The Three Mountains Floating Bridge is related to three mountains. These three mountains are Jushan located in Anlijun Liyang County on the north bank of the Yellow River, Dagong Mountain located in the middle of the Yellow River, and Wenzi Mountain located on the south bank of the Yellow River.
Originally, the course of the Yellow River did not pass between the three mountains. Instead, in order to build this pontoon bridge and facilitate defense, the course of the Yellow River was artificially changed and the course of the Yellow River was moved dozens of miles eastward. Only then did the Three Mountains Floating Bridge and the Three Mountains Bridge come into being. risk!
The Yellow River between Jushan and Dagong Mountains is narrow, so instead of building a pontoon bridge, a stone bridge was built that could not be dismantled. The Yellow River between Dagong Mountain and Wenzi Mountain is relatively wide, so a "permanent pontoon bridge" was built, which is a pontoon bridge that floats on the water all year round and will not be dismantled due to rising water in summer.
In addition, Dagong Mountain, located in the middle of the Yellow River, occupies a large area and is a very solid stone mountain that will not be washed away by the Yellow River water. Therefore, when the Song Dynasty court built the Sanshan Floating Bridge, it operated Dalong Mountain as a natural fortress, built a walled city on the mountain, and stationed soldiers.
Jushan in Hebei and Wenzishan in Henan also built strongholds on the mountains that could be defended for a long time.
When the Jin soldiers came south, the ropes of the pontoon bridge between Wenzi Mountain and Dagong Mountain were destroyed by fire by the Song army stationed in Sanshan... However, this did not stop the Jin soldiers from crossing the river, and repairing the Sanshan pontoon bridge was difficult. There is no difficulty.
In addition to the stone bridge, pontoon bridge and Sanshan Walled City, there is another dangerous spot in the Sanshan pontoon bridge area, which is the Wannian New Embankment.
Most of the river sections in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are above-ground rivers, that is, the river bed is higher than the ground. The Sanshan Floating Bridge area is no exception. Therefore, the biggest project to change the course of the Yellow River and build the Sanshan Floating Bridge is actually this ten thousand-year-old new embankment with a length of more than 100 miles on both sides.
The embankment is made of rammed earth, rising from the ground to a height of several feet and a thickness of more than ten feet. It is stronger than the city wall of Kaifeng Mansion! Even when the Yellow River is frozen, the south bank of the Ten Thousand Years New Levee is a natural hazard - because the Yellow River is shallow in winter, the frozen river surface is far away from the top of the Ten Thousand Years Levee. If the defenses are carefully deployed on the Universal Causeway, the Jin soldiers will not be able to break through so easily.
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 hold on!
And in today's summer, the Yellow River itself has become a super weapon threatening Kaifeng City!
Once a large hole of tens of feet is dug in the new universal embankment, the water of the Yellow River will rush towards Kaifeng, less than a hundred miles away, with the force of Mount Tai!
For the Yellow River, a hundred miles is not that far! Just thirty or forty years ago, when Su Dongpo learned about Xuzhou, the Yellow River burst and the flood rushed all the way to Xuzhou. The flood besieged the city for more than fifty years before retreating... How far is Xuzhou from the Yellow River! If Kaifeng Mansion had been flooded, the Song Dynasty would have had to move its capital ahead of schedule!
However, Kaifeng Prefecture is extremely important. The Song Dynasty court attaches great importance to the Yellow River embankment north of Kaifeng Prefecture. It is difficult to break it naturally - river embankment breaches usually occur at the weakest point, so there is no need to wait for the embankment near Kaifeng Prefecture to be unable to carry it. If you live there, it will collapse elsewhere.
But this time, what the new universal dike of the Yellow River faces is not the force of nature, but man-made excavation!
When Zhang Bangchang, the shivering Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, was invited to the cottage on the top of Wenzi Mountain, the area around the Wannian Levee at the foot of Wenzi Mountain had turned into a huge construction site!
The people of the Song Dynasty who had been plundered by the Jin people were mixed with the Alixi auxiliary soldiers of the Jin army. They were constantly transporting soil from the Wannian Dike, which was only two or three miles away from Wenzi Mountain. Then they used the soil to An earthen fence was piled up at the head of the Sanshan Floating Bridge at the foot of Wenzi Mountain.
Groups of carts loaded with goods were queuing up, slowly passing through the Sanshan Floating Bridge, heading towards Liyang City on the north bank.
In addition, there were many female real soldiers who also went to Wannianxindi. They were all shirtless, threw off their arms, and started sweating profusely. Their task was to set up defenses on the 10,000-year-old new embankment, build parapets, and erect wooden fences, as if they were going to fight against the dam with their backs to the water.
All of this was hidden from Zhang Bangchang's eyes. Not only did he not hide it, but he also sent a Han from Yan named Gao Qingyi to take Zhang Bangchang around and give him on-site explanations.
"Zhang Dazai, your Song officials are so dishonest. Before the ink on the peace treaty was dry, you sent more than 200,000 soldiers to follow us. You even thought of attacking us halfway across the Yellow River when we crossed the Yellow River. The tail! The prince is already angry, so he wants to dig a new dike of the Yellow River that will last ten thousand years, and divert the Yellow River to flood the city of Kaifeng!"
"This, this, this..." Zhang Bangchang was so scared that he almost peed, but he did not forget to pretend to be innocent, crying with snot and tears, "I don't know, I really don't know. , otherwise I won’t come..."
The Han man named Gao Qingyi looked shrewd, but he was actually an honest man. He believed Zhang Bangchang's sophistry and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, Dazai Zhang. The prince also knows that you are a good person." .”
"Yes, yes, yes, I am good..."
"So he plans to let you go and ask you to tell Zhao Ji and ask him to quickly send the Song troops who are following us to come up and fight for a decisive battle on the edge of the Yellow River!"
"No, I don't dare, I don't dare..." Zhang Bangchang was so happy when he heard that he could let go, but he still said "I don't dare".
"What are you afraid of?" Gao Qingyi said with a smile, "Zhang Dazai, please go back quickly...Remember to make it clear to Zhao Ji that if he doesn't dare to fight, once the Thousand Years New Dike is destroyed, Kaifeng Mansion will be in trouble It’s been a disaster!”
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Zhang Bangchang was really released. In the afternoon of the same day, he arrived at the Song Army's camp in Xucheng - Xucheng was in Huazhou, more than 20 miles away from Fengqiu. Li Gang's army, which was advancing step by step, was preparing to use this as a stronghold to seize the troops. The Jin soldiers in the areas of Baima and Wenzi Mountain in Huazhou City launched a "rear-end battle".
Li Gang and Zhong Shidao had already made up their mind...only to hit the tail of the Jin soldiers, and use the "blocking effect" of the Sanshan Floating Bridge to attack after most of the Jin soldiers had crossed the river.
In this way, the Jin soldiers who had already crossed the river were unable to support them for a while, and most of the Jin soldiers who stayed on the south bank of the Yellow River would not be interested in fighting and only wanted to cross the river quickly. In this way, the Song Army can easily win a victory!
There is no need to gain too much. If you can have three to five thousand, and then occupy the south bank of the Yellow River, you can continue to bargain with the Kingdom of Jin...
Li Gang and his deputy camp commander Yu Wenxu, the military commander Tong Guan, and the military commander Zhong Shidao, all deployed Yao Gu, Liu Yanqing, Zhong Shizhong, Fan Zhixu, Zhang Shen, Wang Shi, etc. When people were discussing the deployment of the decisive battle in the original Xucheng County Yamen, Zhang Bangchang arrived.
Zhang Bangchang is the boss!
The official is older than Li Gang and is the largest civil official in the Song Dynasty. When he came to Xucheng, of course Li Gang and others had to welcome him, otherwise he would be accused of being arrogant because of his support for the army, and he would have to go to the ends of the earth to watch the sea.
When they saw a lost Dazai of the Song Dynasty, Li Gang, Tong Guan, Zhong Shidao, Yao Gu, Liu Yanqing, Zhong Shizhong, Fan Zhixu, Zhang Shen, Wang Si and others felt their hearts pounding... ..Zhang Bangchang is back, but King Kang has not come back. It seems that King Kang must have passed away!
Although the officials of this generation are very good at giving birth to sons, the death of a son is always not a good thing, right? What's more, everyone present bears some responsibility for King Kang's death.
So everyone put on a sad expression. Li Gang stepped forward quickly, with tears in his eyes, took Zhang Bangchang's hand and asked, "Dr. Dazai, has His Highness Prince Kang passed away?"
Zhang Bangchang shook his head, "King Kang is fine, the Jin people have no intention of harming him... But this time the Kaifeng Mansion is in trouble, and the Song Dynasty is in trouble!"
"What's wrong?" Li Gang asked, "What happened?"
Zhang Bangchang shook his head and said: "You people are leading more than 200,000 soldiers to follow the Jin people... Then the second prince of the Jin Kingdom is not stupid. Don't you know what you want to do? He is already furious, so It will take ten thousand years to dig a new embankment, and the water will flood Kaifeng Mansion! What should we do now? What should we do?"
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