Chapter 112: The Beginning of the Construction of the City by Horse-drawn Chariots
Zheng Zhi beat the horse and the three thousand knights pressed in the end. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info looked at the party item Mi who was strung together by a rope in front of him, and seemed to have another thought in his heart. The surrendered wolves, the slaughtered wolves, and the wolves that seem to be chained.
Zheng Zhi pulled the rope in his hand, and the two sisters and brothers who were tied to the back of the horse and walked were connected to him.
Glancing back at the young boy and girl, I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, it seemed that this ending was acceptable in my heart.
The sun was slowly rising, and the troops were already working, some were cutting wood, others were digging trenches.
The arm-thick trees went to the branches, and one by one they were inserted into the ground, turning into a wall about two feet long.
There were also a large number of wooden horses, as well as chuck stakes under the trenches.
Everything is preparing for a defensive battle.
Less than 2,000 party men, with ropes attached to their feet, were placed to work with the supporting troops, and ten supporting troops led one party member.
The camp that has not yet taken shape is full of songs and laughter of the Song people, because sheep are slaughtered everywhere in the camp, and everyone can get a big mutton meal tonight.
Naturally, there are many sheep, and when the sheep are in Zheng Zhi's hands, there is only one use, and that is to eat. There are so many people in the village, and there are the soldiers who do heavy work every day, mutton is naturally a good food, and if the soldiers can often eat mutton, they will definitely have enough strength to work, their bodies will be strong, and they will die of illness.
Zheng Zhi built a small village in the camp, and the women and children of the party were locked in it, and the women and children naturally had no contact with the men of the party, which was one of the means to control these party members.
"General, the small simple survey and mapping took two days, and the drawings were drawn. Please take a look at the general. Zhu Shi held the sketch he had just drawn and said.
Zheng Zhi took the sketch and spread it out on the case, although it was a sketch, there were many of them, not only the overall renderings, but also the exploded view of the city wall, and the layout of the living and office areas in the city.
"How much? How tall is the city? How thick is the city? Zheng Zhi didn't have the heart to take a closer look at them one by one, and asked directly.
"General Yu, two miles square, the height of the city is two zhang five, and the thickness of the city is about one zhang five." Zhu Shi replied.
"How long is it expected to be completed?" Zheng Zhi asked, and he was still building the specific size of the city in his heart, two miles square, that is, about a thousand meters on the side, and the circumference was naturally four thousand meters, a square kilometer. It is two feet five high, more than seven meters, and the height of two floors in later generations.
"According to the half-year construction period!" Zhu Shi obviously knew that the construction period was only half a year, and 20,000 people would build a 4,000-meter city wall in half a year.
"One mile square, the city is three feet five feet high, and two feet thick. How long is the construction period? Zheng Zhi built the city in his heart, and he also had his own thoughts, the new city does not need to be so big, it does not live in residents, it is only used for garrison, and it is not necessary to be big. But it has to be strong enough.
Zhu Shi listened to Zheng Zhi's words, and his mind was also calculating quickly, this was his profession. The city was reduced to a quarter of its original size, but the height was raised to more than ten meters by Zheng Zhi, and the thickness was also increased.
"General, it will be more than three months, and it will be completed in April." Zhu Shi replied.
"Okay, more than a month, dig a trench, dig as wide as you can, dig as deep as you can, and then send someone nearby to check if you can bring water into the trench." Zheng Zhi was very satisfied when he heard the nature, and he was thinking about the moat, at the foot of the two mountains, there were naturally many springs flowing down, and the spring water was gathered over, and it might become a good moat.
The people of the Northwest Party are originally people of the grassland and desert, and water is a good obstacle that is difficult for them to overcome.
"There is still one thing to be decided by the general, and the small place where the stone is taken is also surveyed, but the road is far away under the Killing Bull Ridge." Zhu Shi had an idea in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it.
"A carpenter builds a flatbed cart. This time, I got more than 5,000 good horses from the party, and I allocated 3,000 to you, and everything can be used to transport everything. Zheng Zhi knows how valuable the party horse is, but he can't take care of it at this time, even if the entire Western Army may not be less than 10,000 good horses, Zheng Zhi can't manage so much at this time.
There are so many horse-drawn carts to transport stone and timber and the like, which can be worth the efficiency of tens of thousands of manual transportation.
"Thank you, General, the construction period will be greatly reduced this time, and the small ones will be arranged." Zhu Shi was overjoyed when he heard this, and he surrendered. I really didn't expect this General Zheng to be so generous, 5,000 party and good horses, that is, 5,000 iron cavalry of the Western Army. If these good horses are transported to the mainland, they can be sold at sky-high prices, and they are as rich as the country.
Unexpectedly, General Zheng opened his mouth and gave himself 3,000 horses to transport stones, and after months of high-intensity labor, these good horses did not know how much they could persevere.
Seeing Zheng Zhi waving his hand to send himself down, Zhu Shi hurriedly retreated and walked out of the tent after hearing this, for fear that General Zheng would suddenly regret it.
"Call Wang Jin and Sun Shengchao." Zheng Zhi ordered the soldiers around him.
Then he took out a pen and paper, prepared properly, and Zheng Zhi was also thinking about the content of the letter in his heart.
Wang came in, naturally was instructed by Zheng Zhi to write a letter, recently Zheng Zhi had nothing to do and practiced the brush, but the time was too little, and the effect was not very significant.
After the letter was written, Zheng Zhi took it and read it again, and instructed Sun Sheng to send it back as soon as possible.
One was given to Tong Guan, who was sitting in Weizhou, to ask for more food and grass supplies, and then to tell him about the current situation. There is also a letter sent to Erlong Mountain, summoning this iron-faced face Pei Xuan.
Zheng Zhi didn't have much military affairs in his hands at this time, and the government affairs were really busy, ranging from the construction of the walled city, to the rations of a horse, and many miscellaneous matters that needed to be deployed. These things make Zheng Zhi really a little bored, Pei Xuan is a master of government affairs, and he can naturally solve many problems of Zheng Zhi when he comes.
Although he knew that it would take at least three months to wait for Pei Xuan to come here, Zheng Zhi had other considerations for this matter. It is here to wash Pei Xuan's identity, 20,000 supporting troops are here, and one more Pei Xuan is just right, it is the matching army sent by Salmon Island, who can go to Salmon Island thousands of miles away to investigate.
At least on the surface, it is reasonable, in this northwest, Zheng Zhi's identity is slowly rising, and it is reasonable on the surface, that is, it is reasonable, after this battle, what can the prefect of Jingzhao Mansion do with General Zheng, not to mention that this prefect is still the prefect under Tong Jingluo.
"Call Ruda again." Wang Jin wrote the letter and went out, and Sun Shengchao galloped out with the letter and two healthy horses. Zheng Zhi ordered the herald again.
"What do you have to do when my brother summons the family? The sprinkle family must be proper, haha... Luda was happy to have won the battle, and he was in a very good mood, and his words were all smiling.
"The party allocated 3,000 horses to Zhu Shi, and the remaining more than 2,000, first to the Gyeongju soldiers, and selected 2,000 people to practice equestrianism, and you will supervise and handle this matter." Zheng Zhi instructed Lu Dadao, Lu Da was originally the magistrate, and he was in charge of military training affairs.
"Brother, why did you give Zhu Shi three thousand horses? This matter is not proper, the little breed has only accumulated three or four thousand healthy horses for so many years, and this time we have five thousand healthy horses, what a great credit, how can you give Zhu Shi that goods, can the horse still be a horse in his hands? Luda didn't hear anything else, but he heard that three thousand horses were given to Zhu Shi, what were the horses given to Zhu Shi for, where could Luda not know.
"If the city is not well built, what is the use of more horses? Needless to say, you just do the work. Zheng Zhi always has a thought in his heart that people are more important than horses. Even Zheng Zhi himself didn't know this thought, let alone understand it and listened to Luda, and his intuition told Zheng Zhi that this thing should be done this way.
It is obviously impossible to train cavalry in a short period of time, cavalry is not a soldier who can ride a horse or a cavalry, Zheng Zhi also knows this truth, but there are more than 2,000 foot soldiers who can learn to ride a horse, maybe it can really come in handy in the future.
Luda listened to Zheng Zhi's tone, and didn't say much, and exhaled out of the camp and leading the horses.