Now that it is the end of autumn, if it drags on like this and delays the dispatch of troops, I am afraid that it will be impossible to launch an attack on the Guangming Army in Tongzhou and Suzhou by the end of next spring, and giving the Guangming Army half a year to rest and recuperate will only allow the Guangming Army to recover its strength, and at that time, if you want to eliminate the Bright Army entrenched in Tongzhou and Suzhou, you will need to pay more price.

In late September, Wang Shuo, Hezhou, Menglihu, and Huizhou Sushen sent troops one after another, and 50,000 Yuanzhou troops, 45,000 Hezhou troops, and 20,000 Huizhou troops began to gather in Linzhou, and it is expected that troops will be sent to Tongzhou and Suzhou at the beginning of spring.

At that time, the major families and the imperial court will gather at least 150,000 troops, and the proportion of recruits will be less than one-third, plus the two major families of the king and grandson of Laizhou, the combined army advantage of the family and the imperial court is much greater than that of the Guangming army, and perhaps the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan in Qinzhou will also take the opportunity to send some people and horses to take a bite from Suzhou.

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Since the end of autumn last year, it took nearly a year to mobilize nearly 40,000 people to build a four-track (root) track road with a length of more than 800 miles in Yunhua County, connecting the six cities of Chenyang City, Qingshan City, Yunhua City, Binhai City, Wanghai City and Linhai City in Yunhua County.

In fact, when a certain section of the 800-mile railway track was completed here, this section of the railway road had already been put into use, but it was not a steam locomotive but a special horse-drawn carriage running on the track.

The wheels of the special carriage have been modified to allow the carriage to travel on the tracks, and the carriage of the same size will travel much faster on the railroad than the carriage on the dirt road.

The wooden track of the Shengwu Dynasty period, with a fast horse full of materials on the wooden track, the fastest day and night can travel more than 1,200 miles, Yun's railway track is not worse than it, and the rail is more resistant than the wooden rail.

Some businessmen who travel to and from Chenyang City, Yunhua City, and Linhai City enjoy the convenience of the railroad road, the distance between the two places is the same, and the money is the same, but it greatly shortens the time, for the businessmen, time is money, and shortening the time means that they can make more money, and the cost has not changed in any way, and the businessmen wish that the Yun clan would build a railway in the entire territory of Zezhou.

The real situation is as the businessmen hoped, after the completion of the railway line in Yunhua County, the road construction team will move to all parts of Zezhou, and now the city of Zezhou and the counties in Zezhou will be connected by railroad roads, which is a big project, and the time will be several times that in Yunhua County.

However, after the completion of the entire railway line in Yunhua County, Yunyi is ready to take out the steam locomotives to replace those carriages.

The process of steam locomotive is not too difficult, after Yunyi manufactured the steam engine, after years of development, the steam engine can meet the power needs of various machinery, such as large machine tools, ships, etc., under the leadership of Yunyi, there are a large number of Mojia disciples who have studied the steam engine for several years, and the steam locomotive can naturally be built.

A steam locomotive is nothing more than a boiler, a steam engine, a frame and a running part, and a coal and water wheel.

The boiler burns fuel and produces steam, the steam engine converts the thermal energy of steam into mechanical energy, and then the boiler, steam engine and other components are fixed on the frame, and the weight is transferred from the axle box to the wheel (composed of the walking part) through the spring suspension device, which is supported by the rail, and finally the moving wheel (composed of the walking part) converts the mechanical energy from the mechanical part into the locomotive's traveling work on the track, and the coal water car is a vehicle loaded with coal, water, grease and storage tools, etc., which is hung behind the locomotive driver's cab.

Li Xiu, a student of Yunyi, was also surprised when he led those young or old Mo disciples to build a steam locomotive and test drive it on a short section of railroad tracks, they didn't dare to imagine that they could build such a strange machine, a machine that could be driven without human and animal power, it was really incredible.

In the year 225 of the Li calendar, the first year of Tiancheng, the twenty-seventh day of September, the weather is fine and suitable for travel.

On the morning of this day, Yun Yi and Shangguan Yuling came to the (fire) station outside the east gate of Yunhua County, and the patriarchs of the Yunhua family, Shen Xu and others were invited by Yun Yi to also appear at the station.

Seeing that the big people in Zezhou were all going to the station, the people in Yunhua County also followed to the station to see the excitement.

"Trains? What is it? Shen Yu took Shen Mengxin to the station, standing not far from Yunyi, thinking of the word "train" on the invitation letter, and didn't understand what "train" was, this train even reminded Shen Yu of a kind of military formation on the battlefield "train array", but this idea is far from the real train.

Shen Yu had all kinds of guesses about the "train" in his heart, and everyone present also had all kinds of guesses about the "train", and they didn't know what the "train" was.

Woo! Woo!

The whistle of a steam locomotive came from the south.

"Here we are."

Hearing Yun Yi's words, the people around Yun Yi looked south along the railroad road.

Soon, a steel monster with a black chimney and black smoke coming towards the station.

"Oh my God! What is it? There were cries of surprise from the crowd.

"It's called a 'train.'" Shen Yu looked sideways, Shen Yu really wanted to see how this steel monster moved, could it be that there were people or livestock inside that steel shell? But why does it smoke?

As the train drew nearer, the sound of surprise at the station grew, and soon people saw that the train was very long, probably more than fifty zhang (a total of eight carriages, with two locomotives in front and behind), like a giant black snake.

As the train got closer and closer to the station, the speed of the train decreased, and eventually, the train slowly stopped in the station, and the people in the station carefully looked at the steel monster in front of them, and even dared to touch it.

Just when the train came to a complete standstill, the doors of the nine carriages of the train opened one by one, and two uniformed waitresses walked down the doors of six of them, and two middle-class waitresses walked down the doors of the middle two carriages.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a train, a car that can run without manpower or animal power, please get on the train first, and the rest will be explained by these attendants." Yun Yi opened his mouth and said to everyone.

Seeing that everyone didn't get on the train first, Yun Yi had to take Shangguan Yuling to get on the train first and board a carriage with a waitress in the middle.

Note 1: The original steam locomotive is very different from the modern train, and the steam locomotive is relatively rudimentary.

Note 2: The east gate of Yunhua County was not commonly used before the station was established, and the south gate and north gate were mainly used, and the west gate was also not commonly used.