Lord of the House

It was only about forty miles from Longzuishan to Fancheng, and the day was bright, and the day was bright. More than a thousand cavalry surrounded dozens of carriages of the Military Intelligence Department and headed north. There were still traces of fierceness a few days ago on the beach of Baihe, and there were still brown bloodstains on the beach. Wash off the rain and snow.

Lin Bing took the scarlet cloak, looked at the charred wormwood on the white river beach and the corpse that had not been completely cleaned, and rode his horse across the water.

The pontoon bridge on Baihetan was forcibly set on fire by the enemy navy four days ago. It was Su Tingzhan who fled north of Shicheng and used a large shield on a pontoon to rush into the estuary and set fire to the estuary. Fancheng could not completely block the estuary—Baihetan The pontoon bridge was destroyed, but thirty kilometers upstream, there was a Shiliang Bridge on the road from Zaoyang North to Xinye, which became the main passage for the Huaidong Army to enter Xiangfan. Lin Fu was in a hurry to go to Fancheng. Wade across shallow waters.

Although the water in the White River was shallow, it didn't cross the horse's belly. When crossing the river, his legs would inevitably be submerged in the icy river water, soaking up to his knees. After crossing the river, Lin Fu stopped his horse to dry his trousers and put on his dry riding boots. From where he was sitting, he could see the Yan army warships patrolling the water on the Han River.

"It's a pity that our navy can't come up for a while!" Lin Fu pointed to the Han River outside the estuary, and said to Gao Zongting and Song Fu, "Otherwise, we wouldn't have to take the risk to cross the river from the upper reaches..."

This is the place where the Han River bends. From the Baihekou to the west, the Han River flows in an east-west direction. After the bend, the north-south direction is slightly southeast, and a large area of ​​silt is alluvial in the northeast corner. This silt beach is a floodway in summer and autumn. At this time, the Han River is thin, exposing a large mudflat, and the water surface is particularly wide, and as far as the field of vision can be seen, there are eddies.

Since the opposite bank of the Han River is Lumen Mountain in the southeast of Xiangyang, the mountains are steep and steep from a distance, causing the overhanging wall on the south bank of the Han River; many reefs that are in the same vein as Lumen Mountain are scattered in the deep water channel on the south side. ——These special terrains make the local call this bend of the Han River the Devil's Turn, and the boatmen who are familiar with the waterways need to be very careful to navigate the boats.

After the sharp bend, Yan Hu used Yang Xiong to commande two hundred warships and six thousand water troops for defense; although the Huaidong water camp warships were advantageous, they could not easily break through this line of defense and enter the upper reaches of the Han River.

In order to prevent the enemy's navy boats from infiltrating the shallow water of Baihe River upstream, that is, the hinterland between Zaoyang and Fancheng, and affecting the flank of the Huaidong Army moving westward, Huang Zuyu dispatched a guard to build a beacon pier at the branch of the Baihe River to build a beacon pier as a warning line .

When he captured Fancheng, he got more than 5,000 people, which made Huang Zuyu have a more effective use in Fancheng.

In just a few days, the beacon fire pier on the west beach of the Baihe River is still quite simple, but it is also a fence. A parapet seals off the White River West Beach.

Fancheng was only twelve or three miles away from here, and when the cavalry had finished crossing the river, Lin Fu was surrounded by the cavalry and headed for Fancheng.

The pontoon bridge at Feiyu Cape has been destroyed, and a small half of the iron cable is hanging down into the Han River. Standing on the cape, you can see the appearance of the water village in the northwest corner of Xiangyang City on the opposite bank. The raised flag has a large "Yang" character written on it...

Yang Xiong abandoned Hanjin and fled north on the 21st. On the way to the north, he was ordered by Ye Jiluorong to serve as the commander of the Xiangyang and navy forces. All the children followed Su Tingzhan to Yunguan, which is upstream of the Danjiangkou.

Yunguan has "Qin head, Chu tail and Yiyu sub-counties". Although the terrain is adjacent to Xiangfan, it was originally under Hanzhongfu.

She Fei Xiong Zhi She Yuan was in Yunguan at this time, and it was supposed to put on a stance of sitting on the wall and watching, and it could go north to Guanzhong, or west to Hanzhong.

It's just that Hanzhong City is far west of the Qinling Mountains in Bashan, and it is also nearly a thousand miles upstream from the Xiajiang waterway.

Although the Cao family gathered nearly 20,000 troops in Hanzhong, it would take seven or eight days for the news of the Jingxiang battle to reach Hanzhong. Lin Fu thought that the Cao family would only know the scale of the Jingxiang battle at this time. There is simply not enough time to intervene in the battle of Jingxiang.

Another is that the upper reaches of the Han River are sandwiched between the mountains and mountains. The waterway is extremely dangerous, and there are dangerous shoals everywhere. Now even if the Cao family has more troops and horses in the Han River, there is no way to go straight down to Jingxiang along the Han River in a short time.

When Lin Fu entered Fancheng, he first called Zhou Tong, Liu Zhenzhi, Chen Zhu, Huang Zuyu, Zhou Bin, Chen Daozi and other brigade commanders and above to discuss matters; Ao Canghai, Yu Wencheng, Gaozongting, Song Fu, Zhou Pu, Sun Zhuang, Tang Xitai, Zhao Bao, Luo Wenhu and others also attended the military meeting, gathered together, and made the stars shine.

There were not many defenders in Fancheng, only more than 5,000 people. Both Chen Zhe and Liu Zhenzhi left Fancheng: one spread westward along the north bank of the Han River, and the other spread northwest along Shiqiaoling, northwest of Fancheng, not far from the enemy city Xinye. Forty miles, Dengzhou less than fifty miles.

"Except for the soldiers and horses that sheltered the flank in the northwest of Zaoyang, Zhang Jiheng and Yu Wencheng gathered on the front line of Shiqiaoling, and all the troops of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade were also transferred. Get up," Lin Fu said, "attract Chen Zhihu's attention there..."

Even if the flanks are left to cover the troops, after Zhang Jiheng and Yu Wencheng go north, together with the former Liu Zhenzhi and Zhang Zhuang's troops, more than 50,000 elite troops will be gathered on the Shiqiaoling front line, so there is no doubt that when the time is right, , the Huaidong Army attacked the two cities of Dengzhou and Xinye on the north side with a thunderous momentum...

At this time, guarding Dengzhou was Gao Yi, the general of Chen Zhihu's army, and guarding Xinye was Tu'an, the rebel general of the Liang family.

Regarding how to fight the final battle of the Battle of Jingxiang, the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the various ministries have conducted full demonstrations, and at the moment, only some adjustments are made according to the actual situation. The military meeting was very short. After the military meeting, Lin Fu and the generals had a brief meal in Fancheng. Ao Canghai, Sun Zhuang, Yu Wencheng and others went north to Shiqiaoling. After a short rest, Lin Fu also left Fancheng along the Han River. The north bank went west to Huanglongtan to watch the army. Zhou Pu, Gao Zongting, Chen Zhu, Huang Zuyu, Tang Xitai, Luo Wenhu and others accompanied him, and Zhou Tong stayed in Fancheng to sit in town.

Huang Zuyu's troops were merged into the first sub-division of the Chongcheng Army, making the first sub-division of the Chongcheng Army to reach more than 24,000; The ridge front base was presided over by Huang Zuyu.

The road from Fancheng to Huanglongtan has been repaired. Compared with the lofty mountains and mountains in the Longzhong Mountains west of Xiangyang City on the south bank, the hills and mountains on the north bank are much gentler. Due to the relatively gentle terrain, a larger range of mudflats are deposited than those on the south bank. These mudflats are difficult for the enemy navy to land on a large scale, but from Fancheng to Huanglongtan for more than 40 miles, we still learn from the Baihetan side, and every seven or eight miles, we set up a beacon fire pier and a defense village. The elite armoured soldiers are stationed to guard against the enemy forces controlling the Han River from attacking the north shore...

Although Huanglong Beach is called a beach, it is actually a low stone ridge that directly reaches the north bank of Hanshui. The Zanyang and Baiyang Passes guarded by Tingzhan and the fork where the Danjiang River enters the Han River are behind the Baiyang Pass.

Since Yanhu does not have enough transportation capacity to transport the troops and horses from Xiangyang on the south bank directly to Wuguan in the upper reaches, or even farther Danfeng County or Shangzhou Fucheng, most of them land at Baiyang Pass, and then go to Baiyang Pass along Dan River. Jiangdongan walked towards Xichuan.

Since the road on the east bank of the Danjiang River is so bad that it is no better than going from Huanglongtan to Zanyang, the enemy of Baiyangguan moved very slowly to Xichuan, so that the enemy soldiers gathered at Baiyangguan at this time even far exceeded Xinye and Deng's. State two cities.

Huanglongtan Linhanshui is a cape mountain called Longclaw Rock. The cape mountain is more than 200 zhang deep. Like a dragon's claw penetrating into the Hanshui, it is more than ten zhang high from the water; Looking at the Miaotan Ridge on the opposite bank, the two sides are so close that you can clearly see the trees on the opposite bank.

Miaotan Ridge is a horizontal ridge between Xiangyang and Gucheng County. It is the remnant of the northern foot of Jingshan Mountain. It is 20 miles in length and width. To the east of the city is the largest mountain on the south bank of the Han River except Longshan. It is the Shanmenyan on the opposite bank where Lin Fuwang used to pass. It is already the northwest foot of Miaotan Ridge. The height of the mountain is only about 20 feet. It is only 300 steps away from the Dragon Claw Rock on the Han River. A little further.

Tang Xitai came to Fancheng as early as the 21st, touched the hydrological topography twice, and said, "The Han River comes from the upper reaches, and is blocked by the Longclaw Rock, and is forced to flow in a semi-isolated shape to the temple on the other side of the river. The mountain gate rock outside the beach ridge, the water flow is hindered by the mountain gate rock, and then refracted, and goes straight to the Tianma rock on our west bank, the current becomes extremely dangerous; when sending people to dive, it can even be seen that there are empty pots formed under the water, which are not seen deep. end……"

Lin Bie nodded. Along the way, there were enemy ships on the Han River monitoring the Han River. Only this section of the water was extremely dangerous. The water slammed into the rocks, making it impossible to patrol frequently.

Of course, although the surface of the water is only two or three hundred paces wide, such turbulent currents make it impossible for the Huaidong Army to arrange armed crossings here...

Huang Zuyu said: "About every two hours, the enemy will have sentry ships passing by, but after hearing the news in Xiangyang City Water Village, they will send a large number of warships against the water flow, which will take a day at least; The army in the west of Gucheng and Baiyangguan water army came faster, but the enemy army did not consider that there would be opponents upstream, so they arranged for the generals to cross the river ferries in the upstream, and most of them were small patrol boats, which could not be stationed before such turbulent currents. …”

"How many people have we lurked in Miaotan Ridge?" Lin Bie asked, "How long can we hold it if we are detected by the enemy sentry?"

"At this time, there are sixty-one people lurking in Miaotan Ridge; once a ropeway is set up, a battalion of elites, including armored equipment, can be sent over before dawn," Huang Zuyu said. "The enemy's post road from Xiangyang to Gucheng is in the temple. In the south of Tanling, they considered using the valley between Miaotanling and Jingshan to block my troops and horses chasing from the south, so their camp was built at the mouth of the valley at the southeastern foot of Miaotanling, and the cableway we were going to set up to cross the river was At the northwest corner of Miaotan Ridge, the Shanmen Rock connects to the other side. The enemy army heard that the police came by land and had to go around forty miles. In such a long time, we were able to send a battalion of elites to the other side of the mountain. The defensive position established on the south side..."

"Well, I'll be waiting for your victory in Fancheng!" Lin Fu said, looking at Gao Zongting, "What else is there to worry about Zongting?"

Gao Zongting smiled and asked Luo Wenhu and several other commanders of the Ministry of Information to join the army to stay. He and Zhou Pu accompanied Lin Fu back to Fancheng; Lin Fu came to inspect the front base, and maybe there were scouts lurking around the enemy army. It is easy to cause unnecessary vigilance of the enemy if you and Lin Bie have to stay here for a while.

Lin Funan returned, Chen Zhu and Huang Zuyu returned to the front base camp on the west wing, and Luo Wenhu and Tang Xitai stayed in the mountain col on the north side of Longclaw Rock. It looks like a camp in front of the Yellow Dragon Beach, but in fact, thousands of people have been preparing for several days for the erection of the suspension bridge over the Longzuishi River.

The reason for choosing the confrontational mountain gate rock frame suspension bridge is not only that it can spare the enemy's sight and the turbulent water current makes it difficult for the enemy naval warships to stay for a long time, there is also a key reason that there is a dense forest behind the mountain gate rock. The giant tree that can bind the suspension cable is a natural anchor for locking the suspension cable.

In order to accommodate the terrain on the other side, the only choice on the north bank is Dragon Claw Rock.

There is no grass on Longclaw Rock, and there is no giant tree with fixed suspension cables. Digging holes into the hanging rock by the river side is easy to attract the attention of the enemy patrol boats on the water. Therefore, iron stakes are inserted into the stone gap behind the giant rock, and tens of thousands of catties of molten iron are slowly melted. It is poured into the stone crevices, and the iron piles and the giant rocks are generally connected into one.

Walking down the back of the rock, thirteen I-shaped iron pillars with a height of about 40 feet were erected there like roots. Luo Wenhu secretly sighed: Changed the power of another family~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Don't talk about building a suspension bridge, just seven or eight days It is impossible to root these thirteen iron pillars here.

It's ridiculous that Luo Xiancheng wanted to cut Suizhou to be king before he died!

With such a turbulent current, even if there are fixed objects on both sides of the river, it is extremely difficult to erect a pontoon bridge directly; even if the current cannot destroy the pontoon bridge, even if the enemy forces several ships upstream to fill them with earth and rocks, they will be destroyed immediately; The other side is controlled by the enemy, so how easy is it to build a suspension bridge over the water?

When erecting cableways or suspension bridges between gorges and rivers in this world, hemp ropes are generally not used. The hemp ropes are too soft. If you pull three or four hundred steps, the ropes will swing directly to the water surface, and it will become a pontoon bridge. It is not possible to use iron chains, and the iron rings connected in rings are too heavy.

Suspension bridges and pontoon bridges have completely different concepts on the pulling force of the iron cables. The pontoon bridge has a pontoon as the bottom, and the iron cables are held up, mainly to resist the impact of the water current on the pontoon bridge; On the other hand, the direct pulling force of the iron cable on the lock bridge on both sides of the strait will be astonishingly large, and whether the strength of the iron cable itself can withstand such a strong pulling force is also a question. Not to mention that people and animals can walk on it, it is easy to directly crush the iron bridge.

When building cable bridges over streams and rivers, bamboo cables are usually made of light-weight, strong and rigid bamboo cables. However, even if a bamboo suspension cable can be erected between Longclaw Rock and Shanmen Rock on the opposite bank overnight, even if the suspension cable is stretched extremely straight and does not sway at all, it is only fourteen or fifty feet above the water. The enemy forces control the water surface, the boat passes under the bamboo ropeway, and the fire can burn it...

Before seeing the wire ropes produced by Huaidong, Luo Wenhu could never imagine that the Huaidong Army could build a cableway and then a suspension bridge between Longzhaoyan and Shanmenyan... My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter