to supervise the matter together.
Zang Ba led his troops on a boat on the river. The soldiers behind him rowed hard, and the soldiers on the river bank cheered for them. When they reached ten feet in front of the group of fire boats, they docked the boat by the river and called the soldiers on the bank to join them.
He came to pull the iron rope and stood it two feet above the river. The rope heads were pressed together with big rocks and covered with sand and mud, barely blocking these blazing fire ships in the sandbar.
Then Chen Chong ordered his soldiers to get the long awls for chiseling the ships. If there were no long awls, they would look for big rocks on the ground, and smash them at the fire ships. When it got dark, half of the fire ships sank in the river, and half of the fire ships had burned up.
The whole body was piled up on the bank in total darkness. Looking upstream of the river, it was pitch black and there was no fire. Only the sound of the surging river could be heard.
A few days later, Jia Xu repeated his old tricks. Fortunately, everyone was more experienced this time and still did not let him succeed. However, this did interfere with the process of building the bridge. The efficiency of the bridge construction was almost halved. By August 26,
On the same day, all the river piles on the south bank were completed.
By the first day of September, the Nan'an River Bridge was connected to the back gate of Mengjin Nanguan, announcing the completion of the Mengjin River Bridge in the past two months. Chen Chong led Qingkai from the north bank to the south bank of the river, and it only took half a moment, while the ferry at the pass on weekdays,
It takes at least two moments. When the river is strong, it can even take half an hour.
Everyone came across the bridge and looked back at the river bridge, which was one foot wide and nearly three hundred feet long. It seemed like a pillar was flying in the middle of the river, separating the east and west. Tian Kai said with emotion: "Meng Jin has built the bridge. From now on,
In the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, there is only one dangerous pass north of Luoyang."
When Chen Chong heard this, he held his whip towards the water and said with a smile to everyone: "I only hope that when future generations see this bridge, they will know that nothing is impossible in this world."