Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 493 Why Didn’t The General Set Fire?

At the same time that Song Jiang was proud of his horseshoe disease, on the bank of the Yellow River thousands of miles away, Xu Ning, the left deputy governor of the governor's mansion of the left army, had already led a troop into the Anli army [Junzhou].

That place is an important place, not weaker than Puyang.The area is larger than Bazhou, but smaller than Xiongzhou.The latter has one state city and three county seats, while the Anli Army has only one army city and one county seat.

Everyone probably doesn't know where the Anli Army is. The author doesn't check the map of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he doesn't know where the Anli Army is.

But to call out the name of its military city, many officials have a bottom line in their hearts.This place is Liyang.During the Battle of Guandu in the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shao stationed troops.

And after 900 years, why is there important?

As soon as Lu Qian came down to the Daming Mansion, Mingzhou and Xingzhou were not conquered, so he sent an army to attack here, so he had to talk about the two large pontoon bridges across the Yellow River here.

As we all know, ancient Chinese bridge-building technology was developed, and bridges were built on the Yellow River as early as the Tang Dynasty.The Pujin Bridge that appeared in the story of driving a boat to fish for iron cattle mentioned in the Chinese textbooks of later generations is one of them; the other is the Tiancheng Bridge built in the fifth year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Yellow River Bridge in Sanshan Mountain.It is divided into two sections. Huizong Zhao Ji issued an edict to give the name. The pontoon bridge from Dagu Mountain to Fenghuang Mountain is called Tiancheng Bridge, which belongs to the Anli Army; the pontoon bridge from Fenghuang Mountain to Zijin Mountain is called Rongguang Bridge (later changed to Shenggong Bridge). It belongs to Huazhou.

This is an amazing project.

Think about it, the pontoon bridge spans three mountains and lies like a rainbow on the surging Yellow River. Such a spectacular scene appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. How great were the ancients?
In November of the fourth year of Zhenghe (1114), when Lu Qian had just emerged, Meng Changling, the water superintendent, wrote a letter saying: "A permanent pontoon can be built to guide the Dagong River." He proposed to divert the Yellow River water and let it pass through Dagong Mountain. and the two hills in the northeast (Purple Mountain and Phoenix Mountain), dividing it into two branches, which merge into one downstream.Building a pontoon bridge using three mountains as piers will "save hundreds of times the cost and widen the traffic of rivers and roads."Zhao Ji was overjoyed when he heard the news and appointed Meng Changling as water supervisor. He recruited 10 people on both sides of the Yellow River to build two pontoon bridges between the Dagong, Fenghuang and Zijin mountains of Anlijun.

In June of the following year, Zhao Ji issued an edict to reward officials who had made great contributions to opening rivers and building bridges.The imperial edict said: "Dug the mountain and Liqu, follow the traces of the Jiuhe River, cross the toes of the beams, and become a merit that will last forever... There is no obstacle for people to come and go, and there is no difference between the north and the south..." It is also edicted: "Jiushan The pontoon bridge to Dagu Mountain belongs to the Anli Army, and it is named Tiancheng Bridge; the pontoon bridge from Jushan to Fenghuang Mountain belongs to Huazhou, and it is named Rongguang Bridge."

Although such feats of guiding rivers and building bridges did not achieve the desired effect once and for all.Although the diversion river was opened, the water flow was still turbulent, and the narrow pass of the mountain was often flooded. The people on both sides of the river still suffered from it, and countless people drowned in the flood.

Lu Qian also didn't know that Meng Changling and other chief officials took advantage of the opportunity of building the bridge to amass gold and silk, and all of them were richer than the royal family.The history books of later generations even criticize Meng Changling for accumulating evil like a mountain, exhausting people's resources, amassing gold and silk, and making friends with powerful officials... Drifting away life, careless, close to auxiliary counties, desolate and dilapidated.

He only knew that this pontoon bridge [named after Tiancheng Bridge later] must not be lost.What he was most afraid of was that the local government soldiers would burn down the pontoon bridge in a panic.

That would be really wasteful.

Although Huazhou is on the east side of Puzhou, below it is Tokyo City.It is really simple for the Liangshan Army to seize the land in Gyeonggi.It doesn't matter whether there is a natural bridge or not.But what Lu Qian is afraid of are those who are mentally ill, or those who are broken.It's not good to see others.What I can’t get, you can’t even imagine.

The benefits of this Tiancheng Bridge on both sides of the Yellow River are obvious.But it's easy to destroy him.

Turning the pages of history, the Yellow River is a gully that cannot be bypassed.For thousands of years, on every page, there are several piles of beacon fires burning, and several wisps of wolf smoke rising; on every page, there are several times of war horses neighing, and several times of fighting each other.Taking the Northern Song Dynasty as the dividing point, before that, wars were especially frequent and the battlefield was especially grand.

Geographical conditions, transportation capabilities, and human and material resources are the basic elements of military affairs, and the places where the Yellow River passes through have all the elements.The current Anli Army, geographically, is surrounded by mountains and rivers.The two mountains of Dagu and Fuqiu protrude on the flat ground, with a wide field of vision. The Yellow River and the Grand Canal [Yongji Canal] flow through the foot of the two mountains respectively. Occupying these two mountain tops hand in hand is like a big man holding the Yellow River in the east with one hand. With one hand, he strangled the neck of a duck on the Grand Canal to the west.

In ancient times, rivers, especially the Yellow River, were both offensive channels and natural defense barriers. In addition, there was a natural military fortress, Liyangguan (also known as Liyangjin, Baimajin), less than a glance southeast of Dagu Mountain.From the Zhou Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, it has always been a battleground for military strategists.The soldiers and horses are at the end of the movement, and the food and grass go first.Wars are fought for logistical support and for the supply of food and fodder.

However, the current battle is different from the wars in the past thousands of years.There are more than [-] Ding Yong soldiers in the Anli Army, but the soldiers have no fighting spirit and the generals have no fighting spirit. Xu Ning has led the troops to Fuqiu Mountain, and the Zhijun and others in the army city have not yet made up their minds.

They watched Liangshan army arrive under the city of Anli army, split into two, one side stayed outside the city to guard, and the other went straight to the Yellow River.

Of course there are Song soldiers guarding Tiancheng Bridge, and there are quite a few of them.After all, this is an important place for communication between the north and the south, and whether it is the Anli Army or Huazhou on the other side of the Yellow River, it is an important defensive area for the Song Army.Since the Liangshan Army withdrew from Tokyo City, although Zhao Ji had no intention of rebuilding the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, he did not do nothing at all.

Li Yi, the former magistrate of Xingren Prefecture who "recaptured" Tokyo at the first time, stayed behind in Tokyo, and Liu Yu, a left-behind pusher who escaped in the First World War in Tokyo, stayed behind in Nanjing.Organize soldiers and horses, rectify order, and rebuild government.

But what about the reality?But it is because those two places are really too pitted, and no one dares to enter.That's why Li Yi and Liu Yu got in touch. It's not cheap.

Huazhou is under the jurisdiction of the left-behind department in Tokyo, and the government there is naturally sound, but ever since the Liangshan army invaded Hebei, Li Yi hastily dispatched his most powerful general, Guan Dadao, to lead troops into the anti-skid state .

The military strength of that generation did not seem to be weak. The local government gathered local militiamen and state soldiers from Huazhou. In addition, Guan Sheng brought [-] soldiers and horses, and the total force was almost [-].So what about the quality of these people?
The current Huazhou and Tokyo are not the Taiyuan city that Wang Zhi defended in the official history. The latter was an important frontier defense area in the Song Dynasty.The Huazhou soldiers and horses are far less luxurious than the current Tokyo soldiers and horses.More importantly, they did not have a heart to resist Liang Shanjun.

To this day, Liangshan's soldier spirit is already a fact recognized by everyone in the world.As far as the Han land in the Central Plains is concerned, except for the Western Army's morale is not weak and the Liangshan Army, the soldiers and horses in other places, whether the gentry and the country are brave, are all rubbish.

Song Jun's heart is gone first, how can he fight with him calmly?

In the official history, when the Song and Song Dynasties communicated, the Song army made several incidents where the army collapsed at night and the army collapsed without a fight. How ridiculous is it that the soldiers raised by the state look like this?
The Jin soldiers rushed across the Yellow River to fight, and the 10,000+ river defense army was defeated without a fight. Liang Fangping ran south, and He Guan was defeated by the wind.There was no one to defend against the enemy on the south bank of the Yellow River, so Jin Shi went straight to the capital.It is said that Jin Bing crossed the river with looted private sampan boats. One boat can only carry a few people in one round, and it took five full days for Jin Bing to cross the river.

It is said that the commander-in-chief of the Jin Army himself did not believe that the progress would be so smooth.On the other side of the Yellow River, there are 2000 troops guarding, and the Jin soldiers can't easily cross the river, saying: This is the Southern Dynasty that fell from heaven!

The spirit and morale of that generation have been so low that it is unimaginable for future generations.

Think again about the end of the Ming Dynasty in the history books, and then look at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Sui Dynasty, the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.How can Lu Qian not hate the Neo Confucianism that originated in the Song Dynasty?

Guan Shengzi was different from Huazhou Wenwu, he heard that the Liangshan army had entered Liyang, so he led his troops to the bank of the Yellow River first, but what caught his eye was the scene of chaos and turmoil.

On the Tiancheng Bridge, countless soldiers of the Song army Ding Minzhuang crowded together, shoulder to shoulder, crowds gathered, each of them was desperately fleeing to the south.It was as if there were tens of thousands of hungry wolves chasing after them, causing these soldiers to die for their bravery, but they couldn't move, and their shouts were loud and loud.

"Aye..." a soldier beside Guan Sheng shouted.He had never seen what he saw before, and he was afraid that there would be more than a thousand people on the pontoon bridge.

Standing on the shore, they could see soldiers being squeezed off the bridge from time to time!But no one paid much attention to it, all the people were just pushing each other.If so, people are constantly being squeezed out of the bridge and falling into the waves of the Yellow River!
There was a lot of crying, cursing, and some people were even wailing, making it hard to believe that these were soldiers, not a group of weak women.

Guan Sheng blocked his troops at the south end of the bridge, and Xu Ning led a hundred horsemen to the north of the bridge.He has heard about this Tiancheng Bridge for a long time, but he has never seen it.

At this moment, holding up a telescope to take a closer look, it really is magnificent.The pontoon crosses the north and south of the Yellow River, and between the three mountains, it is not a straight line, but is solitary above the Yellow River. It is divided into two sections, with a total length of nearly [-] steps.

The distance from Dagu Mountain to Zijin Mountain is about [-] paces; the distance from Zijin Mountain to Fenghuang Mountain is about [-] paces.

There are fortifications such as city walls and fortifications built on the three mountains, which can be described as easy to defend but difficult to attack.But at this time, the defenders of the Song Battalion in Dagu Mountain had fled, and even the defenders of Zijin Mountain in the middle of the Yellow River were fleeing south in swarms.

Thinking of the good news sent by the Northern Songjiang Department, Xu Ning couldn't help sighing: "The Song Dynasty is immortal, and the laws of heaven cannot tolerate it."

"Captain, will Guan Sheng on the other side set fire to the pontoon bridge?" one person asked.

Hesitation also flashed across Xu Ning's face. Under such circumstances, if he were Guan Sheng, he would probably burn the pontoon.At least it's safe.

He didn't answer, but ordered someone to order follow-up soldiers and horses to speed up the march.Call another general, and go to the bridge to surrender with the flag.As for whether the pontoon bridge will be burned by Guan Sheng, it depends on the intelligence department's ability.

At this time, on the south bank, Guan Sheng had already ordered people to gather up the rout soldiers, but the other side selected a group of elite soldiers to rush against the current to Zijin Mountain.

"Why hasn't the general set fire to it? Burning it to the ground is the best solution." shouted an official in Huazhou.

Guan Dadao took a cold look, "The fire on the pontoon bridge is an act of angering the bandit army. The army either chooses a boat to cross the river, or asks Puzhou to kill a soldier who comes straight to Puzhou. How dare Huazhou resist it?" "

Guan Sheng was furious, and his words were reasonable, but the Huazhou official stopped him.He clamored to burn bridges, which was a strategy to preserve Huazhou, not to cause disasters for Huazhou.

Naturally, Guan Sheng still had something to say in his heart: "This bridge wasted millions of dollars, and the manpower and material resources are overwhelming. The people of dozens of prefectures and counties on both sides of the strait were exhausted. They burned it like this, just like the people in Liangshan. I feel it's a pity, why don't I know that the power of the people is exhausted when I close the sword?"

(End of this chapter)