Chapter 790: Crossing the River (1)
"In ancient times, everyone in the world knew what it was, but they didn't know why it was, and even more so that many people in the world did not think about it and sought innovation, so that for thousands of years, many things have been ignored and reasoned."
After seven years of farewell, Han Qian sat back in the Lianyuan Ming Hall in Liyang City again, and his heart was full of emotion, sitting in the garden, pointing to the beautiful water platform in the corner, and said to everyone,
"When Emperor Wei Ming, the world offered puppets, there were a hundred plays on it, Ma Jun used wood as a wheel, and drove it with a secret water flow under the stage, and the rotation was a hundred puppets on the stage, and the female puppets danced and played, beat the drum and blow the flute, and the wooden people jumped the blade and threw the sword, and the world called it a hundred ends. When I lived in Liyang, I also called the skilled craftsman to build this stage, the people and birds on the stage were all puppets, and the gears were hidden under the stage, moving with the impact of flowing water. Most people look at the bustle, but we can't just watch the bustle, and don't know that the hydraulic equipment built by the girder over the years is all due to this. Before the Han Dynasty, the world on the cloud 'Ai fire makes the chicken fly', many people from the ancient books read this sentence for the first time, do not know what it means, after the Han Gao temptation once said, 'take the chicken to its juice, burn the wormwood fire, in the empty egg, the wind because of the lift, fly', the actual truth, is to use the heat flow of the lamp to rise, so that the eggshell soars, Shu Han Dynasty, Zhuge Kongming followed its reason, made Kong Ming lantern, in order to transmit the signal. In the Han Dynasty, there was a master craftsman Ding who slowly built a nine-layer Boshan furnace, when the incense in the furnace was lit, the hot air rose, and the birds and beasts on the furnace moved around the mountains, which was called the 'cockroach lamp'. In fact, whether it is an Aizi lamp or a glass lamp, the principle is the same, it is driven by fire and wind, and it rotates and rises endlessly. Returning to the topic we talked about at the beginning, what is the essential difference between this and the water rushing into the impeller? The principle behind this, and how to express it with the number of techniques, has been unheard of by people who have really studied this point for thousands of years, and it cannot be said that it is a pity! ”
Han Qian returned to Huainan and lived in the Lianyuan of Liyang City, which had been away for several years, and did not rush to convene the generals to discuss the battle plan for crossing the Jiangnan expedition, but immediately summoned Chen Jitang and the teachers and students of Liyang Academy to discuss the new school.
Even though Han Qian has focused on promoting the development of Luoyang Comprehensive College in recent years, Liyang Comprehensive College has always been an important town for the development of new schools.
Many of the basic technological breakthroughs of Xinxue are made by Liyang Comprehensive College.
Han Qian went north to Chan to succeed the lord of the Great Liang State, Chen Jitang did not follow the north, and devoted his main energy to the development of Liyang Comprehensive College.
However, even so, when the first batch of meritorious generals were awarded at the beginning of the year ago, Han Qian also overrode public opinion and awarded Chen Jitang the title of Marquis of Wushou, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the development of new learning.
This discussion, which lasted from morning to dusk, can be said to be wonderful, Han Qian saw that the teachers and students of Liyang College were active, and he was also very pleased, and left the teachers and students to have a banquet in Lianyuan before sending them away.
Although with his prestige and status today, some orangutans have behaved, but he still has to use this attitude to encourage Xinxue to continue to develop and not fall into the quagmire of resting on his laurels.
After sending away dozens of teachers and students of Liyang Academy, Lianyuan was a little quieter, Li Zhihe, Gao Shao, Yang Qin, Kong Xirong, and Zhao Wuji had to discuss the plan of crossing the river overnight, Han Qian didn't need to worry about these trivial things, so he prepared some new tea, and brought Feng Yi, Wang Zhe, and Yin Peng over, and accompanied Chen Jitang and Wang Jun's father, Wang, who he had not summoned to Luoyang for several years
Wen Qian sat under the moon and drank tea.
Wang Wenqian has been sitting in Lianyuan all these years, and it was also Han Qian's imperial expedition to the south that Wang Wenqian temporarily moved over and vacated Lianyuan as Han Qian's station.
Han Qian personally held the pot, made tea for everyone, and asked Wang Wenqian:
"King Xin is arrogant, even at this time, he may not give in, right?"
"Yes, he would rather learn from Zhu Rang and set himself on fire than bow his knees to you, but it was Zhao Zhen who led the troops in Suiyang all these years, and his contact with Chuzhou is not close, so he can do some work." Wang Wenqian said.
At present, Daliang has gathered 1670,000 elite soldiers and horses, even if he swept the north and south of the river with a sharp army, it is not a problem, but Han Daoxun was the whole Chu Sheji back then, and he did not hesitate to be sentenced to death in violent punishment, but Wang Wenqian could understand Han Qian's thoughts at this time to reunify the world with more moderate and less violent means.
In the past few years, although Wang Wenqian has not asked about the world, the current situation also understands that the attitude of the Zheng family, Zhang Chao, Zhang Han and even Zhang Ji and Zhang Feng in the face of Liang Jun has long softened.
However, just like Cao Gan, Cao Zhe and Jing Qiongwen, even if they understood the general trend, they would never take the initiative to persuade Wang Yong, the lord of Shu, to surrender to the Liang army, the Zheng family, Zhang Chao, Zhang Han, Zhang Jiao, Zhang Feng and his son still wanted to set up the archway in order to leave a good reputation in the history.
Sometimes life and death are not the most important thing.
What's more, if they surrender, the clan will eventually be broken up because of the new political leaders; If he delayed surrendering at the last moment, it was impossible for Han Qian to anger his clan.
There are pros and cons to everything, Han Qian treated the generals and prisoners with generosity and mercy, which weakened the local forces on both sides of the Yangtze River and the Chu army's will to resist to a considerable extent, but some people are also just like this, and will decide to wait and see until the end before making a choice.
At this time, it depends on what means Han Qian can use to resolve such a deadlock in a less violent way.
"If Chuzhou doesn't care about it for now, I will send someone to Jinling tomorrow to spread the news, saying that in three days I will send warships to bombard Jinghaimen, and in six days the navy will also build a pontoon bridge to cross the river in quarrying rocks," Han Qian sipped tea and said, "If the Chu army finally chooses not to avoid our soldiers, then it will only be a bloody battle to the end, and the ownership of the world will be decided." Although my father could not bear to see the people of Jianghuai in exile in the war, if he were alive, he would not want to see the Jianghuai divide for a long time, and he would not want to see the soldiers and civilians of the two places struggle under the shadow of the war for a long time......"
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"Han Qian will send warships to bombard Jinghaimen in two days, so that the soldiers and civilians of Great Chu will avoid it, so as not to increase casualties?"
Tens of thousands of elites of the Liang army flocked south, and Jinling City suddenly fell into a panic of black clouds crushing the city, but the Liang army sent a war letter, not only picking out the time and place of the shelling of Jinling, ordering the Jinling army and people to avoid, but also indicating many ways to avoid shelling damage, so that the Jinling army and people could use it, which made the self-esteem of the Jinling generals more or less frustrated, and also inspired the will not to admit defeat.
Zhou Bingwu finally failed to return to his hometown as he wished, and his white hair still kept the dispatch of the Privy Council, and his spirit was not good on weekdays, but today he read the war book sent by Liang Jun in Chongwen Palace, and his beard trembled with excitement.
"Queen Mother, this Han Qian is also too deceitful, is it possible that I am a great Chu 300,000 male master, I am really afraid of him?" The thin young man became silent after the fiasco of fan chuanhe and did not dare to go against qingyang s will again but he was still young in the end he sat behind the imperial case at this moment and again
couldn't bear it anymore, and sent a protest cry almost like a low roar to Qingyang, "Although the child is not good, he must also call the subjects of Great Chu to know that their emperor is not a person who is afraid of death." The child wants to personally lead the guards and troops to guard the Jinghai Gate, and see how the warships of the Liang army destroy the Jinghai Gate! ”
"The defense of Jinghai Gate is still up to Shen Xiang, Zhou Hou, and Du Hou, what are you going to do to make trouble, Your Majesty?" Qingyang asked unquestioningly.
"Your Majesty, please relax, even if the old minister dies under the Jinghai Gate, he will never take half a step back, and he will never live up to the mighty imperial grace of His Majesty and the Queen Mother." Shen Yang stepped forward, knelt in front of the imperial case, and said in a loud voice.
"Shen Xiang is about to calm down, the mourning family can't afford this gift!" Qingyang stood up from behind the imperial case, stepped forward to hug Shen Yang, and was shocked to realize that this old man who was over seventy years old was already skinny, and the affairs of the court had almost exhausted his last energy.
Qingyang also understood in his heart that Shen Yang was a great Chu ruler, and he had to give a seat when he entered the palace to discuss matters, and he could do it with a slight salute, but he suddenly performed this big gift at this time, but he actually had the will to die.
She also looked at the generals in the hall blankly at this moment, and she didn't know who to stand up and persuade Shen Yang not to go to Jinghai Gate in person to block the shelling of the Liang warship.
"Shen Xiang, two days later, Your Majesty should come to Jingjiangmen to watch the battle to boost the morale of the generals, how can Your Majesty be without you and me?" Yang En's heart was also sad, but he knew in his heart that if Da Chu Sheji was destined to not be saved, Shen Yang's death under Jinghai would only add too much unnecessary anger to this final battle.
Others may be angry, or they may not be angry at Han Qian's rudeness and contempt, but he understands in his heart that Han Qian's move still wants to protect his father's name of loyalty, and wants to start an indispensable battle between Liang and Chu in a more gentle and decent way, and then give everyone a decent way to go down.
However, if Shen Yang was shelled and died under the Jinghai Gate, it would be able to make Lord Han bear the charge of killing the master, and it would also be possible to make the generals in Jinling City more or less inspire more will to resist, but if the Chu army was still so vulnerable in the end, what good would it do to use the lives of so many generals to fulfill their loyalty?
Did you think that Han Qian really wouldn't dare to step into Jinling City with blood on his hands?
Yang En stepped forward, stubbornly picked up Shen Yang, and made sure that it was time to drag him to watch the battle at Jingjiangmen.
"Your Majesty, the day after tomorrow, you will go to Jingjiangmen with Shen Xiang and Yang Hou to watch the battle, and you must not go beyond half a step to disturb the morale of the army." Qingyang stared at the young man sternly and said.
"The child obeys the mother's will." The boy said discouragedly.
Although Jinghai Gate is the north gate of the imperial city, it is also the closest city gate of Jinling City to the river bank.
However, Jinghai Gate is unusually strong and strong, and the urn city is 300 paces wide, and can garrison thousands of Jianrui to prevent the enemy from attacking.
And Jingjiang Gate is the north gate of the palace city, about 500 steps away from Jinghai Gate, stand on the Jingjiang Gate Tower, you can completely see the situation of the Jinghai Gate Guard.
Now, in addition to shelling Jinghaimen in two days, the Liang army also pointed out in the war book that five days later, there will be a naval army to cross the river, land at the quarry rock in the west of Jinling City, and then build a pontoon bridge in this place, which can be said to be the narrowest place along the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, for the main force of the Liang army to go directly south.
The ministers of the Great Chu in the Chongwen Palace, at this time, did not consider whether the Liang army's war book was fraudulent, and it seemed that they did not think that the war book passed by the Liang army today would be fraudulent, but was bent on how to arrange the troops in order to repel the Liang army's offensive according to Jinghaimen and Quarry Rock......