Chapter 224: The Ghost Gate

"Your Majesty's temple is related to the society, you must not be in danger!"

The prefect of Yiling hugged Yang Feng's leg and cried. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"He Zhifu, I'm not going to break through that ghost gate, why are you like this, what kind of system is this, don't hurry up!"

Yang Feng said with a smile and tears.

"Your Majesty, that's the ghost gate!"

He Zhifu continued to cry.

Well, Yang Feng wants to take his boat into the Three Gorges, and the Three Gorges at this time is not the Three Gorges after the Three Gorges Dam was repaired, or even the Three Gorges that dredged the channel before the repair......

That thing didn't do much.

The first pass on the big pearl stone beam of the Kongling beach in the forty-seventh year crashed and sank six stranded eleven ships, that is still the use of underwater propellers, that is still made of steel, as for the wooden boats that were smashed on it are countless, facing the waterway to me three big characters can be purely written by the boatmen with blood and tears, the boat must enter the gorge must put the bow of the ship straight to this more than 200 meters long boulder is crashing over, before hitting the last moment by the swirling current, in order to finally avoid the other reefs behind, It's like a suicide feeling of playing with a heartbeat.

And that's just one hurdle.

Further up, there are Qingtan and Drain Beach, which are also the same as the Ghost Gate, and the White Bone Pagoda near Qingtan is the symbol.

Continuing upstream, there is another natural danger, the river less than 100 meters wide bound by two almost steep cliffs, rolling eastward at a terrifying speed of 60,000 cubic meters per second at the highest time, the scenery on both sides is beautiful like a fairyland in the cycle of the four seasons, and there is a very beautiful name in this fairyland......

Piles of Ripples.

The pond is as big as a dog, and Qutang cannot be walked.

The pond is as big as an ox, and the pond cannot be left.

The pond is as big as a horse, and the pond cannot be lowered

The pond is as big as an elephant, and the pond cannot be climbed.

The river is as big as a dog, and the Qutang boat is unique.

A rock that constantly reincarnates between the big and small with the change of water level in the four seasons crosses the middle of the river, and then gives this fairyland a rather domineering name......

Kuimen.

And Yang Feng is going to personally lead his fleet to break through this ghost gate, it is no wonder that He Zhifu has such a performance, in case His Majesty the Emperor has an accident, this Ming Dynasty will be dangerous, but he still likes this Ming Dynasty very much.

However, he forgot that His Majesty the Emperor was another person.

"I am destined by heaven, how can I be the same as ordinary people!"

Yang Feng said with a straight face.

"Huh?!"

He Zhifu stopped crying.

That's right, he's a god, he's a god!

That's still a hairy one!

"Your Majesty, it's the minister who is abrupt."

He Zhifu hurriedly stood up and said in fear.

"You are also faithful."

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said, after speaking, he waved behind him, and said to Sun Sheng and the generals of the Fourth Army behind him: "Go, I will take you through this ghost gate today!" ”

Immediately after he boarded the boat, the boiler chimney immediately emitted billowing smoke, the huge paddle wheel rotated slowly, with the acceleration of the rotation speed of the hundreds of tons of flat-bottomed wooden ship left the Yiling wharf, sailed into the Yangtze River channel, and in the huge fleet behind it, the same inland river flat-bottomed boat chimneys spewed smoke, under the same paddle wheel drive, along the Yangtze River upstream, straight to the first ghost gate......

Kongling Beach.

Yang Feng said that it is not so simple to really go over, that place must be an experienced veteran to pass, but most of the captains in his fleet have not walked the Three Gorges, at this time Sichuan is sparsely populated, and it is not the main grain producing area and salt producing area in later generations, a large number of ships go up and down every year, at this time, how many ships can take this route a year for the hundreds of thousands of people in Sichuan? What's more, even if they have passed, they have no experience in driving a ship through, and no ship has passed through the Three Gorges so far! If he wanted to pass safely with the fleet, he would have to take a different approach.

"The biggest problem in this Kongling Beach is this stone!"

He said to a picture in his hand.

"Long live the Lord, it is true, it is this big bead stone beam that locks the Kongling Gorge, if there is no big bead stone beam, the other reefs behind are not to worry, the big bead stone beam turns the river into two streams, a chaotic stone cluster boat is absolutely unpassable, and finally can only be forced to go to the other one, and several other reefs make this extremely dangerous, once there is no big bead stone beam in the middle of the road to open, the rest of those are not to worry about. As for Qingtan, because of the heavy rain for several days, the river water has risen and the water level has increased, and the discharge beach is still relatively easy to pass. ”

An old man beside him said respectfully.

This is the guide that He Zhifu found for Emperor Yang, an old boatman who has been running the Three Gorges for decades, in fact, there is not only this one, almost every ship has a guide, but these guides don't know how to drive a ship at all, they haven't even seen a ship, so they can help him limited.

"Then I'll clean it up for you!"

Yang Feng slapped the paper and said.

Even if he went upstream, his fleet sailed from Yiling to Kongling Beach for only a few hours, and soon the number one natural danger on the Three Gorges appeared in front of him, but Yang Feng did not go straight through, but issued an order to dock, and the huge fleet immediately docked. The draft of these inland river flat-bottomed boats is only less than one meter, in fact, the appearance imitates the later Sichuan River gunboats, it can be said that it is very convenient to dock, this is mainly for the design of the Sichuan River navigation, after docking, the soldiers of the Fourth Army Military Headquarters and the two infantry brigades loaded on the ship disembarked and landed.

This time, just two brigades attacked Sichuan, and Yinren's men and horses didn't need too many troops.

At the same time, the royal airship that had been following him above him landed.

Yang Feng carried a rope on the airship, this rope was also connected to a small wooden boat below, and then the airship flew to the sky above the big bead stone, after adjusting the position, Emperor Yang directly slid down the rope from the airship, and still carried the rope on his body, and immediately began to pull the rope after getting on the big bead stone, or the small wooden boat, and soon the boat was dragged hard in the torrent, and when he was dragged to the edge of the big bead stone beam, Yang Feng directly dragged it to the boulder more than 200 meters long, and then took out a huge pickaxe from it.

This pickaxe is no ordinary material.

Yang Feng's plan is to blow up the boulder of Kongling Beach, but the amount of explosives needed to blow up such a large stone is also huge, and more importantly, this huge amount of explosives needs to be placed in the depths of the rock all the time, otherwise it will be more troublesome to blow up the big stone and make a reef, so it is necessary to dig a blasting hole.

It's a troublesome and time-consuming job, so it's better for him to go into battle himself, and this alloy steel pickaxe, which weighs more than two tons, is his tool.

In a dumbfounded gaze on the shore, Emperor Yang picked up the pickaxe, like a diligent miner standing on the top of the big pearl stone, and chiseled down with a pickaxe, with a loud bang in a spark splash, the rock was cut more than a meter deep in an instant, and the gravel hit him like a cannonball, and then was blocked by the golden dragon that protected the body, and when he planed down with the second pickaxe, he could already stand in the pit he had dug out, and after the third pickaxe went down, only the shoulders and head were exposed.

The boatmen and slender men on the shore came to their senses, and they were all so shocked that they all lay on the ground and worship the gods.

As for those Ming soldiers, they are not strange to see them one by one, compared to the majestic posture of His Majesty the Emperor carrying a cannon as a stick! That is, these dirt buns are rare and strange, the emperor is originally a fairy, he is not surprising that he is a person who planed the big bead stone beam, and it is just a joke in front of the emperor that any dangerous ghost gate. At this time, the Ming army had already completely worshiped Emperor Yang as a god, including the people also appeared in large numbers to worship his ancestral shrine, and even now the vast majority of soldiers have the sun and moon talisman of the white sun and yellow moon hanging around their necks, just like a cross hanging on the neck of a Christian, although Yang Feng did not deliberately create any religion, but in fact he has been gradually idolized as a god.

The two-ton pickaxe kept waving, and the solid rock was easily planed away like dirt, and then the airship transported over a dozen soldiers to clear the gouged gravel for Yang Feng.

The work progressed very quickly, less than half an hour later, a diameter of three meters, a depth of more than 20 meters of circular shafts appeared on the big bead beam, and then Yang Feng took great pains to dig out another nine on this boulder, with the first one as the center, a total of ten circular shafts have been four or five meters deep under the water of the river. Of course, this is only the first step, Yang Feng will not gouge off the big bead stone by himself little by little, this thing has to be fried, and then boxes of powerful antimony explosives were loaded onto a wooden ship, and Yang Feng directly dragged them to the big bead stone, and then they were filled into those shafts, and the ten shafts were filled with a total of four ships of 100 tons of explosives.

Yang Feng brought in more than 200 tons of explosives this time, all of which were modern goods purchased directly by Lin Qian, in order to solve the Three Gorges Channel.

"Will it be less?"

Yang Feng asked, looking at the explosives under his feet.

"Your Majesty, if this gunpowder is five to ten times more powerful than the gunpowder we use, what the minister is worried about is not whether it will not be able to blow up this stone, but whether the shock wave generated by the power of the explosion will cause the rocks on both sides to collapse."

said the commander of the military engineer battalion of the Fourth Army.

"Uh, then minus a little more?"

Yang Feng asked.

"It's best not to reduce, in case the explosion is not completely turned into a reef, it is still troublesome, the slope of the mountain here is absolutely fine, this side is a cliff, but the distance between it and the river is enough, even if there is a small collapse, it will not affect the channel."

The engineer battalion commander took a notebook and a pencil and calculated the data again.

"Okay, install the detonator, notify all the people and ships on the shore to evacuate, at least five miles back, and avoid the main channel, and a lot of debris will definitely be washed down later!"

Yang Feng said immediately. (To be continued.) )