But there are still a lot of things that make Lihua happy.

In these short two years, the generals under the command of Zhu Lihua have entered the sea like fish, and they are all quite excited about the military and political operations they are responsible for.

Liang Qingshu's civil affairs gradually expanded from one county to eight counties, whether it is farming or animal husbandry, whether it is land division and rental, or the collection and accounting of servitude, whether it is the opening of the county market or the daily adjudication of lawsuits, he not only did quite well but also formed a series of his own experience.

With the support of Zhu Lihua, Liang Qingshu selected some literate scholars from poor families to teach them these experiences, and assisted Liang Qingshu in jointly governing the civil affairs of the eight counties.

Although these scholars had no status, they were only paid enough food for the whole family. However, these Shu scholars are still happy to devote themselves to the busy management, and the civil affairs operations of the counties are also in good order.

As for the military aspect, Wei Yuanqi, An Moran, Li Ji, Tang Yuan, Liu Jaw, Xu Xiaoyang and other Lihua descendants have grown rapidly in the past two years, and in the battles again and again, they have gradually tempered themselves from leaders who can only control 100 people to generals who can take charge of themselves.

Although Wei Yuanqi and An Moran are only military marquises, and the rest of the people are only a thousand people, in the mind of Lu Lihua, Wei and An can completely lead 10,000 troops, and the rest of them have no problem leading the troops.

This was also confirmed in the course of the war with the Qi people.

There is another person who makes Lihua feel that he can be calm even if he leads tens of thousands of horses, and Lihua can see from the clues that this person may have really led thousands of troops.

This person is Wei Mu, and he is also the current commander of the cavalry under the command of Lihua, although it is only a martial artist of 1,000 people, but he has 5,000 cavalry under his command.

And Lihua also handed over his scouts to Wei Mu. In other words, Wei Mu is in charge of the gateway key to protect the forces of Lihua.

But for some reason, Zhu Lihua always believed that this middle-aged man whose identity he knew was suspicious was perhaps the brief look at each other in front of his recruiting camp, or the persistence of Wei Mu who scattered all his money to find a way to live for his brothers.

After finishing the inspection, Zhu Lihua came to Shangdang again and came to the Huangtian Ferry. This is the closest place to the front line of the Rong people, and this is the place where he has all his hopes.

Looking at the prototype of a small but novel city fortification in front of him, and then looking at the figure of 20,000 prisoners of war busy in this large-scale fortress, Lu Lihua felt for the first time that the breath that had accumulated in his chest slowly relaxed.

It seems that in the past half a year, Gao Yunce still led the prisoners of war to build this fortress that had never existed before according to the original vision of everyone.

At this pace, perhaps in another half a year, the fortress will be able to play its due role.

Once this fortress was completed, Zhu Lihua believed that whether it was the Rong people or the Qi people, they would not want to completely capture the Huangtian Ferry without paying 100,000 lives.

Different from the ordinary four-square-square appearance of the city, the fortress designed by Lihua was used to guard the ferry, so Lihua and others unanimously decided to build the fortress on the bank of the yellow water.

At the same time, they did not build the walls of the city according to the practice of building a city on flat ground, and wrapped the ferry inside the city.

Instead, after discussion and deduction, Gao Yunce proposed that he could emulate the appearance of Yuxiao Pass

, make use of the high ground in front of the Yellow Sky Ferry, level the tops of these connected high places, and then cut the surrounding areas into vertical angles.

In this way, each high ground becomes a separate fortress, and the connected high and low high ground becomes a more three-dimensional defense system that holds each other hostage and acts as horns.

The highlands are connected by chain suspension bridges, and under the highlands, gullies are dug to draw yellow water to form moats.

At present, these more than ten highlands have been basically completed, and at first glance, it seems that it is really like the Yuxiao Xiongguan in front of the official road leading to the Huangtian Ferry, which makes people feel like an earthy yellow beast standing in front of them and is extremely hideous.

Each fort has a height of twenty to thirty paces, so the more than ten forts together make people feel huge.

However, he understood that this was just a use of some small mountains and sent people to dig some earth, but what was really difficult to build was the fortress itself behind the high grounds.

After passing through these more than ten forts, they walked in the direction of the ferry, only to see that a dense trench appeared in front of the ferry not far away, and these trenches formed a huge semicircle around the ferry, enclosing the ferry, as if the trench was like a city wall.

These ditches are wide and narrow, no more than twenty paces wide, and ten paces narrow, and these ravines of different widths form independent blank spaces between the vertical and horizontal directions, and there are using the stones removed from the Shangdang city wall to wrap the soil foundation made of the mud cut down from the high ground, forming a platform about three zhang high.

And these unconnected platforms are the real walls of this fortress. They stand side by side on deep ditches crisscrossing canals, like small islands.

Similar to the fortress in front of the fortress, these platforms are also connected by iron suspension bridges, and the high platforms are much wider than the walls of ordinary castles, and can accommodate more guards.

There are about three floors to the back, which means that once the enemy attacks, not to mention whether or not the natural fortresses can be conquered, even in front of the ferry fortress, you have to take a boat to reach the foot of the various "walls". In this way, siege equipment such as ladders and chariots will naturally be unusable, and even if a city wall is conquered, as long as the suspension bridge is cut around immediately, it will not help at all.

In the shortest possible time, the most difficult fortress was built, and it took more than a month for Li Hua and his subordinates to brainstorm such a plan that no one had ever come to before.

A large amount of wood and stone are piled up, and the sky is full of dust and obscures the sky, but there is a lot of pride in the chest.

In the chaos in the distance, a group of people walked briskly towards Zhu Lihua, who looked at it and found that these people were like clay sculptures that could not see each other's appearance clearly.

The clay figurines walked up to the front of the clay figurines, bowed deeply to the first person, and said in a rather hoarse voice in their throats:

"The general came from afar, and the last general was unable to meet him due to the fortifications, so he asked the general to atone for his sins."

Zhu Lihua solemnly looked at the clay figure in front of him, leaned forward with all his strength, grabbed the hand of the person who seemed to be a clay sculpture, and said solemnly: "Senior brother, it's hard for you." ”

Next to the Huangtian Ferry, in a simple cloth tent, Zhu Lihua sat on his knees with Gao Yunce, Liu Jaw, Tang Yuan, Xi Zihui and others with the water cup in his hand.

Just now, he heard that Gao Yunce had reported to him that the people of Qi had come by ship many times

threatened to attack the ferry, so he smiled and said: "It seems that the people of Qi are still throwing rat traps, otherwise they would have called over a long time ago, and there is still no need to threaten them."

And for the decisive battle on the Xijing side, the Qi people invested another 50,000 soldiers and horses, and now they have no extra soldiers and horses to deal with us.

In the future, as long as you tell them that Gongzi Si is a guest with good food and drink here, they will not dare to open up another battlefield and start another war. ”

Gao Yunce nodded "yes" with a smile, and then reported the progress of the construction of the fortress to Lihua.

"General, in order to be able to build a fortress in a short time and overcome the difficulty of stone mining, the construction idea of digging the ground and digging trenches, mainly with water as the main and stone walls as the supplement, was adopted.

During this time, I felt that this not only saved manpower and material resources, but also that once the fortress was built, its defensive ability was far greater than that of the city walls.

This was more than we had anticipated, so I ordered the two-storey platform to be expanded to three, as even the three-storey platform would have been far less material needed to connect it to form the first floor of the traditional city wall.

Moreover, the three-story platform will also be more closely assisted by each other, and the scale of the garrison will be larger.

As for the extra stone and bricks, I ordered them to be transported to the high ground outside the fortress to strengthen the base of the high ground. In this way, the defense capacity of the outer highlands will also be greatly improved, and with the stone to consolidate the subfoundation, the ditches on the periphery of the highlands can also be dug deeper and wider.

......”

Zhu Lihua listened carefully to Gao Yunce's account of the construction of the fortress, and while listening, he pondered and kept putting forward his thoughts and doubts to Gao Yunce or Xi Zihui and others.

In some discussion, the plan to build the fortress was optimized again, and finally Zhu Lihua waved his hand and said:

"The forts on the periphery can all be equipped with planks, which can further increase the defense and reduce the consumption of rolling logs.

There are still two or three ground corridors between the three layers of the fortress, so that it is more convenient to transport back and forth on weekdays.

After all, war is just accidental, most of the time there is no need to fight, the role of this ferry is after all the flow of goods and materials.

As for the ravines under the high platforms in the highland fortresses and fortresses, the deeper the trenches, the higher the fort's defenses. ”

After Zhu Lihua put forward his opinion, everyone was deeply convinced, and at the same time, they were full of confidence that such an earth-shattering fortress was about to be built.

In their opinion, once this fortress is in operation, then no one in the world will dare to try to attack hard, and the only flaw in breaking the fortress is the waterway on the side of the yellow water.

But with the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses under the command of Zhu Lihua, what is this defect? After all, there is only a slim possibility that Qi can attack the fortress from the waterway.

These days, Xizi Hui, who returned to the party after traveling around with Zhu Lihua, has completely opened his eyes. Although the people's livelihood in the eight counties of Hexi and Shuofang was withering, the population was lacking, the city was ten rooms and nine empty, and there were few people outside the city, he still saw the strong vitality of the counties under the rule of Lihua and a feeling that was completely different from the rest of the Qin State.

This feeling is like the revival of everything in spring, which Xizihui has never felt.