Traveler Major League

Chapter 180 Preparation

The Prince Qin’s Mansion in Xi’an City has been a large construction site since the second day after it was occupied. It formed a heavy city form and became a sub-city of the big city. A single Qinwangfu is also a double city wall inside and outside. There is a brick city inside and a Xiao wall outside.

According to the function, the area of ​​King Qin’s Mansion can be divided into four areas: sacrifice, palace, garden, and life. From south to north on the central axis, it can be regarded as the sacrificial area (southwest of Zhuancheng, northwest of Xiaoqiang Lingxing Gate), palace area (brick Most of the city) and the garden area (mainly in the eastern part of the brick city, the back garden and the moat), in the outlying area between the brick city and Xiaoqiang, there are also many official offices and part of the royal army under the jurisdiction of the Qin Palace. , guards and service personnel living quarters.

It is precisely because of these advantages that this place was chosen as the starting point for another crossing. First, a standard circle was drawn in the widest back garden and the bedroom, still with a radius of 299 meters, centered on the back door of the bedroom.

After setting the distance, the first step is to level the ground. At the beginning, thousands of militiamen were used to carry out this work. Standing on the top of the back door of the palace, Liu Ze watched the militiamen working like a colony of ants. The change target area is 28 square meters of land, and the greatness of manpower is undoubtedly revealed at this time.

"Commander, it will take about a day for us to finish the preliminary sorting, and in a few days we will be able to transfer all the materials." Zhang Pu took the account book and flipped through the details of the various materials, and outside the target circle were even more A large number of militiamen drove carts to transport food from various places inside and outside the city, and the height of the piles even exceeded the height of the inner city wall.

"It's too slow, too slow." Liu Ze recalled the information from the scouts all around, and couldn't help becoming anxious, "Immediately mobilize the people in the city and tell them to help us transfer supplies. If they finish it in one day and one night, each person will get five One glass bead, if it is finished in two days and two nights, you will get four orbs, and so on, they should know the value of this bead, before our people came to Xi'an to sell, a chain made of ten beads can be sold for more than ten taels of silver .”

"Then will so many beads still retain their value by then? And do we have so many glass beads?" Yu Ting's mind turned quickly, and he immediately asked when he heard Liu Ze's words. He came up with some ideas, and now he has been hired by Liu Ze as a consultant, following him all the time.

Hearing this, Liu Ze and Zhang Pu looked at each other and smiled, they said they would definitely give it to them, but at that time they had reached the boundary of Hongmaoman, but now they can’t say that, they are all old people who have crossed together Of course, he knew what it was like over there, only Yu Ting didn't know, after all, he and Yu Chou were arrested and sent to the army.

Seeing Yu Ting frowning in doubt, Liu Ze smiled in his heart, skipped the topic, waved his hand and continued: "We have to prepare everything such as food, cloth, medicinal materials, salt, tea, etc. Lay it flat first, build it up if you can build it high, and then people will stand on it. If you don’t have enough wood, pull out the house and demolish the house, remember to pay the IOU, and make up for it later!”

"Can we stand with so many people?" Someone asked worriedly: "Our current population in the city and outside the city is estimated to be nearly one million, plus the 10,000+ brought by ourselves, so many How can you fit in such a small place?"

Liu Ze nodded and said, "It will definitely fit in." The mosque in the center of Mecca in modern Saudi Arabia can accommodate 150 million Muslims to worship at the same time. The wall of the whole mosque is only 166 meters long from northwest to 170 meters long meters, nearly 110 meters to the northeast and 111 meters to the southwest.

According to Liu Ze's calculation, with a radius of 299 meters, its total area reaches 280719 square meters, which is enough to squeeze.

This kind of dialogue with the donkey's head wrong with the horse's mouth aroused questions from Yu Ting, Yu Chou and other people who had never experienced time-traveling, asking one after another: "Why is this so?"

Seeing that there was really no way to explain it, Liu Ze patted Yu Ting and Yu Chou on the shoulders of the two brothers and said, "We are preparing for a celebration ceremony, it only takes a moment, there is no need to ask about anything else, just know that it is very important. "

After hearing Liu Ze's explanation, Yu Chou laughed and walked away without thinking about it, but Yu Ting was still standing there frowning, as if he still had some doubts about Liu Ze's explanation.

Liu Ze shook his head, and didn't care about Yu Ting any more. Anyway, he won't be able to tell for a while, so it's better not to say anything, and they will know everything when they go there by themselves.

With the release of the new order, under the pretext of holding a celebration in Xi'an, recruitment was organized throughout the city. The first batch of civilian husbands who entered the Qin Palace amounted to more than [-], and there were many carpenters among them. Their work was not only Leveling the ground also includes building dividing fences and load-bearing wooden frames.

So many people entering such a small area will mean possible chaos. If there is a stampede, it will suffer heavy losses, so it needs to be divided into multiple areas, plus the materials at the bottom. A wooden frame with a height of one meter should be erected within the scope of each square meter.

Each wooden frame has four supporting legs like a bench, but it is slightly larger, and people can stand on it, and there are handrails to stabilize the body shape, presenting a dense forest-like magnificent scene in the entire circular area, from a long distance in the middle Looking directly at it, the entire circle is like a silicon chip for making chips, and the dense wooden frame extends in all directions like an integrated circuit, covering the entire surface.

Under the sun at noon, the ever-increasing number of civilians made the construction speed in the circle faster and faster. Only at the end of the day (two to three o'clock in the afternoon), the construction of this circular area has been completed, and the rest is Fill with various supplies.

Four entrances and exits have been formed around the gates in four directions of Prince Qin's Mansion. Various materials piled up on the open space around the passages are increasing rapidly. These are the mobilized peasants who brought them from everywhere. The giant circle is used for construction, and then it is food and other materials.

At the beginning, the food was packed in big bags made of reed grass, but after it was packed, it was in the shape of a cuboid, about 1 meter long, 60 centimeters wide, and [-] centimeters high. Then what is the use? For example, directly use wooden boards to form a square, use straw mats to isolate the ground, and cover the top with straw mats for people to stand on. Some people put grain in containers such as clay pots collected, and finally simply Dig a hole on the ground, spread it with grass mats around it, and then reinforce it with wooden boards, pour the grain directly, and then cover it with wooden boards and straw mats.

At this time, there is no fixed food-saving practice of two meals in the morning and evening. The surrounding gates of King Qin's Mansion, whether they are ordinary houses or high-ranking officials' mansions, have all been requisitioned. The water is boiled non-stop to make meals, and the special folks send them to the people in the circular area to eat. They also set up urine buckets and latrines outside the circular area, and they work non-stop.

Now there are only a small number of people in each militia company working with the recruited people under the guidance of Zhang Pu and others. The others are distributed in the middle of the entire area and constantly patrol and guard to prevent accidents.

There are only two punishments for criminals, guilty or not guilty.

Those who were guilty were beheaded, and their heads were hung on wooden poles by the side of the road for public display. Those who were innocent were released and continued to work.

In troubled times, in this newly-occupied city, the strict discipline and cruel punishment of the troops sleeping on the streets last night made everyone feel terrified.

"There must be strict discipline for a large-scale operation of millions of people. There are officers and soldiers everywhere. We are racing against the officers and soldiers." Liu Ze knew that many of the rows of heads hanging in the city may have been wronged. It was because they didn't want to be confiscated by the People's Army with IOUs, or they didn't want to help with the work, but Liu Ze didn't have time, so this might be a necessary sacrifice.

With the circle as the center, there are people everywhere in the courtyards and streets on the whole land. The red flags representing various militia companies are fixed. The colors are constantly disturbed, and when the distance is increased, a scene like a complex and surprising integrated circuit emerges. The circle that controls the changes in this area continues to radiate farther, beyond the square gate of Xi'an. , convoys and concentrated crowds continued to gather from the surrounding county towns and villages, and the farthest one could extend to Fuping County, a hundred miles away.

The entire "circuit board" is like a spoon spanning the Guanzhong Plain.

The first to fight was not Hong Chengchou's troops, but Du Wenhuan, the commander-in-chief who was expected to arrive in Xi'an at night. After receiving the letter, he divided the original 5000 cavalry into two parts, of which 500 gave up their horses to the other 500. With one man and two horses speeding up, this cavalry gave up all the luggage in a long snake formation, and set off with a day's food and grass, and finally arrived at Xishui in the east of Xianyang at noon to meet the people's army.

Originally, Wang Youyuan was going to disperse to investigate the movements of the officers and troops, but before he dispersed, he received news from Liu Ze that Du Wenhuan's troops had come to help him from the captives in the Qin Palace, and then came a rifle company, an artillery company, and [-] militia led by Yang Zeming and Wang Guan.

The encounter site is the only remaining stone bridge connecting the two banks. All other nearby bridges were burned down by the People’s Army who arrived yesterday. When the bridge was burned down, Wang Youyuan led the team to run around Xianyang city, scaring the whole of Xianyang The city gate was closed tightly, allowing the more than 500 cavalry to show off their might.

These militiamen arrived before dark yesterday and were divided into two parts. 5000 people led by Yang Zeming set up a village to block the stone bridge, and another 5000 people led by Wang Guan set up defenses along the river to prevent surprise attacks.

Yang Zeming's 5000 men were actually bait. These militiamen stood on the bridge like a piece of fat, in order to attract Du Wenhuan's cavalry to attack. It is absolutely impossible to block.

Just as Yang Zeming thought, Du Wenhuan rushed all the way to Lishui only to find that the road ahead was cut off. Because of the urgent time, he didn't even have time to enter Xianyang in the future, and naturally he had no way of knowing that the People's Army had arrived.

However, for Du Wenhuan, the thieves blocking the road are not in his eyes at all, and he despises these thieves even after he approaches and investigates. He only sees six artillery pieces and a large number of unarmored soldiers. Just go around, and there is no way to fight this battle.

Without any delay, Du Wenhuan whispered to Cao Tong, President Qian: "Weiting, there is no bridge within five miles along this river. If you have to detour for a few days to get to Xi'an, we will use this stone bridge." There is no doubt about it.”

"My lord, within half an hour, this thief will be defeated." Cao Tong glanced at the people's army in the distance, and said to Du Wenhuan with disdain on his face.

At this time, Yang Zeming's troops were deploying defenses on the bridge, like a capital T-shape. Jumazhai wall fortifications were piled up on the bridge, and a larger camp stood behind the bridge. One side of the bridge deck was built by excavating soil. The trench is more than two meters above the ground, and the only rifle company is set up here. Two artillery positions are set up on the high ground on both sides, which can shoot cross-fire. Generally speaking, the militias are distributed around the rifle company and artillery company.

As the company commander, Zhang Gou'er stood at the back of the company, running back and forth busy commanding, "All the barbed wire is placed, and it depends on the cavalry of the Yinguan Army, Lao Li, the militiamen of your company must guard against the horses, and keep away from the horses." Just stab it, and we will cover you from behind."

Li Lianchang, who was in the middle of the bridge, heard the shouts behind him and waved his hands without looking back. The two of them had cooperated on the crossroads yesterday, and their mutual understanding was even stronger.

The first to arrive was a hundred cavalry officers. They came in the shape of two long snakes. When they reached a position nearly a hundred meters away from the bridge, they suddenly drew a semicircle on both sides. At this time, Cao Tong, who was on the high ground behind, saw Zheng nodded, "Blow the horn." This is a means of investigation and probing by the officers and soldiers. Although they look down on their opponents, they must be done as a veteran general.

Before all the first wave of cavalry turned around, the second wave of nearly [-] cavalry came up again. The two hundred cavalry were different from before. All in a row raised their bows and shot light arrows. These arrows can't deal with armored people, but they are extremely effective against these civilian militiamen, and they shoot far. Fortunately, they have been prepared and set up an anti-arrow barracks on the bridge. Not many hit the arrows.

However, the officers and soldiers were not prepared to take it down so easily. At this time, another two hundred riders rushed over. This time, they dismounted directly to a position 50 meters away from the camp on the bridge deck. This time, the officers and soldiers were wearing two layers of cotton armor. Holding a shield and ax in array for melee combat.

"Company commander, shall we fight?"

Zhang Gou'er shook his head, and shouted to the left and right: "No one can shoot without my order, and those who violate the military law will be dealt with." There were responses from all around.

Now shooting the officers and soldiers can only kill or injure 200 people. It is necessary to attract a large army of officers and soldiers to come here and cause mass destruction at one time to achieve the purpose of blocking these cavalry and prevent them from detouring. At the beginning, the militiamen must use their flesh and blood This is why neither the artillery nor the riflemen opened fire.

The horns of the officers and soldiers sounded, and the armors of the officers and soldiers lined up were shining under the sunlight. The disadvantage of this kind of light will become more and more obvious to the people's army on the east bank of the river.

(End of this chapter)