In the desert at the expense of manpower and material resources to build a camp to make up for difficulties, this news made Wang Jian a little frightened, Huang Xiao next to him changed color, Mei Hua looked at the face, knew the other party's worries, and explained calmly: "General, these supply camps are really only for the purpose of welcoming the general and using them when the general returns, we only span half of the desert, that is, with this green state as the boundary, of course, if the general feels that it is inappropriate, after the general returns, we will immediately dismantle these supply camps." ”

Across half of the desert, with this green state as the boundary, and the other party only welcomes here, the subtext here is that the country established by the Han Dynasty and his king in the future will be bounded by this green state.

"General Mei is too careful, I just think it's not worth spending so much manpower and material resources just for Wang's visit." Wang Jian's face was slightly red, and he was a little ashamed of being a gentleman with a careful heart.

"For today's big man, this is nothing." Mei Hua said lightly, "The general is an important guest of the king, so naturally he should be more solemn." ”

Now that the Han army has come to greet him, Wang Jian simply rested for another night on this green state, across half of the desert, and the soldiers under his command were already very tired, and he didn't want his soldiers to lose face in front of Mei Hua. After a night's rest, when they hit the road the next day, the cavalry was really in good spirits, at least in the slower march now, they looked no worse than the Han army.

Of course, the armaments of the two sides cannot be compared, this young guard regiment of the Han army is the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, with a water plate armor on the body, this kind of armor has strong protective ability, and the weight is tired, compared to the chain armor equipped by the Qin army, it is more than one grade better, as far as Wang Jian knows. This kind of plate armor was extremely expensive, and of course he didn't know that the Han army had long passed the primitive stage of hand-making plate armor, and it only took a few minutes to form a pair of plate armor using a water-powered punch.

In addition to the armor, this Han army can be said to be armed to the teeth, under everyone's helmet. They all wore a thin hood, only opening holes in the position of the nose and eyes, of course his role Wang Jian knotted, it was used to prevent wind and sand in the desert, I didn't expect the Han army to even have this unified equipment, the same style, the same color, at a glance it was customized, and then look at his own command. But there are all kinds of people, some people use silk cloth, some people use coarse cloth, and some people even tear a piece of linen cloth out of nowhere and cover their faces like this.

And when it comes to weapons, there is no comparison. This Han army's light saber had a narrow blade, and last night, his soldiers had seen the sharpness of this saber. Everyone has a crossbow next to their saddle, and this is not a single-shot crossbow. Rather, it is a continuous riding crossbow, and Mei Hua also demonstrated to him yesterday that this kind of riding crossbow was upgraded from the crossbow of the original Han army, and the range did not increase much, but the weight of the entire repeater was half lighter than that of Yuanlai. Outside the bag containing the crossbow, there were rows of crossbow arrows in a special sleeve.

Own soldiers. Or only compete with each other in the will to fight or spirit! Glancing at his cavalry, Wang Jian sighed in his heart.

When it was dark the next day, Wang Jian saw the supply camp that Mei Hua said, saying that it was a supply camp, but it looked like a heavily guarded camp. Rows of grass-green tents were enclosed by fences, and on top of the fences, there was a barbed wire fence, and every ten meters there were watchtowers, but there were no heavy weapons such as bed crossbows.

Wang Jian once again cast a suspicious gaze on Mei Hua. And Mei Hua had to take on the responsibility of explaining again.

"General, these soldiers who built the supply battalion are all from the Third Military Region, in fact, they are no longer real soldiers, but Commander Helan doesn't want them to forget their identity, so this time they were sent out as an opportunity to train their troops, so everything is according to the requirements of wartime."

"Third Military Region!" Wang Jian muttered.

"Don't get me wrong, general, this third military region is not aimed at generals, when we set up the third military region, we didn't know where the generals were? The purpose of the establishment of the Third Military Region was only to control the vast area of the Great Northwest, you know, this was a place where bandits were rampant in the past, and furthermore, it was also for the purpose of reclaiming the Great Northwest, and these soldiers were all removed from the guards and government service, and although they were paid for military salaries, they were really not regular troops. ”

"How many people are there in the Third Military Region now?" Wang Jian asked.

Mei Hua smiled: "In the area controlled by the Third Military Region now, there are about a million people, and about half of them are these guards and their families, their main task is to reclaim the wasteland and farm the land, and when they reach the place of the Third Military Region, the general will understand at a glance." In the Third Military District, the regular army was less than 10,000 people. ”

"I see!" Wang Jian nodded, relieved his heart, the regular army of 10,000 people, but to control the place where millions of people lived, the vigilance was only insufficient, where is the spare strength to expand outward?

Mei Hua snickered in his heart, the Third Military Region does only have more than 10,000 regular troops, but they are not scattered, but are stationed in a centralized manner, because in the Great Northwest, every farm is a unit, and they have weapons, which are enough to protect themselves, and these farms based on the army's combat units do not need the Third Military Region to manage any security and management issues at all.

A supply battalion every hundred miles greatly increased the speed of their march, and ten days later, Wang Jian's horse's hooves set foot on the steps of the Third Military Region, but the sight in front of him made him feel like a dream.

The large expanse of poplar trees in front of him blocked his view, and the neat poplar trees stood like soldiers, extending infinitely to both sides in front of his eyes, although most of them were still only the thickness of wine glasses, but so much, he still felt very shocked, when he left here a few years ago, there was nothing here except some low bushes.

"These trees were planted by the Third Military Region under the orders of the Great King, and even now, this kind of work is still being done." Mei Hua looked at the dense forest in front of her, and said proudly, in a few years, there will be green trees here.

"Why do you Han King even have to plant trees, and what do you do when you plant trees?" Wang Jian asked puzzled.

"Windbreak!" Mei Hua pointed to the endless desert behind him, and the king said that these winds and sands will erode our land day by day, "to turn the good land into the same desert as theirs, so we must plant trees and grass, like a wall, to block these sands from the outside, I heard from the people of the Third Military Region that in the past two years, there have indeed been a lot less winds and sandstorms in the area of Mengchi." ”

Wang Jian was silent, once again shocked by the wealth of the Han Dynasty, these trees, as well as the manpower to plant these trees, and to ensure their survival, these are all white silver, which need to be supported by strong financial resources.

"The king said, this is called the predecessors to plant trees, the descendants to enjoy the shade, maybe our generation will not be aware of their usefulness, but in our next generation, these anti-sand forests will play an important role." Mei Hua smiled.

"King Han has always been far-sighted, and what he admires is the five-body throw." Wang Jian said sincerely, when he was still thinking about how to live and how to live better, King Han was already thinking about the future generations after many years, and the two were obviously not above the same order of magnitude at all.

After crossing this piece of anti-sand forest that I don't know how long, but it is several miles deep, there is another scene in front of Wang Jian.

A paradise scene.

The crops, which had just grown beyond a man's knee, stretched out endlessly in front of Wang Scissors, swaying in the breeze, and an avenue stretched out in front of him, and the gray road was big enough for two carriages to walk side by side, and their smoothness made Wang Shear really a little incomprehensible, and the horse's hooves stepped on, and the horseshoe made a crisp sound.

Wang Jian stared at this road, looking intently, this is not a slate, he can still distinguish it.

"General, this pavement is poured with cement, it is very smooth, and after having this pavement, we no longer have to worry about muddy roads in rainy and snowy weather." Mei Hua explained with a smile. "In fact, now in our Dahan, many houses have also begun to be built with him, which is very strong, stronger than ordinary stones."

"What is cement?" Literally, Wang Jian couldn't think of what it was.

"Oh, this is a building material, it was invented by my late Han Shangshu Guo Quanguo when he was building roads, and our king named him cement, of course, we don't understand why the king gave him such a name, but the king is always right, isn't he?" Mei Hua said with a smile.

"Is this thing expensive?"

"Of course it's not expensive, if it's expensive, how can it be used to build roads, in fact, it's very simple for him to build." Mei Hua smiled. "However, the Third Military Region is too far away from the mainland, so now only the main road has been built here, unlike the mainland, this kind of cement pavement has been popularized, and some villages with good economic conditions have also begun to use cement to build pavement. But now that we have built the road from Dayan County to Mengchi, the conditions here will get better and better in the future. General, you have been away from the Central Plains for several years, and many new things have been invented, and when you arrive in Dayan County, you will see more new things. ”

"Yes, I've been away from the Central Plains for too long." Wang Jian stood on his horse, his eyes over the endless green crops, and at the distant rows of villages above the rows of villages, where curling smoke was rising.

A few years ago, it was a wilderness. (To be continued......)