At the same time that Song Jiang was proud, on the bank of the Yellow River thousands of miles away, Xu Ning, the left deputy governor of the Left Army Governor's Mansion, had already led a group of soldiers and horses into the Amway Army [Junzhou].

It is an important place there, and it is not weaker than Puyang. The area is larger than that of Bazhou, and smaller than that of Xiongzhou. The latter has one state city and three county seats, while the Amway Army has only one military city and one county seat.

Everyone may not know where the Amway Army is, the author does not check the map of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he does not know where the Amway Army is sacred.

But if you want to call out the name of its military city, many officials will have a bottom in their hearts. This place is Liyang. In the Battle of Guandu of the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shaotun was the place where his troops were stationed.

And 900 years later, why does it matter?

So much so that as soon as Lu Qian got off the Daimyo's Mansion, Weizhou and Xingzhou, he sent an army to attack here, so he couldn't help but talk about the two large pontoon bridges across the Yellow River here.

As we all know, ancient China developed bridge-building technology, and bridges were built over the Yellow River as early as the Tang Dynasty. The Pujin Bridge that appears in the story of driving a boat to catch an iron ox mentioned in the Chinese textbooks of primary schools in later generations is one of them; The other is the Tiancheng Bridge, which was built in the fifth year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty, a bridge over the Yellow River that spans the three mountains of Daling Mountain, Phoenix Mountain and Purple Mountain. It is divided into two sections, Huizong Zhao Ji gave the name under the edict, and the pontoon bridge of the section from Da Ling Mountain to Phoenix Mountain is called Tiancheng Bridge, which belongs to the Amli Army; The pontoon bridge from Phoenix Mountain to Purple Mountain is called Rongguang Bridge (later changed to Shenggong Bridge), which belongs to Huazhou.

It's a remarkable project.

Think about it, the pontoon bridge spans the three mountains, lying on the surging Yellow River like a rainbow, such a spectacular scene appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, how great was the ancients?

In November of the fourth year of Zhenghe (1114), when Lu Qian had just emerged, Meng Changling, the superintendent of the water, wrote a letter and said: "The river can be guided by a permanent pontoon bridge." He proposed that the water of the Yellow River be diverted through the Da Ling Mountain and the two small mountains in the northeast (Purple Mountain and Phoenix Mountain), so that it could be divided into two streams and merged into one downstream. The construction of the pontoon bridge with the three mountains as the bridge pier will "save dozens of hundreds of times the cost and widen the battle of the rivers and roads". Zhao Ji was overjoyed when he heard the news, appointed Meng Changling as the superintendent of water, recruited hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the Yellow River, and built two pontoon bridges between the three mountains of Anli Army, Phoenix, and Zijin.

In June of the following year, Zhao Ji issued an edict to reward officials who had made meritorious contributions to the construction of bridges over the river. The edict said: "Dig the mountain and the canal, follow the traces of the nine rivers, cross the toes for the beam, and become the work of eternal dependence...... People are no obstacle to coming and going, and there is no difference between the north and the south of the land......" and edicted: "The pontoon bridge from Jushan to Da Ling Mountain belongs to the Amway army, and the name is Tiancheng Bridge; The pontoon bridge from Jushan to Phoenix Mountain belongs to those who are in Huazhou, and is given the name Rongguang Bridge. ”

Although such feats of guiding the river and building bridges have not achieved the desired effect once and for all. Although the diversion river has been opened, the water is still turbulent, and the people on both sides of the river still suffer from it, and countless people drowned in the flood.

Lu Qian didn't know that Meng Changling and other chief officials took the opportunity of building the bridge to accumulate gold silk, and they were all richer than the royal family. In the history books of later generations, Meng Changling was criticized for accumulating evil like a mountain, exhausting the people's strength, accumulating gold and silk, and making friends with powerful people...... Drifting creatures, without any worries, near the auxiliary county, it is dilapidated and dilapidated.

He only knew that this pontoon bridge [later named after Tiancheng Bridge] must not be lost. What he was most afraid of was that the local government soldiers were in a panic and burned the pontoon bridge with a fire.

That's really a tyrannical thing.

Although this slippery state is on the east side of Puzhou, below it is the city of Tokyo. It was really simple for the Yangsan army to seize the land of Gyeonggi. Whether there is a bridge or not, it doesn't matter much. But what Lu Qian is afraid of are those psychopathic people, or broken cans. I can't see anyone else's good. What I can't get, you can't think of.

The benefits of this Tiancheng Bridge to both sides of the Yellow River are obvious. But if you want to destroy him, it's easy.

Turning the pages of history, the Yellow River is a gully that cannot be bypassed. Up and down for thousands of years, on every page, there are several piles of beacon fires burning, and several wisps of wolf smoke rising; On every page, there are a few neighing horses and a few battles. With the Northern Song Dynasty as the dividing point, before that, wars were particularly frequent and the battlefield was particularly magnificent.

Geographical conditions, transportation capacity, and human and material resources are the basic elements of military affairs, and the places where the Yellow River flows through all have all these elements. The current Amway Army, geographically, is surrounded by mountains and rivers. The Yellow River and the Grand Canal [Yongji Canal] flow at the foot of the two mountains respectively, occupying these two mountains hand in hand, which is equivalent to a big man strangling the chicken neck of the Yellow River in the east with one hand, and choking the duck neck of the Grand Canal in the west with one hand.

In ancient times, rivers, especially the Yellow River, were both a channel for attack and a natural barrier for defense, and in the southeast of Daling Mountain, there was a natural military fortress Liyang Pass (also known as Liyangjin, Baimajin). From the Zhou to the Song Dynasty, it has always been a battleground for soldiers. At the end of the soldiers, the grain and grass go first. The war is fought with logistical support and grain supply.

However, the current war is different from the great wars of the past few thousand years. There are more than 10,000 Ding Yong soldiers in the Amway army, but the soldiers have no fighting spirit and no fighting spirit, Xu Ning and his troops have arrived at Fuqiu Mountain, and the intellectuals and others in the military city have not yet made up their minds.

Seeing that the Liangshan army arrived under the city of the Amway army, it was divided into two, one way stayed outside the city to guard, and the other went straight to the Yellow River.

Of course, there are Song soldiers guarding the Tiancheng Bridge, and there are quite a few of them. After all, this is an important place to communicate between the north and the south, and whether it is the Amway army or Huazhou on the other side of the Yellow River, it is an important place for the Song army to defend. Since the withdrawal of the Liangshan Army from the city of Tokyo, although Zhao Ji has no intention of rebuilding the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, he has not done nothing.

Li Yi, the former governor of Xingren Prefecture, who was the first to raise troops to 'recover' Tokyo, stayed in Tokyo, and Liu Yu, the left-behind magistrate who escaped in the First Battle of Tokyo, stayed behind in Nanjing. Organize soldiers and horses, rectify order, and re-establish official rule.

But really? But it's because those two places are really too pitiful, and no one dares to enter. This is called Li Yi and Liu Yu, this is not cheap, cheap.

Huazhou is under the jurisdiction of the Tokyo Left-behind Division, and the government configuration there is naturally sound, but since the Liangshan Army invaded Hebei on a large scale, Li Yi hurriedly dispatched his first capable general, Guan Dadao, to lead troops into Anti-Slippery Prefecture.

The military strength of his generation does not seem to be weak, the local government has gathered the local township militia, as well as the state soldiers of Huazhou, and Guan Sheng has brought 3,000 soldiers and horses, and the total strength is nearly 10,000 people. What about the quality of these people?

The current Huazhou and Tokyo are not the Taiyuan cities that Wang Yu defended in the official history, the latter is the border defense of the Song Dynasty, and I don't know how many armor, swords, guns, arrows and crossbows are stored in the arsenal. This Huazhou soldiers and horses are far from being equipped with extensive armor and armor from the current Tokyo soldiers. What's more, they didn't have the heart to resist the Liangshan army at all.

Today, Liangshan Bingjing is a fact recognized by everyone in the world. As far as the Central Plains and Han are concerned, except for the Liangshan Army, which is not weak in the spirit of the Western Army, other places are good soldiers and horses, gentry and rural bravery, and they are all rubbish.

Song Jun's own heart was gone, how could he calmly fight with him?

In the official history, when the two Song Dynasty were communicating, the Song army made several things about the collapse of the army at night and the collapse of the army without a fight, and the soldiers raised by the country looked like this, how ridiculous?

The Jin soldiers rushed across the Yellow River to fight, hundreds of thousands of river defense troops collapsed without a fight, Liang Fangping ran south, and He Guan Wangfeng was defeated. There was no one on the south bank of the Yellow River to defend against the enemy, so the Jin division knocked directly on the capital. It is said that the Jin soldiers crossed the river by plundered folk sampan boats, and only a few people could be carried in a boat and a round, and it took five days to call the Jin soldiers to cross the river.

It is said that the commander of the Jin army himself did not believe that the progress would go so smoothly. On the other side of the Yellow River, there are one or two thousand men and horses to garrison, and the Jin soldiers can't easily cross the river, and said: This is the death of the Southern Dynasty!

The morale and morale of his generation have fallen to a situation that is unimaginable to future generations.

Thinking about the end of the Ming Dynasty in the history books, and then looking at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Sui Dynasty, the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were all the last years of the imperial dynasty, but they made judgments at a glance. How can you not make Lu Qian hate the science that originated in the Song Dynasty in his heart?

Guan Shengzi is different from Huazhou Wenwu, when he heard that the Liangshan army had troops in Liyang, he first led his troops to the bank of the Yellow River, but what caught his eyes was the chaotic scene of the current chaos.

On the Tiancheng Bridge, countless Song soldiers and soldiers crowded together, shoulder to shoulder, crowded, and all of them were desperately fleeing to the south. It was as if there were tens of thousands of hungry wolves behind him who were chasing after them, so that these soldiers were brave and undead, but they couldn't walk, and the shouts were loud and loud.

"Ah Ye......" Guan Sheng shouted a soldier beside him. He had never seen what he saw before, and he was afraid that there would be more than a thousand people on this pontoon bridge.

Standing on the shore, they could see the soldiers being squeezed off the bridge from time to time! But no one looked at it at all, and everyone was just pushing each other. In this way, people are constantly being squeezed out of the bridge and falling into the waves of the Yellow River!

The cries and curses were repeated, and some people were even crying, making people can't believe that this is the soldiers, not a group of weak girls.

Guan Sheng's troops were blocked at the south end of the bridge, and Xu Ning led a hundred and ten horse troops to the north of the bridge. He had heard of this Tiancheng Bridge for a long time, but he had never seen it.

At this moment, holding a clairvoyant mirror to take a closer look, it is indeed magnificent. The pontoon bridge crosses the north and south of the Yellow River, between the three mountains, not a straight one, but is a lonely form above the Yellow River, divided into two sections, with a total length of about nearly 400 steps.

From the Great Ling Mountain to the Purple Mountain, it is about 300 steps; The Purple Mountain is short from the Phoenix Mountain, about 100 steps.

The three mountains are built with fortifications such as walls and ramparts, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack. But at this time, the defenders of the Song camp in Daling Mountain had fled, and even the defenders of the Purple Mountain in the Yellow River were fleeing southward.

Thinking of the good news sent by the Song River Department in the north, Xu Ning couldn't help but sigh: "The Song family is immortal, and heaven is intolerable." ”

"Governor, will Guan Sheng on the other side set fire to the pontoon bridge?" One asked.

Xu Ning's face also flashed with hesitation, in this case, if he were Guan Sheng, most of them would burn the pontoon. At least safely.

He did not answer, but asked someone to give an order to follow the troops and horses and speed up the march. Then call a pro-general, and go to the bridge with the flag to surrender. As for whether the pontoon bridge will be burned by Guan Sheng, it depends on the ability of the Espionage Division.

At this time, on the south bank, Guan Sheng had already called people to collect the rout, but on the other side, he selected an elite army and rushed to the Purple Mountain against the current.

"Why didn't the general set the fire? Burning it to the ground is the best solution. An official of Huazhou shouted.

Guan Dadao glanced at it coldly, "Burning the pontoon bridge is a move to anger the thief army." Its army either chose a boat to cross the river, or asked Puzhou to kill a group of soldiers and horses, and dared to ask if Huazhou could resist? ”

Guan Sheng was furious, and his words were reasonable, but he made the officials of Nahua Prefecture pause. He shouted for the burning of the bridge, which was a policy to protect Huazhou, but not to cause trouble for Huazhou.

Naturally, Guan Sheng still didn't say a word in his heart: "This bridge has millions of dollars, and the manpower and material resources are incalculable, so that the people of dozens of states and counties on both sides of the strait have exhausted their strength, and they have burned it like this. ”