Chapter 453: Rebuilding the Plank Road
In the evening, the night fell very early, but fortunately, everyone was lucky, and it seemed that they responded to Zhuge Shiwei's words, found a good place, and successfully set up camp.
However, the losses of the team were much greater, and the nearly 1,000 war horses that entered the Meridian Valley before and after lost more than 300, and they were the kind that could not be seen even in the corpse capital. With the loss of more than 300 war horses, it was the goods that the war horses usually carried, including live sheep, baggage, flour, and a small amount of fresh water.
Fortunately, the loss of more is the Zhuge chain lock sent to the valley by Zhuge wet widows, and the loss is more than sixty percent after inventory, but after all, the Zhuge chain lock can be made of local materials, which is nothing more than spending some more time. Because of this, it also made Lin Feng feel bitterly smiling, I don't know if the arrival of Zhuge Shiwei is a blessing or a curse, yesterday it was sent to be called an extremely advanced Zhuge chain lock, and today it encountered a sudden burst of mudslides and lost more than sixty percent.
Although he lost some of the food, but that night, Lin Feng still asked the elder Zhu to take a few apprentices to work a little harder, slaughtered a few more sheep, and let everyone eat more meat to suppress the shock, and at the same time gave everyone a small part of the good wine that Zhuge Shiwei secretly carried. The previous decision made Zhuge Shiwu cry out happily, but the later actions made Zhuge Shiwu frown all night, because after the harm of the mudslide, he was originally worried that the lost wine would not be enough for his own journey, but Lin Feng was very generous to share a part, how could he not make the other party feel heartache.
That night, more than 40 people killed by Feng were divided into two teams, and they were on duty in the first half of the night and the second half of the night near two or three miles away from the camp, Lin Feng was still worried about whether the same mudslide would happen again, and even Lin Feng himself didn't sleep well that night.
For the next three days, the distance traveled by the team every day was only two or three percent of the usual amount, but every day, Lin Feng would always send people from Feng to the site of the mudslide outbreak to investigate. Due to the cold weather, the mudslide was frozen together not long after it stopped.
And three days later, in the face of the 'relics' of the mudslide that stretched for several miles, Lin Feng led everyone to start a big cleanup, after all, such a long section of the road was piled up by the mudslide, which still had a great impact on the future march.
Since entering the Meridian Valley, except for the day when Zhuge Shiwei arrived with Zhuge Chain Lock, more than 300 logistics craftsmen have basically not played any role, but in the cleaning of the mudslide, everyone's craftsmanship has been fully demonstrated for the first time.
The camp was four or five miles away from the place of the incident, and after breakfast, they all set off and rushed to the site of the mudslide with their own tools. At dawn, thirty makeshift carriages were displayed in the middle of the crowd.
Immediately, the craftsmen carried their own tools and began to eradicate the mudslide that had accumulated about one meter high. They were hewn into pieces of stone, then loaded onto horse-drawn carts and transported to the rear, scattered and piled up on both sides of the road. Miles of land eroded by mudslides were completely bulldozed in just four days.
During the period, it was not very peaceful, there were several small-scale landslides, for these, Lin Feng had already made preparations, learning to use protective nets to block the measures, so that the craftsmen on the first day on the side of the mountain where the mudslide occurred, built three lines of defense before and after, and even added a layer of protective nets to intercept the last one. Although landslides are also dangerous, this kind of small-scale landslide is far less harmful than the previous mudslides in front of the three lines of defense, and although some can cross the defense line, they cannot cause any harm to the people below.
It took a total of eight days to toss and turn, and it was not until the ninth day that the team started their journey again. Although there had been mudslides before, because there were no casualties, the people accompanying them had forgotten about the danger a few days later, or buried them deep in their hearts, anyway, no one deliberately mentioned it, and everything returned to calm again.
After three days of moving forward again, Lin Feng's team encountered the first difficulty, a completely broken plank road. Standing on this side of the cliff, Lin Feng looked at the cliff opposite, then looked at the abyss between the two, shook his head slightly and sighed, he knew that the real challenge of the Meridian Valley party had just begun.
Judging from the holes left by the construction of the plank road along one side of the cliff, the dark marks undoubtedly exposed the cause of its destruction, and it was burned clean by a fire.
However, the destroyed plank road is not very long, only about thirty or forty meters away, and then you can reach the opposite side. First of all, the people of Feng Kill tied them to their bodies with ropes, and then carefully climbed along the cliffs, first temporarily set up a few fixed iron cables between the two, and then paved a dangling suspension bridge, so that people can walk up and feel that they may fall into the abyss at any time.
However, the craftsmen who accompanied him this time were not ordinary people, and even under such difficult conditions, they still successfully completed the task of rebuilding the plank road. Especially with the help of Zhuge Chain Lock, a stable plank road of thirty or forty meters has been completely rebuilt in only two days.
Originally, the construction of this kind of volley plank road is extremely difficult, but the Zhuge chain lock can be assembled in advance, only the craftsmen need to chisel out the appropriate wall hole in the cliff, and then you can directly use the Zhuge chain lock to install it, and then it is to use a variety of horizontal wood to build a strong one, and a plank road that is enough to bear thousands of catties at the same time is completely completed.
The original plank road is divided into three layers, the lower part is mainly used as the overall support, and the middle is used as a passage road, and the top is a pavilion to protect from the rain and the sun, which is the so-called pavilion, which can prevent the wooden piles and planks that built the plank road from decaying and rotting due to the rain.
However, Lin Feng made a temporary decision before he was about to continue to move forward, to stay for another day, to use the high-rise pavilion as a passage, and then build another layer of pavilion on it, that is, to add one more layer. The original passage was used as a layer of protection against accidents, and the craftsmen were ordered to reinforce that layer at the expense of time and manpower, in order to ensure that the reinforcements in the rear were foolproof.
With the beginning, the next road is much smoother, after all, there is already experience in building plank roads, plus this group of craftsmen who are not ordinary craftsmen work together, and then encounter similar plank roads along the way, as long as there are ready-made Zhuge chain locks, it only takes one day to completely rebuild the plank road.
The Zhuge chain lock brought by Zhuge Shiwei was almost finished after only two uses, so Lin Feng had to slow down the march again, stop the march half an hour early every afternoon and start camping, and at the same time set up a part of the craftsmen to look for usable wood nearby, and then make time for the production of Zhuge chain locks, after all, all the way back, no one knows how many meters of plank road needs to be built.