There is the emperor in Jiayuguan, and the matters related to the expedition to the tile spur are progressing very quickly, like all kinds of materials are crazy to Jiayuguan, whether it is grain and grass or steel and cement required to build the railway, it has long been piled up in Jiayuguan like a mountain range.

The soldiers of the regiments of the vassal states and the reserve regiments rushed to Jiayuguan like a race, and in less than ten days, they all arrived.

At present, the Third Army Corps of the Frontier Guards and the Fourth Army Corps of the Border Guards are assembling and practicing in Jiayu Pass, and the other three Army Corps and the corps of the vassal states have already taken 200,000 prisoners to build the railway from Jiayu Pass to Hamiwei.

At this time, building a railway was not as complicated as in later generations, and there was no need for any electrical wiring, as long as the roadbed was dug up, paved with stones, and then cleaned up, paved with sleepers and rails, and fixed it.

During the Ming Dynasty, the most time-consuming things to build railways were digging roadbeds, laying stones, and processing sleepers.

Before the replacement of the earth dragon, digging a hundreds of miles of roadbed, 100,000 people have to dig at least two days, now there is a ground dragon is different, the earth dragon with a special climbing plow, all the way over, the people behind will be turned up the soil can be cleaned up, 100,000 people a day digging two hundred miles is no problem.

It is not that it is difficult to pave stones, but it is almost as long as you fill in the roadbed when you pave them, mainly because this stone is difficult to find, and if it is in a plain area where there are no mountains, you can only dig it in the river or transport it from somewhere else.

Fortunately, there are remnants of the Tianshan Mountains everywhere from Jiayuguan to Hami, and it is not a problem to find some stones, as long as you send someone to mine, you can do it.

Finally, Da Ming also thought of a way, and now the sleepers are no longer cut down as before, and then slowly processed, but directly turned out with reinforced concrete.

At the beginning, the mold of making sleepers may be a waste of time than making sleepers directly, but now, I don't know how many sleeper molds of Daming have, just pull a train over, and I can't use it up, as long as I tie the steel bar, mix the concrete and pour it in.

Of course, one of the most troublesome things to do is to build bridges and holes, and if there are rivers or mountains blocking the railway line, it will be troublesome.

The reason why the railway from Jiayuguan to Hamiwei has not been built is not because the terrain here is complicated, there are no rivers here, and the mountains are also east-west, so they will not block the railway at all, mainly because the wind and sand are too big, and they may be buried by the wind and sand in a few days after repair.

However, now, after several years of Sun Chuanting's governance, both sides of the planned railway line have been almost covered with drought-resistant plants for dozens of miles, and there is no need to worry too much about the problem of wind and sand.

If in the past, Sun Chuanting took the Qin army and 100,000 tunwei to slowly repair, and the railway from Jiayuguan to Hamiwei would have to be repaired for at least half a year, but now, the speed is simply not too terrifying.

How many people gathered outside Jiayu Pass at this time?

There are the Qin Army, the First Army of the Frontier Army, the Second Army of the Border Army, and the three regular regiments with a total of 300,000 troops;

There were also the 1st Army Corps of Dongying, the 2nd Army of Dongying, the Korean Army, the Siamese Army, the Annam Army and the Donghu Army, with a total of 600,000 troops from the six vassal states;

There were also nearly 200,000 captives of the Vaspur and the Kazakh Khanate, who were now free laborers.

Under the command of the officials of the Ministry of Industry, a full 1.1 million people have divided labor and cooperated in an all-round way:

The 1st Regiment of the Frontier Guards and the 2nd Regiment of the Frontier Guards took 200,000 prisoners to mine stones;

The 1st and 2nd Legions were responsible for transporting stones;

The Korean and Siamese regiments were responsible for mixing concrete, turning sleepers;

The Annan Army and the Donghu Army were responsible for digging roadbeds and filling in stones;

Qin Jun was responsible for working with officials from the Ministry of Industry to level the roadbed and lay sleepers and railroad tracks.

More than one million people are like an assembly line, the speed is simply amazing, in less than half a month, the railway from Jiayuguan to Hamiwei has been repaired!

At present, the Qin army, the vassal army and 200,000 prisoners are resting at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains north of Hamiwei, while the 1st Army of the Frontier Army and the 2nd Army of the Border Army are being transferred back to Jiayuguan for reorganization.

The reason why Zhu Cijiong transferred back the First Army Corps of the Border Guards and the Second Army Corps of the Border Guards was mainly because of the more than 100,000 war horses left behind by the Tile Spur Coalition Army.

These war horses have been accumulated for decades by the Watt Thorn and the Kazakh Khanate, and although the Ming Dynasty is vast and rich, it is impossible to gather so many war horses at one time.

After the selection of 50,000 cavalry of the First Army of the Praetorian Guard, more than 100,000 sturdy and uninjured war horses have been selected from more than 100,000 war horses.

Of the more than 100,000 war horses, the Third Army Corps of the Frontier Army and the Fourth Army of the Border Army only need 20,000 horses, and the remaining 80,000 horses, Zhu Cijiong is ready to equip all the First Army Corps of the Border Guards and the Second Army Corps of the Border Guards.

Because the most important combat force in the wasteland is cavalry, and four of the five legions on this expedition are third-class legions, and only one first-class legion, and the total number of cavalry is only 90,000, which cannot form a crushing advantage for the countries of the Western Regions.

If the First Army Corps of the Frontier Army and the Second Army Corps of the Border Guards are reorganized into a corps of 50,000 cavalry, it will be different, the Ming army that went to the Western Regions has a total of 170,000 cavalry, if anyone does not surrender, directly 100,000 or even 150,000 cavalry to press the border, it depends on whether you are afraid or not!

Of course, there may be one country among the five countries in the Western Regions that will not be afraid of 150,000 cavalry, and that is Yue Jibei, because he was originally a powerful country in the Western Regions, and in the battles of the Ming Dynasty and the Persian Safavid Empire here, they were not damaged at all, and they still retained all their strength.

For this month's farewell, Zhu Cijiong is ready to adopt the tactics of a north-south flank, and when the time comes, let Hou Shilu in South Asia garrison 200,000 troops on the southern border in the month, and then let Sun Chuanting garrison hundreds of thousands of troops in the northern part of the month, I don't believe that he will not give in.

After the 1st Regiment of the Frontier Army and the 2nd Regiment of the Frontier Army reorganized 80,000 cavalry, a problem arose, that is, there were not enough revolver flintlock pistols, and it was impossible for the cavalry to use single-shot flintlock pistols, because it was difficult to load bullets when riding horses, so they could only use revolver rifles.

However, the Ministry of Industry only sent a total of more than 30,000 revolver rifles this time, and after the Third Army Corps of the Frontier Guards and the Fourth Army Corps of the Border Guards were equipped with 10,000 rifles each, there were more than 10,000 left, and it would take at least more than a month to make out the more than 60,000 rifles that were missing.

Time waits for no one, Zhu Cijiong finally decided to let the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard exchange the guns with them first, because the First Legion of the Praetorian Guards will not go out together, but is responsible for guarding the guard post and Jiayuguan in the rear, and there is not much difference between using a revolver rifle and an ordinary flintlock pistol, and they can also wait for the Ministry of Industry to send the new gun over.

After more than ten days of rest and preparation, the Ming army finally set out again, this time Zhu Cijiong did not rush to Hamiwei to talk more, because he had handed over the affairs of the Western Regions to Sun Chuanting to be in charge, and he believed that the most famous general in the history of the late Ming Dynasty would not let him down.