However, it was said that after the baggage convoy of the Jingbianbao Army first transported some reinforced concrete from Jinzhou City, Liu Renyu invited Zu Dashou, He Kegang and other Liaodong generals to find a place to see the mystery of cement with him.

Outside the camp, in an open space, several soldiers of Jingbian Fort took cement, closed the sand and gravel taken out of the Daling River, poured water and stirred it evenly, and then placed it in a wooden box.

"Dashuai, after an hour and a half, this thin mud can be turned into a solid stone." Liu Renyu introduced with a smile.

"Really!? If so, it would be very strange! "General Zu Dashou is suspicious, and the rest of the Liaodong generals are also unconvinced.

Liu Renyu saw a lot of such expressions, but he didn't care too much, he continued to speak: "The marshal, the last general has just arrived, and I don't know how many troops the court has sent, so please let the marshal know." ”

"The imperial court ordered this town to bring 4,000 troops, and together with your 3,000 people, to jointly defend 14,000 soldiers to build the city, and in addition, there are no horses." Zu Dashou replied.

When Liu Renyu heard this number, he felt that something was wrong, because it was very clear in the history books of later generations that in addition to the 4,000 people from Zu Dashou's department who came to the Daling River to build the city, there were also 10,000 white pole soldiers, why are there no now?

"Dashuai, the Daling River is close to Jiannu, so the imperial court only sent a few of us to guard the city builders?" Liu Renyu was puzzled.

"Hey, originally the imperial court planned to send another 10,000 white pole soldiers, but some people said that your troops are elite, even if you only have 3,000 combat strength, it may not be worse than 10,000 white pole soldiers, so, hey, in order to save food and military salaries, the imperial court simply only sent this town and your people to Daling River." Zu Dashou said helplessly.

"I see, the court is so poor that even military affairs have to be calculated like this." Liu Renyu sighed.

When Zu Dashou heard this, the corners of his mouth moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he thought about it for a while, and finally just said lightly: "The country is difficult, and it is all helpless." ”

"Dashuai, even if we have few soldiers, we don't care, as long as we use the reinforced concrete method of the last general to build the Dalinghe Fort, let's stay in the fort, prepare enough grain, medicine bows and arrows, Jiannu comes, and greet them with cannons and bows. There are only 100,000 Jiannu in total, and if we kill three or five thousand of them, they will retreat, and then it will be another great victory. Liu Renyu said happily.

"Prepare enough food .......!" Zu Dashou repeated these words several times, and then said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid it's difficult to prepare enough food, at present, my army can use military food, which is only enough for the whole army to eat for a month, and the town has urged military food several times, but there is no response, alas!" ”

When the generals of the Liaodong Army heard Zu Dashou's words, their faces were gloomy and extremely depressed.

When Liu Renyu heard this, his eyes flickered for a while, and finally he changed to a worried look, pretending to be surprised: "If we don't send military rations, what if our army is besieged in Dalinghe City?" ”

"Qiu Junmen said that if our army is surrounded, he will send troops to save it." Zu Dashou replied not very confidently.

"Then our army will have no worries, Jinzhou is only 70 miles away from the Daling River, and the cavalry will gallop up, and it will be there in two or three hours." Liu Renyu said.

"That's nature." Zu Dashou absentmindedly responded to the last sentence.

Liu Renyu heard Zu Dashou's tone and demeanor, and knew that the other party was insincere, but he didn't want to break it, he continued: "Dashuai, there will be a reluctant request in the end, please let Dashuai agree." ”

"Oh, what's the matter with General Liu, but it's okay to say it?" Zu Dashou replied.

"The cavalry under the last general's hands are all naughty and mischievous, and when the sentry is in the future, the last general hopes that his cavalry can go all the way with your cavalry, do you think it will be successful?" Liu Renyu pleaded.

"What is a big deal in this town, this is a small matter, and I agreed." Zu Dashou waved his hand.

"The last general thanked the commander." Liu Renyu responded happily.

Of course, there is a reason why Liu Renyu is so happy, when he was reading the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty in the past, it said that Zu Dashou and other cadres of the Ming army who built the city saw that Huang Taiji suddenly led troops to kill, and he actually panicked, and immediately closed the four gates, preparing to hold the city.

At that time, he wondered, Zu Dashou was building a city under Houjin's nose, wouldn't he send a sentry? Why didn't you wait until the Huang Taiji army killed under the city of Dalinghe to find out about the enemy? Now that he has crossed over to Daming himself, of course, he must strengthen the sentinel, lest the Houjin army touch it without knowing it.

After Liu Renyu and Zu Dashou finished talking about the sentry detectives, they no longer had anything important to say, he simply talked about all kinds of things produced in his Jingbian Fort, glass mirrors, soap, glass greenhouses and out-of-season vegetables, four-wheeled carriages, cement, etc., etc., he talked endlessly, non-stop.

Sun Wuxi, who was a very good thing, did not forget to gag a few words, and all the Liaodong generals were amazed when they heard it.

In the end, Liu Renyu agreed to send glass mirrors and soap to all Liaodong generals in accordance with the rules, but as for the carriage, it was too expensive, and he couldn't afford it.

A group of Liaodong generals had seen the wonderful use of glass mirrors and soap, and they were all very happy to accept Liu Renyu's gifts.

After Liu Renyu and a group of Liaodong generals gossiped for a while, 3 hours had passed, under the light of the summer sun, the cement dried very quickly, so when a few Jingbianbao soldiers broke the wooden plank of the wooden box, there was an object shaped like a stone in front of the Liaodong generals.

"Yo, the mud is really stone!" A Liaodong army general couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the mud turn to stone.

The rest of the Liaodong generals were also inexplicably surprised, and they couldn't understand the process of turning mud into stone.

Liu Renyu saw the reaction of the generals of the Liaodong Army, smiled proudly in his heart, and then said to Zhang Tieniu: "Tie Niu, you have a lot of brute strength, take a hammer and knock it, let the marshal, deputy marshal, and the generals see, is this cement strong?" ”

"Very well, General." Zhang Tieniu had a chance to show his face, and immediately happily found a big hammer, and then 'Bah, Bah,' spit on his hand twice.

Then Zhang Teniu picked up the hammer high and shouted: "Go." ”

"Boom." The hammer roared and slammed into the concrete with a loud bang.

A group of Liaodong generals looked at it, and the cement block did not move at all.

"This thing is really magical, it was thin mud before, but it was hard after drying, no wonder the imperial court asked General Liu to come to the Daling River to build a city, and the cement is really usable!" Zu Dashou saw that Zhang Teniu, who had a big waist and a round waist, smashed the cement block hard, but he couldn't hurt his pride, so he finally believed that the reinforced concrete city construction method was still very reliable.

"Dashuai, this is just the effect of ordinary cement, if you add additional steel bars to the cement, it will be stronger, and even the Hongyi cannon is not afraid." Liu Renyu said with some pride.

"If that's the case, after the Dalinghe Fort is built, wouldn't it be solid, good, very good." Zu Dashou first said a few good words in a row to express the excitement in his heart, and then he said to He Kegang: "Lao He, this method is really useful, you go and give an order to the servants, and they will quickly dig the foundation of the city, and we will start to build the city." ”

"Got it." He Kegang responded to the last word, and went straight to pass the order.

"General Liu, the plan has been decided, I will come to the camp for a meal tonight, and several thousand presidents are also here, let's be lively together."

Zu Dashou saw the strength of the Jingbianbao army today, and saw the solidity of the cement, and felt that he had received a great help, coupled with Liu Renyu's sweet and generous mouth, he had a very good impression of the generals of the Jingbianbao army, so he was very enthusiastic to invite Liu Renyu and others to have a meal and wine.

Liu Renyu also wanted to have a good relationship with the generals of the Liaodong Army, so he readily agreed.

On the evening of the same day, Liu Renyu took his generals to the camp for a banquet.

During the banquet, everyone pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and the food was very refreshing, the only fly in the ointment was that even if Zu Dashou invited him to eat, the dishes on the table were not very rich, and the only meat was a deer caught by hunting today, and there were not many other melons and fruits.

However, Liu Renyu didn't care about these details, he and his subordinates chatted with Zu Dashou and other Liaodong army generals about how they fought and cut people in the northeast and northwest.

After eating wine and dinner, Liu Renyu took his slightly drunk subordinates back to his Chinese army's tent, and he specially convened a meeting of the generals.

After the generals sat down, Liu Renyu smiled and asked his subordinates: "Gentlemen, have you ever been drunk at today's banquet?" ”

"Just a few cups, the iron ox should only drink water." Zhang Tieniu grinned.

"There is no drunkenness in the lowly rank." The rest of the generals replied individually.

"Very good, gentlemen, listen well, we have arrived at the forefront of Liaodong, and the east of the Daling River is the boundary of Jiannu, so please be vigilant and ready to engage in battle at any time. Remember, remember. Liu Renyu said solemnly.

"Humble ranks, remember." The generals agreed.

"Very good, no disease." Liu Renyu called.

"No disease."

"Most of the Jiannu sentinels are Bayala elites, and you must choose the most capable soldiers when you lead people to sentry."

"Yes, General."

"Also, when you go out to scout with the Liaodong Army, you must be polite, discuss everything, and don't be arrogant, which hurts the harmony between our army and friendly forces." Liu Renyu advised.

"Humble duty, remember." Sun replied without illness.

"Very good, Ergou, from now on, all the military rations needed by our army will be taken from the big battalion, and there is no need to carry their own baggage." Liu Renyu commanded.

"Yes, General." When He Ergou heard this, he didn't say much, and responded to himself.

But Li Jiye was puzzled: "General, I just saw you talking to the marshal, and the marshal said that the military food is not enough, why don't we just use our own, and our food is enough." ”

"Jiye is really a real person, so honest with friendly troops and sympathetic to the court, hehe." Liu Renyu said with a smile.

"No, no, the lowly position just thinks that our own food is enough, and we don't have to rely on others to breathe, and then go to support the grain and grass, so as not to be a little shorter when people are low, and there is no other meaning for the lowly position." Li Jiye hurriedly explained.

"It's okay, it's okay, I have a plan to do this, let me ask you, if Jiannu really surrounds us, do you say Jinzhou, will Ningyuan send troops to rescue us?" Liu Renyu asked.

"Naturally, troops will be sent to rescue, if you sit back and watch us being surrounded, but don't come to the rescue, who will dare to serve the court in the future." Li Jiye replied.

The rest of the generals also nodded in unison, obviously agreeing with this point of view.

"That's right, but, may I ask you, even if the imperial court sends reinforcements, can it save us?" Liu Renyufu asked again.

"The general told us before that my Daming field battle is not as good as Jiannu, and if it is surrounded, Daming will not be able to break the siege." Ma Wenshan replied in due course.

"Wenshan is right, the army is short of food, if it is surrounded, it will inevitably run out of food, at that time, we still have 100,000 stone of grain in our hands, do you think the marshal wants to borrow food from us?" Liu Renyu said with a smile.

"That's what the general said." A group of Jingbianbao generals responded.

"That's right, I mean, when the army runs out of food, we will help the Liaodong Army, sell personal favors to them first, and they will always return it to us in the future." Liu Renyu smiled even more.

"The general is calculating, and the lowly rank is obedient."

In fact, the generals of the Jingbian Fort didn't know what benefits Liu Renyu wanted to get by doing this, but Liu Renyu thought that he had a plan, so they got off the donkey and trumpeted their own generals.

"That's it, let's go down to rest, tomorrow I will go to the morning exercise, and then Ergou will continue to lead people to carry cement, steel bars, and grain. Cement and steel bars are transported to the construction site, and grain is transported to the camp, and there is no disease, you let Yaozong take people to guard the two dogs, and the rest of the people will go to build the city. Liu Renyu said.

"Yes, General." The generals nodded.

"Also, you wait and remember, don't say that we still have a lot of food, violators, expel Jingbian Fort." Liu Renyu admonished again.

"Yes, General."

"It's all scattered, start work tomorrow, and build the city."