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Volume 1: Angelica meets Guihua Chapter 339: Building a bridge over water

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    After Marshal Xin's army captured Huichuan, their troops headed straight for Moutongfu, an important town in Dali.  access:.

    This Moutong Mansion is the last barrier to the north of the Dali capital. If the Moutong Mansion is lost, the Dali capital will face the Song Dynasty's conquest army.

    Because of this, Dali Prime Minister Gao Guanyinzheng had to come here to take charge, preparing to defend it to the death.

    Speaking of Moutong Mansion, Gao Zhenming has been running it for more than ten years.  Eighteen years ago, Gao Zhenming was appointed as the Prime Minister of Dali by Gao Guanyinzheng's father, Gao Guanyinlong. However, he had only served as Prime Minister for a few months before he was removed from the position by Aji, who was loyal to the former Prime Minister Gao Shouchang.  After coming down, Gao Shouchang resumed his position as prime minister.  However, two years later, Gao Guanyinlong's son Gao Guanyinmiao raised troops to oust Gao Shouchang, and Gao Guanyinmiao himself became the prime minister.

    Gao Zhenming finally got over his addiction to the Prime Minister, and thought about it. This Prime Minister was brought to power by his clan uncle Gao Guanyinlong. He had to be self-aware. If he was not strong enough, he might as well just stay in Moutong Mansion and run it wholeheartedly.  After taking good care of their own territory, their uncles Gao Guanyinlong and Gao Guanyinmiao and his son were kind to them. They reciprocated their kindness and of course supported Gao Guanyinmiao as Prime Minister.

    After Gao Guanyinmiao passed away three years ago, Gao Zhenming unequivocally supported Gao Guanyinmiao's younger brother Gao Guanyinzheng to succeed him as prime minister. Gao Guanyinzheng was also unambiguous, and his support in return for Gao Zhenming was extremely generous, even ridiculously generous.  Two years ago, Gao Zhenming passed away. Under the single-handed control of Gao Guanyinzheng, Gao Zhenming was posthumously named the Righteous, Weitian, Clever and Benevolent Emperor. Please take a look, Dali Kingdom's approach is a bit ridiculous, isn't it?  No wonder the newspapers of the Song Dynasty want to criticize the Dali Kingdom. It is really too unscrupulous, "unfaithful and unfilial", ignorant of etiquette, justice and integrity. In short, it is a mess.

    For the Gao family in Dali, they do not think this approach is too much, because in Dali, the unspoken rule for the past hundred years is that the Duan family will be the emperor and the Gao family will be the prime minister.  More than ninety years ago, Gao Shengtai, the wise ancestor of the Gao family, once replaced Duan as the emperor. His country was called "Dazhong". Well, that means Gao Shengtai became the king of "Greater China". However, Gao Shengtai became the king of "Greater China".  Tai's emperor only lasted for two years, and the throne was returned to the Duan family.  From then on, the Duan family has been the emperor and the Gao family has been the prime minister.

    The paragraph mentioned above clearly shows that it is the Gao family's own decision to decide whether a member of the Gao family will be the prime minister, and the emperor cannot decide.  It seems that the internal competition within the Gao family is very fierce, and they often have to resort to "campaigning by force." In the eyes of the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty, the political ecology of Dali was simply bizarre.

    Well, the past ten years have been relatively quiet. My elder brother Gao Guanyin has served as the prime minister for thirteen years, and his younger brother Gao Guanyin took over three years ago. In three years, this position has finally been secured, but unfortunately  , the Song Dynasty sent troops to invade at this time, and the Song Dynasty's offensive was unexpectedly fierce. In the blink of an eye, Jianchang Huichuan was lost.

    Gao Guanyin's government was so angry that he could no longer lose the government office, so Gao Guanyin mobilized reinforcements and sat in the city himself, preparing to defend the city tightly and thwart the Song army's attack.

    To defend Tongfu, it is natural to rely on strong natural resources to protect the Jinsha River. If the Song army wants to attack Tongfu, they must of course cross the Jinsha River.  However, all the ships in the Jinsha River were burned down by Gao Guanyinzheng's order. In addition, Gao Guanyinzheng also ordered that the walls be fortified and the country cleared. If this series of measures continued, Gao Xiangguo believed that the Song army would have a lot of trouble crossing the river, and maybe the Dali army would  We can also seize the opportunity to carry out a "half-crossing attack". Maybe we can repel the Song army, it is not known.

    On the morning of this day, a group of Dali scouts rode short Yunnan horses on a routine patrol along the Jinsha River. When they arrived at a section of the river with gentle water flow, they immediately discovered that something was wrong.

    What are you preparing to do on the other side?

    I saw a large group of people opposite were busy with something, hey!  Two of the monsters were emitting black smoke. Anyway, the scene on the opposite side was very big, and they were pinging, pinging and rumbling. This was too much noise.  However, what's the use of these Song soldiers making such a big fuss on the opposite side!  good!  You can be noisy if you like. If you can't cross the river, isn't it a waste of effort!  In the eyes of these Dali scouts, there is no boat, and it is meaningless no matter what they do on the other side of the river. It is obvious that there is not even half a boat on the river. Is it possible that the Song soldiers can fly over!

    When I think of flying, I heard that there is a magical magic ball in the Song Army that can bring people into the sky. But the superiors said that it is impossible for the army to cross the river with just that thing.

    So the scouts simply dismounted and climbed up a slope, preparing to see clearly the movements of the Song army on the opposite side so that they could reply to their superiors.

    However, this group of Dali scouts who were watching the excitement were immediately discovered by the Song soldiers on the opposite side. After a while, two black spots suddenly flew towards this side in the sky. In an instant, the two black spots came to their eyes and changed.  Became a handThick gray things, no no no!  It's not that the wrist is thick, it seems to be thicker than the ankle. When I wanted to tell how thick it was, the two things had already landed on the ground and exploded. Fortunately, the place where they landed and exploded was more than ten steps away, and only these guys were caught.  The scouts were scared to death, but not even a single one of them was hurt.

    But that was enough. A guy yelled: "Mother! The Song Dynasty's meteor bombs are amazing!" The Dali army did have "meteor cannons", so mortar shells were naturally understood as meteors.  It was bombed. It was said in the army that the "Meteor Bombs" of the Song Dynasty were all large and super large, and they were not a little bit more powerful than the small "Meteor Bombs" that Dali had tossed around. Therefore, naturally some of the scouts kept shouting that they were powerful.

    Seeing two more black spots flying over from the other side of the river, this group of scouts no longer wanted to watch the fun. They quickly climbed onto their horses one by one and fled in panic amid two explosions behind them.

    The Song Army on the east bank of the Jinsha River are basically engineers. At this time, they have assembled two sections of trusses on the flat ground behind them, and the engineer sergeants on the riverside have also driven piles and assembled a simple truss.  pontoon base.

    The engineers transported the two sections of truss to the river as a whole, and then installed the trusses on the thick hinges of the base. After installation, the traction ropes were hung on the trailer hooks of the two tractors, and the tractors drove back behind.  I saw that the two truss sections on the left and right that had been connected into one piece slowly stood up. After passing the highest point, they slowly fell into the river.  Under the control of the tractor's traction rope, the truss was slowly lowered and finally extended horizontally into the river.

    Then a team of engineers quickly erected steel pipes on the two hanging trusses. Well, they were the kind of steel pipes used to build scaffolding in later generations. After they were erected, another team of engineers quickly laid wooden boards on the steel pipes.  After a while, the first section of the pontoon bridge was built. Well, it looked like a simple dock cantilevered into the river.

    Next, engineers who specialize in installing truss piers came forward and began to raise the height of the truss piers piece by piece, similar to the standard sections of later tower cranes, like stacking logs.  It is small, that is, eighty centimeters long and forty centimeters square, and can be easily installed by two people.  Each time a section is installed, it sinks a section into the water. As long as it does not touch the river bed, continue to install a new section until it sinks deeply into the river bed and cannot sink any further.

    In this way, the first section of the pontoon is declared completed, and then the construction work of the first section is repeated.

    Yes, it is actually just a hybrid version of later tower crane design and scaffolding design, but don¡¯t tell me, it works quite well.  This design is mainly the contribution of Lin Lishi. When he produced fake and shoddy steel products, he also produced scaffolding steel pipes. With many years of experience in dealing with the construction industry, he could easily learn from the technologies of later generations of construction industry.  Come over.  Strictly speaking, this design has no technical content. It just uses a lot of bolts and nuts. Bolts and nuts are not cheap in this era, but the Song Dynasty was not short of money. One order was five sets. This expedition to Dali, the army was equipped with them.  Got two sets.

    When Wu Xi stepped on the pontoon bridge under construction, about half of its length had been built. It was already approaching noon. It seemed that the entire pontoon bridge should be completed by evening.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????OUT out of mind, the Dali Army's large group arrived across the river, and no matter how incompetent the general was, he knew that the Song Army must be prevented from erecting a pontoon bridge.

    The farther the pontoon extends forward, the closer it is to the range of the Dali army's arrows.

    However, when the soldiers of Dali swarmed forward and prepared to use clouds of feather arrows to prevent the Song soldiers from erecting the pontoon bridge, the damn "large meteor bombs" in the Song formation began to show their power. This time it was not two shots or two.  Instead of "shooting" from the ground, there were twelve shots at a time. The Dali soldiers were killed and wounded in the explosions one after another.  Even so, the Dali Army had no intention of retreating.  Of course, the Dali army had scruples at this time, so the formation had to spread out, and the arrows fired became sparse, so the threat to the bridge was naturally weakened.

    What made the Dali army despair was that the bridge-building engineers of the Song Dynasty were somehow able to add a roof to the pontoon bridge. Not long after, wooden boards were laid on the top. The wooden boards were still flame-retardant.  It was rockets 'shooting' on top, but it was of no use. As for the front of the construction, huge shields were erected there. The engineers were protected by shields in front of them and covered by roofs. It can be said that the Dali army's arrows were like rain.  It poses no threat to most engineers.

    Despite this, the engineers who installed the bridge piers still had to carry out their work with feathered arrows. From time to time, someone would be injured and had to be replaced. However, the protective power of Mao's enamel scale armor was really not to be boasted. The engineers basically 'shot' while holding feathered arrows.  You can insist on installing a bridge pier and settling it in place. After the work is completed, you may be slightly injured, and then replace it with fresh troops and continue working, seemingly at a slightly slower speed.Slow down, the pontoon bridge will be built correctly.

    When the pontoon bridge was about to approach the other side, the Song army concentrated almost all their artillery fire on the opposite side, leaving only a section in the middle. They were worried that the shells would fall on the hard-built pontoon bridge.

    Two hundred soldiers rushed up from the pontoon, each equipped with three rifles. As soon as the shields were withdrawn, almost instantly, 1,200 bullets were fired from the pontoon, and the Dali Army soldiers directly opposite suddenly fell.  The next blockbuster.

    There were only two thousand soldiers sent to organize the construction of the bridge. As a result, a burst of Song Dynasty guns and artillery fired, and almost one bridge was killed and injured at once. The battle was unwinnable, and the remaining Dali army finally collapsed and scrambled to escape.  .

    The pontoon bridge was quickly built on the other side, and then the army easily crossed the river, and Dali's defenders could no longer be seen.

    Wu Xi laughed, thinking that this method of building a bridge is really awesome!  snort!  Dali people have a wonderful idea!  It's really funny to think that the Jinsha River can stop the Song Dynasty's heavenly soldiers!  Hehe, our Song Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers have amazing technology and can still cross the river without a boat.  ¡ª¡ª32133dsuaahhh29606047¡ª¡ª>
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