As the thirty-fourth son of the Khan King Mu Hao, and the commander appointed by the Khan King Mu Hao and the Zuo Sheng King Mu Hao to preside over the construction of the city at the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain and the excavation of the underground palace, the Meng Zhan had to obey his dispatch in theory. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the demon barbarian tribes are in the transition stage from tribes to khanates on the Hanhai steppe, even the history of the rise of the Black Stone Khanate in the hands of the Khan King Muhao is not more than a hundred years, the bloodline theory has not yet penetrated into the hearts of the people, and the constraints on the tribes are still quite loose.

Even in the big tent, Mutu's suggestion will not be taken seriously by the other barbarian generals.

Although the actual commander of the battles in Tongkou City was Mueller, and many decisions were made by Mueller, Mueller was not in Yaoshan at this time, and many tribal leaders were more resentful about the casualties of their children and sprinkled on Mutu's head.

Even Tuoba Yan and Zuo Vulture led their troops to attack, Mu Tu was too cautious, and only let Meng Zhan lead 20,000 soldiers to attack, resulting in the army to the Silver Pebble Beach, which could not bite the hard bone of Tuoba Yan, and had to retreat from the Silver Pebble Beach to the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain, and some people attributed the responsibility to Mu Tu's body, and said a lot of strange things behind his back.

Comparatively speaking, although Tie Kun has a humiliating history of being taken captive as a slave by the human race, but the battle of Silver Pebble Beach was fought too beautifully, and it was withdrawn from Tongkou City, and the soldiers and horses of the Iron Cliff Department suffered very little losses.

Mutu was in a gloomy mood, but at the same time somewhat strange.

Tie Kun's strategy is good, but if the clansmen and soldiers of the Iron Cliff tribe are transferred to the southern foot to build a city, it is a very risky act for the Iron Cliff Tribe, even if they can successfully contain the enemy army, the losses of the Iron Cliff Department will be extremely heavy.

There is another possibility, that is, Tie Kun felt that the western foot of Yaoshan was more dangerous, so he wanted to move the Tieya tribesmen from the western foot to the southern foothills, so that Tie Kun and the soldiers and horses of the Iron Cliff Department could get out of his vision and fight with Meng.

If that's the case, Tie Kun's mind is a little bad!

Mu Tuhu stared at Tiekun suspiciously, and asked, "The Iron Cliff tribe moved into the southern foot to build a city, how sure are you that you can contain the enemy army, and how many enemy troops can you contain?"

His prestige was damaged at this time, and Tie Kun had really won a beautiful battle at Silverpebble Beach before, and Mu Tu couldn't directly question Tie Kun's dissent.

"Although I was taken captive as a slave by the Terrans, although it was a humiliation that could not be washed away in this life, this experience was not completely unbeneficial," Tie Kun knew that Mutu or Meng Zhan would have such doubts, and explained in a deep voice, "I have learned the methods of building cities, forging armor, and fighting weapons, and I have returned to the Iron Cliff Department over the years to teach these methods to my clansmen." If I can lead the Iron Cliff tribesmen to move to the southern foothills, in addition to the six or seven thousand soldiers available to our clan, and more importantly, the people of my Iron Cliff tribe can build stronger cities in the deep mountains and dangerous valleys at a faster speed, so that the enemy army has to divide the army in the southern foothills, but there is no way to attack it! -- Of course, I also ask Prince Mu and Zuo General to allow me to transfer forty or fifty thousand bitter slaves from this side, otherwise with my forty or fifty thousand people from the Iron Cliff Tribe, I will not be able to contain too many enemy troops, and it will be difficult for Prince Mu and Zuo General to share too many worries. ”

There was no loophole in Tie Kun's words, and Mu Tu knew that he would question it for no reason, so he had to say in a muffled voice:

"Then let's see what you can do in the southern foothills. ”

Meng Zhan was still worried that the Iron Cliff Department would move to the southern foot to build a city, and it might be a family of its own, and then the Mengwu Department's control over the Iron Cliff Department would inevitably be seriously weakened, and finally insisted that the patriarch of the Iron Cliff Department, who is also the elder brother of the Iron Cliff Department, led thousands of clansmen who were good at building cities to stay in the west foothills to assist in building fortresses and fortifications here, and did not agree that all the Iron Cliff tribesmen would move to the southern foothills.

In fact, the generals of the Iron Cliff Tribe, even the patriarch Tie Du, were full of confidence in Tie Kun at this time and had high hopes, but from a more secure point of view, they did not want to put all their eggs in one basket, and the final result of the negotiation was that Tie Kun led 30,000 people and 30,000 slave laborers to the south.

The meeting did not end until the beginning of the lanterns, and despite the heavy concerns of the Mongol War, a banquet was held for the leaders of the various tribes.

It's just that the overall situation is unfavorable, and everyone in the audience has a depression in their hearts, and occasionally a few barbarians want to let go of the wreckage and drink it, but they also realize that the atmosphere in the big tent is not right, and they hurriedly leave after the meal.

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Tie Kun, his brother Tie Du and others stepped on the spring dew and returned to the habitat of the Iron Cliff tribe in the moonlight.

Looking at the campfires dotted with stars, listening to the familiar local sounds coming from the tent, and looking at the young men in the clan who had just grown up, they were still practicing martial arts hard at night, and Tie Kun swept away the gloom in his chest.

For the sake of these people who gave birth to themselves, no matter how many hardships and dangers lie ahead, it is worth fighting for, and after a few words with his brother Tiedu, he walked to his tent.

Through the tent, Tie Kun could see Chen Hai's rickety figure, allowing the lights in the big tent to be projected on the animal skin tent.

Tie Kun deliberately put his steps down, but Chen Hai in the big tent didn't seem to be aware of it, and continued to concentrate on writing and drawing.

Tie Kun's brows condensed slightly, he was not unsuspicious of this hunchbacked old man, and even suspected that he was being restrained by this hunchbacked old man, even if he had the ambition to break away from the control of the Mengwu tribe and lead the Iron Cliff Department across the Hanhai Grassland, but if it weren't for the seemingly unintentional persuasion and inducement of this hunchbacked old man for several days, he would not have been so early and so fast, and it would have been exposed so obviously when the Iron Cliff Department was still not in the climate, so that Meng Zhan and Mu Tu were both aware of it.

However, this hunchbacked old man's suggestion, Tie Kun had no way to refuse, and it was also depressing to think about it, so he lifted the curtain and walked into the big tent.

Chen Hai stopped the pen in his hand, raised his head and bowed slightly, even if he had said hello, he still buried himself in the matter at hand.

Tie Kun stood in front of Chen Hai, and after a long time, he didn't speak at the beginning, and asked curiously: "Gong Cao doesn't want to ask, just now when Zuo General convened the generals to discuss the matter?"

"What is there to ask, in this situation, can Meng Zhan and Mu Tu think of a better strategy than Tie Ye? Except for the Iron Cliff Tribe, there are few ......other tribes who are good at building and defending cities," Chen Hai said.

Tie Kun was speechless for a while, looked over, and saw that Chen Hai had already drawn dense lines on the animal skin, and asked curiously: "What is this?"

"This is the blueprint for the construction of Demon Ape City. In the past hundred years, the Hanhai tribes have also built many cities on the grassland, but they are too crude, and the project of quarrying and building the city is huge, and it is difficult to build it in a short time. The enemy army is about to attack on a large scale, and if the Iron Cliff Department wants to successfully build a city at the southern end of the Ape Jump Gorge and contain the enemy army, it must take another way," Chen Hai hurriedly perfected the design with a few strokes, and the wolf pen turned lightly on his fingers a few times, and laughed, "It's done!"

Tie Kun took the animal skin and looked at it.

The whole Yaoshan Mountain is located on the south bank of the Hanhai Sea, more than 500 miles long from east to west, it is not a majestic mountain in Yanzhou, but it is quite rare in the grassland on the south bank of the Chaohai Sea in Pingchuan.

The underground palace is located at the west foot of Yaoshan Mountain, the terrain of the west foot is relatively gentle, the passage in and out of the underground palace in ancient times is at the west foot, between the valleys of Bailu Gorge, there are still some traces of the axe carved stone wall.

Although from the underground palace to the south of more than 100 miles, you can also walk out of Yaoshan and enter the vast grassland, but the terrain to the south is much more precipitous, along the road are all strange peaks, deep valleys, several canyons connected together, all deep into the thousands, the local tribe called it the Ape Jumping Gorge, which means that the demon ape can come and go freely in these canyons.

The animal skin map indicates the location chosen by Chen Hai to build the city.

Tie Kun didn't see the details of the structure of the city in detail, but he was startled when he saw the location chosen by Chen Hai to build the city, and said: "There is a dangerous place in the Ape Jumping Gorge, only three hundred steps wide, and it is the only place to enter the Bailu Gorge in the north. Cao Gong did not choose to build a wall there to resist the enemy, but chose to build the city at the widest part of the Monkey Jumping Gorge, which is also the place where the enemy is most vulnerable to attacks from three sides?

"The Iron Cliff tribe has less than 50,000 people, and even if they can get 50,000 slaves, they can mine stones to build a city in this place in the traditional way, and they may be able to succeed in three years. Chen Hai said.

"I can only lead 30,000 tribesmen and 30,000 slave laborers to the southern foot this time, won't it take five years to build this city?

"Build a city with the usual method, even if it is built in the narrowest place, it is impossible for Tie Ye to build the city before the enemy army comes. Besides, Tie Ye really wants to guard the Tiger Leaping Gorge without leaking, so that the enemy army can't see a chance at all, and the enemy can seal the Iron Cliff Department in the Tiger Leaping Gorge and ignore it. Tie Ye chose to build the city in the narrowest place, it is easy to defend, but it is naturally easy to be blocked by the enemy, and it will not be able to contain many enemy troops at that time, let alone build miracles,"

Chen Hai said slowly,

"Before I came, I went to Tiger Leaping Gorge for a trip, and in the place where I chose to build the city, there was a kind of stone mined on the spot, calcined and ground into powder, and mixed with clay to make a slurry, which was used to ram the city wall, and the speed was ten times faster than that of quarrying to build the city, and it only took three or five months to build a city wall five or six miles wide. And such a city wall, although it is weaker than the stone city, but with the strength of the iron master, if you want to split the city wall with a halberd, you can't do it. I have written down all this method of building a city, and Tie Ye can send someone to test it first, and then decide whether to build a city there......"

"Is there such a method of building a city?" Tie Kun asked suspiciously, but he didn't immediately look at the beast skin scroll, but stared at Chen Hai and asked, "Cao Gong, you can tell me now, why do you want to go to such great lengths to help me, right?"