After being assigned the strangely shaped "wooden oxen and flowing horses", the newly arrived servants such as the shrike had a few days to learn how to use it.

"There's only one wheel, and you can't turn over on the road?" Shrike muttered so.

The Central Plains has a history of thousands of years, but from the very beginning, it is dominated by two-wheeled vehicles, whether it is a cow-drawn car, or a chariot pushed by people, although the distance between the wheels is different, but people subconsciously believe that two wheels, plus a good axle, is stable, can bear the weight.

Now, it has been more than ten years since Qin Shi Huang promulgated the decree that cars are on the same track, and the two-wheeled vehicles in the world are not only the same shape, but also the gauge has become six feet, which is almost the same.

But now, the Northern Expeditionary Army has made a wheelbarrow?

muttering in my heart, Shrike and the others have not done anything in the past few days, so they began to push the wheelbarrow on the open ground, but the amazing thing is that the seemingly unstable car, after starting to push, is steady, leaving a curve on the road, it is not easy to grasp the direction at first, but with a little practice, it can be pushed forward in a straight line......

What's more, because you don't need to choose the width of the road surface with a single wheel, you can pass through narrow roads, roadways, ridges, and wooden bridges, which is much more flexible than a bulky two-wheeled vehicle!

However, there was nothing to be seen just by pushing the empty cart, and when the four stones of grain were loaded onto the cart, the servants found that the cart could still be pushed, and it was a little tired, but it was also easier than the flat cart and the chariot.

"It is very convenient to carry grain and rice, cattle and horses are not watered and fed, and they can be transported day and night."

The barn man explained, but the shrike thought, "Why is this cart not like a cow or a horse, but like a donkey?" “

In short, after the servants were able to use the wheelbarrow flexibly, Xiao Tao asked everyone to immediately push the grain and go to the front-line camp more than 100 miles away!

And on the side of the road in Danyang, they also saw a scene that they would never forget:

But I saw thousands of wheelbarrows, all carrying grain, with an order, pushed by the chief of Qian, one after the other, all heading west!

For a time, the Danshui River Valley, Wuguan Dongdao, is full of sounds!

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At this time, Heifu had arrived at the front line of Wuguan, stood on the watchtower, and saw the servants like long snakes, carrying a straw mat, hanging a small scoop that could be used for drinking water and eating, pushing a wheelbarrow, arriving at the rear of the camp in a row, and piling up the grain in the towering warehouse.

Looking at this scene, Heifu couldn't help but feel good, and praised the ink artist next to him, Ah Zhong, and said: "Ah Zhong, I just described a few words, you can make this thing, and even take Nanjun and Nanyang craftsmen to make tens of thousands of vehicles, which is really a great achievement!" ”

The army will die if there is no baggage, Heifu attaches great importance to logistics, although the Wuguan East Road is a galloping road, but narrow and muddy has always been the norm, in the past, with a large truck of heavy objects, often fall into the road, need dozens of people to push and grab to get out of trouble.

Now, with tens of thousands of wheelbarrows transporting supplies, it has become much more efficient, and with this wheelbarrow, one Nanjun servant can easily carry enough food, and one person can deliver the food that four soldiers need for a month.

And Nanyang with a wheelbarrow pushed away, is bundles of iron cluster arrows and armor weapons, although Nanyang used to be rich, but this year has become the main battlefield of the north and south, and was robbed by Han Xin after a wave, the northern army retreated and took away a lot of grain, now the green and yellow are not connected, some withered, and the grain even needs to be replenished from Nanjun and Hengshan.

Therefore, the war materials provided by Nanyang, in addition to manpower, are only armor soldiers.

Wancheng was a famous iron-smelting center as early as the Chu State, Xunzi once said that the Chu people thought that the mermaid was as hard as a golden stone, and Wanju Iron 釶 (shī), miserable as a bee fly (chài)......

After Qin seized Nanyang, he also made good use of this subway mine, and also moved the Kong clan of the Daliang iron smelting family. After Wang Ben's death, the Kong clan was supposed to be moved to Guanzhong, but was intercepted by the Dongmen Leopard, captured all, and sent back to Wancheng, where the iron workshop was rebuilt and rebuilt.

These soldiers and grains are the guarantee for winning the battle to enter the customs.

As early as the Southern Expedition, the ink man Ah Zhong, who was engaged in military industry in the Heifu army, did not invite credit, his interest has always been on the "bicycle" that Heifu had mentioned, and making a unicycle was just a convenient one, but he did not expect that it could play such a big role in this war, he said:

"The prince has been raising troops for more than a year, the world is in turmoil, and the people who have established themselves as princes are innumerable, and the number of people who have lost their teachers in the north and south is innumerable, and the people who died of hunger, cold, and cold are also innumerable......"

"As a Mo Scholar, Zhong only hopes that this battle can end as soon as possible and the world can shed less blood."

"Yes."

Heifu pointed to the river that was flowing into the front camp one after another, and said with emotion:

"Wuguan is not the end, soon, they will push the cart, advance with our army, all the way to Guanzhong, for the Northern Expeditionary Army, launch a big victory! For the people of the world, launch a peaceful world! ”

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Everyone knows that the battle of Wuguan will determine the ownership of Guanzhong, the survival of the north and the south, and it is not only the Northern Expeditionary Army that is actively preparing for war, but also the imperial court in Xianyang is also in full swing to deploy troops and arrange the defense line.

Under Hu Hai's howl of "the old Qinzhong can't be saved, how can there be time to manage the new Qinzhong", Wang Li and the last 50,000 Great Wall Corps were finally dispatched to the south, and for a time, Shuofang and Shangjun were almost empty, and only a few county soldiers remained.

For a time, the army of Guanzhong was gathered, and together with the remnants of Wang Ben who had withdrawn from Nanyang, there were still more than 200,000 troops in Northern Qin - about one-twentieth of the total population of the counties in Guanzhong.

Among them, 50,000 were in Sanchuan, Hanguguan, Taiyuan, Hedong, and Shangdang, and were under the command of Zhao Ben and Zhao Cheng of Sanchuan and Zhao Cheng of Hedong to defend against bandits from the Six Kingdoms.

50,000 Shangjun soldiers, 70,000 remnants of Wang Ben who withdrew from Nanyang County, led by Wang Li and Sima Ying, went to the front line to resist the enemy at Wuguan.

The 5,000 Lang Zhongling Army, which was personally commanded by Zhao Gao, was personally commanded by Lang Zhongling to defend Huhai in Xianyang.

The 15,000 guard army formed the second line of defense at Lantian and Yaoguan, with Li Liang as the general.

The 30,000 lieutenant army was led by Nei Shibao, and divided the entrances of Eclipse, Baoxi, and Gudao to defend against the enemy in Hanzhong.

In addition, there are thousands of soldiers in Beidi and Longxi.

The servants who were responsible for the food of the army were served by hundreds of thousands of prisoners in Lishan and Afang in the past......

Although Guanzhong has always been known as rich in the world, and Niutian has water for grain, but after so many years of consumption of many major projects, as well as the supply of Nanyang after the fierce war, Guanzhong's grain storage is not much, and it can be replenished through Kanto Aocang in the past, but now, it can only rely on the local.

When there were many eaters and the dispatch was insufficient, Hu Hai ordered the transfer of the county to the transfer of corn and artemisia, and the people sent materials to the warehouse, all of which ordered them to eat their own grain, and they were not allowed to eat their grain within 300 miles of Xianyang.

On the one hand, they also increased the land rent, and on the other hand, they grabbed rations from the mouths of the people, and there was no compensation. Although some people suggested that this was a way to quench their thirst, the 200,000 mouths of the front-line soldiers were waiting, and if they fell, the black thieves would be able to enter the Guanzhong, and Hu Hai couldn't care about it so much.

And now the most controversial issue in the Xianyang court is the question of where the Hanzhong provinces should focus on defending.

On the third day of the sixth lunar month, it was extremely hot outside, and Hu Hai rarely put down the fun in his hands, put on the emperor's crown clothes, and listened to the court meeting of the generals.

As the head of the hundred officials, Prime Minister Li Si also attended, but the old prime minister, who is nearly eighty years old, seems to be in poor health these days, and has been drowsy, but it's okay, anyway, everyone knows that Li Si is a civil servant, and he has always spoken very little about military affairs.

Lang Zhong ordered Zhao Gao to be positive, and reported to Hu Hai: "Your Majesty, recently a scout from Xiekou came to report, saying that the rebels are using the rock holes drilled by the plank road in the past to repair the Baochuan Road, and send people to move forward along the Baoshui River and set up a grain station, and we should focus on defending Yixian (Meixian County, Shaanxi). ”

"How far is Yixian from Xianyang?" Hu Hai asked.

"It's only two hundred miles, and it can be reached in a few days."

Hu Hai was nervous now, and was ready to increase manpower from Zhao Gao's proposal to Wu Anjun's hometown of Yixian.

But Nei Shibao, who was in charge of Guanzhong's defense, had a different opinion:

"In the past, it took ten years of hard work for Ying Hou Fan Ju to repair the plank road, and thousands of people died before they were able to pass. At present, the plank road has been burned down, if the rebuilding is countless years of effort, it will be difficult to succeed, not to mention the summer water is large, even if there are ready-made holes available, the two rivers are turbulent, but it is difficult to fall off the pillar. ”

"Therefore, I thought that this so-called repair of the plank road was just a ploy of the rebels! Its real purpose is to attract the main force of our army to defend the valley, and take another way to attack Xianyang! ”

Here, Shi Bao saw through Han Xin's plan of "Ming Cutting Plank Road", and the prime minister Li Si, although he still looked drowsy, was shocked in his heart!

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PS: The second chapter is in the evening.