The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 180 The situation is clear, Wazhou falls into the hands of Beixiang!

The Tao River originates from the Sunan Grassland, first turns north and then southwest to join the Yellow River.Except for the mountainous areas, almost all of Didao's Sichuan area is on the river line of the Tao River turning back to the southwest.Taoyang Town is called Taoyang because it is located on the north bank of Tao River.

Standing on the edge of the Tao River, the howling autumn wind blew through the pure wool windbreaker, and I felt a chill all over my body.It is the time when autumn turns to winter again, and the last season of the year has arrived.This winter is probably going to be difficult again.Looking back on the past six or seven years, it seems that I have not spent a whole year well.Every year, we watch life stabilize and get better, and then there will be a setback.

This feeling is very bad, and the uncertainty of fate makes people very irritable.The chaotic environment really increases one's strength. If it weren't for the chaos that has occurred in recent years, he would at most be a rich man in a small town, right?But to be honest, the current state of solving problems and crises almost all the time is really not the life Song Yingkui wants to live.The protagonists of countless time-travel novels are struggling to gain power in the world and lie drunk on the knees of beautiful women after time-travel. But when they actually do it, they will find that this thing is really not something that ordinary people can bear.

Every step you take is surrounded by dangers, and there is no way out!Especially when you are just starting out, there is no room for failure.And the further you go, the enemies you face will only become stronger.Anyway, until now, Song Yingkui has not developed into a relatively comfortable zone. Every challenge is a multiple-choice question between survival and defeat. If you choose the wrong one, you will be finished.

After looking at the rushing Tao River for a while, Song Yingkui regained his free mood.Nowadays, it is a luxury for me to let myself go for a while.

The Tao River is much larger than the Yanchuan River and has abundant water. Whether it is developing agriculture or relying on water conservancy for industry, the space is larger than that of the Yanchuan River.

Right now, the most important thing for Taoyang Town is to build a steel plant with a production capacity several times higher than that of Shipingguan Iron Plant.Compared with the lack of foundation when the Shiping Iron and Steel Plant was built, the technical difficulty of building the Iron and Steel Plant in Taoyang is not that great.

However, the supply of iron ore is more difficult. The iron ore in Qingquling is a small iron ore and the minerals are not good. This leads to the inefficiency of iron ore mining, difficulty in increasing the supply, and difficulty in improving the quality of the iron produced. .

If Yun Gujun and the entire system want to make another big breakthrough in the future, steel production will have to increase significantly, and the demand for high-quality steel will also be huge.For example, the hydraulic machine tool that Song Yingkui always wanted to make requires a large amount of high-quality tool steel.It is urgent to search for high-quality and large-reserve iron ore within the jurisdiction or nearby.It's a pity that Song Yingkui doesn't know how to prospect for minerals himself, and he can't determine the quality of the minerals by looking at the raw ore.Now we can only hope to send people out to cast a wide net!
After returning to the city lord's palace, finding He Yaotou and others, and arranging for them to prospect for ore and build a large ironworks in Taoyang, Song Yingkui was ready to return to the fifth camp.I have been away from Wuying for quite a while, so I have to go and see the situation there, especially the factory expansion, which I have to take a look at in person to be reassuring.

"Chief Qin, how many new workers have been recruited in all the workshops in the Fifth Camp during this period?" After arriving in the Fifth Camp, Song Yingkui's first concern was how many workers were added.

"Sir, the number of long-term workers in the recent period is about 5000. At present, the total number of long-term workers of men, women and children in our Fifth Battalion is [-]. If we add in some temporary part-time workers, there are [-] people. Let's work." Carpenter Qin said it very boldly. He had thousands of workers working under him, which he had never dared to think about before.

"Well, how many young people are there among the more than 3000 long-term workers?"

"There are relatively few young adults, only one thousand sixty-seven, and the rest are mostly old, weak, women and children." "That's it, Vice General Yang will discuss with you that the young and mature workers in the factory must spend a certain amount of time for military training and work as workers during normal times. , they also have the task of guarding the factory and the territory during the war. What worries me the most is the defense of the fifth battalion. It only relies on regular soldiers to guard, and the strength of the troops is a bit thin. The young workers and villagers must prepare a reserve team. Only in this way can the Fifth Battalion be guaranteed to be safe. The Fifth Battalion is the foundation of our Yungu Army and must not be missed." Back to the Fifth Battalion, Song Yingkui came mainly to set the tone for the joint defense of workers, peasants and soldiers.

The Fifth Battalion is now famous. When Xiang Jun frees up his hands, the Fifth Battalion will definitely be their key target.Since large numbers of supporting troops cannot be moved from other places, the only thing they can rely on now is to semi-militarize all members of the fifth battalion and defend the local soil with local people.If an armed force of about three thousand can be quickly organized before the enemy attacks, the threat Xiang Jun can pose will be much smaller.

"Don't worry, sir. If there is a war, there are people in our workshop system who are capable and will not let the thieves take advantage." With thousands of people under his command, Qin Carpenter felt that he could be regarded as a leader. He is very enthusiastic now.

After communicating with Carpenter Qin about factory production for a while, Song Yingkui turned to Guo Kaifeng and said, "Shopkeeper Guo, how has our textile business been developing in recent times?"

"Sir, the looms currently weaving for us include three to four hundred pure wool looms and blended looms, which can weave more than a thousand pieces of cloth every month. Our cloth is in short supply now, except for the cloth sold nearby. In addition, even those who go to Dazheng like to buy cloth from us. However, the supply of cotton cannot keep up, so we can only make more woolen and linen cloth, and the profit is a bit small."

A monthly output of more than a thousand pieces of cloth?This output is already very good. Recently, the new loom developed by the Textile Research Group has made great progress. Once the new loom is put into use, the efficiency will be further improved.Unfortunately, there are some problems with the cotton supply channels, and we need to find a solution.

While Song Yingkui and Guo Kaifeng were talking about the textile industry and other industrial operations, Yang Shunan hurried over and said while breathing heavily: "My lord, news just came from Qian Castle that Wazhou City was destroyed by Xiang Jun. . Now, the Western Fan army has retreated to the west of the mouth of the Dachuan River."

"Xiang Jun defeated Wazhou City? The Western Fan Army was too inexperienced, right? It has only been two years, and almost all the land they occupied in Dazheng fell into the hands of the Xiang people. If I had known it would be like this In the end, what are they doing in vain?" After hearing what Yang Shunan said, Song Yingkui couldn't help but complain.

Except for the Didaotao River and Hexi areas, almost all the abandoned Xisu lands of Dazheng fell into the hands of the Beixiang people. The Western Fan army's rule in this area was too short-lived, and it was simply making a wedding dress for Beixiang.

After Wazhou fell again, in Song Yingkui's view, the situation became clear.According to military common sense, Xiang Jun should not continue to fight the Western Fan Army with high intensity. If he continues to fight, he will reach the Qingfan Grassland.That was the home ground of the Xifan people, and Xiang Jun's military advantage was not great.Without the constraints of the Western Fan Army, Xiang Jun's next main enemy should be the Yungu Army!

Compared with the previous few months, they now have many options for attacking the Yungu Army. They go all the way from Gongchang to Guanying. If they attack the Fifth Battalion from the Yuyuan direction, they have several options.They could even go through the mountains and advance directly from the winter part of Qian Castle to Xinhui Town in Didao to attack Yungu, Wuying or Taoyang.

(End of this chapter)