Chapter 85 The Real Bridge(2/2)
Both sides were tense and were about to break out.
"Sit down!" Alpad slapped the table hard: "Want to have a duel? Get out. Don't splash blood on my body!"
General Sekler sighed: "It is not a good idea to stick to the support. It seems that we can only choose the best one from the bad method. If we think about the backup plan, what should we do if the reinforcements don't come? What should we do if we don't get rid of the siege?"
The military tent fell silent again.
If reinforcements do not come, or if they come, they cannot be rescued.
Then there is only one outcome waiting for the fifth and sixth legions - the entire army is wiped out.
"My centurion has an idea." The one-eyed Lieutenant Colonel, who has been silent until now, broke the silence. His voice was not loud, but it grabbed everyone's attention: "That boy is a little anxious, I think he can give it a try."
"Don't talk nonsense." General Secler glanced at Lieutenant Colonel Jeska with dissatisfaction: "Speak!"
"Build a bridge!" Lieutenant Colonel Jeska took out the drawings: "It's not a pontoon bridge, but a real bridge."
Lieutenant Colonel Robert raised his eyebrows: "A real bridge? How to build it?"
Lieutenant Colonel Jeska walked up and hung the drawings on the shelf:
"Built like Kaisan!"
...
Winters stood on a mound, ahead of him was a camp where construction was under intense work.
Further forward is the majestic River Styx.
On the left hand side of Winters, there is another mound of similar height.
The official code for the two mounds given by the Legion Command is the South Highland and the North Highland.
However, because the two mounds resemble female peaks, the soldiers all called it... that.
The camp and the two mounds are distributed in triangle shape, close to the river beach.
This position is not very conducive to defense, because the two mounds are facing high and overlook the entire camp.
The Palatu army had to build fortresses on the high grounds of the south and north, and scattered their troops to garrison.
Setting the camp on a terrain that is not suitable for defense is only for two reasons:
First, half a kilometer northwest from here, there is a dense coniferous forest; second, the width of the river here is less than 200 meters, which is suitable for building bridges.
Time waited for no one. The soldiers of the Fifth Legion were still digging trenches and building walls. The soldiers of the Sixth Legion had already dragged the logs back.
The military camp is now a huge open-air woodworking workshop and a blacksmith shop.
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Even half of the bucket of water that only knows how to use planes is taken away.
The bellows blew the fire and the jingling forging sounded constantly.
The excess armor and weapons were melted into axes, nails, anchors, and sent to those who needed them.
Everyone was working selflessly, and a giant raft was gradually taking shape in the middle of the camp.
"Dong!"
"Dong!"
"Dong!"
At the same time, another giant raft was floating on the water and smashing wooden stakes into the riverbed.
Several small boats were anchored in the middle of the river, measuring the depth of the water.
On the giant raft there is a simple equipment that looks like a pile driver: a stone pier, a lifting device, and a slide rail.
The raft carrying this set of equipment is the core of the bridge construction project.
The soldiers on the raft shouted and pushed the turntable, the ropes creaked, and the heavy pier was lifted up little by little.
The rest of the soldiers on the raft worked together to put a log into the slide rail and overcome the buoyancy as much as possible to explore deeper.
When the tip of the log touched the riverbed, the officer on the raft pulled the crane to block the iron.
The stone pier fell heavily and hit the tail of the wooden stake, and the raft was trembling.
The wooden stake was knocked into the riverbed by huge force nearly half a meter deep.
The soldiers shouted trumpets again and pushed the turntable—they had to repeat twice more until the stakes were firmly pierced into the depths of the riverbed.
The wooden stakes fixed to the riverbed will be used as bridge piers and extend all the way to the other side of the river.
The super-large raft carries a six-meter-high pile driver, walking on the water like a giant in mythology, which shocked the Hudders on the other side and ran and shouted.
"I haven't seen this thing before?" Winters felt relieved: "It seems that "The Takuho War" does not have a Hedian version."
Monk Reed was also beside Winters.
The old man stroked his beard and sighed: "[Selica] A strange skill is really a strange skill."
"What?" Winters couldn't understand.
"I'm talking about your ability!"
"It was not invented by me." Winters grabbed his hair a few times in shame: "It's all things from ancient books, but there are no real objects. When he was in the Land Academy, the teacher led us to try to restore it."
"But." Monk Reed smacked his lips and said, "This bridge is probably useless."
"Anyway, I don't expect to use the end of the world. It's enough to use it once."
Friar Reed laughed: "That's it."
Chapter completed!