Chapter 339: Building a Bridge in the Water
After Marshal Xin's army captured Huichuan, the troops pointed directly at the important town of Dali to seek the unification of the mansion. Visit wèn:.
This Moutong Mansion is the last barrier in the north of the capital of Dali, if the Moutong Mansion is lost, the capital of Dali will face the army of the Great Song Dynasty.
Because of this, Gao Guanyin, the prime minister of Dali, had to come here in person, ready to guard against it.
Speaking of Moutongfu, Gao Zhenming has been running it for more than ten years. Eighteen years ago, Gao Zhenming was supported by Gao Guanyinzheng's father, Gao Guanyinlong, as the Xiangguo of Dali, but he had only been in the Xiangguo for a few months, and he was pulled down from the position of Xiangguo by Ah Ji, who was loyal to Gao Shouchang, the former Xiangguo, and Gao Shouchang re-sat in the position of Xiangguo. However, two years later, Gao Guanyinlong's son Gao Guanyin Miao raised troops to oust Gao Shouchang from power, and Gao Guanyin Miao himself became the prime minister.
Gao Zhenming has finally passed a handful of Xiangguo addiction, and he also wants to open it, this Xiangguo was helped to power by his uncle Gao Guanyinlong, he has to be self-aware, or his own strength is not good, then simply stay in the Moutong Mansion and manage his own territory wholeheartedly, the clan uncle Gao Guanyin Long and Gao Guanyin Miao's father and son are good to themselves, and they repay the favor, of course, they must support Gao Guanyin Miao to be Xiangguo.
After Gao Guanyinmiao died three years ago, Gao Zhenming clearly supported Gao Guanyinmiao's younger brother Gao Guanyinzheng to succeed Xiangguo, Gao Guanyinzheng was not ambiguous, and the support of Gao Zhenming was also extremely rich, even a little outrageous. Two years ago, Gao Zhenming died, under the hand of Gao Guanyin's government, Gao Zhenming was called the righteous Emperor Weitian and Zhiren. It is no wonder that the newspapers of the Great Song Dynasty want to criticize Dali Guo, which is really too unsophisticated, "disloyal and unfilial", ignorant of etiquette, righteousness and shame, and is always a mess.
For the Gao family of Dali, they don't think this approach is excessive, because in Dali, the unspoken rule in the past hundred years is that the Duan family is the emperor and the Gao family is the Xiangguo. More than 90 years ago, Gao Shengtai, the wise ancestor of the Gao family, once replaced the Duan family as the emperor, and his country name was called "Dazhong", well, that is to say, Gao Shengtai became the king of "Great China", however, Gao Shengtai's emperor only served for two years and returned the throne to the Duan family. Since then, it has always been the Duan family as the emperor and the Gao family as the Xiangguo.
The paragraph mentioned above clearly shows that the people of the Gao family are the prime ministers, and it is the Gao family who decide by themselves, and the emperor cannot decide. And it seems that the internal competition of the Gao family can be described as very 'fierce', and many times they have to resort to the way of "armed election", which in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty monarchs, the political ecology of Dali is simply a strange flower.
Well, these ten years can be regarded as relatively stopping, the elder brother Gao Guanyin has been working for thirteen years, and the younger brother Gao Guanyin took over three years ago, and in three years, this position has finally been secured, but unfortunately, the Great Song Dynasty invaded at this time, and the fierceness of the Great Song Dynasty was unexpected, and in the blink of an eye, Jianchang Huichuan was lost.
Gao Guanyin's political anger was in a hurry, and the Moutong Mansion could no longer be lost, so Gao Guanyin mobilized reinforcements and sat in the city himself, preparing to defend it strictly and thwart the attack of the Song army.
To defend the Tongfu, it is natural to take advantage of the natural danger of the Jinsha River, and if the Song army wants to attack the Tongfu, of course, it has to cross the Jinsha River. However, all the ships on the Jinsha River were burned by Gao Guanyin's order, in addition, Gao Guanyin Zheng also ordered the wall to clear the wilderness, this series of measures to arrange, Gao Xiangguo believes that the Song army must have a lot of trouble crossing the river, maybe the Dali army can also seize the opportunity to carry out a "half-crossing attack", perhaps, this can repel the Song army, it is not known.
On the morning of that day, a group of scouts from Dali rode dwarf Yunnan horses and routinely patrolled along the Jinsha River, and when they reached a section of the river where the water was gentle, they found that something was wrong.
What are you doing on the other side!
I saw a large group of people on the other side who were busy with something, huh! There are two monsters among them, and there is black smoke, anyway, the scene on the opposite side is very big, and there is a rumbling ping-pong, which is too big. However, what is the use of these Song soldiers making such a big disturbance on the other side! Good! If you like to make a fuss, you can make a fuss, you can't cross the river, isn't it in vain! In the eyes of these Dali scouts, without a boat, it is meaningless to turn up on the other side of the river, obviously, there is no half a boat on the river, can Song Bing fly over!
When I thought of flying, I heard that there was a magical magic ball in the Song army, which could bring people to the sky, but the boss said that with that thing, it was impossible for the army to cross the river.
So these scouts simply dismounted and climbed up a dirt slope, ready to see the movements of the Song army on the opposite side, and then they could talk back to their superiors.
However, this group of Dali scouts who watched the excitement were immediately discovered by the Song soldiers on the opposite side, and after a while, suddenly two black dots in the sky flew towards this side, and in an instant, the two black dots came to the eyes, turning into a gray 'colored' thing with thick wrists, no, no, no! It's not a wrist thick, it seems to be thicker than a foot and neck, and when I want to tell how thick it is, the two things have already fallen to the ground and exploded, but fortunately, the place where the explosion landed was more than a dozen steps away, which only scared these scouts enough, but the people didn't even hurt one of the 'hairs'.
But that's enough, and one guy yells, "Mother! The Song people's meteor bullet is powerful! The "meteor bombs" in the Dali army have been purchased, so the mortar shells are also naturally understood as meteor bombs, and the "meteor bullets" of the Song people are all large and oversized, which is not a little more powerful than the small "meteor bullets" that Dali has been placed around, so there are naturally some people in the scouts who call out the power.
Seeing that two more black dots flew from the other side of the river, the scouts no longer had the heart to watch the excitement, and one by one they quickly climbed onto their horses, and fled with two explosions behind them.
The Song army on the east bank of the Jinsha River was actually basically sappers, and at this time, they had already assembled two sections of trusses on the flat ground behind them, and the sapper sergeants on the river side had also laid piles and assembled a simple pontoon base.
The sappers transported the two sections of trusses to the river as a whole, and then mounted the trusses on the thick hinges of the base, and after they were installed, the towropes were hung on the trailer hooks of the two tractors, and the tractors drove to the back, only to see the trusses that had been connected into one on the left and right were slowly erected, and after passing the highest point, they slowly poured into the river. Under the control of the tractor's towing rope, the truss is slowly lowered and finally extended horizontally into the river.
Then a team of sappers set up steel pipes on two trusses that stretched out, well, the kind of steel pipes that later generations used to build scaffolding, and after they were erected, another team of sappers quickly laid planks on the steel pipes, and in a short time, the first pontoon bridge was built, well, it looked like a simple wharf overhanging into the river.
In the next step, there are sappers who specialize in the installation of truss piers stepped forward and began to raise the truss piers like stacking blocks, paragraph by section, similar to the standard section of the tower crane in later generations, but this kind of truss pier is far smaller than the standard section of the tower crane in later generations, that is, 80 centimeters long and 40 centimeters square, and two people can easily install it. Each time a section is installed, it sinks a distance of one section into the water, and as long as it does not reach the river bed, a new section is installed until it is deeply rooted in the river bed, and it can no longer be pierced.
In this way, the first section of the pontoon bridge is completed, and then the construction work is repeated as in the first section.
Yes, in fact, it is just a 'mixed' version of the tower crane design and scaffolding design in later generations, but don't say it, this is 'quite 'very' effective. This design is mainly the contribution of Lin Lishi, who produced counterfeit and shoddy steel products, but did not produce scaffolding steel pipes, relying on years of experience in dealing with the construction industry, it is easy to borrow the technology of the later construction industry. Strictly speaking, this design does not have any technical content, but a large number of bolts and nuts are used, the price of bolts and nuts in this era is not cheap, but the Song Dynasty is not bad money, a single is five sets, this expedition to Dali, the army is equipped with two sets.
When Wu Xi stepped on the pontoon bridge under construction, the pontoon bridge had already been built about half of its length, and the time was close to noon, and it seemed that by the evening, the entire pontoon bridge should have been built.
In this regard, of course, the generals of Dali will not sit idly by, at this time the Dali army drove to the other side of the river, and no matter how incompetent the general is, he also knows that the Song army must be prevented from erecting a pontoon bridge.
The further the pontoon bridge extended, the more it was within the range of the Dali army's feather arrows.
However, when Dali's soldiers swarmed forward to cast a cloud of feather arrows to prevent the Song soldiers from erecting a pontoon bridge, the damned "big meteor bullet" in the Song Dynasty began to wield, this time it was not two shots, but a dozen is twelve, and the Dali soldiers were killed and wounded in the explosions one after another. Even so, the Dali army has no intention of retreating. Of course, the Dali army had scruples at this time, and the formation had to be dispersed, and the feather arrows 'shot' became sparse, and the threat to the bridge building was naturally weak.
And what makes the Dali army desperate is that the bridge sappers of the Great Song Dynasty don't know how, they can even add a top to the pontoon bridge, it didn't take long for the top to spread out the wooden planks, the wooden planks are still flame retardant, even if the rocket is 'shot' on it, it is useless, as for the front of the construction, the huge shield is erected there, the sappers have a shield in front of them, and there is a cover on it, so to speak, the feather arrows of the Dali army rain down on most of the sappers and do not pose the slightest threat.
Despite this, the sappers who installed the piers still had to work with feather arrows, and from time to time someone would be injured and replaced, but the protective power of Mao's enamel scale armor was really not blown, and the sappers could basically insist on installing a bridge pier and settling in place.
When the pontoon bridge was about to approach the opposite bank, the Song army concentrated almost all the artillery fire and bombarded the opposite side, leaving only the middle section, which was worried that the shells would fall on the hard-built pontoon bridge.
Two hundred soldiers also rushed up on the pontoon bridge, one of them was equipped with three rifles, and as soon as the shield was withdrawn, almost in an instant, 1,200 bullets were 'fired' on the pontoon bridge, and a large number of Dali soldiers on the opposite side suddenly fell.
There were only 2,000 soldiers sent to organize the bridge, but this burst of guns and cannons in the Great Song Dynasty rang out, and almost one bridge was killed and wounded at once, and the battle could not be fought, and the rest of the Dali army finally collapsed and fled for their lives.
The pontoon bridge was soon set up on the opposite bank, and then the army crossed the river easily, and the defenders of Dali could no longer be seen.
Wu Xi laughed, and said in his heart that such a bridge building method is really powerful! Hum! Dali people think beautifully! It's really funny to want to block the Great Song Heavenly Soldiers with the Jinsha River! Hehe, our big Song Tianbing, there is God Technology, and you can still cross the river without a boat-32133dsuaahhh29606047->