Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 680 Set Fire to Dafeichuan

Chapter 93 Set Fire to Dafeichuan
Hua'ergou Iron and Steel Workshop, Ma Mengming followed Chen Ying to Hua'ergou, looking at the busy construction scene in front of him, Ma Mengming was a little dazed.It's not that he has never been to Hua'ergou.The land here is barren and sparsely populated, not to mention growing crops, and even weeds are scarce. Not only are there no Han people here to cultivate wasteland, even herdsmen do not come here to graze.

Originally, there was no road in Hua'ergou, but in front of it, the six-foot-wide road has changed drastically, with frequent traffic, and countless people of all nationalities are busy constructing it.The wooden hammer and the round stone roller worked alternately to make the paved road as smooth as a mirror. Ma Mengming secretly clicked his tongue in his heart. Even the imperial roads in Gaochang City may not have this level.

In front is a post station for changing horses. Next to the post station, there are rows of houses built in different places. The texture of these houses is very strange. It is different from the thatched houses and adobe houses in the mainland. The walls are blue-gray and feel to the touch. Hard and cool.Just by the roadside of the post station, a tall wooden roller device is connected to a millstone through a strange mechanism. Two or three donkeys pull the millstone and keep turning it, and the roller rotates accordingly. There is a scratching sound of rubbing against the inner wall. The rotating shaft of the wooden barrel is a wooden stick wrapped with an iron leaf at a key part. When the drum rotates, this shaft does not rotate with it.Firewood is piled under the barrel, and the flames are still far away from the barrel, but you can see the hot steam wrapping the barrel with the naked eye.

Ma Mengming watched for a while, and saw that one side of the drum was suddenly opened, and the young peasants immediately rushed forward to shovel a kind of thing from the drum with wooden shovels. When I looked closely, there seemed to be smiling particles mixed in. In an instant, the contents of the bucket had been scooped up by the peasants, and the chassis was re-sealed. Two peasants in the distance came over with buckets full of small slag and stones.

With a pungent smell in his nose, Ma Mengming asked curiously: "Da Duhu, can this stone resin water also be used to pave roads?"

"This is not tartar water. I call it asphalt. It's just the residue after refining tartar water. It's the best way to pave roads!" Chen Yingwen laughed dumbfounded.

Since the discovery of iron ore and coal mines in Huaergou, Chen Ying accidentally discovered a large amount of crude oil in Heihaizi, southwest of Jinman County.In fact, Chen Ying didn't know that the crude oil and coal would ignite spontaneously after a few years, forming a mountain of fire.

However, Chen Ying naturally would not give up this unexpected talent.After simple distillation and refining of crude oil, light gasoline or diesel oil can be obtained, which can be used to burn the enemy, which is much more powerful than fierce fire oil and the so-called Greek fire.Because the crude oil in Heihaizi has been exposed to the air for too long, the amount of oil in it is not too large. On the contrary, when it is refined, there is a lot of asphalt, the residue of crude oil.

And yes, Chen Ying mixed the residue from steelmaking together with pebbles, mixed with asphalt, and paved the asphalt road for future generations.In this way, the speed of road construction is much faster. The people in front leveled the ground, then rolled it with stone rollers, and finally spread asphalt and stones, sprinkled with fine sand, and after rolling with stone rollers, it was completed.

With the traffic volume of roads in this era, it may take tens or hundreds of years without repairs.

Since there are no special roads in the Western Regions, if there are too many people walking, it will become a road.Therefore, the Western Regions are notoriously easy to attack and difficult to defend. As long as they cross the Upper Shule, Lower Shule, and Geluoling Valleys of Congling, there are almost no strategic points in the Western Regions to defend.

But it is different when Chen Yingxiu develops this kind of road. Once people get used to walking this kind of road and using four-wheeled carriages to transport supplies, then in the future, Chen Ying will be able to set up checkpoints on the road's checkpoints, and can effectively carry out defense!

When he arrived at the steel workshop in Hua'ergou, Ma Mengming was stunned.A city has sprung up from the ground.Moreover, this city is larger than most cities in the Western Regions.To give the simplest example, the ancient city of Loulan, a well-known ancient city in the Western Regions, covers an area of ​​about 12 square meters, about the size of [-] standard football fields.

However, this city is at least three times the size of Loulan City.

Now that there is no battle to fight, these energetic soldiers were captured by Chen Ying. Those who mined mines, those who made steel, those who made steel, and those who built cities, they were more powerful and achieved gratifying results.

After Chen Ying arrived at Hua'ergou, he immediately ordered: "The whole army gathers!"

"Dong dong..." The war drum sounded, and all the soldiers heard the order, hurriedly stopped their work, and quickly returned to the barracks, put on their armor and brought their knives, and returned to the school grounds to assemble.

The fastest responder actually arrived at the school grounds within the time of a stick of incense.

"The morale is high, and the morale of the army is available!" Ma Mengming watched such an efficient army build up, and had a new understanding of the elite team under Chen Ying's command.

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "No, no! Have you noticed that these quickly assembled troops are from the Cao Department of the Ninth Department of Zhaowu?"

"Well, so what?" Ma Mengming asked puzzled, "What happened to them?"

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "They, why are they running so fast?"

Ma Mengming said: "It's probably because General Cao Dan trained his steps properly, so he wants to make meritorious service?"

Chen Ying said solemnly: "Maybe there is this reason, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that they are escaping a kind of torture, a torture that is ten times more painful than the enemy's desperate efforts on the battlefield. At least I think Cao Dan’s son Cao Yaqian is like this.”

"Escape from a kind of torture?" Ma Mengming asked suspiciously: "A kind of torture that is worse than going to the battlefield? What is it?"

"Just learn Tang Yan." Chen Ying said with a smile: "Didn't you realize that Tang Yan is very difficult for them to learn? I think Cao Yaqian dare not show it too obviously these days, but The expression that was accidentally revealed was like sawing one's own neck with a knife."

In fact, it is precisely because learning Tang Yan, whether it is farming or reclaiming wasteland, even fighting and fighting the enemy, is more exciting to these Anxi soldiers than learning Tang Yan.

Ma Mengming was a little dumbfounded when he heard it, maybe it was because he had been exposed to it since he was a child, maybe he himself is a genius in human language, but he didn't think Tang Yan was difficult to learn.

But after listening to Chen Ying's words, he felt that there was some truth.

In about a quarter of an hour, the whole army was assembled.The Modao Army, the Xiaoqi Army, the Shesheng Army, and the Hebei New Army all formed a neat square formation with the Zhechong Mansion as the unit.As for the cavalry of each department, after the old, weak, sick and disabled were also abolished, only 5 horses remained.The array is strict, the spears are like a forest, and the horizontal knives are like a wall.

Chen Ying inspected Anxi's troops, feeling a sense of pride in his heart.He asked solemnly: "Do you know why they assembled?"

The [-] troops were silent, and needles could be heard on the school field.In fact, except for the generals at the front, no ordinary soldier could hear what Chen Ying said.

"Because the Tubo people went down the mountain, they came to Liangzhou while our brothers were leaving Liangzhou, and burned, killed and looted in the five states of Sha, He, Gua, Gansu and Su! How dare you brazenly invade Datang? It’s because they clearly didn’t take our brothers seriously, but they are brave enough to come and kick us!”

The generals in front of the queue listened to Chen Ying, their facial muscles twitched slightly, like gangster bosses boosting morale before a fight.It's a very shameful thing to be kicked by the Tibetans. Those damned Tibetans are slapping them in the face!
However, Chen Ying said beamingly: "Well done, well done. The governor of the capital was worried that there would be no coolies for road construction in the Western Regions, so they came to him. These Tubo people, you should keep them for the governor of the capital." Hands, don't kill them all, I still want to keep them, and let us reclaim more land and build more roads. Whose land is reclaimed? Of course, it belongs to the brothers. Reclaim ten acres of land, you guys I also have an extra income, so that you, your family members, can live comfortably. Even if you are killed or injured in battle, your children can live a prosperous life by relying on this inheritance. The military exploits will not be less than yours. !"

Hearing that they had achieved a lot in battle, these soldiers became short of breath.Originally they were the Anxi Army, and the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion was not their defense area, but they were all excited when they heard that Chen Ying was going to use these prisoners of war to cultivate wasteland for them and liberate them from this heavy labor.

"The old rule is that one reward for killing an enemy is five guan, the seriously injured one is given ten guan for medical treatment, and the one who is killed is twenty guan!" Chen Ying said: "Capturing an enemy is counted as beheading!"

All the soldiers raised their arms and shouted: "Dadu is mighty, Dadu is all victorious!"

Chen Ying said again: "Now I order that the Shesheng Army, the Hebei New Army, and the Modao Army stay in the camp! The others immediately bring all their equipment and set off, let's go make a fortune!"

Hearing that the various ministries began to prepare, only Duan Zhigan opened his mouth, wanting to bring the Hebei new army to practice, but Chen Ying's order had already been issued, and the military order was no joke, so he had to give up for the sake of Chen Ying's authority.He looked at Chen Ying eagerly, hoping that he would give him a chance to make contributions.

Chen Ying looked at Duan Zhigan and said, "Let Ma Canjun explain to you why you are here!"

Ma Mengming thought for a while and said, "The Chief Protector, is it because of Murong Fuyun?"

"That's right, Qu's father and son are wicked, they colluded with Murong Fuyun, and they didn't hold back their farts!" Chen Ying looked at these excited servant soldiers, pointed at them and said, "If they are not of my race, their hearts must be different. It’s hard to judge whether the heart is with us or not, but it will take time to test. Now that we and the others are taking them to Liangzhou, you will guard the Western Regions for me, especially the newly reclaimed 75 mu of land. But hold on to me, don't let them set fire to Ben Dadu!"

When Chen Ying said this, Duan Zhigan would be stupid if he didn't understand.

As Chen Ying said, it is impossible to determine whether the more than [-] servants of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions are sincerely loyal to Datang, but as long as they follow Chen Ying to Liangzhou, with the combat effectiveness of the Xiaocavalry, even if they have bad intentions, they will still be able to take advantage of it. Less than cheap.

However, staying in the Western Regions is different, there are many good moves they can do secretly!
After arranging all these matters, Chen Ying said to Liu Tong and Xunxiang, who had just arrived in Jinman, "I know you have worked hard, but I think you also understand the meaning of the formation of the Beiwei army by the general guards. The Tubo people returned to the plateau. , nothing more than two roads, one is from Grimu to Tanggula Mountain, then to Amdo, and then to Nagqu! As far as I know, this Tubo army is not from Nagqu, so they can only return by another road Snowfield."

Then, Chen Ying pointed out from the map: "They will pass from Shancheng (Xining) through Linfan City (Huangzhong Duoba) to Suirong City (south of Huangyuan County), along Qiangshui (Huangshui Nanyuan Yaoshui River) ) through Shibaocheng (Huangyuan Shicheng Mountain), Chiling (Riyue Mountain), Yuchichuan (Daotang River) to Moliyi (Republic Dongba), and Dafeichuan (Republic Qieji Grassland), your The goal is here!"

"Dafeichuan?" Liu Tong tried to ask.

"That's right, it's Dafeichuan!" Chen Ying said, "I want you to arrive at Dafeichuan ahead of time with the Wei army behind you, and stay in hiding. It will take at least two months for us to decide the outcome with the Tubo people. By that time, Dafei The grasslands in Sichuan have also started to turn yellow, if you find that the Tubo army has collapsed, you will set fire to Dafeichuan and cut off Tubo’s way back, and the governor of Dafei will prevent Tubo from returning!”

(End of this chapter)