Primitives are stunned

Chapter 447

There is a biological group in the Great Wilderness called pangolins.This kind of pangolin is not like the protected animals on the earth, which can only make holes in the soil.

The pangolins in the Great Wilderness are as big as an elephant, and each one looks like an awl. The whole body is covered with heavy armor, and the horns on the head are harder than steel.This collision angle is mainly to match their huge size and knock the boulder out of the crack.

And on the front of its body, there are four claws.

These claws can easily draw marks more than an inch deep on the bluestone.

Once the horns on their heads crack the stone, their claws can use these cracks to dig a hole in the stone.

If the city walls of Dahuang were still made of green bricks on the outside and rammed earth inside, the pangolin would only need to lightly break through the outer layer of green bricks, and then enter the city walls.

At that time, the fragile rammed earth really couldn't stop their heart to go wherever they wanted.

Therefore, if you want to defend against the sneak attack of pangolins, you can only thicken the city wall. The entire city wall is not rammed with soil, and it is all constructed of concrete and green bricks.

If it weren't for the current limited technology, lack of vibrator and enough steel bars, Wang Hao even thought about turning the entire Hwaseong into a reinforced concrete structure.

Without the vibrator, the cement has too many air bubbles to allow for a large pour, no stronger than a mix and match of concrete and brick.

As for steel bars, although Hwaseong can smelt iron ore and obtain metallic iron with coal, it is currently impossible to produce steel bars in large quantities. Therefore, some steel bars can only be added in some important places.

The lower part of the city wall of Hwaseong has a width of five meters inside, so that no matter what kind of things there are, they can be transported inside the city wall.

As for the remaining 25 meters of width, they are all solid.Such a wide solid brick wall, let alone a pangolin, even a giant with a big hammer, would have to blast through it day and night for several days.

After all, when the entire city wall is connected by concrete, although there is only one point of force after being attacked, the force will be distributed to the entire city wall.This also led to the fact that once the city wall of Huacheng was built, it was basically impossible to be destroyed by brute force.

As for the distance of more than 20 meters from the city wall, except for the outer wall that reached a thickness of one meter, the rest of the internal space was empty.

That's right, the five meters above the city wall are empty inside.

And in those places, densely packed with countless shooting ports.

Some of these shooting ports are flat, some are obliquely facing downwards, and some are directly facing the sky.

The system takes into account the giant birds that come from all directions in the air. Therefore, these shooting ports can not only attack the enemies on the ground, but even in the air, they can basically achieve 360-degree defense without dead ends.

In this way, when the monsters attack the city, people only need to hide behind the one-meter-thick brick wall bunker, and they can attack the enemies in various places outside.

As for those creatures that can fly or climb walls, there is no need to worry about whether they will crawl in through these shooting holes to attack people.

As people in the wilderness, if they couldn't even deal with some creatures smaller than themselves, then they would have no face to live in the wilderness.

Different living environments create different civilizations.

The environment of the wilderness forced Wang Hao to build such a fortress that could only be used for fighting.

The total length of the solid city wall is as much as eight kilometers, and the consumption of cement and bricks is simply astronomical.

If it is placed on the earth, among other things, the materials it needs alone can plunge a small country with a population of several million into economic crisis.

Putting it in the Great Wilderness, a place with low productivity and low technological level, the manpower and material resources that would be consumed would be even more desperate.

However, the Great Wilderness also has its advantages.

First of all, in the Great Wilderness, the greatest pursuit of human beings is to be able to eat and clothe warmly, and to have a safe living environment.

Huacheng can provide this.

Especially after the first batch of wheat in the Grand Canyon matured and grew amazingly, Hwaseong had more say in terms of food.

The most important point is that Hwaseong's economy is not regulated by the market, but by Hwaseong.

Today, Hwaseong said that a pack of ten copper plates is worth ten copper plates, so it is ten copper plates per pack. This does not mean that the price of wheat will rise if the market demand for wheat is large, and the price will fall if the demand is small.

A deformed system creates a deformed economy.However, with the help of this kind of economy, as long as Wang Hao can provide food, theoretically speaking, he can gather the entire Great Wilderness, hundreds of millions of people, and contribute to the construction of Huacheng.

Today's Hwaseong, although it has not yet taken shape, but if you look at it from above, Hwaseong looks like an ant's nest, with countless wooden carts full of bricks. Bricks are delivered.

And the bricks in this cart can be replaced by dried meat provided by Hwaseong, or bags of wheat.

At present, the construction of Hwaseong does not require a lot of manpower, and some heavy manual labor can be done by savages and slaves.

What Hwaseong needs is a huge amount of materials.

The bricks stored last year had already piled up like a mountain, but now in Wang Hao's opinion, the amount of these red bricks could not even build one-tenth of the city wall.

On the Shishan side, the number of shaft kilns has been expanded to more than 20. Even so, the cement fired every day is still in short supply.

However, more than 20 shaft kilns are already the limit of Hwaseong.

There is no way, coal is needed to burn cement, and the heat of ordinary wood burning is not enough to burn cement.

However, the excavation and transportation of coal mines also require manpower and time.

Those slaves from Jiulong Mountain have adapted to life in Hwaseong after being trained by Wang Ba.

After a period of training, they have become semi-skilled bricklayers.

Five hundred slaves were promised that if they could build the walls of Huacheng, they would be able to get rid of their status as slaves and become free people again.

Therefore, before dawn every day, these slaves would consciously get up and start building the walls of Hwaseong.

Every day they wait until the sky is completely invisible before they stop the trowels in their hands.

PS: I will ask for a day off tomorrow. The author is about to get married. To take wedding photos tomorrow will take a whole day. I may not be able to get home until twelve o’clock at night. I definitely don’t have time to code, so I ask for leave in advance.

(End of this chapter)