Chapter 123 The Kaifeng Mansion is about to be flooded!
The Sanshan Floating Bridge is related to the three mountains. These three mountains are Jushan located in Liyang County, Anlijun, on the north bank of the Yellow River, Dali Mountain in the Yellow River channel, and Wenzi Mountain on the south bank of the Yellow River.
Originally, the Yellow River channel did not pass between the three mountains. Instead, in order to build this floating bridge and facilitate defense, artificial diversion was carried out, moving the Yellow River channel dozens of miles eastward, which led to the danger of the Sanshan floating bridge and the Sanshan Mountains!
The Yellow River channel between Jushan and Dayi Mountain is narrower, so no floating bridge is built, but a stone bridge that cannot be demolished is built. The Yellow River channel between Dayi Mountain and Wenzi Mountain is wider, so a "Yongshi pontoon bridge" is built, which is a floating bridge that floats on the water all year round and will not be demolished due to the rising water in summer.
In addition, Dali Mountain, located in the Yellow River channel, covers a large area. It is fifteen miles away and is also a very solid stone mountain that will not be washed away by the Yellow River water. Therefore, when the Song Dynasty built the Sanshan Floating Bridge, it used Dali Mountain as a natural fortress to operate, built city walls on the mountain, and stationed soldiers.
Jushan in Hebei and Wenzishan in Henan also built cities that were sufficient to defend for a long time based on the mountain.
When the Jin soldiers came south, the ropes of the floating bridge between Wenzi Mountain and Dayi Mountain were burned by the Song army stationed in Sanshan... However, this did not stop the Jin soldiers from crossing the river, and it was not difficult to repair the Sanshan floating bridge.
In addition to the stone bridge, floating bridge and Sanshan City Village, there is another dangerous place in the area of Sanshan floating bridge, which is the Wannian New Dike.
Most of the river sections in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are suspended on the ground, with the riverbed higher than the ground. The Sanshan Floating Bridge is no exception. Therefore, the biggest project to divert the Yellow River and build the Sanshan Floating Bridge is actually this ten-year-old new embankment that lasts more than 100 miles on both sides.
The embankment is made of rammed earth, and the flat ground rises several meters high and is more than ten meters thick, which is stronger than the city walls of Kaifeng Prefecture! Even when the Yellow River is frozen, the south bank of Wannian New Dike is also a natural danger - because the Yellow River is shallow in winter, the frozen river surface is very far from the top of Wannian Long Dike. If you carefully deploy defense on the Universal Long Dike, the Jin soldiers will not be so easy to break through.
Of course, they can break through from other places... The Yellow River is not the Yangtze River. Once it freezes, it will be too difficult to keep it!
And in today's summer, the Yellow River itself has become a super weapon that threatens Kaifeng Prefecture!
Once the universal new dike is dug out dozens of feet, the water of the Yellow River will rush towards Kaifeng Prefecture less than a hundred miles away with the pressure of Mount Tai!
For the Yellow River flood, a hundred miles are not far away! Just thirty or forty years ago, when Su Dongpo was in charge of Xuzhou, the Yellow River broke its mouth and the flood rushed to Xuzhou. The flood besieged the city for more than 50 days before retreating... How far is Xuzhou from the Yellow River? If this were replaced by Kaifeng Prefecture and was washed away by water, the Song Dynasty would probably have to move the capital in advance!
However, Kaifeng Prefecture is extremely important. The Song Dynasty court attaches great importance to the Yellow River embankment north of Kaifeng Prefecture, so it is difficult to break naturally. The breach of the river embankment usually occurs at the weakest places, so there is no need to wait for the embankment near Kaifeng Prefecture to be unable to withstand it, and it collapsed somewhere else.
But this time, the Yellow River universal new embankment is not facing natural power, but artificial excavation!
When the trembling Song Dynasty Dazai Zhang Bangchang was invited to the mountain village on the top of Wenzi Mountain, the Wannian Dike at the foot of Wenzi Mountain had become a huge construction site!
The people of Song State who were looted by the Jin people and the Alixi auxiliary soldiers of the Jin army were mixed together, and they were constantly transporting the soil from the dam of the Wannian Dike, only two or three miles away from Wenzi Mountain. Then, using this soil, a piece of soil was piled up at the bridgehead of the Sanshan floating bridge at the foot of Wenzi Mountain.
A group of large trucks loaded with goods were lined up in a long line, slowly passing through the Sanshan Floating Bridge and heading towards Liyang City on the north bank.
In addition, many real female soldiers also went to Wannian New Dike, each of them was bare-handed, shook their arms, and started to work hard in sweat. Their task was to lay defenses on Wannian New Dike, pile up daughter walls, erect wooden fences, and act like they were going to fight with their backs on the dam.
All this was not hidden from Zhang Bangchang's eyes. Not only did it not hide it from it, but he also sent a Yan Han man named Gao Qingyi to take Zhang Bangchang to visit and give him a live explanation.
"Taizai Zhang, your Song Dynasty official family is too unreliable. Before the marriage agreement was dry, more than 200,000 soldiers were sent to follow us. They were thinking about a half-cross when we crossed the Yellow River and hit our tails! The prince's husband was already angry, so he wanted to dig a new embankment of the Yellow River and flood the Kaifeng Prefecture!"
"This, this, this..." Zhang Bangchang was almost scared, but he had not forgotten to pretend to be pure and cried with tears in his nose, "I don't know, I really don't know, otherwise I won't come..."
The Han man named Gao Qingyi looked smart, but he was actually an honest man. After hearing Zhang Bangchang's argument, he believed him and comforted him, "Dazai Zhang, don't be afraid, the prince's husband also knows that you are a good person."
"Yes, yes, yes, I'm fine..."
"So he plans to let you go and tell Zhao Ji, and ask him to send the Song army who followed us to come up and fight a decisive battle, and fight a battle by the Yellow River!"
"No, I dare not, I dare not..." Zhang Bangchang was so happy when he heard that he could let go, but he still said, "I dare not."
"Don't dare anything?" Gao Qingyi smiled, "Dazai Zhang, go back quickly... Remember to make it clear to Zhao Ji that if he doesn't dare to fight, then once the ten thousand-year new dike is destroyed, Kaifeng Prefecture will be devastated!"
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Zhang Bangchang was really released. In the afternoon of the same day, he arrived at the Song army camp in Fucheng, the city of Fucheng, which was in Huazhou, more than 20 miles away from Fengqiu. Li Gang's army, who was advancing step by step, prepared to use this as a large base to launch a "rear-finishing battle" against the Jin soldiers entrenched in the Baima and Wenzi Mountain areas of Huazhou Prefecture City.
Li Gang, Zhong Shidao and others have all calculated it... They only attacked the tails of the Jin soldiers, took advantage of the "blocking effect" of the Sanshan floating bridge, and launched an attack after most of the Jin soldiers crossed the river.
In this way, the Jin soldiers who had already crossed the river were unable to support it for the time being, and most of the Jin soldiers who stayed on the south bank of the Yellow River would have no intention of fighting and just wanted to cross the river quickly. In this way, the Song army could easily win!
You don’t need to gain too much. If you can get three or five thousand yuan and then live on the south bank of the Yellow River, you can continue to bargain with the Great Jin Kingdom...
Just as Li Gang and Yuwen Xuzhong, the deputy envoy of the camp below, Tong Guan, the military commander of the military commander, Zong Shidao, and all the troops deployed Yao Gu, Liu Yanqing, Zong Shizhong, Fan Zhixu, Zhang Shen, Wang Si and others in the original Yicheng County yamen to discuss the decisive battle and deployment, Zhang Bangchang arrived.
Zhang Bangchang is the Dazai!
The official was even older than Li Gang and was the largest civil servant in the Song Dynasty. When he came to the city of Viagra, Li Gang and others would certainly have to greet him. Otherwise, if a person who was arrogant and arrogant would be charged, he would have to go to the ends of the world to see the vast ocean.
When he saw a devastated Dazai of the Song Dynasty, Li Gang, Tong Guan, Zong Shidao, Yao Gu, Liu Yanqing, Zong Shizhong, Fan Zhixu, Zhang Shen, Wang Si and others felt a slap in his heart... Zhang Bangchang was released, but King Kang had not come back. It seems that King Kang must have passed away!
Although this government official is good at giving birth to a son, it is not a good thing to die a son, right? Besides, everyone present bears certain responsibility for the death of King Kang.
So everyone showed a sad expression. Li Gang quickly stepped forward, with tears in his eyes, and asked, "Duke Taizai, has His Highness Kang died?"
Zhang Bangchang shook his head, "King Kang is fine, the Jin people don't plan to harm him... But this time Kaifeng Prefecture is in trouble, and the Song Dynasty is in trouble!"
"What's wrong?" Li Gang asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhang Bangchang shook his head and said, "You guys led more than 200,000 soldiers to follow the Jin people... The second prince of the Jin Kingdom is not stupid, and he still doesn't know what you want to do? He was already furious, so he wanted to dig a new dike in Wannian, flooding Kaifeng Prefecture! What should I do now? What should I do?"
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