Chapter 1334 Pontoon Bridge

The eventful year of the country and the death of important ministers do not bode well.

If Wei Ming Jingsi died half a year ago, the two would only be happy in their hearts.

Wei Ming Jingsi is the central figure who maintains the imperial party's lineage, and in the later period of Bingchang's imprisonment, after many domestic forces were re-suppressed, the existence of Wei Ming Jingsi is actually a bit redundant.

However, the sudden change in the situation and the death of the famous Jingsi made the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yi bury feel sad about the death of the rabbit and the fox.

In the past four months, too many famous ministers and fierce generals of the Xia State were lost on the battlefield, and too many officials and clans took refuge in the Great Song Dynasty.

Xia is a militaristic state, and the army is the soul and life of this country.

When the army is strong, all opposition voices in this country will be suppressed in a way of elimination, such as the armed march and massacre in Mobei a year ago.

And what about when the army is weak?

Precisely, when the army that those in power are able to control is weak?

That is a violent and inevitable backlash.

This can be said to be another historical circle, a strange circle that cannot be escaped by militaristic politics.

Like the male lion on the grassland, the ultimate fate of each lion king is to die from the challenge of a new successor.

This kind of struggle in the Xia State is basically reflected in the cycle in which the imperial party uses the new Hou Party to take power, slaughters the previous Hou Party, and then the new Hou Party takes power again, and then is slaughtered by the later Hou Party again.

Back then, Li Jiqian made his fortune by marrying the daughter of a local powerful man as a concubine, and in the process of growing power, the strength of the Hou Party also became stronger.

From the Xia Kingdom to the present, the slaughtered Hou Party has included the Wei Mu clan, the Yeli clan, and the Wuzang clan.

And the Liang family is now also walking on this road of no return.

It's like a long plank sticking out of a cliff, every step forward, the danger is aggravated, and the reality forces the Liang family to go, even if everyone knows that the plank will eventually break because it can't bear the load, and the Liang family will perish because of the strong backlash.

After chanting the scriptures, Empress Dowager Liang poured the last bottle of sesame oil on the wooden rafter tower, and Liang Yibury lit the wooden rafters.

The raging fire burned, and the funeral of the Xia people made Tian Yu on the top floor of the brick tower feel very curious.

Jia Liang left Xingqing Mansion, his first task was over, and now his new task was automatically turned into the second one, to protect the madman in the wooden village.

Tian Yu felt that Guogong was a little redundant, how could he say it? Even if you want to catch a puppet, the person with the surname of Xia Guo is also a big handful, why protect a madman?

What politicians care about is really a little confusing to the big heads.

In the distance outside the city, several fast horses galloped from several directions, followed by the alarm bell in the city, and there was some small commotion beside the roaring fire below.

Then the nobles began to leave, and the funeral of Wei Mingjing Si ended hastily.

The gates of Xingzhou City began to lock, even if it was still noon.

You can't see the Yellow River in Xingzhou, but what you can see is the Qin Canal, the Han Canal, the West Trunk Canal, the Tanglai Canal, the Hanyan Canal, the Huinong Canal and other nine trunk canals.

It wasn't long before a huge crowd appeared on the distant horizon by the canal, riding horses, driving cattle and sheep, and driving carts...... Countless people poured towards the capital.

There are also countless small boats on the canal, and the small boats are full of people who are at a loss, and some of them are very rich.

But no one received them, and they were greeted by cold walls and locked gates.

Tian Yu's heart was full of excitement, something big happened!

……

Sixty miles downstream of Lingzhou, Linhe Town.

Sixteen huge cowhide rafts are laid down here, Su You and Shen Kuo, with the science and engineering team, to build a bridge as fast as possible.

The record of the construction of the pontoon bridge by the Chinese family has been described in the "Book of Songs, Daya, Daming".

The first pontoon bridge across the Yellow River appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin Jinggong's mother and younger son Needle because of his own storage of too much property, feared that Qin Jinggong was killed by the wealth, in today's Shanxi Province near the Yellow River near Linjin, with the wealth of "car weight thousands of times" fled from present-day Shaanxi to the Jin Kingdom.

The first pontoon bridge connected by iron chain is the Tianjin Bridge built on Luoshui in Luoyang, Henan Province in the first year of Sui Daye, this bridge has been used until the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin also wrote a poem "temporarily low to meet the degree, but also high value waves, the water shakes the text and the crane moves, and the cable turns to the brocade flowers", to depict that when he crossed the pontoon bridge by the royal car, the crane figure painted on the bow of the boat and the brocade flowers on the cable, swaying and turbulent scene on the river waves.

The Song Dynasty also had its own large pontoon bridge, Taizu once quarried Shiji in Dangtu County, Anhui Province, erected a pontoon bridge across the Yangtze River, which became the water channel for the Song army to march into the south of the Yangtze River and destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty.

When the national power rose, a larger pontoon bridge was built on the Yellow River north of Tongguan near Puzhou.

The rope of the Puzhou pontoon bridge is tied with eight iron oxen, which stand on both banks, each weighing tens of thousands of catties.

Later, there was also a story of looking for an iron cow and a floating iron cow, and the great monk Huaibing was also recruited by Su You, and participated in the discussion and decision of the Yellow River North Flow.

Because of the ease and speed of erection, pontoon bridges are often used in the military, and their use is very prominent, so they are also called "battle bridges" today.

The construction of the pontoon bridge is exquisite, and the French style of the Yellow River pontoon bridge has long been included in the "Construction of the French Style" by Su Youming Li Jie.

In the hands of Su You and Shen Kuo, the pontoon bridge has been improved a lot.

At the front of the sixteen rafts, equipped with large cable reels with buck gears, connected to the giant anchorage, after the anchorage, the sergeants on the raft adjusted the length of the cable through the cable reel, and the raft could be adjusted to a straight line.

The rafts are connected by iron chains, and then the bridge deck is laid on the iron locks to form the main body of a pontoon bridge.

The pontoon bridge can flexibly adjust the length of the cable according to the rise and fall of the water surface, and the place where the bridge is on both ends is laid with the iron bar hook plate of the upper bridge, and the place where the pontoon bridge lap is fixed on the steel shaft, which can have a certain height change redundancy.

The bridge was designed first and then constructed, and was built and assembled using standard construction, allowing for quick and efficient construction.

The only difficulty is in the hooking of the iron cables.

However, this was not difficult for Su You, he directly used the ambush cannon, let the ambush cannonball with a thin rope, was cast on the other side of the river, and then used the thin rope to pull the thick rope, the thick rope to pull the thin rope, the thin rope to pull the thick rope, the thick rope to pull the iron chain, it didn't take long to complete the construction.

Anyway, they brought an army of more than 50,000 horses and thousands of chariots this time, some of which were capacity.

In order to prevent the frightened horses from crossing the bridge, Su You also recalled the kind of stone walls on the edge of the cliff that he saw when he walked the Lychee Road into Shaanxi, and used the board of the van car to build high wooden walls on both sides of the pontoon bridge, and nailed cloth to the insufficient places to block the horses' sight.

The entire bridge, under the scientific division of labor and labor of 6,000 people, was completed in only one day and one night!

In the early morning of the next day, war horses, military vehicles, thunderbolt artillery trucks, and ammunition and materials crossed the Yellow River in a steady stream and entered Jingzhou.

Gao Zunyu's mood is very urgent, the achievement of destroying the country is just around the corner, the pontoon bridge built by Su You and Shen Kuo allows him to be armed to the teeth again, and he has bought him five days!

Xin You, Su You and Shen Kuo led Dingbian, two old armies of Baoan and 20,000 troops to Jingzhou, Gao Zunyu immediately left 3,000 cadet soldiers to Su You, and led Cao Nan and Sun Neng to kill Xingzhou with the three armies of Ganyi, Dingguo, and Guanhe.

This is the most critical battle for Xia!

……

Bianjing, Military Aircraft Department, Zhao Ji was wearing a new army winter dress, sitting and waiting for the front to report.

Sun Gu accompanied Zhao Ji, and in order to relieve Zhao Ji's nervousness, he said: "The day before yesterday, the Liao State Yanjing stayed behind in Zhuozhou and I Xiongzhou Yun: Xia sent an envoy to say that the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty were nameless, and there was no accident. ”

Zhao Ji sneered: "They still have the energy to take care of this now?" ”

Sun Gu sighed: "Now the Liao country is in a hurry, Yelu Yixun since the pacification of the Chongyuan Rebellion, the power of the government and the opposition for 14 years, two prisons, the number of courts empty, now the Northern Dynasty is mostly its henchmen, the Liao Emperor cleaned up, it can be said that it hurts the muscles and bones." ”

"Zhixiong Prefecture Dou Shunqing is not easy to get along, reply to Yelu Shensi and Xiao Weixin, the lord of Daoxia was knighted by the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty had a border minister who was often imprisoned and humiliated by the mother party. Now that he has been defeated repeatedly, he has sent his treachery to reveal his feelings, and he must have noticed it. ”

"After receiving the text over there, it was quiet."