Chapter 150: Blood is rampant in the Nameless Continent

Ye Shen had already made up his mind to fight Luoyang. The decisive battle is not in Luoyang.

It's like Li Shimin fighting Luoyang, and the real decisive battle is in the Tiger Prison Pass.

Ye Shen also decided to match his fate with Fu Youde here. So first of all, we must take Guangwu Mountain.

It's just a tough battle, and it's never a simple thing. And Sheng Yong is not an ordinary general, before the war begins, there may be a fog, but after the two sides carry out operations, this fog will dissipate little by little.

Sheng Yong was not sure of Ye Shen's general attack direction at first. But just like that, Guangwu Mountain is also a key defense area. And after the fierce attack of the Northern Army on Guangwu Mountain. Sheng Yong naturally wouldn't be unaware of Ye Shen's thoughts.

As a result, Guangwu Mountain has been on the surface of the Yellow River near Guangwu Mountain. A fierce battle ensued.

Although there is no single day on the battlefield in the northwest, it is not without a little progress.

Just north of Guangwu Mountain, on a sandbar of the Yellow River.

The Northern Army is counting the bodies.

The bodies of the Northern Army themselves were packed in sacks and transported to the back, whether to burn into ashes or to the rear. That's the official position of this person.

If you are an officer, you can generally enjoy a coffin. Stop at a nearby temple and wait for your family to pick you up. If it was a soldier, it was generally burned. The burned ashes are also stored in a nearby temple.

After the war, they probably found a treasure here and buried the ashes here, along with the bones of unclaimed officers. Then a few hundred acres of land were allocated to the local monks for them to take care of.

This is actually an important business for ancient monks.

That's good enough. After all, the logistics line in the rear is being opened up little by little.

Dozens of miles of railway connecting Qinshui from the Weihe River have been opened. I also worked hard to transport several trains and carriages from Beijing. I even looked for coal mines in the local area, and there are coal mines in many places in the whole north, not to mention Huaiqing Mansion.

You must know that Huaiqing Mansion was an important source of coal for Kaifeng Province in the Song Dynasty.

In this way, after the logistics line is opened, many things can be much more tolerant, otherwise unless it is a general, the body cannot be kept. And where ordinary soldiers have ashes, this treatment is where they die, where they are buried, and it is not even easy to say the cemetery.

Just like the corpses of the southern army today, the northern army was directly thrown into the Yellow River one by one.

After all, this nameless sandbar is separated by the Yellow River, just over a mile from the north bank of the Yellow River, and artillery can hit it. And quite sturdy, capable of arranging artillery. As the forward position of the Southern Army.

Both the Southern and Northern armies exhausted their power in battle.

The soldiers of the Northern Army could only climb in small boats, bearing huge casualties, and rushed up the sandbar in waves. Fight to your heart's content. This time, it was still a hundred-man death squad that rushed up at night to create chaos. And the northern army from the upper reaches will put down the boats, go down the river, and even attack the sandbar from the south. That's when I took it down in one fell swoop.

This cannot be blamed for the unpreparedness of these people.

In fact, they had only considered boats from the north shore, because the sandbar was facing the mouth of the Qinshui River. Even the formation of this sandbar is likely to be the result of the dual action of Qinshui and the Yellow River.

In the upper reaches of the Yellow River, they did not have boats.

It's just that they don't know that this time, Ye Shen played a land boat. After all, the boat in the water was not large, and he simply dismantled it into parts. Let people use horse-drawn carts, and simply use manpower to drag them to the upper reaches of the Yellow River, so that there is this attack at the risk of death.

In fact, this is also an aspect of Beijing's industrial development.

It seems very simple to disassemble the ship into parts and then assemble it at its destination. But in fact, it was He Xi who unified weights and measures in Liaodong, and required the processing system to reduce tolerances. Otherwise, a lot of things, after such a disassembly and assembly, I don't know what it looks like.

This is also the reason why the ancient army did not use much of this method, but more to build tools on the spot.

In this way, this small sandbar can arrange hundreds of people, and the soldiers of the north and south who died in the battle can be buried on this sandbar

Hollowed out this sandbar.

However, a sandbar. The second step of the Northern Army began. That was to build a pontoon bridge to connect the sandbar with the north shore. It's not too hard to do.

But once it was built, the cannons were constantly placed on the sandbar.

After these heavy artillery were added to the battlefield, the biggest advantage was that the artillery of the Northern Army could bombard the foot of Guangwu Mountain.

The artillery arranged on Guangwu Mountain naturally has a long firing range from a high position. It can even hit a sandbar. However, the artillery of the Northern Army can be near the foot of Guangwu Mountain, and the biggest advantage is that it is difficult to maintain the southern military fortifications that were originally at the foot of Guangwu Mountain.

In other words, the landing of the northern army on the south bank is no longer a big problem.

The big question is whether it will be possible to seize a beachhead on the south bank. Then you can attack Guangwu Mountain.

The offensive and defensive battle of Guangwu Mountain seems to have come to the second stage.

It's just that Sheng Yong soon returned the color.

Sheng Yong remained silent, just bombarded the sandbar with artillery every day. It's just that the soil quality of the sandbar determines that the solid shells are not very powerful. After all, if you can't form a ricochet, a cannonball will fall down and sink directly into the sand.

As long as you're not unlucky enough to get straight out of a big hole, it's not too much of a problem.

After the construction of the pontoon bridge connecting the sandbar to the north bank.

Sheng Yong also sent a death squad.

Dozens of fireboats, directly pounced on the pontoon.

The pontoon bridge burned into several sections overnight. Countless boats were scattered on the Yellow River and washed downstream by the Yellow River's waters.

After all, pontoons are easy to build. All it takes is a few hemp ropes to connect the boats. But it's also easy to burn.

However, such a situation is not a big deal for the Northern Army.

Almost a few days later, a new pontoon bridge appeared on the Yellow River, first of all, with iron chains, not chains, but more than a dozen iron chains. The kind of iron chain that lasts for miles. On the sandbar, piers were made of cement with the north bank, locking the chains. Form an iron lock bridge.

In order to strengthen the load-bearing, many ship piers were used. This made it possible to pass through the cannons.

But these ships are not important.

As long as these dozen iron locks are in place, these ships can be changed at any time.

Such an operation surprised Sheng Yong.

For a while, I couldn't even believe it.

That feeling is similar to the feeling of the volunteers facing the U.S. military airlift bridge at the Watergate Bridge.

Iron cables, which are several miles long, were difficult to process in ancient times. The famous Lugou Bridge is an iron-locked bridge, which is the power of a place, and many people can only make it after exhausting their family property. Nowadays, a lot of historical materials can be found.

At the beginning, Soochow took an important measure for upstream defense was to block the river and iron cable.

In fact, it is not much different from today's iron cables.

Such a project consumes too much manpower and material resources. In Sheng Yong's heart, he actually knew that the pontoon bridge would be burned. The Northern Army was easily rebuilt. It was even decided to fight a battle on a sandbank.

Without him, Sheng Yong's mind is very simple, that is, to drag the other party.

Don't seek victory. And the sandbar is such a tragic fight. But the battlefield is small. At most, more than 1,000 people will be put into battle, and more troops will not be able to be placed. Such casualties are bearable for Sheng Yong.

It's just that he never expected that such a result would occur in just a few days.

As soon as this iron lock bridge came out. It was impossible to cut off the connection between the sandbar and the north shore by ordinary fire attacks, and the ships that were used as bridge piers were burned. But as long as both sides are tightened and planks are laid, you can make a direct contact, and the whole project does not take a day.

After all, it is not impossible to make a chain bridge when the ships are placed underneath. If it is a chain bridge, it cannot transport cannons or heavy carriages. If the soldiers are supportive, there will be no problem at all.

The existence of such a bridge. It is impossible for the sandbar to be taken away.

Sheng Yong didn't know how far Daming's steel industry had reached. He used his impression of the level of Daming Iron and Steel Industry

Judging the current situation, these iron locks needed to be manually hammered out one by one, which was naturally very slow. Not even a year and a half. In fact, Ye Shen is not too clear. After all, he leads troops to fight all year round and will not pay attention to these.

But he has a staff officer.