The Khitan 200,000 horses, the army pressed the border, the front line of the Great Wall, was in a comprehensive emergency, and the beacon was in flames. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just a few months after the recovery, Youzhou faced a cruel test, the city was not built, the men and horses were not in place, the original Hebei defense line was abolished, but the new defense line was not established. In addition, people's hearts are fluctuating, and many people are still thinking about Liaoguo, suffering from internal and external troubles, which is very unoptimistic.

Since serving as a transfer envoy, Ouyang Xiu has been busy, the old man has lost more than ten pounds, and his cheeks have been retracted. There was a circle of blisters on his lips, and he was restless.

When I saw Wang Ningan, the first thing I said was "The division of land must be suspended!" ”

Wang Ningan didn't hesitate, and replied to him, "Everything can be stopped, but the land can't be stopped!" ”

Since Fu Bi got out, no one has sung against Wang Ningan on the issue of governing Youzhou. It has become a consensus to completely transform Youzhou and distribute land to the people.

First Luanzhou and Jizhou, then Danzhou and Shunzhou, and now it has been pushed to Youzhou, Zhuozhou, Yizhou, if there is no accident, before the spring of next year, all the field tasks can be completed.

However, Ouyang Xiu suggested suspending the division of land.

The reason is very simple, when I heard that the Liao soldiers were attacking again, the original honest gentry and landlords rose up one after another, and they gathered family forces, hired thugs, and guarded the villages, and came to resist passively and refused to cooperate.

"Erlang, isn't it good to suspend the division of land, concentrate on defeating the Liao soldiers, and then deal with these people?" Ouyang Xiu said bitterly.

"Not good!" Wang Ningan was very stubborn and refused to back down.

"Drunkards, if you want to do things, you are not afraid of offending people, especially the matter of digging ancestral graves! Those gentry will not stand on the side of the Great Song Dynasty because of the suspension of the division of land, on the contrary, the court retreats, which will only make them lucky and more unscrupulous! It is necessary to speed up the division of land, confiscate their property, and help the poor people to survive the winter safely. These people are the ones who rely on to defend Youzhou! As long as they are on our side, Yelu Hongji will not be able to take Youzhou! What's more......" Wang Ningan snorted, "He doesn't have the ability to break into the Great Wall, I have a bunch of means waiting for him!" ”

Ouyang Xiu and Wang Ningan looked at each other for a long time, their eyes were red, and in the end, the old master was defeated.

"Anyway, you are guarding Youzhou, and it has nothing to do with the old man."

Ouyang Xiu shook his head, he was also a knife mouth, a tofu heart. Since Wang Ningan has made a decision, it must be implemented. Recently, another group of students from the Six Arts rushed to Youzhou.

Zhang Heng, Su Zhe, Zeng Bu, Han Zongwu, etc., plus the previous Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun, they are the pioneers in implementing Wang Ning'an's decision.

Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun personally handled the most difficult Youzhou field division matters.

Lu Huiqing showed his cruel side, he forced Chongyuan to make an order, executed 15 Chongyuan's relatives, and took all their land.

It is said that that night, Chongyuan hid in the original Yanzhao Palace, howled and cried, heartbreaking, hit his head on the Nanmu bed, and bleed, but he could only accept it, and did not dare to have the slightest second heart.

Zhang Dun was even more direct, he mobilized the soldiers and horses of Xiongzhou, and leveled five gentry who had formed villages to protect themselves in a row, daring to confront the imperial court, and the only end was death!

With bloody human heads to open the way, the work of dividing the fields in the entire Youzhou has not slowed down, but has also moved forward rapidly.

The direct consequence of this is that the number of people in Wang Ningan's hands has increased several times.

No people were willing to lose their fields, nothing else, and a pair of hands, and more and more people joined the ranks of the people, regardless of remuneration, and took the initiative to help the court do things.

On the land of Youzhou, there are more long queues, and the people push wheelbarrows, on which two or three blue-gray cement slabs will be placed, and the destination is Shanhaiguan and other five major customs cities!

The people were full of curiosity, they sent the cement slabs, but they were reluctant to leave, and they must see it with their own eyes.

Craftsmen everywhere, after laying the foundation, moved the cement slabs to the city wall, everyone shouted the trumpet, and a thick city wall appeared.

Building a city is like building blocks.

Overlooking from above, the wall is more than three feet wide like a sandwich, the outermost is a solid cement slab, which determines the pattern of the city wall and plays a protective role, next to the cement slab, it is a two-layer brick wall, and the middle is dirt. Xu Yang personally commanded, and the workers moved extremely fast, watching the city wall get higher and higher.

Five feet, eight feet, one zhang, one zhang and five ...... Gradually, the majestic Shanhaiguan revealed its true face.

20 miles around the square, there is an urn city on all sides, the city wall is as high as two zhang five, plus the female wall, more than three zhang, tall and majestic, just like a warrior who stands up to the sky, guarding between the mountains and the sea, the gateway of the Great Wall is firmly optimistic!

The appearance of cement is definitely a super cheating artifact.

In the past, when the city was built, it was necessary to use Sanhe soil, which was compacted layer by layer, and the inside and outside were covered with green bricks, and the speed was not fast at all.

The original process was to lay the foundation first, and then the craftsmen prepared the triple soil, spread it on the foundation, compacted it with stone stones, and after the first layer was finished, the next layer was carried out...... Construction and material preparation alternately and slowly.

But with cement, preparation and construction can be separated.

Many places made cement slabs together, and the workers who repaired the city only needed to pile up, regardless of the problem of raw materials, and the efficiency was increased several times.

Workshops in various places first build the required cement slabs, two feet long and wide, and five inches thick, and after they are transported to the construction site, the builders only need to arrange them and glue them together with cement.

After two or three days of hard work, the hardness is comparable to masonry.

Before the advent of cement, adhesives had always been a problem, some using lime, some using glutinous rice juice, egg white, and animal blood...... These things, either the viscosity is not enough, or the source is difficult, the cost is expensive, and they are far less cheap than cement, and the effect is good!

There are even more frustrating.

For example, some corners of the city wall that need to be strong are simply poured with concrete, think about it, a ten-meter-thick cement lump, let alone the Liao soldiers, even if it is bombarded with cannons, it may not be able to be bombarded.

Within the three-month period, Xu Yang only took two months and 20 days to get Shanhaiguan out.

……

A majestic fortress that grows at a speed visible to the naked eye. The people in charge of transporting the cement slabs were stunned and couldn't keep their mouths shut.

This is the strength of Da Song!

This is the crushing of civilization!

Even more powerful than killing is creation!

The people who witnessed the construction process of Shanhaiguan returned home, all of them were dancing with their eyebrows and triumphant, telling their families and friends what they had seen.

What they like to say the most is - we Han people are really good!

Even Wang Ningan didn't expect that the construction of Shanhaiguan would become a vivid teaching material to arouse the soul of the Han Dynasty.

Yelu Hongji, hurry up, Lao Tzu can't wait...... Wang Ning'an was eager to try, but at this moment, suddenly a horse galloped from the south, and when he arrived at the gate of Youzhou City, the knight above fell directly under the horse.

The guards hurriedly helped him up, and the knight opened his mouth with difficulty, pointing to the bamboo tube in his arms, which contained a funeral document, he came from Fuzhou.

Just 10 days ago, the prefect of Fuzhou, the privy deputy envoy Zhi Jimin, died.

After getting the news, everyone was stunned, Wang Liangjing burst into tears with excitement, thinking about how happy the two of them had been when they went to Lingnan to quell the rebellion together.

This time to recover Youzhou, although they did not fight side by side, but Zhi Jimin led the Zhejia army to contain Yelu Renxian, it can be said that without their sacrifice, there would be no Juyongguan victory, and there would be no later victory in Shunzhou!

Wang Liangjing still thought that his body had recovered, so he went to visit Zhi Jimin and came to thank him, who knew that he would leave first...... Of course, Wang Ningan lamented the fall of the famous general, and what made him shudder even more was the death of Zhi Jimin, and the vacuum in Fuzhou, in case Xixia and Yeluren attacked together, the entire northern frontier of the Great Song Dynasty would be on fire everywhere.

General Zhe, why did you die?

In fact, there are already clues to the death of Ji Min.

When he went to Lingnan, he was infected with malaria, although he was cured, but he left the root of the disease, plus he was young before, inherited the family business, and fought with the Xixia people, and there were not a few injuries on his body.

After returning from Lingnan, Zhi Jimin did not go out again, and has been recuperating his body.

Before he could fully recover, he caught up with the recovery of Youzhou, and Ji Min went out to fight with illness.

In a whole month, he killed more than 15,000 Liao people and destroyed 3 cities, forcing Yelu Renxian to return to help in advance, and lost the opportunity to join forces with Yelu Hongji.

After Yeluren returned to Xijing, he mobilized all his forces and fought with Zhe Jimin, and Zhe's army lost more than half, and Yeluren first also suffered six or seven thousand casualties.

It wasn't until the Battle of Shunzhou that Yelu Hongji was defeated and the battle of Xijing Road ended.

For a long time, Zhi Jimin slept less than two hours a day, and at most, he didn't close his eyes for five consecutive days.

Fighting the Liao soldiers, there were more than a dozen wounds on his body, and he couldn't even bother to bandage them.

Fortunately, there was alcohol disinfection, otherwise Zhi Jimin would have died on the battlefield a long time ago.

But even so, Zhi Jimin almost lost half his life.

What is even more indignant is that Zhi Jimin returned to Fuzhou, and he still had to drag his injured body to guard against the attacks of Liao and Western Xia, and he did not dare to relax.

Those who are familiar with the terrain will know that Fuzhou is a salient part of the Great Song Dynasty, with the Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom to the east and the Western Xia to the west, which is between the two powers.

The heroic Folded Family Army was nailed to the death in Fuzhou, several generations of horses were shrouded in horse-leather, and their fathers died and their sons succeeded, without complaint or regret, defending the territory of the Great Song Dynasty with flesh and blood.

Great!

Great!

Majestic!

Just half a month ago, Zhi Jimin came back from inspecting the defense line, and finally couldn't support it, fell from the horse, fainted on the spot, and after the doctor's diagnosis, they all shook their heads, they all said that Zhi Jimin had long run out of oil and dried up, and it was a miracle to be able to live until now.

Healers can heal the sick, but they can't save lives!

Zhi Jimin was also very calm, and endured the pain and confessed the will.

Five days later, the loyal and brave general, the tiger who shocked the Western Xia, Zhi Jimin died of illness at his home in Fuzhou - he was gone, Yelu Renxian was finally able to sleep peacefully, and the Western Xia people also had the opportunity to advance eastward, losing the containment of the Zhejia army, and the two arms of the Great Song Dynasty were equivalent to breaking one!

It hurts, it hurts!

The entire north, except for the Youzhou line, is in crisis. The wind has swept away, and this winter is destined to be many times colder than every year!