Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 607
Harasan is actually a guard under Nuer Gandusi.

This guard was established during the Yongle period when Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty made his northern expedition. Its location is probably in the middle of Hulun Lake, Beier Lake and Hailar River.

Hara Shenwei's subordinates, Haraha Qianhusuo, Harahai Qianhusuo and Hailar Qianhusuo, respectively manage the Mengyuan tribes near Hulun Lake, Beier Lake and Hailar River, and are important towns in the north of the Horqin Grassland.

Therefore, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, a huge acropolis was built here.

More than 200 years have passed, and the original Acropolis has naturally been abandoned long ago.

However, after Huang Taiji took down here, he rebuilt the Acropolis.

Because casting cannons requires a house with a brick and tile structure, tents are definitely not acceptable, and they will be burned if they are not careful.

And the rebuilt Harashen Acropolis is where he cast the cannon.

This is also the reason why Baylor and the leaders of the Mengyuan tribe seemed to see hope when they heard the name of Harasan. They also knew that the legendary Harasan Guard City was the place where the cannons were cast.

If Daming is like the previous Central Plains dynasties, unable to bear the consumption of food and salaries and withdrawing troops, or leaving only some troops to guard the Chahar and Horqin grasslands, they still have a chance to fight back.

After all, even if their clansmen were captured by Da Ming, they were still their clansmen, as long as they ran back and raised their arms, they could still gather them together.

It has to be said that they thought too much.

This time, it was impossible for the Ming army to retreat, because Taichang had plenty of money and food.

Moreover, their clansmen have all been relocated, and the entire Chahar Grassland and Horqin Grassland are all guarded by the Ming army!

If they ran over and raised their arms, they would probably be beaten up and arrested!
At this moment, Huang Taiji could only regard Harashenwei City as his last hope.

As long as the Ming army does not continue to advance northward, or there are not many troops advancing northward, he still has the hope of defending Harasan Guard City and continue to develop.

He set the place where the cannons were cast to Harashenwei City, but he didn't expect this day to come.

The reason why he decided to cast the cannon in Harashen was mainly to avoid being detected by the scouts of the Liaodong Army.

Because Sun Chengzong was so annoying, he kept sending scouts to infiltrate the Chahar Grassland and Horqin Grassland.

If he decides to cast the cannon in the Horqin Grassland, he will be discovered sooner or later.

Harasan was different. If the scouts of the Ming army wanted to find out that place, they had to go through the entire Horqin Grassland, and then go northward for five or six hundred miles.

This kind of situation is basically impossible. It is impossible for the scouts of the Ming army to go to Harasan through the Horqin Grassland which is nearly two thousand miles away.

Therefore, he set the place where the cannon was cast in Harashen. In the past few years, the Liaodong Army did not find out.

He hadn't thought that Harasan would be his last refuge.

At the moment he is still rejoicing.

Maybe this is God's will, God will not kill me!

Well, Taichang really doesn't know about the Harasan Acropolis at the moment.

However, he has no plans to withdraw his troops after taking the Horqin Grassland.

Right now he is mobilizing manpower to build a city in the middle of the Horqin Grassland.

Since the development of the machinery for building railways, the speed of laying railway lines is simply not too fast.

It took them only five or six days to lay the railway line from North Chahar City to Horqin City, which is nearly a thousand miles away. This is because there is no quarry place on the grassland, and they have to quarry in the Gobi Desert. It took a little time to transport the stones to the grassland.

Otherwise, the railway of more than a thousand miles can be laid in about four days!

At this moment, the speed at which Daming builds the city is quite terrifying.

The foundation of the city wall did not need to be dug at all. The plow excavator went up and plowed and then arched. The foundation of the city wall with a radius of ten miles was dug in one day.

There is no need for people to mine and carry the stones for filling the foundation. There are plow excavators collecting them on the Gobi Desert, and then they are loaded on the train and transported over. Push it with a big shovel and push it into the foundation.

There are also bricks and tiles used for city construction. It should not be too simple to fire. Find a good piece of clay and plow the ground a few times, enough for tens of thousands of soldiers to fire bricks and tiles a day, and there is no need to dig.

Now, the only problem seems to be that it is too far away from Beizhili, and it takes several days to transport materials such as wood, coal, cement and steel bars.

You know, from North Zhili to the north, through the Yanshan Mountains and then through the Gobi Desert to the edge of the Chahar Grassland, it is thousands of miles, and it is thousands of miles to cross the Chahar Grassland.

Then it is four to five hundred miles from the northern edge of the Chahar Grassland to North Chahar City, and nearly a thousand miles from North Chahar City to Horqin City.

With such a long distance, even a round trip by train would take seven or eight days, which is too time-consuming.

If it is shipped directly from Liaodong, it will be much faster.

However, at this moment, from Horqin City to Liaodong, you have to go around the North Chahar City, go east for more than a thousand miles to East Horqin City, and then go through the Gobi Desert for five or six hundred miles to reach Liaodong.

In other words, bypassing Liaodong from North Chahar City will not save much time.

Perhaps, another railway from Horqin City to East Horqin City can be built, which can shorten the distance by more than a thousand miles.

Standing on an infantry fighting vehicle, Taichang carefully scanned the scene of city construction in full swing, and already had some concerns in his heart.

He put down the binoculars, and said directly to Song Yingxing who was beside him, "Chang Geng, let's go, let's discuss how to build the railway next."

After finishing speaking, he climbed out of the chariot and led Song Yingxing to the big tent.

In the big tent, generals such as Sun Chengzong and Lu Xiangsheng, as well as staff generals such as Sun Quan and Zhang Zhiji, were constantly watching the progress of the various armies of the Shenwu Battalion on the front line.

At this moment, all the armies of the Shenwu Camp have advanced more than a thousand miles north, but they haven't caught any herdsmen from the Mengyuan tribe.

I have to say, these people can really run.

Taichang took a general look at the situation, then pointed to the map and said, "Chang Geng, look, the advancing lines of the various armies of the Shenwu Battalion are actually only a hundred miles away from here, and we don't need to build a railway to the north yet.

And the capital is more than three thousand miles away, so it is extremely inconvenient for us to transfer materials.

Therefore, we can first build the railway from Horqin City to East Horqin City. In this way, we can shorten the distance from Horqin City to Liaodong to about [-] miles, and it is much more convenient for us to transfer materials. "

Song Yingxing looked at the map carefully, then bowed his hands and said, "I understand."

They were discussing in the big tent when a messenger came in hurriedly and said loudly: "Report, Your Majesty, Lord Sun, the army in the middle of the Shenwu Camp has captured the prisoners of the Mengyuan tribe. This time, tens of thousands of people have been captured." .”

Hahahaha, it seems that these herdsmen of the Mengyuan tribe can't run anymore.

What a coincidence, they had just laid the railway line here, and the station had just been built, and they captured a large number of prisoners.

If so many prisoners had been captured a few days earlier, it would have been troublesome.

After all, it is more than a thousand miles away from North Chahar City and East Horqin City, and a horse-drawn carriage can run more than a hundred miles in a day.

If there are no cities and stations here, then the captives will have to be transported to North Chahar City or East Horqin City by horse-drawn carriage. It is really not an ordinary trouble to transport prisoners by horse-drawn cart over such a long distance.

This is all right, there is no trouble at all, and it is very convenient to transport the prisoners in a horse-drawn carriage over a distance of more than a hundred miles.

Perhaps, this is God's will, the sky is about to perish and build slaves.

Both Taichang and Huang Taiji are lamenting God's will, so who belongs to God's will?
Right now, it seems that God favored Taichang and Daming!
(End of this chapter)