The front was on the verge of breaking out, and in the rear, the cavalry reconnaissance team sent by Tian Xian kept reporting back the news of the approaching Mongolian cavalry, and Tian Xian's brows became more and more wrinkled.

There was no time to rub it off for themselves, the Mongolian cavalry was already approaching five miles away, they stopped, and watched Tian Xian's people busy carefully.

The cavalry sent to the front by Tian Xian stopped a mile away, watched the scouts of the Mongol cavalry run quickly, and then rushed down from the top of the hill himself, fighting the enemy with sabers and spears, and even if he knew that he was defeated, he had to hold the enemy back.

Because the cavalry of the brigade was throwing thistles on the opening ground in the back five miles, used to block the movement of the enemy's cavalry, and could not let the enemy see, this time was at least ten minutes, and five miles, the speed of the Mongol cavalry did not take ten minutes to charge, so it was necessary to stop the enemy, more than 800 cavalry with more than 200 cavalry to block the enemy for ten minutes, and then retreat to the back of the open area, waiting in line for the enemy's first wave of cavalry charge.

This is still to buy time for Tian Xian in the back.

Because the enemy is coming too quickly.

His first line of defense of five or six miles wide was only roughly completed, and could not be remodeled, so he had to let the people behind retreat to the second line of defense, continue to dig horse pits, and arrange triphorse ropes, the second line of defense was three miles wide, although the terrain was narrowed here, but the terrain on both sides was not too rugged, and the enemy could completely bypass it from the hilly slopes.

Now only a few men were left to dig and leave musketeers and crossbowmen to ambush the enemy, and then retreat the men and baggage troops down behind the third line of defense, and help the pikemen and sword and shield men dig trenches and fortifications at a distance of one mile and two miles wide, where is the main battlefield.

Race against the clock and be sure to strengthen your position as much as possible before the enemy arrives.

Otherwise, the 3,000 troops, 2,000 civilians, and 3,000 wounded would have to be sent here.

A group of three people, hiding, shining, walking on the country road, from time to time walking on the paved stones, and pouring a layer of earth-based cement mixed with earth, lime, glutinous rice cakes, etc.

This makes the road have the appearance of cement, and there is the hardness of stones, although it is not too beautiful, it can walk up a big car, stable and strong, and it is not a foot, the key is to accelerate the speed of pedestrians running on the road, far faster than the dirt road, much cleaner than the dirt road, because the Ming Dynasty does not have the kind of car weighing dozens of tons in later generations, even if there is a carriage for transportation, it will definitely not exceed a few tons of weight, this weight is more than enough for this low-level road, this is the change that Zhang Qiang brought to this era.

Can't say how advanced it is, how advanced, but it's definitely convenient.

And with the increase of R&D personnel, mainly the Huaxia Army has added other industry examinations on the basis of the imperial examination, 360 lines, there are examinations in all walks of life, and low-level personnel can get a government-certified industry qualification certificate, with these certificates, you can engage in research in related industries, and sell the results of research to the government, and the government pays a certain amount of money to buy the research results.

This is the industry national certification qualification certificate, with this certificate is like a scholar admitted to the child's life, is an honor, in the village can also get the village chief or the chief, the township chief's reception, and let everyone look up to you, in these low-level administrative positions, you can also get a lot of income, as well as a basic monthly salary.

The people in the village read a letter, recognize a word, or build something, find an authoritative certification, and look for you, or the things you take out are sold at a higher price than those who have not been certified, and you have to find you to settle accounts and deal with the government.

Zhang Huangyan walked all the way, and when he passed through the countryside, he learned about these things through the mouth of the young man who led the way.

Low-level certifications don't require you to be literate or read, as long as you can get something out of your hands in the industry and get government approval.

In addition, you can obtain the qualification to attend adult night classes for free, and if you graduate from night school, that is, you know ten Arabic numerals and know more than 100 words, you can take the qualification level 2 exam.

These exams are focused on the best in the industry, and if you can speak the whole story of farm work, and record it with the help of others, and you can understand some of it yourself, you will be able to obtain a Level 2 qualification.

These people were requisitioned by the government to help solve problems such as going to the countryside to count the amount of farmland, how much was produced, how much iron was produced, how much iron could be made in a day, whether some things made by carpenters met the standards set by the government, and to help the government solve the tasks of contacting people in these industries.

Of course, these people don't have to receive a salary, they will pay you when they are requisitioned, and when they are not requisitioned, you will still do your old job, and the government will give priority to using your things.

When you want to go one step closer, the government has launched a three-level qualification certification, these people must be able to speak and write, these people are generally some veterans or businessmen, government veterans, or industry leaders who have been famous for a long time, some of them are directly requisitioned by the government to give a clerk, these clerks have more than half of the time to work in the government, called the bottom clerk of the government.

They have no possibility of being promoted to government civil servants, but they can assist the government in doing things, and even put forward some good suggestions and develop good things.

The fourth level is often those who have read books, and have a deep knowledge in the industry, they also have a heart to be an official, they will generally be arranged as clerks first, pass the official examination, become the official office clerk, the clerk can be promoted, can be promoted to the clerk, clerk, book and other positions, equivalent to the township head, the town mayor's auxiliary personnel.

These people who can read and study the skills of various professions will eventually become deputy township heads, deputy town heads, or research far-reaching, and this is the end of the bureaucracy, and the researchers can be selected into the government research institutes of various industries, become more senior officials, can take the imperial examination, and then enter the higher research institutes.

This is Zhang Qiang's cultivation of talents for many intelligent scientific personnel in his hands.

They can't always let Sebastian and François study, they need helpers, relying on them to train some apprentices is too slow, and it is not good for the scientific and technological development of the Huaxia Army, so Zhang Qiang wants to find out those civilian talents in Huaxia and send them to their research institute, so that they can help and inspire the two people while studying, so as to speed up the development.

The new carriage was built under the inspiration of Zhang Qiang and with the help of old carpenters and blacksmiths.

At the same time, under the advice and promotion of businessmen or shopkeepers, they quickly entered the military and civilian of the Huaxia Army, and obtained commercial interests and national interests.

Let the society promote its own development, Zhang Qiang is only a bystander, a guide, otherwise, with his knowledge structure, with his insight, with his historical knowledge, it will not be able to reach the development level of other travelers in a hundred years.

(End of chapter)