A great war broke out on the eastern front of the Xia Kingdom, and there were also battles on the western front of the Xia Kingdom, and the interior of the Xia Kingdom seemed to be quiet and harmonious.

It has been twelve days since Su Yan left Zhongjing City and left Xia Kingdom, and in the twelve days that Su Yan was not in Zhongjing City, Zhongjing City was still stable, Xia Kingdom was still stable, and Su Yan's personal expedition did not affect the development of Xia Kingdom.

After the city lords and ministers of each city of the Xia Kingdom returned to their respective cities, the plans of the Xia Kingdom were carried out in an orderly manner according to Su Yan's previous instructions.

At present, the most important thing for each city is to prepare for spring ploughing.

The year before last, the wind tribe was wiped out on the side of the city, and a large number of cattle and horses were obtained, and last year they were transported to various cities in batches, and trained in each city to meet the labor of ploughing with oxen and horses and using horse-drawn carts.

The size of the farmland outside the cities has almost reached its limit, and the scale of the farmland will hardly be expanded, and more cattle and horses will allow the cities to complete the spring ploughing in less time, and the rest can be used for other work.

There is always a lack of time, no amount of time is enough, there is no time for people to have fun during the day, and even if there is nothing to do, find something to do, such as expanding the size of the city and repairing roads on a large scale.

A document in Su Yan's study records a large plan that requires a lot of manpower - the wooden rail road plan.

Su Yan still remembers a piece of news he read in his previous life, which was about a wooden track built by the Qin Dynasty.

The wooden track of the Qin Dynasty is very similar to the modern railway, its building regulations are: thick roadbed, sleepers on the foundation, sleepers on the sleepers, and the car runs along the track, which is no different from the laying principle of modern rails, but the traction of the car is not with a steam locomotive, but with a horse pull, the wooden material of the track is hard, after anti-corrosion treatment, it can be preserved for decades or even hundreds of years.

The wooden track subgrade is rammed very strong, and the sleeper is laid on the roadbed, and the material of the sleeper is relatively soft, not only to reduce the amount of work, nor only to open up the source of wood extensively, but to consciously choose, the softer sleeper can be closely combined with the rammed very hard roadbed, so that the track is stable, and the wheels of the carriage can run quickly and smoothly on it.

Due to the use of rails, the friction of the wheels is greatly reduced, so the carriage can pull a lot of goods at once, and it can also link multiple car bodies, which is called a rail train.

This kind of rail train not only saves capacity, but can also carry a large amount of cargo, which is very suitable for the transportation of armaments and materials during the war years and emergency military operations.

A single carriage could travel 60 to 70 miles per hour, 1,400 miles a day and a night (with a change of horses in between), nearly twice as fast as the 800 miles expedited by the ancient messengers.

The speed figures may be exaggerated, but building wooden rails to drive special carriages will definitely be faster than riding horses on flat roads, and it is also suitable for transporting goods on a large scale on land, and wooden rails can be called artifacts.

At present, the cities of Xia are built on both sides of the river, and can be transported by ship to transport goods on a large scale, and the cities of Xia will inevitably be built in areas far away from the river in the future, and it is a very good choice to build wooden rail roads at that time, it is very regrettable that the construction of wooden rail roads requires a lot of manpower and a lot of time, and it is not at all what the current Xia Kingdom can afford.

Now the cities of Xia are not smooth on land to the road, talking about the construction of wooden rail roads is too far, and in a short period of time the cities of Xia will still be built on both sides of the river, in the future, with the increase in the population of Xia Kingdom, it is necessary to build cities far away from the river, at that time there is almost enough labor force in Xia Kingdom to build wooden rail roads.

In addition to the wooden rail road plan, there are many, many plans written down by Su Yan, none of which can be carried out by the current Xia Kingdom, anyway, it is impossible for the people of the Xia Kingdom to have much time to rest during the day, for the future of the Xia Kingdom, for the sake of future generations, all Xia people need to work hard.

Preparation before spring ploughing is the most important thing in each city at present, followed by the expansion of cavalry troops, three days of registration time, in the morning and evening, the soldiers of each city are lined up with men who want to sign up, they all want to become a cavalry, to the grassland to make contributions.

Although most people know that the probability of passing the selection is very low, everyone wants to try it, and maybe they will be lucky to pass, you must know that many people have "often" practiced various skills of cavalry in the past year.

Originally, Su Yan planned to expand the number of cavalry troops, and only select students who graduated from the War College at the end of last year, but considering that there are many people outside the selection range who often practiced various cavalry skills last year and are ready to participate in this year's cavalry selection, in order not to disappoint them, Su Yan put the original plan down temporarily, and the scope of cavalry selection is still all adult male nationals.

However, this time there was a time limit, and a notice was issued to inform all citizens that this year and next year, in the last two years, all adult male citizens can participate in the cavalry selection, and when the cavalry unit is expanded in the fourteenth year of the summer calendar, the selection scope will be narrowed to the graduates of the previous senior academy war college.

There are still 10 people in each city and 30 people in the middle capital, and the personnel selected from each city will go to the city by boat, and the cavalry unit will conduct training, and after three months of training, a sufficient number of personnel will be selected, and the cavalry force will be expanded to seven teams.

Three days of registration, three days of selection, and finally 340 people stood out, compared with the previous annual selection of cavalry, this year's reserve cavalry in the "fresh graduates" accounted for the largest proportion, three-quarters of the places are occupied by this year's men who have just come of age, they have just graduated from the senior school, and the cavalry skills have not yet been pulled down.

The rest of the places are occupied by people who are looking for time to practice hard, and hard work always pays off, and it is difficult to succeed by luck alone.

The reserve cavalry who passed the selection were given a few days to prepare, and then the reserve cavalry took a boat to the city for subsequent training and selection.

Su Yan spent many years building a minister-city lord-sub-minister management system, and it can really stand the test of time, Su Yan left Xia for more than ten days, and there was no chaos in Xia Guo, as long as this management system is still there, as long as Xia Guo is still so strong, even if Su Yan leaves Xia Guo for a few months, it is difficult for Xia Guo to have chaos.

Of course, the premise is that Su Yan, the king, is still alive, and if Su Yan dies suddenly, there will be some chaos in the Xia Kingdom, such as those clans who have just joined the Xia Kingdom for a few years.

But after the chaos, the Xia Kingdom will continue to develop according to the direction and plan formulated by Su Yan until the Xia Kingdom becomes "rotten" internally.

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On the grassland, a war broke out between the cavalry, when a weak part of the Xia cavalry unit snatched the cattle, horses and sheep grazing by another large nomadic tribe with a population of more than 2,000, the leader of the tribe immediately gathered nearly 300 tribesmen to come over and try to take back the cattle, horses and sheep.

Although he felt strange about the Xia cavalry, who were all black armor and black horses, the leader didn't think too much, he just wanted to drive the enemy away quickly, snatch back the cattle, horses and sheep that were taken away, and at the same time show the enemy his own strength and let the other party roll away.

In this way, the leader and his nearly 300 tribesmen fell into the trap of the Xia cavalry troops, and the 500 Xia cavalry besieged and killed the 300 nomadic tribesmen's cavalry, and under the advantage of strong bows and leather armor and other equipment, the leader and his nearly 300 tribesmen were shot and killed, and the remaining one-third were captured.

Originally, the leader was one of the captured people, and he was only hit by an arrow in the arm, but the leader would rather die than lay down his weapon, and committed suicide directly, and more than a dozen people around the leader went to die one after another.

After the first battle, simply clean up the battlefield, leave a tun that has just been used as a bait and make great achievements at the same time, escort the prisoners to follow behind, and then Mu Shi led most of the cavalry town to set off, searching in the direction where the nomadic tribe cavalry came, and the enemy's tribal residence should be in that direction.

At the same time, the Japanese tribe's residence as a battlefield has been simply cleaned, and Su Yan divided the Xia expeditionary corps of more than 2,000 people into two parts, a part of four teams, plus the crew of fifteen B-type ships, a total of more than 700 people, led by Su Yan, who stayed behind in the Japanese tribe's residence.

The other part of the eighteen teams, led by Lu Chen, Snake Shou, and Rabbit Bin each of the six teams, marched towards the three affiliated tribes of the Sun tribe in three ways.

The Xia Kingdom has been trading with the Sun Tribe, and only knows the location of the Sun Tribe's residence, and does not know the location of the seven affiliated tribes of the Sun Tribe.

It doesn't matter if you don't know, some of the captives know that at this time, they can't be kind to women, and directly threaten the lives of their children and let some women of the Japanese tribe lead the way.

"Take us to the subordinate tribes of your tribe, there is a reward for leading the way, if you don't lead the way, kill your child."

Their children's lives were held by the enemy, and the women reluctantly led the way for the Xia Expeditionary Legion, and not all the women knew the location of the seven affiliated tribes of their tribe, but as long as there were people who knew the location and could lead the way, it was enough.

Here, the soldiers of the Xia Expeditionary Legion went to the three affiliated tribes closest to the Japanese tribe under the guidance of the female tribesmen of the Japanese tribe in three ways, and on the other side, the Japanese tribesmen who escaped for their lives gathered into a team and advanced towards the nearest subsidiary tribe of the Japanese tribe.

"No ...... home"

The remnants of the Ri tribe are all with a crying face, their tribe and their home were broken by the Xia Kingdom, their home is gone, their relatives are still in the Sun tribe, now I don't know whether they are alive or dead, and so many of the same tribe were killed by the Xia people, just almost, almost they died in the hands of the Xia people.

The men kept the pain and sorrow in their hearts, and their eyes slowly became resolute, some of them thought about their fellow tribes who had died in battle and their relatives who had not escaped, some of them thought about their future life after joining other tribes, and some people planned to gather the seven affiliated tribes of the Sun tribe and fight back to drive away the Xia people.

There are relatively few women in the team, less than a third, more than half of the women are crying and crying, the man is the head of the family, the pillar, and he will not cry easily, but the woman's emotions are easy to show on the surface.

The remnants of the Ri tribesmen did not see that the Xia people were chasing them behind, so they did not flee for their lives, but the speed of the march was still relatively fast, and they wanted to reach the target tribe as soon as possible.

After walking for a while, he was one of the high-ranking people of the Japanese tribe, and now he was the person with the highest status in the team, and he stopped at the front ridge, and the clansmen behind him all stopped.

"We can't walk together." Ling said.

"Why can't we go together?" A clansman asked.

Ling replied: "We should divide into more (seven) teams, go to the seven affiliated tribes, tell the news that the Xia people defeated our day tribe to the seven dependent tribes, and then let the seven subsidiary tribes gather warriors to drive the Xia people away together and rescue our relatives." ”

Ling knew that the strength of the Xia Kingdom was very strong, and the tribes of Lianri had been defeated, and it was difficult for the seven affiliated tribes to defeat the Xia Kingdom when they gathered all their forces to counterattack, but Ling wanted to give it a try, how could he know if they could defeat the Xia people if he didn't try, he was unwilling, so many of his clans died in the hands of the Xia people, so many of his clans were captured by the Xia people, he wanted to defeat the Xia people, he wanted to save his relatives and clansmen.

"Yes, we should divide into seven teams, tell the news to the seven subordinate tribes, gather the strength of the seven subsidiary tribes, and fight back." People who think the same way as Ling agrees.

There are many people in the team who have the same idea, at least a quarter of the number of people in the team, and these people have spoken, so that other people who have no idea of counterattacking have a little similar thought in their minds, their relatives have been caught by the Xia people, and they also want to save their relatives.

With a unified opinion, the team of more than 100 people quickly divided into seven squads, each team had only about 20 people, and the seven squads immediately dispersed and moved towards their target position.

The remnants of the Sun Tribe, who had been dispersed into seven squads, did not know that the Xia Expeditionary Legion had already divided into three routes to march towards the affiliated tribes of the Sun Tribe.

It only takes less than half a day to travel from the place where the Sun tribe lives to a subsidiary tribe closest to the Sun tribe, and the team led by Ling shortens this time to two hours.

Let's name the seven subordinate tribes of the Japanese tribe A, B, C, D, E, G, and G.

Ling walked out of the jungle with more than twenty people who looked a little embarrassed, and entered the farmland of Tribe A, and the next moment he was discovered by the clansmen of Tribe A's sentry, the Japanese tribe camp was already the overlord of a hundred miles of area, so close to the Japanese tribe, Tribe A was worried about the enemy attacking, and now the people who could come to Tribe A were almost people from other tribes in the Japanese tribe camp.

When the two sentry guards on the edge of Tribe A's residence noticed that someone had appeared, they immediately left their residence to greet them, and the person who came from the direction of the Japanese tribe was almost certain to be the people of the Japanese tribe, but I don't know why they looked so embarrassed.

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