In the mouth, in the Jiangzhou Prefecture, Chen Shuying, the king of Jiangzhou and Yuzhang, looked at the battle report in his hand in a daze, and this battle report was bad news: the official army was defeated in Jinzhou, Jiangbei, except for a few generals who escaped by luck, most of the soldiers and horses were finished.

"How many times have you said to take precautions, and you have said that Xincai must not be lost!" Chen Shuying scolded hatefully, crumpled the battle report into a ball and threw it out, and the attendants on the side stood with their hands down when they saw this, and they didn't dare to make a sound.

"Tens of thousands of soldiers! Hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and grass! That's it! Chen Shuying brushed his sleeves and walked back and forth in the room, "What to say is solid, what to say is foolproof, but the Sui army is here, and the Zhou army is also here!" ”

"The king is angry" is close to the waiter Nene, they don't know how to persuade them, they can only keep asking the king to calm his anger, since the Xincai granary was burned down, Chen Shuying has not laughed for a day.

Where can I be happy, that day Chen Shuying was in the Yangtze River in Caishan overlooking Jiangbei, just when he went down the mountain to board the boat, he found that there was an accident in Jiangbei Xincaicheng, and the noise was in the city, and the riverside granary outside the city was on fire.

Xincai is the grain and grass transit place of the official army in the north to attack Jinzhou, which was originally a place where heavy soldiers can sit back and relax, but it was still burned by someone, and this burning not only burned hundreds of thousands of stone grain and grass, but also burned the living road of the officers and soldiers who arrived in Yongxing City.

The Sui army gathered forces to confront the official army in Yongxing, but the official army could not receive food and grass, and the roads were muddy and unable to get out during the heavy rain, and the grain and grass were exhausted after more than ten days of stalemate.

It has always been a difficult thing to withdraw in front of the enemy, five years ago, the Northern Zhou Dynasty annihilated the Northern Qi, the famous general Wu Mingche of the Chen State led the army to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and defeated Liang Shiyan, the governor of Xuzhou of the Zhou State, arrived under Pengcheng.

In the dilemma, the Chen army struggled to break through, but in the end it was defeated, only the vanguard Xiao Maha led the cavalry to break through successfully, and Wu Mingche was captured after falling ill, and died of illness in Chang'an soon after.

Now the rout was staged again, the retreating Chen army in front of the enemy was unsuccessful, the retreat turned into a rout, the Hezhou Governor's Mansion of the Sui State was originally in a bad situation, they faced great pressure from the Zhou army in the north, and the result was to withdraw their hands to defeat the Chen army in the south.

Everything stems from the fact that Xincai was attacked and the grain and grass were lost, and I thought it was just the handiwork of the Sui army, but it turned out that there were others, and the Zhou army in Qizhou, west of Jinzhou, also attacked Xincai at the same time.

Somehow, the official army nailed under the city of Qichang failed to play a role, although their own strict precautions did not let the Qizhou side pay attention to the war in the east, but the Zhou army also noticed the direction of Jinzhou, that is to say, even if Xincai dodged the Sui army attacking from the northeast, it would be captured by the Zhou army attacking from the northwest.

Xincai was attacked, and the officers and troops who remained under the city of Qichang also became chicken ribs, but a heavy rain actually cut off their grain routes, and they ran out of food and grass for a few days, and the army was unstable, and the result was that the retreat turned into a rout.

At this point, the two official armies of Jiangbei have been defeated, although a small number of people have fled back, but the heavy losses are no different from the annihilation of the whole army, and now Qikou, Yongning, and Xincai are still in the hands of the official army, but there is no need to hold on in the face of a strong enemy counterattack.

Chen Shuying never understood why the Northern Dynasty was defeated one after another in the end because of the civil strife in the Northern Dynasties for three consecutive years, and the officials and troops fought in the north for three consecutive years.

"Pack up, prepare the boat, and set off back to Jiankang when the handover is completed." He sighed and said, The envoy from Jiankang arrived in Huangkou today and brought a holy decree to summon him to the court as the general of the Central Guard.

The post of Jiangzhou Assassin History was taken over by others, and the new Assassin History is now very close to Jiangzhou, that is, Chen Shujian, the king of Changsha who is currently leading the army stationed in Xisaishan, Chen Shujian was originally the commander of the army stationed in Yingzhou, and now he has changed to Jiangzhou to sit in the town, and Jiangzhou and Yingzhou are also connected in order to better fight against Jiangbei Zhou.

As for the situation in Jinzhou, we can only wait and see what happens, maybe Chen Guo still has a chance after the Zhou army broke through the Hezhou Governor's Mansion from the north, but that has nothing to do with Chen Shuying, he doesn't want to stay in Jiangzhou now, instead of **** looking at Jiangbei and sighing, it is better to go back to Jiankang and be happy......

Xiyang City, Xiyang County Mansion, Yuwen Wen, who passed by the door several times but did not enter, finally entered the door, and Yuwen Envoy, who has always been very busy, is still busy today.

Yu Wenwen heard bad news as soon as he landed in Bakou today, first went to the farmland outside the city to check the situation of the lodging of crops, and then rushed to the state government to discuss countermeasures with Xu Shao, and then handed over the prisoners brought back with Changshi Ren Chong, and only returned home after dealing with the backlog of official business.

When he got home, it was already past the meal, but fortunately, someone had been sent back in advance to spread the news, and the kitchen had prepared the meal after he had finished bathing and changing.

"What's wrong with E-Ying?" Yuwen Wen asked, Yuwen Eying, who was sitting in front of her, had red eyes, and Yang Lihua, who was sitting on the side, sighed and said, "E-Ying is too greedy, she eats all day long." ”

"I'm just going to eat some" Yuwen Eying said aggrievedly, her hands kept wringing in anger, the mother and daughter stared at each other, Yuwen Wen shook her head with a smile when she saw this.

"Come, Aya can't eat these plates of pastries, E-Ying helps eat them." He smiled and beckoned to Yuwen Eying, the little girl was overjoyed when she heard this, but she still glanced at A-Niang first, and when she saw A-Niang silent, she got up and walked next to Yuwenwen.

Yang Lihua sighed helplessly, after Yu Wenwen's continuous guidance in the back kitchen of the house, she made a lot of small pastries and snacks with ingenuity, those things taste good and have never been seen, her daughter likes to eat non-stop, she is really afraid that she will become a fat girl if she eats like this.

"Most of them are vegetarian, so you don't have to worry about getting fat." Yu Wenwen said with a smile that the diet of this era was still too monotonous in his opinion, and with the early appearance of condiments such as soy sauce, he decided to enrich the recipes at home, first, to satisfy his cravings, and secondly, to let his family try it.

Egg rolls, omelets, gingerbread, radish cakes, pickled radish, pumpkin sesame balls, salt-baked walnuts and other snacks, as well as 'worth a thousand gold' tea eggs, with thermometers and manpower temperature control of the 'cottage' oven, recently launched 'cottage' cakes.

These things are actually simple things, not even as good as the delicacies and seas that Yang Lihua ate when she was in the palace, but for the little girl Yuwen Eying, the temptation is very great, not only has a lot of variety, but the amount of each plate is also small, and you can eat a lot of it unconsciously.

Yuwen'e ate with relish, Yuwenwen was talking to Yang Lihua while eating, Brother Que was already asleep, so there was no way to tease, he just watched from the side for a while and let the nurse take care of it, tonight he will be 'very busy', so according to the 'itinerary' to eat at Yang Lihua's side first.

After the maid cleaned up the food table, Yuwen Eying was also coaxed away by Liu Ye, and there was no one else in the room, Yang Lihua crashed into Yuwen Wen's arms, and the two of them kept warm for a while before stopping.

"It's hard for Lihua." Yuwen Wen hugged the beauty and said, he already had an 'appointment' so he struggled to suppress the evil fire in his heart, and the person in his arms had changed from the previous cold royal sister to a charming lady, if it weren't for Yuwen Wen's 'integrity-based', he would almost burn on the spot.

"The concubine is waiting for Erlang." Yang Lihua buried her face in her husband's arms, two years of living together made her more and more inseparable from Yu Wenwen, before the main room Wei Chi Chifan had to nurse her young son, and Xiao Jiuniang was pregnant again, and she was alone in the face of her husband's burning gaze for several months.

Thanks to Yu Wenwen, she is still restrained, otherwise Yang Lihua doesn't want to get up, for a while, her legs were so weak that she couldn't even walk, thinking about the **** night with her husband, Yang Lihua became more and more reluctant.

It's easy to say goodbye to the beauty, Yu Wenwen walked out of the door and walked towards Xiao Jiuniang's courtyard, he wanted to accompany the pregnant side room to talk, and then he had to go all out to 'pick up the lights and fight at night' to deal with the finale of the 'enemy commander' Wei Chi Chi.

"Fortunately, I didn't hurt my waist in the battle with the future King of Yama" Yu Wenwen rubbed his waist involuntarily, as the saying goes, 'there is no ploughed field, only tired cows', his bull worked hard to fit out, and there were other benefits besides riding on the battlefield.

"What about Tian Duo, this cow is tired and can't die!" ……

At night, the frogs on the riverside are croaking in the sky, and these bustles are set against a manor on the south bank, there are watchtowers at the four corners of the courtyard wall, on which people with bows and crossbows can be faintly seen sentry, and there are several houses on the riverside side of the courtyard, and there is a waterwheel outside each house.

There is also a huge windmill in the corner of the manor, this windmill is similar to the windmill in Bahe City, and now it has become a scene by the Santai River outside Xiyang City, of course, if anyone dares to approach the manor without permission, they will be greeted with death.

This is the annex of Bazhou Thorn Shi Yuwen Wen, and it is also a forbidden place where he explicitly ordered no one to approach at will, and Yuwen Envoy, who has always been easy to speak, will not tolerate anyone challenging his bottom line.

A house is brightly lit, many people are busy around a huge wheel mechanism, Bazhou Sima Yang Ji is directing them to drum, the same 'abnormal humans', Yang Ji is contributing his knowledge under the 'squeezing' of Yuwenwen.

During the day, he was the Sima of Bazhou, responsible for leading the state soldiers to protect the territory and the people; At night, he was a harder worker under Yu Wenwen who had no salary, and he was working with a group of people in the workshop to drum all kinds of equipment.

Clock, is Yu Wenwen to Yang Ji another task, for Yang Ji this is not very difficult, in the Ming Dynasty, he was hungry to learn Western technology to serve the imperial court, in addition to Western artillery, mathematics, architecture, Western clocks are also one of them.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Western missionary Matteo Ricci and others came to Beijing, and they paid tribute to the emperor with Western clocks and watches.

One of the most important structures in the clock is the escapement, which is like the human heart also known as the 'escapement', 'a capture, a longitudinal, a retraction, a release, an opening and closing', the escapement transmits power to the hands at regular intervals, and is the key device for its non-stop movement.

In other words, the escapement allows the hands of the clock to rotate at a certain average speed, and a similar device in the Central Plains is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty and was made by a group of famous monks and astronomers.

In the Song Dynasty, the prime minister Su Song made the armillary sphere, and its core structure was a water-powered escapement, and now in the house is a water-powered escapement, which, together with other devices, forms a primitive clock.

Specifically, the clock used for 'technical verification' to let the craftsmen know how the clock operates, and Yang Ji's familiar Western clocks use a fork-tile escapement, but he still drums out a hydraulically driven escapement first according to Yu Wenwen's requirements.

Easier said than done, although he had seen similar mechanisms, it was not so easy to build, not to mention that the craftsmen in the workshop had no idea what a clock meant, and it took him months to guide the craftsmen to set up the shelves.

"Sir, it's ready." Lin Youdi stepped forward and said, as the manager of the workshop, he is busy every day, and the Lang master Yu Wenwen often assigns strange tasks, and now this 'escapement' is the most torturous.

"Let's get started, release the water." Yang Ji nodded, and after tossing for months, he finally reached the critical moment.

"Open the floodgates, release the water!"

"Flat kettle open the floodgates!"

"The kettle is normal, and the pivot wheel is starting to turn." "The whereabouts of the balance" "The drain of the water bottle is normal"

"The pointer is turning!"

The shouts came and went, and the hydraulically powered escapement began to operate, passing through a series of gears to drive the hands on the clock dial to turn, and Lin Youdi was thrilled to watch the huge mechanism run under the hydraulic propulsion.

The legendary 'armillary sphere' can peek into the heavens, only those skilled craftsmen can make it, and now they are not making an armillary sphere but it is not bad, and everyone is excited to see the results of months of hard work.

This manor is actually a workshop, which is equipped with all kinds of strange mechanisms, in order to use water power so choose the Santai River that often flows heavily by the river, the entire manor's exterior wall has been integrated with the newly repaired river embankment, a few days ago the heavy rain also made Lin Youdi and others frightened.

"Lin Steward, it will take several days for the equipment to be concluded, and you must always pay attention to the failure of the operation." Yang Ji instructed that, as the 'project director', he was very concerned about the progress, and after the successful trial operation, the craftsmen were familiar with the structure, and then the next step could be carried out.

"Sir, do you have a car to take you home?" Lin Youdi asked, Yang Ji was called "Yang Sima" outside, but everyone in the mansion called him "Mr. Yang", and outsiders thought that Yang Ji was the adjutant of the assassin history, or the 'head of the sword technique' of the Hu Lin Army, but everyone in the mansion knew that Yang Ji was the guest of Lord Lang.

"No, there's a bed for me in the courtyard anyway, isn't it?" Yang Ji smiled, "Besides, now that the city gate is closed, it will be a lot more troublesome to open the door." ”

He is still single now, and he doesn't even have a personal servant, it's not that Yuwenwen is too stingy but he doesn't need it, he has endless things to do in the military camp or the state government during the day, and he goes to the workshop from time to time to guide at night, and there is no shortage of helpers next to him.

Yang Ji's usual residence is in the side courtyard of the Xiyang County Mansion, and someone is responsible for the change of clothes, and there are hot water in the bath to the meal, and there are various meals prepared in the back kitchen, with many patterns and good taste, it doesn't matter if there is a personal servant or not.

"By the way, it's another escapement, you can see it and start doing it." Yang Ji handed over a few rolls of paper to Lin Youdi, according to the rules that had been set, everything to be done had to be drawn first, and then a wooden model should be made, and then enlarged when it was clear.

"This is? Not hydraulically driven? Lin Youdi looked at it for a while and then asked, he is now very experienced, and he is no longer the stupid boy who didn't understand anything two years ago.

"Yes, it's powered by a pendulum clockwork." Yang Ji thought for a moment and added: "It's called a fork-tile escapement. (To be continued.) )