In the city of Los Angeles,

In the midst of the rumbling of artillery, the firearms fired through Luoshui had lasted for more than ten days. The old and new floating corpses under the three Tianjin bridges have also been silted up on the edge of the pier, and cannot be washed away by the rapid river.

It had just rained, which made the heavy smell of blood and fireworks in the air, as well as the stench of **, slightly diluted.

And in Xingyifang, near Luoshui, one of the twelve arch guards, is in the right guard station.

Many shirtless sergeants were fetching water from a large well with a square mouth that had just been cleared from under the rubble; They use helmets or other containers to scoop water from large buckets, and then pour it down in large gulps and pour it over their heads and faces to cool down the heat.

It's just that the one that has just been raised from the well is still clear, but the water is lifted more, and after the water line in the well drops rapidly, it will inevitably be a little turbid, and there will be some faint odor, but most people don't care.

It wasn't until the water trough that was poured out to feed the animals suddenly floated in the rippling water that some red and black swollen and whitish objects that were soaked in water floated in the water tank, and then a certain team general standing next to him suddenly changed color.

"Stop ......"

"There is a problem in the water......

"Don't drink it......"

"Poured me all ......"

A moment later, a swollen corpse in the well that had been tied up with a stone and sunk to the bottom, and was salvaged; Then the bulging gray surface exploded with a pop and was punctured by a hook.

The stench and filth that splattered from the room suddenly made the sound of vomiting one after another form a large area on the spot, all of whom were soldiers who had drunk the water from the well for the sake of coolness.

The team generals who discovered the matter did not dare to be negligent and negligent, and several of them reported it layer by layer on the spot; It wasn't until two days later that Shuai Si Zhengzhen paid attention to it and summoned people to check the city's stations everywhere, and then he found out;

As the so-called coincidence, in some ponds and river alleys in the south of the city, some ** corpses that had been buried in advance were also found and salvaged.

In some open water sources, many animal feces and the like have even been dumped, and these important water sources have been polluted to varying degrees.

This was obviously deliberately caused by those northern armies before they retreated, and it is not known how many days it had been continuously polluted; To make matters worse, it is not an accident that most of the rivers and alleys in the south of the city have also been silted up and turned into stinky and spoiled stagnant water.

Of course, most of the cooking men in the army still boiled the water, but some of the soldiers who were greedy for saving trouble, and the animals who had a great need for drinking water, did not have this kind of luck.

After these days of brewing, the symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting have accumulated to a considerable number unconsciously, but most of them are regarded as some kind of simple adaptation, or heat stroke or colic, which are common summer symptoms, and are not taken seriously.

In addition, there were so many people who died on the battlefield that many of them could not be cleaned up at all, so they could only be simply stacked from the battlefield and transported outside the city to be buried, or simply abandoned in the ruins and completely ignored.

And the hot and hot climate of this season has undoubtedly become some kind of accomplice.

Therefore, the ubiquitous buzzing mosquitoes and flies have long become the most common and strange scene in the Luodu battlefield.

On the ruins of the White Horse Temple in the northeast of Luodu, the Huaidong Army, which was full of fatigue and dust, finally returned to the original starting place with most of the booty under the response of the Henan Special Army, which had regained contact.

Then before he could take a breath, Feng Shuqi was approached by the long-awaited envoy of the middle road commander and Wei Chen, the ambassador of the Henan Special Army, under the banner of reward and meritorious service.

Of course, between all kinds of rhetorical praise and praise, there is always a certain hint and a reminder inside and out; The merits and gains of the Huaidong Army in this battle are naturally undoubted, but it is obviously indispensable, the strategy of the Shuai Si behind the scenes, as well as the response and creation of opportunities for the Henan Special Army;

In addition, it is hoped that this military horse will be included in the unified deployment of the commander, so that in the great cause of the Northern Expedition of the National Dynasty, more and better contributions will be made;

Among them, it also includes private contact and temptation of the main and auxiliary commanders, including the Wind Rolling Flag, such as promising him a better future and opportunities, such as the fact that he will be promoted by the commander to ensure a better background, and even the prospects of becoming an army alone or defending a place in the future.

And all this as long as he leads the people under his command, under the coordination and arrangement of the commander, to play more and greater use.

This also makes the wind and windbreaker a little tired and annoying, but has to deal with it; Because, according to the town marshal's orders, you can not care about false fame and prestige, but the real benefits and benefits must be obtained.

But then the Wind Scroll Banner received an order, which made him a little surprised, but it was the Huaidong envoy who had already made a decision to recruit him, and the people of the foreign dispatch station including him were ......

in Huaidong,

In the day and night of work and work, more than 1,000 people suffered from heat stroke, and more than a dozen prisoners died of overwork, the rain and heat of June quickly passed, and most of the burning July has passed.

Yu Yunwen, the permanent judge of Yingtian, the judge of Zhihu Xing, is inspecting the preparations before the autumn harvest,

He was appointed as the judge of Yingtian, one of the six elements of the judge, and was responsible for agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry; The final field data is now being supplemented for a lengthy report, "On the Pros and Cons of Farmland".

But from what he saw and heard, the one that was mentioned the most and cared about the most was undoubtedly the pot and mule machine (steam engine) that had just emerged in various parts of Huaidong.

This pot and mule machine is used in agricultural production, which can be used to carry water and drought-resistant ploughing the soil, but also to sift grain and rice to grind flour and extract oil, and even can be used as a power for forging and repairing iron-making tools and tools.

Such a machine is worthy of the results of hundreds of strong laborers in a day, and compared with the output efficiency of traditional animal power or new hydraulic machinery, it is also more than I don't know how many times.

The rice that comes out of spring is fine and white and crystalline, and the wheat flour is snow-like plain white and plain white is pleasing, no matter how many thousand catties or tens of thousands of catties, it is poured into it with the conveying machinery, and it will be all disposed of and stopped after a while.

Even when dealing with hay and straw, it rumbled as swiftly as thunder, and then the fluffy and finely crushed slag and foam quickly piled up into a hill in the dumper.

Then on the old canal road, there began to be a figure of a boat pot and mule machine puffing ash smoke. All this consumes is very cheap coal and water, and a few lightly trained people need to take care of it, fill it with water and replace spare parts in time.

Although, in the regular report called internal reference, this thing still has some failures from time to time, and occasionally there are accidents such as pot and mule machine pipe bursts, steam leaks, and scalding to the operator's hands, but compared to the convenience brought by this thing, it can be almost ignored.

Because, he could already foresee; With this kind of machinery that can run anywhere without relying on river water and animal power, it can effectively reduce a lot of consumption and waste, thereby freeing up more manpower and other resources.

In fact, he has also heard that in the construction of Huaidong's engineering, some places have begun to try to use this kind of large-scale equipment powered by pot and mule machines; to excavate the mountain as a large-scale earthwork project; high and low lifting and rail conveying at the mine site; and even the development and dredging of various uses for pumping water and sand in rivers.

It is said that the next plan and goal of the research institute under the leadership of chief craftsman Shen Yue is how to make these machines more precise and smaller, and appear in the application of these machines in the field. For example, the output of this machinery is used to replace the ploughing and ploughing of animal power, and even to replace people to harvest and sow seeds.

Although all this sounds ridiculous and full of nonsense, I am used to seeing the rapid development of Huaidong under the personal intervention and leadership of the town marshal; He did not doubt that these ideas would be realized in the land of Huaidong in a long or short time.

In fact, you don't see, the animal cargo tracks, which were originally only used in the five major coastal port areas under the rule of Huaidong, have now gradually extended along the plains to the respective state capitals, and they are also double lines that go back and forth.

Along with these iron-clad wooden rails, there are also thick wooden poles erected along the way, and they are no longer limited to the side of the tracks, but even on the main roads connecting Yidu with the state offices;

Moreover, the Zhenfu Prefecture has recently carried out so-called scientific planning and established so-called police stations by rectifying the post stations and inns along the roads.

This also made him vaguely guess what the town marshal was going to do, but it was a little incredulous.