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Volume 2 Chapter 853 Cage (Part 1)

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    The cold rain outside became heavier and heavier, floating on people's bodies. It seemed that the cold air was getting wet and penetrated into the flesh. Duan Tianshui had no choice but to order the river worker to stop.  It is impossible to start this river construction from the upstream, it must start from the downstream. However, because there are many tributaries along the way, the small tributaries will be closed directly first, but the large tributaries will not work, so starting from the downstream, excavation is carried out in sections.  After digging, a gap was made in the protective embankment deliberately left on the periphery with the help of low tide. Then, with the help of high tide, the remaining protective embankment was continuously washed away, and the soil was carried to the sea with the tide.  In three or four years it will no longer hinder navigation.  But it¡¯s not that simple. First of all, its scale has nothing to do with navigation. Now the largest sea-going ship can reach the sky with a weight of 2,000 tons. Wang Judu is ambitious to develop larger sea-going ships, but the effect is always unsatisfactory.  Therefore, the requirements for the width and depth of this canal are not so strict. At most, some thought must be put into the construction of the wharf. The main thing is to share water conservancy. The local water flow in Huating is very amazing. Moreover, it also has to share the Taihu Lake water system and the water conservancy.  The river tide is bigger, so it has to be wide and deep enough.  However, the larger the scale, the higher the cost, so the first level is to control this scale.  The second is the tributaries. The southeastern water system is different from the northern water system. It often looks like a small river or even a small ditch with a very small width. The depth can reach more than ten meters, and ships of hundreds of tons can sail!  It turns out that all the tributaries either merge into the Wusong River, and those tributaries don¡¯t need to be controlled because they are all on the west side of the canal.  The various tributaries of the canal merge eastward into the sea. The completion of sections of the canal and the opening of the canals also mean that the flow directions of these tributary water systems have been completely changed.  Part of the tributaries in Pudong continue to flow into the sea, but some of the tributaries in Puxi will inevitably flow into this canal. At the same time, they will be affected by the river tide, and in the future they will also be affected by floods from Taihu Lake. So the hydrology of each tributary  Characteristics are almost completely changed.  So it had to be inspected, dredged again, and some related steep gates had to be built. In order not to make any mistakes, Duan Tianshui came to Huating for more than seven months. He spent almost all of his time on river construction. He didn't even visit several streets in Huating County.  clear.  Although there were some minor troubles in the process, they were not major mistakes.  Duan Tianshui was wearing a raincoat and looking around. The cold rain had soaked many migrant workers, so he had to send someone to make ginger soup and give it to the workers to drink to get rid of the cold.  In short, because he was a subordinate and was responsible for such a large project, he was very careful in his work, so as not to worry about problems and being found out, but he betrayed Cai Que's trust.  Along the way, many people greeted him warmly.  Some people once used subordinate officials who were often harsh in power and opposed Cai Que's appointment of Zhang and Duan.  But you have to look at it, just like the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties mostly used imperial examinations to record officials, but the majority of officials were unsatisfactory.  Duan Tianshui worked on the river day and night, almost rivaling the legendary Dayu in flood control, and he ate and slept with the common people. Not to mention the second-in-command in a large county, even a small town mayor could not do this.  Therefore, Duan Tianshui was deeply loved by these migrant workers.  However, compared with officials who were born as orthodox scholar-bureaucrats or officials who came from a good family background, Duan Tianshui was ultimately less reserved. To put it nicely, he was less official.  There were so many migrant workers working on the construction, and the government recruited people to do the work by recruiting workers or exchanging fields for workers, so the migrant workers had some money in their hands, so many small businessmen and hawkers came to both sides of the river.  Including some low-class prostitutes or entertainers.  There was a large group of people gathered in front of them, and Duan Tianshui squeezed through. He saw a rapper sitting in the tea shed in the middle, talking about the Northwest War.  The Song Dynasty was weak. How could we not be inspired by the great victories in the northwest?  The paragraph that Mr. Rap ??is talking about is about the battle between Song and Liao. Xixia no longer exists, and the Song Dynasty's "conquer" object has been replaced by the strongest country, Liao.  So Duan Tianshui also stopped and huddled with these people to listen to this gentleman's rap.  The subordinates next to him couldn't help but smile bitterly. Our bosses are so interesting.  But even this subordinate was also fascinated by it.  We Tela made up his mind and began to urgently mobilize the three armies. After all, Xingzhou City could not afford to delay.  Such a huge mobilization of troops was quickly learned by Wang and Zhang. The two communicated and negotiated back and forth with fast horses, and finally formulated a very strange strategy.  At the same time, Wang Ju detached many cavalry and sneaked back to Qingzhou. From Qingzhou, he sneaked into the front line, and supplies were also transferred to the north.  Soon the court received the news, and of course, there was a huge quarrel.  The three armies of the Liao army crossed the Yellow River and fought towards Xiazhou.  The Song army was in emergency at QilipingA military village was built, which was originally a township in the northern suburbs of Xiazhou. Now the water and soil in this area have not completely deteriorated, and there is a tributary of the Wuding River for irrigation, so it has become a valuable agricultural area in Xixia.  To the north is Huangyangping. Although there are no rivers, the ground is humid. At least for Nanhetao, it is a rich pasture.  The overall terrain of Huangyangping was flat, there was no danger to rely on, and time was short, so the Song Army gave up directly.  The reason why the military stronghold was built here was to prevent the Liao army from successfully obtaining water sources.  The number of troops mobilized by the Liao State this time was quite large, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, but they were not entirely soldiers, but also included servants and civilians.  Think about it, so many soldiers and horses marched from Heqing Army to Qiliping, and there was a large desert in the middle. The weather was hot, and all the water was drunk.  Moreover, everything from Xiazhou to Youzhou has been severely destroyed by the Song army. The Xixia people themselves have no food to eat, and it is impossible to supply the Liao army with food and grass, so the Liao army has to bring a large amount of food and grass.  In this way, the marching speed became even slower. The exhausted Liao army arrived and saw that the Song army was guarding the water source. They all became jealous. The three armies tried their best, but the Song army was defeated and fled.  The Liao army once again approached Xiazhou City.  There are two advantages. The Xixia people in the city support the Liao Kingdom, and at the same time, the Xiazhou city wall is in dilapidated condition.  However, the problem is that even if the people in the city support the Liao army, do they dare to take up arms and cooperate with the Liao army inside and outside?  Moreover, the people who prevented fortune-telling were even poorer. Before the handover with the Song Dynasty, the city had been looted, including the ironware in people's homes. There was really a shortage of iron on the prairie.  Now many poor people are still looking to the Song Dynasty for relief.  Although the city wall was in dilapidated condition, it was still a city wall. After the Liao army crossed the Yellow River, the Song army began to urgently repair the city wall. They also built fences in places where there was really no time, and the offensive and defensive battles began.  But there is time.  Wutela was also seizing this time, and even thought that it was normal for the Song army in the city to resist. If they did not resist, it would be abnormal for the Liao army to easily capture Xiazhou City.  So he divided his troops and went to Hongzhou City and Youzhou City to take over the two cities. He had to prevent the Song army from taking the two cities before him. In that case, they would not be able to pose a threat to the Song Dynasty border in time.  Both sides believed that time was gained. The Song army gained time in order to smoothly arrange their troops and supplies. The Liao army gained time in order to occupy the three states before the Song army could react. Moreover, Wutela thought that time was gained.  He has enough troops in his hands.  There are indeed a lot of them, almost the same as when Xiao Yanyan went south.  But if you pay attention to the war history during the Northern Song Dynasty, you will find an interesting phenomenon, that is, the scale of the Three Kingdoms War is getting larger and larger.  First, there was the Northern Song Dynasty. Song Taizong launched two Northern Expeditions, each one larger than the last. The second Northern Expedition used 300,000 soldiers and civilians, and then returned in disastrous defeat.  Subsequently, the Song Dynasty used fewer and fewer troops, especially during the reign of Song Renzong. Even if Dingchuan Village was defeated, there were only tens of thousands of troops.  When the Zhao Xu Dynasty began to rise, Guo Kui went south and mobilized 300,000 soldiers and civilians. No matter how to explain it, Guo Kui did make serious mistakes in this battle.  Then the five-pronged expedition to Xia reached 500,000 troops!  Since the Chanyuan Alliance, the Liao Kingdom has not fought with the Song Dynasty. However, when it attacked Goryeo and later Ping Jurchen, its troops were astonishingly large, 500,000 and 700,000!  This result was caused by the fact that the Song and Liao Dynasties had been established for a long time and the population increased, so they were able to obtain sufficient sources of troops.  Just like in the early Song Dynasty, there were only 3 million households, so the country only had 300,000 troops, 100,000 side troops, and 100,000 forbidden troops. If it is like now, with more than 1 million soldiers of various types and civilians in the rear,  Not to mention that they can no longer feed themselves, and the people can no longer farm and produce.  But there was one country that was very strange, and that was Xixia. Li Yuanhao was so nervous. First it was Tubo, then the Song Dynasty, and then the Liao Kingdom. Each time they mobilized no more than 100,000 troops. However, later on, they would only start with 100,000 troops.  From time to time, a 300,000 yuan comes!  In history, it is also a miracle that Xixia has persisted for such a long time.  So having hundreds of thousands of troops is really not unusual now.  Moreover, the nature of the hundreds of thousands of Liao soldiers this time is different from that of Xiao Yanyan. Xiao Yanyan also had many semi-militia troops, but these semi-militiamen themselves also had a certain degree of combat effectiveness and were not very powerful.  The civilian men who accompanied the army for the first time were real common people, and they were not as good as those on the front line in Wang Ju's hands.  This is irrelevant. In fact, this is almost the greatest ability of the Liao State. No matter how many troops there are, and if they are as far away as Hetao, the finances of the Liao State will really be overwhelmed.  The most critical thing is that the Liao army sent troops too late.  "If so many Liao soldiers came westward in a month or two in the morning, the Song Dynasty would not dare to divide its troops so easily, and it would also arouse the Xia army's stronger confidence in resistance, thenEvery time the Song Army advances forward, it will be very difficult, and the coalition forces of the two countries will find loopholes at any time, causing the Song Army to return without success.  ¡°Otara also made a fatal mistake, or he made this fatal mistake unintentionally.  Wang Ju successively asked Zhong Shidao and Liu Changzuo's troops to return to Shaanxi Road, and mobilized some cavalry from the middle and right routes to sneak towards Yanzhou, Qingzhou. However, these three troops still turned back from Lingwu Avenue.  But it was not Wang Ju's intention to do this at first, but the terrain forced him to do so. From the other side of the Jingzhou River in Xixia, along the ancient Great Wall, there was also a road, and it was a shortcut, directly to Yanzhou.  However, this road is seriously lacking in water resources. There is a river called Kushui River, also known as Kushui River. When the Mongols occupied this place, it was renamed Dustu River, which means oil-like river. The river water is like oil. In fact, this river is not  The maximum width of the river is close to one hundred meters, but it passes through many salt swamp areas. Due to the deterioration of soil and water, this area is dry and rainless, and evaporation is severe. Therefore, the water in the river is low, and the salt and various mineral contents are low.  High, it's water, but you can't drink it.  However, because of the water, there are abundant water plants and luxuriant trees along the way. There are also some wells for small amounts of irrigation and drinking.  If you bring some spare drinking water, there is no problem for the army to take this route. There are still some Xixia troops stationed in Baichi City and Tiemenguan on the Guanjian Road. The terrain of these passes is dangerous. As long as the Song army is stopped for three  Within four days, Song Jun had to retreat by himself due to lack of drinking water.  There is no need to go to such trouble.  But now this unintentional move has had an effect, because we are taking the Lingwu Avenue in the south, and because of the battle of Lingzhouchuan, even the Xia army at Tiemenguan does not dare to send out rangers to run around casually.  The Liao Kingdom did not even know that they had withdrawn their troops three times.  There was another crisis. Mogusi came to Shengwei City with his troops and horses. Wang Ju also rushed over in person and asked Mogusi to cross the river first. The two talked for a long time. Wang Ju should be satisfied with this conversation, but Wang Ju  Ju also sent a large amount of captured weapons and armor, which also satisfied Mogus.  Therefore, the two of them made another agreement. The fortune teller was poor, and Mogusi did not have enough chips to go back this time. Wang Ju promised him one thing. Two cities are currently being built on the Juyanhai side, and at the same time,  We still need to dig two trenches that are dozens of miles apart. They should no longer be called trenches, but two small canals connecting the two seas. There is insufficient manpower.  Wang Ju then made an agreement with Mogusi, asking him to take his men, and the Song army would move out of the Beicheng area, and his men would undertake the construction, using labor in exchange for weapons. Then after the autumn, after the construction of the Beicheng was completed, he would get ten  Tens of thousands of pieces of armor.  In addition, Wang Ju first extracted some commercial goods from the Xixia spoils, such as silk, tea, porcelain, and ironware, which were urgently needed by the tribes on the grassland, and asked him to take them back and use them to make capital and bring more  At the same time, Wang Ju ordered a large number of commercial goods to be transferred from the rear and transported to Juyanhai for trading.  With weapons and money, Mogusi can win over more tribes.  This will make the scale of the future rebellion in Mogus even greater than in history.  But this has nothing to do with the main battlefield for the time being.  ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.  It was clear that the Song Army was going to flood Xingzhou City. Originally, many Xixia people in the city had gradually lost their fighting spirit under the Song Army's three-dimensional attack. Now seeing this scene, and the Song Army has officially stopped attacking the city, anyway  We are going to flood Jinshan Temple, so why waste arrows and cannonballs?  " Moreover, the Song Army deliberately set up camp on some highlands, and sent soldiers to cut wood to make rafts. Why make rafts? When the flood came, the people in Xingzhou City were swimming, and the Song Army could stand on the rafts and slowly pack up.  Xingzhou itself was surrounded by water and there was no outside news. Although Liang Yibu still did not believe that the Song army could flood Xingzhou City, the morale of the three armies was already weakened.  It happened to be early July, and the moon was dark and the wind was high in the second half of the night. He sent nearly 10,000 death troops out of the camp to attack the Song army camp. However, night attacks were Wang Ju's specialty.  Along the way, the Xia army successfully arrived in front of the Song camp. They were about to enter the Song camp. Suddenly, countless arrows rained from the sky. Two more cavalrymen came out from both sides. They did not dare to die. Thousands of dead bodies were lost. The remaining Xia army  He fled back to Xingzhou City in embarrassment.  In fact, the focus of the battle now is not in Xingzhou, but in the east!  The Liao army successfully accepted the two states of Hongyou, and he also accepted more than 10,000 Xia troops. However, there was not much food and grass in the two cities, so he had to order some more food and grass from the rear.  But this problem is not too big, and he does not plan to stay for a year and a half.  At this time, suddenly a group of Song Dynasty cavalry crossed the newly renovated ancient Great Wall and came to the foot of Xiazhou City. They cooperated with the Song army in Xiazhou City and launched an attack on the Liao army camp.  Because the Liao army divided its troops intoThe military forces in Hongzhou and Youzhou were not as strong as they were at the beginning, but Wutela managed the army well and had a lot of troops here. The Song army did not succeed, but it allowed the Song army to successfully rescue the Song army in Xiazhou.  Gone.  Wutela was a little bit sad, but because the purpose of Liao's sending troops this time was not to cross the Song Dynasty too much, So although Wutela was sad, he didn't pay much attention to it, and he also got Xiazhou City and completed the first step of the battle.  Target.  The three armies entered Xiazhou. With the city wall to lean on, Wutela could mobilize more troops to Hongzhou.  Below Hongzhou is the Changcheng Ridge. There are two Great Walls. The ancient Great Wall on the Hongzhou side is the main Great Wall. The Baoan Army section of the Great Wall only has a small section, but both Great Walls have been scrapped. This section is called Changcheng Ridge.  , the Song Dynasty and Xixia each held half.  On the lower right is the Gyeongju Dingbian Army, which was newly established by the Song Dynasty for a few years. On the right is Yanzhou City, which the Song Dynasty just captured this spring.  "Wotela set his sights on Yanzhou, with the same intention as before. No matter how hard we fought, our army did not enter the territory of your Song Dynasty.  Did Yanzhou belong to your Song Dynasty?  Xixia is a vassal to your Song Dynasty, and also to our Liao Kingdom.  But when the army arrives in Hongzhou, it can threaten Yanzhou and Qingzhou at any time, thus forcing the Song Dynasty to withdraw its troops.  His nightmare has come. If all the main forces of the Song Dynasty are really in Xixia and Hexi at this time, it is indeed as he thought, but it is not.  But the fatal flaw of the Liao Kingdom came out, that is, the main army was further away from the Heqing Army, Jin Su Army, and Ningbian Prefecture in the rear.  What's even more terrible is that he suddenly received a call from a powerful person in Yanzhou, saying that the people of Yanzhou City were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the Liao army. This shows that the people's support is available!  After hearing this, Wutela was still uneasy, so he asked the Xixia people again, and found out that there was indeed such a powerful man and he was also very loyal to Xixia.  So what are you waiting for? Wutela immediately wrote a letter rudely and sent someone to deliver it to Changcheng Ridge. He didn't care when the letter was transferred to Wang Ju, and then personally led the three armies to Yanzhou City.  In less than twenty days since he sent troops from Liao, he was able to move to Yanzhou 900 miles away with a large amount of food, grass and baggage. At the same time, he captured Xiazhou and accepted Hongzhou and Youzhou.  What a speed!  To be continued.  
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