In order not to alarm the tartars, the grass startled the snakes.

From this day on, the narrow area west of Jinzhou City began to implement the kind of military closure and control mode that had been in the capital two months ago: allowed to enter but not to leave.

Even if there are still a lot of traitors and fine workers lurking among the soldiers and civilians in Liaodong, don't think about easily leaking the situation of the great changes in the western Liaoxi corridor, including Shanhaiguan.

Of course, just blocking the news will not require nearly 400,000 soldiers to mobilize the people.

The greatest purpose of the soldiers sweeping around to the west of Jinzhou was to gather all the people who were surviving in the wilderness and the officers and soldiers who had escaped.

Otherwise, in the vast western Liaoning corridor, it is simply impossible to reorganize a construction corps with at least one million people by relying on those large and small military forts and towns.

This is already under control of the half of the Liaoxi Corridor, and now all the soldiers and civilians combined, there are no more than two million people, and the total number of officers, soldiers and civilians living in various parts of the castle will not exceed one million.

The biggest hidden purpose of this lockdown plan is to help the suffering people in the diaspora.

Otherwise, this winter, I don't know how many people will freeze to death and starve to death in the wild.

The soldiers and civilians of Liaodong are the best soldiers, almost all of them have family members who were killed indirectly or directly by the Tartars, and they are all bitter and bitter against Houjin.

Even if one more ordinary person dies, Zhu Youxiao will be very sorry.

Now that I have an opportunity, of course, I have to do my best to help.

And if all the people west of Jinzhou are gathered, most of the traitors and fine workers will have no place to hide.

Not only is it easy to block the news, but it can also expose most of these dog things, which are constantly discovered and captured by the Royal Military Intelligence Bureau.

In the bustling and busy, nearly a month or so passed in a blink of an eye.

Even Zhu Youxiao, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng couldn't imagine that this preparation would take so long to complete all the work of the official expedition.

The reason why it takes so long is mainly because the weather is getting colder and colder, and it takes too much time to search half of the narrow area of the West Liaoning Corridor.

It really can't be done without the search completed, otherwise, a considerable part of the displaced people who have not been gathered will not survive this increasingly cold winter.

After the search operation was over, according to the statistics of Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, the number of soldiers and civilians in Liaodong under the rule of the imperial court at this time reached about two million.

Another reason is that it is not impossible to build infrastructure this winter, and it can be done by letting large farms and super official roads go hand in hand.

With the completion of the construction and the complete facilities of the farm, the construction corps personnel and their families can be housed, and the construction workers can be divided into two shifts and work during the day.

Take measures to keep warm, and always prepare hot ginger tea to relieve the cold, and wash your hands and face with hot water.

In addition, human beings themselves carry out high-intensity labor, which will also emit a lot of energy and heat up all over the body. In this way, the physical work that does not last long can be carried out.

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In the bitter cold wind, Zhu Youxiao and Li Dingguo marched on the snow with the Guards Scouts.

Lu Jiude was in charge of supporting the construction corps, which was divided into two parts, one part of which was to build the super road and farm leading to Tianjin Sanwei.

The other part is to build a super official road from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou City and a large farm along the way.

In addition, on the other hand, Lu Xiangsheng was responsible for forming another construction corps composed of military and civilian troops in Liaodong, which also moved in the direction of Shanhaiguan.

After a month of construction, the two armies met smoothly this morning.

Nearly five million people worked together for a month to complete the construction of this modest super highway, which can be described as a difficult step.

After the division, the huge construction corps is returning to the direction of Jinzhou City, and starting tomorrow morning, the construction corps and the 500,000-strong army will begin to sweep all the way to the east.

Since Zhu Youxiao was reborn, nearly four months have passed, and he has experienced a lot of things that were unimaginable in his previous life, and he is finally about to launch a counterattack on the territory where the Tartars are entrenched.

"It's cold!"

"Yes! This kind of ghost weather, if it weren't for the emperor, most of us would have frozen to death and starved to death. ”

"Well, thanks to Your Majesty's grace of life, otherwise, my family would have died a long time ago, where would it be as majestic as it is now." ……

Between the march of the huge procession, a young boy scout soldier was talking one by one.

Not to mention, on a snowy day, walking on this newly completed super avenue, looking at the curling smoke of the exquisite farms along the way, there is a unique flavor.

This high-standard super avenue is very spacious and tidy, not to mention that the road covered with thick snow does not make it difficult for the army to walk, and the marching speed is not much lower than usual.

After the construction of this super avenue was completed, the western Liaoning corridor completely fell into the control of the imperial court.

Even the officials of the Quartermaster Logistics Department said that in the future, there would be no problems with the supply of the Liaodong army.

Just kidding, even a dozen or twenty new-style four-wheeled carriages can go hand in hand, and if there is still a shortage of military supplies, Zhu Youxiao will kill people.

"Your Majesty, yesterday Lu Xiangsheng wrote that the Tartars began to launch a tentative attack on the front line of Jinzhou."

Li Dingguo rode a big black horse, and without hurry, he went hand in hand with Zhu Youxiao, and said to the emperor, "I don't know, did they win?" ”

He really couldn't imagine that the Tartars would come to provoke in the middle of winter, so he really thought they were invincible?

Zhu Youxiao had expected it, and he was very calm in his heart.

In history, in the winter of this year, the Tartars frequently attacked the front line of Jinzhou, in order to break the two fortified cities of Jinzhou and Ning Yuanwei, and break the last two big nails of the imperial court outside the pass.

It's just that they didn't get their wish in history, and now they can't do it at all.

"Huh!"

Colonel Zhu You chuckled, "That Niulu's Tartar brigade, together with hundreds of clothed minions, is only a thousand people, and it happened to be discovered by Cao Wenzhao's thousand-person patrol team, and naturally none of them were able to escape. ”

A thousand-person team of Tartars, among which there are 300 brave Tartars, can make the anxious Cao Wenzhao very happy.

You know, his patrol team is only a thousand people.

The soldiers fired a salvo of strong crossbows, and nearly half of those Tartars were wiped out, followed by three rounds of strong crossbow salvos, and all the attacking Tartars were basically dead.

The new type of powerful crossbow has a lethal power of one hundred and fifty steps, which is much more powerful than ordinary bows and arrows.

And these strong crossbows, or repeaters, are somewhat similar to Zhuge repeaters, and they are strengthened versions of the miniaturization of Zhuge repeaters.

The patrol team only wounded less than ten people and killed one.

The heavy arrows of the Tartars, dozens of meters away, could not penetrate the steel armor on the soldiers.

The dozen or so people who were injured were only injured in their hands and feet.

The unfortunate soldier who died was in a daze for a moment, and was shot in the face by a heavy arrow from a Tartar, and died of grief.

This made Cao Wenzhao rush to the scene after the war, and gave the captain who led the team a severe beating, punishing him for his merits.

During this month's training, he repeatedly emphasized that if he sees a Tartar shooting an arrow, if he is within range, he should never tilt his head to avoid being shot in the face.

Now, the soldiers of the new army are protected by black clothes and black armor, and the only flaw is the face door.

The dead soldier made such a low-level mistake and then gave his life.