Wang Shichong walked in the camp of the Sui army, which was twenty miles away from the front line of Liaoshui, and five miles away from Yang Guang's splendid and magnificent imperial camp, since more than 500,000 Sui troops arrived at the designated camp on the west side of Liaoshui, the commander of each army thought about only one thing every day: how to fly across this damn Liao River and storm the Goguryeo army camp on the other side of the river!

A thin official dressed in a purple civil official robe and wearing a virtuous official on his head, he looked particularly dazzling among the sergeants in military uniform, and was loudly scolding the surrounding sergeants and craftsmen, pointing to the big logs on the ground and shouting something, Wang Shichong's heart moved, walked over, and there was still a distance of more than ten steps from this person, and he laughed and said: "Yuwen Shangshu, it turns out that you are here." ”

The purple-robed official turned his head, and was about to get angry, when he saw that it was Wang Shichong, he laughed: "Wang Shilang, oh, no, General Wang, how could it be you." You're not on duty in the imperial camp, how did you end up here? ”

This camp is a camp where the craftsmen and logistics of the Sui army gathered, and this purple-robed official is Yu Wenkai, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Shichong is also an old acquaintance for more than ten years, when Wang Shichong served as a shipbuilding envoy in Laizhou in the eighteenth year of the emperor, Yu Wenkai, who was dismissed for his crimes, worked with Wang Shichong, not only that, Wang Shichong's full garden was also designed by Yu Wenkai himself, and Yun Dingxing supervised the construction, and later Yu Wenkai turned over again because of the credit for building the palace, and the official went to the Ministry of Industry. But the connection with Wang Shichong has not been broken, and in Wang Shichong's business empire all over the country, there is also a part of Yu Wenkai.

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "The imperial camp has arrived last night, although Your Majesty is tired. But there is still no peace of mind about the war on the front. I heard that Goguryeo also sent a large army. According to the river, the Liao River thawed particularly early this year, and now if you want to cross the river, you can only force it to cross, so I was specially ordered to come over to see the situation on the front line. ”

When Wang Shichong said this, he looked at Yu Wenkai and sighed: "Yu Wen Shangshu, I just came from the river bank. The situation is indeed not optimistic, the Liao River is one hundred and fifty steps wide, and the water is deep and cold, in this weather, it is impossible to force the water to pass, and the Goguryeo army not only demolished the three bridges on the original river, but also burned all the ships on the entire Liao River, and now the camp where General Mai Tiezhu Mai is located is the narrowest section of the Liao River, and it is also the slowest current. The only place that can be forced, Goguryeo's elite soldiers. It's all about that. ”

When he said this, he pointed to the arrow towers in the high and densely packed Goguryeo camp in the distance, even if they were separated by nearly twenty miles, these arrow towers as high as several zhang were still clearly visible, and on the arrow towers, walking back and forth, the dense crowds were all archers with bows and arrows on their backs and quivers.

Wang Shichong shook his head, and a solemn look appeared on his face: "Yuwen Shangshu, I see that in your engineering battalion, you are now rushing to build ships and preparing to cross the river, but in my opinion, this plan is not feasible." ”

Yu Wenkai's face changed slightly, in the past few days, he has built more than 300 ferries, but the wood transported from the rear is often large and heavy, and it is the kind of heavy wood used to set up camp, not the kind of balsa wood suitable for shipbuilding, so this morning, I just took a small boat and tried to launch it, but it only loaded more than 20 people, and sank directly to the bottom of the water after half of the run, and even the boat led people to shoot hedgehogs to the Goguryeo archers on the opposite shore, so he was furious here, scolding these shipbuilding craftsmen and sergeants.

Yu Wenkai said: "But now there is no way to build a bridge, you can only rely on boats to force the crossing, could it be Wang Shilang, oh, no, it should be General Wang, do you have any better way?" ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "Yuwen Shangshu, I am not from an engineering background, and I don't have the mind of you as the world's first craftsman, you just talk nonsense, I just looked at the surface of the Liao River, there are still large pieces of floating ice, and the Goguryeo people on the opposite side are also on standby, and they can also launch rockets in case of emergency, you see in this case, if the boat is heavy, it will sink directly into the water, if the boat is light, it will damage these large pieces of ice floe, in addition to the boat to force the crossing, can you think of the way to the pontoon bridge?" ”

Yu Wenkai nodded again and again after hearing it at first, until he finally heard the word "pontoon", he smiled dumbly and waved his hand: "General Wang, your joke is a little too big, this pontoon bridge, haha, is impossible to build." ”

Wang Shichong smiled and said: "How is it impossible, I would like to hear about it!" ”

Yu Wenkai stroked his beard and said: "The pontoon bridge is to use many boats, arranged horizontally, from our side to the opposite bank, and then cover these boats with wooden planks, and then fix them with ropes or wooden stakes into the river on both sides to prevent these boats from being washed away by the water, so it is called a pontoon bridge." We can't even cross the normal boats on the other side of the river now, so how can we use the pontoon bridge?! ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "If it is not the boat that fixes the planks on the deck of the bridge, but the planks that stretch out, can this method still work?" ”

Yu Wenkai's face changed, and he said suspiciously: "General Wang, what do you mean by this?" If there are no boats underneath, how can the planks on the bridge deck be stabilized? ”

Wang Shichong put away his smile, and a cold expression appeared on his face: "There is no need for the entire section of the pontoon bridge to be erected and then laid with wooden planks, we can come in sections, the first section first put a dozen boats sideways and stretch forward for twenty steps, and then let the soldiers carry the pontoon boats in the next section, and then move forward, and stretch another twenty steps, and so on, while laying the boat, while nailing the wooden planks in the back to make the bridge deck, and the soldiers in front of them after dropping the boats and planks, let them jump into the water and drive piles in the water, so that they can cover the pontoon bridge and move forward?!" ”

Yu Wenkai slapped his thigh and shouted: "High, it's really high, in this way, there is no need to cross the river to attack, hahaha, Wang Shilang, you are really a genius!" ”

But he laughed twice, suddenly stopped, and shook his head: "No, General Wang, this still doesn't work, in this way, under normal conditions, you can naturally take the pontoon bridge to advance, but there are still Goguryeo troops on the opposite side, their bows and arrows are very powerful, I am afraid that our bridge-building soldiers will shoot them all to death before they reach half of the river, and this bridge can't be fixed, especially the people who drive piles in the water, that is the live target of others!" (To be continued......)