In the winter of December of the first year of Jianyan, the Jin State once again exerted all the strength of the whole country, and the troops were divided into two armies, and the momentum was violent, and the Kou Song Dynasty invaded the south in a big way.

The commander Wanyan Sticky Han was in charge of the East Road Army, starting from Yunzhong (now Datong, Shanxi), crossing the Taihang Mountain, crossing the river from Heyang (now Mengzhou, Henan), entering Henan, and approaching Kaifeng Mansion.

Deputy Marshal Wanyan Wushu was in charge of the Western Route Army, crossing the river in the southwest of Shanxi, passing through Tongzhou (now Dali, Shaanxi), breaking into the Guanzhong region, aiming directly at Bianliang City.

Although the large-scale dispatch of troops by the Jin State in the year before last and last year was not smooth sailing, it achieved remarkable results in the most successful years, especially in the Jingkang Revolution last year, which wiped out the old nest of the Song emperor.

The third time that the Jin State sent troops, in terms of numbers, food, grass, equipment, etc., was stronger than the previous two times. Therefore, Jin Bing's dispatch this time has only one goal - to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

Not only to take the Kaifeng Mansion Bianliang City, but also to take advantage of the victory to pursue, smash Nanjing Yingtianfu, and capture Gaozong Zhao Gou alive.

In the heart of the gold lord Wanyan Wu begging, the idea of unifying China for thousands of generations began to arise

Like the last two times to send troops to the Great Song Dynasty, Wanyan Wushu drew a good lot, and the distance was much shorter than Wanyan Stickyhan's Eastern Route Army, so he also had a short-term encounter with the Song soldiers earlier.

In the past, when the Jin soldiers met the Song army, most of them were under the cities of the Song people; Because in the open field of the wilderness, once the Song army heard the news of the Jin soldiers, they basically fled when they heard the news.

However, this time there was something special about the meeting between the two armies of Jin and Song. Neither in the periphery of the city. Nor in the open area of the countryside. Rather, it is on either side of a bridge over the Yellow River

During the Northern Song Dynasty, there were two famous bridges over the Yellow River. One is the Pujin Bridge built in the Tang Dynasty and mentioned in the story of building a boat to catch iron oxen in the Chinese textbook of the Celestial Dynasty Primary School; The other is the Junzhou Yellow River Bridge where the Song and Jin armies are now facing each other.

The Junzhou Yellow River Bridge was built in the fifth year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty, spanning the three mountains of Daling, Phoenix and Zijin, and the two state capitals of Junzhou and Huazhou.

The bridge is divided into two sections, Huizong Zhao Ji gave the name under the edict, the pontoon bridge of the section from Da Ling Mountain to Phoenix Mountain is called Tiancheng Bridge, which belongs to Junzhou; The pontoon bridge from Phoenix Mountain to Purple Mountain is called Rongguang Bridge (later changed to Shenggong Bridge). It belongs to the slippery state.

The Song Dynasty was the post-Yellow River period in the dredging period. At that time, due to the loose soil in Huazhou, the river embankment in this territory often burst, and some people proposed to open a river in Junzhou to divert the river.

As a result, the imperial court dispatched the people along the Yellow River to build projects, and the people were struggling to make a living. As stated in the "History of the Song Dynasty": "At the beginning of spring every year, there are several commotions, and often the loser goes bankrupt."

In November of the fourth year of Zhenghe, Meng Changling, the superintendent of water, proposed: "The river can be guided to a permanent pontoon bridge."

He proposed to divert water from the Yellow River. Make it pass through the Great Ling Mountain and the two small mountains in the northeast (Purple Mountain, Phoenix Mountain), so that it is divided into two streams. In the lower reaches of the two into one, so that the three mountains as the bridge piers, the construction of pontoon bridges, will "save dozens of hundreds of times, wide river Shuo road battle".

Song Ting was overjoyed, appointed Meng Changling as the capital water supervisor, collected hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the Yellow River, and built two pontoon bridges between the three mountains of Junzhou, Daling, Phoenix and Zijin.

In June, Song Huizong issued an edict in Hebei, Jingdong, and Jingxi Road, and rewarded the officials who had made meritorious contributions to the construction of bridges in the river. The edict said: "Dig the mountain and canal, follow the traces of the nine rivers, cross the toes for the beam, and become the work of everything forever...... There is no obstacle between people and people, and there is no difference between north and south......"

Another edict: "The pontoon bridge from Jushan to Da Ling Mountain belongs to Junzhou, and the name Tiancheng Bridge is given; The pontoon bridge from Jushan to Ruzi Mountain belongs to those who are in Huazhou, and is given the name of Rongguang Bridge. "Soon, the glory was changed to holy merit. In July of the same year, the name of the imperial bridge was carved on the cliff. And built the Ming Pavilion of the Sanshan Bridge, Prime Minister Cai Jing asked for instructions to name it "the Pavilion of Zhang Yu Jiwen", and the door is called "the door of Ming Gong"

However, these feats of guiding the river and building bridges are not the desired one-time results.

Although the diversion river has been opened, the water is still violent, and it often floods when it encounters a little pass in the mountain; In the territory of Junhua, countless people on both sides of the Yellow River drowned in the flood.

In November of the sixth year after the pontoon bridge was built, that is, in November of the third year of Xuanhe (1121), Tiancheng and Shenggong bridges were destroyed in the Yellow River. The following year, Meng Yang repaired and collected 157,800 people on both sides of the Yellow River.

According to the records of Jun County, Meng Changling and Cai Jing, who majored in pontoon bridges at that time, took the opportunity of building bridges to gather gold silk and enrich the royal family.

In the "History of the Song Dynasty", it is also recorded: Meng Changling, Meng Yang, and Meng Kui, father and son have successively held office for 20 years, accumulating evil like a mountain: "The work of setting up embankments in vain, the number of piles, exhausting the people's strength, accumulating gold and silk, and handing over the power to ...... The bridge of the big river, the boat is built every year, and the people of western Beijing are still afraid of their service. And Changling's first policy of building three mountains, returning to the trend of the big river, and taking the fee of the hundred-year-old pontoon bridge is only a few years old. Drifting creatures, without worrying about all things, near the auxiliary county, it is dilapidated and dilapidated".

Although Meng Changling's father and son were all executed by Emperor Gaozong in the end, the damage they caused to the common people and the losses to the entire Great Song Dynasty were irreparable.

As the saying goes: a glimpse of the whole leopard. It can be seen that the shame of Jingkang may have been an accidental event, but the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty was inevitable

The Junzhou Yellow River Bridge is the key point on the Yellow River, and it is the gateway to the north of the capital, so it is of great strategic significance. If you want to defend Bianliang City in Kaifeng Prefecture, you can only defend this Yellow River Bridge first.

In December of the seventh year of Xuanhe, when the Jin soldiers first went south into the Kou Song Dynasty and seized the Hedong Prefectures of Hebei, there was a station here where the Jin Song Dynasty seized the bridge.

On December 14, Wanyan Wushu, the commander of the Jin soldiers, ordered to cross the river and attack, directly approaching Bianjing.

When Song Ting heard the news, he was shocked. In order to strengthen the defense line of the Yellow River, he urgently sent Liang Fangping, an inner servant, to lead the palace guards to guard Liyangjin (the crossing of the Yellow River in Junzhou). In the same month, the Jindong Route Army captured Zhending and forced Junzhou. The Song Dynasty sent He Guan, the deputy envoy of Hebei Hedong, to lead 20,000 troops to Junzhou for reinforcements, and Liang Fangping held the Tiancheng and Shenggong two pontoon bridges on the Yellow River to resist the Jin soldiers.

On the second day of the first month of the first year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers marched south from Handan in two ways, all the way with Guo Yaoshi as the vanguard, leading the main force of 2,000 elite horsemen to gallop 300 miles and arrive in Junzhou. The other route was led by Yan Wushu, and after Ke Tangyin, he joined up with the pharmacist and attacked Junzhou.

At that time, the Jin soldiers were attacking very fiercely, and Liang Fangping led his troops to garrison the north bank of the Yellow River. The Jin army galloped all the way to the south and rushed to kill, and the Song army was no longer reunited. He Guan, who was stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, burned the pontoon bridge in a hurry, trying to block the Jin soldiers according to the natural danger.

"The iron car is empty driving the Liyang Stone, how can you realize that the monument has come to disaster", this Yellow River Bridge, which has cost a lot of manpower and material resources, is repaired from time to time, and has been built for ten years, so it was destroyed

Above the Yellow River, there are dead people, dead horses and pieces of broken trees floating sadly. At this time, north of Kaifeng, from Heyang (Mengxian) in the west to the hundreds of miles of the Yellow River moat in the east, there was no longer a Song Dynasty guard.

Subsequently, the Jin soldiers occupied Junzhou and crossed the river by boat. A boat can only accommodate a few people, and the golden soldiers will be crossed in five days. The cavalry marched with the crossing, pursued the routed army, and went straight to the Beijing division

It's funny to say that this Junzhou Yellow River Bridge is still repaired by Jin Guo.

The situation today is very similar to that of the past, and Wanyan Wushu has to cross this bridge again; The only difference was that this time, the opponent of the Yan Wushu was replaced by Yue Fei...... (To be continued......)

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