Chapter 46: The Fortress Wall
The southern city wall of Liujiabao has been basically completed, some auxiliary facilities are under construction, and busy villagers are going up and down the city wall, carrying various materials.
Looking from the south gate of Liujiabao, this section of the fort wall is different from the various state cities at that time, there are arc-shaped protruding parts on the fort wall every ten meters, and these protruding parts are similar to the corner towers on the city wall, which can be defended by longbow and spearmen, and the fort wall of nearly 600 meters is distributed with more than 60 protruding corner towers.
Nearly fifteen meters high city wall, has been more majestic than Cizhou City, the rammed clay blue brick stone built of the wall is quite strong and heavy, straight to the road to the fort, all after tamping, and then paved a green brick, this road also let Liu Feng thoroughly see, the ancients built the road is really durable, the simple cement fired is even more useful.
After the development of Zhaozhi's father and daughter, the clay limestone gypsum and so on were matched into lime clay with high adhesion, because Liu Feng named cement, so everyone called it cement, and the reason why the fort wall can be built so fast is also because of cement.
The design of the south fort wall has been greatly improved compared with the north gate urn city built before, because it is a new building, Liu Feng fully took into account the various conditions at the outbreak of war when designing, and the semicircular protruding fort wall is also a soldier's camp in the fort wall. In this way, in wartime, the soldiers can get a better rest.
Whether it is the inhabitants of the fort or the displaced people who come to defect, they are particularly attentive to the construction of the fort wall. In particular, the displaced people who poured into Liujiabao from other states were quite concerned about building an impregnable fortress wall, and the villagers around Liujiabao were also going all out to build the fort, they knew that when the wolf rode in, Liujiabao was the place where they would settle down.
On the fortress wall, Bayar stroked the trapezoidal battlements, these arcs protruding from the wall, poked out the main body of the city wall, and stood obliquely outside the wall at a slight angle, and couldn't help but sigh: "How long is the leader's head, I don't know how to come up with such a method, you see, just such a change, how much strength has been increased for our fortress wall, guarding such a fortress, whether he is a righteous army or a wolf horse, he has to let him have no return." β
Liu Yanbo deeply sympathizes, as the main general of the garrison, he has recently studied the essentials of attacking and defending the castle, he said: "Brother Ba is right, the military books I have collected in the past few days, I have never found such a city wall, I think this is also created by the commander, with such a fortress wall, I dare to face a battalion of wolf horses head-on, it is estimated that it will not fall into the disadvantage." β
His words happened to be heard by Liu Feng, who went to the city wall to inspect, Liu Feng laughed: "Yanbo, you are too small a wall, if you can't hold two battalions of wolf cavalry to attack, it is not my city wall's problem, but your Yingyang battalion's problem." β
Bayar said with a straight face: "Really? Although this fortress wall has some doorways, it is not so powerful as the commander said! "He knew how powerful the wolf rode was, and he had fought with the wolf a few times, but he didn't take advantage of it. If the Eagle Yang battalion can defend one battalion of wolf riders with this fort wall, he feels that this fort wall is already extraordinary, and as for the wolf riders who can hold two battalions, he himself still doubts.
Liu Yanbo's lips pursed slightly, his face was a little unbearable, and he said: "If the defenders of the fort are replaced by the Hedong Army, they can block two or three battalions of wolf cavalry with the strength of one battalion. β
"You know, you haven't studied hard lately!" Liu Feng replied softly, and then said: "Don't have a small fort wall, it not only increases the difficulty of the enemy's shooting and climbing, but more importantly, it allows us to have a cross-firing angle." β
"These protruding corner towers just give me more opportunities to fight back! But! No matter how strong the fortress is, it depends on people to defend it, even if there is such a fortress wall, it will inevitably be lost, you have to give me a thorough understanding of the defense concept of the fortress wall, imagine a variety of counterattack modes, and then lead the soldiers to repeat the drills. Liu Feng said to Bayar and Liu Yanbo again,
This is exactly what Liu Feng is worried about, no matter what kind of fortress, the people you still want, as Liu Yanbo said, the same fortress wall is guarded by eagles, but there is no Hedong army to defend it, and the deterrence will be greater. It's not a matter of training, it's a lack of real combat experience. Liu Feng knew that his Tiger Guards, with only so many thousands of people, had been tested in bloody battles, and the newly added forts had greatly reduced their combat effectiveness.
With a wave of his hand, he asked Bayar and them to go to work by themselves, staying alone on the city wall and looking into the castle, Liu Yanying stood in the distance with great discernment, but came to disturb Liu Feng.
Among the busy villagers, blowing the warm summer breeze, Liu Feng slowly sorted out his thoughts, and suddenly a pair of gentle hands gently put on his shoulders and kneaded them for him.
No need to ask, Liu Feng also knows that it is Ulan, and only Ulan will appear at this time, his cousin's fiancΓ©e is becoming more and more sinic, and she is no longer as little and rude as the Rong girl. And she will appear when he is tired or restless, and then use her characteristic gentleness to relieve his worries.
Quite strong hands, kneading rhythmically on the shoulders, Liu Feng suddenly relaxed in his heart, turned around gently, hugged Wulan into his arms, hugged her tightly, and breathed in the tempting smell between the tips of her hair.
Wulan's face was slightly red, and he said angrily, "Ah Feng, they are all! β
Liu Feng smiled and said, "Who asked you to come over and pinch my shoulder?" β
Hearing Liu Feng's rogue answer, Ulan gave him a roll of his eyes, but he didn't break free from his embrace, maybe in Ulan's heart, Liu Feng at this moment is real, and Liu Feng, who has frequent whimsical ideas, has exceeded her understanding.
Liu Feng, who had been in Wulan's arms for a while, was no longer irritable in his heart, and he himself understood that the current irritability came from his unforeseeable resistance to his future life, and he was not familiar with the current society, and he had no way to grasp that the development of Liujiabao would go to that point.
Packed up his mind, joined hands with Ulan, walked down the fort wall together, and suddenly said to Ulan on a whim: "Go with me to Xianghe Cottage!" β
After packing up, he hurried to Xianghe Mountain.
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Galloping all the way, in the evening to the Xianghe cottage, at this time the Xianghe Mountain has changed more than before, it is early summer, the weather has gradually warmed up. Therefore, although it was evening, there were still many villagers working in the camp, but among them were mainly old people and women, and most of the homeless people in the camp were in various mines.
Liu Feng slowed down the horse's hooves and let the horses move freely and slowly, and the camp met the miners who originally lived in the mine, and they immediately cheered, rushed to the side of the road, and saluted Liu Feng, Liu Feng smiled and greeted everyone.
Suddenly, Liu Feng realized that these simple villagers had changed with his own efforts with them, they were no longer numb, and they were able to smile, and these seemed to have something to do with him.