The vast dark night, the frost and fog are filled, adding a layer of dreamlike color to the night.

Mengmen Pass, the ancient name pass. At this time, this Guancheng, which is only separated from Longshang by the Yellow River, is filled with an atmosphere of slaughter. In the night, everything seemed to be normal up and down the city, except for the occasional sound of a husband's bang, nothing was unusual.

But under the cover of this night, I don't know when it began, and groups of soldiers stretched out from the east like a long dragon. Horses are wrapped in hooves, people are ranked, the lights are not raised, the orders are not transmitted, the flags are silent, and only the sound of rustling footsteps can be heard, like spring silkworms constantly eating mulberry leaves.

Above the Mengmen Gate Tower, the newly awarded Pioneer General of the Western Expedition, the Champion General, and the Marquis of Dingyang, have just turned sixteen years old, and a little cyan young general has just emerged under the chin, and the red man Chen Kedi in front of the emperor is wearing the emperor's imperial ink unicorn bright light battle armor on his body, and the iron helmet full of texture is buckled on the top of his head, and the black helmet on the top is swinging with the wind.

Chen Kedi's face was solemn, without a trace of a smile, and some were just Xiao Ran.

For the first time as a general, his heart was full of excitement, and he wanted to look up to the sky and howl, but he tried his best to restrain himself. He knew that with his qualifications, he was not qualified to take on such an important position this time. Even if it was the battle plan he proposed, in the Da Chen Army, he was only a junior general who had been in the army for less than a year, and he was just over 16 years old.

If it weren't for the emperor's attention, his grandfather's name as a famous general, and his brave performance during the Jiangdong War, he wouldn't have had the slightest chance at all.

Even so, there are thousands of generals in the Chen army, brave generals, fierce generals, wise generals, and strategic generals, and they can surpass him by a lot.

Think about Marshal Li Jing, Marshal Li Benlei and other ten marshals, which one is not famous. is now Hu Hai, Xu Shiji and others who live under his account this time, which one is not a heroic hero in the troubled times?

Not to mention Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin, Luo Shixin, and Daniel Zhang, who were outside the north at this time, as soon as they mentioned them, they made countless Chen army soldiers blood boil and were extremely excited among the young generals. Countless births and deaths. They are the role models in the Great Chen Army. And he, in the eyes of everyone, may be more of a favored minister, right?

The long sword pillar was on the ground, his hands were on the hilt of the sword, and Chen Ke's enemy was as immobile as a mountain.

In this battle, he wants to make a name for himself, and he wants to prove it to everyone with his record. He is not a fortunate minister who only relies on his grandfather's prestige to eat. He wants to use his sword to create his own prestige and become a shining member of the Great Chen Generals.

"Report! General, the engineer battalion returns quickly, the zipline suspension bridge has been built, and the army can fly across the Yellow River at any time! ”

Chen Kedi looked up at the sky, it was just the third watch at this time, and there was still a period of time before dawn.

"Well, I didn't expect the brothers of the engineer battalion to build the bridge so quickly. Clerk, give the first credit to the engineer battalion. Heralds. The biography will order the Wolf Tooth Battalion and the Sky Wolf Battalion to end their rest. Fly across the Yellow River immediately, and before dawn, I will hear the good news of our army's capture of Diaoyin City! ”

"Order!" The herald turned and went downstairs, turned on his horse and quickly left.

"It's finally begun, and the era of my Chen Kedi has begun." Chen Kedi looked at the green mountains in the night, his blood was boiling, and he held his sword in his hand. The sword is unsheathed.

"Horns, drums, torches. The whole army marched in a hurry, go! ”

The horn sounded, the war drums beat, and the 10,000 soldiers of the Sky Wolf Battalion and the Wolf Tooth Battalion at the forefront had finished resting and waiting, turning over and getting on their horses one after another, and the torches were lit up one after another.

Swift as flying, just twenty miles of mountain road, 10,000 light horsemen arrived.

Ahead, the sound of the water is turbulent, a hundred steps ago is a cliff, below is the turbulent Yellow River. Although the width of this place is less than 20 zhang, the cliffs are steep, and the current is turbulent, and even the boats are difficult to cross.

But at this time, an army of 10,000 rushed here.

In front of them, at this time, there is not only the cliff of the Yellow River, but also a construction site as bright as day.

In just one night, before this natural danger, I don't know when eight huge wooden rafts were raised. Each of these eight wooden rafts can be hugged by ten people, and there is no such big tree in this world. If you look closely, you will find that these rafts are actually made from the merger of dozens of huge logs. At this time, half of these combined wooden rafts had been buried in a deep pit more than three zhang deep, and only about two zhang of the wooden raft was left on it.

The pit has been buried with earth and built with stones.

The eight wooden stilts were arranged in a peculiar formation, and at this time, all the eight axes were wrapped with thick iron chains, so that many soldiers who had just arrived could not see why.

The horse's hooves flew over, and another team galloped in, but it was Chen Kedi, Hu Hai and other pioneer generals who arrived.

Straddled the horse, Hu Hai held a clairvoyant mirror in his hand and observed the bridge that suddenly appeared. His face was full of shock, and his face was incredible.

"How is this possible, defeat the enemy, you must tell me, is it that your grandfather left you some heavenly book demon magic or something, how can it be that in less than one night, a bridge was built over this cowardly river? A flybridge? ”

As Hu Hai's words fell, Xu Shiji and other generals also looked at Chen Kedi in confusion, the sudden appearance of the flying bridge in front of them was too shocking. Yesterday evening, they just arrived at Mengmen Pass, and they came to this place for the first time, and they saw it with their own eyes, except for a cliff stream, but there was no flying bridge at all.

But now, in front of them, there was a flying rope bridge made of twelve huge iron cables.

Eight iron cables are made into low chains, two handrails are made on each side, and at intervals, there are thin ropes to bind the chains. On the eight low chains, which have now been paved with wooden planks, the entire chain bridge can be ridden in parallel at the same time, and it is extremely flat. It's more convenient than a pontoon made of boats.

How is this possible?

Chen Kedi looked at everyone's puzzled looks, and couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart.

At this time, the captain of the engineer battalion saw the arrival of the generals and hurriedly greeted them.

Chen Kedi immediately said to the captain of the engineer battalion: "Captain Liu, you don't believe that this chain bridge was built by you, and you say that it is a demon spell I cast, you come to explain it to your lords." ”

Captain Liu was also angry at this time, when Chen Kedi came to him and said that he wanted him to build a bridge over the Yellow River overnight, he couldn't believe it. Later, Chen Kedi explained to him for a long time, and he came to build the bridge with a half-believing attitude, but he didn't expect that the truth was much simpler than he imagined.

At this time, seeing that everyone had the same expressions as when he first heard this, he couldn't help but forget his previous appearance, and despised the future in his heart, and said proudly: "What do you generals mean by this, do you want to erase the merits of the thousands of brothers in our engineer battalion?"

The engineer battalion rarely directly participates in the battle, and is specially responsible for repairing bridges and paving roads, opening roads in the mountains, building bridges when encountering water, and even repairing the city when defending the city, setting up a village when garrisoning, filling in ditches when attacking the city, erecting moat bridges, and even blasting, operating ballista and gun wagons, which can be described as a quite professional group of people.

Such a person is a treasure-like existence in every unit. Therefore, in the face of Captain Liu's unkind words, Xu Shiji and the others hurriedly laughed: "Where, where, I'm just wondering, how did this bridge be built?" Look at the thickness of the chain, this chain must weigh thousands of pounds, right? ”

As soon as Captain Liu heard about the professional matter, he smiled proudly: "These twelve iron chains are not simple, each of them has 12,164 rings, each of which is 33 zhang 3 zhang long and weighs 5,000 catties. Twelve together, it's a full 60,000 catties! ”

Xu Shiji and the others were dumbfounded, and said in shock: "One is 5,000 catties, how did you build this bridge?" ”

Captain Liu said with a smile: "You don't know this, in fact, this iron cable is the iron cable on the Yangtze River in the past, and the original whole one was 999 zhang, which was built in Nanchen to deal with the Sui army's attack on Chen. Later, after the Sui destroyed Chen, this thing has been placed in the city of Jiangling, after the last time the imperial court captured Jiangling, this thing was transported to Luoyang, originally the imperial court wanted to build a bridge in the north of Luoyang, with iron oxen, iron chain to build a direct iron chain bridge between Luoyang and Hanoi. Later, due to the tension of the war with the Turks, the matter was delayed. After General Chen put forward this battle plan, His Majesty first issued an order to Luoyang, let the iron cables be transported to Mengmen in advance, and cut down these huge logs in advance. So this time we're just building bridges. ”

Xu Shiji still didn't understand: "But this iron cable weighs 5,000 catties, how did you carry it?" ”

"It's simple, first tie a bamboo rope to one end of the iron cable, then select a capable warrior, tie it to the end of the bamboo rope with a rope, and then float across the river with a wooden float. When we got to the other side of the river, we cut down huge logs as we did, and buried them in a deep pit into huge wooden rafts, and they became bridge rafts. Then the next step is to pull the rope over, then pull the bamboo cable over, and then use the pulley to slowly hang the iron cable a little bit, and finally bind it to the bridge sleigh, fix it, and form it. Then the twelve iron cables were fixed with small iron cables in sections, and finally the wooden planks were laid, and the suspension bridge was completed. Alas, if it weren't for the urgency of the matter, in fact, the bridges on both sides would have to be cast into iron to make 10,000 catties of iron oxen, so that they would be firm. Preferably, two bridges should be built on both sides, so that the bridge will not be destroyed for ten thousand years. Now, I can only make do with it. ”

What Captain Liu said seems to be easy, but it is actually very difficult. If it weren't for the fact that Chen Jun had a special engineer battalion over the years, it would have been impossible to build a suspension bridge overnight, even if the suspension bridge was no more than 100 meters long and no more than 3 meters wide, it contained too many advanced technologies.

By this time, the soldiers of the engineer battalion had already nailed the last piece of the bridge, and the handrails on both sides were all fixed with small iron cables. After two attempts, the engineer battalion finally said that the bridge was officially open.

Chen Kedi didn't care about the generals who were still surprised and shocked, waved his long arm, and pointed the long sword in his hand diagonally to the west: "Cross the river!" Offensive! ”

"Cross the river! Attack, exterminate Liu Wuzhou, and break through Chang'an City! A silent voice sounded, and 10,000 of the most advanced black-armored cavalry flew across the Yellow River in the night.