The Xi clan was persecuted by Ma Yuanheng, the former assassin of Xuzhou, and Feng Changyu, the commander of Qianyang County, and the elite soldiers of that year were almost completely annihilated, leaving only Xi Chang and other sixty or seventy soldiers, and nearly 4,000 Xi clans were old, weak, sick and disabled, and finally were trafficked by Feng Changyu to the old counties of southwest Hunan and Qianzhong as slaves.

It was six years of Tianyou, and at that time, Xi Fa'er and Xi were only sixteen years old, and Xi Ying was only eleven years old, so it was impossible for them to forget the hatred of the annihilation of the clan and the death of the family.

In the process of being trafficked, the situation of the Xi clan was extremely bleak, dying of old age, sickness, and even being tortured by the new lord to the death, and at this time, there may be 2,000 clansmen who can survive and prosper.

Even if the hatred of the clan in their hearts is hard to extinguish, Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er are already desperate for the matter of recovering the clan.

Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er were originally trafficked to the two places, and this time they were already overjoyed on the way, and they were most worthy of celebration for their bleak slavery career over the years, but even so, even if they saw that many Xi children were sent to Canglang, they only thought that it was the beginning of another period of enslaved life, who would have thought that they could suddenly see the dawn of the Fu clan that directly made their hearts burn?

Whether it is for their personal interests or for the Xi family, Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er fully accept Han Qian's words without reservation - even if Xi Cheng's death is not exactly as Han Qian said, how could Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er drill this bull's sharp horn?

"Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er are willing to obey the dispatch of the adults and swear to follow each other to the death, if they wish to swear, the mountain god will abandon them." Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er knew at this time that their father and son could meet, everything was Han Qian's arrangement, and this alone was enough to make them grateful to Han Qian, and immediately lay on their stomachs and kowtowed.

"I want to build a new Canglang City on top of the remnants of Junxian County, I need a guard army, I will transfer sixty people to your father and son to command, all affairs, you report to Tiancheng - I hope you don't disappoint me." Han Qian said.

The elite scouts to which the Zuo Si Barracks belong can't be wasted on the daily guards of the camp, but the camp here must not be defended either.

What's more, the number of sturdy men that the Xi clan can gather is extremely limited, and they need to be organized and trained immediately, so that they can become a basic combat force under his control.

Although among the sixty people left by Feng Xuan and Yang Qin, there are only twenty people from the Xi clan, but the others are all slaves who have been redeemed, as long as the rewards and punishments are clear, they can still be used.

However, when it comes to differences and contradictions in language, customs, and native guest nationality, Han Qian currently wants to use Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er as the team to lead this slave army; And as long as Xi Chang, Xi Fa'er and others can really be used by him, and there is Xi Yi, the nominal female chief of the Xi family, the morale of this nominal slave soldier will not be too weak.

At present, this army has a temporary number of 60 people, and when Yang Qin and Feng Xuan lead the fleet over again, the number may be expanded to more than 100 people, and at a certain time, they can feed back the boat gang and the shortage of manpower of the fleet with the four surnames; After all, these people were nominally borrowed from the boat gang and the fleet.

The problem is that the Zuo Division is constantly expanding, the team to be supported is getting bigger and bigger, and the void of Zuo Si's military resources will become deeper and deeper, plus he has to fully support Li Zhihe's foothold in the three counties of Dengxi - Canglang City to a certain extent, it can be said that it was built for Li Zhihe - how long can the scam of the money shop last, Han Qian's heart has become a little bottomless.

Han Qian left Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er to speak in the big tent, and deliberated on the words of the slave soldiers below.

For the time being, the matter of the Xi family's restoration cannot be publicized, and the morale of the slave soldiers must be stimulated for Han Qian's use, so the rhetoric is quite important; In addition, it is necessary to carefully consider the special characteristics of the training of this slave army, Han Qian does not have too many elites to control all affairs, and the slave soldiers will also be assigned to the military room under Tian Cheng's command for the time being.

Tian Cheng led Xi Chang and Xi Fa'er to arrange the training of slave soldiers and the distribution of armor, and Han Qian found Zheng Tong, an old engineer who was transferred from the workshop.

Zheng Tong and other ten engineers and more than 70 craftsmen arrived in Xiangzhou by boat with the main force of the Dragon Bird Army this time.

Even if Xiangzhou is taken into account, it can be requisitioned on the spot or a group of people can be uniformly assigned by Du Chongtao, but the Longque Army has 7,000 soldiers and horses, more than 6,500 soldiers, and more than 500 logistics and supply personnel, mainly various craftsmen, to ensure the needs of the Longque Army to build walls, trenches, build war weapons, repair armor and even treat diseases.

Even though when Han Qian set out from Jinling, Xinchang Marquis Li Pu and the others still did not decide to promote the new Junzhou, Han Qian transferred an additional hundred craftsmen from the workshop to use it for his own use, so that he would not be limited by Zhou Yuan's subordinates.

Zheng Tong had only been in Canglang for a few days, and several engineers were discussing before they came up with a plan to build the city.

Zheng Tong walked into the big tent, and his opinion was very clear, if there were only three or four hundred strong laborers to use, and there were not enough mules and horses to match, even if it was based on the scale of the ancient city of Jun County, it would take almost ten years to build an earthen city wall.

Although Zheng Tong is not proficient in arithmetic, but he is experienced, not only the construction of the Taowu Military Mansion Tucheng and the Outpost Courtyard, he participated in it on behalf of Zuo Siyou, and he is the main builder of the large and small buildings of the workshop, and he has also presided over the construction of the city wall before, and the estimation of the amount of work will not deviate to where it goes.

The remnant city of Junxian County is located at the intersection of Hanshui and Danjiang, the rain is abundant in summer and autumn, and there are flash floods from time to time, which rush down from the mountains and flow into the Danjiang River or Hanshui, and the rammed earth is extremely demanding to build the city, and it does not save much manpower.

If, according to Han Qian's request, lime mortar, bamboo and grass clippings were to be mixed in the rammed clay, the strength of the wall would be higher, but the manpower and money needed would be more expensive.

At present, the strong labor gathered in Canglang is obviously far from meeting the needs of building a city, but Han Qian's previous method can only be slowly figured out, and it is impossible to call these cottages immediately, so he is really relieved to send all the strong laborers in the village to this side and wait for Zuo Si to serve.

If these people are all detained, won't these copycats be stupid?

As far as the current defensive situation in the Nanyang Basin is concerned, it is easy to say that money and food are good, and Du Chongtao is unlikely to allocate additional strong people to support the Longque Army to build a city here.

On the one hand, Xiangzhou already has a small fortress on the south bank, and on the other hand, on the entire Deng Xiang defense line, where should not requisition strong people and strengthen the walled city?

Even if the Dragon Bird Army can win over some of the strong people, it must first ensure Li Zhihe's needs for building villages in Jingzikou and other places.

At this time, not to mention that it would take ten years to build a wall to enclose it, even if it was delayed for two or three months, Han Qian felt that the situation was unbearable.

At present, there are already a small group of Liang army scouts, appearing in the wilderness north of Fancheng, and they do not dare to infiltrate the mountains on both wings for the time being, but this is only temporary, and as long as the main force of the Liang army enters the Nanyang Basin, and Deng Xiang's soldiers and horses dare not move easily, the scout elite of the Liang army will inevitably spread to the two wings.

Zuo Si wants to gain a foothold in Canglang, without the protection of the city wall, how can he resist the harassment of the Liang army scouts?

In this way, the plan proposed by Zheng Tong and other engineers cannot be adopted at all.

Han Qian led Xi Yi, Zheng Tong and others out of the big tent and saw three or four hundred people in the camp cleaning up the broken walls.

Most of the houses in the old city of Junxian County are rammed earth walls, even if they were not completely destroyed in the previous war, but they have not been repaired and maintained for more than ten years or even decades, and they have become a dangerous wall that is incomplete and will collapse at any time, which needs to be torn down and cleaned up and rebuilt.

At this time, it can also be seen that a large number of houses in Junxian County are excavated mud troughs, paved with stones as the foundation, and then rammed earth to build walls on the paving stone foundation, although it is not as good as using bricks and stones to build from the bottom to the top, but it is also quite elegant.

Han Qian carefully inspected the ruins of the ancient city of Junxian, a city destroyed by the wars of the late dynasties, which had abandoned the traditional courtyard buildings and instead crisscrossed the structure of streets and alleys.

The northeast wing is higher in the terrain, and even where the state capital and county government and other institutions are located, the lanes are quite open, but the southwest piece closest to the Hanshui and Danjiang rivers is low, mainly the residences of the poor, and the lanes are quite narrow.

They had chosen to camp before, mainly on the northeast flank on higher ground, but at this time, due to the situation, they had to build a fence as soon as possible, and Han Qian found that their previous choice was wrong.

"We should build a small fence on the southwest side first," Han Qian called Zheng Tong and other engineers over, and said, "This area is full of poor dwellings, and the lanes are narrow, but you see, if we clean up this piece of wreckage, the remnant wall foundations on both sides of the roadway, plus the roadway itself, are only five feet wide, which is exactly the width of the earthen wall we need to build the fence in the early stage." ”

Han Qian's plan was to select two lanes that were 100 steps apart, use the remnant wall foundations on both sides of the roadway to build the wall, and first build a 100-step square barrier to meet the needs of the scouts who arrived at Liang in the early stage.

Under the existing conditions, the vigilance of the cottage is not diminished, but to make full use of the manpower of the cottage, Han Qian sent craftsmen to two nearby cottages with a relatively mild attitude, to help them build lime kilns, instruct them to burn lime, and then Zuo Si to buy lime from them, so that they can save the manpower of mining limestone and burning lime.

Even the necessary materials such as coal, iron, stone, and wood can also be used in this way to cooperate with cottages connected by streams.