The cold rain outside became heavier and heavier, floating on the people, and it seemed that the cold air was also drilling into the flesh with the sticky wetness, and Duan Tianshui had no choice but to order the river workers to stop. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It is impossible for this river to start upstream, it must start downstream, but because there are many tributaries along the way, the small tributaries will close them first, and the large tributaries will not, so the excavation will start downstream and be excavated in sections.

After digging, with the help of low tide, N gaps were made in the protective embankment deliberately left on the periphery, and then with the help of the rising tide, the remnants of the protective embankment were continuously washed, and the soil carried the sea with the tide. After three or four years, it won't get in the way of sailing.

But it's not that simple, first of all, its scale, has nothing to do with navigation, now the largest sea ship is 2,000 tons, Wang Judu is ambitious to develop larger sea ships, but the effect is always not ideal. Therefore, the width and depth requirements of this canal are not so strict, at most the wharf construction has to use some thought, the main thing is to share the water conservancy, the local water flow of Huating is very amazing, and also to share the Taihu Lake water system, and the river tide is larger than later generations, so it has to be wide and deep enough.

However, the larger the scale, the higher the cost, so the first hurdle is the control of this scale.

The second is the tributaries, the southeast water system and the northern water system are different, often look like a very small river or even a small ditch, the depth can reach more than ten meters, sailing hundreds of tons of ships!

Originally, all the tributaries either flow into the Wusong River, and those tributaries don't care, they are all on the west side of the canal. The tributaries of the canal flow eastward into the sea, and the completion of the canal and the opening of Horikai means that the flow of these tributaries has changed completely. Some of the tributaries of Pudong continue to flow into the sea, but some of the tributaries of Puxi will inevitably flow into the canal, and at the same time, they will also be affected by the river tide, and in the future, they will also be affected by the flood water from Taihu Lake, so the hydrological characteristics of the tributaries will almost completely change.

So we had to investigate, we had to rebuild, and we had to build some related steep gates......

In order not to make mistakes, Duan Tianshui came to Huating for more than seven months, and spent almost all of his time on river work, and he didn't even know how many streets there were in Huating County.

Although there were some minor troubles in between, it was not a big mistake.

Duan Tianshui was wearing a robe, and he was drenched by a cold rain just now, so he had to send someone to boil ginger soup and distribute it to the people to drink, so as to get rid of the cold. In short, because he was born as a Xu official and was responsible for such a big project, he was very careful in doing things, so as not to be afraid that something would go wrong and be found by someone, but he would live up to Cai Qu's trust.

Along the way, many people greeted him warmly.

Some people used to use officials who were born as officials to often govern harshly, and opposed Cai Qu's appointment of Zhang Duan and the others.

But it also has to be seen, just like the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, they mostly used the imperial examination to record officials, but the officials who are not angry occupy the majority.

Duan Tianshui soaked in the river work day and night, almost comparable to the legendary Dayu to control the water, and ate and slept with the people, not to mention the second-in-command of a big county, even a small town mayor can't do this.

Therefore, Duan Tianshui is deeply loved by these migrant workers.

However, compared with officials from orthodox scholars or officials with good family backgrounds, Duan Tianshui is a little less reserved, and the good way to put it is that there is less officialdom.

So many people are working on the construction, and the government is recruiting people to do the work by recruiting workers or exchanging land for work, so the migrant workers have a few activity money in their hands, so on both sides of the river, there are also many small merchants and hawkers, including some prostitutes or artists who are not in the stream.

There was a large group of people in front, and Duan Tianshui also squeezed over, and saw a rap gentleman sitting in the tea shed in the middle who was commenting on the story, talking about the war in the northwest.

The Song Dynasty is weak, and the great victories in the northwest are not exciting.

In particular, Mr. Rap said that this section is the battle of Song and Liao, Western Xia no longer exists, and the object of Song Dynasty's "conquest" has been replaced by the strongest country, Liao.

So Duan Tianshui also stopped, huddled with these ordinary people, and listened to this gentleman's rap.

The officials next to him couldn't help but smile bitterly, our lord Bo is so interesting.

But even this official was also fascinated.

Utra made up his mind and began to urgently mobilize the three armies, after all, Xingzhou City could not afford to delay.

Such a huge troop movement was quickly learned by Wang Zhang and the others, and the two used fast and non-stop correspondence and negotiation back and forth, and finally formulated a very strange set of tactics. At the same time, Wang Ju took out a lot of cavalry, sneaked back to Gyeongju, and infiltrated the front line from Gyeongju, and the supplies were also transferred to the north.

Soon the court received the news, and of course, there was a lot of arguing.

The three armies of the Liao army crossed the Yellow River and slaughtered Xiazhou.

The Song army urgently built a military fort in Qiliping, which originally belonged to a township in the northern suburbs of Xiazhou, and now the water and soil in this area have not completely deteriorated, and there is a tributary of the Wuding River that can be irrigated, so it has become a valuable agricultural area in Western Xia, and to the north is Huangyangping, although there is no river, but the land is humid, at least for the Nanhetao, it is a rich pasture.

The overall terrain of Huangyangping is flat, there is no danger to rely on, and the time is urgent, so the Song army gave up directly.

The reason why the military fortress was built here was precisely to prevent the Liao army from getting water smoothly.

The number of troops mobilized by the Liao State this time is quite large, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, but they are not all soldiers, including servants and people. Think about it, so many soldiers and horses have traveled from Heqing Army to Qiliping, there is a big desert in the middle, and the weather is hot again, and all the water has been drunk. And now from Xiazhou to Youzhou, they have been seriously destroyed by the Song army, and the Xixia people themselves have nothing to eat, and it is impossible to supply the Liao army with grain and grass, so the Liao army has to bring a large amount of grain and grass by itself. This makes the march slower......

When the Liao army, which was sleepy and tired, arrived, and saw that the Song army was guarding the water source, they were red one by one, and under the desperate efforts of the three armies, the Song army was defeated and fled.

The Liao army once again approached the city of Xiazhou.

There were two favorable places, the people of Western Xia in the city supported the Liao State, and at the same time, the city wall of Xiazhou was dilapidated.

However, the question is, even if the people in the city support the Liao army, do they dare to take up arms and cooperate with the Liao army? Moreover, the people who blocked the divination were even poorer, and before the handover with the Song Dynasty, they had already looted the city, including the iron tools in the people's homes, and there was really a shortage of iron on the prairie.

Now many poor people are still counting on the relief of the Song Dynasty.

Although the city wall is dilapidated, it is finally a city wall, the Liao army crossed the Yellow River, and the Song army began to urgently repair the city wall, and the fence was built where it was really too late, and the offensive and defensive battle began.

But time is there.

He was also grabbing this time, and even thought that it was normal for the Song army in the city to resist, and if he didn't resist, it would be abnormal for the Liao army to easily take Xiazhou City.

So he divided his troops to Hongzhou City and Youzhou City, and accepted the two cities, so as to prevent the Song army from taking these two cities before him, so that he could not pose a threat to the Song Dynasty's border in time.

Both sides believed that time had been won, the Song army had won time in order to be able to smoothly arrange troops and materials, and the Liao army had won time to occupy the land of Sanzhou before the Song army reacted......

And he thought he had enough troops.

There are indeed a lot, almost similar to Xiao Yanyan's troops when she went south.

However, if you pay attention to the history of the war during the Northern Song Dynasty, you will find an interesting phenomenon, that is, the scale of troops used in the Three Kingdoms War is getting larger and larger.

First of all, the Northern Song Dynasty and Song Taizong made two Northern Expeditions, each of which was larger than the other, and the soldiers and civilians used in the Second Northern Expedition reached 300,000 people, and then returned in a crushing defeat. Subsequently, the Song Dynasty used fewer and fewer troops, especially when Song Renzong, even if Dingchuan was defeated, it was only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. When the Zhao Dynasty began to rise, Guo Kui mobilized 300,000 soldiers and civilians to the south, no matter how to explain it, Guo Kui did make serious mistakes in this battle. and then to the Five Roads Expedition, the number of troops reached 500,000!

The Liao State has not fought with the Song Dynasty since the alliance of the Yuanyuan, but the war of Goryeo, and later the Ping Jurchen, has several times with an astonishing number of troops, 500,000, 700,000!

This result was due to the fact that the Song and Liao had been established for a long time and the population had increased, so they could get sufficient military resources.

Just like in the early Song Dynasty, there were only 3 million households, so the country only had 300,000 troops, 100,000 soldiers, and 100,000 forbidden soldiers.

But there is one country that is very strange, that is, Western Xia, Li Yuanhao is so nervous, first Tubo, then the Song Dynasty, and then the Liao State, each time the army is not more than 100,000 people, but later, 100,000 is the starting point, and it is not good to come from time to time to a 300,000! It is also a miracle that Western Xia has persisted for so long in history.

So hundreds of thousands of troops are really not uncommon now.

And the nature of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Liao State this time is different from Xiao Yanyan's, Xiao Yanyan also had many semi-militia troops at that time, but these semi-militia themselves also have a certain combat effectiveness, and the water is not large, but the people who went with the army this time are real people, and they are not as good as those people on the front line in Wang Ju's hands.

This doesn't matter, in fact, this is almost the greatest capacity of Liao, no matter how many troops there are, and it is as far as the Hetao, Liao's finances will really be unbearable.

The most crucial thing is that the Liao army sent troops too late.

If a month or two in the morning, so many Liao soldiers came west, the Song Dynasty did not dare to divide the troops so easily, and it also aroused the Xia army's stronger confidence in resisting, then it would be very difficult for the Song army to advance every step forward, and it would allow the two allied forces to drill loopholes at any time, causing the Song army to return in vain.

Uthrat also made a fatal mistake, or made it unintentionally.

Wang Ju successively asked the soldiers and horses of Seed Master Dao and Liu Changzuo to return to Shaanxi Road, and mobilized some cavalry on the middle and right roads to sneak to Yanzhou, Gyeongju, but these three soldiers and horses still turned back from Lingwu Avenue.

But at the beginning, it was not Wang Ju who did it intentionally, but because of the terrain, from the other side of the Jingzhou River in Western Xia, along the ancient Great Wall, there was also a road, and it was a shortcut road, which went directly to Yanzhou.

However, this road is seriously lacking in water, and there is a river, called Kushui River, also called Kushui River, when the Mongols occupied this place, it was renamed Dustu River, which means river like oil, and the river water is like oil......

In fact, the original river is not small, the maximum width of the river can reach nearly 100 meters, but it passes through many salt areas, and because of the deterioration of water and soil, this area is dry and rainless, and the evaporation is serious, so the water in the river is less, the salt and various minerals are high, it is water, but it cannot be drunk. However, because of the water, the water and grass along the way are abundant, the trees are luxuriant, and there are also some wells for a small amount of irrigation and drinking.

If you bring some spare drinking water, there is no problem for the army to take this road, Baichi City and Tiemen Pass on this road, there are still some Western Xia garrisons, these checkpoints are treacherous, as long as the Song army is stopped for three or four days, because of the problem of drinking water, the Song army has to withdraw by itself.

There is no need to toss so much.

But now this unintentional move has had an effect, because it is the Lingwu Avenue in the south, and because of the battle of Lingzhou River, even the Xia army on the side of Tiemen Pass does not dare to send rangers to run around casually, and the Liao State does not know about these three withdrawals.

There is also a crisis, Mogus came to the provincial city with soldiers and horses, Wang Ju also rushed over in person, let Mogus cross the river first, the two talked for a long time, this conversation should make Wang Ju satisfied, but Wang Ju sent a large number of additional captured armor, which also made Mogus satisfied.

Therefore, the two made another agreement, blocking the poor people, and the chips for Mogus to go back this time were also a little insufficient, Wang Ju promised him one thing, Juyanhai is now building two cities, and at the same time digging two trenches of dozens of miles, it should not be called a trench, but two small canals that communicate the two seas, and the manpower is insufficient.

Wang Ju made an agreement with Mogus, asking him to take his subordinates, and the Song army moved out of Beicheng District, and his subordinates undertook the construction and exchanged labor for weapons, so that after the autumn, when the construction of Beicheng was completed, he could get more than 100,000 pieces of armor.

And Wang Ju first extracted some commercial goods from the Western Xia booty, such as silk silk, tea, porcelain, and ironware, which were urgently needed by the tribes on the grassland, so that he could bring them back and use them as capital to bring more cattle, horses, sheepskins, and tendons, and horns, and at the same time Wang Ju ordered a large number of commercial goods to be transferred to the rear and transported to Juyanhai, where they were traded.

With weapons and money, Mogus was able to win over more tribes.

This would make the future rebellion of Moguth even larger than it has ever been.

But this has nothing to do with the main battlefield for the time being.

Let the Liao army jump first, but there was a strange scene under the city of Xingzhou.

The Song army is clearly going to flood Xingzhou City, originally many Xixia people in the city have gradually lost their fighting spirit under the three-dimensional attack of the Song army, and now see this scene, and the Song army has officially stopped attacking the city, anyway, it is ready to come to a flooded Jinshan Temple, why waste arrows and shells?

Moreover, the Song army intended to start camping on some high grounds, and sent soldiers to cut wood and weave rafts, why make rafts, as soon as the flood came, the people in Xingzhou City were swimming, and the Song army could stand on the rafts and slowly clean up.

Xingzhou itself was surrounded again, and he didn't know the news from the outside world, although Liang Yikui still didn't believe that the Song army could flood Xingzhou City, but the morale of the three armies had been dissipated. It happened that the time was in early July, and the moon was dark and windy in the second half of the night, so he sent nearly 10,000 death soldiers out of the camp to attack the Song army camp.

All the way the Xia army successfully arrived in front of the Song camp, and was about to enter the Song army camp, suddenly countless arrows rained down in the sky, and two cavalry on both sides killed out, and they did not dare to die, throwing thousands of dead bodies, and the rest of the Xia army 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 Hongyou Erzhou, and he also accepted more than 10,000 Xia troops, but there was not much grain and grass in the two cities, so he had to order the rear to support some more grain and grass. But the problem is not too big, and he has no intention of staying for a year and a half.

At this time, suddenly a cavalry of the Song Dynasty crossed the newly repaired ancient Great Wall, came to the city of Xiazhou, and joined forces with the Song army in the city of Xiazhou, and launched an attack on the camp of the Liao army. Because the Liao army was divided into Hongzhou and Youzhou, the strength was not as strong as at the beginning, but the army was well governed, and there were a lot of troops here, which did not let the Song army succeed, but let the Song army successfully rescue the Song army in Xiazhou.

He sighed a little, but because the purpose of Liao's dispatch of troops this time was not to overdo the Song Dynasty, although he sighed, he didn't care too much, and he also got Xiazhou City and completed the first combat goal.

The three armies entered Xiazhou, and with the city wall to lean on, Hu Tera could transfer more troops to Hongzhou. Below Hongzhou is the Great Wall Ridge, there are two Great Walls, the ancient Great Wall of Hongzhou is the Great Wall, the Great Wall of the Security Army is only a small section, but these two Great Walls are scrapped, this section of the range is called the Great Wall Ridge, the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia each hold half. At the bottom right is the Song Dynasty's new Gyeongju Dingbian Army, which has not been in place for a few years, and on the right is the city of Yanzhou, which the Song Dynasty just occupied this spring.

He set his sights on Yanzhou, and with the same intention as he started, no matter how he fought, our army did not enter the territory of your Song Dynasty. Is Yanzhou from your Song Dynasty? The Western Xia is a vassal to your Song Dynasty, and also to our Liao State.

However, when the army arrived in Hongzhou, it could threaten Yanzhou and Gyeongju at any time, so that the Song Dynasty could be forced to retreat and return.

His nightmare came, if the main force of the Song Dynasty was really all in Xixia Hexi at this time, it would indeed be as he thought, but it was not. But the fatal flaw of the Liao State came out, that is, the main army was farther away from the Heqing army, the Jinsu army, and Ningbian Prefecture in the rear. What's even worse is that he suddenly received a strong concentration in Yanzhou, saying that the people of Yanzhou City are eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the Liao army, which shows that the people's hearts are available!

After hearing this, he was still not at ease, so he inquired about the Xixia people again, and he did have this strong and loyal to the Western Xia.

So what are you waiting for, Utra immediately wrote a letter rudely and sent someone to deliver it to the Great Wall Ridge, as for when the letter was transferred to Wang Ju, he didn't care, and then personally led the three armies to Yanzhou City.

Since he sent troops from Liaojing, it took less than 20 days, and at the same time, he was able to drift to Yanzhou, which was 900 miles away, and at the same time took Xiazhou, accepted Hongzhou and Youzhou, and the soldiers were very fast! (To be continued.) )